There may be no *I* in *TEAM*, but there suuuuure is one in *DESPICABLE*.

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I’m sure we’ve all encountered folks who submit their notice at work and then proceed to absolutely show their butts throughout their remaining days at the company.  It’s especially infuriating when the butt-shower WORKS FOR YOU.

We’ve had Thom Tillis figured out from the very beginning.  He has no firm principles about ANYTHING.  But he does love having power over other people and their money. It’s like one of his former neighbors over in Mecklenburg told us: The quickest way to get Thom to come see you is to tape a fifty-dollar bill to your front door. 

Thom told an interviewer one time that he made his first run for office — a city council seat — because he wanted the city to build a public bike trail. He was an avid biker and he wanted tax dollars to fund his hobby,  That was it, plain and simple.

Some Mecklenburg money men scooped Tillis up and funded his primary run against a stalwart conservative in the NC House.  Tillis’s earliest years in Raleigh focused on very non-conservative stuff like alternative energy mandates.  He is one of the culprits responsible for your astronomic utility bills.

The drive-bys love to portray Tillis as the father of some kind of conservative revolution in North Carolina.  That credit actually goes to former NCGOP chairman Tom Fetzer and his team at NCGOP HQ.   On Election Night 2010, a pack of Mecklenburg money men escorted Tillis over to the celebrating GOP leaders and *introduced* them to their next speaker — TILLIS.

So, Tillis got elected speaker over a caucus that was actually much further to the right than he was.  While in power, Tillis and his henchmen went to work to water the caucus down ideologically.  Discourage and run off conservative members while recruiting limp, weak RINOs to replace them.

Tillis ran for the Senate in 2014 against super-weak Kay Hagan.  Hagan, a former state senator, got to DC in the 2008 Obama wave by knocking off weak Republican Elizabeth Dole — who had been imported into the state from her Watergate Hotel digs in DC.

Thom campaigned for office while holding on to the speaker job. He’d make a speech to special interests promising something.  The special interests would cut his campaign some checks.  Later, we’d see the legislature act.  Worked like a charm.

A split conservative vote in the primary got Tillis the GOP nomination. Despite Hagan’s weakened state, Tillis barely scraped by her and a Libertarian with less than 50 percent of the vote.

In DC,  Tillis went to work screwing over the home folks on gay marriage and guns.

We began to see and hear a lot from Thom via the drive-bys about the importance of reaching consensus and working across the aisle.  I didn’t vote for that.  I don’t think many other Republican voters did, either.

In 2016, Thom and his friends ran to Marco Rubio and his fundraising machine.  We all know how that race turned out.  Thom tried to get The Don’s attention, but to little avail.  So, we started to see him working across the aisle more and more to throw monkey wrenches in the Trump agenda.  He had the nerve to attack the border wall proposal — suggesting that what we had in place was working FINE. 

In 2019, Thom and his bride Susie worked expeditiously to install a young man named Michael Whatley into the state GOP chairmanship — after the job became vacant due to a bribery scandal. 

In 2020, Thom got blessed with a scandal-ridden Democrat opponent and yet another Libertarian. It was almost a repeat of 2014, with Thom squeaking by those two with less than 50 percent of the vote.  Amazingly, Trump looked past all of Tillis’s treachery and endorsed him for reelection in that tough race.  Tillis barely got back to DC, but The Don did not.

We all know about January 6, 2021.  Tillis — and his young protègè Mike Whatley — both went public with their anger at Trump and the protesters.  The Democrats could not have been happier.

In 2024, The Don returned to our Nation’s Capital.  Tillis got even more aggressive with his aisle crossing.

Trump appointments.  Tillis got started early giving The White House headaches over their nominees.  His handiwork regarding Secretary of War Pete Hegseth became the most notorious example. 

Foreign Policy.  Tillis worked with Democrats to undermine the Trump administration on Ukraine and on Greenland.(*The photo from Greenland with Tillis in the back row next to Rhode Island’s tranny House member was just precious.*).

Tribute to the cops from the January 6 incident at The Capitol.  Tillis paired up with a Democrat senator to place a plaque honoring the cops for their actions that day. A clear shot at Trump and Trump supporters.  One has to wonder.  Is the Tillis plaque honoring:

  • The black female cop seen on video beating with a nightstick the unconscious body of white Trump supporter Rosanne Boyland.  (Imagine if the racial identities had been reversed: white cop, unconscious BLACK woman.)
  • The black male Capitol police officer who shot — on camera — unarmed white female Trump supporter Ashli Babbit as she climbed through a broken window some 20 feet away from him.  He didn’t shout a warning.  She likely didn’t even see him before the shot was fired.
  • The cops who, on video, were laughing about targeting protesters with direct hits from flash-bang grenades.  Flash-bangs are meant to be fired near people – not at them.  Their purpose is to disorient and not wound.  People hit with them have been known to catch fire.  Two Trump supporters in the crowd that day died from injuries after being directly hit by flash-bangs.

Those episodes – and many others — warranted a serious investigation. Instead, we got a lot of trash-talking from Democrats and RINOs (like Tillis and Whatley).  Are those examples of what Tillis, Whatley and their Democrat pals want to celebrate?

Powell subpoena. Thom got extra love from CNN and the rest of the drive-bys when he threatened to block all Trump appointees to the Federal Reserve if he didn’t get the DOJ to back off pursuing perjury allegations against the Fed Chairman Jerome Powell. Interfering with the work of a grand jury is serious business.

Perhaps there is some concern by Tillis — and some of the other howling politicians — that a subpoena may be in their futures.  Never forget that Tillis worked overtime to get Robin Hayes pardoned on the last day of Trump’s first term.  Hayes pleaded guilty – and got his hand slapped – in the wake of the Eric Lindberg bribery probe. (Lindberg tried to bribe Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey to fire a state employee who was showing what he saw as excessive interest in one of his business ventures.  If you read the FBI report, then-NCGOP chairman Hayes appeared extremely interested in helping Lindberg’s scheme succeed.)

There’s also a question about a bunch of money from a scandal-ridden bitcoin exchange ending up in a Tillis-tied PAC that aided Chuck Edwards’s primary challenge to Tillis foe Madison Cawthorn.

More than once, Tillis has boasted to drive-bys about how great it feels to not have to cater to the whims and wishes of the folks back home.  You know, after forgoing reelection.  (Never mind that he was gung-ho about running again until the Republican polls surfaced showing him losing by NINE to just about ANY Democrat.) 

This guy can’t leave the Senate too soon for me.