Polls…

Well…no matter how many times the bleater in chief stands in front of his minions and declares “no collusion, no collusion”, the US people just aren’t buying it…even with Bill Barr trying his damnest to try to spin the results of the Mueller probe, more than 80% of the US don’t believe him and want to see the entire Mueller report, not some “summary” or redacted version, but the entire report including the underlying evidence. Barr has been trying to create a role for the AG out of thin air when every other SC report has been released in it’s entirety…and there is no role in the SC statute for the AG to summarize, edit, or otherwise limit the information that the Intelligence committee can see so it will be interesting on Tuesday when the IC has a deadline for Barr to produce the report or they will start issuing subpoenas compelling Barr to give the entire, unredacted report to congress. Oh, back to the polls…I’ll bet the latest polls are driving the idiot in chief crazy when they say that his approval rating is back under 40%…and here’s the kicker…fully 64% of the US believes that trump committed crimes before he was installed by the Russians…and well over 50% think he’s committed crimes since he was installed. So, no…no “total exoneration” no matter how many times he shouts that to his troglodyte crowds…one other poll that I can’t find but I think it was really bad news for idiot boy here in Michigan…his approval here is only in the mid 30′s and almost 60% say they won’t vote for him if he’s not in jail before 2020…poor baby..impeach…

March 31st

Well….there’s progress on sleeping today with not getting up until after 6…yeah, small progress, but progress and I’ll take anything I can get….still don’t have a lot of energy yet and I have been coughing and sneezing this morning so I’m not sure what that is about…nothing is blooming yet so there can’t be any pollen but it sure feels like allergies…I think I’ll stop talking about that, too…I did get the new tires for the bike and will have to put one on the back this week since the rear tire is bald and I noticed it has some holes in it…small ones, but holes that can split and make the tire come apart…but, not today…I think I’m going to take the day off the bike today since it is going to stay in the 30′s and I just don’t want to be cold anymore….I did make instant pot refried beans yesterday and they came out pretty good with no fat or salt in them… a little bland but a good base for refining the flavor….and, made this way, they are pretty healthy and full of fiber…I wonder why the canned ones aren’t made this way…they have so much salt and fat in them I can’t eat them anymore….can’t wait to try them in a burrito…not much to do today…I got my printer working yesterday and that was really the only thing I had to do…other than cleaning….more later…

Q anon folks are just frickin nuts….

Well….have been thinking about doing one on this alt right fringe nonsense but was never triggered until they crawled out from under their rocks and brought this bullshit to GR…I am appalled that so many of my neighbors are so stupid they believe in the addled conspiracy theories pushed under the umbrella of Q anon….and we saw those supporters at the trump minstrel show that was inflicted upon us here in GR this past week. Now, come on, really? Do these people really believe that there is a huge conspiracy centered on the Getty museum in LA where someone, someone, Soros, is holding children in the basement there to be raped and then eaten…and they want the Marines to attack the museum and free the children. Or, how about the original conspiracy theory where Hillary Clinton was running a pedophile ring out of the basement of a pizza parlor in DC that was pushed by Hannity and other denizens of the right wing echo chamber…never mind that the parlor in question doesn’t have a basement and the only connection to Hillary is that the owner voted for her. Or, the granddaddy of them all is that trump and Mueller are working together to issue secret indictments of all of the dems in the country and that soon…really soon, they will be rounded up and executed since dems have to be traitors if they don’t worship trump.  Now, in my lifetime I have seen plenty of stupidity, but until lately no one was proud of being an idiot but these folks are…they wear their ignorance as a badge of honor as they they wave their “Q” signs and continue to chant “lock her up”…what a bunch of morons…impeach…

March 30th

Well…I’m tired….and I’ve only been up for an hour or so…that seems to be the new normal and something that I’ve been bitching about for too damn long….not sure what to do about it other than bitch, though…oh,well…just need to have the coffee start to work and I’ll be okay…got a nice bide ride in yesterday but it looks like today is going to be a bust with it raining already and a huge blob of it still coming from the south…maybe I’ll just make today the day off I was going to take tomorrow….but, we’ll see…at lease I won’t even be attempting going out until the afternoon but it is going to be cold so I’ll be back in light thermasuit and gloves today…the premier league comes back today with Man U playing at 11 and F1 qualifying is on at the same time so there will be some flipping this morning…I am going to try a new recipe for boneless/skinless thighs for lunch and cook a little rice to go with it….not sure if I’ll use the instant pot but probably should since I haven’t used it in a while….but, right now there is an F2 race on and I need more coffee so I’ll end here….more later…

Adam Schiff is my new hero…

Well…you just have to watch the destruction that Adam Schiff leveled on the idiot trump supporters on the House Intelligence Committee yesterday when the 9 repubs pushed the moronic idea that Schiff should resign since he had the gall to say what everyone knows…that trump and his campaign got help from the Russians during the 2016 election no matter what the trump shill Barr said in his “summary” of the Mueller report. I was almost laughing when I watched Devin Nunes sitting there thinking he had engineered a coup against Schiff, and then Schiff just eviscerated him and the rest of the repub traitors who serve on the committee with a very simple recitation of all of the times it is factually known that the trump campaign met with and tried to help the Russians during the campaign…and how the Russians helped elect trump…and he used a simple rhetorical flourish with the words “you might think” at the start of each recitation…which made it even more powerful…you really do need to go out to twitter or youtube and watch it…and watch the faces of Nunes and the rest of the repubs when they realize they have really screwed the pooch and made a huge mistake taking on a former prosecutor who is prepared for their attack…it is just beautiful to watch….

March 29th

Well…made it all the way to 5:37 this morning and that is just not enough sleep with not getting to bed until almost 12 last night….feel pretty crappy right now and I hope that goes away soon but I’m pretty sure it won’t…have been exhausted for the past week or so and that is getting really old…and the disruption around here with them patching the holes in my ceiling and putting in the new disposal is  a pain that will continue today with more ceiling work to be done…just want them to finish so I can put everything back in it’s place and get things back to normal…I did get a nice bike ride in with no fleece yesterday and it was quite early for that this year…but, it looks like the weather is going to be changing back to cold starting tomorrow and that is a little depressing…but it’s Michigan so that is to be expected….didn’t get much done with all of the crap going on around here yesterday and today looks the same…I do need to run out and get some chicken at Aldi’s later and get a workout in but that will be about it for the day if I continue to feel this lousy…more later…

Fumigate the VanAndel….

Well…with the idiot trump in town for some reason, the thought came into my head on the bike that they are going to have to fumigate the VanAndel arena where his “rally” is being held before I’ll be able to set foot in there again….I even got a text from his re-election campaign telling me how I could get tickets…now, anyone who knows me at all knows that the last place on earth I would ever be would be listening to the most stupid, racist asshole on the planet spout off and get his moron followers worked up into a frenzy…you know, living here in West Michigan all of my life, I thought the people here were pretty okay…but I was wrong…we are infested with hateful, racist assholes as evidenced by the DeVos and Van Andel families who, while they have done some good work, are trump’s biggest enablers here in Michigan, and that alone has tarred them with nothing but contempt from people here who have more than two brain cells. So, I won’t be watching any local news today since the local stations are all controlled by repubs and will fawn all over the asshole in chief…and I don’t need to see that…impeach….

March 28th

Well…running a little early for it being a grocery day and I’m not sure whey that would be…had to run the entire grocery section from front to back and had lots of stuff to buy so that should have take more time…oh, well…didn’t sleep all that hot last night and was up by 6 or so and I should feel worn out from that but I don’t feel too bad this morning…I wonder if it’s the bug going away or that I’ve started to try eating more…whatever it is, it is nice to not be exhausted just walking out to the couch in the morning…I did have a nasty surprise last night when my disposal started leaking like a sieve and dumping water all over my kitchen floor…so now, I’ll have to call it in at 9 so they can come and put in a new one and I can use my kitchen sink again…may have them replace the kitchen faucet, too since it has been leaking for a while now and my sprayer fell apart a couple of weeks ago…so that will screw up my plans of getting a bike ride in early today with it being almost 50 already…got out in shorts yesterday and want to do the same today…it is just more fun riding without the thermasuit and gloves…more later…

Back to politics…

Well…are the repubs just stupid or what? After the 2018 election where they just got trounced and where the dems won the healthcare voters by a whopping 52%, the repubs just can’t help themselves and are attacking the ACA through the courts again and are gleefully court shopping in hopes of taking healthcare away from 100 million Americans. If you look at the polls, the issue of healthcare is the most important one to almost 50% of the country and these people said they will vote against anyone who is trying to take away the ACA and that is the repubs only…no bullshit “bothsiderism” here, it is the nutty right wing assholes who don’t care about anyone but the rich who are doing it…and I wonder why the idiot trump is still playing to only his base by doing this…after all, his base is only about 40% of the country if that much and that is not enough to get re-elected….so, in the era of the end of the Mueller report, there are still things we need to keep our eyes open for…the repubs are going to try to do as much damage as they can before we vote them out in 2020 and it is up to us to minimize that as best we can until we become the clean up crew…again…impeach…

March 27th

Well…running a little late this morning and there is no reason for it other than boredom…and not having a bit of motivation…woke up at 5:14 but stayed in bed until almost 6:30…not sleeping but just didn’t want to start the day that early…still damn exhausted as I have been for a week now and I am starting to get a little concerned about that….hmmmm…I finally got a few things done yesterday morning and at least that is something…while I was waiting for the temp to come up enough to ride, I washed the car and put the summer wheels back on the car and I was really surprised at how much just that little bit of work made me hurt later in the day…my left hamstring is hurting again and that’s not the only thing…it felt like everything hurt so I had to take an ibuprofen to make it tolerable…and it is better this morning so I think that was a good idea…I am considering waiting to ride until it is warm enough to get out in shorts today since it is going to be 54 or so but I really don’t like waiting to ride…we’ll see…I do need to get some cleaning done and I am going to try to do that after I have lots more coffee and get some time on the weight machine….more later…