Well….I thought about doing one of these on the fake “memo” that the right is screaming about but, I don’t want to…so, I’ll talk about the tax cut scam again since some of the results are in. As you know, this scam was pushed by the repubs as being a “middle class” tax cut that would make the sun shine and would shower the MC with money…yeah, you know where this is going…as the results come in there is huge cherry picking going on in the reporting even from the “mainstream” media….centering on the “bonuses” that a few companies are dribbling out to their employees but not talking at all about how much excess profit the companies are getting at the same time. One of the biggest selling points of this scam was the same old “trickle down” bullshit they have been using since the 80′s…that if you shower money on the rich and corporations, that money will end up in the pockets of workers, something that every frickin study has shown just does not happen…and this new tax cut scam reinforces those studies if you look at the numbers. So far, less than two percent of the tax benefits that are going to the already rich has “trickled down” to workers…and most of that is in the form of one time bonuses, not wage increases that would have a lasting impact and that workers could count on every year…giving corporations one more hammer to hold over the heads of their workers. This is all crap and the repubs know it…but they had to deliver to their donors after the donors threatened to turn off the money tap if they didn’t get the payoff they paid for…impeach them all….
Monthly Archives: February 2018
February 2nd
Well…running really late today…I guess I needed the sleep…I woke up to having some sort of bug today with coughing and feeling a little crappy….took some vitamin C already and I hope that helps….had to work on the car in the cold yesterday but I know that isn’t the cause….oh, well….didn’t get a lot done yesterday but work on the car and today looks the same…I did brine some chicken to cook today and I need to roast some potatoes and carrots to go with it…need to try to get the calorie level up some….the pickled onions I made the other day go pretty well with the brats but I need to save some to have with tacos next week….they do look a little strange since the vinegar turns the red onions pink but I can live with that….not much to do today…going to just take it easy today….yeah, I laughed at that, too…that is the plan for almost every day now that I think of it….more later….
Let’s compare…
Well….throughout this whole debacle of lawlessness that is the trump administration, and with the daily comparisons to Watergate, we really need to take a look at the two scandals to see which one is worse…got any idea? Over the course of the Watergate investigation/prosecutions, there were 40 Nixon administration personnel who were convicted of some sort of crime and went to jail, mostly for lying to the FBI or obstruction of justice. As of today, there have been twice that many people interviewed in the idiot trump’s crime administration…and Mueller isn’t done yet. While Nixon’s crimes were essentially domestic and dealt with political crimes…trump’s crimes are so much more than that…I mean working with a foreign government to steal an election and then trying to cover it up is both domestic and international crime…and that is not even touching on the money laundering, bribery, and spying for our enemies to try to undermine the US foreign policy. So, while the Watergate comparison is shorthand for a criminal conspiracy and is of some use here, trump and his cronies crimes are so much worse that to lessen them to the level of Watergate ignores the scope and scale of the idiot trump’s and the repubs lawlessness….this will turn out to be the biggest criminal conspiracy in the history of this country and has been coming since the repubs started thinking that the laws of this country don’t apply to them and they can do whatever they want…and I blame Obama for part of that, letting the torturers in the Bush administration get away with hundreds of felonies and breaking international law…after that, why wouldn’t they believe that the law doesn’t apply to them? Impeach….
February 1st
Well…crap….the hand brake on the car wouldn’t release this morning until I got all the way to Meijers so that means I need to get under it this morning and soak the linkage with oil…I wonder why it couldn’t have done this when it was over 50 last week? Oh, well….it was an okay day yesterday but I didn’t get much done but run out to aldi’s…and that made this morning a little cheaper than it normally is…but I have enough food now to last three weeks or so….next week should be really cheap…my elbows are hurting like crazy today so there will be ibuprofen later…but, my back started to crack again so that helps….I do need to clean today and I am going to try to make some homemade wrinkle releaser so I don’t have to keep putting my shirts back in the dryer all the time….more later…..