Friday, May 15, 2026
The huge hosting space the Federal Government already has in Washington, D.C.
The Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium.
It has a 1,000 person capacity, more than Trump's absurd proposed ballroom.
China is Closing In on Taiwan.
With China having just been visited by our extraordinarily weak, and increasingly demented chief executive, this really bears watching.
Trump's illegal war on Iran has depleted US weapons reserves massively and wasted them on hard ground targets, something military analysts know is ineffective. We have less of an ability to counter a Chinese invasion of Taiwan now than at any point since. . . well. . . probably 1947.
The likelihood of it happening his high.
The likelihood of Trump doing utterly nothing if it does happen is also high.
In 1949, when mainland China fell to the Communists, Republicans howled over "who lost China?" In 2026 or 2027 when Taiwan falls, they'll probably just kneel to their beloved, Donald Trump.
The question will be, why?
Monday, May 15, 1911. Trust busting.
The Supreme Court upheld a judgment that the Standard Oil Company was an illegal monopoly.
The company was split into 38 competing companies including Standard Oil of New Jersey (Exxon), Standard Oil of New York (Mobil), Standard Oil of Indiana (Amoco), Standard Oil of California (Chevron), Atlantic Refining (ARCO) and Continental Oil Company (Conoco).
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Saturday, May 13, 1911. Massacre of Torreón
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Wednesday, May 15, 1901. Gen. Moscardo surrenders.
Philippine General Tomás Mascardo and his forces surrendered to American forces on the island of Luzon.
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Tuesday, May 14, 1901. El petróleo
Monday, May 15, 1876. President Grant established the Agua Caliente Indian Reservation
President Grant established the Agua Caliente Indian Reservation near Palm Springs, California.
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Wednesday, May 10, 1876. Opening of the International Exhibition of Arts, Manufactures, and Products of the Soil and Mine.
The 2026 Election, 11th Edition. The only good voting Indian is a disenfranchised voting Indian edition.
Friends & Brothers, listen: Where you now are, you and my white children are too near to each other to live in harmony and peace. Your game is destroyed and many of your people will not work and till the Earth. Beyond the great river Mississippi, where a part of your nation has gone, your father has provided a country large enough for all of you, and he advises you to remove to it. There your white brothers will not trouble you; they will have no claim to the land, and you can live upon it, you and all your children, as long as the grass grows or the water runs, in peace and plenty. It will be yours for ever. For the improvements in the country where you now live, and for all the stock which you cannot take with you, your father will pay you a fair price.
Andrew Jackson, part of a letter to the Creek, 1829. That sure didn't come true.
Chuck Gray, auditioning for the role of adoring political paramour to Donald Trump, his beloved and dearest, and thick in the throws of turning Wyoming's voter registration roles over to his dearest illegally, is now seeking to have the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision of Louisiana v. Callais applied. In so doing, he's sent a demand to the Fremont County Commissioners to redistrict their county commissioner boundaries to wipe out a district that was designed to provide a commissioner from the Wind River Reservation, and he's written the Governor about the legislative districts, stating; "“I believe House District 33’s boundaries need to be examined to ensure compliance with Callais” .
Let's look first at what Callais actually says which few pundits have to date. It's a long decision, so we'll only post part of it, but that part is where the Court made its decision:
So what that tells us is:
1. A district must have a basis in more than race.
2. The jerrymandering by race cannot have a demonstrable impact in favor of a political party.
3. The totality of the circumstances must be considered.
Chuck, who loves Trump more than Trump loves Trump, has made a name for himself by being a divisive asshole and this will be no exception. The over monied little man who has never really worked likes to scream and howl, but this may prove to be a mistake in his bid for the House. A large percentage of Wyomingites do not like him for variety of legitimate reasons, and he's been taking flak from the right from gadfly Reid Rasner, to which he's flop around like a fish on a deck trying to react to, and not very effectively. Gray probably sees this action to terminate Native American districts on the Reservation as serving his far right nut case masters' cause of bringing back the Confederacy, but he's not a lawyer and disrupting Wyoming districts, ironically in one of the most conservative regions of the state, may not go well and is not likely to be appreciated.
There's a fair chance it might not succeeds as well.
Fremont County has a voting district for the county commission that causes it to have one commissioners who is drawn from the Wind River Reservation. That was in fact the intent of the boundary. And it has one House District that is also from the Reservation. The legislator who is from that districts, HD33, is Ivan Posey, who is enrolled in the Eastern Shoshone Tribe but also also has Northern Cheyenne and Northern Arapaho ancestors.
Gray, of course, is a carpetbagging white rich unmarried white boy, but this fits right into the current MAGA effort that's disenfranchising minorities in a country that's on the verge of becoming a majority minority nation. While they aren't willing to say it, MAGA basically hopes that they can reverse this demographic trend.
They can't, and they'll pay for it soon.
Here, Gray, who isn't a Wyomingite in the first place, likely doesn't grasp that the Wind River Reservation isn't solely an ethnic boundary, but the home to two sovereigns. So there's a racial and sovereign divide here. I suspect that these boundaries will hold up.
They already voted Democratic, they sure will in the future. Gray's ordering the Fremont County Commission and Governor Gordon around may not sit well with the voters, and frankly they're likely to tell him to pound sand, in which case he'll sue, and try to disrupt the general election. That won't work.
Gray needs to be sent packing. He needs to find a real job for the first time in his life. Let's hope he's offered one out on Wind River.
We will note here that the GOP race in Wyoming is turning batshit crazy with panicked Freedom Caucusers concerned that the South might not rise again while one notable one is actually attacking Donald Trump. Hardcore WFC members are supporting Still Sucking On the Government Tit Bien. While I may be imagining it, Bien seems to draw support from the less educated and poorer sections of the Wyoming population which demonstrates something peculiar, but I don't know what. The more likely you are to economically and personally be hurt by Bien's world outlook of no social services and hardly pull yourself up by your bootstraps, while he sucks on the government tit, the more likely you are to support him.
It's dumb.
Yesterday, of course, we have the oddity of Rebecca Bextel announcing a completely delusional and panicky run for the Governor's office on the Constitution Party ticket. In a more sane political structure, all of the state's Cornfederates would be in that party. Poor Bextel thinks she's a conservative, and has this on her website:
Like many of you, I know Megan Degenfelder or Brent Bien would make an excellent Governor! I sincerely hope one of them beats out Eric Barlow for the Republican nomination, but unfortunately, history is not on the side of us conservatives.
Well, that's just deluded, but it's typical of the Cornfederates who aren't conservatives or even Republicans, but think they are. She's going to lose big and hopefully the WFC does in general, so they can go back to Sweet Home Alabama (where Bextel is actually from) and leave the West alone.
Go home Becky. . . the Southland is calling you.
cont:
And it looks like state legislators are beginning to see the pitchforks. . .South Carolina dropped its effort, Louisiana refused the map Trump wanted them to adopt., Mississippi decided to wait until 2027.
May 15, 2026
Bill Allemand, a complete and total no go on our list, is running for reelection to House District 58. His DUI trial has not yet occurred. He faced opposition from Bar Nunn Mayor Peter Boyer as well as Democrat.
J. R. Riggins is running for reelection in House District 59. He faces opposition from the batshit carpetbagger far right.
Art Washut is running for reelection to House District 36.
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The 2026 Election, 10th Edition. The Setting the stage for a Pyrrhic Victory edition.
Thursday, May 14, 2026
The 25th Amendment Watch List, Sixteenth Edition: The Addled.
May 12, 2026
Drugs coming by sea, by ocean, by water. A lot of people say, What do you mean by sea? Is it see? Like vision? No, it’s sea. SEA.
Donald Trump on the maritime transportation of illegal drugs. Absolutely nobody was confused on this topic, maybe other than Trump.
We have a man who is doing a great job. I knew it! Because he kept me out of jail for years. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. He kept me out of jail.
Ummm. . .
We're building a beautiful ballroom. I'm very good at ballrooms.
The ballroom, which will either never be built or will be ripped down, is a Trump obsession.
A new name I came up -- dumbocrat. I think that could be a good one. I've come up with some extraordinary names. But I was talking about Hakeem Jeffries. He's a low IQ person. He's a dumb guy.
Trump has an obsession on intelligence like only a man who isn't intelligent can have.
Without you, we have Somalia. A fine place where we have a congresswoman who brilliantly came over to the country by marrying her brother. That was the first law she broke. She comes from a country where they have nothing but crime, bedlam, filth. Elan Omar.
Ilhan Omar has been married three times, and none of her husbands were her brother.
This accusation taps into the deeply racist nature of a lot of MAGA in particular and the American far right in general. This has laid under the surface following the 1960s for years, but it resurfaced with the rise of Barack Obama which caused this demographic to flip out. Trump tapped into it early with his clams that Obama, who was born in Hawaii, was born in Kenya.
Funny thing here is that Obama and Trump share a common item here in that both of them were born to a couple in which one of them was an immigrant. In Trump's case, however, the immigrant was a white Christian, as opposed to Obama's. This item here really shows something that's deeply ingrained in the MAGA movement. It really doesn't like anyone who isn't white and it really doesn't like anyone who isn't culturally Christian.
Otherwise, it's perfectly okay with people like Trump, who marry foreign women of a certain appearance and then divorce them later on, and whose Christianity is a variant of it that doesn't really require any actual effort or adherence to the Gospel.
The people that did it -- these people did not work for me. They said they work for me. They come from a different part of the country. But they were good. The people that worked for me recommended it and they recommend we do it this way. But I recommended it to them because I'm very good at construction.
Tide D Bowl.
No Republican has ever spoken to me about Cuba, which is a failed country and only heading in one direction - down! Cuba is asking for help, and we are going to talk!!! In the meantime, I’m off to China! President DJT
Donald Trump.
We'll address the super creepy "Trump babies" in another thread.
A note here. Trump's 18 month mark will be July 20, 2026. If I'm right, we're now in the final phases of his administration as he'll be removed by the 25th Amendment by then.
May 13, 2026
Trump, who came to office principally because he promised to deport the 10M to 12M illegal aliens in the US, most of whom are Hispanic, now wants to annex Venezuela, with a population of 31M, and make it a state.
Let's not pretend he's joking, he isn't.
The population of the US is currently 20% Hispanic. Annexation of Venezuela and making its citizens US citizens would convert the country to being a 30% Hispanic country overnight. MAGA has a strongly nativist anti Hispanic bias. It'll amusing how they bend that to supporting this, but they will.
The entire thing is amusing about King Donny. He's so dim that all he ever thinks about is the cash value of something, and Venezuela has oil. He apparently doesn't realize that Venezuela, which is a large country which would probably come in as more than one state if it did, is also a Socialist one. The Republican Party would be effectively dead, and the US would be far more left wing than it currently is.
This won't happen, as it would require the cooperation of Congress. At least I don't think it would. But the fact that MAGA will support this just shows how dim that movement is.
MAGA politicians, including Harriet Hageman and John Sycophant Barrasso, should be quizzed on this, and don't let them weasel out of answering or tell you its a joke. It isn't.
On issues closer to home:
Wyoming Cattle Ranchers Worried Over Trump Proposal To Lower Tariffs On Beef Imports
Farmers and ranches who supported Trump were reading something into him that just isn't there and will regret it.
May 14, 2026
This item raises some really good and interesting points.
Bare minimum, as the wheels come off the Trump administration he's getting increasingly erratic. Richardson proposes some darker motives, but even if there not there, there appears to be a dedicated effort to say things now to distract as things get worse and worse.
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Ballroom Batshit. A demented president goes full bonkers. The 25th Amendment Watch List Fifteenth Edition and Court Watch Part VI.
Tuesday, May 14, 1901. El petróleo
Oil was discovered in the El Ebano oil field, making Mexico an oil producing nation.
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Mexico is the eleventh largest oil producer in the world. The country sensibly nationalized its petroleum industry starting in 1917, although the process took about twenty years to complete.
Józef Piłsudski escaped Russian imprisonment after fifteen months of captivity.
Thomas Armat was granted a patent for the Vitascope cinema film projector.
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Saturday, May 11, 1901. "Notes on Negro Music".
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Wednesday, May 13, 2026
The 2026 Election, 10th Edition. The Setting the stage for a Pyrrhic Victory edition.
We start off this edition with what might be a little light at the end of a tunnel:
GOP Senate Challengers Emerge To Take On Harriet Hageman In Primary
I'll note that the LinkedIn article is the first really good article on Skovgard's views that I've seen. Personally, I'm favoring Mead.
And something to remember:
Hageman's Senate Run Reignites Criticisms Over Public Lands
And then there's this:
Wyoming Republican Party plans to buck law and endorse candidates ahead of critical primary
The GOP is really playing with fire here. It's correct that as a private organization the government shouldn't tell it who it can and cannot endorse. But then, the laws of the state shouldn't give a preferential position to a private organization, let alone a political party. As a "major party" it has a role in nominating replacement for some positions and has pride of place in primaries. When challenged in court, and it could be, this might be the first step towards an open primary in Wyoming. That is, one with no parties noted at all.
In other races, the amount of money being violently hurled by Chuck Gray and Reid Rasner at the House race is simply nuts. Weekly flyers now arrive, printed obviously by the same company, by both candidates, and television ads appear constantly. Frankly Rasner's television ads are a little better than Gray's, the latter of which basically amount to a swooning expression of love, albeit by a man who comes across as so angry its unhinged, and absolute fealty to Donald Trump. Rasner has, in my view, less than zero chance of winning the seat, but if he has any success at all it will be due to his media blitz. At any rate, both campaigns are largely self funded, which gives rise to the "well, it's their money" comment. None the less, the expenditure of this sort of money is obscene and is reason enough that neither man should win office . . . any office.
The Star Tribune ran an article about the Democratic candidate taking on Art Washut, one of the best members of the Wyoming legislature. Stewart McAdoo turns out to be a South Carolinian, so we'd put him in the carpetbagger category, and he's running on the predictable Democratic seas of blood support of infanticide.
April 30, 2026
Protect Wyoming ran an ad this morning in the Tribune against Bill Allemand.
Hunters and fishermen should really oppose Allemand, who following the corner crossing ruling of the Federal Court sponsored a Draconian bill on hunting trespassing. While he claims no present interest in it, he's from a well known Powder River Basin Wyoming ranching family, a region of the state that features very limited land access. He's fighting a charge for drunk driving in Johnson County presently.
He's being challenged by Bar Nunn Mayor Peter Boyer, who got cross wise in a Bar Nunn town council meeting according to news reports. Allemand quixotically adamantly opposed a proposed nuclear generator project north of the small Natrona County Casper bedroom community. The WFC seemed to align with that opposition, showing it thinks so little that its only concept of the energy industry is grounded in fossil fuels.
Democrat Keenan Morgan is also running against Allemand. Morgan and Boyer are from Bar Nunn, Allemand from Midwest. The district covers a large amount of territory but uniquely features three small towns, Midwest, Edgerton and Bar Nunn, with Bar Nunn being by far the largest of the three. House District 58 also includes a sliver of Casper and the large unincorporated area north of Highway 20/26 in Natrona County.
It'll be interesting to see how Allemand, who has a semi uncontrollable temper, reacts Protect Wyoming's advertisement.
May 1, 2026
Maine Gov. Janet Mills dropped out of the race for the Democratic Senate ticket. A popular Governor, she was being upstaged by Graham Platner for the bid to replace 72 year old Susan Collins. Mills is 77 years old, so the race shows the steadfast refusal of Boomers to know when the heck to get out and let the young have a place.
Platner is an oyster farmer and Marine Corps veteran who is a tender 41 years old, an age that would have been regarded as far from young in any era but the current one. As an oyster farmer from Maine this race is showing the interesting rise of some strong agrarian interests on the coasts, with Mary Peltola of Alaska, a Blue Dog Democrat, campaigning on the following:
It's Simple:
The fight for
Fish, Family, Freedom
depends on fixing the rigged system in DC
May 2, 2026
Teacher Brian Costello has announced his bid for House District 37, currently held by Steve Harshman who is running for Superintendent of Public Instruction. Harshman is also a teacher. He will be running against far right wing gadfly Ross Schriftman and Democrat Betsy Erickson.
Schrifman is a Wyoming native.
Conicidentaly Protect Wyoming ran an add on Harshman in today's Tribune:
In House District 57 Luc Colgrove announced a bid for the seat occupied by Julie Jarvis and formerly occupied by Carpetbagger Jeanette Ward, who is trying to get the seat back.
May 3, 2026
About time:
Democrats are not OK with Boomers
Perhaps having learned their lesson with Joe Biden, the party’s voters are starting to reject older, establishment-bound candidates.
May 4, 2026
Democratic candidates announce legislative, county seat bids
All four Democratic state lawmakers will seek reelection. Democrats also have candidates for both commission seats, sheriff, county clerk and more.
Elsewhere I read an interview of Provenza. Like me, she's been in both major parties, and has been an independent.
May 5, 2026
Statewide candidates split on Wyoming GOP’s plans to defy state law and make endorsements
Some agree with the party’s decision and will seek out an endorsement. Others oppose a political party breaking election law.
This stands a pretty good chance of being the political equivalent of pulling the pin on a live grenade and then dropping it in your own foxhole. There's a really good argument there that could lead to the state Supreme Court simply wiping out party dependent primaries under Wyoming's law, and creating a judicially mandated open primary.
Indeed, I hope that happens.
Part of what's amusing here is that Chuck Gray and Reid Rasner, both of whom assert their undying love for Trump whenever possible, are on opposite sides of this issue with Rasner claiming the "establishment" is trying to stop him. Politicians are big on opposing "the establishment". Gray likes the new provisions, Rasner does not, probably because Gray is bargaining on the WFC to endorse him with the Confederate Seal of Approval. Gray was an original WFC Cornfederate, so Rasner is probably correct here that the "establishment" is trying to stop him, if the WFC is the establishment, which of course they'll deny that they are.
Ballow is frank she's opposed. She's been pretty quiet up until recently, but there's a good chance that she will secure the nomination.
May 6, 2026
Trump backed sycophants did well in Indiana where Trump intervened to punish Republicans who didn't vote for redistricting. The result will help march the GOP right off the cliff its headed towards in theall.
This shows the extent to which the GOP is actually dead, replaced by a group of worshippers who follows the words of their leader, rather than reality.
In contrast, Democrats won big in special elections.
And we have this:
Yes, they are. They're frankly really irritating.
May 7, 2026
Elissa Campbell is running for reelection in Wyoming House District 56.
Reid Rasner went to Gillette to speak this week at a meet and great at the city's Prime Rib restaurant and drew a whopping huge crowd of three people, according to the Tribune.
Three . . . pretty much tells you where that campaign is going.
At it he suggested that the 50/50 proceeds swap currently existing on public land rental proceeds be made 90/10 with the State getting the 90. He claimed there's a lot of support in D.C. for this. There isn't.
Rasner has been dumping a ton of money into his campaign and apparently Chucky accused him of spending his mother's money. I'm not a Rasner fan but that's ironic for Gray, who also is spending money that came in some form from his family. Rasner denied the charge sort of, asserting that he's a highly successful businessman without really fully denying the claim. Whatever the truth or distruth of it, it is circulating the internet now. Anyway you look at it three candidates who should not get this office, Gray, Rasner and Freiss are dumping piles of money into it.
Albany County overwhelmingly approved a 6th Cent ballot issue.
And the Weston County Commissioners, to their credit, said nope to the three GOP picks for Clerk.
Weston County Commissioners Reject GOP Picks To Replace Hadlock As County Clerk
The current system, it might be noted, required the party of the outgoing clerk to nominate three choices, and if the Commissioners can't pick one, the district court judge does from the outgoing person's party. The GOP's recently fit over complying with state law raises the question of whether this is constitutional. It likely isn't.
May 8, 2026
Oh my.
Rasner is now attacking Gray with a radio ad in which he calls him "China Chuck Gray".
Reid Rasner Launches Attack Ad With Chinese Music, Gong and Ninja 'Hoi!’ Grunts’
I think the best response to that was Legislator Michael Yin's; "“I think Rasner’s campaign is a joke, so I don’t take anything he runs very seriously,”
Yin is right. Rasner is spending money like crazy, but the primary beneficiary of it might be Gray, as the two "I love Trump more than Trump loves Trump" candidates are sucking so much air out of the room that even Steve Megabucks Freiss can hardly get in a word in about how he loves Trump, and Reagan.
Gray, for his part, has referred to Rasner as "Mr. Kronberg-Rasner” which appeared to baffle the Cowboy State Daily but which is pretty clearly a reference to Josh Kronberg-Rasner who must wonder what the heck he did to deserve this. Apparently Gray figures that people will do some independent research on Kronberg and accordingly learn that Reid Rasner and Josh Kronberg were at one time married. If you dig into that, you can learn that, as in this obituary of well known Casper businesman Darrell Decker:
Darrell was preceded in death by his parents and his wife, Billie Jean Decker. He is survived by his two daughters, Darlyn Decker McIntosh and Deborah (Debbie) Ann Decker, both of Casper, WY; four grandchildren Ryan Decker Rasner, Reid Rasner and his husband Josh Kronberg-Rasner, Darbi (Rasner) Westman and her husband Andy, and Zack Gentzlinger; and two great-grand children, Damion and Mason.
The interesting thing about that, of course, is that is Gray's backhanded way of trying to point out that Rasner is a homosexual, hoping that people won't cast votes for his vociferous opponent for that reason.
Of course that brings up the question of why Gray, age 36, is unmarried. I've not seen anything suggesting he's a homosexual (although Rasner admittedly is and there isn't that much public knowledge on it), but it's hard not wonder why the super conservative, family values, party has figures who don't fit that mold. Gray isn't married, Rasner is a homosexual, Hageman has no children of her own. . . *
Well, anyhow. The ad is frankly slimy. Rasner never had any chance in the first place, so violently hurling money in this fashion is really a waste.
Chuck also said the following:
Mr. Kronberg-Rasner sues others for defamation, while he’s the one who is actually lying. Mr. Kronberg-Rasner accuses others of what he’s actually doing, just like leftwing insider politicians like Liz Cheney.
That really didn't make any sense, quite frankly, as Rasner has been suing people for defamation. I guess he's saying that Rasner is defaming him, which is a huge stretch. The irony is that Gray built his entire campaign on the lie of the election being stolen and screams like a weenie every time anyone says anything about him. He did so again here, accusing Liz Cheney, who was clearly a conservative, of being a "leftwing insider". She may have been an insider, but she sure wasn't left wing.
Normally, of course, Chuck is attacking people in the middle. If he ordered lukewarm coffee and the waitress brings hot, she'd get accused of being a left wing radical. This is the first time that he's been attacked from the right and he doesn't really know what to do. It's clear he'd like to come out and say, "yeah . . .well Reid you're a homosexual", but he's clearly afraid to
Ideally, and the ideal really tends not to happen, the Gray/Rasner fight will take them both down and into political oblivion. Their campaigns are self funded for the most part, so the longer this goes on the more of their own cash they're draining. Wyomingites would be well served if they drained all of their reserves, Balow won the race, and Chuck went on to a McDonald's job in Los Angeles and Rasner went back to doing whatever he was doing before.
Footnotes
*Gray accidentally raises an interesting point here. Does supporting homosexual marriage, which I do not, make you liberal by default? It's hard to see how supporting something so fundamentally non traditional would not, in fact, put you in the far left no matter what else you might believe. Of course, maybe Rasner has reformed. People sometimes do.
Politicians with same sex attraction wouldn't normally be expected to reveal it, of course, but some just do. Keeping it closeted while being a right wing Republican, and I'm not accusing anyone of that here, is hypocritical, however.
Of course, the GOP is hypocritical on this in general. In his first successful campaign Trump suggested that same sex marriage would be reversed. It hasn't been, but then right now its stare decisis that its legal. Still, Scott Bessant is an open homosexual in a same sex marriage which, if you really believed what you professed, would raise questions, I guess.
Likewise, flat out avoiding having children isn't very traditional, and from an Apostolic Christian point of view, doing that chemically or artificially is flat out immoral. This is tricker, however, as some people can't have children. Usually you don't know what people's circumstances are, and its impolite to ask, unless their political persona has interjected it.
Finally, all the talk about relationships between men and women and tradition, it's pretty clear that Republicans don't have a problem with Trump having a string of bedmates in prior days. At one time even being divorced was beyond the pale for a Republican President. Now they can have a pre office moral history rivaling that of an alley cat. If the Republicans really meant what they preach (and in fairness, some in the Heritage Society have taken this view), they'd be doing something about no fault divorce.
But then, that'd be contrary to the American Civil Religion, which holds you can pretty much do anything you want in this category, as long as its with the opposite sex.
May 9, 2026
Protect Wyoming ran an ad in today's Trib in favor of Julie Jarvis.
Jarvis captured House District 57 from WFC far right member Jeanette Ward, a carpetbagger from Chicago who had just relocated to Wyoming when she took over the seat that had been occupied by the universally disappointing Chuck Gray. Ward is trying to get the seat back.
Late in the day change for Landon Brown.
Frankly, without a better reason than the one he's given, Brown's action is chicken, as it gives other people who would have run very little time to ponder running.
The Wyoming Freedom Caucus is engaging in complete bullshit here:
Wyoming Freedom Caucus Criticizes Nethercott For Calling For “Lawfare"
I listened to Nethercott on this and she's not calling for lawfare. The WFC is just a bunch of ignorant babies.
Nethercott nearly became the Secretary of State, barely loosing to Lying Chuck Gray. The WFC has never had any love for her in the first place, and basically hates the rule of law.
May 13, 2026
Just when you think the political far right in Wyoming can't get any stupider, Carpetbagger Rebecca "Check Gate" Bextel announces that she's running for Governor on the Constitution Party ticket. The Constitution Party is a third party that apparently has a copy of a double secret constitution that nobody else has. She was head of, and censured by, the Teton County GOP, but has crossed party lines, something the WFC generally regards abhorrent, as she's afraid Barlow will win the nomination as the Cornfederate vote will be split between "I'm endorsed by the Blasphemous Donald Trump" Deggenfelder and the Sucking on the Government Tit Bien.
The level of self delusion that a person has to have to think that the Constitution Party can win anything, let alone that there are so many ignorant Cornfederates in the state that they'd vote fora rich carpetbagging Cornfederate in the general election, is epic.
She probably has the cash to burn in such an effort, however, which is a good reason for Wyoming to contemplate a wealth tax.
Related threads:
Pollice Verso. The 2026 Political Negative Endorsement. The Don't Vote For List.
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