Well….if you have been following the drama of trying to get anything passed in the senate with dem senator Joe Manchin preening and displaying his delusions for everyone to see, you have to think he must not read anything or hasn’t looked at the repub behavior over the past 20 years. First, he keeps talking an talking about finding “bipartisanship” with the repubs to get the infrastructure bill passed and he continues to look through the horseshit pile that the repubs have piled on this country looking for that elusive pony…one that doesn’t exist…damn, Joe, have you seen the repub votes for the recovery act? Yeah, there weren’t any and that was supported by 70% of the American people. the second thing is that ole Joe has bought into the repub idea that tax cuts create jobs when not one damn study of any tax cut over the past 40 years says it doesn’t…but that doesn’t stop Joe from parroting the repub talking points and holding up more legislation to try to give more tax cuts to the repubs…and that is complete bullshit…damn, Joe…read the study that just came out on the trump tax cuts…not one damn job was created and the only thing that happened was stock buybacks that transferred wealth to the 1%…so, Joe, read something for a change and stop listening to the liars on the right…it’s all they do…geez…
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I think they miscalculated…
Well…how damn dumb do the repubs have to be to not have seen the backlash to the 300 voting suppression bills that have been introduced by them across the country? It’s not only dumb but it is wrong and business across this country are weighing in with actions that highlight their opposition to this attack on their customers…and you can see the rift with ole mitch mcconnell essentially saying to them to shut up about voting rights and just give money to us…an abrupt about face from the Citizens United decision where the repubs just loved the “speech” of corporations since it supported what the repubs wanted…but now, when these same companies are appalled with trying to take the vote away from their customers and making it known, ole mitch blatantly wants them to stop and is even thinking of new laws that will punish companies that don’t support the repubs…some kind of free speech, huh? The rift got even worse over the weekend when the heads of 100 of the largest US businesses and even the Chamber of Commerce had a conference call to try to figure out how to most effectively oppose these new Jim Crow laws…and one suggestion was to stop giving money to any repub who supports this voter suppression aimed at minorities and designed for the repubs to be able to cheat…if this new law in Georgia had been in effect for the 2020 election, the repubs could have “found” the 12,000 votes that would have given the state to the idiot trump and installed him as president when he lost the election. Make no mistake, the repubs in this country hate democracy and are going to do everything they can to ensure their continued rule even when they lose the vote….and we all have to oppose this crap at every turn…let’s hope business will be partners in these efforts…
Now they are killing kids here in Michigan..
Well… as we watch repubs forcing their states to open across the US against the advice of the experts and every damn doctor other than Scott Atlas, we now have the repubs here in Michigan killing kids with their bullshit threatening of governor Whitmer that forced her to allow high school sports and schools to reopen with the the obvious effect…obvious to everyone but the stupid damn repubs that control the legislature….so now, we have the highest rate of new cases of the B 1.17 variant of the virus that is 20 times more infectious and causes serious cases in young people that could harm them for the rest of their lives…but the repubs still scream “freedumb” and want even more restrictions lifted as Whitmer pleads with people to keep up the mask wearing and to have them stay away from indoor dining or bars, etc. where the virus is known to spread. The repub head of the MHSAA (the Michigan High School Athletic Assoc.) has even come out and said that they are going to continue to hold tournaments and spring sports even with the wildfire spread of the virus in high school athletes. Look, I understand that people are getting restriction weary but this stupidity by Michigan repubs is going to make the year we have lived in isolation not worth a damn thing as they gleefully kill more and more of our friends an neighbors…and now they come after the children and feel no remorse at all…monsters, all of them….
Not one repub….
Well…I’m sure you’ve heard of the saga of the mini trump repub Matt Gaetz who has been connected to child trafficking and using campaign funds to pay for women to travel with him all over the country…and his connection to the disgraced former Florida official who has been charged with 33 counts of various felonies, and who has flipped on Gaetz and is giving testimony to the FBI….and this is not the only instance of how sleazy Gaetz is….he has paraded around the House floor showing nude photos of women he has slept with to other repubs….and here’s the thing…not one damn repub has said a word against this child trafficker….not one damn repub has condemned his general sleaziness when all of them knew who he was…and that is the modern repub party folks, the party of family values is okay with one of their members having sex with underage girls, illegally using campaign funds to pay for it, and lying his ass off about the whole thing. I never want to hear another one of them try to lecture anyone on “family values” when this is perfectly acceptable to them…when is the last time you heard of a dem doing half of what is just peachy with repubs these days? I can’t wait for the perp walk of this mini trump who feels that the law doesn’t apply to him….just like the rest of them…
It’s on you, Manchin…
Well…as conversation continues on what to do about the filibuster to get this country going again, we have the biggest obstacle to moving America’s agenda, Joe Manchin, going on and on that the filibuster can be preserved and get the laws passed that are needed to repair the economy and protect voting rights…and he thinks he can get the 60 votes necessary in the senate by bringing along 10 repubs to vote for Joe Biden’s agenda. Now, I should just laugh at the prospect that any repub senator, let alone ten, will vote for anything that benefits the American people…they have shown over the past decade that they don’t give a damn about anyone but the rich way too many times and Manchin must be the most delusional senator in DC if he believes that he can convince any repub to go against mcconnell and the hordes of trumpists who would howl to the heavens if any of them voted for anything the dems want. I wonder how long it will take for Manchin and Sinema to have reality smack them in the face and for them to finally realize that the American people are more important than any senate rule that allows the minority to block needed infrastructure spending or relief…not sure if they are bright enough to realize that they are playing into the repubs hands with this delusional belief in bipartisanship…and I wonder if they care….
Just a thought…
Well…with the Derek Chauvin trial still going on for his killing of George Floyd last year by kneeling on his neck for almost 9 minutes, a thought hit me today about how screwed up our legal system is that this trial has gone on for almost two weeks…let’s think about a hypothetical for just a minute…what if we replace George Floyd with a german shepard and Chauvin kneeled on it’s neck for 9 minutes in the view of witnesses? Right now Chauvin would be in in prison for a count of felony animal abuse and it would have been an easy open and shut case. So, why is it so hard to see that Chauvin kneeling on George Floyd’s neck for 9 minutes that killed him isn’t at least manslaughter? Especially since he had George handcuffed and lying on the ground and posed no threat to the Chauvin? I’m afraid our legal system is too far gone to be saved if this creep is let off from the murder charges…and I fear for Minnesota if that is the outcome…I don’t advocate for violent protests at all, but damn…this is as open and shut as a case gets…and it is highlighting there really is a different legal system for white people in this country…and that is just wrong…
Cry me a river, mitch…
Well…you know I’ve railed about the oozing hypocrisy that coats everyone on the right and gets worse every time one of these morons opens his or her mouth…and now we have the hypocrite in chief, ole moscow mitch, crying his eyes out that corporations are being mean to repubs by opposing their attempts to suppress votes of black and brown people by speaking out against them…and the hypocrisy is not just oozing from ole mitch but is flooding out as fast as the pollution from the retention ponds in Florida. Let’s take a little walk back to 2011 when mitch was full of glee that the SC ruled that corporations had free speech rights to spend as much money as they want in an election in the Citizen’s United decision….and ole mitch couldn’t heap enough praise on it since he knew that most companies would give more to repubs than dems…but now? The hypocrite mitch is howling that companies should shut up and not interfere in the political process…but only if it goes against what the repubs want…and he has gone so far as saying that companies will “pay” if they keep it up…a not so subtle or legal threat that the tax breaks, etc. that the repubs have lavished on companies over the years might be at risk if they keep telling the truth about the repubs efforts to cheat in the 2022 elections. Suck it up, mitch…you can’t have it both ways…and companies are looking at the demographics of their customer base and it is more than just the old white people that the repubs serve….and you can bet they won’t want to alienate much more than 50% of their customers who are now black, brown, and lgbt people….just keep it up mitch…you’re speeding up the death of the repub party by this crap and that death can’t happen soon enough….
What a bunch of third graders…
Well…damn, today almost got away from me again and I’m here for a political one but later than I like…so, Georgia repubs acting like 3rd graders again? Yep…after they passed their Jim Crow voter suppression law that targeted the AA community and everyone else who won’t ever vote for repubs, Delta Airlines, whose HQ is in Atlanta, came out with a mild statement that basically said they don’t think taking away the vote from anyone is a good idea….and of course, the repubs acted like the third graders they are and passed a bill that would take away some tax breaks that they granted Delta a few years back…this would cost Delta around 50 million dollars a year and these assholes were preening around in front of the cameras with pride, just like a toddler who has learned how to go potty. Now, these pricks are all about the first amendment when it comes to their side, protecting the right to lie constantly and just make stuff up, but when a company (who has donated millions to repubs over the years) takes them to task, they just have to lash out since some of them know what they are doing is wrong and they can’t stand having their noses rubbed in it…and this won’t be the last time….the tide is building for a boycott of the entire economy of Georgia and I wonder what they will do when one of these companies will just say enough and will move out of their confederate state? Explain that to the people who will lose jobs, morons…geez…
This is what deregulation does…
Well…over the years, repub governors in red states have not seen a regulation they didn’t hate and have spent a lot of time and effort doing industry’s bidding in getting rid of just about any regulation that would protect the people of their states if it would cost business even one thin dime…and we can see the results in Texas where some chemical plant or other explodes almost every week and a cold spell costs consumers there thousands of dollars each with their deregulated electricity market. Just today, we see another effect of that blind allegiance to deregulation with the declaration of a state of emergency in Florida with a retention lake filled with radioactive waste starting to collapse as the owners of the company walked away and left the millions of gallons of waste behind as they filled their pockets with cash. Deregulation is what made it profitable for these thieves to walk away rich while the people who are going to lose their homes are left holding the bag…the company was not required to do any planning or to pay for mitigation of their waste since the repubs think it would be too much of a cost for business and they would leave if they had to do even a little to stop polluting the environment….so now we have a Love Canal sized contamination event going on and no one in Florida is doing a damn thing about it except declaring a state of emergency…no shelters, no nothing for the people who are losing their homes…in Florida’s business utopia, everyone is on their own and that’s just the way the repubs want it….geez….
Mitch is not too smart…
Well…with the revelation of Joe’s infrastructure plan that would spend another 3 trillion dollars to fix everything that the repubs have left go to rot to give tax breaks to the rich, it appears that old mitch mcconnell is not the master tactician that he has been said to be…just the other day, old mitch came out and gauranteed that not one repub would vote for the bill in the senate…I don’t think that is the smartest thing he could have done; giving away his tactics and freeing up Joe to just ignore everything that mitch has to say and taking his case directly to the American people….after all the bill is pretty popular with both dems and repubs that are not in congress and the thing they like the most is having the rich and corporations pay for it. Again, I have to ask..”who the hell are repubs representing anymore?” It sure isn’t their constituents in the polls that have been done since more than half of the repubs want this bill to go through…and who can be against fixing the crappy roads, bridges, and everythnig else? I know the repubs are against it because they have been told to be by their corporate masters but corporations don’t vote and the way the repubs are pissing them off with their voter suppression bills across the country, the dollars could be drying up just as they have started to in Georgia….and Texas is next. I don’t think the repubs have realized that times have changed and the dems have changed…we are not going to believe the stalling and lies anymore and we’ll go on without them if we have to…and it’s about damn time….