A Brief History Of The Republican Party And Treason

1968: operatives working for Republican Presidential candidate Richard M. Nixon contacted the North Vietnamese and offered them a better peace deal that LBJ was, if they'd just put off signing until after the election. This temporarily scuttled the Paris peace talks and contributed to the election of Nixon. Oh, by the way, there was no better deal...and countless more people died as a result.

1980: operatives working for Republican Presidential candidate Ronald W. Reagan contacted the Iranians and offered them a better deal if they'd hold off releasing their American hostages, which President Carter had been negotiating, until after the election. They did. Reagan won, and at least in this case the Iranians got something: arms.

2016: operatives working for Republican Presidential candidate Donald J. Trump received repeated offers of "help" from the Russians. They reported none of this to the FBI. They changed the party's platform to favor Russia. They accepted "aid" from Russian hackers. Trump "won" and ever since he's bent over backward to favor Vladimir Putin.

As a bonus, let's not forget the plot to overthrow FDR, cobbled together by a number of bankers and industrialists, all of them Republicans terrified by the New Deal. That one didn't work, but it sure wasn't for lack of trying.

Treason. Treason. Treason. Treason.

Just something to remember as we honor our war dead...

Every Sperm Is Sacred...Alabama Toodleloo

This country becomes more of a joke hourly.

From the spray tanned Traitor in the White House, to the organ grinder's monkey pretending to be our Attorney General, and all the other Trump appointed misfit grifters polluting our body politic, it's hard to be shocked by anything that happens in the good ol' USA.

But...

A bunch of good old white boys who happen to sit in the Alabama legislature, and the Georgia and Missouri legislatures as well, have decided to put uppity wimmenfolk in their place, and let the poor things know, once and for all, who's in charge of their bodies.

Spoiler alert! It ain't the women.

Obviously, these women just don't appreciate the wonderful blessing they've received when they are impregnated by a mouth breathing hayseed. Even if the hayseed raped them, or is related to them. After all, every sperm is sacred. It says so in the Bible-doesn't it? It must! If it doesn't, it should! Roll Tide.

Under normal circumstances, we could wait for the Supreme Court to explain to all the Bible thumpin' Jethros out there that Roe v Wade is the law of the land, and to mind their own fucking business.

But these are not normal circumstances. Thanks to Mitch McConnell (who, if there is a Hell as described by Dante, deserves his own ring) we now have a Supreme Court peopled with the likes of Brett "I Like Beer!" Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch to go along with Clarence "I've Done All You Asked--Now Can I Be An Honorary White Man?" Thomas, Alito and Roberts.

Do not hold your breath waiting for them to do the right thing.

(By the way, there are a disproportionate number of Catholics on the Supreme Court. Way too many. And their religious beliefs tend to color everything they rule on. This is not a good thing.)

So, here we are. Going backward in a hurry.

I would say boycott Alabama, but honestly, who the fuck wants to go to Alabama in the first place?

Jeez Lindsey! What Do They Have On You?

At one point in the not too distant past, Senator Lindsey Graham, or as I call him with a certain fondness, "The Belle of the South", was anti-Trump and pro-reaching across the aisle, at least in some instances.

He called the Great Orange MAGAt "dangerous" "absurd" "bombastic" "not fit" and "stupid". All of which are true, by the way.

Lindsey was also besties with the late, unlamented, John McCain, who Trump has shat on at every opportunity, while McCain lived and even after he died.

But then, something changed...

Now Lindsey enjoys golfing with the MAGAt. Now Lindsey tweets things like "Happy Birthday, Mr. President! You're keeping your promise to make America safer and more prosperous."

And "President Trump clearly relishes being the Law and Order president and a strong Commander in Chief."

This isn't your garden variety Republican hypocrisy, which we are all more or less used to by now.

No, this something different. You don't just suddenly decide to kiss up to a sleazy rat bastard who demeans and disrespects your best friend. Not if you have any character, that is.

The 180 degree reversal began after Graham announced that his email had been hacked.

One is forced to speculate that someone is blackmailing the Senator with the contents of those emails.

So, the operative question is, what do they have on you Lindsey?

Must be something really bad, huh? Is it little girls? Little boys? Big boys? Animals?

After all, a Southern gentleman's reputation is everything. And the fear of having it besmirched by anything, especially the truth, can force a fella to act in very strange ways.