Well…as every day goes by, the idiot trump reveals that his “I’m for the little guy” rhetoric is proven to be the sham that those of us on the left knew it was….every damn thing in the budget that he just released rewards the rich and the military/industrial complex at the expense of the people who voted for him…and the latest outrage is the elimination of a program that literally keeps many of our older citizens alive…his budget cuts the Meals on Wheels program completely…eliminating a lifeline for many older infirm folks and committing them to a slow death by starvation while he takes that money and gives it to the military that doesn’t need the money…we already spend more than the next ten countries that follow us and we don’t need to spend more money there when people are hurting across this country. This just shows that everything trump said on the campaign was a lie…he duped the gullible into thinking he cares about them…open your eyes trump voters….he does not give a damn about you…impeach….
March 16th
Well…running late this morning and the only reason is I slept in for the second time this year…didn’t get up until 7:30 and I am usually done with the grocery run by then….oh, well…feel pretty good this morning with being good for 4 days now and I think that will continue for another day…I did make a pork loin in the pressure cooker yesterday and it came out pretty good…and I’m going to make corned beef and cabbage tomorrow so there will be no cooking over the weekend….didn’t get a lot done yesterday but I think I’ll do more today…after coffee, that is….I need to see some news and get the brain working first….more later…..
Trump and his bullshit…
Well…ole trump was in my state of Michigan today in front of a crowd of bused in workers who were being paid their full wages to make up the crowd….let’s start with that…how many of these workers would still have a job if it wasn’t for Obama (and Bush) and the bailout of the auto companies that would never had happened if trump had been *president at the time? I know it is probably better for someone on the line to have some paid time off to just stand around instead of work, but how can they look at this sex offender, liar and be anywhere near him? Then, there was the theme of the speech, that he is going to cut the mileage requirements for American made cars….and the idiots ate that one up when it will cost them almost $2,000 dollars over the life of the car in higher fuel costs…and the relating increase in pollution and health problems. The one unintended consequence that this fool and his cronies don’t understand is that relaxing these regulations will make American manufacturers less competitive in the world and cede leadership in technology to everyone else. Do you really think the Japanese are going to go backward in technology? Nope, and cost conscious customers who are used to buying Japanese cars will buy even more of them if they ignore the relaxed regulations and deliver cars that are 20% more efficient than American cars that are built to lower fuel economy standards. This fool idea seems to be hatched in trumps 1950′s thinking about almost everything, from women’s rights to how the world works and will do nothing but gut our economy as people flee our less efficient cars. Moron…..impeach….
Paul Ryan, sooper genius….
Well…one of the great mysteries of the past few years is why anyone would think that Paul Ryan was a successful “policy wonk” and the “brains” of the repub party. Just take a look at his accomplishments since he has been in the House….he did get a post office in his district renamed….hmmm…but what else? He introduced legislation that would have privatized Social Security and been a huge giveaway to the investment community….but the real kicker of that legislation was that if converted to buying stocks for SS, the program would have owned every stock and in every company by 2050….I wonder what that is called? Could it be Communism? Where the government owns all of the means of production? Yep, this sooper genius wanted to put the country on the path to communism since he is just not bright enough to think of the long term consequences of what he proposes. Just like the turd of a healthcare law he just introduced that will kick 24 million people off their health insurance they have gained under the ACA….you could probably say that that is the purpose of the law since allowing low income and middle class people to be able to afford health insurance is something the repubs don’t give a damn about….but, given the total failure of a career that Ryan has had, it might be that he is just that stupid and didn’t see the consequences of what he is proposing…I hope this debacle once and for all puts a stake in the vampire idea that Ryan is the “brains” of the repub party….he is just a no talent hack that has played the pliant media for saps….
Trump’s taxes…
Well….a tiny little bit of trump’s 2005 taxes were revealed last night on Rachael’s show and it left more questions than it answered…like, where did the income come from? That is the big one that trump needs to answer…the WH is being two faced again on this one…gee, big surprise, first confirming that they really were copies of his 1040, but then going after the publishing of them as being “fake news” and “illegal”…really par for the course for these idiots who really don’t know or care that publishing them is protected under the first amendment. The real takeaway from the returns so far is that trump only paid 24% of his income in taxes when he should have paid 39% since that was the tax rate for his income for that year….but the bigger thing is that he paid the Alternative Minimum Tax to get him to the low 24%…and guess what one of the first things trump wants to do? Get rid of the AMT so he would only have to pay 3% on over a hundred million dollars in income…which is less than I paid on the 14K I lived on last year. This kind of self-dealing is illegal under many federal laws but do you think any repub prosecutor is going to do anything about it? Only if you are delusional…impeach….
March 15th
Well…I forgot it was Pi day yesterday so happy belated Pi day….I did get a few things done yesterday and started on the kitchen but I’m not sure how much more I will get done today…I am going to cook the rest of a pork loin in my pressure cooker this morning since I have been trying to find out how to cook one of them and have it have flavor…the thin slices that Tom suggested worked pretty well but I need to get the rest of it cooked and don’t want to have to freeze the rest of it…I am sore again this morning and I think it may be that I am just getting old, not that I’m doing anything strenuous….but I think I slept okay last night even with getting up before 6….not sure what I’m going to do today but cook….it is still too damn cold outside to get on the bike and that is still annoying….more later….
The bribery continues….
Well…reading a little bit about some reporters who have been “following the money” just like in Watergate and a couple of stunning sub stories have come up that I just have to comment on. A year or so ago, trump sold some property in Palm Springs, Florida to a Russian oligarch, a “fertilizer baron” as he has been called…and the funny thing about it it this guy paid $50 million dollars more than the property was worth that went straight into trumps pocket…hmmm…I wonder what the reason would be that someone would pay double what a piece of property was worth? Think it may have been a slush fund from the Russian government to set the stage for trump to do them favors? Sure looks like it and trump has given no other explanation for the extra $50 mil. And, the bribery or influence peddling continues with his son in law’s ( and close adviserJared Kushner) family being given a $400 million dollar profit on a building in Manhattan that is being purchased by a shady Chinese company that is said to be a front for the Chinese government. Now, what better way would there be to gain influence in an ethically challenged trump administration than to give the in-laws $400 million dollars? Just another part of the web of corruption that stinks to high heaven from trump and his administration….now, the media has been asleep at the wheel on trump but I can’t believe that there is not one journalist out there that doesn’t want a Pulitzer prize for putting the corruption/conspiracy puzzle together….impeach…
17,000 dead….
Well…what must be in the repubs souls when all of them are okay with condemning 17,000 of their fellow Americans to certain death just to give tax cuts to the rich? That is the estimate of how many Americans WILL die if the repub plan replaces the ACA…let that one sink in for a minute…just because they hate Obama and the fact that the ACA helps people, they are willing to kill 17,000 Americans just to get their revenge and to pay off the millionaires and billionaires that bought them an election. This has got to be tied to every one of them at their town halls…ask them if they are okay with killing 17,000 Americans just to give the rich more of the country…and then ask their voters if they were voting to die when they voted for these assholes. I have a sinking feeling it won’t matter to the racists that voted these idiots in….they will rationalize it by saying “at least none of those damn Illegal immigrants are going to get healthcare”. That’s the thing, these voters want their racism more than they want their healthcare…and I fear they are willing to die and take a lot of other people with them to keep the racists in office….impeach….
The repubs are just sick…
Well…Paul Ryan and his repub cronies are just sick bastards and if you didn’t know it before, just listen to what they are crowing about today with their new “take healthcare away” law. In the CBO report, buried a little ways back, there is a 3 billion dollars a year saving for Social Security that these idiots are puffing their chests out about….but, as always, these sick bastards didn’t read the fine print…just guess where that 3 billion dollars comes from? C’mon, just one little guess…give up? It comes from the fact that more people will DIE from lack of healthcare before they apply for Social Security….so SS won’t have to pay out for those people that the repubs just took healthcare away from. Just a bunch of sick bastards is the only way to describe them….and to show pure glee that they can make people die earlier so they can cut taxes for the rich shows they just don’t give a damn about you and me…after all, these “people” just love causing pain…or I should say “causing freedom” as they gut the safety net…bastards all….impeach
Why did Preet Bharara hold out?
Well…with the blood bath Friday where 46 district attorneys were asked to resign, the question needs to be asked is why did Preet Bharara refuse and then was fired? Could it be that he was investigating trump and his cronies and their use by Putin in stealing the election? I think that is part of it…and asking for the resignations has been done before…but in an orderly manner with replacements ready in the wings…but we all know that trump and his cronies in the government don’t believe in the rule of law so they don’t think these posts are needed…and I also think that some of the attorneys were getting close to trump so they had to do something to derail the investigations. And that is where the Bharara firing comes in….he knew what he had on trump and he also knew that if he waited to be fired, that would add another charge to those trump had coming…that his firing would be obstruction of justice that would take down both trump and sessions…and the extra day in office with access to the investigation’s information would allow him to ensure that the crony of trump that was appointed to replace him wouldn’t be able to scuttle the investigation by making the evidence go away. With everything that is now being exposed, trump should be impeached today and he and his cronies who colluded with Russia need to be in jail….