Is anybody else closing out their accounts?

[goodgrief]

The GOP is the party that has for 30 years given aid and comfort to religious hysterics. Yes, I blame them. Of course I do. Religious hysteria -- plus anger at the loss of various creepy church's precious monopoly on gambling when the only legal outlet people had was bingo -- is the heart and soul of anti-gambling legislation everywhere. And the GOP panders to it and has made it socially unacceptable to stand up in public and say what everybody knows, which is that churches are a bunch of sharks preying on stupid people afraid of death. There is no poker player on this earth as expert at separating the fish from his money as the churches. And they damn well don't like competition.

And the GOP plays to this crowd and forces everyone else to play to this crowd or be socially, financially, and politically ostracized. That's the reality here. When I was a child, the rabid foam-at-the-mouth fundamentalist nutjob was just that, a vulgar and crazy person best to be avoided by nice, normal people. Now they're in charge. The GOP with its relentless pandering of these thieves did that. Let's not kid ourselves here. Online poker is just collateral damage in the long campaign to turn this country into a theocracy.