SD enterprise: We Have to Stop Electing Angry Idiots

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What the hell happened in politics this week? Esquire's legendary blogger Charlie P. Pierce has answers

We Have to Stop Electing Angry Idiots Like Clay Higgins to Congress

The representative from Louisiana, who has a history of ridiculous behavior, was the only dissenting House member on the Epstein Transparency Act. Back in 2023, he bum-rushed an activist away from a press availability on the sidewalk outside of the Capitol. He was a renegade cop back home in Louisiana, leaving a law-enforcement gig under investigation for beating a Black suspect who was handcuffed. Not to put too fine a point on it, but Higgins is a dangerous nut.

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The Matt Gaetz Scandal—Wherein He Reportedly Paid for Sex with a Minor—Is Even Worse Than We Thought

Remember Matt Gaetz, the former congresscritter from Florida who had a nice run through the first Trump administration? There was even a brief period in Trump II in which he was rumored to be the nominee for attorney general. Then his star fell like a mackerel onto a dock. There always were rumors about Gaetz's, ah, unconventional social and romantic lives.

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A Bizarre Catholic Website Is Trying to Justify Megyn Kelly's Gross Comments on Pedophilia

Bill Donohue has been grinding this ax ever since the scandal within the Church broke in the early years of this century. It's a twofer. He gets to blow squid ink on behalf of the guilty-ass Church hierarchy while, at the same time, exercising his raging homophobia.

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Jim Jordan Managed to Look Like a Fool Even While Passing the Epstein Files Transparency Act

After some bloviating from the likes of Representative Jim Jordan (R-Van Heusen), and some general bipartisan posturing, the House of Representatives passed the Jeffrey Epstein Transparency Act by a vote of 427–1. The lone vote against it was Representative Clay Higgins, the wing-nut loup-garou from Louisiana.

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Greg Abbott's Redistricting Scheme Just Got Shut Down in Court

In a completely unexpected move, a Trump-appointed judge blocked Texas gerrymandering ahead of next year's midterms. Then it ruled that the state must conduct its midterm elections next year according to a map drawn in 2021. The opinion was 166 pages long, and it was authored by U.S. judge Jeffrey Brown, a Trump appointee who earlier clerked for Abbott when the latter was on the state supreme court.

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