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As further evidence that he is in the latter stages of dementia and suffering from acute narcissism, that he is delusional and unfit for office, Donald Trump, aka “Doddering Don,” has really taken a plunge off the deep end of the pool with the latest revelation of his note to Norway Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre in which he somehow manages (in his increasingly confused mind) to tie his failure to win the Nobel Peace Prize to his contemplating the invasion of Greenland.

It’s not a misprint or a typo, folks. It’s the real thing. Read it again slowly. Take the potential implications in.

Still don’t believe me? Here is the link to the latest version of the Trump Crazy Train: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/norwegian-leader-says-he-received-trump-message-that-reportedly-ties-greenland-to-nobel-peace-prize

If you’re like me, you’re probably wondering about now how long this country–this planet–can continue to accommodate the addled toddler trantrums of this obviously mentally incapicitated individual. How much longer can the Repugnantcan Party blithely look the other way while attempting to ignore the rantings of ketchup-flinging brat-child? This, I remind you, is the same political party (by name only) that eventually was forced to admit that Nixon was no longer fit for office. If the Repugnantcans were unable to tolerate a blowjob for Bill Clinton, how the hell can they excuse what he’s doing (I could use the coarse description, but the decency I have left prohibits that) to the entire nation?

Sorry to say, the Repugnantcan Party is long past being the Party of Lincoln or Teddy Roosevelt or Eisenhower. It’s now the party of thugs, thieves and despots who could not care less about your health care, the poor and homeless, your rights or the price of groceries. But they for damned sure are concerned about your bedroom, your penises and your vaginas.

And Mike Johnson and John N. Kennedy (and I suppose, Bill Cassidy, even though he’s toast) will somehow justify this latest humiliation. They, along with Letlow, KKK Scalise and Clay Higgins, will be the “see no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil” among our elected officials in Washington. Likewise, our squeaky-toy governor and his sock puppet attorney general will wait in line for their turn at the Agent Orange butt kissing booth.

But here’s the prediction I will make and I bet it rolls out exactly as I envision it:

Press Secretary Carolying Leavett will try to explain what Yam Tits really meant in his note to Norway’s prime minister and the Mango Mussolini will follow that by explaining he was just joking. And why wouldn’t he be joking? He already got his Nobel from Maria Corina Machado.

Regardless, after all that, J.D. Vance will re-open the debate with some totally off-the-wall, irrelevant gooney-babble that no one will really comprehend.

And the Epstein files will remain in the possession of Pam Bondi, unreleased as we deal with yet another distraction caused by Dorito Face.

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A reader wrote: “My friend showed me his medical degree from Harvard. Now I’m a surgeon.”

In line with that joke about Trump’s “participation trophy” (even though he never participated), another friend came up with an absolutely brilliant idea:

Go into your attic, storeroom or wherever, and dig out all your old, useless trophies (especially any old participation trophies) and send them to Donald J. Trump, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., Washington, D.C. 20004.

Or you can send them to Trump The Mar-a-Lago Club, 1100 South Ocean Boulevard, Palm Beach, Florida 33480

He wants participation trophies, give him participation trophies.

Do it! They can’t do anything about someone’s wanting to share his accomplishments with ol’ Yam Tits!

Even Milli Vanilli gets in on the growing wave of sharing:

And then, there’s this:

(Yeah, I know it’s all AI, but damn! Ain’t it fun!)

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Well, he’s an avowed supporter of Yam-Tits Trump and Brain-Worm Kennedy, Jr., so you might expect him to skirt Louisiana’s toothless ethics laws to enrich himself through his position as chairman of the State Senate Health and Welfare Committee.

And he does.

State Sen. Patrick McMath (R-Covington) is owner of Southern Interior Solutions and his store has won bids to provide furnishings for health systems affected-and regulated-by his committee, according to a New Orleans TV station.

Trump has never let ethics—or the courts, for that matter—stand in the way of his making a buck off his presidency, so why should McMath be expected to play by the rules, especially when those rules provide a convenient loophole in the state ethics laws?

No less authority than the LOUISIANA BOARD OF ETHICS itself says in its Summary of the Louisiana Code of Governmental Ethics that “The Ethics Code provides an additional prohibition applicable to legislators, certain executive branch officials, their spouses, or legal entities in which either owns an interest in excess of 5% from entering into a contract with any branch, agency, department, or institution of state government, with a few specific exceptions.

“Example: A Louisiana Senator and his business were prohibited by Section 1113D from bidding on or entering into a contract with the Louisiana Recovery School District, provided the Senator owned an interest greater than 5% in the business. (Advisory Opinion No. 2010-988).”

The Baton Rouge Advocate on Wednesday (sorry, we can’t share it because the publication has a paywall to its online stories, most of which lately have been devoted to LSU football and the transfer portal) pointed out that historically, Louisiana legislators have promoted legislation that benefitted their own personal businesses. “[L]awmakers who own nursing homes have sought to ease their legal liability in cases of understaffing, lawmakers who own gas stations have pushed bills to sideline their competitors, lawmakers who own timber companies have proposed sales tax exemptions for their products,” The Advocate story said.

In addition, legislators who are attorneys representing specific industries, such as insurance or oil and gas, for instance, have shown little hesitancy to pull double duty by jumping into the legislative fray.

But thanks to Govs. Bobby Jindal and Jeff Landry, Louisiana ethics laws have been so watered down as to be virtually meaningless. Oh, elected officials and public employees must still take a so-called “ethics course” yearly but its enforcement powers are a cruel joke to good-government advocates.

That’s precisely why McMath can serve as chairman of a powerful committee and sell furniture to entities regulated by his committee: the law prohibits lawmakers from “contracting” with state government and selling furniture is technically not a “contract.”

The owner of a competing furniture store told WWL-TV that he was told by a person at a local (St. Tammany Parish) health system that they were replacing his company with Southern Interior Solutions because they were “instructed to use SIS.”

So, while the letter of the law does not appear to be violated, there’s no question that the spirit of the law is in open violation despite McMath’s admission that certain boundaries do exist and his assertion that “I take those boundaries serious, and I’ve stayed within them.”

And like Trump, he appears to have been unable resist twisting the knife a bit: “I also understand why competitors who are losing business might be frustrated. But frustration isn’t an ethics standard. We compete on price, service, and performance — and we win on those terms.”

Yep. Republican to the core.

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