Well…I really hate frickin billionaires….with the pandemic windfall the all of these parasites made over the past two years, they now have trillions of dollars to take over the country and it’s communications…and today, Elon Musk is going to buy twitter with some of that free money and I, for one, am not going to help him make even more money so I will be leaving twitter after today. Look, the country just does not need another trump humper in charge of another huge part of the news/communication infrastructure like they have taken over most radio and television stations in this country…and the only reason he’s doing it is to help the far right spread their hate and propaganda since twitter now has rules in place to stop the spread of disinformation and lies but when he is owner, those rules go away and it turns into just another parler or gab where lies will be the currency of the day and support for the killing of our democracy is one of it’s prime purposes. This is the reason we need a billionaires tax that keeps this much power from the hands of a few right wing assholes who don’t give a damn about anything but themselves…bye,bye twitter…
Category Archives: Politics
Corporations are no longer people, my friends, in Florida…
Well…the fascism is starting to be all too clear in Florida after the governor pushed his toadies in the legislature to pass a law that revoked Disney’s special status that allowed them to run their parks as independent governmental units there…and they wrote it so narrowly that it can only apply to Disney as retaliation for their opposition of the Florida “don’t say gay” law that was pushed by DeSantis as a blatant attack on the LGBTQ community. So, I guess that corporations are no longer people, to quote Mitt Romney, in Florida and no longer have free speech rights without fear of retaliation by the government…and that is the description of fascism that the repubs all across this country are embracing not only for corporations but for individuals, too…starting with teachers, librarians and parents…or anyone who opposes fascism and the repubs attacks on our democracy. the one thing I can’t understand is why Disney hasn’t filed a multi billion dollar lawsuit against DeSantis and Florida for this blatantly unconstitutional attack on their rights? The only way to stop this crap is to punch the bastards in the face when they try this crap…and the fact that this attack on Disney that is going to cost Florida taxpayers billions won’t make a damn bit of difference is the problem that we are going to face in the next election….the red states just don’t care if what their leaders do hurt them…I think they like to be hurt since it reinforces their adherence to the cult and their hatred of anyone who is not white and straight and repub….geez…
Here’s a new rule…
Well…it seems to me that we need a new rule when talking to or interviewing repubs by the news organizations since it is clear that all they do is lie, and lie, and lie….so, from now on, once they are caught in one, the new rule should be that no one ever interviews or listens to them again…not to keep “access”, not for a sound bite, not for anything….because if we keep rewarding people for lying, that is what you get…it’s one of the things I leaned getting my degree in psychology…that whatever behavior you reward is what you will get more of…it’s the same thing with kids, if you reward them by giving them what they want when they throw a tantrum, they have learned that tantrums work and they will use them more and more….and when the repubs learn that there are no consequences for lying constantly, they will lie even more. Even when caught in one like Kevin McCarthy was last night on Rachel’s show where he lied his ass off about what he told idiot boy after the attack on the capitol on January 6th….and in a more ethical time, ole Kevvy would have resigned this morning…but in the modern repub party, it is a badge of honor and necessary to lie your ass off to get the support of the troglodytes that make up the repub base….but I still think you can stop this crap by withholding what all of these liars crave and that is attention….geez….
What are they for?
Well…in all my lifetime, I’ve never seen a political party that not FOR anything…you know, like helping the people of this country and making their lives better…but nope, not a damn thing from the repubs…they only talk bout what they are against…children, LGBTQ people being able to live like the rest of us, voters (that are not white), books, women’s rights, Ukraine, this country, democracy, rich people paying taxes, free speech, gun control, trying to stay alive with covid everywhere, the rule of law, saving the planet, courts (unless they are right wing), and damn near everything else that would make life a little better for Americans…and the sick thing is that even with no platform and admitting that they only favor the rich and everyone else can go to hell, they are still predicted to take over the house this fall…how the hell can that be? Has the American electorate become so stupid that they can’t see what the repubs are up to? Or do they not care…”oh, Joe Biden didn’t personally come to my house with a million dollar check so I’m not going to vote for him” seems to be the mood in the electorate right now even though the repubs have said that they are going to increase middle class taxes and eliminate SS and Medicare in 5 years…isn’t that of any interest to the reliable older voters that vote repub? Look, I’m damn tired about being depressed about the stupid people in this country who are going to vote to make me go back to work when I’m 70 when they elect repubs…don’t need that bullshit right now…geez…
Repubs idea of “freedom”…
Well…you know, with all of the bullshit shouts of “freedom” by the repubs, you would think that they would actually want freedom…but you would be wrong. In Texas, because the governor was trying to score points against Biden, he cost the country almost a billion dollars in lost production and spoiled fruits, veggies, and meat to try to show that there are “hordes” of people coming across the border illegally….which he never even looked for…he was just checking tires and lights and never even opened a truck to see if there was anyone there….and he gave the entire US the “freedom” to have food shortages and pay more for everything…shouldn’t there be a law against this crap? Then we have the tie for worst governor in the US with Desantis of Florida now picking a fight with Disney since they came out in opposition to his hateful “don’t say gay” law and the hypocrite basically said that individuals and companies have “freedom” just as long as they agree with him…if not, he will use the entire government of Florida to punish any dissent….how’s that for “freedom”? This week, this moron is pushing to revoke Disney’s special status that allows it to self govern like a city as long as it pays for all of the infrastructure to support their parks….so, when the idiot Desantis revokes this status, every family in the Orlando area is going to be on the hook for at least 2200 bucks in increased taxes to pay for what Disney does now….how’s that for repub “freedom”? Freedom to pay more in taxes to let your governor carry out a vendetta against the largest employer in Florida…what a frickin moron…geez…
Texas runs our foreign policy?
Well…when you go to the grocery store and avocados are 5 bucks each and you can’t find any veggies, thank the idiot governor of Texas who has taken it upon himself to run both foreign and trade policy in direct violation of the constitution. This bullshit started earlier in the week when he told his state police to do “truck inspections” for every truck coming across the border from Mexico which has resulted in miles long backups at the border and lots of rotting fruit and vegetables as the trucks wait for days just for a stunt as Abbott tries to make inflation worse to hurt Biden and the dems in this fall’s election. And now, he has taken foreign policy into his own hands which the constitution says is the purview of the federal government only by making “agreements” with the heads of Mexican states to allow their trucks to freely pass as he extorts them probably into giving him cash for his re-elections which is also against the law. My question is what is the biden admin going to do about it? They need to hold this asshole accountable by fining suit today to force him to stop this illegal bullshit and the companies who are losing their drops to spoilage need to sue him for damages today to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars and do it personally so the taxpayers of Texas don’t have to foot the bill for his criminality…typical repub bullshit….geez…
Do you need a better reason?
Well…please tell me you’ve been following the news about the criminal Rick Scott, you know the one, whose company paid a 200 million dollar fine for defrauding Medicare? The one who is now a senator from Florida? He said the quiet thing out loud last week when he put out a repub economic plan that they are going to pass if they take control of the congress in 2022…the highlights are raising taxes on 100 million middle class Americans…so if you make 50K a year, your taxes are going up by almost 5K a year…and if you’re one of the rich, you get a tax cut that will be paid for by the middle class….and if that’s not bad enough, his plan eliminates SS and Medicare in 5 years…leaving everyone who needs it to stay alive to fend for themselves or go back to work at 80 years old…essentially saying if you weren’t able to grift the billions he did, it’s just too damn bad and you can just lose everything and starve….this is what the repubs have always wanted…every person for themselves and the hundreds of thousands you paid into SS is just gone…poof…so they can give that money to the rich since they need it so badly…look, do you need a better reason to vote against every damn repub in the fall? We’ve paid our way our entire lives but that isn’t enough for these pricks…unless people are poor and dependent on them to throw them a few scraps, the repubs won’t be happy….we need to stop them…there is no better reason to crawl over broken glass to vote these assholes out…or they are going to steal what you worked your entire life for….just damn vote…geez…
I guess “donated” means something different to Elon…
Well…at the start of the Russian war against Ukraine, the richest man in the world, Elon Musk, mad a big deal about “donating” some of his starlink internet receivers to Ukraine so they could continue to access the internet even if the hardwires were destroyed…well…I guess “donated” means something different to ole Elon than it does to you or me….just today, it was reported that you and I paid our tax dollars at the market price of 1500 bucks per receiver for the 1333 terminals that Elon said he “donated”…and the government also paid 800K to transport them to Ukraine….so, I guess Elon couldn’t afford to donate 3 million bucks like he says he can’t afford to pay taxes even though he made hundreds of billions of dollars during the pandemic….that is the problem with depending on the largess of billionaires instead of taxing them and then letting the government put the money to best use…most of these guys are just greedy as hell and to have them give up a penny for the greater good is just too much to ask it appears….so, while you see Elon patting himself on the back for a lie, just remember he was a regular at the trump WH and is just another maga asshole who cares about nothing but himself….geez…
Hunter Biden’s laptop? Give me a break…
Well…for the past 6 years or so, every damn day on fox they have been beating the drums that Hunter Biden’s lost laptop contains the biggest scandal in the history of the world and he has been trading on his father’s name…yadda, yadda….after all that time, I still haven’t seen a bit of evidence that he did anything wrong but that doesn’t matter to the hypocrites on the right…they will lie away if they think it’s something that can hurt Joe Biden…and yet…do these asses even mention at all that Jared and Ivanka made over 600 million dollars while they were working in the US government…something that Hunter Biden never did….and just yesterday, the news broke that little Jared got a 2 billion dollar “investment” from the Saudis when his father in law was booted out of the WH….and all Jared had to do was say he was starting a private equity firm and then go to MBS, the Saudi criminal leader, to get the cash from the Saudi sovereign wealth fund…never mind that the younger idiot had never worked in private equity before or knew anything about it…and the professionals in charge of the fund raised all kinds of red flags and rated the new firm “unsatisfactory in all aspects” but they were overruled by MBS for some reason…okay, we know that reason, or one of them and that is that little Jared protected MBS when he had Khashoggi murdered and the world was calling for him to be held to account…look, we all know this is just a reward for what little Jared did for the Saudis when he was working in the white house…or a bribe if you will for those actions…compare that to what, if anything, Hunter Biden did…yeah, no comparison but that doesn’t matter to the crime ridden repub party…getting bribed is just hunky dory with them…geez…
Refer the SOB already…
Well…I really can’t believe what I’m hearing that the Jan 6th committee is hesitating to make a criminal referral of trump to the DOJ because the it might make any future prosecutions look “political”…I am so tired of there being any “political” considerations at all when it comes to breaking the law…especially since this was a frickin coup attempt to destroy this country…this is what I have to say to the committee…do you have the evidence? If you do, refer it and let the chips fall where they may…you are an investigative committee not the DOJ and your job is to discover evidence and pass it on to for prosecution…you can’t think about whether it will look political because the repubs and their propaganda arm, fox news, is going to make it look political even when it isn’t….you need to save this country and hold these criminals accountable so it won’t happen again…if you don’t, you know there are plans underway by the repubs to do it again since there were no consequences for their first coup attempt…get after it, and right now…geez…