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If you really wanted to draw a contrast between the “family value” Repugnantcans and the “Democommie” TDSers, as a certain goosed-up individual with his own unique version of TSD (Trump Snorkeling Dysfunction), is overly fond of saying, you need only check out the headlines.

Like today, for instance.

New Jersey’s Lt. Gov. Dale Caldwell resigned on Friday, according to Associated Press, forced out by accusations of ethics lapses and inappropriate behavior with women.

New Jersey Lt. Gov. Dale Caldwell resigns over alleged ethics violations | AP News

And oh, did I happen to mention he’s a Democrat? Kind of like Minnesota Sen. Al Franken who resigned after sexual misconduct allegations surfaced. No fuss, no resistance, no digging in of the heels. Just submitted his resignation—as he should have. As Sherrill should have.

As Ken Paxton and Donald Trump should have long ago. In fact, Trump, who has fought the full release of the Epstein files after promising in the 2024 campaign he would release them, should never have run, his name is so tainted and stained as not only a sexual predator, but as a child sexual predator. But you don’t need reminding of that inconvenient fact, if you suffer from TSD as does Goose and about 30 to 40 percent of the American electorate—many of whom, by the way are evangelicals, for whatever significance that snippet of info may imply.

You see the difference here? When the uglies hit, those god-awful Democommie Democrats tend to clean their own houses–at least more consistently than their counterparts. The Repugnantcans like Trump, Gym Jordan, Matt Gaetz, Ken Paxton, et al, tend to hide behind Mike Johnson who, of course, is unaware of the latest charges and in his ignorance, calls for a recess and sends House members home before votes can be taken on the issues.

Ken Paxton? Well, not only is he the chief (gag, choke) legal officer for the entire state of Texas, but now he’s running for the U.S. Senate, seeking to join other Repugnantcans who can offer their own little scandals—like Florida’s Rick Scott, the former governor and current senator who holds the distinction of presiding over what was at the time the LARGEST MEDICARE FRAUD in U.S. history (resulting in fines of $1.7 billion) while CEO of Columbia/HCA. Of course, he chalked it all up to “persecution,” as any good Repugnantcan would.

But in 2014, the whistleblower who helped the federal government investigate Columbia/HCA described a company with two sets of books and said he had “no doubt in my mind that Rick Scott was the leader of a criminal enterprise.”

“The fraud at Rick Scott’s company hurt seniors, it hurt taxpayers, it hurt everyone,” John Schilling, a former HCA accountant who worked with the FBI in 1996 through 2003, said at a 2014 press conference. “Fraud was in the DNA of Rick Scott’s company from the very beginning and he was the father.”

Did I also mention that Caldwell resigned under pressure from Gov. Mikie Sherrill? And did I mention that Sherrill also is a Democrat?

Has anyone pointed these facts out to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott? No? Then goodness, he must not be aware of Paxton’s behavior or surely, he would exert pressure in the same manner as New Jersey’s Sherrill.

For those of you who may yet be unfamiliar with Paxton’s travails, here is a TMELINE of his activities while serving in the Texas legislature and as attorney general.

Not a very pretty picture for an aspiring U.S. Senator.

But then, there’s always Rick Scott…

LSU basketball coach Will Wade met with the media earlier in the week and the very first question concerned his roster, which officially has only four players. Wade said he had a full roster of 15 players, all signed, all enrolled in school, who have been practicing together since just after Labor Day. But he declined to release his full roster. Let’s break that down.

Wade said he had “three or four” players with eligibility issues and he was “protecting his players” whether you agreed with him or not as justification for not releasing a full roster, though he said he “could today” if he wanted to. According to the LSU website lsusports.net the roster includes four players, all signed in the spring from the transfer portal. Those players are:

Divine Ugochukwu, a junior guard from Michigan State with three years college eligibility remaining.

Abdi Bashir, Jr., a senior guard from Kansas State, two years of eligibility remaining.

Austin Nunez, a senior guard from University of Texas-San Antonio, two years eligibility remaining.

Mouhamed Dioubate, a senior forward from Kentucky, two years remaining.

Though he was not named during the media event we can assume Jordan Bender, a freshman high school recruit is also on the roster. Bender announced last spring he had signed a letter of intent with LSU. Bender is a 6’8” lefty forward from Florida. While Bender has no star rating he is originally from Kentucky and the son of former Louisville forward Brandon Bender. If his height is legitimate he’ll still need to put on some weight and muscle to play in the SEC but a player that size can always help. Bender will have five years of college eligibility, to be used over the next five years beginning with the 26-27 season..

Wade also confirmed, when asked specifically by name, the following players were on his roster:

Skyy Clark, a senior guard who finished his fourth year of eligibility at UCLA last year. He was not drafted, did not sign a free agent contract, and has been granted an injunction for a fifth year of eligibility denied his signing class.

Donovan Dent, a senior guard teammate of Clark’s at UCLA with the same eligibility situation.

Though Wade declined to name them on his roster neither should have any eligibility issues as neither signed any kind of professional contract. The football team has one player in the same situation who has played in every game without objection from the league or anyone else. Wade also confirmed the following international players were on the roster when asked by name:

Brice Dessert, a 6’ 11” 23 year-old from France who has played four years of professional international basketball, his most recent with Andalou Efes in Turkey.

Michael Ruzic, a 6’9” 19 year old power forward from Croatia who has played three years of professional international basketball, all with the Spanish team Joventut.

Saliou Niang, a 6’6” 22 year old forward from Senegal who has played three years of professional international basketball and was drafted by the Cleveland Cavaliers of the NBA in 2025 and played in three summer league games before being released. Niang is seemingly in violation of the recently passed SEC rule denying eligibility to anyone who has signed a professional contract with the NBA.

And that’s where things start to get tricky. All three of the previously mentioned players were paid to play basketball before becoming college freshman. That’s not a new development in college basketball or something underhanded Will Wade is trying to pull. International players have been playing college basketball in America for decades with the same “wink-wink” amateur status of American high school stars. But in the last couple of years with no ruling body for college athletics schools have begun to openly recruit professionals as NIL has made American college basketball attractive to international stars. Have we not written previously college basketball is a much deeper sewer than college football?

Case in point: R. J. Luis, Jr. Wade went out of his way to not name Luis though he confirmed to everyone in the room who knew that’s who Wade was referring to that Luis is practicing with the team. Luis played a year at UMass, transferred to St. Johns and played two years for Rick Pitino where he was Big East player of the year. He declared for the NBA draft after three years of college but went undrafted. He then signed a two-way contract with the Utah Jazz. In NBA parlance a two-way contract means the player is paid according to which league he plays the most in, the NBA or the farm system G League. Utah traded Luis to Boston where he played in three preseason games before being waived. Luis then signed with Boston’s G league team but was waived due to injury before the season began. Luis won an injunction to return to college.

When the uproar began a few weeks before football as Lane Kiffin was attempting to bring back two players who had won a fifth year but in the meantime had a cup of coffee and a tryout in the NFL the SEC overreacted with a hard and fast rule denying eligibility to any athlete that had given up eligibility to declare for a professional draft or had signed a contract with a professional team. The conference went through the silly threat to expel LSU over it. R. J. Luis, Jr. is the definition of that rule. Why he is even practicing with the team is a mystery.

Except it isn’t, really. Just more evidence LSU has a puppet AD and president. Both have seemingly been instructed by their “boss” to leave the coaches at LSU alone and both are seemingly busy doing just that. It is conceivable if LSU attempts to put Luis on the roster the SEC will really follow through with its threat and actually expel the university from the conference. Any AD or president worth his salt would have put a stop to that possibility long ago as Luis’ presence on the court is in direct defiance of the league. Wade has said he fully intends to “let the process play out” and “abide by the rules” but that process has already played out and the rules laid down. What Wade hopes to accomplish is a closely guarded secret, apparently, and neither Verge Ausberry or Wade Rousse intend to interfere.

Nor does that settle the issue for Niang, Ruzic, or Dessert. Certainly their eligibility is being examined under a microscope. Nor is that 15 names. Wade said to reporters they could probably figure out who is on the team by reports of players associated with LSU but a thorough search turned up only two: Marcio Santos, who Wade specifically said is not part of the team, and Israeli center Gilad Levy. There was a report in August from local sports broadcaster/reporter Hunt Palmer that Levy had signed with LSU but not a peep since from anyone. Still it may be safe to assume Levy is on the roster. Levy is reportedly 7’3” and has played three years professionally in Israel but has limited game experience, suggesting either he is plagued by injuries, or his skill level is still very raw and underdeveloped.

Assuming all those players are on the LSU team and eligible – except Luis who will not play in the SEC this season – there are still three mystery basketball players Wade plans to have. International players? More fifth year returnees? Walk-ons? Who knows? LSU plays three exhibition games in October and Wade vowed to put five guys on the floor. But who will actually suit up for LSU on opening night November 3^rd may not be known until just before the results of the elections are known.

In his debate with Kamala Harris in 2024, the Great Pumpkin famously declared, “They’re eating the cats and dogs” in Springfield, Ohio.

Turns out, of course, they weren’t. Just another of the pudgy pedophile’s inexplicable ramblings, apparently plucked out of thin air and repeated as fact.

But wait. Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville has gone Agent Orange one better. The former football coach at several schools, including Auburn, is currently running to become ‘Bama’s next governor. All I can say about that is if they elect him, they pretty much deserve him.

His one overriding political issue he’s counting on to catapult from Washington to Montgomery is not the war with Iran. It’s not the price of diesel. Nor is it the cost of steak and hamburger at the Walmart grocery. After all, he says, prices have been high in the past and “people will deal with it.”

He doesn’t seem very concerned either about the giant data centers popping up everywhere and the impact they may or may not have on the cost of electricity and water to citizens. In fact, he’s silent on that issue.

No, it’s none of those minor issues that, to him at least, serve as only a hiccup on the political landscape.

The real culprit is those doggone airline pilots, flight attendants and air traffic controllers pretending to be cats and dogs while engaging in kinky sex.

MAGA Senator Goes on Crazed Posting Spree About Furries | The New Republic

Wow. Who’d-a thunk it?

Maybe anyone who has paid attention to this guy. He’s the same one who once identified the three branches of government as “the House, the Senate and the executive,” apparently overlooking the judiciary.

Well, Tommy Tuberville, for one. Offhand, I’d speculate that like LBJ said of Gerald Ford, he must’ve played football too often with no helmet.

Stop and ponder on this one, folks. That’s a U.S. senator. There’s only 100 of them and if what he has is contagious he could infect the entire upper chamber with his advanced stage of whatever it is that afflicts his prefrontal cortex (of course, it may be too late for John N. Kennedy).

Taking to social media, Tuberville insists that the airline industry is shot through with employees who mark and meow at each other.

“I know the deranged Democrats don’t like the fact that I called out the insane FURRY CULTURE this week,” he posted. “But the truth is, there is an ALARMING number of these DERANGED people working in our airline industry,” he wrote. “Don’t believe me? Just a few months ago, PILOTS were MEOWING and BARKING at each other over the radio at DCA.”

So, there you go. What further proof do you need? Still, it seems a little ironic he would use the term “deranged” in any context, considering his own state of mind. (Notice like the world’s most famous pedophile who also happens to be a head of state, Tuberville likes to use all caps in his posts.)

But just to make sure there is no room for doubt as to his mental state, Tuberville went on to aver that there was an “Aviation Furs Meet-up” at the Furry Migration convention in Minneapolis earlier this month. “Ask yourself … would you be comfortable with a MENTALLY ILL FURRY being your pilot?” he wrote on X.

Again, invoking the term “mentally ill” (in all caps, yet) is interesting, to say the least.

He even took to the Senate floor on Wednesday to say, “Lord help us. It’s terrifying when you think about this,” Tuberville said. “When you walk onto a commercial flight, it’s possible that the pilot flying your plane could have a deranged fetish of dressing up like an animal.”

At least the “Lord help us” was an appropriate entreaty.

Should he succeed in his quest for the Alabama governorship, let’s hope he will occupy a padded office equipped with only harmless crayons and soft toys.

Oh, did I happen to mention that Tuberville is a dyed-in-the-wool MAGA Repugnantcan?

Nancy Pelosi has been beaten up fairly regularly about the fantastic growth of her net worth while serving in the U.S. Congress and to tell the truth, that growth does appear, on the surface at least, to be more a case of opportunism than service to one’s country—until you look a little deeper.

While she did rack up more than 200 trades in the stock market and while her net worth was listed as something in the neighborhood of $400 million (that’s a pretty nice neighborhood) as recently as July, not all of her income was from stock trades.

Her husband is a venture capitalist and she and her husband own a Napa Valley winery, a political data and consulting firm and a stake in a Bay-area Italian restaurant but a New York Post story said in June 2025, “A large chunk of the couple’s fortune has come from a sizable stock portfolio and timely trades, all done in Paul Pelosi’s name.” Exclusive | Pelosi added millions to net worth last year: report

To be completely fair, she lost an estimated $6.8 MILLION in the stock market in December 2025, according to Quiver TradeTracker.

So, to answer the critics, yes, members of Congress do appear to take full advantage of insider knowledge to make timely trades that enhance their bottom lines. Like former Gov. Bobby Jindal, whose net worth during his three short years in the House blossomed from $500,000 in 2005, the year he was sworn in as a U.S. Representative, to a cool $1 million when he entered the governor’s office in 2008 to today’s estimated net worth of $5 million, thanks to his appointment to a couple of corporate boards and public speaking engagements.

So, it should come as no surprise to learn that U.S. Rep. Julia Letlow, currently running for the U/S. Senate to succeed Bill Cassidy, has also increased her net worth dramatically in her five years in office.

In fact, it was pretty much the issue in the Republican primaries where she bumped off first Cassidy and then State Treasurer John Fleming to qualify to face Democrat Jamie Davis in the November general election.

In her five years in the House, Letlow has seen her net worth mushroom from about $300,000 to today’s estimate of as much as $2.5 million, thanks in part to more than 240 timely trades that have raised some eyebrows. Julia Letlow Net Worth & Financial Disclosure 2024: Assets & Portfolio | Congress Stock Tracker

It’s nowhere near the wealth accrued by Pelosi, of course, but hey, she’s only been in office for five years as opposed to Pelosi’s 40. Give her time. It’s like fellow House member Clay Higgins once told his ex-wife about campaigning and politics: “There’s gonna be a lot of money floating around.”

But, after all, if it’s good enough for the WTF (whole Trump family) to capitalize on graft, grift and greed, then what’s wrong with an obscure member of Congress from Louisiana dipping her toe in the warm waters of wantedness?

After all, it appears from here that she’s merely aspiring to emulate who Republicans claim is the most free-wheeling trader in all of Congress, the aforementioned Nancy Pelosi.

Would you want to be the one to thwart a little ambition? Sure, you can’t even afford groceries and it’s a real strain to fill up your car these days and Letlow did twice vote against the War Powers Act that might’ve helped rein in Trump’s inflationary war.

But are you really that selfish? Are you willing to honestly begrudge your $174,000-per-year (plus other perks) member of Congress feathering her nest? Aren’t you willing to make that sacrifice so she can maintain her comfortable lifestyle?

After all, it’s just the good ol’ system of capitalism we’re talking about here.