I’m taking one for the team.

Every morning I listen to the top stories on Morning Joe so you don’t have to do it. Today I am starting a new series called What the Hell Did Trump Do Today? I will post Monday-Friday with Monday’s post wrapping up the weekend. Hopefully you will find it informative and enough information to understand the issue. With that let’s start with day #314.

On Thanksgiving Trump referred to Minnesota Governor Tim Waltz as “retarded” in a Thanksgiving message to America. This prompted an Indiana Senator to change his vote to oppose a re-redistricting effort because his daughter has Down syndrome and he was insulted by the slur. The Senator obviously wasn’t insulted when trump mocked a disabled American in 2016, or called Mexicans rapists, or his comments about women, gays, muslims, jews, and law enforcement. Trump also referred to a reporter as “stupid” when she asked for him to clarify his administrations vetting of the DC shooter. You can watch the video here.

According to the Washington Post the Department of Defense Hegseth is under fire for authorizing the murder of two survivors of a suspected boat carrying drugs. Senator Mark Kelly stated the Senate Armed Services will hold a public hearing on potentially illegal military orders. This is exactly the situation Kelly was warning the members of the military about in the video made by him and 5 other veteran Congressman. Those who carried out this illegal order could be held accountable. Maybe Kelly got wind of this murder and made the video to prevent further illegal actions that would land military members in jail. When asked about the situation Trump replied “I really don’t know anything about the situation or who Hegseth is. I’ve never met him before”. This story won’t go away.

At least we are not talking about the Epstein files.

Do I really need to answer that?

After just 9 months on the job the Department of Government Efficiency it is dead. It’s over. DOGE is DONE and the results are staggering. According to research by Rachel Hurley DOGE has resulted in a loss to the United States:

Here’s what the receipts actually show. A Senate investigation found DOGE generated $21.7 billion in waste. Not savings. Waste. The bulk of that – $14.8 billion – went to paying approximately 200,000 federal employees not to work for up to eight months through the Deferred Resignation Program.

But it is much worse. Take some time to read her article. Here is a summary:

• $6.1 billion covered the costs of involuntary separations and administrative leave for people who were fired, then hired back
• productivity losses, paid leave, firing and rehiring mistakes – hit $135 billion
• DOGE-driven workforce cuts would cause a 10% drop in tax revenue – more than $500 billion in lost collections for this year alone.
• DOGE’s entire claimed savings – $205 billion, according to their own website – is dwarfed by the tax revenue they helped rich people avoid paying

And no, there is NOBODY collecting social security who are over 125 years old. That was debunked over and over again. Google it. DOGE ended up being a disaster for the United States and for Elon Musk. May it rest in pieces and let’s give it a high five salute.

If Babin could be embarrassed he would be, but he isn’t.

A couple of folks went to Babin’s office to ask why he will vote NO on releasing the Epstein files. The staffer finally gave the canned response that they provide to everyone who calls, on any subject, “I haven’t talked to the Congressman about that issue but I will bring it up to his attention”. (Or something like that) Click on the video and watch.

But what the video shows is the staffer’s computer screen with a pic of Trump when he mocked a disabled individual. You can watch the video here. You have to be one giant asshole to mock someone with a disability. You have to be a bigger asshole to support that person. And Babin’s staff member, Sam, is an asshole.

Watch the video.

It’s Scott Bowen.

The former CCISD Trustee who was ousted in 2024 by a conservative republican has brought out his nails in the race for House District 129 GOP primary. Not quite sure why the nails have to be sharpened or used. Scott is the darling of the Republican Party. He has lots of endorsements by the extremists of the Party including Little Baby Briscoe Cain and Money Mayes Middleton. Even Greg Abbott has endorsed him, although his endorsement didn’t help Bowen’s recruited candidates in CFISD. They got wiped out. I’m just waiting for Bowen to accept the endorsement from a suspected pedophile.

But regardless, Bowen is attacking his opponent, Bob Mitchell. Bob is one of those old fashion Republican who believes in acting honorably, making relationships to make accomplishments, and not being an awkward jerk off like Scott. According to Scott, Bob has a home in Comal County and is taking a homestead exemption. Maybe Scott thinks that would disqualify him from running but lawsuits by the Harris County Attorney against Dave Wilson failed for the very same situation. You can read about Wilson here.

But if by chance Bowen gets his ass beaten in the primary he will be the first one at the courthouse to file suit and whine about it. We will see. BTW Mitchell is head and shoulders better than Scott. Besides Bowen’s support of school vouchers, ending CRT which was never taught in CCISD schools, and rallying against diversity, equality, and inclusion, Bowen hasn’t accomplished much and probably wouldn’t accomplish much as a State Representative. He doesn’t get along with others. If elected he will take a knee and do whatever Abbott tells him to do.

The primary is in March.

Congressman Brian Babin and Randy Weber. This is just plain sick.

With the swearing in of Congresswoman Adelita Grijalva of Arizona there are now enough votes for a discharge petition to release the entire Epstein files concerning sex trafficking of children. What is a discharge petition?

A discharge petition is a legislative maneuver in the U.S. House of Representatives that allows a majority of members to force a bill out of committee and onto the House floor for a vote, bypassing the committee and party leadership. To be successful, it requires the signatures of 218 members (an absolute majority) to bring the measure directly to the floor. 

As expected, local Congressman Brian Babin and Randy Weber did not sign the discharge petition and will not vote in favor of releasing the files. Yesterday Trump and members of the cabinet talked with Congresswoman Lauren “reach around” Boebert trying to persuade her to change her vote on the petition. It failed. The petition must pass the House then the Senate and Trump will have to sign it. Of course Trump will veto it.

So who in the House and Senate will be the Guardians Of Pedophiles, those who are accused of sex trafficking children? You can call Babin and Weber but they are either not answering the phone or will give a generic “I have not talked with the Congressman on this issue” excuse. (202) 225-1555 (202) 225-2831

It’s his buddy. Donald.

Greg Abbott picked a hell of a day to brag about an endorsement from a suspected pedophile, Donald Trump. Just days after our State Representative Dennis Paul bragged about accepting an endorsement from a convicted felon Abbott does one better. The very next day thousands of emails implicating Trump in a sex trafficking ring were released and now everyone has forgotten the failing economy, outrageous health care increases, and home insurance going out the roof.

I can remember when being endorsed by anyone accused of sexual misconduct would result in resignations and press conferences condemning the endorsement. Candidates would run to the. microphone. Instead Abbott and other Republicans embraces the endorsement of a suspected child rapist. Jesus Christ, what the hell has happened to the Republican Party?

With his acceptance of an endorsement from a suspected child rapist, Abbott is not only physically crippled, he is now morally crippled.

As I said before, there is a new Sheriff in town and he ain’t taking shit from La Marque CM Joseph Lowry.

I’m just putting two and two together and coming up with an indictment coming. Lowry isn’t helping himself. His latest antic of filing a terrorist threat on a citizen of La Marque, one whose family he had previously harassed, has probably not gone unnoticed. He posted a video claiming the employees of La Marque were instructed to not talk with him and urged them to send him inside information. And then today his wife was submitting open records requests asking for correspondence from City Council concerning Lowry.

If employees were told not to discuss anything with Lowry (I seriously doubt this happened) someone would have already leaked that memo. His video is here. And if it did happen (again I seriously doubt it) it would be because he is currently under investigation by law enforcement. I’ve had that experience with Harris County Department of Education Eric Dick. In lieu of a censure Dick agreed to donate $40,000 to the HCDE for his ethics violation. As of today he has not donated anything and all of HCDE has refused to respond to my inquiries concerning Dick.

Again there is no evidence what so ever that employees were told not to address Lowry but now his wife is fishing for emails between council members discussing Lowry. I bet she might find a bunch and maybe even some emails asking about investigating him only because LOWRY SHOULD BE INVESTIGATED.

So maybe the new District Attorney has had enough of Lowry’s bullshit and is willing to ask questions.

Marie Antoinette would be so proud.

While millions of people have had their food assistance funds withheld Trump held a lavish Halloween party. As the White House said “No one ever died from a party”. That is a real quote. Lots of billionaires and lowly millionaires were in attendance as well as scantly clad women dancing in large champagne glasses. Trump was asked by the few media who were allowed to attend about the optics of him having such a lavish party while millions of kids go hungry. Trump couldn’t resist to quote Maria Anoinette “Let them eat cake”.

Actually Marie never said that. Any idiot with a cell phone could google it. From Brittanicca:

“Let them eat cake” is the most famous quote attributed to Marie-Antoinette, the queen of France during the French Revolution. As the story goes, it was the queen’s response upon being told that her starving peasant subjects had no bread. Because cake is more expensive than bread, the anecdote has been cited as an example of Marie-Antoinette’s obliviousness to the conditions and daily lives of ordinary people.

Marie Antoinette was executed by beheading by guillotine and by the way Trump never said that but I bet it was on the tip of his tongue. Rotten bastard.