Well…you know, I’m so tired of the asshole in chief and am getting brain rot from even hearing of his assholery so I am going to do this one and then take a couple of days off to look at the birds and try to fix my allergies without medicine thanks to all the meth makers out there….as I said a couple of days ago the deciding factor on whether your friends and neighbors are going to die from this virus is whether or not governors kiss trump’s ass to get the medical supplies that will keep our doctors, nurses, and patients alive…and gee, what a surprise the ones that are getting stiffed are in blue states with Washington, California, New York, and Michigan getting only a small fraction of what they requested and are all scrambling to try to find this gear anywhere since the trump led federal government won’t send any. But look at Florida whose governor is a trump toady and won’t do anything without trump’s okay while fluffing him on a daily basis…guess how much of the requested supplies Florida got? Yeah, as sick as it is, Florida got every damn thing they asked for…100% plus more while the blue states got maybe 10% of what they needed…and while we in the blue states are doing everything we can to stop the rise of new cases by staying at home and closing businesses…the asshole governor of Florida, deSantis, hasn’t even closed all the beaches with pictures today of thousands of people still on the beach spreading coronavirus with abandon….and a big part of this is that I think he believes the fox news and trump propaganda that red states are immune to the disease…this is what you get when you don’t believe the experts or the facts…and just today, while the worst still seems ahead of us, we are at least slowing the rise of new cases in California and we should see the same thing here in Michigan in a couple of weeks….but in Florida? Estimates have the death toll there at almost a half million people if this mini idiot there doesn’t act….and this is repeated in all the red states whose governors aren’t taking this seriously. Through it all do we hear any condolences or empathy from trump or any repub? Nope all we get from trump is a tweetstorm of how high the ratings are for his lie fests and more attacks on the people in blue states who are trying to protect their people….that is what we used to call an asshole when I was young…and who knows? I may not get much older with the repubs running things…
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Did anyone else notice?
Well….as I predicted, when the repubs in the senate let the idiot trump get away with extorting the Ukraine to fake some dirt on Joe Biden…a Quid Pro Quo if you will…that he would then know he could get away with continuing to do it…and that is happening now with idiot boy holding up federal aid to both NY and Michigan until the governors of both states kiss his ass…now, doing this to a state that the idiot needs to win for re-election is probably one of the most stupid things I have ever seen…but it’s typical trump since nothing in the world has any importance to him other than his feelings and delusions…and Cuomo and Whitmer had the audacity to tell the truth and ask the moron in chief to do his damn job which trump always sees as a personal attack since he can’t think any other way with his narcissism ruling his addled brain. This isn’t going to end well for idiot boy in November…can you say landslide? Especially here in Michigan when the people whose friends and family trump has murdered go out to vote…
This is on you, Michigan trump voters…
Well…just when you thought that the idiot trump couldn’t get any lower in his behavior towards the people of this country, he goes even lower than the basement that he dwells in. Just today, our governor here in Michigan made a startling revelation that the vendors she has contracted with to get the PPE necessary to keep our doctors and nurses from dying have been told by trump and his cronies not to send anything to Michigan since Whitmer hasn’t been kissing trump’s ass and has been criticizing his handling of the pandemic. This comes straight from the vendors themselves and they are complying because they have been threatened with never getting any more business if they send anything here…so, trump voters, how does it feel that you voted for someone who is trying to kill your friends and neighbors who are busting their asses trying to save your lives? There is no other word for this but criminal and I put the blame for it on every damn repub in this country…especially you repub senators who had the chance to remove this murderer in December and you put your own personal power above the lives of Americans who it is your job to protect….there are buckets of blood to go around for every damn repub in this country….I hope you’re happy when it’s one of your family or friends who die….
All of this is trump’s fault…
Well…here we go….the economy is in freefall with the reporting earlier today of 3.5 million people applying for unemployment and at least a million more gig workers or self employed people unemployed who can’t apply for benefits….to put this in perspective, at the worst of the 2008 crash, the highest monthly unemployment application count was 675,000…and economists are predicting that there could be 40 million out of work by the end of this mess…and guess what? It’s all frickin trump’s fault…every damn bit of this could have been avoided if the asshole in chief had not listened to fox news, limbaugh, and the rest of the right who pushed the lie that this virus was a hoax just meant to hurt the idiot in chief…and if he had the capacity to take anything seriously…which he does only when it has something to do with him and his inflated ego….and today, we have his toadies out in the news saying that he doesn’t have to do his job or care about NY because someone there called him a racist and doesn’t kiss his ass….and have been criticizing him for his inept, incompetent response to the pandemic. Hey Dinesh, you felon…take you addled brain back to when Obama was elected and your god trump started right off with the whole fake birth certificate bullshit and the entire repub party made it their mission to belittle him and one of your asshole congressmen even yelled “you lie” at Obama at SOTU…what did Obama do? got to work trying to save this country from the melt down and never once asked his aides what governor of what state said bad things about him so he could ignore them and let people die….all of this is trump’s fault…with the assist going to the rest of the repub party who had the chance to remove this criminal in December but all of them voted to let this incompetent, stupid, asshole stay in office…and now a million or more Americans are going to die because of it….and many more are going to be ruined financially because the bumbler in chief is so damn dumb and self centered….you own this, repubs….
This is too funny….
Well…it appears that the senate is going to vote on a stimulus package by the end of the day tomorrow that includes 2+ trillion dollars to be injected into the economy and to support our healthcare system in this time of extreme crisis….after that, it will need to go over to the House where I’m sure Nancy will tweak it some to make it even more fair and that all that money will help people and not just corporations as moscow mitch wanted it to do…one thing that came up that is written into the bill made me laugh out loud even as trump and his grifter family were drooling at the prospect of scamming millions of dollars for US taxpayers…it is specifically written into it that no one that is in government or related to them or in-laws or any other way related is eligible for a dime of the money…no bailouts for trump’s properties at all…now, that should not have had to be written in since the existing ethics rules should have prevented it…if trump and his family had any ethics or the repub party would enforce those rules…but they are just as bad as him so Schumer had to write it into the bill to make sure that they can’t grift…you know, I can see the smoke rolling out of idiot boys ears right now and we can expect a tweetstorm about how he won’t sign the bill because something, something…and will make up fake reasons why…that tantrum will be something to behold and should be coming at any minute…other than that, it appears that Schumer also got oversight of any money going out to corporations so the repubs don’t get their 500 billion secret slush fund, either…sound like Chuck did a good job and I think some cridit goes to Steve Mnuchin, too…we’ll see…
The real “death panels”
Well….I wonder if everyone has as short a memory as the repubs think we do…I sure remember the lies when the ACA was being worked on with the repubs shouting every damn day that there were things called “death panels” that would condemn the old folks in this country to death after they reached a certain age or started to need more care…all of it a blatant lie to scare people into hating the bill…but that didn’t happen and the ACA is more popular than ever, especially in these pandemic days. But just yesterday, and I think I mentioned this a little, the new repub trial balloon that is being floated is that we are going to have to sacrifice older people to the virus to get the economy going again by removing the measures that are in place across the country to keep people isolated and prevent the virus spread…the idiot trump started it the other day when he said that he will “open” the economy in 15 days if the damage that closures are doing too much for the economy…and one of trump’s parrots, Lt gov Dan Patrick of Texas (of course) said that killing hundreds of thousands of seniors could be “worth it” if it got the economy going again…asking what kind of country would be left for his grandkids if we wait until the virus is controlled…yep, the “pro-life” party is just perfectly fine killing lots of seniors if his rich buddies need to steal even more money from the rest of us and they can’t do it when the economy is shut down. We know one of the reasons the idiot boy trump wants the economy going again no matter the cost is that it is costing him money with his hotels shut down….and nothing else matters except him and the world’s effect on him….the one thing that idiot boy doesn’t understand that he didn’t do anything to “close down” the states that are trying to stop the spread of the virus by isolation so there isn’t a damn thing he can do to “open” them…do you think Cuomo or Whitmer are going to listen to anything that the big orange moron says? They are going to do what the science says, what the experts say to protect the people and not corporations….so bloviate as much as you want moron, we in Michigan are going to do what’s right for us and you can just go right to hell….
Not sure about politics today…
Well…not sure if I’m going to talk about politics or not today…haven’t found anything yet that I want to comment on..oh, yeah, there is one thing…have you seen the trial balloons being floated by the idiot trump and his minions that they are about done with doing anything about the virus since it is harming the economy too much to protect people? Yep, they and their propaganda arm, fox news, have started to say that protecting people from the virus can’t be done cheaply so they are going to give up in a week or so and just let everybody get the virus with the prospect that millions will die just to get his precious frickin stock market to go up again and protect his re-election campaign. I think there is more to it than that, though and it has to do with trump’s mental illness and the fact that he just doesn’t have the capacity to focus for the months necessary to manage this crisis…and he is getting bored with the whole thing so he is just going to declare victory and let people die as he reopens factories, restaurants, and bars…letting the chips fall where they may…and they will fall with millions dead just so he can go golfing again. These millions of dead could have been avoided if the repub party hadn’t turned into a cult and had removed the criminal trump from office in December…but they couldn’t be bothered with doing their jobs or thinking ahead….the blood is on your hands, repubs….
Good on ya, Harbor Freight…
Well….as you know, I talk about Harbor Freight quite a bit here since I buy lots of cheap stuff from them to work on the house…and I also signed up to get their catalogs since that saves me money and it’s fun to just pass the time looking at them…and sometimes I find things that I didn’t even know I needed…and I get e-mails from them sometimes…and today, I got an e-mail from the founder with this remarkable action in it…they are going to donate every respirator and every box of gloves they have in their stores and warehouses to hospitals across the country…and all the hospitals have to do is ask…and he lays out the process for the asks in the e-mail in clear terms…and then explains to customers this is why they won’t find any of those items in the stores and ask for people to understand that we’re all in this together and everyone needs to do their part to help. I wish that we had a competent government so this wasn’t necessary but as it is, Good on Ya, Harbor Freight…nice damn job…
They just don’t know how…
Well…I’ve come to a realization after watching the idiot trump and the entire federal government fail at the response to the deadly virus that is going to kill many, many Americans….they just don’t know how to respond…this is what you get when you purge the entire government of expertise and replace it with political appointees that have no experience or desire to do their jobs…none of them, starting with idiot boy, even care that they are in way over their heads…they just go out and lie to make the moron in chief feel better…as the head of FEMA did today when asked why they haven’t invoked the Defense Production Act to commandeer factories to make medical supplies that are necessary…and his answer was that they didn’t need to since companies were phoning him to volunteer to do stuff…what stuff he wouldn’t say…and then went on to say that it would be worse to have leftover supplies in warehouses than people dying from not having protective equipment….so things that should have been done months ago like asking doctors and hospitals what they need and getting every damn factory started on making respirators, masks, shields and the rest of the PPE’s needed just wasn’t done because the entire repub party believed that the virus was a hoax…or because trump believed it was and not one of these assholes had the guts to tell the moron that he was wrong and was going to get people killed. Now, it’s left up to governors to try to save their states since idiot boy just stated “we’ll step in when you fail” to the governors who are asking for something that the federal government has always done….and I’m sure the problem is that the states that are asking are blue states as I’ve said before…watch for the response when it’s Florida or Mississippi asking…you can bet the incompetent in chief will fall all over himself to help them since their governors will kiss his ass and tell him he’s doing just the bestest job…we’re all gonna die….
Social distancing….
Well…as you can see, I’m not counting the days of the recommended social distancing anymore because it appears that it is going to last a couple of months and I don’t want to get depressed when I see how many days it’s been…I did text all of the kids yesterday and they are doing fine and are all working from home…my son in NYC is taking a couple of weeks off since it is a hotbed of the virus infection and he is trying hard to avoid it…and I am a little concerned about him but what can I do? Talked to a few friends over the past couple of days and, with them being normal people who go out and do things, it appears that this stay at home thing is much harder for them than it is for me…at least at this point…I really haven’t had any social life for a couple of years now so I’m used to being by myself…and part of that was the need to save cash until I officially retired and got some money coming in…oh, and that reminds me that I need to bitch about something…it appears that the stimulus that is wending it’s way through congress and is supposed to put money in people’s hand to spend to keep the economy going is mostly a bailout of business and individuals have had to file taxes last year to get anything…and that leaves out all of us who are living on Social Security since we don’t pay taxes on it…and we are the ones who can use the money the most and will spend it….so, the repub bullshit that this is going to help people is blown up…and they are giving billions to cruise ship companies that are not even American…but they are well connected in conservative circles….did you expect anything else? Oh, well…I won’t starve but I do worry about the older folks who could really use the cash and I fault Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer for letting this happen…okay, that’s enough for now….more later…