Well…I am so damn frustrated with the media lately and the low, low bar they set for the Donald…a bar so low that I heard one pundit describe it as a paint line on the parking lot….that was shown in all it’s glory yesterday with the idiot’s trip to Mexico when they said he looked “presidential” by just standing there and looking like the idiot he is…and none of the media called out his lies when he said that the subject of the wall he wants to build never came up…and then the president of Mexico made a statement that it did…who are you going to believe? The serial liar, Trump, or the president of Mexico? And after all that “presidential” nonsense…ole Donald gave the most racist, crazy speech that he has ever given and lied some more saying that Mexico will pay for the wall “100%”. Now, I know the media has a vested interest in keeping the race close, but to be deliberately in the tank for one candidate, especially one who is so insane as Trump, is just journalistic malpractice writ large….geez….
Category Archives: Politics
Trump does have a black hole in him…
Well…it it wasn’t already obvious that there is something seriously wrong with ole Trump, you just have to see the tweet he sent out this morning that shows that, as his ghostwriter says, he has a black hole inside of him. After the tragic death of Dwyane Wade’s cousin in a shooting in Chicago Friday, Trump’s response is just the worst thing I have ever seen: Dwayne Wade’s cousin was just shot and killed walking her baby in Chicago…Just what I have been saying. African-Americans will VOTE TRUMP!
Not sure what more I have to say about this but if the delusional Donald thinks that any black person would vote for him after that cynical use of a tragedy, he is just stupid, too…and yes, he did spell Dwyane Wade’s name wrong in the tweet….what an utter asshole….sad
She let them off the hook….
Well…it was refreshing to see Hillary tear into Trump yesterday and his connections to the white supremacists that appear to be his core of support, and to call out his racism, homophobia, xenophobia, and every other phobia that the Donald has embraced. But, one thing I don’t agree with was that she let the rest of the repubs off the hook for being exactly the same as Trump, but just being that way with the dog whistles that were their mode of operation until Trump started using his bullhorn. At least since Obama was elected, and much sooner than that if you look at history, the repubs have been the party of hate, an you can still see that with the passing of all of the anti LGBT laws that are always pushed by repubs…the model being HB2 in North Carolina but that was preceded by the crap in Indiana. So, I think it was a mistake to give the rest of the repubs a pass on their roles in fomenting hate across this country…the light needs to shine on them, too….geez…
The Clinton Foundation…
Well….another day, another fake “scandal” by the idiots on the right who just know that there must be a “scandal” if Hillary is involved. Unlike ole Donald, who cheats everywhere he can and uses his foundation to bribe the AG of Florida to drop the Trump University case, the Clinton foundation follows all of the rules and discloses all of their donors and has never been found to have done anything illegal or unethical since it’s founding in 2001. The Clintons have never even drawn a penny of salary from the foundation…in fact, they have donated millions in speaking fees to the foundation to help continue it’s work…you know, the work…like keeping 800,000 kids with HIV alive in Africa who would have died without the foundations work to make HIV drugs available to them. Now, the shouts from the idiot Trump to “shut it down” since he thinks the crooked way he runs his foundation is how everyone does it…need to be tied to the death sentence that these kids will be under if the foundation is shut down…but, that never matters to the repubs, the only kids they have ever cared about are unborn ones…once they are born, they are on their own…this is the real “death panel”…staffed by modern repubs….geez…
I just couldn’t resist…
Well…it you didn’t already know that old Donald’s entire campaign is just a huge grift to separate the rubes from their money, you just have to look at the latest little nugget that showed up in the press today….since ole Donald started taking outside money to run his campaign, the rent for his headquarters magically went up by 500%…in a building that Trump supposedly “owns” (but who knows if he won’t release his tax returns) so he is now paying himself almost $200,000 a month to rent the space….and it’s not only in the rent that the grift goes on…he’s paid his own properties millions for food, lodging and incidentals; never using anything but his own properties or cronies for campaign expenses…a good gig if you can get it…take money from the rubes and pay yourself millions…sounds like the televangelist playbook to me….sad…I just couldn’t resist this one…
Stupid doesn’t fall far from the tree….
Well…when you listen to any of the Trump kids, you can see that the stupid from dad doesn’t fall far from the tree. Just today, Donnie junior was opining on why wages have been stagnant for workers and made the assertion that it was Syrian refugees coming here that were the problem. Donnie, Donnie, Donnie….wages have been stagnant here since the 70’s not since the Syrian crises began in 2011…and we have only taken in a few thousand..compared to the 145 million workers in the US, the number of refugees is a not noticeable tiny little blip that can’t possibly have the effect that Donnie the stupid younger thinks. But that is the thing with the modern repubs, they are the party that has no relationship with the facts…and facts are facts, not the opinions they think are facts…oh, and it is people like little Donnie’s father who trash unions, stiff small businesses, and offshore jobs who have depressed wages here…not some small handful of refugees….sad….
I was going to write about Trump….
Well…as you can see in the title, I was going to write about Trump but thought better of it…so, what to do? I feel like I’m living “the ashes the rain and I” by Joe Walsh right now…just the part where you sit and stare at the rain….it is kind of hypnotic….had a new person move in next to me and so far so good….no loud music or parties….but, it is only one day so I guess I should reserve judgement…okay, I can’t resist a little Trump…I mean what the hell is it that he goes to white communities and makes speeches demeaning black people and calls it “minority outreach”? No wonder he polls at 1% support from black people…but my question is when you take Ben Carson out of the poll, does that mean no black support? Hmmmm…okay, I’m not feeling this right now so I guess I’ll go watch soccer some more….
Finally, some sense…
Well…I think you may be as disgusted and tired of Trump as I am so none of that today…instead, I want to comment on the announcement yesterday that the federal government will no long support the private, for profit prison system that has grown to gigantic proportions in the past 15 years or so. Now, most of these prisons are operated on the state level under the misguided premise that privatizing this responsibility of the state will save money…a mantra of repubs across this country that has been shown to be wrong everywhere it has been tried…but that is not the worst part of it…when the contracts are signed with these private prison corporations, there is a minimum amount of prisoners that are written into the contracts and if the city, county, or state don’t supply them, they have to pay a penalty…now, I may be a little dense at times, but it is pretty obvious that these types of contracts practically guarantee that every little infraction will be criminalized to ensure the quota is met….and the profit motive leads to substandard food, and just warehousing the prisoners since the private corporations have no interest in rehabilitation. Then there is the cost angle…it has never been shown that private prisons save any money to the public at all…but just enrich those who run them…an who invariably donate to repubs to get the laws passed that allow them. The same cost cutting was tried by the army in Iraq, buying private soldiers at 150K per when a real soldier was only about 50K with benefits. Again, the real goal was to line the pockets of the big donors, not to save any money…the saving just being a smokescreen to have private corporations bleed our tax dollars into their pockets. It is a small step, but it is at least a step…now, the same thing needs to happen at the state level and get rid of these bloodsuckers once and for all…geez…
A pivot in Trumpland?
Well…if you were waiting for a pivot in Trumpland to more of a normal campaign, you can just put that little thought away and forget about it with the latest “reorganization” that was announced today. The money laundering Putin buddy campaign manager, Manafort has been pushed aside…or into the background as they said…to be replace by the head of Breitbart….not sure if you know about Breitbart but it is one of those hate spewing, conspiracy pushing, right wing crazy websites that truly believe that Hillary actually killed people like a hit man…and now this guy is running old Donald’s campaign…it’s not as if ole Donald hasn’t had a close relationship with them in the past…he regularly spouts Breitbart talking points during his “speeches” so now it will just be easier to come straight from Breitbart to Trumps lips…with these moves, it appears that ole Donald has given up on any sanity in his campaign and has gone all conspiracy, all the time…after all, it worked during the primaries…but, in the primaries, all he had to appeal to were other crazy assed people like him, but now, there just aren’t enough crazies to carry the general election. Oh, one last thing on how delusional ole Donald is, his “minority outreach” speech last night was given in an almost all white suburb of Milwaukee where there were no minorities in sight…genius I say, just genius…sad…
Aetna throws a tantrum…
Well…if you are anything like me, you are tired of the entitled asses that run corporations in this country who think that they should be able to do whatever they want without any oversight by anyone…the latest of these entitled corporations is Aetna insurance who, over the past few days have said they are pulling out of the ACA exchanges for some unclear reason that they won’t share with anyone…but it can’t be that it’s unprofitable with their profits up 38% in the past year and their market cap doubling since they joined the exchanges…nope the curious thing about this whole affair is that this action follows the refusal of the Justice department to approve another merger, citing the fact that the merger would create monopoly power for Aetna and allow them to control pricing in the healthcare market. So, in a tantrum that will hurt thousands of Americans, Aetna is trying to hurt the Obama administration and force them into approving the merger by causing pain for the exchanges…now, not sure how you feel about this, but I think that this action by Aetna just shows that they are already too powerful and if given the merger, the first thing they would do is use their new power to line the pockets of the 1%’ers at the expense of the rest of us. So, I applaud the justice department and the Obama administration for striking back for the little guy…and Aetna can just go to hell…geez…