Well…damn, I’m not sure who is running the New York times but there has been so much bullshit bothsiderism that it is squandering the hundred plus years of great journalism that made it the “paper of record”….throughout the Hillary Clinton e-mail non scandal, they had breathless coverage of the nothing that it was every damn day and they were responsible for getting the idiot trump elected with all of that crap…and today, they had a huge article about how badly we are doing controlling the covid virus with more cases and deaths than any other country….and, because they are kissing the right wings ass constantly, they tried to cover up the reason for our poor performance…every damn report from the CDC, the NIH, and every other study highlights one thing, the vaccination plateau we have reached where almost every dem is vaccinated and boosted by only 52% OF repubs are…and they act like the reason for that just can’t be figured out and they leave it at that…and that is the problem..it CAN be figured out and yet they just don’t want to say it…it is fox news and the daily loads of misinformation that come from it and the whole right wing ecosystem that are actively trying to keep the pandemic going to hurt Joe Biden…it’s as simple as that…the repubs are willing to kill for political gain and that is the cynical calculation they are making every day…to sacrifice their own voters for the next election…why can’t the NYT write that? Because the owners are also making a cynical calculation to keep in the good graces of right wing billionaires who infest this country…and let’s put it bluntly, the NYT has been sliding to the right for decades now and no one left there has any journalistic integrity anymore..the truth is the truth and it doesn’t need to be analyzed or put in context or anything else…just frickin print the truth…that trump tried to overthrow the government or that fox news is responsible for the anti vaccine bullshit that is pushed on every one of it’s shows…geez….
Category Archives: Politics
Trump is certifiably nuts…
Well…man, I am shaking my head at how nuts the idiot boy’s latest rant is..it’s not enough that he confessed to plotting and carrying out the coup on multiple occasions over the past week…and now new documents that were part of the trove of them that idiot boy was trying to hide from the public with lawsuit after lawsuit that culminated in the SC voting 8-1 to release them to the January 6th committee, show that at least three times trump tried to get various parts of the government to seize all the voting machines, ballots, and any other information that said he lost the election. But the most twisted part of what is called logic from the idiot is that now he thinks that Mike Pence should be investigated by the January 6th committee for not trying to overthrow the government…yep, in that shriveled walnut that trump calls his brain he has come to the idea that because Pence didn’t break the law and support his coup, he should be investigated for it…never mind that idiot boy has called the committee various childish names and still feels it is just a “witch hunt” against him, forgetting that he is not president, now he wants to use it against the person he feels is most responsible for him not being president any longer…and you may ask what is Pence’s response to this new slam against him? Nothing…he still is afraid of going up against the diminished, delusional moron and will never say a word against him even though trump’s followers tried to find him and hang him…I still wonder why the DOJ is still sitting on it’s hands after the umpteenth confession by the idiot boy, cripes, I could make the case against him in court and I’m not a lawyer…geez…
Is this enough to arrest him?
Well..after his Nazi rally over the weekend where the idiot trump threatened the prosecutors across the country who are investigating him and then following it up with a written admission that he was behind the January 6th attacks and trying to overturn the election…my only question is: Isn’t this enough to arrest him? I mean, with his admissions and all of the evidence that show his criminal behaviors, why the hell isn’t he sitting in a jail cell right now? If you or I threatened a DA who was investigating us, you can bet your ass we’d been in the klink awaiting trial so why is Garland letting him run free to try to incite riots if he is indicted? I think it’s bullshit that there is any political calculation here…there are crimes that idiot boy needs to be held responsible for and politics has nothing to do with it…did they think of the political considerations when they arrested John Gotti or any other criminal? Garland is destroying the rule of law in this country by letting trump dare the justice department to come after him while he sits on his hands and nothing happens…and it all traces back to him…if he doesn’t have the guts to go after idiot boy, then he should resign and let someone take over who will uphold the law no matter who the lawbreaker is…and it needs to happen now…it’s already been over a year since January 6th 2020 and that’s too long to let these crimes fester in the body politic…geez…
The ERA has been ratified…
Well…not sure what is going on but I’ve only read one article on what I think is a big damn deal…this week, the Equal rights Amendment to the Constitution was deemed to be ratified by the Office of Legal Counsel of the department of justice which makes it the 28th amendment to the constitution….and the decades of trying to enshrine the rights of women to be equal to those of men has finally been started by this adoption…it has been a long and hard fight that has been pressed by generations of women across this country and has been fought at every step by white men who think that women are things to be owned and controlled and inherently have no rights other than those given to them by these men….and this crap goes on here in 2022 with laws written by men that limit the control that women have over their own bodies and that are exploding in repub controlled states across the country….and when the repubs take over states that have ratified the amendment, the first thing they do is try to de-ratify it…just like they did to the 14th and 15th amendments that were ratified just after the Civil war and that the supreme court has rejected time after time…imagine that, this same party has not grown past the 1870’s where they objected to the 14th amendment that grants equal protection under the law…and the repubs didn’t want equality then and they sure don’t want women to be equal to them now. I will be interested to see how the repubs fight now to keep this amendment from being implemented…I’m sure it will go all the way to the supreme court and with the right wing assholes that sit on the court and ignore precedent in their ongoing efforts to push their right wing ideology, it is still going to be a hard fight since these idiots don’t think that anyone should have rights except repubs…geez…
Right wing book banning…
Well…if you’ve seen the news lately, you would have seen that repub controlled school boards across the country are making it their only reason for being to ban books they don’t like, mostly by people of color or that shine a light on the racism in this country…with their rationale being that kids shouldn’t be exposed to the Holocaust or anything that might make them uncomfortable. Damn, I am so tired of these snowflakes trying to keep kids from understanding what the world is really like…from slavery to the cold war to rampant discrimination to fascism, they don’t want children to know the reality of the world since they think that knowing history or difficult concepts that will shine a light on reality will harm them in some way or make them ashamed of being white…yep, that’s a big part of it…they just don’t want white kids to know that their ancestors were responsible for the slave trade and Jim Crow on to the discrimination that still exists now…look, when I was 8 or nine years old, I bought the book “Fail Safe” from the Scholastic book club that came around to schools and made books available to everyone in grade school….now, that book was about the possibility of a military officer taking it upon himself to leave his fail safe point and drop a hydrogen bomb on Moscow…which was one of the fears that we all had growing up during the cold war where we could die any day we woke up…but the twist was, to prevent an all out nuclear war, the commander of US forces made a deal to drop a bomb on New York city to make up for Moscow….and the searing part of it was that his family was in NYC that day and he had to sacrifice them for the good of the world….this drove home to me that leadership sometimes meant doing the right thing at great personal cost but honor and duty required that choice….now, this was a deep concept for an 8 year old but one that helped shape me throughout my life….and the thing was that no one banned that book and it was not too tough for an 8 year old to understand and I think the same goes for today…I mean banning “to Kill a Mockingbird” since it shows the widespread racism and it’s effects on black people in the south in the 30’s? That’s something that every person in this country needs to know since progress on race in this country has been fitful at best…and it’s best if children are taught these concepts before their views harden as they get older…geez…
Justice Breyer is retiring….
Well…there was some good news about the supreme court yesterday when Justice Breyer, one of the only 3 judges left who actually follow the law, announced he will be retiring at the end of the present term at the end of June…and that means the Joe Biden will be able to appoint a justice that is not pushed by the Federalist Society, the right wing organization that has funneled millions and millions of dollars into the fight to get only unqualified right wing ideologues on the court. I almost laughed when I heard Susan Collins, who backed jamming Barrett through to the court in the last 30 days before the dems took over the senate, opine that there is no need for speed in getting the next justice appointed…yeah, since they already did it for one of their pet justices but it’s different now…the dems are in control so she thinks they should delay and delay until the possibility of the repubs taking the senate back in November so McConnell can steal a 4th seat. Luckily, Chuck Schumer is using the Barrett appointment as a template for getting the next justice through and will use exactly the same timetable as McConnell did…and we need to play hardball to make sure we get a true progressive that is not beholden to business and the right wing of this country…so, I am waiting to see how this all comes together over the summer…and to see if Clarence Thomas’s wife Ginny is indicted for her part in the January 6th insurrection…and she was all over the conspiracy so she should be….geez…
The case is coming together…
Well…as more and more news comes out about the attempted coup on January 6th of last year, it appears that the case is coming together for a widespread conspiracy of over a thousand people who tried to overthrow the 2020 election…the latest news is that the DOJ is looking into the repubs in 7 states who forged elector documents as part of the plot to sow confusion and give trump and his cronies an excuse to throw out the legal electors and replace them with conspirators who would of course vote for trump. Over the past week or so, evidence has come out that this plot goes all the way to the top and the idiot trump was in on it and his call to Georgia was just part of the conspiracy…and just yesterday, the architect of the plot, John Eastman, lost his case trying to hide his e-mails that show his part in the plot and no pleading the fifth, which he has done, can’t protect him from the forensic evidence that the January 6th committee now has in it’s possession…and the evidence that the fake electors broke the law is abundantly clear and we will see charges here in Michigan that will decapitate the repub party since all of the leadership signed on to the fraud thinking they could get away with destroying our democracy…so, a few thousand shoes are going to fall in the next month and I can’t wait….geez…
Georgia really hates kids….
Well…with all of the anti vaccine bullshit going on in this country, we have a new winner in the contest to kill the most kids in the US…with the backlash to the covid vaccine, Georgia has now proposed that no vaccines will be required for children at all…no measles, mumps, or rubella vaccine…no polio vaccine, no whooping cough vaccine, no encephalitis vaccine….you get the picture…diseases that killed hundreds of thousands of kids back when I was younger that have safe effective vaccines that prevent them are now being invited into Georgia in service to the rabid anti vaxx repubs who are in control there who think that “freedom” is worth more than the lives of their children….what’s next? No baby car seat requirements? How about letting toddlers ride in the back of open pickup trucks….or making the age to own a gun 1 year old? Or letting drunks be school bus drivers? That is exactly the bullshit these assholes are forcing on parents in Georgia…have they never seen the pictures of the hundreds of kids in iron lungs during the worst of the polio epidemic? I am so damn tired of these assholes putting kids at risk just to “own the libs” without any consideration of the consequences…I guess it will take one of their kids getting one of these horrible disease before they start to question if this is a good idea….I just hate these assholes…geez…
When are they going to arrest Newt?
Well…you know, I really hate these lawless assholes who keep getting away with trying to extort members of congress or who fund trump’s cronies legal bills for refusing to cooperate with the January 6th committee. Just the other day, ole Newt Gingrich was all over fox news threatening that if the repubs take the house this fall, everyone on the January 6th committee is going to be arrested and put in jail for nothing I guess…and ole Newt wouldn’t say what laws they are breaking…which they aren’t breaking any….but all damn repubs think they should be able to try to overthrow the government without any consequences and they are mad that the January 6th committee is going to expose their plot and the thousands of repubs who were involved in it….shouldn’t threats like these that could be interfering with house members doing their sworn duties be illegal? In fact they are, and I wonder why ole Newt hasn’t been arrested yet. One thing we have to remember anytime that old Newt opens his mouth is that he was thrown out of congress for ethics violations and had to pay a huge fine for it…and he divorced one of his wives when she was undergoing cancer treatment to marry the woman he was having an affair with. I really think that the justice department needs to stomp on this crap and do it now to stop others from trying what trump did. Oh, and the other thing that came up today is that some asshole repub operator named Matt Sclapp has started a legal fund that’s sole purpose is to foot the legal bills of trump’s cronies who decided to not cooperate with the January 6th committee…and the first thing that came into my head is that they are funding obstruction of justice and obstruction of congress and I do hope that the committee follows the money back to this ass and hauls him in for questions about how many people he is funding to try to keep the truth about January 6th from coming out….this is the modern repub party folks…lawbreakers all…geez…
So 40 year olds are children now?
Well…it is a little gratifying when you see a huge meltdown of the idiot trump and one of those happened yesterday…it all started when the January 6th committee sent a letter to Ivanka asking her to come in and answer some questions about what she saw and heard on January 6th during the attack on the capital…and with all of the court losses last week and with the walls closing in on that criminal family, trump just blew going on and on about the “terrible” dems and that they are going after “children” as part of the investigation and threatening there will be payback when he gets re-elected…now, when was the last time you considered a 40 year old woman a child? Ivanka was a paid government worker for 4 years and was involved in all of the crap that went on with the trump administration and made hundreds of millions of dollars in graft while she was in the government…and as being a “special advisor” to the president, I’m sure she has relevant information that would help with the investigation into what trump was doing on that day and in the days leading up to the insurrection…so, of course they want to talk to this “woman” who definitely is not a child…and of course she will refuse and then be referred for contempt of congress…and that’s what daddy is so afraid of…his little princess is in real trouble and there isn’t a damn thing he can do about it…poor baby…geez…