Well…we’ve know for some time that the repub party is infested with grifters and thiefs but what the senator from Wisconsin, Ron Johnson did for two of his biggest donors is breathtaking in its crookedness. When the big tax giveaway to the rich that the repubs passed was being written, Johnson had a little bit of specialized tax code added that would benefit the two families that gave him 20 million dollars for his campaigns…and that benefit? They got tax breaks of almost 500 million dollars…not a bad return on your 20 million dollar bribe. This is normal for the repubs these days, scratch any one of them and you’ll find a petty crook inside, using their office to enrich themselves as people starve and the roads crumble….and yet, nothing is done…not one of them goes to jail and the rich keep stealing with their help…it’s pretty damn depressing…geez…
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More Afghanistan…
Well…with all of the whitewashing that is going on with the repubs about their role in the Afghanistan debacle…wiping out twitter threads, scrubbing the RNC website, and any other place that they supported the idiot trump’s deal with the Taliban, let’s just remember what that “deal” was…idiot boy’s cronies negotiated the Taliban’s takeover by not even including the real government of the country…yep the government and army that we spent 2 trillion dollars supporting and building were not even included in the deal, and that telegraphed to the Taliban that the US didn’t care what happened after our withdrawal…and idiot boy gave them cash that the Taliban used to buy off cities, towns, and Afghan army units across the country so they wouldn’t fight…and why would they fight when they knew that the US didn’t care about them anymore with the master idiot giving the country to the Taliban in exchange for not attacking us as we left….so, let’s not let the revisionists on the right pull the same bullshit they always do to scrub their roles out of history and try to blame Joe for this crappy deal…he was bound to abide by it and did the only thing he could…get us the hell out of there…cripes, they had been fighting that war since I was in my 40’s and I’m a whole lot older than that now…geez…
Afghanistan…
Well…with all of the hand wringing and finger pointing that is going on with the collapse of the Afghan government and the Taliban takeover of the country, we need to remember the bottom line in this whole debacle…that no matter what we did and how much money we spent the Taliban was just going to wait us out and take over the country when we left…and there was no agreement that would have stopped it, any agreement was just part of the wait it out strategy that is happening there just as it was for the Vietnamese at the end of that war…and 20 years and 2 trillion dollars is enough…when should it end? If you listen to those on the right, they permanently wanted to occupy the country and part of that is that it keeps their buddies in the defense industry raking in cash….what is the profit on 2 trillion dollars spent? Now, with the chaos that is going on there, I will say there should have been better planning on how to withdraw and I do put some of the blame on Biden…but the generals and the intelligence community have had 20 years to plan how to get us out and I don’t see where the effort has had any effect…if there was any effort that is….I feel for the people of Afghanistan but most of them are perfectly fine with the Taliban taking over if it gets the Americans out so we needed to go….let’s not do this nation building crap again…okay? geez….
Biden to the rescue…
Well…as you’ve read here, the asshole repub governors of Texas and Florida are doing everything they can to get teachers and kids sick by forbidding any mask or vaccine mandates while threatening them with loss of pay and state funding for any school that tries to protect their staff or kids….but yesterday Joe Biden had his education secretary send a letter DeSantis of Florida telling him that any funding he cuts will be made up by the feds, essentially taking that threat away from him and doing the right thing by the staff and kids of the state of Florida…and that funding will be sent directly to the school districts so DeSantis can’t screw with the funding like he did with the 7 billion dollars Florida got from the coronavirus relief package and never gave to the schools just so he could have leverage to force people to die for his being an asshole. Look, if repub governors want to try to make sure their people die by forbidding them from using life saving equipment and vaccines by mandate, then Biden will do everything in his power to help the unfortunate residents of Florida and Texas who really would prefer not to have their governors kill them…geez…
I missed it..
Well…I was busy this afternoon so I missed the idiot trump being installed as president again…today was the day that the pillow guy said it was going to happen…did he move back into the WH yet? I can’t find any of the footage on the news…I wonder if the media is censoring conservatives again and that’s why I can’t find it? Did you hear his inaugural speech? Was it the most wonderous thing you have ever heard from the stable genius? Is Joe Biden in jail yet? That’s what trump’s cult has said was going to happen today and I can’t find anything about that, either…I wonder if they did it in secret just to hurt the media? This is really confusing…fox news has been trumpeting this for the past 6 months and it’s not true? How can that be? Yeah, it was never going to happen and this was all just sarcasm….after pillow guy’s meltdown at his “cyber symposium” this week I thought some of the trump cult would walk away from him…oh, and the guy that was supposed to confirm that pillow guy’s information that China hacked the election for Biden called the random numbers that pillow guy put forward as evidence is nothing but “a pile of crap”…and a judge is letting the 1.6 billion dollar suit against him go forward…now I can understand the meltdown…hope it continues…
Repub governors are ghouls…
WelI…I am never going to understand how the repub governors of Florida and Texas can live with themselves as they do their best to kill the children of their states. Both Abbott and DeSantis are making sure people are going to die by downplaying the effectiveness of vaccines and by outright banning the mask mandates that schools could use to try to protect these kids…DeSantis going so far as to withhold money from districts that mask up and even farther by cutting the pay of superintendents and principals that try to protect their children. The results of these ghouls actions are already being seen with every damn pediatric ICU bed already filled in both states and kids having to be flown to other states to try to keep them alive….and DeSantis has overseen an explosion of new cases in Florida of over 150K new cases in the past week…and he doesn’t care about anything but looking like a mini trump. Look, we don’t know what the long term effects of covid are on kids but it could cause long term health problems just like the adult “long haulers” who will never recover from the effects of being infected. But that doesn’t matter to these ghouls…they just don’t care about anything but looking good to their cult…and kids will die for it…geez…
Dems getting things done…
Well…over the past few days, we have seen what can happen when a political party that actually wants to do things for the American people get things done…just yesterday, or this morning at 3:41 am, the dems got the 3.5 trillion dollar bill that will benefit everyone but the rich and corporations and that came after getting a skinny infrastructure bill passed in the senate…and will be followed by the John Lewis voting rights bill that will nullify the 400 repub sponsored voter suppression bills that have been passed on the “big lie” of voter fraud in the 2020 election. All of this in the first 7 months of the Biden administration and with little of no help from the repubs…okay, a few of them voted yes on the infrastructure bill but then went right back to being the assholes they are on every other measure and not one of them voted for any of the other bills that were put up this week…that’s to be expected since the repubs don’t give a damn about anyone but the rich….and you’ve heard me bitch about that before but it’s still true….let’s hope the dems keep the pressure on and finish all this work…personally it will mean I can get the thousands of dollars of dental work done I need with the expansion of Medicare and only be out a couple of hundred in co-pays….so get it done dems…..
Chuck Grassley is a traitor…
Well…as the whitewash continues about the repubs involvement in the January 6th insurrection, the latest installment of that gaslighting was done just last week by Chuck Grassley on the floor of the senate when he spent an hour trying to normalize the idiot trump’s behavior that day as just “meetings” that all presidents do. He further went on say that every president has a right to talk to his advisors and that is all trump was doing that day and in the months after the election as trump and his minions plotted how to overturn the election. Yeah, Chuck…that was treason and no president has the right to try to overturn the results of an election…an election that was the most secure and accurate in the country’s history…and you trying to defend a traitor make you one, too….these attacks on the investigation are all part of the plan to make sure no one ever understands how deep the repub party and almost every damn elected repub was involved in this crime…and to make sure that trump is never held accountable for his role in it…but that is not going to happen….Nancy is going to get to the bottom of it and I hope that means the end of the repub party…and Merrick garland needs to prosecute every damn person involved…and lock them up….geez….
Stunning hypocrisy…
Well…I have never been a fan of Andrew Cuomo and with the latest revelations of his boorish behavior toward women that included unwanted touching that can be construed as sexual assault, I really believe he should resign and go away….but I also want the repubs who are calling for his resignation to shut the hell up. They have no leg to stand on to criticize Cuomo after they spent years ignoring the 50 women who accused the idiot trump of the same or worse behavior, and it is just stunning hypocrisy for any of them to open their mouths and comment at all….hey repubs, clean up your own house first before you stick your ugly noses into anyone else’s business…those of us on the left have already called for Cuomo’s resignation and for criminal charges if the facts warrant it…and it appears they do. After protecting a rapist for years and years, repubs have no moral ground to stand on, and this is just a purely political attack, they don’t give a damn about women at all and that is never going to change…geez…
More grifting…
Well…I still can’t believe it’s raining out here and that is keeping me off the bike today….at least this morning so I thought I’d come here for a second one before I make lunch…did you see the new grift that the idiot trump and his minions have cooked up? A ‘trump” card that makes you an official member of the cult that you can carry around with you…for what reason, I don’t know…but, I do know it’s going to cost a donation of some amount…probably 50 bucks and I wonder if they will make them expire so they can re-charge the rubes once a year just like they got caught doing last year when one time donations were turned into a weekly ones and emptied many of the rubes bank accounts. Oh, and these geniuses misspelled “official” on one of the cards by leaving out the second I…do any repubs know how to spell or how to proof read anything? Oh, and these “donations” can be used by idiot boy for any reasons…to pay personal expenses, buy cars, houses, etc. or spend it any way they want….so you know it’s just a grift…one good thing that will come of this is that as trump shakes down the rubes for his own purposes, they will have less to donate to other repubs and you know not one penny of what idiot boy collects will go to anyone but him….but still, I know some of these people will put these damn cards on lanyards and wear them around their necks just to “own” the libs…but what it will do is to help the sane of us identify the trumpites and stay the hell away from them…geez…