Five weeks. That’s how long the current Congressional recess is scheduled to last. Five weeks. They’ve already shut down Congress more than once as an avoidance technique. They’ve had LOTS of time off. Now they’re taking five more weeks. Wouldn’t it be great to have a job where you don’t really have to go all that often and, apparently, one doesn’t even have to leave that job if one dies? Quick question: if one collects a paycheck AFTER one dies, isn’t that fraud? Just curious.

Senator Rick Scott has summed it up nicely. Today is July 26. On July 13, Scott published an op-ed that said this, “Did you know the U.S. Senate has only been in session 79 days (about 40% of the time) so far this year?” Almost eight months into the year, and they’ve been in session less than three months. Remember, this is the highest paid Congress in history. Why, it almost seems as if there comes a point where higher pay does NOT equal better performance. Especially from these guys.

Then again, I’m not sure I mind. The only thing the cons are trying to do in Congress, these days, is harm people or shove money into their own pockets or both. Maybe if they’re not around they can’t do as much harm to America or Americans, right? That’s one hell of a way to think about your political “leadership,” isn’t it? They can’t hurt us if they’re not around. I’m so old, I remember when Congress didn’t even WANT to hurt day-to-day Americans. Ah, the good old days…

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I need to make something clear, here. I seem to have lost most (all?) of my MAGA readers. I can’t say I’m surprised. I lob a LOT of insults at MAGA. (In fairness, they make it so easy.) Still, it seems unkind and I can see where individuals might take personal offense. But that’s the thing. I’m not lobbing insults at individuals. My barbs are aimed at MAGA, the group.

I doubt very strongly every single MAGA supporter buys every single MAGA trope of the movement. In fact, I know they don’t. I still have MAGA friends. But the movement, itself, takes a lot of really stupid positions. Mostly, that’s just to be contrarian but taking a contrarian political position to an obvious correct response just makes one look the fool, doesn’t it?

And, yes, one CAN find individual MAGA supporters who are, in fact, stupid. But really, it doesn’t take much to find honestly stupid lefties, either. Stupid happens and it happens on BOTH sides of the aisle. That’s why the media from each side can so easily find some challenged person to put on camera and present as “this is all of them.” But it isn’t.

So this segment isn’t so much an apology as an explanation. I’ll rip on groups and I’ll rip on ideas but I don’t, generally, attack individuals…

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There’s a pause in the shooting in Iran. Word is, someone told 47 the US was running low on munitions so now he’s in the mood to talk. If nothing else, Donny’s war of choice has weakened the US, right? Not just in our reputation and/or our treasury. He has depleted our stockpile of weapons on a war that is actually putting the US in greater danger. There was no need for this war. If Iran really IS a state sponsor of terrorism, what reaction might they have to being mercilessly bombed for no reason?

Remember during the campaign when 47 told the oil industry that if they brought him tons of money, he’d let them do whatever they wanted? They did, though not the one billion dollars he had asked for, and he has tried to keep his end of the bargain. But his stupid war in Iran is actually driving demand for oil DOWN in the US and around the world. (Psst, we can buy electric cars now.) He’s costing oil companies money. That seems like an unexpected consequence of his stupid war.

Hell, everything about Donny’s war is worse than it was when he chose to start it. Everything. Worst of all, people have lost their lives. Donny just wanted to look tough. Now people are dead. We don’t know exactly how many because the Pentagon has taken to hiding that information. But we know people have died. Kids. Non-combatants. Soldiers. Because Donny wanted to look tough.

Even that didn’t work. He just looks like a buffoon who has no idea how to get out of this war he started. And now the US is depleted in weaponry and treasure. We’re far weaker now than when he started this thing. It really feels like the biggest problem with putting a moron in charge of the country is that one has a moron running the country…

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I sure would like a salad. Sadly, even salad is dangerous under the Trump regime. The Feckless Fuckup has even made salad dangerous! Honestly, I knew from his last term things were going to be bad. He clearly has no idea what he’s doing nor how to do it. But salad? I’ve got to tell you, I didn’t expect that…

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Yet another court has stepped up to reinforce the idea that 47 has no voice when it comes to elections. He keeps trying to stop mail-in voting because mail-in voting is the MOST SECURE form of voting. It’s hardest for him to cheat with mail-in ballots and he totally means to cheat. He’s GOT to get rid of mail-in ballots, but he’s having a very, very hard time doing so because he has NO legal authority.

MAGA Mike, the Johnson’s corrupt conservative House tried to sneak language into a bloated defense bill to get the SAVE MY ASS Act passed, since they can’t get the thing through any other way, but the Senate doesn’t seem interested in following that trend. They can strip the offending language out if they choose. Of course, they’ll have to BE in Washington, DC to get anything done and that seems to be asking just a bit too much from these guys…