South Georgia, GOP (anti-SPLC) pants, both on fire | MAGA keeps coming up empty re: 2020

As wildfires have been ravaging South Georgia for more than two weeks, the Georgia Forestry Commission is actively updating residents. Newsweek reminding us that post-Helene tinder beds and a current and prolonged drought made conditions "favorable" for wildfire activity.

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Onto the political headlines: the attack on the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), as Twitter/X trolls (led by Elon Musk) are pushing vapid disinformation about a DOJ/FBI case lacking any substantive evidence. It was Nashville TV reporter Phil Williams who took to Substack to exclaim: "it's almost as if the people most excited by the indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center have not read the indictment--or they really don't care."

Oh for sure.

Focus on the bigger picture, though:

• 1. You have Trump wanting to undo the 2020 election (how does one do this in 2026?)
• 2. while he and his minions concoct theories of foreign adversarial tinkering with Dominion voting machines (that coming up empty with their investigations)
• 3. which led to the seizure of Fulton County ballots three months ago with no "there there" for them to make noise about

To review: the Trump 2020 "big lie" yarn keeps spawning investigations and seizures and coming up empty, but his administration keeps expending resources to find a hint or whiff of SOMETHING to cling to while seeding doubt of the American electoral process as a 2026 midterm that looks increasingly dour for MAGA and the GOP looms.

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Meanwhile, in Georgia, the Fighting 50 Pac backs Rebecca Sims for Georgia's House 32nd district, and for good reason. Hear my introduction to her and come away as encouraged as I am that she's going to make a difference - even if it's just to bring more voters for her "up-ballot" Democrats.

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Back to election chaos: in Georgia, Georgia Recorder columnist Jay Bookman believes chaos is a "policy choice." In the piece, he points to fake elector + current Lt. Governor (and GOP gubernatorial candidate) Burt Jones, who both seated "election fabulist" Salleigh Grubbs to the state election board - to which I'll add that Jones' keeping Trump's endorsement may lie with Jones having plenty of dirt on Donald and might talk if Trump were to read polling trends and jump onto the Rick Jackson bandwagon just to look like he's picked a winner.

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Oh, and Friday Ron Show means "Friday funnies" with my good friend, comedian and satirist Sterling Thrill.