Well…it has been a lazy day today and I even skipped the bike ride with the wind blowing over 20…and I have been thinking about topics for today without much luck….there is the whole racism thing that has been running through the news lately and the funniest part off that is any repub coming out to say they are shocked, shocked, that there are racists in the repub party…look, today’s repub party is based on racism, sexism, and hatred and they wear it as a badge of honor…voter suppression, anti immigration, hatred of gays and on an on are planks in the repub platform….and, let’s keep away from the false equivalency that everyone is that way…none of the progressives that I know are and you never hear anyone on the left saying this crap….geez….
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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…
One of the stupidest things I’ve heard…
Well…listening and reading about the commemoration of the 1963 march on Washington, I heard one of the stupidest things I’ve ever heard from one of the commentators on the right…their contention was that the only reason there is still racism in the US (and these folks are not sure there is any) is the fact that the agitators on the left keep talking about it…it’s not that most of the people stopped and frisked in NY are minorities, it’s not that you can murder a young black man in cold blood and get acquitted, it’s not that the repubs are doing their best to make sure minorities can’t vote, and it’s not that the right hates the first African-American president with a rabid fervor that has no other explanation but racism….it’s that the president and the rest of the left keep talking about it. Yeah, right….it’s just another instance on the right that if it doesn’t affect the (mostly white) repubs, it doesn’t exist…just like discrimination against gays doesn’t exist unless it affects a member of their own family…and the other arguments the right puts up why there is no racism are the same ones they spouted in 1963….I think they are getting really scared that the demographic tide is going to wash over them and make them the little, regional party they deserve to be…the people have rejected their platform and ideas for the past two presidential elections and the only way they cling to power is to lie, cheat, and steal elections…and that can’t work forever…geez…
A little about K street Rick…
Well…just wanted to do a short one before I make lunch and get on to the rest of the day…I’m going to be really blunt here about Rick Santorum….and no, I’m not going to go into what comes up when you Google Santorum…what I want to deal with is how a broke, ex-senator goes from a crushing defeat in an election (by almost 20 points), to making almost 2 million dollars last year. When you look at the breakdown, you can see the most egregious crony capitalism at work with his income being derived from serving on corporate boards; positions that were given to him by his previous corporate masters, along with hundreds of thousands of dollars made by being the scourge of our democracy; a K street lobbyist whose only goal is to line his own pockets and those of the corporations that employed him. Do we really think that this idiot can really represent anyone but the 1%? I think the last thing we need is to have another racist, right wing nutjob as president…we are still recovering from the last one….geez…