Well…with the Thursday night massacre at twitter where ole elon started to permanently block a bunch of journalists including Keith Olbermann for some pissy little reason, the thin skinned moron is going to pay for that in the UK where regulators are already readying fines since it is against the law to do that there…and it is just what I talked about a couple of weeks back when I noted that facebook just paid a 250 million dollar fine for running afoul of the content moderation laws there and this could cost elon at least that and maybe more…and the whole thing started when elon blocked a teenagers account on twitter that followed where his private jet was at any time….and then it escalated when reporters started calling elon on it and posting links to instructions how to set up an account on Mastodon…so then he blocked any account that mentioned Mastodon…oh, and do yourself a favor…go over and set up an account on Mastodon…no ads, no right wing crazies, and no elon…and lots of nice people….so in addition to losing a lot of his ad revenue, elon is going to be on the hook for big fines in both the UK and EU…can’t happen to a bigger moron….
Category Archives: Politics
Now it’s only about the grift..
Well…I’m sure there were some folks who were waiting breathlessly for the idiot trump’s “big announcement” that he telegraphed the other day…was he going to run for speaker of the house was the one that gained the most traction but that would mean he would have to actually work and he’d never do that…I really had hoped that he would be announcing that he was fleeing to Russia to avoid going to jail…but no such luck…it was just the announcement of another grift, and that is all he is about any more…to try to fleece the rubes one more time before he’s indicted and this one is just so tacky that I’m even shaking my head….now, for a limited time only, you can be the first to give idiot boy 99 dollars for a tacky card that has the idiot dressed up as a superhero…and that’s not all, it’s part of a set that every maga asshole needs…so get them all before they are gone…they will be collectors items and you can display them proudly in you living room….so get on it magas…give the idiot the rest of the money you have left…you don’t need to eat…geez…
Respect for Marriage Act…
Well…Dark Brandon is at it again when he signed the Respect for Marriage Act yesterday that will protect same sex and interracial marriages from Alito and his corrupt Supreme Court….and this had to be done since the only thing protecting these rights were court decisions that Alito telegraphed he was going to do his best to over rule using his stupid logic that if these rights were not specifically enumerated in the constitution, they don’t exist…and he wouldn’t allow them to go on….this time, even 12 repub senators went along and voted for the bill since almost 80% of voters in this country wanted these rights to remain….this is one of the things that I had hoped that the dems would do as they prepare to lose the majority in the house…and they are going to fund the government for a full year if they can get that done this week…and it looks like they will, as I again hoped they would…now let’s get to the other thing I wanted them to do in the lame duck and pass the women’s right bill that would give bodily autonomy back to women after the SC took those rights away….oh, and while they are at it, they need to reform the SC and pass an ethics code that they have to follow at the very least to start cleaning up the corruption that is stinking up the place…geez…
Ole Rupert is in the hot seat today…
Well…finally, the one person in the world who has done the most damage to everything good is going to be in the hot seat today…Rupert Murdoch, who has turned fox news into a weapon against democracy, is going to be questioned in the suit that Dominion Voting Systems has brought against fox for lying their asses off for a year claiming that their machines were used to steal the 2020 election away from the idiot trump…and at 1.6 billion dollars, a win would put a pretty big dent in murdoch’s wallet…the whole case is going to hang on whether or not there was a corporate mandate for those lies and they knew they were lying…which isn’t a stretch given that almost everything that is broadcast by fox is a lie and they know it…in fact it’s one of their most used tools to spread disinformation while pushing the right wing bullshit that pollutes the world….but, I’m sure he will take the fifth for every damn question just like the idiot trump did in the NY suit against him…but that shouldn’t even matter…there is plenty of evidence to convict without his testimony…gutting fox would be a christmas wish for all of us over here on the left…and it can’t happen too soon….geez…
People are embarrassed…
Well…just read a funny little article that says that people are now becoming embarrassed to drive their Teslas with the idiot musk revealing who he really is by his destruction of twitter and his trump like tweets that spew the same kind of right wing bullshit…and the sales of teslas are dropping like a rock as is it’s stock price that has dropped by 75% over the past year…so I wonder why the tesla board hasn’t done anything about musk since it appears he is intentionally trying to tank the stock for some reason? I know he hated twitter and the content moderation that kept the worst of the worst right wingers off the site but he is now running up against EU and UK regulations that require moderation and it is going to cost him millions after he just fired everyone at the company that did that task…and facebook just got a 230 million dollar fine in the UK for not doing enough to keep banned content off the site…so what the hell is his endgame? I know I used to like musk for the innovations of spacex but I’m done with him…I’m off twitter now and refuse to watch the spacex launches until he is gone…I really do hope he goes broke…so any of my readers who use twitter, please go over and try Mastodon…I find it relaxing and there are no ads….or Nazis…geez…
Covid isn’t over…
Well…after going out to the grocery store wed and being almost the only person in a mask, I can’t believe that people are still not protecting themselves….and the uptake rate of the latest vaccine booster is in the 25% range even in my age group and I can’t figure that out since the latest stats show that over 90% of the 500 deaths a day that are still occurring are people over 65…in an article I read today the hospitalization rate for children is the highest it’s ever been and the entire country is in the red of the highest cases there have ever been…so, what’s the deal? Are people just tired of the pandemic and think that if they ignore it the virus will go away? Whatever it is, I am not going to let my guard down with the possibility of long covid hanging over my head…so it looks like another year of isolation here as I do my best to not get this damn disease….and I will be wearing a mask whenever I go out and I will continue to get boosted whenever new vaccines come out…covid is not over…and I will not delude myself that it is…maybe I shouldn’t complain…after all, the virus is killing more repubs than dems and if it keeps up thye may never win another election…sick, I know…
Unions…
Well…with the people of the New York Times on strike today, I think it’s a good time to think about unions and the good they’ve done in this country and around the world. Look, if the owners of companies would treat workers with the respect and fairness they deserve, there wouldn’t be a need for unions…but as you know, most of the people running companies spend their time trying to figure out how to hoard the fruits of labor for themselves and have been very successful at it…after all, ceo compensations is now over 300 times what the average worker makes when it used to be closer to 50 and companies have never been more profitable…the modern weekend is a result of union bargaining as is the 40 hour work week and when you look at it, unions built the middle class here and around the world….and I’m happy that there is a resurgence of unionization here in the US after both the government and the rich and powerful have spent decades attacking them and buying laws that made it harder and harder for people to band together to try to level the playing field….but there is still work to be done and I’m glad someone is doing it….so, don’t read the Times anytime soon to support the people there…they can use the help….
And they say they’re not fascists…
Well…when you hear the repubs complain when they are called fascists for doing fascist things…just remember that they have a scheme to ignore voters and just install whoever they want in whatever office that is in the supreme court today…it’s called the independent legislature theory and it’s main tenet is that state legislatures are the only bodies who can set rules for voting in federal or state elections…and they argue the legislatures can ignore any votes they want…so dem votes will never be counted in repub controlled states again…how do you guys feel about that? This crackpot theory that is based on a lie is being argued right now and all of the conservative justices are just drooling that they can help out their repub cronies to just nullify elections they don’t like…that’s not fascist, right? Yeah, in reality that is right out of the fascist playbook on the first page….and the only reason it was taken up is alito wanted it so we know it doesn’t have to have any basis in law, truth, or reality for him to embrace it….look, if these guys are allowed to make this legal, this democracy is gone but that is what the repubs want…they know demographics are slowly dooming them electorally so they have to get the ultimate cheat authorized by the court…geez…
Hide the ketchup…
Well…I guess the waiters at trump’s tacky resort in Florida should hide the ketchup now that the trump organization has just been found guilty on all counts in it’s fraud trial in NYC…you know the one…not paying taxes on gifts and compensation for it’s execs and lying on tax forms…all that kind of stuff…now this won’t result in prison time for the idiot boy but it does show the techniques that were used to defraud the government in this case were probably used in the criminal case that is winding it’s way through the courts in NY…oh, and the NYC AG just brought in a new prosecutor to use this information for the criminal case against every damn one of the trumps….get moving Bragg….
The January 6th committee strikes..
Well…great news out of the January 6th committee this morning when it was announced they are going to make criminal referrals to the Justice department from the evidence they gathered…and one of the key parts of the announcement is that it is referrals plural, so there are going to be more than one…and one of them has to be against the idiot trump but I curious who the second or third or fourth is going to be…if you watched any of the committee presentations, it was clear the they had trump in their sights since he was the ringleader of the whole thing but rudy could be one or even Mark Meadows…or it could even be one of the lawyers who helped trump push his bullshit…I guess we’ll see…oh, and the new special prosecutor brought in to take over the investigations of January 6th at the DOJ just issued a whole bunch of subpoenas to people in states like Michigan where trump and his cronies tried to install slates of fake electors…so there is movement in the investigation there, too….let’s put this bluntly, if trump is not indicted from either of these investigations, this country is lost…there is no excuse for the DOJ to ignore his criminality anymore so get at it DOJ…geez…