Well…if you got through that last screed, I have a couple more things to talk about today and one of them revisits the rampant corruption of almost everyone who is in the trump “administration”…a few months back, I talked about the blatant theft of services by David Shulkin, the Secretary of Veterans affairs when he took his wife and 8 other people on a European trip to talk about “veterans affairs” that was little more than a 11 day vacation that cost we taxpayers over $122, 000 dollars…and finally, the VA inspector general investigated and found an improper use of taxpayers funds and ethics violations by Shulkin’s chief of staff when she lied to ethics lawyers and altered and e-mail to make it look like it was a business trip….geez…is their no one in this “administration” that is not a frickin grifter whose sole purpose is to steal for their own benefit? Okay, so this is not going to be two things, but just one since the next one really will stand on it’s own….
Category Archives: Politics
trump does nothing….
Well…as we all know, the idiot trump is the laziest person ever to sit in the WH and really doesn’t do anything that a normal president would do…this laziness is starting to endanger the country and congress needs to do something about it…okay, that’s not going to happen but that doesn’t mean we should resign ourselves to just accepting the damage as being normal. Just today, the head of the FBI revealed that trump has not once asked any of the intelligence services to look into Russia’s attack on our elections or to put plans in place to stop them from doing it…yeah, I’ll repeat that…one of the most dangerous threats to our country is not important to the idiot…and I’m sure you can figure out why….the Russians still have the compromising info they use to control the idiot and keeping that quiet is more important to trump than the future of this country….the frickin definition of treason and yet the rpub congress does nothing….and to put an exclamation point of how stupid and dangerous trump is, we just have to look at his behavior when dealing with the Russians on the middle east…idiot boy has had 8 conversations with Putin that no one, no media or any other people in his administration has been able to listen in to….and now, trump has said that Putin “speaks for him” about the Palestinian problem and has left it to Putin to find a solution….how would this have played in the repub congress if Obama had abdicated his responsibilities to be president since he was just too lazy to put in any effort? When, repubs? When are you going to put the country first? Yeah, I know, never….impeach…
Do not read anything that comes from RT…
Well…with all of the evidence that Russian media was part of the propaganda that lead to the installation of trump that is ruining this country, there are still many of these same outlets continuing to do damage by publishing slanted, lie filled news articles in support of trump. One of the worst is the Russian site RT, whose propaganda is constantly picked up and re-published by almost all of the right wing “news” sites. Just yesterday, RT published a story (that came up in my google newsstand feed) alleging that Obama had interfered in the investigation of Hillary’s e-mails, part of RT’s ongoing effort to undermine the Mueller investigation…and, none of it was true…Obama talked to the FBI, but it was to find out what they had on the Russian interference in our elections….not about e-mails or anything else. So, do not read anything that comes out of RT…everything they publish is what Putin wants people here to believe…and it is all lies….
Coal is going to die…no matter what trump does..
Well….just got the coffee working and wanted to do a short one on an article that I just read on Huff post….the company Switch is putting in a new 1GW solar installation in Arizona that will produce electricity at 4.9 cents a kilowatt hour including the cost of the installation….if you’re not sure if this is good or not, you have to just look at the average cost of electricity from various other sources in Arizona…including coal and gas fired plants that cost consumers there almost 13 cents a KW hour. Now, the repubs and the idiot trump continually bleat that the “free market” is the most wonderful thing that has ever happened but don’t really mean it…doing everything in their power to continue to support the more expensive, dirty forms of energy since they get so much of their political funding from coal and oil companies…but, with people waking up to the cost saving that are available by using solar power, nothing they can do can stop companies from looking at the bottom line and saving their companies money by buying solar power. Coal is going to die no matter what idiot by does…he may be able to delay it some but it is inevitable….
Defending an abuser…
Well….the repub party continues to sink to new lows after trying to defend the child molester Roy Moore in the Alabama senate election, and now that continues with the full throated defense of Rob Porter, a senior WH adviser who resigned yesterday after revelations of domestic abuse surfaced from both of his ex-wives. This is the party of family values, folks…the party that has beaten the dems over the head with their holier than thou attitudes for the past 30 years but now we see the reality…that they are perfectly fine with hiring abusers just as long as no one finds out about it…and even when it is found out, they continue to support these folks, with Orrin Hatch saying he would hire “as many Rob Porters as he could” and that he is a “fine man”…yeah, no, no man can be a “fine man” if he verbally and physically abuses his wife or significant other…and this is just not up for debate…any incidence of this and that disqualifies you period….and the sick thing is that trump and his cronies knew about Porter’s abuse of both of his exes before they hired him…with this latest expose of how the repubs really feel about women, they have no damn right to lecture anyone on “family values” or morality…they sacrificed that when they elected a serial sexual abuser to the WH and are perfectly fine with it…impeach….
Okay, just one more…
Well…I have never done 7 of these in a day but the topics just keep inspiring me to comment, so here goes again. Not sure if you heard the new pronouncement from the EU that they will no longer do trade deals with any country that is not in the Paris Climate Accord…yep, the “great dealmaker” and well known idiot trump shot the US in the foot by his moronic withdrawal from the Paris accords…and now, the “great deals” he was going to make with them are gone…the possibility of any deals is gone, too…and that is just another instance where this in over their heads administration didn’t think at all about the consequences of their “America first” bullshit….and the effect of their stupidity and ignorance of how the world works has essentially given leadership on trade, that used to be ours, to China and the rest of the world. I applaud the EU for putting their money where their mouths are….never in my lifetime have I seen the US get out-maneuvered on every level from diplomacy, to trade, to innovation, and leadership in science than I have in the year that trump and his minions have been destroying this country…and it continues…what are you going to do about it, repubs? Again, nothing….impeach….
A ray of hope…
Well…as I said in the personal update this morning, I was going to have a few topics this morning but I don’t remember being this prolific in a single morning. But, there is one more thing that I wanted to talk about that gives all of us who want a functioning democracy a ray of hope….yesterday, two of the objective SC justices refused to take on a case on the egregious repub gerrymandering that has damaged our democracy and has helped them rig elections across the country. What some pundits that follow the court are speculating is that this means that the Wisconsin case that has already been argued has been decided and that it will strike down partisan gerrymandering once an for all across the country; so there is no need to take on any other cases that deal with it. If this is true, this will be the death knell of the repub party that is only in power thanks to this abuse of democracy…and it will ensure fairness and restore trust in the electoral process that has been destroyed by the repubs….I’ll have my fingers crossed….
A military parade?
Well….with all of the outrages that have come out of the idiot and his administration, the latest has got to be the most un-American thing I have ever heard. The five time deferred, draft dodger, cadet bone spur *president wants to spend 30 million dollars of our money to have the military suck up to him by having a parade of military hardware through DC just so he can look *presidential….and show the world that he just like the rest of the tin pot dictators that he seems to love….never in the history of the country has there been such an insecure idiot sitting in the WH who needs his ego stroked everyday and then throws a hissy fit when it doesn’t happen to his liking…just like his complaint that it was “treasonous” that the dems didn’t applaud his bullshit at the state of the union. When, repubs? When are you going to think of this country just frickin once and put an end to this insanity? Never…it appears….impeach….
Incurious basterd….
Well….we all know that the idiot trump doesn’t read, with daily briefings having to be kept to one page with bullet points or he loses interest…unless they put idiot boys name in every paragraph…and now, with the release of the dem response to the fake Nunes memo, the idiot’s staff is saying that the 10 page response is “too long” for him to read so they will “brief” him on it…I don’t care how long it is, or if it is done in crayon, this moron won’t understand it anyway….now, in my long lifetime, I have never seen a *president that didn’t have the capacity to read 10 frickin pages and understand them…when my kids were 8 years old they could read and understand more than that….and when I was 8 years old I was explaining nuclear war to my classmates in 3rd grade…but that was back in the day when we were proud to gain new knowledge every day, and no one made excuses for the willfully ignorant….but, this is the modern repub party, folks…a party that welcomes Steve King, Devin Nunes, Darryl Issa, and the idiot in chief…impeach…
Not clapping is treason?
Well…sitting here finishing my 3rd cup of coffee and thought I’d do a little comment on the idiot trumps assertion that not clapping for a *president amounts to treason…and again, we are reminded that the repubs still don’t know that there is video tape…as absurd as the whole idea is, that not stroking the ego of the narcissist in chief is treason, I just saw a few times…well, many, many times that the repubs didn’t clap for Obama…including the idiot boy at the white house corespondents dinner and Paul Ryan at every one of Obama’s states of the union…in every one, we see Joe Biden on his feet applauding while Ryan sits there with the “smarmy granny killer” look on his face. So, let’s just agree that it is not “un-American” to stay silent for someone who is a racist asshole and is pushing policies straight out of the gilded age…it is really every American’s duty to expose their contempt for an ignorant ass who conspired with an enemy to steal the election…impeach…