Mike Lindell, "the My Pillow Guy", is simply a parasite who realizes that his host is expiring

and his wild-eyed flailing is his desperate attempt to deny reality before he finds himself alone on a rotting corpse.

Republicans came to discussions about establishing a January 6 commission with a list of

demands that had been drawn up by GOP leaders. Chief among these demands was their insistence that there be an equal number of each party's members on the commission and that it would wrap up by December 31st of this year.

The Democrats agreed despite some in the party who criticized the "cave in" to Republicans who refused to even utter the word "compromise" during the past four years.

And, now---Surprise!---NOT!---the same leaders whose demands were met are urging all of their tribe to oppose creating the commission. Gee! Who'd a thunk the word of McCarthy and company could not be trusted?

Lucy has pulled the football away AGAIN and Joe Manchin is STILL confident she will hold it properly next time if we Democrats will just respect her and retreat a few more yards.

I'll just stop here before I make "inappropriate" suggestions as to how we should respond to Mr. McCarthy (and Mr. Manchin, for that matter).

Dear America---the general public---to everyone, from beer and pretzels to

runny brie and dry chablis---and those without either:

let's cut the crap, pay attention and confront perhaps the most inconvenient fact most of us have ever encountered---if the Republicans gain control of Congress next year, government by the likes of those who invaded the Capitol on January 6th becomes more than just a Trumpian fever-dream.

Whatever you have done in the past to support Democrats and defeat Republicans---double it.

Those who supported the outlaws on January 6th will not hesitate to do WHATEVER IS NECESSARY to elect similar thugs to put Trump and his ilk back in power "legally".

Trump and his cult equate civility, tolerance and common decency as "weakness". Refusing to accept this is foolishness, plain and simple. The majority of the Republicans who have openly opposed Trump still support what he wanted to accomplish. They just wish he had not been a pussy-grabber too ignorant to avoid saying "the quiet truth" out loud.

I'll conclude this by listing all the "good" Republicans for your convenience:







Thanks.

I may have asked this before, but bear with me, please. Does Matt Gaetz bear a startling

resemblance to Beavis or Butthead?

I can never keep those two straight!

I have always tried my best to avoid referring to Trump as---you know "P--------" Trump. I have

now settled on "one term twice-impeached" Trump.

Works for me.

When someone tells us we must "respect the views of others", that sounds like a rather

benign good idea. But, that's not always good advice.

Facts are facts. "Other views" about what the facts are were called "alternative facts" by the Trump regime. Alternative facts = BULLSHIT.

It is often quoted that we all entitled to our own opinions, but not our own facts. When Trumpies scream that Trump is "really" the POTUS, that is not a "view" to be "respected"; that is "the Big Lie", a tactic devised by the Hitler regime and now shamelessly copied by today's nazi-wannabes.

Truth is Trump's Kryptonite.

Recent information from L.A. states that, in their county population, the 2.3 or 3.3 million

who were fully vaccinated, only 0.03%---that's three one hundredths of one percent---later got covid. And, that included those without any symptoms who were only tested for employment, etc.

Plus, in another article I did not save, I read about six groups or organizations--one was Mayo, another a large nursing home---that said that EACH of their statistics showed the chance of a fully vaccinated person transmitting the covid virus was less than one percent.

Serious question: why should those fully vaccinated wear masks?

As a backyard chef, I am just curious---do bambooballot-fed chickens have a longer cooking time? nt

Most of the spring wildflowers are already gone. Thin reddish seed pods have replaced the redbud's

blooms and the ground beneath our dogwoods is littered with their fallen petals.

May is hurtling toward what is now "Memorial Day"---it used to be "Decoration Day"---when "Taps" will moisten eyes in graveyards across the country and backyard barbecues will once again scent neighborhoods with the aroma of burgers and brats and hot dogs.

Wallow in the glories of what's left of Spring and the Summer about to begin. Smile. Laugh. Hug. Kiss. Say "I love you" often.

Like the tender but temporary beauty of a trout lily or Columbine bloom, today will fade into yesterday and leave but the memory of what was. Suck it in so deeply that that memory will warm you next February.

"Shame: painful emotion caused by consciousness of guilt, shortcoming, or impropriety.

---a condition of humiliating disgrace or disrepute."------Merriam-Webster

That, my friends, is what today's Republican party does not have: a sense of shame.

There was a time when someone who had just professed undying respect for and loyalty to a party leader would have nearly died of shame and embarrassment when video of him saying three months earlier that the same person was a vulgar, cruel and incompetent liar was played during an on-air interview. Nowadays, such immoral "180's" are just simply no big deal: "OK, so I said that then. Now I'm saying this. SO WHAT? Next question."

Just to give one example, Lindsey Graham denounced Trump in harsh terms back during the 2016 campaign. In fact, he said that if the GOP was unwise enough to choose Trump as their presidential candidate, he would "destroy" the party.

Yet, after Trump took office despite losing the popular vote, Lindsey spent most of the next four years literally worshipping "the Donald". He defended his cruelty, excused his vulgarity and praised his incompetent and corrupt administration.

Then, after, the violence of the January 6th insurrection, Lindsey was "over" Trump and wanted to move on.

Then, maybe two weeks later, he's back to schmoozing with Trump at Mar-A-Lago and insisting that the GOP "can't win" without his "guidance".

Then, a couple of days ago, he said he "accepts the election outcome" and urged Republicans to unite and move on.

Are you dizzy yet? Lindsey isn't.

He is shameless.