Well…with the scaredy cat repubs doing everything they can to prevent any of the refugees from Syria being settled in the US since they are all 8 feet tall super terrorists…even the 5 year olds…we now have Texas weighing in on why they shouldn’t be allowed to come here and it is so dripping with irony and stupidity that I just had to comment on it. I wonder if you can guess what that would be? A state rep, Tony Dale, went off on a tv interview the other day saying that Texas can’t accept any refugees since it would be too easy for them to buy guns when they arrived…yep…let that one soak in a minute…a guy who has the highest rating for being a shill for the NRA basically says that if you’re a crazy assed white person threatening to shoot federal government employees you can have all the guns you can afford, but, if you’re a refugee (a brown person and probably not a good christian), you can’t. He goes so far as to make sure that any id they may get from the government be stamped so that it can’t be used to purchase a gun…never mind that this idiot blocked laws that would have mandated ID’s and background checks for gun purchases in Texas…and that any refugee could walk into any gun show in Texas and buy whatever he wants without showing any ID…so, what this boils down to is that this racist just doesn’t want any more not white people in his state and he will use any reason to rationalize keeping them out…and to him, the constitution doesn’t apply to anyone except those he approves of…typical asshole repub….geez…
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Fear and nothing but fear from the right…
Well….for presenting themselves as the big, tough Americans, the repubs sure like to push all fear all the time. And, here they go again with the refugees from Syria that scare repub governors so much that they are refusing to accept any more in their states…and yes, our idiot governor started this whole thing yesterday when he said he was ‘rethinking” taking in any Syrian refugees…as if they have any say in it. Immigration is a federal government function and while it would be nice to have agreement with the governors, it is not necessary…but, the big thing here is the absolute glee that repubs are showing after the Paris attacks, giving them another reason for another war with ole Mitt going so far as to say we need 50,000 troops on the ground right now…after all his investment in the MIC is not making as much money now that we are out of Iraq and heading out of Afghanistan. One thing you will not hear from these idiots is any talk of how to pay for another war, after all, they never paid for the last two and let the dem come in and do the hard work of reducing the deficit and paying the bills. I think it’s time for us to discard these fear mongers…these repubs that are afraid of their own shadows and find danger everywhere…they should be recognizing where the true danger is…a danger that has cost the lives of 280,000 Americans over the past 10 years…the crazy fetish the right has with guns and more guns everywhere….the stupidity, it burns….geez…
No Paris today…
Well…I was going to do one on the tragedy in Paris but what more can I say than it is one of the most evil things I have ever seen..and I’ve been around for a long time…one of the reactions that I see as a continuation of the fear based decision making of the repubs is that old Snyder has stopped the work being done for Michigan to take in some of these refugees….never mind that only one of the killers in Paris were from the refugee diaspora…that doesn’t matter to the repubs who are just scared shitless of everything…there was a good article out on Kos today that looks at the psychology of conservatives and it is not a pretty picture…worth reading, but not pretty….and with the repub candidates, you can see their bias showing through when ole Jeb! said that we should only help christian refugees….as if that would be any easier to prove than not being a terrorist….still shaking my head at all of this and I will expand on that tomorrow…but, right now…I am just going to get more ice water and watch some racing….
I guess there are no rules for the right…
Well….if you have been following politics for a long time as I have, you will no doubt remember the rule that the repubs used to have..”never speak ill of another repub”….looking at what is going on now, that rule has been shredded and dumped down the sewer. You only have to look at the spat between ole Donald and Ben Carson when the Donald compared ole Ben to a child molester to start and then trotted out some tried and true racist dog whistles to go after him since he is rising in the polls. Then ole Ben shot back with the comment that “he is terribly sad for Donald” and it is bad to see him “implode before our eyes”….now, I can see the ads that are going to be run if either of these idiots gets nominated and it won’t be pretty since they will use the words of other repubs to attack the nominee and the dems won’t even have to write anything. Contrast that to the deep policy discussions that are going on on our side….now, I am not naive enough to think that no one on our side will go negative…after all, negativity works in some instances and we do want to win…I am laughing at the lack of discipline on the right when they have lived by staying on the talking point message so well over the past few years…just hope they keep it up….
Just one more on ole Ben…
Well…I know I’ve been doing a lot of these on ole Ben Carson but damn, he’s such an easy target that I just have to….and the latest thing shows that this idiot has an ego that is bigger than anyone’s in the world probably…the other day, trying to justify his absolute lack of political experience and knowledge, he compared himself to the founding fathers, stating that none of them had ever held elected office either…but, when he was told that most of them really had held offices in the early governments before the US was born, he comes back with the lame, lame qualifier that none of them had held FEDERAL office….which of course is true since there were no federal offices at that time. The whole idea that this idiot is comparing himself to Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Ben Franklin and the rest is just the worst sort of egoism…the only thing he has in common with any of these guys is his first name…to compare himself to the people who built the structure of this country that endures to this day is so over the top that I am going to stop commenting here and just let that soak in for a while…what a maroon…..
One more on ole Ben…
Well…if you have listened to Ben Carson with some sort of critical ear…you know he is just a delusional liar, but today another huge lie was exposed that has me shaking my head…one of the stories he told and continues to tell is one where he says he was offered a full ride scholarship to West Point after having a long talk with General Westmorland when he was 17…the problem with that is that it never happened…he may have met the general while they were at the same dinner at that time, but there is no record that he ever applied to West Point…there is no congressperson that put forth his application…which is necessary…there is no record whatsoever that this even happened…so what does that make him….let me think…a liar? The sad thing is that him being such a bald faced liar will not hurt him with the idiots on the right…..they will blame it on the “lamestream” media as ole Ben has already started to do….this guy should never be in any office…anywhere….he shouldn’t even be in this race…geez…
Ben Carson is just weird…and crazy…
Well…the more I read about ole Ben, the more I think he really is insane…not only is he a “young earth” evangelical, but, as I said here before, he doesn’t “believe” in science or astronomy. The latest addition to this full vat of crazy comes from a speech that he gave in the late 90’s where he said that he doesn’t believe the archeologists that say that the pyramids were built as tombs for the pharaohs…he thinks that they were built by the biblical Joseph for grain storage since the bible said that Joseph talked to the pharaohs about grains….I am shaking my head about the crazy in that one…but it goes to ole Ben’s ignorance and his substituting his beliefs for settled science. Not one archeologist supports this idiotic notion and all you have to do is look at the timing…the pyramids were built thousands of years before Joseph was even on the scene and there has never been any grain found there other than the offerings left for the pharaoh’s afterlife needs. Man, this guys is so willfully ignorant, how could he possibly lead a technological nation when science doesn’t mean anything to him? I know the modern repubs have taken know nothingness to an artform but, c’mon…this is just too much….I can’t wait to hear the comments from the rest of the world who are already laughing at us….geez…
Are the people in Kentucky just stupid?
Well…with the elections yesterday…and I voted…the people of Kentucky have shown behavior that could only be described as stupid with their electing a far right wing tea party idiot as governor. Guess what this cretin ran on…taking health insurance away from 440,000 people in Kentucky that benefited from the Medicaid expansion that the previous dem governor accepted from the feds. I wonder what it is that people are now constantly voting against their own self interest? Most of these people on Medicaid there are poor whites who overwhelmingly wanted the tea party to run their state…or ruin their state…they have a functioning state exchange called Kynect that people love but they just don’t understand that it is Obamacare…same damn thing…people there hate Obamacare by a 2-1 margin but when they just say Kynect, a majority likes it…just another example that these people are just not right…I am at a loss to understand this nonsense…..oh, well…it’s almost as bad here so I guess I shouldn’t talk too much…geez…
Shouldn’t you have to believe in science to be president?
Well…I know the know-nothingness is a badge of honor for many of those on the right but shouldn’t you have to believe in science to be president? I guess not for the ignorant masses on the right and for their leading candidate Ben Carson. In an interview this weekend, ole Ben came out and said that the theory of evolution, which does explain how everything got here, was a plot by the devil to lead people away from religion and that it can be dismissed as false since progressives believe that it does explain how life got to where it is now. He has also said that the science of astronomy is “false” and doesn’t believe in that either. I have never heard more ignorant statements from any supposed “leader” but the right eats this crap up…where did their intelligence go? Or, have they always been this stupid but just hid it better? I cannot believe that in the 21st century anyone can still think that everything they need to know was written by a bunch of ignorant goat herders over 2,000 years ago…geez…
This guy is a sheriff?
Well…I do need to do a couple more of these today and just remembered this unique bit of crazy from Milwaukee sheriff David Clarke…in an interview this past week this right wing nut was commenting on the BLM movement and, as you can expect from the right, called them a terrorist organization…but, this guy went even farther than that…he predicted that BLM and ISIS are going to merge together and kill everyone in the US…yep, a real sheriff said that..where the hell do these guys get their delusions? How do they continue to get elected when they are so demonstrably nuts? These kinds of thoughts used to be whispered in the fever dreams of the crazy…not shouted out on the airwaves like it is the most normal things you could ever say…wow…just wow…