Well…have been sitting here trying to think about a topic for today that would mean something…but, there are just little snippets that I can’t flesh out right now…and that is quite frustrating…it has been kind of interesting listening to the tea party idiots who are just outraged that the repubs are making a deal on the budget when they think it should wait until the repubs take control in January….but, they just don’t understand that it won’t matter…there is still the veto hanging over their nonsense and they are never going to get what they want…and, in that same vein, I have been chuckling at their delusion that this last election was a “landslide” and their assertions that the entire country backs their crazy assed agenda just because some more repubs got elected…I know they don’t believe in math but if only 36% of eligible voters voted in the past election and they got a little more than half of that, that means they got elected by about 19% of the people in this country…now, let’s do some simple math…100% minus 19% means that 81% of the people didn’t vote for their crazy assed crap…I know…subtraction is beyond most of them….geez…
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It’s official….
Well…just got done reading some stats on the past election and there are some unbelievable numbers in there that really, really disappoint me…my first feeling that the turnout was going to be low from what I saw out there and that has been confirmed…only 34.7% of the people in the US turned out for this election…and the part I can’t believe is that even after all the incompetence and evil from the repubs…people voted for them, trusting the lies that they told to get elected. This turnout was the lowest since the 1948 elections and with the problems the country faces, why the hell weren’t people motivated to try to elect people to make it better? Not to impeach the president, not to take more control over their bodies away from women, not to cut taxes on the rich, not to investigate when the sun come ups, but to work on getting more and better jobs, to make college more affordable, and to make a sensible immigration policy…but, I guess our side just doesn’t care about that…if they don’t think that turning the country over to the repubs is going to be hell on earth for the next two years and can’t be bothered to take 15 minutes to vote, then the people of this country deserve what they are going to get….I’m damn glad I’m old and don’t have much time left….
Man, the right is delusional…
Well…just a short one on the chatter that is happening on the right after their win in the election Tuesday…if you dig into the numbers, they won a majority of the 30% of the people that voted in this one…so, that gives them around 17% of the people in the country that voted for them…but that doesn’t stop the screams of “mandate” that are coming from the usual suspects…and it gets even more delusional than that…many of the commentators like Hannity are calling for the president to resign and have Ole Mitt appointed president…I just don’t know what to say about that…I can just shake my head but that won’t do any good…this, coming form the right who scream “unconstitutional” every time the president wakes up and breathes…can you guys just read the constitution for a change…if Obama were to resign…Biden would be the new president….not Boehner, not McConnell, not Romney…get your heads out of your asses righties…the president is still more popular than you…the only reason you asses won was that our side stayed home…that’s it, no mandate, no nothing…geez…
Here’s the problem…
Well…this is going to be a short one about the turnout yesterday…the whole debacle can be laid at the feet of people under 30 who usually vote for us…but, this time only 15% of them turned out…yep, only 15% of the youngsters turned out and that apathy gave the country to the idiot repubs…and they turned out 32% of the old farts that are too stupid to think for themselves or are so scared or racist that they just hate the black guy in the White House and will vote for a cabbage if it has an R after it’s name….this country is done…the repubs are going to do to it just what was done to Kansas…and even with the economy there cratered…they just re-elected the guys that did that to them…we have a country of stupid, stupid people and I am glad I won’t be around to see the end….
A disappointing day…
Well….it has been a disappointing day so far and it looks like it will get worse later….haven’t been able to get on the bike since it has been raining all morning and I have no energy at all…and, it will get worse later since it looks like the repubs are going to win today and that will leave us good guys in the wilderness for the next two years until we take the entire government back from the idiots on the right…and there are idiots on the right…just look at Joni Ernst who looks to win in her senate race…she is the one who has said in speeches that she will fight against the UN coming in and forcing people off their land and into the cities…yep, she actually believes that stupid conspiracy theory…but the people who vote for here are even dumber than she is…when I went to vote today at around 9:30…there had been only 85 people who had voted in my precinct in the first two and a half hours and the place looked like a morgue…the sad thing is for us dems is that if we just get off our lazy asses and vote, we will turn the repubs out forever…I guess having the rich own this country is just not that important to our side….depressing to say the least…