“The Department of Justice’s mission is to uphold the rule of law and ensure fair and impartial justice for all Americans"
Well, it used to be their mission. Now it's mission is whatever the Pedodent wants them to do, no matter how illegal and unconstitutional it is. When the entire barrel of Nazis are thrown out of power, there needs to be actual justice in the form of prison for all of them, starting at the top.
I suggest that the reason this commission never provides legally required information is because it isn't a legitimate commission. This was nothing more than shameless pandering by Trump to Christian Nationalists in order to secure the evangelical vote. Trump doesn't care about religion and doesn't have any interest in religious plurality. He wants the unconditional support of a major voting bloc. It's all transactional - he's throwing them a bone so they'll provide support for Republican elections.
The RLC amounts to little more than another dumb-ass move by Donnie that he thought he would get away with and didn't. Trump still thinks he's a king and can rule by fiat, and his paddy-whackers are getting slapped again and again because the rest of us actually CARE about how this country and its government works.
It could be that this current foofaraw will wind up being a lot of sound and fury and little else ... or not. Either way, I trust Hemant to keep a weather eye on it.
Definitely. It’s an illegitimate presidency as well, both legally (an insurrectionist) and politically (he doesn’t govern, but rather rules over his subjects).
Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, known as the Disqualification Clause, prohibits any person from holding federal or state office—including Congress or the presidency—if they previously took an oath to support the Constitution and subsequently engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the U.S. or gave aid to its enemies.
The very Amendment he attempted to rewrite, usurping a power the Constitution explicitly denies to him, the moment he oozed back into office (the E.O. on birthright citizenship).
It conveniently obscures the massive antisemitism American Jews endured since the founding of murica. Slavery gets all the attention, but antisemitism has been around long before Jesus the Jew was born a virgin birth.
It is important for everyone to understand that White Christian Nationalists believe their faith is the One True Faith. Therefore, all other faiths are false. As in, not worthy of representation on a "religious liberty commission" or religious freedom protections. Growing up, my WCN church called Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, Jehovahs Witnesses, and Mormons "cult members." Cult members are heretics. This is exactly in line with what they believe: They are the only "real" religion and the only one deserving of representation or protection.
One of the things that led me to atheism was that each and every religion claims they and they alone have the truth and all the other religions are wrong. All the religions can't be right that they all have the truth but all the religions can be right that all the other religions don't have the truth. That led me to realize that none of them had the truth.
They care about the law about as much as Donnie does. They see Trump as a wheel-horse that can put them in the proverbial Catbird Seat, and they're going to ride him for all he's worth.
No, not really. This was the plan. I am not incredulous.
Trumps MO has always been do what he wants, see whether he gets caught, if he does fight/delay it in court until the other side runs out of resources or will. I will be amazed if the courts *don't* let the administration get away with it. Then again, I doubt Trump will spend political capital on what is basically a bone thrown to his supporters, so maybe a ruling against them gets a giant shrug from the administration and they are forced to change.
Though frankly speaking, would any remedy actually help? After 2028, will anyone pay attention to 90% of the reports issued by this administration?
So second thought - let them be. Let them publish their worst. The fundies will truly think they've scored some victory, while the rest of us can preserve it as a historical document that illustrates the dangers of corruption, partisanship, and authoritarianism.
Shout this from the rooftops. The thirteen Christian bigots and one Jewish bigot can't hear you. You might need to have some people pulling their fingers out of their ears, because they won't do that willingly.
We all knew that the Religious Liberty Commission wasn't about promoting religious freedom but was about pushing conservative Christian privilege. Now we have a paper trail.
Our friend in New Zealand, guerillasurgeon, posted the following link late last night on yesterday’s blog. Commission members are shouting at each other about anti-semitism. How much is too much or some such.
That's actually well known that there is some serious antisemitism in Luther's* writing. Equally you can find oodles of very anti-Jewish writings and actions in the catholic church^.
(*, ^) - There is a discussion to be had to what extent this reflects the attitudes of the time(s), but I don't intend to have that discussion here. Please note that I am also not defending Luther nor the catholics.
Back in school, for one semester I took a class on the relationship between christianity and Judaism. As part of that class we looked at some of the theology and also the history eg the church's involvement in pogroms.
I can remember bits of that class, e.g. I remember Werner of Oberwesel and I remember that we looked into Luther. We read some of his antisemitic writings, we read them in context with his contemporaries, but I cannot remember whether he was more virulent than others.
Maybe it's just me but your link came up that it had been removed. Guess too many people are seeing that message and the parasite class thinks taking it down equals removing the idea.
Not entirely. There are Christians and churches out there that, believe it or not, actually respect State / Church separation because they see the value in it. The current problem is that it's the Nationalist Christians (sometimes here referred to as Nat-C's!) that are getting all the attention, as well as support from the Trump administration.
Christians aren't all bad, but the ones that are are just off the scale bad.
What we need is a socially conservative and well respected (by them) prominent Christian to publicly and loudly denounce all of their assholery. I would even approve of the use of bagpipes if it gets their attention. Then maybe, just maybe, enough of them will realize what they are doing and leave the cult of Trump.
True, but... with the 𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘦𝘴𝘵 handful of exceptions, they've met the excesses of their fellow Christians with a resounding chorus of 𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘵 𝘯𝘰𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘴, so until they stand up and get loud, they can (and should!) be discounted as irrelevant.
Fair, I do wonder though how many of those who claim to respect church/state separation actually follow through in practice or in the their voting habits…on issues like reproductive rights etc?
Couldn't tell you, but there's this: a few years back, I was driving away from Northern Ohio Freethought Society meeting, when I saw an electronic sign for what I think was a Methodist church. I've forgotten the exact message it had, but it was something to the effect of: "WE SUPPORT CHURCH / STATE SEPARATION."
I find it interesting to hear what people think church/state separation means. According to my conservative father who was raised Baptist, it only means the government cannot establish a national religion (but does not extend any further than that). Favoring one religion over others, or favoring religion over non-religion is never taken into consideration.
"Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion..." To me that says that religious legislation is verboten, full stop. The whole point of the Establishment Clause SHOULD be to keep government apart and aloof from religion, to that it can treat EVERYONE of EVERY belief system AND those with no belief system EQUALLY.
Sadly, it hasn 't worked out that way, from "Under God" in the Pledge and "In God We Trust" on the money to religious charter schools that draw public funds (and piss me off!).
Probably not just that. Roger Williams founded Rhode Island based on a desire to protect freedom of conscience, not just what the government funded. And I'm pretty sure Jefferson was very aware of Maryland's laws against non-Christians being on juries and so on when he wrote his Virginia statute. So even going back to colonial history, you get pretty good evidence that they were thinking about the concept broadly, to protect people's rights to live and practice without interference or discrimination from the government, and they weren't merely trying to prevent a government-funded church.
They're getting all the attention because they have all the political power. When Trump appoints an Amish, a Quaker, and a UUU Christian to that panel, *then* we can talk about the political existence of anti-establishment Christians.
My father was a longtime minister in a theologically conservative denomination and a stout defender of the wall of separation. He did not want government mucking about in his religion. And he knew that government imposed religion was worthless. He was sincere, if misguided. I loved and respected him. We just disagreed about reality.
There, fixed it for you. I mean, seriously, this was the intent of the Religious Liberty Commission from the get-go, wasn't it? To boost Christian influence in American government and not that far down the road, grease the wheels for the advent of a Christian Theocracy in the United States. Trump & Co. no more care about the religious liberty of any other belief system than they care about the well-being of undocumented immigrants at the hands of ICE. What pleases me is the clear amount of flak they're getting from all quarters, including Christians who understand the nature of our secular government.
This is yet one more massive fuck-up on Donnie's part, and I hope it gets a LOT more attention
Dan Patrick is lieutenant governor of Texas. To give you some idea of the elite company he's keeping with other Texas Republicans, the governor is Greg Abbott, the attorney general is Ken Paxton, the 2 US senators are Ted Cruz and John Cornyn, and one of the outstanding members of their House delegation is Louis Gohmert. My hypothesis is that they only have one brain cell amongst the lot of them, and they have to share it, but the rest of them forgot to include ol' Louis on the distribution list.
“The Department of Justice’s mission is to uphold the rule of law and ensure fair and impartial justice for all Americans"
Well, it used to be their mission. Now it's mission is whatever the Pedodent wants them to do, no matter how illegal and unconstitutional it is. When the entire barrel of Nazis are thrown out of power, there needs to be actual justice in the form of prison for all of them, starting at the top.
The Department of Justice has become the Department of Just Us.
I'm with you here.
I suggest that the reason this commission never provides legally required information is because it isn't a legitimate commission. This was nothing more than shameless pandering by Trump to Christian Nationalists in order to secure the evangelical vote. Trump doesn't care about religion and doesn't have any interest in religious plurality. He wants the unconditional support of a major voting bloc. It's all transactional - he's throwing them a bone so they'll provide support for Republican elections.
The RLC amounts to little more than another dumb-ass move by Donnie that he thought he would get away with and didn't. Trump still thinks he's a king and can rule by fiat, and his paddy-whackers are getting slapped again and again because the rest of us actually CARE about how this country and its government works.
It could be that this current foofaraw will wind up being a lot of sound and fury and little else ... or not. Either way, I trust Hemant to keep a weather eye on it.
Definitely. It’s an illegitimate presidency as well, both legally (an insurrectionist) and politically (he doesn’t govern, but rather rules over his subjects).
Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, known as the Disqualification Clause, prohibits any person from holding federal or state office—including Congress or the presidency—if they previously took an oath to support the Constitution and subsequently engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the U.S. or gave aid to its enemies.
No matter what the illegitimate SCOTUS says 🫠
The very Amendment he attempted to rewrite, usurping a power the Constitution explicitly denies to him, the moment he oozed back into office (the E.O. on birthright citizenship).
Judeo-Christian AGAIN? They need to bury that phrase because it is a purely Christian notion that Jews find laughable.
They even have a token Jewish person for their "see we aren't really Nazis" cosplay.
My bride is not shy about “educating” people when they use that term.
It conveniently obscures the massive antisemitism American Jews endured since the founding of murica. Slavery gets all the attention, but antisemitism has been around long before Jesus the Jew was born a virgin birth.
It is important for everyone to understand that White Christian Nationalists believe their faith is the One True Faith. Therefore, all other faiths are false. As in, not worthy of representation on a "religious liberty commission" or religious freedom protections. Growing up, my WCN church called Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, Jehovahs Witnesses, and Mormons "cult members." Cult members are heretics. This is exactly in line with what they believe: They are the only "real" religion and the only one deserving of representation or protection.
One of the things that led me to atheism was that each and every religion claims they and they alone have the truth and all the other religions are wrong. All the religions can't be right that they all have the truth but all the religions can be right that all the other religions don't have the truth. That led me to realize that none of them had the truth.
The best way I have heard that put is "all religions cannot be right, but they can all be wrong."
I got to remember that. Not that the many religions practised in Norway does much wrong*, but anyaway.
*) The JVs are in their own class of evil though.
Christians not following the law even though their book tells them to obey the law?
Say it ain't so!
They care about the law about as much as Donnie does. They see Trump as a wheel-horse that can put them in the proverbial Catbird Seat, and they're going to ride him for all he's worth.
I could say it, but I would be lying.
They do obey the law, just not law everyone else has to obey.
𝐼𝑡’𝑠 𝑎𝑙𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑒 ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑏𝑎𝑑𝑙𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑇𝑟𝑢𝑚𝑝 𝑎𝑑𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑏𝑜𝑡𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠.
No, not really. This was the plan. I am not incredulous.
Trumps MO has always been do what he wants, see whether he gets caught, if he does fight/delay it in court until the other side runs out of resources or will. I will be amazed if the courts *don't* let the administration get away with it. Then again, I doubt Trump will spend political capital on what is basically a bone thrown to his supporters, so maybe a ruling against them gets a giant shrug from the administration and they are forced to change.
Though frankly speaking, would any remedy actually help? After 2028, will anyone pay attention to 90% of the reports issued by this administration?
So second thought - let them be. Let them publish their worst. The fundies will truly think they've scored some victory, while the rest of us can preserve it as a historical document that illustrates the dangers of corruption, partisanship, and authoritarianism.
“𝑅𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑜𝑚 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑜𝑚 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑛𝑜𝑛𝑒.”
Shout this from the rooftops. The thirteen Christian bigots and one Jewish bigot can't hear you. You might need to have some people pulling their fingers out of their ears, because they won't do that willingly.
We all knew that the Religious Liberty Commission wasn't about promoting religious freedom but was about pushing conservative Christian privilege. Now we have a paper trail.
Did they really think anyone would be fooled by the RLC and its NatC agenda?
They know they aren't fooling anyone- they're just banking on nobody being able to 𝘥𝘰 anything about it.
(The commission) quoted a statement that the nation should “prefer Christians for [our] rulers.”
I find it telling that they used the word "rulers" instead of leaders."
Oh, LOVELY. Saying the quiet part out loud ... AGAIN.
Does it even count as the quiet part anymore when they've traded their dogwhistles for bullhorns?
Isn't there a line in the constitution, saying that there should be no religious tests for office holders??
It's only there until Trump finds his Sharpie. Then it's redaction time!
Maybe it's about imperial vs. metric?
I just woke up, I’m on my 1st cup of coffee, and I can already tell them how to deal with obstacles to religious freedom.
Get radiclly conservative, Dominionist, authoritarian loving religious people and denominations out of the commission.
It isn’t rocket surgery.
Back to our regularly scheduled programming.
But it is brain science. 😏
Our friend in New Zealand, guerillasurgeon, posted the following link late last night on yesterday’s blog. Commission members are shouting at each other about anti-semitism. How much is too much or some such.
https://www.alternet.org/trump-religious-liberty/
Interesting. It just so happens that the following was what I posted today on Atheist Universe's Quote of the Day group:
𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑤𝑒 𝐶ℎ𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑛𝑠 𝑑𝑜 𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑑𝑒𝑝𝑟𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑑𝑎𝑚𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐽𝑒𝑤𝑠? ... 𝐼 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑔𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑚𝑦 𝑓𝑎𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑓𝑢𝑙 𝑎𝑑𝑣𝑖𝑐𝑒: 𝐹𝑖𝑟𝑠𝑡, 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑠𝑒𝑡 𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑠𝑦𝑛𝑎𝑔𝑜𝑔𝑢𝑒𝑠. . . . 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑎𝑙𝑠𝑜 𝑏𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑘 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑠. . . . 𝑇ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑑𝑟𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑦.
-- Martin Luther
Gee ... anti-Semitic, much, Marty?
That's actually well known that there is some serious antisemitism in Luther's* writing. Equally you can find oodles of very anti-Jewish writings and actions in the catholic church^.
(*, ^) - There is a discussion to be had to what extent this reflects the attitudes of the time(s), but I don't intend to have that discussion here. Please note that I am also not defending Luther nor the catholics.
I haven't studied Martin Luther that much, but for what I've seen, it's pretty clear that he was a FLAMING anti-Semite!
Back in school, for one semester I took a class on the relationship between christianity and Judaism. As part of that class we looked at some of the theology and also the history eg the church's involvement in pogroms.
I can remember bits of that class, e.g. I remember Werner of Oberwesel and I remember that we looked into Luther. We read some of his antisemitic writings, we read them in context with his contemporaries, but I cannot remember whether he was more virulent than others.
PS that class was taught by a protestant minister
Good, let them eat each other.
"The Religious Liberty Commission" has precisely the same ring as "The Democratic People's Republic of Korea."
Maybe they should have called it "The PEOPLE'S Religious Liberty Commission," and REALLY put a proper dose of skank on it!
Judean People's Front.
Cute. 😝
We need a French solution to this level of treason.
Baguette fight!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZFxZmDNlV8
Maybe it's just me but your link came up that it had been removed. Guess too many people are seeing that message and the parasite class thinks taking it down equals removing the idea.
I still see it.
Wow. Never thought about it being taken down.
Trevor Moore, Time for Guillotines --
Well it's no secret that country's in some trouble here
The left is mad, the right's enraged, and the middle's disappeared
The fat cats expect us to bail out them and all their friends
And when they've spent our money they stick out their hands again
It's times like this that each of us need to reach across the aisle
Instead of burning incense we can try to share a smile
Put aside our differences and remember what made us great
All the people arm in arm and in one voice we'll say:
It's time for guillotines, it's time to raise the boards
It's time to sharpen blades, we just can't take this any more
It's nothing personal, we gave your way a try
We're sorry, but you and the dog all have to die
I'm sorry Mister President, we need to have your head
And senators and congressmen--we need all of you dead.....(continues)
Christianity in America is Christian Nationalism.
Not entirely. There are Christians and churches out there that, believe it or not, actually respect State / Church separation because they see the value in it. The current problem is that it's the Nationalist Christians (sometimes here referred to as Nat-C's!) that are getting all the attention, as well as support from the Trump administration.
Christians aren't all bad, but the ones that are are just off the scale bad.
What we need is a socially conservative and well respected (by them) prominent Christian to publicly and loudly denounce all of their assholery. I would even approve of the use of bagpipes if it gets their attention. Then maybe, just maybe, enough of them will realize what they are doing and leave the cult of Trump.
When pigs fly. I love bagpipes
Talarico is the guy Joe King is looking for, but he's unlikely to take on an issue so distant from 'getting elected to Senator in Texas.'
True, but... with the 𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘦𝘴𝘵 handful of exceptions, they've met the excesses of their fellow Christians with a resounding chorus of 𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘵 𝘯𝘰𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘴, so until they stand up and get loud, they can (and should!) be discounted as irrelevant.
Fair, I do wonder though how many of those who claim to respect church/state separation actually follow through in practice or in the their voting habits…on issues like reproductive rights etc?
Couldn't tell you, but there's this: a few years back, I was driving away from Northern Ohio Freethought Society meeting, when I saw an electronic sign for what I think was a Methodist church. I've forgotten the exact message it had, but it was something to the effect of: "WE SUPPORT CHURCH / STATE SEPARATION."
Don't mind telling you, that was nice to see.
I find it interesting to hear what people think church/state separation means. According to my conservative father who was raised Baptist, it only means the government cannot establish a national religion (but does not extend any further than that). Favoring one religion over others, or favoring religion over non-religion is never taken into consideration.
"Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion..." To me that says that religious legislation is verboten, full stop. The whole point of the Establishment Clause SHOULD be to keep government apart and aloof from religion, to that it can treat EVERYONE of EVERY belief system AND those with no belief system EQUALLY.
Sadly, it hasn 't worked out that way, from "Under God" in the Pledge and "In God We Trust" on the money to religious charter schools that draw public funds (and piss me off!).
💯
Probably not just that. Roger Williams founded Rhode Island based on a desire to protect freedom of conscience, not just what the government funded. And I'm pretty sure Jefferson was very aware of Maryland's laws against non-Christians being on juries and so on when he wrote his Virginia statute. So even going back to colonial history, you get pretty good evidence that they were thinking about the concept broadly, to protect people's rights to live and practice without interference or discrimination from the government, and they weren't merely trying to prevent a government-funded church.
They are all THEISTS, or at least pretending to be … they might not all be bad … but they all sure are stupid.
Again, I have to say, NO. Have they been taken by the whole Jesus thing? To one degree or another, yes. Are ALL of them stupid? I don't think so.
And treating ALL Christians as such is NOT a good look for us.
I’m not singling out one xtian from another. I put them all together in the one boat … GOD BELIEVERS … they are all poor braindead THEISTS.
They can be nothing else.
ANY GOD BELIEF = STUPID
But belief in GARDEN FAIRIES = SMART
They're getting all the attention because they have all the political power. When Trump appoints an Amish, a Quaker, and a UUU Christian to that panel, *then* we can talk about the political existence of anti-establishment Christians.
My father was a longtime minister in a theologically conservative denomination and a stout defender of the wall of separation. He did not want government mucking about in his religion. And he knew that government imposed religion was worthless. He was sincere, if misguided. I loved and respected him. We just disagreed about reality.
𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑖𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑑𝑢𝑐𝑒 𝑎 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑟𝑒ℎ𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑜𝑓 r̵e̵l̵i̵g̵i̵o̵u̵s̵ 𝑪𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑙𝑖𝑏𝑒𝑟𝑡𝑦 𝑖𝑛 𝐴𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑎...
There, fixed it for you. I mean, seriously, this was the intent of the Religious Liberty Commission from the get-go, wasn't it? To boost Christian influence in American government and not that far down the road, grease the wheels for the advent of a Christian Theocracy in the United States. Trump & Co. no more care about the religious liberty of any other belief system than they care about the well-being of undocumented immigrants at the hands of ICE. What pleases me is the clear amount of flak they're getting from all quarters, including Christians who understand the nature of our secular government.
This is yet one more massive fuck-up on Donnie's part, and I hope it gets a LOT more attention
Well, DT and his administration violating laws and decency is not a surprice at all.
"Violating laws and decency" is their idea of SOP. 😝
Fully supported by the two-faced fanatigelicals that put them in power.
Dan Patrick is lieutenant governor of Texas. To give you some idea of the elite company he's keeping with other Texas Republicans, the governor is Greg Abbott, the attorney general is Ken Paxton, the 2 US senators are Ted Cruz and John Cornyn, and one of the outstanding members of their House delegation is Louis Gohmert. My hypothesis is that they only have one brain cell amongst the lot of them, and they have to share it, but the rest of them forgot to include ol' Louis on the distribution list.
Gohmert is no longer in office.
I guess ol' Louie must've wandered off and gotten lost. No surprise there.