Well…I guess the senate has devolved into a ceremonial body that can’t or won’t take on the true problems plaguing our country but are just so damn happy to work on nonsense to make it look like they are doing something. I’m sure you’ve followed the saga of trying to get a federal voting rights bill through the senate but Manchin and Sinema just don’t think it’s important enough to protect our democracy from the repubs who are trying to steal elections all over the country…but, just yesterday, they found something they could get behind as being so important that it needed action now…I wonder if you can guess what that was? Still thinking? I guess I’ll have to tell you…with the advent of daylight savings time this week where we moved the clocks forward to where they would be if there were no DST, enough people whined and bitched to their senators who thought this was the most golly gee important thing they could be working on and got right to it…and passed a senate bill that would eliminated DST right now and make sure that people don’t have to be subject to the horrors of having to reset their clocks twice a year…and with that, the country is saved! Yeah, that’s a bit of sarcasm on my part since I am so damn frustrated that the real issues in the US are not even being talked about in the senate…but they have time to get to bullshit like this that just doesn’t matter and pretend that it is important…and that’s one problem with the senate these days…the fake bipartisanship that is displayed when it means nothing but doesn’t happen when it does…and that sucks…geez…
Category Archives: Politics
Windfall profits tax…
Well…with all of the appeals to the heads of the oil companies to stop war profiteering falling on deaf ears, it is now time to enact a windfall profits tax to claw back all of the money they’ve stolen not only over the past few months, but the past few years. During the pandemic, we the taxpayers of the US bailed them out to the tune of billions of dollars to ensure that they would not go bankrupt and how do they repay us? By screwing over Americans by raising gas prices, not for any reason other than they can…yeah, I know they couch it in the bullshit of uncertainty and supply and demand, but then why are gas prices still rising when the cost of oil has dropped by over 25% in the past week? I know that downward prices are “sticky” to use an economic term but it is a decision by the CEOs of these companies to not lower prices as they try to wring every damn dime out of the American consumer….there was a time when we could at least shame some of them into doing the right thing, but those times are over with the unbridled greed we see from almost every damn company in the US…I mean they are all reporting record profits and, without greed, prices would be dropping and inflation wouldn’t be a thing…so, if they won’t regulate themselves and do the right thing for the American consumer who make those record profits possible, we need to tax those record incomes and return the money they are stealing to the American people…and do it right now…but you know who doesn’t want that to happen…the repubs since high gas prices can be used to hurt Biden and the dems in the 22 election…and you can bet they don’t give a damn about anything but getting back into power so they can continue to reward these assholes for stealing everything that is not nailed down….and if the regular Americans get hurt, they just don’t care…geez…
My next question about Tucker…
Well…if there is a traitor in our midst named Tucker Carlson…and there is if you have read the 12 page memo leaked from a Russian intelligence service by Mother Jones magazine that instructs all of Russian media to play clips of Tucker and his support of Putin all day every day and that China has jumped on, too…my next question about this traitor is: “is he getting instructed by Russian intelligence to do the spots on his show so Putin and his cronies can use the propaganda to hurt the US?” How about the next question: “is Tucker or fox news getting paid to spread the propaganda so the Russians can use it?” How else do you explain Tucker’s crazy support of the Russian dictator and the un-American bullshit he spews every day? As I made the comparison before, what tucker is doing is worse than what Tokyo Rose or Axis Sally did in world war two since Tucker has a built in audience of millions that believe everything he says and he is damaging the US so much more than those two traitors that he needs to be fired right now…and Rupert Murdoch and fox news need to be fined or shut down since there is no first amendment protection against treason against the US. Some enterprising lawyer should sue them right now for another billion dollars and put them out of business….geez…
Maureen Ferguson is a right wing hack…
Well…just read an opinion piece in USA today that has me pissed off that they would allow this right wing hack, Maureen Ferguson, to spew her right wing nonsense in a national paper. In the piece she goes on to essentially cheer for the defeat of a bill in congress that would enshrine women’s right to control their own bodies by federal law to take it out of the right wing supreme court hands…and she goes on to frame it as the women’s rights supporters not believing in democracy since they don’t want to allow the repub controlled states to codify their hate into law…hate of women, hate of minorities, and hate of the LGBT community and to restrict the rights of people they don’t like. She is living in the 19th century and using the same state’s rights arguments that were used to support slavery and ensuring that black people don’t have the right to vote…so I guess to this hack it is against democracy to try to protect everyone in the US…even those who live in states that have been rigged so the repubs control them and she is just fine with that rigging….again, this is the same bullshit argument that has been made since before the civil war…and it reeks of pushing her religion (catholicism) on everyone since she works for a catholic organization whose purpose is to outlaw abortion in this country….it is specifically because of people like ferguson why protections for all the groups she and her repub counterparts hate have been federalized…if we left it to the states she so reveres, slavery would still be a thing and women would still be property to be controlled by men….and minorities would still not have the right to vote…and she can’t deny that with the continuing efforts of her beloved repub party, that right is under attack in 2022….what a right wing hack….
Missouri wants to kill women…
Well…damn..I really don’t know what is in the water in Missouri but it is revealing the crazy that is rampant down there…and the latest two laws that the repubs there are going to pass are just stunning in the dripping hate towards women that comes from their Taliban like repub party…the first one that was reported on a few days back would prohibit women living in Missouri to go across state lines to get an abortion no matter if it would save the life of the pregnant woman…and they are using the same damn bullshit that the supreme court allowed in Texas…that private citizens will be allowed to sue any woman that goes out of state for an abortion…how this is not unconstitutional, I really don’t know but with the right wing capture of the judicial branch in the US, the theocracy loving judges appointed by repubs will think it just fine to treat women as second class citizens…after all, that’s what the bible says they are and that is good enough for them…the next law that will be passed early next week outlaws abortions for ectopic pregnancies, where the fertilized egg implants in the fallopian tube instead of the uterus and will result in the death of the woman if it is allowed to grow and destroy the tube…resulting in the woman bleeding out if nothing is done…but that is okay with these assholes in Missouri…and the sick thing is this one is introduced by a woman rep who is so ignorant that she doesn’t know or care that this law will sentence every woman that has this happen to death…but I guess that is just fine with these “religious” assholes…if a few hundred women die so they can push their theocracy on the people of Missouri that’s just the price that has to be paid….these people are murderers plain and simple and the courts are letting them get away with it…and it’s just the start unless we all get out and vote these assholes out…geez…
Watch out Gym Jordan…George is coming for you…
Well…I know you’ve heard of the trump toady, Jim Jordan, the rep from Ohio who is probably one of the nastiest people in all of the congress and who continues to push the lies about the 2020 election and all the other lies about the dems on a daily basis…but he is most well known, in some circles, for his ignoring the sexual abuse of athletes at Ohio State when he was a wrestling coach there and allowing it to continue for years….and then claiming he never saw anything even though multiple athletes testified that they told him when the abuse was going on and he did nothing to stop it. So far, he has avoided any consequences for his lack of action and the coverup that came after the abuse…but, that just may change in the near future with the announcement that George Clooney is going to produce a documentary about the scandal…and will pierce the bubble of coverup that has allowed Jordan to get elected to congress and avoid any responsibility for his complicity in this abuse…I really do hope that Jordan and everyone like him whether they are repubs or dems will finally pay for ignoring the abuse of people who they are supposed to be protecting…but, I don’t know if I have any hope that this will happen…after all, the head of the repub party has abused and sexually assaulted many, many women and has never been held responsible for it….and the repubs like it that way….geez…
The speculators are getting hammered…
Well…this always brings a smile to my face when it happens…it looks like the oil price speculators and traders are getting hammered today with the price dropping by 14.20 a barrel or almost 12% when the speculators were betting on the price to hit 150 bucks a barrel by the end of the week…it looks like the loss of Russia’s oil has already been priced into the market at 110 bucks a barrel and with the price of gasoline rising so much in the past two weeks, usage is plummeting and we may even see a glut even with the Saudis siding with Putin and Russia and cutting their production to support the price…and with the Saudis refusing to even discuss the price with Biden, another “leader” of a country has made a huge miscalculation by snubbing the US as the US does everything in it’s power to increase supplies and get the price down. What are you going to say now repubs? These traitors have been all over the news the past couple of days blaming Biden for the increase in gasoline cost so will they now admit that his efforts has dropped the cost by 10% today? Of course not, with these cynical bastards pushing to cut off Russian imports just to have another issue to hammer Joe with when gas prices rise, the media needs to ask every damn one of them what their role was in cutting off Russian imports and why they are attacking Biden for it when they all voted for it. It will be interesting to see how this shakes out over the next week or so…I’m sure we’ll see some pretty wild swings in oil prices but 200 dollar oil? Nope…and I hope every one of these damn speculators loses their shirt…geez…
The Saudis and the UAE can go to hell…
Well…as President Biden talks to damn near the whole world to further isolate Russia and try to blunt the effect of cutting out Russia’s oil exports…we find out who our friends are in the middle east..just yesterday both the Saudis and the UAE threw in with Putin by refusing to even talk to Biden about increasing oil production without trying to blackmail the US into giving them a veto over our foreign policy in the middle east. The Saudis (whom I mean the murderer bin Salman) even have gone so far as to tie immunity to suits for the murder of Khashoggi to any talks…all the while they keep cutting oil production with the aim of getting the price per barrel to 200 dollars…so, we should say go to hell to both of them and tell them they are on their own and try to protect their countries themselves…and the Saudis have been whining about needing more weapons for their war in Yemen and expect us to give the weapons to them for free…I think we should just say go to Putin if you want more weapons since we know he has very few reserves and won’t be able to make any with the sanctions on Russia…look, both of these countries are pissed that Biden won the election and their favorite stooge trump can’t help them anymore…and I think these guys are lashing out since they see the writing on the wall that they will be out of the oil cartel business in the next 20 years and will go back to the backwaters they were before oil…and it can’t happen too soon for me…geez…
Ukraine developments…
Well…just sitting here paying some bills and reading some news when I saw that Ukraine is claiming they destroyed 45 Russian helicopters yesterday…and with all of the other equipment they claim destroyed (which does need to be taken with a grain of salt given the nature of modern warfare), it does appear that the Ukrainians are making Putin pay for this war in ways that he never expected…and news this afternoon is that Poland has transferred all of their Russian built fighters to the US and they are being flown to Germany so we can take possession of them officially…and then they will be given to Ukraine to bolster their air force and give them the chance to knock down even more Russian aircraft and kill other vehicles they are using to commit their war crimes. I’m sure the deal was structured this way so that Poland won’t be threatened by the criminal Putin, and if he wants to threaten NATO for the transfer, he really does have to know if he draws a modern armed force into this fight, he will lose and lose badly…and will have no army left to protect himself from the Russian people. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a dumber head of state other than the idiot trump…he has killed his economy and that will last generations and Europe is going to figure out how to do without his gas or oil so what does he have left? Nukes? That’s about it…I’ve never seen such a huge miscalculation in my lifetime…and it is going to rid the world of Putin once and for all…
Whose “freedom”?
Well…you know, it makes me gag to hear the repubs talk about “freedom” these days when the freedom they speak of is only for white repubs…and it is the freedom to be an asshole and the freedom to not be called out for it or they howl “cancel culture” when they do get called on it….and the latest is a Uof Va student (and MAGA asshole) who whines and complains in the NYT that she is being silenced (damn, I’d love to be silenced like that and given the Op-Ed page to cry about it) and no one will “debate” her since she has right wing views….no, no one will debate you because you regurgitate right wing talking points and you think that everything has to be a “debate” as you try to jam your right wing hooey down everyone’s throat. This woman is one of the righties who think that everyone should like her since she is so brilliant even while spewing the same old crap that would have gotten her ostracized in polite society a generation ago…and when they talk about freedom, again, they are talking about freedom for them only as they try to ban books,ban black history, ban transgender people, ban saying gay, and ban voting so people only get to do what they say…is that “freedom”? To them it is…and with all of this, we need to remember that at the same time that Putin is banning “subversive” books in his totalitarian Russia, the repubs are doing the same damn thing in states they control…do you need to know anything else? Didn’t think so…geez…