Category Archives: Politics

Still searching….

Well….I am still searching for today’s topic but nothing is grabbing me right now…I think I’m having outrage fatigue there are so many bad things going on…think about having your internet go away? Or going to have to pay 3 times more for it? That’s going to happen next week once the idiot trump and his cronies gut net neutrality…you know, the rule in place now that make all ISP’s treat all internet traffic the same…the new rules will allow the ISP’s to do whatever the hell they want…block a competitor’s websites? Yep…block a competitor’s browser from being used on their service? Yep…charge extra for internet traffic that is now all available to everyone? Yep…throttle down sites that they don’t agree with? Yep….kill competitors before they can challenge the big guys like ATT and Verizon? Yep…all of that and even more will happen with the new rules that give the rich companies exactly what they paid for when they bought themselves the repub party…oh, I guess I did have a topic…sometimes they sneak up on me….impeach…

Some thoughts on power…

Well…given the effort from the idiot trump to push more coal power across the US and the world, I thought I’d relate a new study that I just read about the cost of power. Done by a company called Lazard every year and called the levelized cost of energy analysis, this study deals with the relative costs for generating power from the major types; coal, nuclear, wind, solar, and natural gas….and the results this year are stunning….the cost of renewable power build and operation has fallen below the cost to just operate coal and nuclear plants…and that means that the installations are essentially free…all of those wind farms and solar cells that are sprouting across the world are essentially free to build and the electricity they generate are about half the cost of traditional methods….so maybe even the idiot’s interference in the generating market to push coal will be derailed by the simple economics of the power market…after all, who would pay twice the price just to keep a few coal miners working? And, the jobs in solar and wind pay much more and are much less dangerous than mining….just some thoughts….

Tax cuts only for the rich…

Well…just wanted to do a short one on the tax “reform” bill that is being jammed through Congress by the repubs as we speak…never mind that there have been no hearings in either the House or Senate on the effects of this crap…something that has never happened before and is all you really need to know..that the repubs are trying to hide this disaster that is specifically being done to reward their donors who have threatened to close the money taps if they don’t get huge tax cuts. And that is the problem here…the rich are the only ones that actually get a cut…anyone who makes less than 75K a year will get a tax increase…yep, you and I and most of the country is going to see their taxes go up just to give more to the rich…just like here in Michigan where taxes were raised on retirees to give tax cuts to corporations who were supposed to create jobs with it but it never happened….and that is the same nonsense that the repubs are using to justify this giveaway to the rich…that it will magically create jobs…even when damn near every ceo asked said that the tax cut wouldn’t do a thing to create jobs…but it would give them a nice pay raise. When can we get back to actual facts being used to set policy instead of ideology? When we vote the repubs out…

Had to do this one…

Well…if you didn’t already know it, the idiot trump today showed just how despicable he really is….after some American college basketball players were arrested in China for shoplifting, the idiot trump took credit for getting them out when he really had nothing to do with it….but the worst part was in trump’s tweets today where he raged that he should have left them in jail…. and all because one of the player’s father didn’t kiss trump’s ass enough…yep, our so called president thin skin didn’t get the praise he thought he should so he acts like the 4 year old he is and thinks American citizens should pay by going back to a Chinese jail. This idiot is just not right in the head….by any objective measure, or just observation trump is not right…is this one enough for you repubs? Or, do we have to wait for the indictments? Impeach….

Just no topics today…

Well…I know, I know….there are topics galore out there but I just can’t get outraged about most of it and, as you know, that fuels a lot of what I do here….there have been some things going on that are irritating the hell out of me…like the tax plan that gives tax cuts to the rich and the hell with everyone else, or the assaulter in chief commenting on Al Franken but staying silent on Roy Moore….or the 250,000 gallon oil spill from one of Keystone’s pipelines…something the idiot in chief said would never happen as he approved the next leaker for Keystone…..a good thing was the PM of New Zealand sharing that the entire world laughs whenever they have to talk to trump….and that a fox poll has Doug Jones ahead of Roy Moore…in Alabama? Cripes, things just may be changing for the better….impeach…

Now they’re going after elephants…

Well…we all know that the selfish assholes that infest the trump administration are only out for themselves…to see how they can use their government positions for personal gain or for gain for the idiot trumps…and now they are going after elephants for no reason other than the trump boys like to shoot them. In the Obama administration, it was recognized that something had to be done about the declining populations of African elephants that were being decimated by licensed hunters and poachers….and one of the things that was done was a ban on importation of any trophies taken from these elephants. But now, the idiot trump is now rescinding that rule…which is being done just for the idiot trump boys since they whined to daddy that they couldn’t cut up the elephants they shot for sport and bring back their “trophies”. As we know more and more about elephants and their intelligence and devotion others in their families, it is unconscionable that trump and his cronies don’t give a damn about destroying them just to have “fun”….but, what else do you expect from this crime family? Impeach…

Oops….

Well…with the lying repubs lying again about their tax cuts for the rich and corporations; saying they will spur investment by the corporations and HUGE amounts of new jobs….well, to listen to the ceo’s. not so much….in a business forum the other day, Gary Cohn asked for a show of hands from the attendees who would be investing and adding jobs if their taxes are cut….didn’t turn out how he expected when only a few raised their hands…and this goes to how the tax cuts are ideological in nature…they have never worked to spur investment or create jobs….not from Reagan, not from Bush, not ever….all tax cuts for the rich ever do is make the rich richer…especially in this time when corporations have more retained cash on hand than ever in history….and would invest it if there was excess demand for their products…but, with how wages have stagnated even as prices rise, demand can’t rise without consumers taking on more and more debt…which they are reluctant to do….so, the ceo’s know what is going on…now, they need to tell the repubs that tax cuts are not needed….geez…

Trump supporters really are dumb…

Well…I know I’ve harped on this quite a bit since the idiot got elected, but, damn…they really are dumb and do really dumb things the end up in the news every day. The latest one made me laugh at first, then made me fear for the future of this country….last night, for a bit on Jimmy Kimmel’s show, which I never stay up late enough to see, they sent one of their producers out to ask trump voters if Hillary should be impeached…never mind that she is just a private citizen now and the people interviewed either didn’t realize this or they don’t know what impeachment is….every damn one of them, when asked said “yes” that Hillary should be impeached for e-mails, uranium, and all of the laws she has broken…never mind that she is the most investigated person in the history of the US and they never found one instance where she broke the law….they all KNEW she was guilty…I guess this is the result of the billions of dollars of smears and slanders from the right and fox news….and it is a pretty good indictment of the average trump voter…just a bunch of know-nothings…impeach….

Coal doesn’t fly in Europe…

Well…the climate change denier administration that we are currently saddled with ran up against reality in Europe the other day when booing and protesting shut down their presentation…or propaganda that coal was a “clean fuel” and everyone should use it. This coal nonsense won’t fly in the rest of the world where every country, except us, has signed the Paris climate accords and are at least doing something to try to keep the planet from frying. Why these idiots thought they would get a sympathetic hearing for dumping more and more CO2 into the skies escapes me…here in the US they have their own propaganda channel that denies that climate change is real, but in the rest of the world, fox news is known for the joke that it is….and now, with the cost of new solar/battery storage constantly falling, coal is not competitive anymore…and almost 1/2 of all coal plants even in the US have shut down in the past 10 years. I’m not sure why the idiot trump an his minions love coal so much…but, there is not a damn thing they can do to stop the downward spiral of coal…impeach…

Yes, Kellyanne is that stupid…

Well…the idiot trump’s propaganda minister, Kellyanne Conway, was on the Sunday shows yesterday, and showed once again that she is really not too bright. Commenting on the pedophile Roy Moore, she went on to say that if the allegations against Moore were true he should step aside…but then the idiot went on and said this: “if there is anyone currently in public office who has behaved that way to any girl or woman, maybe they should step aside”…now, Kellyanne….you do know that your boss has admitted to sexually assaulting at least one woman…so now you say he should step aside? No, of course not…whatever the idiot trump does is just fine…and the 13 women who have accused him are all lying…right? So much for the “family values” party…impeach…