Today is Friday, September 22, 2023. As a government shutdown looms here at the end of the month, House Republicans are shooting themselves in the face as House speaker Kevin “Kiss the Ring” McCarthy loses control control over his cult members known as the party of Trump who for some indefensible, inexplicable reason are fine with the idea of plummeting the country in economic chaos. However, the true reasoning of these antidemocratic members of Congress in wanting a government shutdown becomes all too clear in an online article for Media ITE by Alex Griffin entitled ‘It’s Not Even Going to Work’: Raskin Roasts Trump for Trying to Shut Down the Government to ‘Blocked His Prosecutors.'” Once the reason is revealed, the explanation should infuriate every American who will vote in the presidential election of 2024. And the reason shouldn’t be all that opaque because it rhymes with “dump.”

Today Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) smeared House Republicans who are poised to shut down the government unless some kind of last-minute deal can be reached to continue funding it.

Raskin joined MSNBC’s Morning Joe and reacted to reports that former president Donald Dumpf had been coordinating with some House GOP (“Guns Over People”) members regarding a possible shutdown.

The Maryland Representative who lost a son during the second impeachment hearings against the former insurrectionist said, “I mean, Donald Trump is calling the shots across the board. He wants to shut. He thinks he can shut down his indictments and the work of the special counsel and the Department of Justice in the federal courts by getting Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene [two of the House’s sterling idiots] and three other members of the MAGA caucus to derail the House and shut down the government of the United States.”

For those of you who are worried that the many criminal trials against the corrupt ex-president will not go on because of a government shutdown, Raskin disabuses repugnicans that they will have the power to do so if the levers of government grind to a halt by the end of the month: “He’s badly mistaken because the attorney general, Jack Smith, the prosecutors, are funded by a continuing indefinite appropriation to the Department of Justice, and they’re exempted because the attorney general is a presidential appointee and the federal courts themselves are open for business for criminal trials because they relate to the protection of life, property and public safety. So he’s [Trump] going to shut down all the rest of the US government in order to blockade his prosecutors, but it’s not even going to work.”

Raskin then goes on to predict the political doom of both Gaetz and MTG (wouldn’t we dare hope for this eventuality?) if they continue to push for this ridiculous action on the part of the Orange Hemorrhoid. He actually said, “And Marjorie Taylor Greene and Matt Gaetz, who wants to run for governor [oh shit!] of Florida, according to all the Republicans I serve with, should figure out right now they’re just going to end their political careers by shutting down the government for no reason. They should tell Donald Trump his plan is not going to work.”

On his ridiculously named Truth Social platform, the Cheeto Menace said outright, “This is also the last chance to defund these political prosecutions against me and other Patriots.” Of course, the “Stable Genius” never mentions who those other Patriots” really are since he’s only referring to himself.

So if the government does shut down, regrettably, next month because Republicans couldn’t reach an agreement to do something about it, you know who the hell to blame: the MAGA branch of the cult of Dumpf. They must all be voted out in 2024: there’s no other choice. The House must not be in Republicans’ hands ever again!

I’m going to finish early tonight since I got my new COVID booster at CVS around 4:45 p.m. today. Not that I feel anything yet; I was told by the pharmacist who jabbed me in my right arm that I might feel some soreness there and might have a low-grade fever. So far, so good. It’s close to 9 here and there’s no discomfort yet. Actually, I can say that the reaction I might be experiencing is that I have this urge to grope the penis of my male companion in a theater where a musical is playing where mothers and children are sitting in the audience. Oh, and wanting to vape too. That’s the reaction I’m having to this novel booster. Not!

So I’ll say have a good weekend. However, it might be very soggy here Saturday and Sunday because of another tropical storm heading our way: Ophelia. Just what we need on the eve of Yom Kippur on Sunday. Yeech!

I also wanted to say that two days ago, we saw our good friend “Gene” before he leaves the borough of Queens for Provincetown for good. As we were sitting in his bare kitchen, he gifted us with three large T-shirts that his late husband had: two of Barack Obama and his two election campaigns and one dubbed “American Horror Story” with the visage of Donald Trump between the word “American” and “Horror Story.” Strangely enough, I originally thought the face was that of Albert Einstein before I understood the true message behind this scathing denunciation of the twice-impeached, four-times indicted former president. The face of the former president appears very distorted at first, so that’s why I couldn’t identify him right away. Now I have to decide if I can truly wear it in public. Even though I did wear an anti-MAGA hat during Dumpf’s four years in office. Barring a few verbal scrapes with strangers who misread the words on the brim of the hat, I didn’t experience any blows to my body by MAGA loyalists or anyone else for that matter. But let’s see with this T-shirt.

Elliot received a cool green T-shirt that proclaims “I’m proficient in 3 languages: English, Sarcasm & Profanity.” This describes him to a T. However, I would say the last adjective doesn’t characterize him all that much. He’s not much of a user of profanity unless he’s running out of patience.

Stay safe and be well.

Here’s the T-shirt. Can you see why I couldn’t identify the former president on the shirt? Maybe not. His picture certainly does go with that phrase from the long-running FX series that I’ve watched ever since it debuted way back in 2011. Actually, there is a new season now, Season 12, that stars Kim Kardashian in it. Yuck! I’m not sure if I will be watching this incarnation of it because of her being in it. This new season is called “Delicate,” and I have no idea what it’s about.