Well…with the announcement that a rental software company and a bunch of huge rental companies are being sued for price fixing, my only question is: who woke Merrick Garland up? This companies software allowed these companies to collude to raise rental prices across the US and if the Justice Department is to the point of suing, you know that have the evidence sine they really hate to lose…now, Merrick, why don’t you break up the huge monopolies in food, Insurance, banking, and everything else that has allowed these companies to steal billions and billions of dollars from the American consumer…I mean 80% of the food production in this country is owned by 6 companies…and while we’re at it, why not go after the media monopolies like Sinclair who own almost all of the television stations in this country…and let’s bring competition back into every market and stop the consolidation in the food retail industry so the owners won’t be able to gouge us on food prices…this is how the repubs have rigged the markets here in the states…break them all up like they did to AT&T in the 70′s, injecting competition into the telephone industry…geez…
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Stunning fact on jobs…
Well…I almost forgot this neat little tidbit from Bill Clinton’s speech at the DNC earlier in the week…since the end of the cold war, democrats have created 50 million of the 51 million jobs created in that time frame…yep, you heard it right…the party who shouts they are best on the economy and the “socialist” dems just ruin it when they are in charge, created one million jobs in 50 years…I knew this to be the case in general but didn’t have real numbers to back it up…now I do and it is just so stunning that the repubs have been allowed to get away with the lies that they know what they are doing…it’s another well known fact that progressive policies always create a better economy and the latest study on tax cuts for the rich and the bullshit “trickle down” economics only enrich the already rich…none of that money ever goes down to the workers…it goes to dividends and stock buy backs that enrich people already at the top and that’s how the repubs want it…even those who have been lied to and duped into voting for repubs never get any benefit from tax cuts…all they get are crappier streets and schools and shredding of the safety net…I just wish the dems would message better on these points…not that it would make any difference to the maga crowd…geez…
Another night at the convention…
Well…I’ll admit it…I watched another night of the convention last night and will probably watch the final night tonight…it is nice to see a party that is showing us that happiness and joy can be part of politics again and be fun…and I just love the digs that the speakers are getting in against the idiot trump and I imagine he’s not too happy with that…trump is finally getting called out for his bullshit and ever day he shrinks a bit more from it.;..you know, it’s the whole bully thing that when you ridicule them, they stop being scary…and I discovered that C-span is covering the convention with no talking heads interrupting to “explain” what is happening…I can figure that out on my own and I don’t need the “bothsiderism” of the media…this country has been terribly damaged by this bullshit and I just don’t want to hear it anymore…so, I’ll be back there for another dose of hope tonight…after our AG spoke last night and tore into the 2025 project, I think our governor is on the speaker’s list for tonight and that will be cool…
The convention has been fun…
Well…yeah, I know I haven’t really been too into politics lately since it was all doom and gloom all of the time coming out of the repubs and infighting on our side where they couldn’t agree on anything…and Joe read it and knew what he had to do…and he did it by dropping out of the race and passing the torch to Kamala and look what happened…look at the convention and the pure joy that is on display even in the roll call which is normally pretty boring…but not last night…every delegation tried their best to make it fun and there were smiles on every face while they did…and the speeches…yow…Michelle and Barack Obama brought the house down with their calls to action and they just felt so normal…not a screed or attack in them…well…a little, but they were good natured and truthful and I really did miss them not being around….so, I’ll be back to watch more tonight…I just wish they would put the speeches on earlier…this old guy can’t start a speech after 11…fun and hope is back…
Yes, I watched the convention..
Well…running a little late today with moving up the grocery run to today and getting three rides in, but I did want to talk about the DNC that I watched a good part of last night…wow! What energy and enthusiasm from the crowd and the speakers…not at all what the mainstream media was pushing all afternoon before the convention started…they were going on and on about the divisions that have plagued the dems for a long time and they even tried to get people to not believe their eyes while they were pushing the division angle…hey media, now do you why Kamala doesn’t want to talk to you? It was just one of the most joyous things I have ever seen in politics and it gives me hope that we really can do a miracle and elect dems up and down the ballot…because we need to…and the contrast of what our side proposes to move the US forward vs the repubs always looking backwards is so stark that I really can’t believe anyone would vote for a repub ever again…but there is lots of stupid here in the US and the repubs depend on it…but just one thing to remember, when we vote, we win…so let’s do that…geez…
These people are pretty sharp…
Well…I’m not sure who is running the Harris/Walz campaign but they are making me smile a lot…with their lightning action in response to idiot boy’s lies, he looks old and deflated…for example, the campaign posted a photo of the idiot’s “rally” in Pennsylvania showing all of the empty seats and people leaving early and trump tried to say that it was before the thing started…but the campaign responded immediately directly to idiot boy showing that the photo was taken during his speech…and no response from the idiot from being called a liar…and last night, with the DNC starting today, the campaign has been trolling trump by shining various phrases on the idiot’s building in Chicago like “Project 2025 HQ” and “trump/vance weird as hell” and “trump-vance out for themselves” and yet there is still happiness and joy coming out of the campaign and I love to see that….you can be happy warriors like Tim Walz and Kamala Harris…smile and laugh and show people you are enjoying the process of campaigning…that life is not all doom and gloom like idiot boy would have you believe…keep it up…
A couple of things…
Well…want to talk about a couple of things in politics today that I find interesting…first, the dems knowing that the repubs will be trying everything in the courts to steal the election after the idiot trump loses are putting together a legal team of the cream of the crop of lawyers including Marc Elias, who has been in the forefront of challenging the repub voter suppression laws…and winning damn near every one of the cases…and the team is going to be 20 times larger than the one Joe had for the 2020 election…they are gaming out all of the possible ways the repub assholes who don’t care a bit about our democracy are going to wreck it and will be on any try in a flash…good planning by Harris/Walz…the next thing is that polls are showing people are just damn tired of idiot boy…tired of seeing him, tired of hearing him, and tired of him trying to wreck our country and that is going to power our side to a win…and our senate candidates are pulling away due to the joy and enthusiasm that our side is basking in…can anyone say trifecta? Yep, I’ll say it…
Treatment he deserves…
Well…finally, the media is starting to report on the idiot trump’s deteriorating mental capacity and lies that he spews almost constantly…MSNBC didn’t even carry his screed from last night while CNN did live fact checks and cut away from the speech to do it…and the headlines have started to change when they write about the idiot with “lies” being called lies not “trump being trump” and I know that’s small progress but the complaining from the few real journalists to still be reporting is starting to make a difference…and every time idiot boy opens his mouth, his poll numbers go down so I say keep it up moron…hold a “rally” every damn day…oh, and he just lost his suit trying to get his sentence for the 34 felonies pushed back until after the election and the courts have said no so it’s on for September…I still think the idiot is going to bail on the debate set for September, too…and Kamala is going to shred him and that is going to leave a mark when she fact checks his lies in person and in real time…weight time…
I like our position…
Well…have been waiting for the rain to come…ha,ha…it’s never going to rain here again…and I wanted to talk about the slew of new polls out there that show Kamala ahead in almost every state and the trends are up for her…I know the polls don’t mean much until after labor day when people start paying attention but the change from Biden to Harris has done wonders for our side…going from being down almost everywhere to really having a chance to win this thing…and that is without the bump that should come with the dem convention that starts Monday…and it is starting to look good to take the house and senate with Wisconsin now having fair maps like we do here in Michigan…I really do like our position vs theirs…the enthusiasm and the newness and having real solutions for everyone to make their lives better…and tax the damn billionaires…I think I may have said that before…I’m going to keep my fingers crossed but I’m not freaked out like before…geez…
Let’s talk about Ukraine…
Well…damn tired of talking about the idiot trump so let’s talk about Ukraine…wow, did they just make old putin look like the fraud he is by invading Russia? The Ukrainian army now holds over 1,000 square miles of Russian territory and are taking more every day…now, I didn’t see this one coming at all since the illegal invasion had stalled and there was not much more than the grind it out to take a few yards here or there…the last time this happened, Ukraine took back a large chunk of it’s own land with what is called maneuver warfare that they are really good at and what NATO equipment is built for…one thing I want to contrast is what the 75 towns look like that the Ukrainians captured…the only damage being what Russia caused by throwing glide bombs at the UK army…Ukraine didn’t shell or bomb the towns into dust like Russia does…they are even killing their own citizens in the captured territory as they try to push Ukraine out…and hundreds of Russian soldiers are surrendering since it it the only way they can avoid being killed in the “meat waves” that are Russia’s favorite tactics…and one commenter that I read this morning pointed out that the Russian soldiers are better treated as POW’s than they are by their own commanders…I found that funny since it’s true…where will this eventually go? Not sure but you have to admire the guts and smarts the Ukrainians are showing….