Well…in an effort to not get any farther behind, just thought I’d come back to talk about a few things that I read today…the first one is how petty the repubs are becoming since they are losing the battle for bigotry against gays and lesbians…in South Carolina, the repub controlled legislature there voted to cut funding for a couple of public universities because they put some books about the experience of being gay on the reading lists that freshmen could choose from…yep, you heard it right, now the repubs who scream “freedom” constantly are now showing that the only acceptable freedom is what is acceptable to them and their narrow little minds that are still living in the 12th century….what’s next? Book burnings? This is why we need to get out to vote these reprehensible asses out of office to keep them from legislating their religion based hatred of anyone who is not a white christian…oh, one more thing…Bill Maher went off on a righteous rant about religion the other night on his show….just frickin hilarious….
Category Archives: Politics
United Kochs of America…
Well…I wasn’t sure union buster Bob Corker could sink any lower in the senate today…but, he did it! In negotiations for aid to the Ukraine…ole Bob is holding the package up until he gets something for his bosses…the Koch brothers…a special law that would exempt them from rules that govern tax benefits given for the Kochs to donate to their own supposedly non profit political action committees…yep, you heard it right…. ole Bob is trying to alter foreign policy just to get the Kochs millions more in exemptions from paying taxes that they owe. I do applaud both Dick Durbin and Harry Reid for calling this crap out on the floor and adding it to the outrages that the bought and paid for legislators of the United Kochs of America have done over the past few years…we need sunlight and pushback to make people understand how toxic these brothers are to our democracy…geez…
Paul Ryan is still the worst person in the world…
Well…I just don’t know what to say about this lying, race-baiting idiot other than wow…wow that he would even be so blatant the other day to say that the problem with poverty in the “inner cities” is the men there have never learned the “culture of work” that the rest of the country has…blowing as hard on the right wing, racist dog whistle as he can to motivate the rabid, right wing, racist base that keeps these idiots in power….and to compound this crap, he comes out today and says that he didn’t have any racist intent and then goes on to describe that there is rural poverty too…but, rural poverty is caused by the “lack of jobs” not by a lack of the “culture of work”….so, let me get this straight, in minority areas, poverty is caused by the people themselves but in white areas it is caused by a lack of jobs? What about the lack of jobs in the cities that can support people there? I am not stunned by the lack of understanding from this idiot…he has just let slip the overt racism that has been rampant in the repub party forever…but now, they show no need to conceal it since the only people who vote for them are their white base…they know no independent is going to buy their agenda of hating gays, minorities, and women so they have just given up…and their “leader” is the worst person in the world…geez…
The repubs sudden concern with poverty…
Well…I have almost been laughing at the sudden concern that the repubs have been showing for poverty in the US….ignoring the fact that it is just election year pandering and lies, there is a demographic component to this new found concern that can’t be ignored. When the face of poverty in the US was the brown “other”, it was easy for the majority white party to ignore them since they were lazy and it was their own fault that they were poor…but now, with the increasingly white face that is repub caused poverty..,.caused by the policies of the repubs that want to destroy unions, the social safety net, and outsource jobs…they no longer want to ignore the problem since, even in poverty, these poor whites will continue to be their constituents…not like the minorities who are just takers who don’t deserve representation. This overt racism is so evident in all of the repub party today that it will be interesting to see the pretzels that will have to be made with their logic…may even see some heads explode…hope so…geez…
The Kochs truly are evil…
Well…feel like crap again today but I do need to do another one of these to try to stay close to the goal for the month…I find it heartening that Harry Reid has started to shine a light on the nefarious actions of the Kochs…even going so far as to use them as the poster boys for most of the evil that is being done to the middle class here in the US…and you can see this evil in all of the repubs that want SS gone, who want to cut off unemployment benefits, that want to do away with environmental regulations, who want to cut taxes on the rich and corporations, and who want to kill unions…all things that the Kochs have been pushing with the 400 million dollars they spent in the last election cycle…just like cockroaches, I hope these evil people will scurry away once they find that the country is on to them and their ilk like the Waltons, and Adelsons….we need to just keep hammering on them for the evil they do and make people understand that these billionaires never feel like they taken enough from you and me…they always want more….geez…
They couldn’t see this?
Well…have been reading this week about how much money the Kochs spent in the last election cycle and it just makes me sick…412 million dollars…yep, you heard it right 412 million dollars from just two guys trying to buy themselves a democracy…and anyone that calls him/herself a tea partier, has had their seat in the congress bought by these two idiots…and, the one thing I want you to remember is that they are not just giving this money away out of the goodness of their hearts…they want something for it…they want what they have been given in Wisconsin for example…where their toady Walker and the rest of the repubs there have gutted the rights of the people to organize…they have been given right to work here in Michigan since the Kochs hate workers and unions….you get my drift…that just two brothers could do so much to damage the middle class and environment has one cause and one cause only…the supreme courts Citizens United decision that made unlimited money the new norm in elections…and made people like the Kochs just a little bit more equal than the rest of us….my question to the court is…”you couldn’t see this?” everyone else did and now our democracy is at risk because of the activist repubs on the Roberts court…what a bunch of crap…geez…
If we vote, we win….
Well…have been feeling like crap all day today and I know it’s from a bug this time and not something I’ve done to myself…and, I wanted to get to a short one here to try to not get too far behind this month so I won’t be tempted to do placeholders and other nonsense to get the number for the month…one of the things that I find so simple to understand about modern elections is something that Markos has said over at Kos and it is something that needs to be repeated often….”if we vote, we win…”…with the fact that we progressives far outnumber the righties almost everywhere across this country, and the changing demographics that show that the fastest growing groups will vote progressive (or dem) if you want to say it that way, the only thing we need to to to take this country back from the rich and the idiots on the right is to vote….and to vote every time, in every election from dogcatcher to president…from school boards, to municipalities…we just need to vote to restore sanity to our country…to restore equality and opportunity to our economy and to keep the rich from buying the government…just vote, it’s that simple…geez…
The right is just delusional…
Well…reading about the insane clown posse that is the yearly meeting of conservatives in DC and I have been laughing my head off with some of the ‘facts” that have been tossed around by these idiots…especially by ole Rick Perry and Calgary Cruz….first, ole Rick did a speech today saying that the red states were leading the way in economic growth because of the lack of taxes and regulation…and, if you mean leading the way to the bottom half of all states you would be right…if you look at facts…you know, those things the right doesn’t believe in…you’ll see that every state run by repubs is in the bottom 50% of economic growth with his state one of the worst…and then we have ole Cruz saying by video that we don’t have a president anymore but a dictator since he picks and chooses what laws he is going to enforce and he does things that the congress hasn’t given him permission to do…how wrong is this? As wrong as you can get…first, go back to ole GW and see how many laws he decided to not enforce…can you say torture? And, second, this idiot doesn’t even know how the government works…the executive branch does not have to be given permission by congress to carry out executive branch authority…what the hell is wrong with these ignorant idiots? geez…
Run. Bernie, run…
Well…with all of the pundits going with the conventional wisdom that Hillary is going to be the nominee for 2016 from the left, a small bombshell was dropped yesterday when one of my favorite senators, Bernie Sanders, said that he is thinking of running for president and I almost jumped out of my chair and cheered…if you don’t know Bernie, he is registered an independent but caucuses with the dems, but is the old throwback type of politician who is honest, and does not care who he pisses off be it the right, wall street, or even the cowardly dems who won’t stand up for the people who elected them…the biggest champion of the middle class going, along with Elizabeth Warren and someone who I could easily vote for and support…this man calls out the idiots and the afraid in congress to try to forge a new day for the middle class and is not afraid of taking on the money in this country…now, we just need to get Liz to run with him and we on the left would have our dream ticket….run, Bernie, run….
Diplomacy works…again…
Well…I am kind of laughing at the fits that right has been throwing over the Ukraine unrest calling Obama weak and howling for some show of military force to try to intimidate Putin into leaving Ukraine alone and not invading….and the comparisons of Obama to Putin…that Putin is a strong leader since he will not hesitate to use military force…and that Obama looks weak since he prefers to use all of the diplomatic tools in the toolbox first; leaving military action as a last resort (which, by the way, has been US foreign policy since the country was founded)… yadda, yadda. With the events of the past few days, and the fact that Putin has called his troops back to their bases defusing the situation somewhat in response to diplomatic pressure, we see that the right is wrong…again..or should I say as always? Diplomacy done right works in most cases…some thing that the chickenhawks on the right just don’t want to hear….where is the profit for their buddies if there is no more war? What I want to see now is Palin, Graham, and the rest of these idiots to apologize for their attempted undermining of our foreign policy for political reasons…and to admit that they don’t know what the hell they are talking about…but, facts don’t matter to the right so I guess I shouldn’t hold my breath…geez….