Well….I wonder why I can still be surprised by anything that Betsy DeVos and her minions do…after all, I have lived in the state where she has done all her damage to education and see it every day…but, here’s a new one…after the widespread opposition to her nomination to Ed Sec…and the subsequent revelation that she knows absolutely nothing about education policy and plagiarized many sources in her answers to written questions submitted to the senate, her PACs and supporters have started to PAY people to call and write to senators voicing their support…yep, the solution to every problem for Betsy and her ilk is to get out the checkbook and buy whatever position you want…and if you can’t do it by directly bribing someone, then you buy people to create fake support for you when the entire country doesn’t want you anywhere near our kid’s education…..I have seen a lot in my days of following politics but this is a new low…even for the DeVos/Prince clan…oh, remember her brother Eric, the war criminal and founder of Blackwater? That should be disqualifying enough…
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What more does Trump have to do to be impeached?
Well….it is pretty clear by now that trump has no idea how democracy works and he showed it again today with a tweet attacking the judge in Washington that ruled against his bigoted, illegal order on immigration. Here’s what the idiot said: “The opinion of this so-called judge, which essentially takes law enforcement away from our country, is ridiculous and will be overturned!” First, never in our history (other than Nixon) has a “president” attacked a judge when a ruling went against him…trump seems to think that whatever he does is perfectly legal since the other idiots around him kiss his ass and tell him it is…that’s not how the three independent branches of government work you moron….and the judge responded that he doesn’t care who is “president”, he only cares about the law and it’s correct interpretation. What more does trump have to do, repubs, to be impeached by you? Read the damn 25th amendment and get to work….
Trump is the worst person in the world…
Well….I just can’t believe the media letting trump and his gang of fascists get away with trumping up (yeah, I meant to do that) “reasons” for the ban on muslim refugees with trump gleefully tweeting about a knife attack at the Louvre in Paris the other day and his assistant liar Kellyanne Conway making up an attack in Bowling Green, Kentucky that never happened….but the thing that is so sickening is that trump never even acknowledged that one of his followers, a white guy, surprise, surprise, attacked a mosque in Quebec and killed 6 people…and that was caused by trumps hate speech that he spews every day. One thing that trump doesn’t want anyone to realize is that you are 5 times more likely to be killed by a white, right wing asshole in the US than by a muslim…and that he just stopped the federal investigations into right wing terror to reward his white supremacist base. The only thing I know is that every day, trump is competing for the worst person in the world and has won every day he has been in office….and I hope those days are numbered….
No so fast Uber….
Well….the ceo of Uber today announced he was leaving the position of advisor to the trump administration, saying that he didn’t want his helping trump to be seen as endorsing trump or his agenda…and now you can start laughing….he was perfectly fine with trump until the illegal immigration order that hurt Uber’s business when they tried to take advantage of a taxi strike in New York….what a disingenuous load of crap….the ceo, Travis Kalanick, is backpedaling so fast his shoes are smoking and it is only that he is losing money from the #deleteuber movement…not that he doesn’t agree with Trump and probably voted for him….as the rest of the assholes who have anything to do with this racist, white supremacy driven administration….you just can’t take things back when you were perfectly fine with trump and never said a word before the election…so, still delete your Uber app and use Lyft instead….
The weakest president ever?
Well…as more and more world leader interact with the idiot trump, they are getting the picture of the weakest, most erratic president the US and the world has ever seen….he is revealing that he is all bullshit and bluster and so damn stupid and ignorant that he is already being taken advantage of…just take a look at what Russia did within hours after trump got off the phone with Putin. After lifting sanctions from the Russian secret service, the FSB; what used to be the KGB, and giving Putin a gift, Russia sent troops into the Ukraine…something that trump said would never happen “on his watch” and what the stupid people that voted for him thought they were going to get….how tough is it to let your adversary get and do anything they want? The kicker in this whole Russian relationship with trump is that the recording of the phone call with Putin magically disappeared so no one really knows what trump promised Putin or whether the phone call was to thank Putin for electing him…or maybe it was to set the terms of the bribe that Russia paid to make sure there would be no action when they did invade the Ukraine? The swamp keeps filling and trump is the slime on top….
Trump is truly insane…
Well….if you haven’t already seen evidence that trump is mentally ill, I’ll give you a couple more little bitty pieces to that puzzle. Over the weekend, the idiot in chief threatened the president of Mexico with sending in American troops to take care of the “bad hombres” down there since the idiot doesn’t think the Mexican army can handle it…yep, he really did say that…and then, that not being enough, on a call to the PM of Australia, the idiot started freaking out and yelling at him since we have an agreement to take in a few hundred refugees…and trump went off and yelled that he didn’t want them to send us more “Boston bombers”… but that was not even the best of it…he then hung up on the PM in a huge snub to one of our staunchest allies in the world. Now, this kind of behavior is surely an impeachable offense since it is evidence that trump truly is mentally ill…come on repubs, dust off the 25th amendment and get to work…the world can’t take much more of this….
Another reason to kick DeVos to the curb…
Well….if another reason was needed to reject Betsy DeVos for Ed Sec, over and above her ignorant performance in her hearings and her avowed hatred of public education, that reason came yesterday in her written responses to questions put to her by the senate….and guess what? The answers were rife with plagiarized passages and one senator went so far to say that the entire thing looked like it was just cut and pasted and had no original thought in it at all…and she used the tired old repub tricks of delaying the submission until the day before the confirmation vote so the senators don’t have time to go through it thoroughly. With all of the baggage this idiot brings, worst of all her ignorance of public education policy, there is no way that any senator from either side of the aisle should vote for her….but the repubs don’t care about the kids of this country…only power….so they’ll fall in line and vote for her money….which appears to be her only qualification…..
Trump is scared of toddlers now?
Well…if this latest bit of news doesn’t spur huge waves of outrage, you have no feelings…the latest news from trumps’ illegal immigration crackdown is that agents doing trump’s bidding in DC put a toddler in handcuffs…yep, this regime has no dignity or sense of right or wrong..who the hell handcuffs toddlers because they are scared that they are terrorists? To compound this outrage, trump’s press secretary tried to justify this outrage by saying: “to assume that just because of someone’s age or gender or whatever that they don’t pose a threat would be wrong”….a toddler, a five year old is a threat? What kind of chickenshit bs is this? Not in our name trump….you WILL NOT handcuff toddlers in the name of protecting us from them…you are one heartless, psychopathic bastard and you need to go…anyone reading this, join the resistance, write and call your representatives and tell them that handcuffs on toddlers is unacceptable and they should start impeachment proceedings today….
The ACLU leads the way…
Well….since we all need protection from the illegal and immoral trump regime, it is great to see that the ACLU is leading the way..filing many, many lawsuits against the unconstitutional immigration orders issued by the idiot trump….and support for the organization has exploded over the weekend with it raising over 24 million dollars online in two days…to put this in perspective, the ACLU normally raises around 4 million dollars a year online so this is an unprecedented response to the unprecedented lawlessness of trump and it makes me feel good that the ACLU has our backs in this fight…and that we have their backs, too…keep up the good fight…
Let’s start by boycotting Uber….
Well…as part of the resistance to the trump regime, we need to stop doing business with any of the companies whose ceo’s are cozying up to trump and his minions…I don’t have a complete list yet but I will try to get one over the next few days just to make it easier for me and you to do something to hurt these assholes who think it’s perfectly fine to have a racist idiot in the white house. So, let’s start by boycotting Uber…whose ceo is one of trump’s corporate “advisors” and who took advantage of the NY taxi strike in solidarity to the protesters against trump’s racist immigration order….delete your Uber app and use Lyft instead..Lyft donated a million dollars for lawyers to protect the innocent immigrants that were illegally detained by trump and his minions….let’s make Uber pay for supporting trump….