Joe: For the last time, I’m pretty sure what’s killing the crops is this Brawndo stuff.
Secretary of State: But Brawndo’s got what plants crave. It’s got electrolytes. 
Attorney General: So wait a minute. What you’re saying is that you want us to put water on the crops? 
Joe: Yes. 
Attorney General: Water. Like out the toilet? 
Joe: Well, I mean, it doesn’t have to be out of the toilet, but, yeah, that’s the idea. 
Secretary of State: But Brawndo’s got what plants crave. 
Attorney General: It’s got electrolytes. 
Joe: Okay, look. The plants aren’t growing, so I’m pretty sure that the Brawndo’s not working. Now, I’m no botanist, but I do know that if you put water on plants, they grow. 
Secretary of Energy: Well, I’ve never seen no plants grow out of no toilet. 
Secretary of State: Hey, that’s good. You sure you ain’t the smartest guy in the world? 
Joe: Okay, look. You wanna solve this problem. I wanna get my pardon. So why don’t we just try it, okay, and not worry about what plants crave? 
Attorney General: Brawndo’s got what plants crave. 
Secretary of Energy: Yeah, it’s got electrolytes. 
Joe: What are electrolytes? Do you even know? 
Secretary of State: It’s what they use to make Brawndo. 
Joe: Yeah, but why do they use them to make Brawndo? 
Secretary of Defense: ‘Cause Brawndo’s got electrolytes.
– Joe vs the MAGA mind in the movie ‘Idiocracy’

I’ll tell you this: the right-wing disinformation machine is VERY good. People on the right actually believe Gavin Newsom is withholding water to fight fires in an effort to protect a smelt. It’s not true, but now that they believe it, of course, it’s gospel. Meanwhile, a Republican US Congressman has said the government should withhold disaster relief unless and until California reforms it’s forest management practices.

Never mind that this is NOT a forest fire. It’s conservative zeitgeist, now, and it isn’t going anywhere. The point is to politicize the fires. Accuracy isn’t important to them. Only blame. And blame, of course, ONLY falls on Democrats, never Republicans. That’s Rule Number One. Oh, and when blame DOES fall to a Republican? See Rule Number One. Sure, because that’s the way life works.

I’m not sure what kind of craven thought process it takes to politicize such a destructive natural disaster and think it’s a proper, or even a decent, thing to do. You know? I can’t say it’s unexpected, though. This is just how some people are. I would say it’s boring except for one thing. Cons have taken to actually responding to their delusions. They decide a thing – evidence never a factor – then they act on their decision.

I don’t really care if someone wants to think a fire started because someone failed to take their broom to the forests. There’s not much I can do about that. I believe comedian Bill Engvall coined the now-famous saying, “You can’t fix stupid,” and it’s true. But now the MAGA mob is acting on stupid.

You just watch, this crowd is going to start watering crops with Brawndo because Brawndo has what plants crave. It’s got electrolytes!

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There’s a MAGA Republican out there, James Comer. He led an “investigation” into Joe Biden. It never went anywhere or found anything because it was REALLY just an harassment campaign. To be clear, Comer kept shouting to anyone who would listen that the investigation DID find something and Biden is too guilty – because he said so, that’s why. He never produced even a shred of evidence of any wrongdoing.

Now we learn that Comer has written a book smearing Joe Biden but he also decided to smear Bob Woodward, of Watergate fame. Comer claims in his book that “Woodward explained that everyone in DC knew that Joe allowed his family to sell access to him, but as far as he was aware, that was not illegal. He added that it should be, but it wasn’t. ‘You will have to prove all of Joe Biden’s wrongdoing,’ he said, ‘and you will likely not be able to do that.'”

Comer also pretends that he asked Woodward “what he thought about my investigation. He replied that he thought Biden had obviously worked the system his entire political career, and that his son and both brothers had a troubled financial history. He predicted that my investigation ‘would either be bigger than Watergate or it would end up being a big nothing burger’.”

Wow, strong stuff. It would have been stronger had Woodward actually SAID any of those things to Comer but, according to Bob Woodward, himself, he never did. Woodward insists Comer is “peddling stories.” Specifically, Woodward wrote to ‘the Guardian,’ “The dinner with Comer was tape-recorded with his knowledge” (emphasis added), and said that he had listened again to the tape, which was “two hours and 55 minutes” long.

“The statements attributed to me in what is apparently his book are false,” Woodward said. “I made none of those statements he attributes to me. I repeat none, and not even in a paraphrased form – either about Biden or about the media. I never said Biden was corrupt or sold access.”

Just to drive the point home, Woodward added: “In the course of the interview Comer made a series of wild and over-the-top allegations about various people and political figures. It was an endless stream. None checked out.”

And, by the way, Comer’s investigation ended up a big nothing-burger. But he’s going to sell books to the ‘water the plants with Brawndo’ crowd based, apparently, on crap he just made up out of whole cloth and is now MAGA doctrine, or soon will be…

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Okay, so The Felon ran on anti-immigration and American jobs for Americans. His base liked that and voted for him. VERY shortly after he was “elected,” his boss, Elon, told the world that (paraphrased), “Yeah, American jobs for Americans unless it causes ME to pay more for employees, so SOME immigrants are coming, no matter what.” Wage-theft billionaire Vivek Ramaswamy took it even further when he said, flatly, that Americans are too stupid and too lazy to do the work they need done. That upset MAGA, who think The Felon is honest, but the billionaire’s comments didn’t bother them as much as Trump agreeing with Musk and Ramaswamy.

A little mini MAGA war started, led by Laura Loomer and Steve Bannon. Loomer lost right away, apologized for her insolence, and bent the knee. Bannon, though, is still fighting. NOW, Bannon has decided he’s going to get rid of Musk. “I will get Elon Musk kicked out by the time he’s inaugurated,” Bannon told Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera. “He won’t have a blue pass with full access to the White House. He’ll be like everyone else.” So… Bannon is planning to have Musk excommunicated by inauguration day. Oh, but he wasn’t done.

In the interview on Wednesday, Bannon said, “He (Musk) suffered a major defeat in America on H1B visas, he derided our movement as racist and retarded, and he lost. He has the maturity of a child. He has tried to change the conversation, after losing credibility in the United States and the fact that, frankly, people around Trump are tired of him.”

Truthfully, I thought Musk and Trump WON the H1B visa fight, based on the idea that they’re going to continue to use them at will. Where was the defeat? Oh, right, facts don’t matter, so then came Bannon’s next salvo: “He is a truly evil guy, a very bad guy. I made it my personal thing to take this guy down. Before, because he put money in, I was prepared to tolerate it; I’m not prepared to tolerate it anymore.”

Someone is about to find out where the power actually lies. It will either be Bannon and the MAGA faithful, or it will be the Billionaire Boys Club – and Bannon ain’t a member. I have no idea how this will play out but like all criminals, The Felon follows money. That can’t be a good sign for Bannon…