Well…yeah, this one is a little in the weeds and I almost forgot to do one on it today…over the weekend, the National Labor Relations Board ruled that if a company gets caught union busting, they will automatically be forced to recognize the union and to start negotiating with it…and this should put a stop to the bullshit that Starbucks is still pulling by closing stores where the employees start to form a union…and it will stop companies like Amazon from firing workers who are involved in organizing the company…they are not supposed to be able to do that but no one is enforcing those laws…maybe now the NLRB will grow a spine and level the playing field across this country…
Category Archives: Politics
Greedy billionaires…
Well…just wanted to do a short one on a chart that I just saw on Mastodon about the Hollywood actor and writer’s strike that has beewn going on for a couple of months now…to hear the studios talk, you would think that even giving the writers a penny more would bankrupt every studio and they would all go out of business…but the reality of it is the studios have taken advantage of the writers for decades and have never paid them anywhere near what they are worth to the studio’s bottom line…and the chart I saw showed that…for example, if the writers that work for Disney got everything they are asking for, it would cost them 72 million dollars a year…which is .088 of a percent of their revenues…at Netflix, it would cost them 65 million dollars or .205 of a percent…and at Warner Brothers, it would cost them 45 million dollars or .104 of a percent of revenue….yeah…piddling amounts that they can surely afford but the billionaires who own and run the studios are just greedy and want to hoard all the money for themselves…in fact the ceo of each one of these companies makes more than what all of the writers are asking for…so what’s fair? One greedy ass getting everything or thousands of writers finally making enough to live on? I know what’s fair to me…geez…
What an idiot…
Well…damn, I laughed out loud when I saw the idiot trump’s mug shot from being arrested last night…I’m pretty sure he thought he was looking tough but he just looks like he just filled his diapers and ran out of new ones….I know that he has been told to shut the hell up by his lawyers or he’ll end up in the can until his trials so this is what he does for his deranged followers…giving them a visual cue that he is the toughest guy in the gang and it is just so sorry…and memes out there are really funny, too, as people take the mug shot and turn it into very funny ideas…and you noticed he didn’t say anything as he went in or out of the jail or at his plane at the airport…I’m pretty sure the lawyers told him they were out of there if he keeps up his bullshit attacking everyone…I still don’t think he believes he’s in any trouble and will get out of all of this just fine…and within an hour, he had the mugshot on a fundraising e-mail sent out to his glassy eyed disciples…and one of the newspeople on MSNBC last night made the funny comment that his followers were going to pay for the fuel for his jet in just the time he spent going from the jail to the airport…what a bunch of morons…geez…
Today’s the day…
Well…today is the day when the idiot trump is going to be arrested, cuffed, fingerprinted, and a mugshot taken like the common criminal he is…and it appears that it is dawning on the other 18 co conspiritors that they really are going to jail…and a couple of them were so stupid as to invoke the speedy trial rule to try to get their cases moved to federal court and that has only driven Fani Willis to say she will oblige them and move the trials of all of them up to this year instead of next…meadows even tried to avoid getting arrested by saying she couldn’t do it until the motion to move the trial is heard and a judge just flattened that by saying he has to surrender before the motion…so, they are all going to be going to trial soon rather than later…and that suits me just fine…geez…
Putin was involved in January 6th…
Well…just read an article that puts evidence together that Putin was involved in January 6th and that the idiot trump used him to help plan it…there were scores of private phone calls between Putin and trump in the run up after idiot boy lost the election in 2020, and one reporter has even uncovered evidence that the planning for it started in Helsinki when idiot boy had a 2 hour long private meeting with Putin…and let’s throw another wild card in here…the Saudi leader, MBS, was also the recipient of many private calls from the idiot and his SIL Kushner was basically a shadow Secretary of State who was rewarded for his helping out MBS by giving him a list of opposition people who MBS promptly arrested and had many of them killed…and we know what that top secret list was worth to MBS since he gave Kushner’s brand new investment company 2 billion dollars of which none of it has been invested yet…now does this sound worse than Hunter Biden have an illegal gun and not paying taxes? To me it does but the repubs won’t touch Kushner with a ten foot pole while they ahve had Biden under investigation for 5 years with only two misdemeanors to show for it….one good thing that happened today is that Leonard Leo, the billionaire who has been bribing Justice Thomas with gifts, trips, and cash, is under investigation by the AG of DC…I can’t wait to see what crawls out from under those rocks…geez…
Why the heck did they agree to this?
Well…after the idiot trump posted bail, everyone has been talking about the bail agreement which is similar to the one he agreed to in DC in which he can’t attack witnesses or pressure other defendants, or break the law at all…and, of course, he has already broken that one by posting an attack against Fani Willis and I can’t wait to see what the judge is going to do…they need to do something to shut his mouth and I don’t know why the lawyers agreed to the restrictions. After all, they must know that he is not going to stop doing what he does and one of the possible restrictions is that he has to clear any texts with his lawyers first…and none of them are going to risk their law licenses by approving anything….so now we wait to see if idiot boy ends up in jail til his trials and that will be for a few months anyway…hope so…
Violence is not okay…
Well…with the news that a store owner with 9 kids was shot and killed yesterday by some asshole who objected to her display of a “pride” flag in her store…and all I have to say is this is what comes from the right when LGBTQ people are being vilified and threatened every day…and everyone from the bottom to the top of the repub party thinks it’s just fine since not one of them have said a word condemning this murder…but violence is not okay..it’s never okay for any reason but to kill a person for displaying a flag? It’s the predictable end from the demonization that goes on everyday on fox news and every other damn right wing “news” organization…what did they expect when daily they call for the elimination of every trans person in this country and every day they pass laws attacking this community? This crap has got to stop… and we need to vote every repub out of office since there are NO good repusbs left anymore…geez…
This isn’t normal…
Well…look, I’m an old guy and I have never seen what is happening with the climate in the entire world…I mean half of the world is on fire…Lahina is gone…a 20,000 population city in Canada is evacuated along with one that has a population of 130,000…evacuated because the fires are so intense that they can’t be stopped….the island of Tenerife is on fire and they are going to evacuate the whole damn island…and new fires are popping up every day with how warming has dried out the world…and now for the first time in 90 years, a hurricane is going to hit California Sunday as a category 4 storm that is going to dump 22 inches of rain in the desert and on Los Angeles….and that is going to cause billions in damage…and yet the climate deniers keep saying the excess CO2 in the air has nothing to do with it even though Arizona has had 37 days in a row over 110 degrees and no rain in that time and the highest level of CO2 in the air in the past 100,000 years…so yes, climate change is real and it is baking the planet…and it is not going to get better until we stop burning gas and oil…we need a war like push to de-carbonize the entire planet and go with renewables…they are cheaper anyway so let’s do it…geez…
No “Exoneration” Monday…
Well…the idiot trump has been shooting off his mouth that he was going to present a 1,000 page “report” that will totally exonerate everyone charged in the scheme to steal the election in Georgia…and he was going to hold a press conference at his tacky golf resort in NJ Monday…but that’s not going to happen…I guess his lawyers finally got him to shut the hell up since every time he opens his mouth he digs the hole deeper and opens himself up to more charges…and I think they sat him down and told him that if he keeps it up he will go to jail until his trial in January…and with the evidence against him, he will never get out…he will spend the rest of his ugly racist life in jail and maybe it finally soaked through his thick skull that he can’t pull this bullshit in a criminal trial…so now he has said that the 1,000 pages of bullshit will be presented in “court filings” but if I was his lawyers, I wouldn’t touch those lies with a 10 ft pole since they are already facing sanctions for lying in a filing trying to get the trial moved out to 2026…I really didn’t know there were people dumb enough to see the wreckage that idiot boy makes of everyone’s lives who come near him and say “I want me some of that”….morons…geez..
Another reason to tax the rich…
Well…just read an interesting article about who is responsible for most of the co2 emissions and the first thing that popped into my head is that this another reason to tax the crap out of the rich…the study ran from 1990 and 2019 and found that the super rich or 1% are responsible for more co2 emissions than the poorest 50% of the country…let that sink in for a bit…if we just taxed the rich so much that they have to give up the private jets and superyachts, helicopters and 40,000 sq ft mansions, we could immediately lower emissions by a huge amount with no sacrifice by anyone but the rich…and to be blunt, they can all go to hell anyway…they have ruined this country by buying the SC to get rulings they want and need to be stopped as they are trying to buy enough politicians so nothing gets done on climate change….and these selfish bastards only care about themselves and think they are rich enough that they can sit in their mansions and be comfortable while the rest of the world bakes and burns to the ground…tax the rich and as soon as possible…geez…