Well…with the super infectious delta variant of the covid virus roaring through the unvaccinated population which is mostly repubs, I guess losing voters to the virus is now too much for some repub figures and they are now trying to get the people they have been lying to for over a year to get vaccinated …and the biggest outbreak is in Florida, of course, with almost 20% of all the new cases and three other repub run states make up 40% of the rest…so 60% of these killer cases are in repub run states and when the Florida governor was asked what he is going to do about, he said “nothing”….no lockdowns, no mask mandates, or anything else that would save the lives of American citizens….I guess he doesn’t understand that if he loses 1% of his voters, he would not get re-elected since his margin of victory was less than that. But other repub governors understand this fact and are doing an about face and blaming all of this outbreak on the vaccine resistors and telling them to get vaccinated….fat lot of good that will do…resistors are not rational and won’t listen to anyone but fox news and they are still pushing all anti vax, all the time….you know, I hate these people for how badly they’ve damaged this country, but no one deserves to die for believing the non stop lies they have been fed…..but, they are dying and will continue to die since they still believe the virus is a hoax…sometimes they believe it right up until they die…and that’s a shame and the fault of every talking head on the right starting with the idiot tucker….geez…
Category Archives: Politics
Good job, Nancy…
Well…Nancy Pelosi really does know her job….just a couple of days ago, minority leader Kevin McCarthy appointed 5 repubs to the 1/6 committee with two of them only there to sabotage it and they came out said it out loud…one of the saboteurs was even “gym” Jordan….you remember him, right? The guy who helped cover up athlete abuse at Ohio State when he was a wrestling coach there….but Nancy was not having any of it and as speaker, she has the last say on who gets what committee assignment….so she wouldn’t seat two of the repubs and McCarthy threw a hissy fit and pulled all 5 of his repub appointments and said he would do his own “investigation” but without subpoena power or funding since Nancy controls that, too. It really does appear this was a trap set by Nancy and McCarthy walked right into it…and since Nancy appointed a repub, Liz Cheney, to the committee, it has a quorum and can get started without any other repub appointees….good job, Nancy….now lets hold these pricks accountable…geez…
Who Cares?
Well…with the launch of Jeff Bezos rocket with him in it today and getting to space, my reaction to it is who cares? Who cares that a billionaire has taken his vanity project and spent a lot of money on it? This rocket has no purpose other than to put people into space and it’s just like Branson’s flight last week….another toy for rich people to spend money on….you could say that this rocket was built by you and me since Bezos brags that he doesn’t pay any taxes on his billions…and his tone deaf comment after the flight that the rocket was paid for by the people of Amazon and it’s customers shows how out of touch he is….and I’m sure the underpaid and abused workers at amazon’s warehouses will just love to hear that their abuse allowed this rich prick to fund his vanity project while they take their 5 minutes of breaks in a 10 hour shift. I really have had enough of the rich getting to do these kinds of things because of the inequality in our system…wouldn’t it be better for the US and the world to have Bezos pay his damn taxes so we can fix the roads and schools instead of buying a new toy for the richest person in the world?
So now they’re the tax cheat party…
Well…with the dems doing everything they can to pass the infrastructure bill and think of ways to help pay for it, one of which was to give more funding to the IRS so they could go after the rich tax cheats that steal hundreds of billions of dollars every year by not paying their taxes. But today, we found out that the repubs are now the pro tax cheat party since they refuse to agree to have the rich tax cheats pay their fair share….it is one of the millions of “red lines” that they say they won’t allow to be crossed…and all of those millions are about raising revenue…they prefer to have their big donors have the ability to cheat or they will stop giving them money….and they can’t have that…or fairness in taxation….can’t have that…or these rich cheats paying one penny more…can’t have that….you get the idea. Now, it’s damn time for dems to act like dems, tell the repubs to go to hell and pass this bill without them since the repubs never negotiate in good faith and everyone knows that but we keep treating them like honest brokers…and they just can’t be trusted…geez…
A little surpise…
Well…as I sit here contemplating if I should go out on the bike since the rain has stopped, a little surprise in the infrastructure bill that is getting ready to get passed by reconcilliation, which will bypass the filibuster, made me smile a bit…in that 3.5 trillion dollar bill, the dems have closed one of the biggest holes in medicare…that it doesn’t cover dental, vision, or hearing problems and all of us who have medicare have to pay for all of that out of pocket…even medicare advantage like I have only covers tiny amounts of those…no real dental work…maybe one cleaning a year…but that’s about it for dental….but this bill will cover everything including hearing aids, glasses and all dental care…for me, that is really welcome since I have been putting off the thousands of dollars in dental work I need to be able to eat ice cream again and fix the loose molar I have on my right side….so, I guess I can suffer a few more months if it will save me a couple of thousand dollars…it probably wouldn’t take effect until the next sign up period that ends Jan 1 of next year….I’ll keep my fingers crossed…
Back to the middle ages…
Well…the repubs truly are trying to take the country back to the middle ages…just yesterday, Tennessee repubs fired the head of vaccinations for telling the truth to a question about whether kids could get vaccinated without their parents consent (the SC there said they could)….so the repubs fired her and then went even farther to end any vaccine outreach at all for children…that’s all o fthe effective vaccines…whooping cough, diptheria, measles, mumps, rubella and even polio will no longer even give information out when they are asked that has any state seal on it…the seal has to be removed first and the health department will no longer be allowed to coordinate any vaccine events at schools or anywhere else…and they specifically said it was because the repubs pressured them into it…so now, Tennessee has gone back to before vaccines were developed and are going to willingly kill children just because of some right wing conspiracy theory that was created whole cloth out of lies…but the repubs and right wing media don’t care if they kill a few more children…after all they were responsible for over 400K Americans dying during the pandemic that is still raging in red states so what’s a few more dead to add to the total? I hate those guys….geez…
Finally, a push for voting rights…
Well…after the repubs spent the first 6 months after the election trying to prevent dem voters from voting by almost 300 voter suppression laws, it looks like Joe is finally getting the idea that this is the most important thing to get done…part of the new emphasis I think came from the 50 dem Texas legislators who fled the state to DC to prevent the worst laws of all of them from being passed there…and who have been threatened with arrest from Texas’ governor for their actions. This afternoon, Joe is giving what is being called the most important speech of his administration and will be calling out the repubs as the un American pricks they are….and here’s the thing, they really are trying to steal the country since they have no ideas that anyone except for their rabid base likes…taxing the rich to pay for infrastructure and elder care is supported by 80% of Americans and yet that was the first thing the repubs wanted out of the infrastructure bill….and making it harder to vote is only supported by their fox news watching cult followers…where more than 65% of Americans want voting easier. So, as with the rest of us on the left, we need to keep up the pressure on every legislator to pass this voter protection legislation…or we will lose our democracy forever….geez…
A few things…
Well…darn, just finished up all the work I had to do today and it’s almost 2pm….one little thing that has been under the radar after it was announced last week is the fact that Joe Biden’s administration is going to go after monopolies and consolidation in business and is going to be much less inclined to approve mergers that lead to it. I really hope he addresses the consolidation in the media, too, since I think there are about 4 companies that control all of the radio in this country….I guess even fox news is getting tired of trump lying about his election loss and they even ran a streamer basically saying there was not voter fraud in the 2020 election while the idiot boy was giving a speech to the q anon convention over the weekend….or I wonder if it is the 2 billion dollar plus lawsuits that are still pending from the voting machine companies they have been slandering since before the election…..the sanctions hearing that is going on here in Michigan about the unfounded lawsuits that trump lawyers brought about the election trying to overturn the results and appear to be entirely based on the fevered dreams of repub voters is not going well for them….at the very least the judge thinks the lawyers should have checked to see if they were true before filing the suits but the opposing lawyers think they shouldn’t have to…and it has devolved into a shouting match that is not a thing any smart lawyer would avoid…but trump’s lawyers have never been too smart….that’s it for now…
Why would they do this?
Well….when I read about all of the vaccine/virus denial and lies coming out of right wing news, the question comes to my mind is why would they do this? What’s in it for them to make sure that their listeners get the virus? Is it just stoking the outrage machine they need to keep their viewers coming back for more? I have never seen a safe, effective vaccine vilified as the covid one is and you would think there would be a clear reason for this coordinated attack…I know part of it is to attack Joe Biden…but the line of the attack they are using is so incoherent that the only thing you can draw from it is “vaccine bad” and saving lives by figuring out how to get more vaccine into more arms is like Nazism….this is how far the repub party has fallen in my lifetime…it is now run by cranks and crackpots who have no problem causing people to die by their lies…and what for? What could possibly be a net gain for them to kill off their own people? I still don’t get it….morons…
Stupid republicans…
Well…with the latest studies that show that 99.8 % of covid deaths from the delta variant occurring in unvaccinated people, all I have to say is stupid, stupid republicans since the overwhelming number of unvaccinated people are republicans. The latest polls show that almost 80% of dems have been vaccinated and many others still plan to be but only about 43% of repubs have been and there is really no group of them that plan to be vaccinated in the future….it is still a “hoax” to them and they think that the vaccine will turn them in liberals I guess….so, to “own the libs” many more of them are willing to die to prove some point that escapes me…and there are even many of the right wing nuts on fox news still shouting that they will never be vaccinated, and even the senator from Wisconsin is spouting conspiracy theories on tv about them, further hardening the opposition to the vaccines in the right wing sphere. You know, maybe we should just let them not be vaccinated and live with the consequences…or die with the consequences since that is what is going to happen to a lot of them as the delta variant is taking over cases in the US…stupid, stupid republicans…geez…