Before traveling to Capitol Hill today to demand that Senate Republicans give him a tax cut bill, MOTUS farted five tweets in two hours denouncing one of them as a "lightweight", "incompetent," "negative on anything Trump", and a clueless man "who couldn't get elected dogcatcher in TN.'

When you shut Democrats out of the process and rely solely on Republican votes, alienating two of your 52 seems pretty damn dumb. But as he has told us, "“I’m speaking with myself, number one, because I have a very good brain and I’ve said a lot of things."

"I know what I’m doing and I listen to a lot of people, I talk to a lot of people and at the appropriate time I’ll tell you who the people are. But my primary consultant is myself and I have a good instinct for this stuff."

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Gowdy Doody's back with a much-needed distraction from Niger:

The chairmen of the House Judiciary and Oversight committees announced on Tuesday a joint investigation into how the FBI handled last year's investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email server.

"Decisions made by the Department of Justice in 2016 have led to a host of outstanding questions that must be answered," House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) said in a joint statement.

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The *resident is cashing in on Halloween:

MOTUS' daughter-in-law Lara- who acts as the spokesmodel for the presidency, with an infomercial series about Dad- shills them:

#MakeHalloweenGreatAgain and order your pumpkin #MAGA hat today! https://t.co/uqw5keCSoU 🎃🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/N1QsK1PsFW
— Lara Trump (@LaraLeaTrump) October 23, 2017

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If you like the way Republicans in the North Carolina General Assembly' supermajority works- throttling democracy, snap votes on bills unread by members after drafting by lobbyists, and gerrymandering to win elections with less than majority votes- NC Senator Thom Tillis says that's what we need in DC:

Republicans could use a little of that North Carolina hardball in Washington, Tillis says. And as for complaints like those from his colleague Arizona Sen. John McCain, who cast his vote against Obamacare repeal as a protest against the way the bill was being rammed through without proper debate and review, Tillis blames the Democrats. “It’s a very noble purpose, but it doesn’t really exhibit any grasp of what’s been going around here in terms of tactics used by the minority,” he says of McCain’s stand.

He acknowledges that Republicans were guilty of obstruction when they were in the minority. But now Democrats are in the minority, and he says that’s their problem.

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Roy Moore, the Alabama Chief Justice twice removed and Republican US Senate nominee, says the Supreme Court's Obergefell decision on marriage equality is the worst decision ever- worse even than the 1857 Dred Scott decision affirming the African-Americans were personal property of their white owners.

Moore is part of Breitbart bully Steve Bannon's 2018 Senate Dream Team of quack medicos, mercenaries and felons he wants to install in Congress.

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Decemberr 5 is when the Supreme Court hears argument on whether Americans should be able to ignore any law that they feel God tells them infringes their right to religious freedom. You ought to be concerned about this. Even Christianists. Being thrown out of stores for what you believe works both ways.

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Truly sad news today from Variety:

To the surprise of hardly anyone, Kid Rock quashed his highly publicized but hardly serious bid to run for Senator in an interview with Howard Stern’s SiriusXM radio show Tuesday morning.

“F— no, I’m not running for Senate. Are you kidding me?” Rock said. “Who couldn’t figure that out? I’m releasing a new album. I’m going on tour too. Are you f—ing s—ting me?”

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There are people who actually get upset by LGBT characters in science fiction movies:

It assumes that there exists a default in storytelling — and that default is one way, and not the other. The default is straight relationships, or cisgendered characters, or able-bodied white dudes, or whatever. One of the criticisms Aftermath received was this very special kind of softball phobia, right? “I don’t mind LGBT characters, but these were forced into the narrative for a political agenda,” assuming that the characters are somehow not characters at all, but rather protest signs or billboards advertising THE WONDERS OF GAYNESS or THE FABULOSITY OF THE NON-BINARY SPACE PIRATE LIFE.

Some of them are in Congress.