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The economy crashes and burns…

Well…the stupid trumpites are still running around saying the economy is “coming back” with a roar any day now…just wait for it…okay, and wait for it….and wait for it. The numbers that came out today tell the real story and it’s the most ugly numbers in the history of economic reporting….in one quarter, the economy contracted over 9.5% and projected on a yearly basis which is the normal reporting, that means we are on the way to a contraction of 1/3 of the economy…yep, almost 35% of the economic activity is gone and there is only one reason why…the idiot trump’s and the repubs handling of the coronavirus pandemic…or I should say their NOT handling of the outbreak…what did trump’s voters think would happen if you put a stupid, lazy asshole in charge of keeping the economy and the American people safe? And this goes for Mnuchin, McConnell and the rest of those morons who are now spouting that they can’t approve any more extra unemployment benefits since all it does is keep people from going back to work…hey, assholes….there are 25 million people out of work and there are only 5 million jobs listed out there…and another 1.5 million people just filed for unemployment as the bungling of the virus response hits the red states right in their smug asshole faces….what jobs are they supposed to go back to? These are the worst economic numbers ever recorded and the repub morons diddle on the sidelines arguing where the deck chairs should go on the Titanic they created…while people lose their homes and apartments and over 150,000 Americans have now died from their callousness and stupidity. There could be 20 million homeless if McConnell and his repub cronies do nothing and they are doing nothing…they’ve had two months to address this crisis and haven’t done a damn thing….so let’s remember that in November and get rid of every damn one of them…cripes…

Mich, mitch, mitch…

Well…gee, I wonder what happened over the past couple of weeks to get ole Mitch McConnell finally start thinking about the fate of the senate and warning the dems that they shouldn’t get rid of the filibuster  to keep the senate in the “middle of the road” and not make it like the house. Yeah, first his “middle of the road” is to appoint unqualified hard right judges and allow the most criminal president in the history of the country go free without an impeachment trial in the senate by blocking any witnesses against trump…by stealing a supreme court seat with tactics that were never seen in the senate before, and supporting all of the right wing wish list that he has jammed through the senate without any input from the dems at all….so no, Mitch, no one should listen to a thing you say about the senate with the damage you have done to it and our country…oh, back to why now? ole Mitch sees the writing on the wall that the senate is going to be in dem hands come 2021 or why would he admonish them about doing something they can only do if they regain control? And by extrapolation that means that he expects trump to lose and lose badly in November and then the dems will control the entire government and if they get rid of the legislative filibuster that means the ole Mitch will have no power to effect anything in the senate anymore and he will be completely sidelined as the dems enact their agenda which includes statehood for DC and two more dem senators to add which would essentially keep the senate out of repub hands for a generation or more. The writing is on the wall and even the myopic mitch can see it…I am going to celebrate on the 4th of November…

This is what Nancy should do…

Well…with Moscow Mich McConnell stating yesterday that he intends to hold the impeachment trial without getting the articles or any evidence from the House, and not calling any witnesses or asking for any documents, it is even more clear that he intends the trial to be just another part of the coverup of trump’s criminality…and the pundits out there are saying that ole Mitch has checkmated Nancy Pelosi and there is nothing she can do about it. All I have to say is wait just a damn minute…I have thought about this the past few days and that just isn’t true…MoscowMitch may be able to hold a sham trial in the senate but that doesn’t keep Nancy from re-opening the impeachment inquiry and subpoenaing Bolton, Mulvaney, and Pompeo and then just waiting to have their appearances ordered by the court…..and this will drag on until this fall just before the election and keep it in front of voters until then. As time goes on, the repubs keep inventing new restrictions on the impeachment, saying that the House only gets one chance and since they have finished the impeachment, that’s it…they can’t go back and do anything else…but that’s not true…Nancy runs the House and can do whatever she wants, especially in the face of Mitch’s conspiring with trump. The statement she should put out would go something like this: Since Mitch McConnell has made it clear that he will not hold a trial that supports the right of the American people to know what the president and his cronies have done, but to help coverup the president’s wrongdoing, he has left the House no choice but to re-open the impeachment inquiry to make sure the American people finally get the truth about trump’s extortion of a foreign government for personal political gain. Never in the history of this country has a Senate Majority leader ignored his oath to the Constitution and blocked the calling of witnesses or the requst of documents in an impeachment trial so we in the House will  do our duty to our country and the American people by re-opening the impeachment in Donald Trump. Now, that is what she could do…the question is will she? She really should….

Now the jurors are coordinating with the defendent?

Well…if you had any doubt that the trial of the idiot trump in the senate is going to be a sham, all you have to do is look at the statement that “Moscow” Mitch McConnell made yesterday that he will be “coordinating” trump’s defense in the senate with WH lawyers…okay, we all know Mitch is the worst damn person in this country, but to abrogate all responsibility to do his duty to the constitution should disqualify him from even being anywhere near this trial…after all, have you ever heard of a judge or jury in any trial anywhere announce that they would “coordinate” with the defendant in any way? This is how far the repub party has sunk in the past twenty years….that they will protect a criminal in the WH from any consequence of his shredding the constitution by more shredding…and every damn repub in the government is in on the fix…I am so depressed about where the repubs have taken this country that I am going to tune out the news for a few days and try to regain some hope that we can use the only mechanism that is left to us, the next election, to purge these traitors and then try to repair the damage they have done…it won’t happen in my lifetime and that is the most depressing part…that I am going to have to live in this world where the law doesn’t mean anything anymore and that thugs and liars are going to control this country…I need a drink….

Politics noodling…

Well…running late for this one today after working on the house for 4 hours again today…but I did want to do a political one…don’t really have a big topic but I think I’ll noodle about some stuff I read today…don’t remember who the pollster was but there is one who is working on the swing states and has found a couple of things…that demographic changes that have happened since 2016 have taken away the razor thin trump advantages in three states he needs to win…especially in Michigan where suburban women are becoming more and more appalled with the idiot trump’s racism but the idiot is too damn dumb to understand that appealing only to his base is a losing strategy for 2020….ole Mitch McConnell is starting to feel the heat for his putting Russia ahead of the US by blocking every election security bill that has been sent to the senate by the House…calling them “partisan” so he won’t even put them up for a vote…he even went on the senate floor the other day to whine about being called “#moscowmitch” for not doing a damn thing to protect our elections from the Russians…oh, and he worked hard to remove sanctions from one of the Russian oligarchs who worked with trump to steal the election just so he would “invest” 200 million dollars in an aluminum plant in McConnell’s home state…a reward to ole Mitch for lifting the sanctions…or no, a bribe to Mitch to get him to free up billions in sanctions on the oligarch…but no, he’s not in bed with the Russians…don’t believe your lyin’ eyes…geez….

They’re not even hiding being criminals anymore…

Well…we all know that trump is a criminal and has been one his entire life, but this is not about his criminality but about one of his best buddie’s criminality. Look, we know that Mitch McConnell doesn’t think that following laws or norms are for him…and this latest bit of outrage fits ole Mitch perfectly…he has been using government money to benefit his re-election campaign through his wife Elaine Chao who is the secretary of transportation. It seems that Chao has been personally taking it upon herself to approve funding for projects in Tennessee that Mitch wants and that he thinks he will be able to leverage into another term in the senate…never mind that this circumvents established ways that these grants are normally approved…and most of the projects don’t meet the criteria for approval but Chao approved them anyway…and she even hired a crony of Mitch’s as a “liaison” to Mitch’s office to make sure she knows which project that would do the most to help Mitch. Come on, repubs…there is no damn way that you can approve of using tax dollars to elect someone…oh, yeah, I guess you can since all of you are ethically challenged and would do it in a minute if you had those connections…how the hell do you live with yourselves? geez….

Mitch McConnell is just a liar…

Well…you know, if ole Mitch would have been in office when Watergate was happening, he would have been the one last supporter that kept lying that Nixon was innocent…and would have gone on the senate floor to lie just like he did today to assert that the trump/Russia investigation was “over” and that the dems just need to move on since it was really Obama that was at fault in not catching the Russians quicker…ignoring his own role in making sure that Obama couldn’t reveal the ongoing investigation to the American people before the election. McConnell never once thought of the country but just his political calculations and how he could use trump if he helped the Russians elect him….and by blocking any revelation of the contacts and help trump got from the Russians, he has set the country up with this  fake president who destroys more of the country every day. At least Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer called bullshit on these lies immediately after ole Mitch made them but need to continue to counter his lies every damn time he continues…maybe the media will finally do their job and stop the “both sides do it” bullshit and just say that the repubs are all lying…all the time…impeach…

When historians write…

Well…have been thinking of this a bit lately with the destruction being done to this country…when historians write about what caused the demise of America, the one answer is going to be Mitch McConnell. That’s it…everything bad that is happening is all because idiot boy Mitch cares nothing about democracy or this country…the government could be open right now if he would let the bill that passed unanimously a few weeks back to be reintroduced since it had a veto-proof majority in the senate and the same in the house…all he has to do is just let the vote happen but he won’t for some reason…oh, hell, we all know the reason…just because he can and he is an asshole…when the obituary of this country is written the cause of death is McConnell and nothing else…how can anyone hate this country so much? Impeach…

Everyone opposes Kavanaugh…

Well…after reading the news over the past couple of days, it appears that everyone in this damn country opposes the attempted rapist Brett Kavanaugh being elevated to the supreme court…except for the 51 repubs in the senate. At last count, over 1700 law professors have signed letters saying that Kavanaugh shouldn’t be confirmed…and that is along with two retired supreme court justices and almost 70% of the people polled on the question…and almost two million people who have signed a petition opposing him…making him the candidate with the worst polling and support of any in the history of polling….and yet, the repubs keep pushing forward with this scam that is destroying what little faith the people have in the senate…making the SC illegitimate in the eyes of most of the people and will make Kavanaugh the first sitting justice to be charged with a felony…or multiple felonies of perjury and sexual assault after the dems take back the house and do a real investigation…not the sham that has been perpetrated on the US by McConnell, Hatch, and Grassley. Anyone with any character or honor would have withdrawn with all of the crimes that have been exposed, but in his speech to the senate and yesterday’s op ed in the WSJ, it can clearly be seen that honesty, honor, and duty are foreign concepts to Kavanaugh as they are to every damn repub in this country…and again, it falls to the dems to save this country and clean up the repubs mess as we always do when we get back in control….geez…

Attempted rape…

Well…just a short on on the fact that the repubs are minimizing the allegation that Brett Kavanaugh attempted to rape a 15 year old girl when he was 17, saying since he didn’t finish it, it’s all okay and he was a good guy for it….never mind that the 15 year old was kicking and screaming and trying to push two 17 year old men off her….and has been traumatized ever since…which I can understand. We just need to look at other cases where the privilege of the rich and connected was not in play to see how serious this crime is treated across this country…just the other day, a 20 year old man was sentenced to 40 years to life for exactly the same crime that Kavanaugh is accused of…and there have many other cases that I have seen that had sentences that ran from 10-20 years in prison…and now the repubs won’t even let the normal investigation of a SC nominee happen? The corruption of the repub party is complete…with the destruction of the constitution done by McConnell with not letting the Garland nomination even come to a vote, and now protecting an accused rapist and liar and jamming his nomination through in direct contravention of the normal rules of the senate, McConnell and his cronies will be remembered as the worst of the worst…and I hope they rot in hell after the damage they’ve done….