At Sullie's Place

Somebody show Matt Gaetz the gate.  Another Trumpublican who has gotten himself wedged between a rock and rock bottom.  Looks to me that he ain’t gonna make it through his 1st term.  I don’t think that’s a problem for him as the word on the street seems to be that he doesn’t even wanna be there.  He’s been entertaining the thought of leaving the House early and going to work for Fox News, which turns out to be news to Fox News.  More word on the street is that no one on any level can confirm any communication over the matter.  The only tie to Fox News that Gaetz has had was an interview last evening with Tucker Carlson in which Carlson was quoted as saying something about it being one of the weirdest interviews he was ever involved with.  I didn’t see it, I was too busy darning my socks.  No way can Fox News compete with my socks. Truth be known, if you had walked up to me 27 minutes ago and asked if I would write an article about Matt Gaetz with ...

It’s been a real fractured time since I wrote my 1st article on November 1st.  There is no lack of theatrics hurled our way.  We’ve got Trumpublicans, conspiracy theorists, thugs, Q-Quacks, rioters, insurrectionists and other stupid people that are unidentifiable.  What we really need is a way to identify these wackos from a distance before we have to interact with them, you know, someone like a clean-up hitter with tools of the trade to step in and run interference for us. Is there such a paragon of proclivity that can give us a “heads up” ahead of time?  As a matter of fact, there is and some of you may know him as the “here’s your sign guy,” Bill Engvall.  I tell ya, he’s our savior.  I bet he’ll be glad to do it, he just hates stupid people.  We set him loose around the country handing out his stupid people signs and what a relief it will be for the rest of us.  We will automatically know who to ignore at any moment’s notice. Too bad he wasn’t...

There is a lot on the docket today so let’s get to a miniscule of it.  Up first is my continuation of more Georgia stuff from yesterday’s lectures.  Governor Kemp responds to the talk aimed at the boycott of Georgia.  I think it’s an excellent idea, but I don’t live there and I haven’t hung out there since the 70’s, long before they have fallen into its current misuse.  As long as they’re at it, let’s go all out and boycott Florida and Texas as well.  My question is, are they going to stop folks from coming or going?  Also what about the Georgia-Florida border?  I suppose they’ll have boycott agents standing across from each other blaring out 007 show tunes through the speakers. I tell you, I am truly amazed on a daily basis the antics of these nitwits.  They remind me of the “Keystone Cops” back in the silent film days, except they made more sense, since they followed a script.  These yahoo “Pubs” couldn’t follow the “yellow brick road!”...

I am the 1st to admit that I am not enamored with Senator Lindsey Graham (R) South Carolina.  As a matter of fact, I abhor just the movement of his lips.  I know little to nothing about him and there is nothing about him that I like.  He’s just another run of the mill legislators that I place in the same cadre of other bonehead politicos such as McConnel, Cruz, Hawley, Boebert, Green, Gaetz, etc., etc., etc.  I peruse the internet on a daily basis to see if there will ever be a time when a headline will make any sense when spoken by one of these “Pub” pukes that I would agree with, but it just never seems to come to fruition. This evening, I was bound and determined to find just a minor fraction of a meaningless statement of no import, that would actually show that one of these “Pubs” has, at least, a microscopic sense of concern.  I believe I found a shred of evidence that I can share with you.  Isn’t this exciting?  I’m sure you’re on the edge of you...

The lines are drawn, the divide is wide, the Dems and the Pubs will not abide, One being left and one being right, each to the other is out of sight, Red vs Blue, Black vs White, every new day brings another new fight, The extremist elite out in the street, ranting and raving and taking the heat, When will it end, being pushed aside, make room for the just, honor those who’ve died, I rest to you, to decide for me, if we be wronged or if we be free.  After 70 plus of these articles of consideration, I thought I would throw some poetry at you.  I’ve never been accused of being a poet laureate as most of the dabbling that I have accomplished in that area has been in the form  of humorous limericks that I really best not repeat at this time so I’ll just slide back into the parable political prose you have come to know and love. I have come to grips with the fact that most days, my mind succumbs to my conscious moments and even some of my subconscio...

Georgia GOP’ers passed major legislation to limit voting, Georgia State Representative (D) Park Cannon gets arrested for knocking on Governor Kemp’s door and democracy gets “shell shocked” as hell’s broke loose in Georgia and the devil’s got their soul.  What another f***ing day in the land of the free-ck!  Georgia has now joined Iowa in restricting voting rights and will probably be joined by Texas, Arizona and Florida.  Looks like there are 5 more states I can add to my “no way am I moving there” list.  The irony of this is really steamy since this appears to be a victory for the Trumpublicans, yet where this took place is in Fulton County which is in the process of prosecuting Trump for election fraud.  Another example of the left hand not having a clue as to what the hell the right hand is doing.  The mess of the last 4 years is going to take up the next 4 years.  In more weird Georgian news, Park Cannon was arrested while knocking on the Governor’...

Okay, let’s just say for the sake of argument that I go up to assault weapons aficionado like the conservative political commentator Ben Shapiro who has just stated something to the effect that if the government just thinks about thinking of banning assault weapons, the White House will have another thing coming.  Hmm?  I wonder what that would all entail?  Well, let’s play this out to his gun rights satisfaction.  I grab my lightweight 5.56 mm, air-cooled, gas-operated, magazine-fed M16 assault rifle with 20 rounds lock and load and stick it up his ass and fire off the entire clip, he should be one happy camper, right?  After all, he’s a gun rights 2nd Amendment zealot.  After I leave him piled up there with a smile on his face I go out to aptly named Rifle, Colorado, to the Shooter’s Grill where me and my M16 will pay a visit to Lauren Boebert and before anyone can reach for the heat they’re packin’ I’ll spray ‘em all over the place long before they get t...

I pride myself in my balancing act when it comes to the News with 98 and 44/100ths percent of the info I observe is viewed on my laptop computer screen.  I check out all sorts of articles posted by all the radio, television, newspaper, magazine and wire services.  Days can go by without my even turning on the TV, since I don’t watch any kind of regular programming.  It is said that the Golden Age of television ended by 1960.  One of my favorite phrases by a government employee was uttered back in 1961 when Newton Minow, chairman of the FCC said, “Television is a vast wasteland.”  We are inundated today with so many network news programs plus programs, in general, that we can quietly keep constantly clicking closed caption cable clusters of channels at our fingertips, something that was not available in the 50’s.  Lately, however, I seem to be rushing around trying to locate the misplaced remote on account of an ominous news flash.  A week ago, it was G...

These repulsive Republican Rambo wannabe’s make me gag.  Creepy looking “Pub” pukes that take photos of themselves standing before display rakes of firearms such as the likes of Lauren Boebert, Marjorie Taylor Greene and the junior Trump Brat. It has a tendency to make me and some of my veteran comrades in arms do the head shakin’ eye rollin’ move whilst snickering at their lame attempt to look macho. The videos of them are even more of a hoot what with the threatening sound effects of rounds going off and reloading.  What a manly maneuver for a campaign poster for these extremist 2nd amendment assholes who look more like deer caught in the headlights than surly looking bandoleros looking for a shoot-out at the OK Corral.  Although, It is possible that the 2 Lady Representatives may have more underarm and chest hairs than Brat Jr. My brother and I along with our cousins were born and raised in the Northwoods of Minnesota where hunting and fishing are generationally i...

As much as I was heartened to hear Joe speak about bi-partisanship and a coming of together to heal our nation in his inaugural address, I’m afraid that is mission impossible.  We’ve had so many years of division on so many different levels in this country, especially the past 4 Trump years, that a coming together, at it’s best, just won’t happen.  I’m sure millions of you out there have already figured that out.  These disagreements have all turned political.  Let's take the most simple item of day to day conflict in our nation as an example: Masks.  That’s about as basic as an item of contention I can come up with.  Now I will simplify it right down to its lowest common denominator which is, most folks who wear masks are Democrats and most folks who don’t are Republicans, or even more simplified, most folks who don’t wear masks are Trumpers  and most folks who do, are not. Now for the really bad news.  Since masks are the bottom feeders in this ...

I remember, on occasion, my brother or some friends would call me a dumbf*** for doing something really f******dumb.  This was just common practice and we all had our share of ribbing, but it was kid stuff.  Let me give you an example so you can better understand the concept.  Let’s just say you are running behind in 12th grade typewriting class and in order to get your work turned in on time, a buddy helps you out by letting you copy a business form that everyone has to turn in.  The form is standardized so everyone should have all the same words and definitions on their form, except where you have to sign your name in black ink.  I bet you can see where this is heading.  So you hurriedly type out the form and since everything is word for word, when you go to sign it, you don’t sign your own name, you sign your buddies.  That’s an example of being a dumbf***! Now we revert over to yesterday’s Senate hearings over the status of Covid-19 with Dr. Anthon...

I had a couple of titles for this article that I thought would be quite appropriate such as “Hang ‘Em High” and “Toxic Texan,” but I’ve already used those.  I felt that I needed a tactful title to help tie up what I hope to be the last of this “Texas Again?” syndrome.  I can hear you all giving a collective groan out there sighing, “Why does it always have to be Texas?”  I have no clue as to how many times an article I have written lately has some sort of relationship to Texas.  Now, I liked Texas.  I’ve lived there at one time and have visited numerous other times and I could eat my way from one end to another.  Outside of flying in and out a day here and a day there, I haven’t spent any amount of time there in over 40 years.  Most folks paint a picture of Texas as being a part of the “wild and woolly west” and rightly so, given all the wide open spaces that I remember driving in.  Outside of fantasizing over a Texas barbeque, I haven’t given the...

We are in deep doo-doo.  Each day that goes by takes away my toleration for Republicans by a factor of 10.  Outside of Governor Cuomo of New York, all of the far out exotic sensationalized headlines we see day to day in the news are Republicans.  Using Mitch McConnell’s own words about a scorched earth, that is what my view is of the future if you put him and his fellow “Pubs” in charge.  I envision a dozen or so of these “Pubs” standing in a malevolent pose in a stark image of a scorched earth.  Speaking of Big Mac, is he trying to threaten the “Dems” with this scorched earth verbiage and try and turn it into something they have been doing all along?  Nice try Mac, but not allowing anything through is the normal “Pub” policy.  Now, if I were in charge, the first thing I would do is remove all the cobwebs they are impeded with.  What’s that you’re trying to say?  Sounds like....olgan....ool gan....oil gan...ahhh, you mean oil can!  Sure ...

On the surface, last Thursday was looking to be a normal low-key unexotic day for me and my spousal unit.  The morning started out a tad earlier than normal though as I had to get up before noon since we had to take a slight road trip.  It wasn’t a bad day at all for Minnesota in March as we were scrunched in between 2 storm systems.  The plan was to take the vehicle she drives since it was getting low on gas and we would be going past a cut-rate convenience store called the “Tank & Tummy” on the way back and it would be a convenient time to fill ‘er up.  Now I’m not the macho type and it’s not necessary for me to be in the driver’s seat like some guys, after all, I’ve been driving legally since June of ‘62 when I got my driver’s license.  I had a couple years experience prior to that driving carnival equipment all over the state so we wouldn’t have to double back, but that’s another story.  I figure that since I’ve been pounding the pavement going on 6...

Question:  Part 1. What do you think the percentages are that all 16 states that have no statewide masked mandates have Republican governors?  Part 2.  What do you think the percentages are that all 16 states that have no statewide masked mandates have Democratic governors?  If you replied 100% for Part 1 and 0% for Part 2, you’re off the hook.  If you replied in the opposite manner or any other manner, you’re out of touch.  I’ve always remembered what I brought away from the James Bond movie Goldfinger when he and Bond 1st bumped into each other was happenstance and the 2nd time was coincidence.  “Be careful Mr. Bond, do not meddle in my affairs!”  What you would have next is the proverbial 3 strikes and you’re out!  16 Republican governors without statewide masked mandates have gots to be more than a coincidence.  They are all Trump states, except for Georgia, which is usually a red state so that could be considered a coincidence....

I have to admit that I’m not a Royal’s fan.  They haven’t been in my thought processes for quite a few years although the last time I went to see them, it was quite titillating as the game went into extra innings and I scarfed up the Beer & Brat $4.00 special.  I was passing through Kansas City and decided to catch a ballgame since…....what?  What do you mean cut?  What’s that?  Wrong Royals?  What do you mean the British Royals?  I didn’t know they had a baseball team.  Okay, okay I’m sorry, my bad.  You want my take on the scandal of the week and all the hoopla about those other Royals?  That’s going to be a tough one as I know a lot about baseball, but don’t know squat about “those Royals”.  Hmmm, looks like my editor wants me to start with QE2 and the House of Windsor.  I know about QE2, a descendant of QE1 and a fine maritime vessel.  I have relatives that have sailed her to……huh?  Cut again?  Oh, QE2 th...

I wonder if anyone has ever written a humoristic sarcastic satire of each of the 50 states political psyche?  You know, something that would define a certain state’s political well-being that would be basically acceptable to the rest of the nation.  I have done absolutely no research on this subject at all since the question just popped into my head so I’m going into this completely blind, but why should this article be any different than all the other ones I’ve written.  Keep it on a level playing field.  Anyway, since no research has gone into what I am about to say, I can only say that, of which, I kind of sorta know.  Since I’m in the neighborhood, let’s start with Minnesota.  This is a fairly well-balanced state that really doesn’t get involved with much political controversy such as the likes of Texas, Georgia, Colorado, Missouri, Florida, New York and some others that are constantly in the controversial political news.  We are still a fairly blu...

I thought I was all done with him, but he keeps showing up like a bad turd.  In reality, he’s a frickin’ nightmare!  Like a booger at the end of your finger that you just can’t seem to flick off, the extreme Senator Ron Johnson ® Wisconsin persists in looking and sounding like a buffoon.  Yep, the same guy I was hoping to get rid of 6 articles back, entitled “One Trick Phoney”, only this time, he’s sponsored by the “My Pillow” guy Mike Lindell as the 2 of them have teamed up as the poster child for the new birth control campaign.  It’s looking to me like Ron Jon is trying to stay abreast of Pillow Brain in the “Whopper Tales” category of the Republiconspiracy News of the Weird World.  What a team.  I think they should recruit Trump, get a book deal and call it, “How To Exist Being Blind, Deaf And Dumb On The Conspiratorial Plane” or “How To Survive As The Modern Day 3 Blind Mice.” I shouldn’t even have to bring anything remotely like this to your attention....

This is a never-ending nightmare!  Right now, at this moment of time, for me there are 2 shit-heads that should be taken out right in the middle of the National Mall, stripped naked and tarred and feathered.  Outside of the entertainment value for the rest of us, it couldn’t happen to 2 bigger pathetic pols than Kevin McCarthy and Marjorie Taylor Greene.  These two’ve got to go, preferably by illegal devious means.  The gloves are off folks and I hope you can restrain me if I were to ever run into these 2 pricks on a public street.  I’ve got a newsflash for youse.  Minority Leader my ass.  Mad Max ain’t in charge of shit.  Neo-Nasty MTG is allowed to run amok and continuously gum things up.  However, slowly but surely, there is becoming dissent in the ranks of the GOP’ers that I have been witnessing lately.  The more she objects to the proceedings going on and moves to make a motion to adjourn, the louder they object back.  Represen...

My apologies for getting sidetracked here as I was going to write about Oprah’s coup interview with the renegade royal couple, but that will have to be tomorrow’s critique.  Something else caught my eye and I will type out the headline for you so’s you can see why I changed my mind.  The article is from Newsweek and the title is, “Christian Pastor Claims Prophets Will Call Back Trump For Three Terms.”  Some of you out there can understand my interest in this since I have written articles about my propensity to lambast the mixing of church and state.  This pastor’s name is Robin Bullock and he describes himself as, “someone who operates heavily in the prophetic realm.”  Now I’m not exactly sure what that means, except for kinda, sorta, maybe?  When I come across words like prophetic and realm in the same headline, it will raise an eyebrow.  It would be similar to words in the same sentence such as; courteous, humble, Trump; Sullie, lottery, winner; free...

If nominated, I will not run, if elected, I will not serve.  This statement is a derivative uttered back in 1884 by General William Tecumseh Sherman when he was being touted as the Republican candidate for the upcoming presidential election.  As one of the military master statisticians for the Union Army during the Civil War, he is well known for waging total war against the Confederacy with his infamous “March To The Sea'' campaign.  Unlike Grant, he had no interest in politics and I am using that as a theme for this article.  It would be so cool, these days, if the above opening statement was also uttered by a mass majority of present day Republicans.  For the sake of allowed space, let’s just pick on a couple of new contemptible characters that I haven’t ground up for sausage, as of yet.  Let me introduce you to the despicable white nationalist Congressman Paul Gosar (R) Arizona and the repugnant Nick Fuentes, your everyday anti-everything extremist righ...

The GOP is really sounding wheezier than ever.  Best way I can describe it is by recalling a horror movie when someone is getting strangled and they are kicking and screaming and gasping for air.  Are you getting the picture?  This is how I perceive the Republican Party these days.  Whoa!  I’m really getting good at this.  Let’s look at those 1st two sentences and see how I nailed it.  Yes, they are sounding wheezier, yes they are a horror movie, yes they are strangling themselves, yes they are kicking and screaming and yes they are gasping for air.  Some of you out there are wondering why I keep denigrating the GOP’ers when I have already pronounced them belly-up and deep sixed.  The answer to that is, because I can and it’s fun.  As you have witnessed, on any given day, I can come up with a headline article about some really goofy shenanigans that the elephant herd is spouting off about.  The hard part is deciding just which of th...

So, why is Trump not in jail, then?  He’s not President anymore, it’s been a month and a half and he’s still not behind bars.  What gives!  What’s the delay?  Why is he still allowed to wallow about Mar-a-Lago free as a bird and be a nuisance when a regular bloke that pulled the shit he’s pulled would have been strung up by now.  Some of those Q-Quack, Proud Boy, Oath Keepin’ lll%er racist insurrectionists that work for him are in jail and their International Terrorist leader is allowed to roam the streets!  What gives?  Why isn’t he wearing that orange 1-piece suit that matches his face?  Too bad I’m not in charge as I would have been waiting for him down in Florida and would have cuffed him as soon as he stepped off Air Force One.  He would have been taken to an unnamed secure location and Melania would probably have sent me a thank-you note.  The NSA, CIA, FBI, DEA, NAACP, USMC, SSA, BSA, PTA, SAG, AFTRA and MADD will just have to tak...

I have to admit that my denigration of Senator Ron Johnson (R) Wisconsin, a target that I have delved into a time or twenty in the past has been very enjoyable and exhilarating.  I’m not saying that it supersedes tearing apart other Republicans, I’m just saying that Ron Jon is still in the running as “Pub” Flub of the year, not to be confused with Jimmy Kimmel’s nomination that Marjorie Taylor Greene be named worst person of the year.  Although these two honors are closely related, they are two separate awards.  I cannot think of anything he has made headlines over that has been even remotely favorable to me, until today.  Okay, okay, yes he was the only one in the chamber to sit through the mundane 628 page readout of the Bailout Bill yesterday, nice trick, but he had no choice and had to stay there till after midnight playing with his phone since he is the one who objected.  All that was, was a typical delaying tactic that the wealthy can use to keep the downt...

Finally, some Biden controversy has come our way that warrants my attention and a respite from my normal tirade targets.  Today’s word boy’s and girl’s is Neanderthal which is defined as an uncivilized, unintelligent, or uncouth person.  Joe used that word yesterday to describe his frustration over Texas Governor (R) Greg Abbott and Mississippi Governor (R) Tate Reeves for lifting their states masked mandates, describing it as a big mistake and added, “The Last Thing We Need Is Neanderthal Thinking!”  I can’t begin to tell you how elated and relieved I was to hear him say that.  When I turned the news on and heard what those Governors were planning, I exhorted forth a few expletives and called them Cro-Magnon misfits.  After hearing Joe’s description, I realized I set the bar too high.  I mostly had Covid on my mind at the time and momentarily forgot that Joe was dealing with a couple Republicans so I was giving that dynamic duo too much credit.  ...

1st Up: Oh Pleeeeeeeeease!!!  Talk about using high octane gas to put out a fire.  Fox News just hired former Trump stumpin’, conspiracy theorin’, fake newsin’, head bimbo-ologist White House Press Secretary, Kayleigh McEnany.  Are they going to actually give her her own show?  What are they going to name it, The Valley Girl View?  Just what we need, another Big Mac.  Not only do we have a Senator Mac and a Representative Mac, now we have NewsMac.  We’ve just gone beyond our Macs-i-mum limit.  Is that why they’ve been cleaning house?  Make more room for the far-out right-stremists?  I’m sure it pays well and it’s certainly not based on what she knows.  As far as I’m concerned, she’s an accomplice for aiding and abetting her previous boss for the infamous insurrection.  Oh well, just another face to add to my Fox News dartboard that is already overcrowded! 2nd Up: Now let’s pick on Teddy Bear Cruz who showed up for the CPAC Come...

We are doomed.  I miss the good ol’ days when we had the two dependable elephant and donkey parties.  There were normal differences back then in the 2-party system, but things changed dramatically with the Pentagon Papers and then the Watergate Scandal.  Nixon wanted to go down in History as a magnanimously grande President and his foreign policy could have put him there, but domestically, he failed miserably.  He got bruised with the first scandal, but the second one destroyed him.  Next up for the “Pubs” was Reagan, a man who reeked of Presidential timber and limped away from the Iran-Contra affair, which seeped into the one term of Bush the 1st.  Bush the 2nd’s downfall was Iraq, but the Party covered over his sins and allowed him to walk away relatively unscathed.  Nixon was sacrificed, but the Republican Party was setting the rest of us up through the years with their internal policy of lies, misconceptions and deceit that set the stage with a fin...