Roundup Of Non-Trump D'bags

There has never been a shortage of horrible, awful, no good things to say about Donald Trump, and there never will be.  But let's look elsewhere for just a brief moment, because man does not cringe from Trump alone.  We'll return to the Donald Zone soon enough, but for now here are some non-Trump douchebags of note:

George Zimmerman is trying to auction off the hand gun he used to murder Trayvon Martin.  He'd like to start the online bidding at $5,000.  Because that weapon is "historic."  Despicable!  I think we must suspend the rule against double-jeopardy and take a mulligan on this historic asshole.  This time, convict him, lock him up, and throw away the key.

The U.S. Senate Commerce Committee is investigating charges from a disgruntled ex-employee that Facebook is suppressing "conservative speech" in its news feed.  Oh, stop!  The fucking Senate can't confirm a Supreme Court Justice or send ten cents to help Flint with its toxic water pipes, but they can worry about Facebook??  Did you know Facebook even had a "news feed"?  I didn't.  But I'm gonna suggest that if you're getting your "news" from Facebook, it's time to start questioning all of your life choices.

The Ohio State Senate Republicans overwhelmingly passed a bill to require those petitioning state courts to extend voting hours at certain polling places (for reasons of weather, traffic problems, voting machine problems, etc.) to pay first, by posting a bond equal to the cost of any additional hours of operation.  The D's called it a poll tax, which is not an exaggeration.  The bill is total bullshit.  Extended hours are granted rarely, only with good cause, and almost always by federal courts.  But our Ohio R's seldom miss a chance to suppress the votes, no matter how flimsy the rationale.

A few days ago in Columbus, a gay Methodist minister married his partner, in an actual service inside an actual Methodist church, in defiance of official church doctrine.  Ooh, take that, Wesleyans!  In Ohio's big cities, we yawned.  In the little burgs of the hinterlands, however, the faithful were aghast.  Rep. Nino Vitale (R-Urbana) is worried that an anti-gay minister might be sued for refusing to perform a same-sex marriage service, so he has introduced his "pastor protection" bill, which basically says ministers may refuse on the grounds of "sincerely held religious beliefs."  Nino has 25 co-idiot co-sponsors in the senate, most of whom are related to Kim Davis.

I'm edging into Trump territory here, but it's about Trump's former butler.  (Butler?  Who the fuck has a butler?)  Long-time Donald Trump butler Anthony Senecal recently posted on Facebook that President Obama "should have been taken out by our military and shot as an enemy agent in his first term!!!"  A year ago, Senecal posted on FB about Obama that "this prick needs to be hung for treason!"  Senecal is no longer holding Lord Donnie's pants for him, but he's still in the fold.  He's now the doddering in-house historian at Trump's Mar-A-Lago estate and golf club.  (Only Trump would have an "historian.")

Back to Ohio, where the State Senate voted unanimously to do away with the state's 12% limit on alcohol-by-volume in beer sold in the state.  Scottish beermaker Brew Dog is set to open its U.S. headquarters here later this year.  They are famous for expensive, ultra-high ABV beers with names like Sink the Bismark and Tactical Nuclear Penguin.  Our legislators needed to keep Brew Dog happy.  I heartily approve, because after all the foregoing shit, I'm gonna need a good stiff drink!