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The party of freedom?

Well…you would think that at least one repub would have a bout of clarity about their hypocrisy touting that they are the party of “freedom”…freedom for who? Surely not for young people trying to learn the true history of this country….surely not for half of the country who are women and are having their rights taken away by the repubs ever damn day…certainly not the Florida lawmaker who gave her phone number out on the House floor and told women and girls to call her so she can help them with abortion care and the evil desantis had her arrested…certainly not our friends in the LGBTQ community who are fleeing red states to keep from being attacked an murdered just for being who they are…and certainly not the young athletes who now have to have their genitals “inspected” before they can participate in sports in Idaho….this sure as hell is not “freedom” and it is clear by comparison to blue states that it is the repubs in red states doing all of this….taking away people’s rights and exposing them to hate is not freedom for them…I guess it is freedom for the repub haters who are passing all these fascist laws…geez…

Keep treading right, repubs….

Well…as the repub party keeps going further and further right and uses some actually fascist shenanigans to get what they couldn’t in any election, the rest of the country is leaving them behind on every issue that is important to real Americans. Starting with the “big lie” that trump won the 2020 election…64% of repubs truly believe that he did even though there was no voter fraud at all…and that is compounded by the fact that they refuse to believe that any election they lose is legitimate…on covid the general public knows it is more dangerous than the flu at 64% while only 40% of repubs do…and as ghoulish as it sounds, natural selection is going to take many more of their voters than our side and I think they made a bad bet going against the vaccine…on the January 6th attack, 43% of repubs think idiot boy was not responsible for any of it and dems and independents were at 60% that trump was responsible….on women’s rights it is a cavern between the repubs an everyone else with only 25% saying the overturning of Roe was a bad thing while almost 80% of the sane people said it was…and this same cavern has oped on every other issue and if the repubs think they can woo back the independents and some dems, they really are delusional…and when fail districts are drawn like they were here in Michigan, the repubs lose because all they have is hate to sell…no ideas or policies that help people…just more and more groups they hate and laws that hurt people…and most Americans don’t want that…geez…

Our people are the problem…

Well…look, I’ll admit I’m an old white guy and most people would see me as a prime supporter of the repubs by how I look…and it astonishes me how people like me can see the repubs wanting to cut the programs that keep us old white people alive and say “I need me some of that” when voting…and the only reason that any repub gets elected is that old white people vote for them…is it a mass delusion that most of my peers do that? I don’t think so…I really think it’s the propaganda that washes over our group from fox and the other right wing “news” sources that pollute the environment…and I think it started with right wing talk radio that, if compared to the news now, was just a little right wing…and then, gradually over time, began to slide rightward and rightward dragging the listeners/viewers with it with it’s miasma of hate and faux patriotism…after all, if Rush says it, it must be the truth, right? I even listened to Rush when he first came on the air and that was before fox or even the internet…but as he slid into all hate all the time, I realized what he was and it probably made me even more progressive…back to the premise…it’s white people who have done all the damage to this country that has been inflicted by repubs…so I think we should use the same tactics the right uses to win over the voters…after all, when people are polled on dem policies but they are not told they are dem policies, they love them and support them…and we need to connect the policies to dems running for office and make sure that people know the damage the repubs do…I know, pretty simple but hard to do with billions of dollars being spent on repub gaslighting and lies…geez…

This might be good for our side…

Well…with the dysfunction in the House driven by the repub morons being in charge and the news coverage of it, this just might be good for our side especially if the media starts calling them out and gets it right that all of the economic damage that is coming is the fault of the repubs…and I think that it is a mistake by Biden to even talk to mccarthy about the hostage taking they are doing about the debt ceiling….I really don’t think they even know what the debt ceiling is if you listen to mccarthy try to explain it…he thinks it’s like using a credit card to spend more when it is really just paying for what has already been spent…it’s that simple but they just don’t get it….one tiny little bright spot that may be a preview of things to come was from Chuck Todd of all people just blasting jim jordan on MTP Sunday and not letting him lie his way through the interview…now we need the rest of the media to do the same thing every time they have one of these liars on their shows…not really confident they will but I can hope…geez…

Their latest tax scheme…

Well….the repubs are out with their latest tax scheme and it is aimed right at poor and middle class taxpayers…and for people like me who live on SS and have no income tax liability, it  would raise our tax obligation to 30%. If you haven’t read about it yet, the repubs propose to get rid of the IRS and income taxes and replace them with a 30% sales tax on everything…and that would be the biggest tax increase on middle and low income taxpayers in history, and the biggest tax cut on the rich and corporations in the history of the country…as actual economists have commented, sales taxes are the most regressive type of taxes that there are and they impact the poor most since the percentage of their income taken with the sales tax is such a greater proportion than the rich…and I really don’t know how I would even be able to live if my SS was cut by 30%…but this is what the repubs always do when they are in charge…attack the poor and middle class even though they are their voters…and those idiots keep voting for them and that leads us to where we are now…with SS and Medicare in danger and the biggest tax increase in history proposed by these idiots…geez…

Wake up old folks….

Well…with the repubs now saying they want to end social security as it now exists and replace the guaranteed income with something that has to be re-authorized every 5 years and every 5 years folks like you and me are going to have to sit here and wonder if we are going to be able to live at all, all I have to say is wake up folks! Look, as the polls say, most older people like me vote for repubs for some damn reason, we need to make sure that people living on SS know what is going on and know that a vote for repubs is a vote for their own death from starvation….right now, I can pay all of my bills and put a little away every month and I feel secure for the first time in my life…and I paid for this security my entire life out of every paycheck I ever got from the time I was 15…so it’s NOT an entitlement, it’s our money that we paid for…in my case for 50 years and even talking about taking it away from me is pissing me off…and yet I know people who will continue to vote for repubs even if their lives will be destroyed by them since they just can’t believe that they will ever do that to them…and all I have to say to those folks is that the repubs just made more than 50% of this country second class citizens and most people thought they wouldn’t do that and then Roe was overturned and the repubs immediately started to criminalize women’s healthcare…so, yes, if they are given the power, of course they will eliminate Medicare and social security….they have hated those programs since they were passed and have tried and tried to eliminate them over the years…so, open your eyes old folks…disaster is coming to you if you continue to vote for these assholes….geez…

The party of no….

Well…sitting here thinking about politics to try to find a topic today and it dawned on me that there is only one functioning political party left in this country…and you know what one that is…the repub party has become the party of no…no to capping insulin at 35 bucks a month, no to expanding and strengthening SS, no to women’s rights, no to trans rights, no to same sex marriage, no to reading books, no to fixing our crumbling infrastructure, no to bringing jobs back to the US….you get the picture…since 2016 when they ditched their platform and policies for blind allegiance to the idiot trump, they don’t stand for anything other than making this country worse for everyone but the rich and corporations and they embrace the fascist policies that are a cancer on the world…even cheering today when it was announced that a fascist won the top job in Italy’s government and has started to turn back the clock to Mussolini and the damage he helped hitler do to Europe, and to listen to her, you get the echoes of the 1930′s when this bullshit killed millions. So the repubs don’t stand for anything but getting power back to hurt their “enemies” and they have already started to talk about impeaching Biden once a week if they take back the house…impeaching for what, I don’t know…for getting legislation passed that helps the entire country…or signing emergency legislation to help the red states when they get hit by natural disasters like the hurricane that is happening to Florida this week? We really do need to make sure we keep both the house and senate in November…if not, the repubs will unleash a hellscape on this country…but we can stop it…get out and vote….please…

Why would anyone vote for a repub?

Well…the repubs are out with their latest “attack” on America and all I can say is “why would anyone vote for a repub?” after all, this plan would end Medicare and SS, make abortion illegal across the US and jail women and their doctors, end the ACA, give more tax cuts to the rich, end same sex marriage, end contraception…yeah, get the point? These assholes are trying to take this country back to the 1800′s and these are not popular things, in fact, none of these actions poll above 30% so who the hell are they governing for? Less than half of repubs even want any of this crap…so again, I am going to keep harping on this until election day…we all need to vote…if we vote, we win since there are a lot more of us than them but we are still making excuses…here in Michigan apply for a  permanent absentee ballot at the SoS site and they just come to you in the mail and you mail them back…easy peazy and maybe takes a half hour of your time…so there are no excuses…the ballot will get to you a couple of weeks before the election and you just fill it in and mail it…you get what I’m saying? Easy, easy, easy…and let’s make sure the repubs can’t do what they are threatening…geez…

 

The party of Putin…

Well…you know, I’m pretty confused about how the heck the repub party turned into the party of Putin over the past few years…from the idiot trump’s kissing his ass and aiding him in trying to bring down the Ukraine, to the 68 repubs in the house who just his week voted against supporting NATO and the collecting of evidence of war crimes that Russian soldiers are committing there, what the heck is going on? It can’t be that it is just the hatred of anything dem that is motivating these traitors, so what is it? I did read an article the other day that said that the repub support of Putin is just another facet of the party’s hard swing to the right we’ve seen since the idiot trump made it okay to be a traitor, a racist, and a genuine asshole to anyone…and modeled the Putin ass kissing that the entire party seems to do now. When I was younger, the repubs had one thing they were known for and that was to be against the Soviet Union and it’s meddling in the world but now they seem to like it since it “owns the libs” and pisses us that are in the right off…is that their only reason for treason? Yeah, that one was a little cute but does describe what these idiots are doing…and still, no one holds them accountable because mcconnell and mccarthy are just drooling for power and don’t care how they get it…geez…

More repub voter fraud in Florida…

Well…you probably haven’t heard about the latest scam the repubs in Florida are pulling to suppress the votes of poor and elderly people there where they go into low income housing and then change the registration all of the people who live there to repub from dem without their permission…and the people didn’t find out about the scam until new repub voter registration cards started showing up in the mail. So, a local DA has opened an investigation into the voter fraud and has asked Garland to open a federal investigation into it since it is a federal crime to lie on voter registration forms…and when the head of the Florida repub party was questioned about the fraud, she did the typical deflection that they all do and said: “the dems should support our voting integrity bill to stop this kind of thing..”…and that is just so damn rich…the repubs commit voter fraud and then use their own fraud to push more restrictions on voting…there is just no shame or integrity in these people…and I really hope this person approved the fraud and goes to jail for it…after all, it is only the repubs that commit these crimes across the country…and they need to pay for it…geez…