Well…I’m sure you read about the ongoing problems in Texas where there are still widespread power outages that the moron governor Abbot is lying his ass off about, telling anyone who will listen that it is because of the green new deal that never passed the congress and is not in effect…or that the wind turbines froze up, or, or, or….you get the picture, the reasons keep changing…just to make the words rhyme…yep, stole that from Joe Walsh but it is true here….first, it’s not the wind turbines since they only supply at most 10% of the power for the state and wouldn’t cause this mess even if all of them froze up and fell down…..the great majority of the outages are caused by the fact that the energy producers aren’t required to make their plants weatherized at all and the gas and coal plants froze up…just like chemical plants keep exploding because they have also been deregulated to the point where there is no regulation and the owners can do whatever they want….and the Texas electrical grid is a stand alone that can’t draw power from the rest of the country so the feds can’t regulate it and make sure it’s reliable….one of the egregious giveaways to the power companies is that they are not required to have any excess power built in for emergencies, and are allowed to charge whatever they can get in an emergency….and that leads to exploding electric bills that are a hundred times what people normally pay per month….one example was from a homeowner who got a bill for 2800 dollars for two days of electricity that she got when the power came back on…and this is by design since the morons who run the system think that unfettered capitalism is just the best thing since sliced bread and ripping off the people is just how it is…and it makes their donors richer so it’s all good. I know the feeling in Texas is that people should take care of themselves…the “rugged individualism” that they spout every day…but if you can’t depend on government to help during a disaster, what the hell is it good for? Texas is turning into a third world country before our eyes….maybe this will open some of them to see how their state government has failed them…nah, probably not…
Category Archives: Politics
Goodbye and good riddance…
Well…I’ve been waiting quite a few years to write this…rush limbaugh is dead…and when I read the news this morning I actually shouted “good” and I don’t feel bad about it. This cretin was one of the driving factors behind the modern repub party becoming the hate filled, stupid party that it is now…along with fox news, this thug pushed conspiracy theories, lies, and personal attacks against everyone on the left and was one of the authors of the “birther” nonsense that idiot boy trump rode to prominence in the repub party and caused us to be afflicted with trump for four of the most terrible years in the country’s history. I don’t remember actually being happy that someone has died before…I may have in the almost 9,000 of these that I have done…and if I believed in it, I would hope limbaugh is burning in hell for eternity for all of the damage he has done to this country and the world…good riddance…
Delusional, delusional, repubs….
Well…man, it’s going to be a damn lot of work to try to return some semblance of normality with the delusions running so wide and deep in the repubs….just this morning a poll was released on who was responsible for the January 6th attack on the capitol and, if I had three hands, I would be facepalming with all three of them…in the poll, 64% of repubs placed the blame for inciting the attack on Joe Biden…the same Joe Biden who wasn’t even in office yet and who never even commented on the attack on other than general terms of sympathy for the officers injured in the attack….and yet, they think it was all Biden’s fault for….reasons? Look, as long as fox news keeps lying and lying all day there can’t even be any agreement what the truth is and what facts are since their brainwashed watchers will only believe what they say….so this is going to be a long haul…just like deprogramming cult victims and you can’t do that unless they want to be deprogrammed….geez…
A president for all Americans…
Well…damn, it feels good to have a president for all Americans again and who doesn’t think people in states that didn’t vote for him can just go to hell. Just today, Joe Biden authorized emergency fund for the state of Texas that is getting battered by the worst snow storm there in the past century…2.5 million people are without power and travel has essentially halted since they don’t have the type of equipment that we in the snow belt states have…and they really shouldn’t have it for a once in a century event. Here’s the thing, Texas is part of the US and Joe understands that and it was one of his best campaign slogans that he would be president for the whole country…and he is not “thinking” about getting them aid or putting conditions on it like the idiot boy did for states that didn’t vote for him…nope, it’s just all hands on deck with FEMA taking control of the relief efforts and Joe pouring in whatever is necessary to help our fellow Americans….just as it should be. This is what a real president looks and acts like…no bitching, no bluster, just getting to work to help people…it’s just a damn shame that the folks in Texas will still hate all dems no matter what happens or how much is done for them…we’ll still know what a real president is and be thankful that Joe is in charge…
Don’t know what it is…
Well…have been wracking my brain over the past few hours to try to come up with a topic in politics without much luck…hmmm…I could talk about the small fissures that are starting to appear in the repub party as the never trumpers are starting to actually do something to rid themselves of the great orange blob of hate…a year ago, there would never have been 7 senators who would have voted to convict trump or meetings with a couple of hundred old school conservatives trying to figure out how to wrest the party from the grasp of the Qanon morons who are running the show there now. But, there are still the cynical hypocrites who are still attached to idiot boy’s ass with superglue and 44 senators who think that inciting attacks on them is just peachy and perfect behavior for a president….so, the task is going to be a hard one that has to start now with all of the corporations that are turning off the money taps for repubs across the country…damn, they’ve even lost the chamber of commerce in the past couple of weeks because of the widespread support repubs in the house and senate had for the attack on our elections….so, who knows what is going to happen…you know what I want…and that is for every damn repub that was involved in this illegal attack on our country to rot in jail for a few years….there has to be consequences or they may just succeed next time…
We didn’t cave…
Well…look, I understand all the hand wringing here on the left when the house impeachment managers agreed to not call any witnesses in the senate trial today, but to call it caving is just a knee jerk reaction to wanting to get trump at any costs….we were never going to get 17 repubs to do their duty in the senate to convict the traitor in chief so the lead manager decided to take what he could get for nothing…and he got the statement of a repub congressperson that confirmed that idiot boy could have called off his thugs but didn’t…and that will be important in the following investigations of the roles of the rest of the co-conspirators in the congress and I defer to these brilliant managers on what the best way forward is…and it was even mentioned that the justice department is going to look at what idiot boy knew and when he knew it, so this isn’t over…not by a long shot…so, let’s stop the bitching for a change and just say thank you to Jamie Raskin and his team for putting together an airtight case that would have convicted trump if we didn’t have so many chickenshit repubs….and 57 out of a hundred senators voted to convict…and the 43 repubs will pay for letting trump off…again….
Trump’s in trouble in Georgia…
Well….holy crap, not sure if you saw the report on Rachel’s show last night where she had a district attorney from Georgia on talking about idiot boy’s attempts to coerce the SOS there to “finding” 12,000 votes so he would have more than Joe and all of the other actions he took to try to steal the election there…she talked about the criminal charges that were possible and that there are a few ongoing investigations from multiple agencies that could result in felony charges…and while she didn’t mention trump by name since she couldn’t, it was clear that trump is in trouble in Georgia and there is a very real possibility of an indictment…and, if trump is charged, then Lindsey Graham should be, too, since he did exactly the same thing…trying to get votes thrown out and “extra” ones found for trump. I’m not sure if we really need to be concerned that idiot boy will run again in ’24…not sure if felons can run for office…I know they can’t vote so he can’t even vote for himself….go Georgia…
Humanity is back in the WH…
Well….I don’t mean to gush about the Bidens but damn, it’s nice to have humanity and decency back in the WH…just this morning when there was a photo op with Joe and Jill talking about Valentine’s day…one of the reporters shouted out that she would bring donuts if they would come back out to talk next Friday, too…and Joe noticed that the reporter didn’t have any coffee on a cold day in DC…so Joe walked over to her and told her he hadn’t had a sip of his coffee and handed it to her…telling her that next week they would have enough for everyone….that goodness and humanity is just who Joe is and it is such a great thing to see after 4 years of trump being an asshole to the press…Joe understands they have a job to do and if he’s honest with them, they will be fair to him…and to see the press treated as equals is such a return to normalcy that even that little thing of giving the reporter his coffee seems like a really big deal….keep at it Joe….
He’s a damn criminal…
Well…almost forgot to come here today with all of the packing and cleaning I’ve been doing but I did remember so here goes…no matter how much the house impeachment managers prove that it was trump who ordered the attack on the capitol, the chikenshit, corrupt repub senators are still going to let him off since they have no patriotism or moral fiber. So, now, according to them, it’s just perfectly fine to send a mob of killers to try to kill his own vice president and the speaker of the house and any other legislator that they might have found…and to a person, every damn one of the attackers said they were waiting for the go signal from trump and they got it on January 6th….so where do we go from here? When we have one political party that is so scared of the Qanon people in their party that they won’t even condemn a criminal who tried to have them killed? I think the entire presentation the dems put on over the past three days should be forwarded to the DC prosecutors and let them indict the idiot boy…after all, it is a crime to commit sedition and try to overturn the results of an election…and this HAS to happen to make sure that the idiot trump never can get back into political life….he has almost destroyed this country with the help of the rest of the repub party…and this country will not be safe until they are all gone….damn criminals, all of them…
trump should be in jail….
Well…not sure if you’ve been watching the trial in the senate but all I have to say is trump should be in jail…after the evidence that has been presented so far, there is no damn way that any senator should vote to acquit this asshole but they still will since the repubs are so damn corrupt that they will do anything to damage our country and democracy…and the asshole senators who were all a part of it, Cruz and Hawley aren’t even watching the House impeachment managers presentation but are sitting in the gallery smirking and reading…and not paying any attention at all. This is all I have to say to any damn repub…don’t ever talk about your law and order bullshit again if you do not vote to convict this criminal who tried to destroy this country….and this isn’t even enough…trump needs to go to jail…and right damn now….god I hate repubs….