Well…is there any more worthless of a senator than Susan Collins of Maine? After all, her vote gave us Kavanaugh on the supreme court and let trump get away with all of his crimes which she justified by saying “trump has learned his lesson” after the totally rigged senate trial…what do you say today Susie? Just two days after your vote acquitted him, trump has started on his payback rampage against the law abiding citizens who testified under subpoena in the House by firing Sondland and Vindman, and for good measure he fired Vindman’s brother, too…and has turned his crowd of zombies on Mitt Romney after Mitt was the only repub to vote to convict trump in the senate…so, what lesson has he learned Susie? Not the one you were thinking of, that’s for sure…what trump learned is that he can do anything and get away with it because of people like you who tut tut and make noises that maybe, just maybe trump might have possibly kind of sort of done something wrong but then vote to allow him to continue to commit crimes and attack this country. This is going to be your legacy when you are voted out of office in the fall…of a flip flopping sycophant who talks a good game but then enables the worst of this country to destroy it…all the while trying to project the facade of a “moderate” who votes with trump 100% of the time…your time is up…
Category Archives: Politics
The fascism is supercharged now…
Well…we’ve witnessed the predictable damn result of the repub conspiracy to protect trump at the cost of our democracy…it’s not enough that trump is doing the rounds where the repub senators who ignored all the evidence and acquitted the idiot are giving him standing ovations, but now his cronies in the senate are now going after his enemies starting with Hunter Biden where trump has directed the IRS to release every bit of information they have on him…including his tax returns and anything that may have come up in earlier partisan investigations trying to dig up dirt on his father…and leading the charge is chief toady Lindsey Graham who telegraphed this move weeks ago, trying to curry favor with the fascist in chief. Now, folks…take a look at the modern repub party that has given up any fig leaf of legitimacy and have gone full fascist by using the power of the government to go after private citizens…no matter that three investigations have found no wrongdoing by either of the Bidens, but in the fascist state that the repubs have created that looks just like frickin Russia, it is now okay to do anything they feel like to anyone they want…what’s next? Disappearing political foes? I am so depressed by this crap that I am going to stop reading the news for a while and probably won’t post much about it unless it’s good news…just can’t take seeing my country destroyed for an asshole like trump….
A cool bit of shade…
Well…not sure if you watched the SOTU last night, and I’ll admit I didn’t since I can’t stand trump and how his stench has polluted all of the institutions he touches…I mean, giving the presidential medal of freedom to frickin Rush Limbaugh? The guy who has done more damage to this country than anyone other than trump or mcconnell? Not sure how long it’s going to take to fumigate that stench but I’ll bet the dem who is elected is going to make almost a full time job of it….and I want a damn asterisk by every judge, war criminal, and medal of freedom that idiot boy has presented….but, that’s not what this one is about…at the end of the lying, racist speech last night, Nancy threw a huge bunch of shade at the idiot by theatrically tearing up her copy of idiot boy’s speech on live tv right over trump’s shoulder…and of course, the repubs thought it was the worst, most devisive thing that has ever happened in the history of the country…and that made me laugh…trump has shown nothing but contempt for everything in this country and it’s institutions…so for Nancy to show her utter contempt for trump was a fitting response…and it will be a rallying point for the rest of the year until the election when we throw trump and his cronies out…yay Nancy…
Good on you, Brian Wilson…
Well…this one is going to be a little different…not about politics or anything else that I normally talk about but it’s about the slaughter of endangered animals by supposed “big game hunters” for profit….this one came to my attention by a tweet by Brian Wilson, the founder of the Beach Boys, castigating Mike Love, one of the other members of the band, for booking a concert at the yearly convention of these animal murderers, and a place where most of these “safaris” are sold….now, don’t give me the BS that if I eat meat, I can’t object to rich assholes shooting animals for “fun”…I have no objection with people hunting for food…and I love the fact that I have friends that hunt and give me venison every winter…after all, I try to not be a hypocrite…but to kill some beautiful, endangered animal just so you can take a grinning picture with the corpse is morally wrong…look, all you have to know is that the evil trump spawn are always in the news for doing just that, and one of them is the “keynote” speaker at this convention of murder where animal parts will be sold to other jackasses who think that killing a defenseless animal makes them a “man”…haven’t we gotten past killing just for killings sake? It’s just like the rich assholes who run this world to continually take, take, and take from the rest of us just so they can get their jollies…now, if they are such “he-men”, send them out against a leopard with just a knife and without the 13 rifles protecting them….you don’t have to wonder if any of them would do that…never in a million years….I guess all I have left to say is good on you Brian Wilson for calling out these assholes…
Why even do it?
Well….with the fix being in since the start of the idiot trump’s trial in the senate and closing arguments going on today, I guess the question I have for the House managers is “why even do it?” Why just go through the motions of presenting the case when an airtight one has already been presented in the Senate? Why go along with the charade that moscow mitch has perpetrated on the US? Why not just go to the media and make the point to every damn outlet that you are protesting this sham by not participating anymore…I know that’s what the repubs want but only one side playing by the rules set us up from the beginning to fail…Now we need to seize the power that we still do have to make sure all of the evidence gets out, that Lev Parnas and John Bolton are subpoenaed to testify in front of the house…cripes the repubs ran a 2 year investigation into Benghazi when there was nothing there so why can’t we still use what little power we have to get to the truth? There has to be a strategy to counter moscow mitch and keep digging until the truth comes out or this country is lost…get after it Schiff…
Let’s get pissed off….
Well…you would think that the “law and order” repubs, at least one of them would have voted to hear the evidence against the criminal trump…but, even the naive of us who still believe in the inherent goodness of people have been surprised by the overt corruption of the Mcconnell senate and the fact that not one of them other than the ones who have been given permission by moscow mitch have voted to uphold the law and remove the most corrupt president in the history of this country. But, we knew this didn’t we? We have known for some time now that the repubs are all corrupt criminals and we have been wringing our hands about how they are shredding the constitution and feeling pretty bad about the destruction of our democracy…but, what good will that do? What we need to do it get pissed off about it…since the only thing the criminal repubs have left us after their craven display is the election this fall…and the only way we can fix what they have destroyed is to get pissed, get to work, and make sure that we all vote every damn one of them out of office…and that means you Bernie bros, and Biden supporters, and Warrenites…once the candidate is selected, we all need to put aside our differences and pull with all our might for our candidate…and that means money, too…I’m even going to donate money that I can’t afford to help…and we need to support Gary Peters for his re-election to the senate here in Michigan…and we need to make sure every damn repub senator has his or her vote tied around their necks and will pay for their role in allowing trump to continue to break the law….and we need to welcome anyone that wants to be part of saving this country…liberal, conservative, independent, young, old, suburban, country, urban…every damn person that is part of the 80% who want this whitewash in the senate stopped and the rule of law restored….now is the time to get pissed and get going…as the founders said, protecting democracy is hard work and it’s our responsibility as a people to do…let’s go…
I’m a Bernie fan, too…
Well…as I said yesterday, I think I’ll do a series on the good candidates, not the idiot trump…okay, after 3 years I still can’t understand why any one would vote for idiot boy…but, Bernie I could…since I first became aware of Bernie quite a few years back, his outspoken unabashed liberalism where he understands that government needs to be the referee between people and business is just what I have always said…even though I used to be quite conservative when I was younger and did believe that the less government “interference” the better… in my personal life experience where I have been discriminated against just because I was old, and couldn’t find a real job from the time I was axed from Steelcase in my late 40’s until I gave up and retired…it made me realize even more that people need to have the power equation balanced by government to give everyone a fair shake….and that is one of the central ideas of Bernie’s campaign, that the playing field needs to be leveled and the rich and corporations need to be forced to play fair since they won’t do it without the government getting involved. I can get behind that since I’m tired of the rich getting everything they want and leeching everything out of our society and leaving nothing but crumbs for the rest of us…again, I will get behind any of our candidates because any of them are light years ahead of idiot boy….and we won’t see them getting installed by a foreign power and destroying our country bit by bit every day….
I’m not sure…
Well…I know you’ve probably had enough of the idiot trump and his band of criminals as I have so today I’m not going to talk about them…let’s talk about the Iowa caucuses and the shakeup that could come from them next week. At this point, I’m not really sure who my favorite is…I think I’ve accepted the fact that we need to support whoever the nominee is and make sure he beats the hell out of trump…I’ve liked Joe Biden for quite a while but he seems to be a little naive and out of touch with the new political reality that the repubs can’t be reasoned with, they won’t be part of any compromise that moves the entire country forward or treats Americans as more than pawns to be used to maintain their power…and they don’t give a damn about anyone who doesn’t vote for them. I think Biden’s beliefs are an old fashioned delusion where he is substituting how he thinks things are or should be with the political reality on the ground…and I fear that the progressive activists who are powering the party will sit this one out if he is the nominee. But, that is the one thing that can’t happen this year…we all need to get behind whoever the nominee is since anyone with a functioning brain and just a little empathy will be better than 4 more years of trump/mcconnell….hmmm…I think I’ll make this a series where I’ll talk about each of the leading candidates in a separate one….I know I’m already over for the month but to talk about having some hope and the genuinely great candidates we have is starting to restore my brain from the rot of trump….and I need a lot of that right now…
Mitch the great strategist?
Well…I know there has been this mythology that has arisen around moscow mitch that he is this “great strategist” when it comes to him running the senate but why? When you control the entire thing and have 53 trump synchophents to support anything you tell them to do, what great strategy is needed…especially when all you have to do is say no? When has he taken a losing situation and turned it into a win? Or when has he been in the minority and gotten what he wanted? This is just a tired shorthand lie that the media is telling about him…what makes him so great? Blocking Merrick Garland? When all he had to do is say a petulant “no” and the vote on him didn’t happen? Or even today, when he is blocking calling witnesses or getting documents from the idiot trump…why is that such “great strategy”? In the short term it may keep trump from getting convicted but it is going to lose them the WH and the senate in the fall…is that part of his “great strategy”? It may even lead to him losing his own seat in the senate since over 70% of the people in this country want to see the witnesses and hear from them first hand…and the dems are crushing the repubs in fundraising partially due to ole mitch’s shenanigans trying to protect trump…another great strategy? All I have to say is keep it up moscow mitch…you and idiot boy just might do what the dems haven’t been able to…destroy the repub party and save this country….
Bolton, Bolton, Bolton….
Well….how the hell could all of the repub senators be “blindsided” by reports that John Bolton says in his soon to be published book that, In August of last year, trump told him that he was withholding aid to Ukraine until he got investigations into the dems and the Bidens? The damn book was submitted to the WH for review on the 30th of December and you can be sure that the day it showed up, Moscow Mitch knew what was in it and in his “coordination” with the WH included telling other repub senators that Bolton had blown up the lie that trump and ole Mitch were pushing….and that made it even more important for moscow mitch to block any witnesses from being called since Bolton says in the book the Barr, Pompeo, and Mulvaney knew what was going on and went along with it…and idiot boy’s lawyers knew about it and went on the senate floor and lied to the senate and to the American people….and this morning, the coverup continues with the help of 53 repub co-conspirators who are still behind the criminal trump and protecting him. Now, I think this is where the dems have an opening since more than 50% of the people want trump convicted and removed from office…I know that won’t happen but the idea of a “truth commission” that will happen if the dems take the presidency and the WH in the fall could be a huge selling point if it is couched in the idea that no one is above the law including presidents and senators….no more of this bullshit “healing the country” that happened after Obama was elected…the repubs are a cancer that needs to be cut out before it kills America….