Well…I slipped today and read a headline to an article that read: Tea Party giddy to repeal the ACA….
The first thing that came to mind is that these are the bastards that YOU people elected…anyone that can be giddy to take health insurance away from 30 million people who could never afford it before can only be described as bastards…and that these same bastards are now going to condemn millions of people to never getting health insurance again due to pre-existing conditions…and are going to condemn millions more to bankruptcy under crushing medical bills….but, these are the bastards YOU elected….enjoy going broke, idiots….
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…
Well…it is the end of the month and a Friday so that means it’s a cocktail night so I thought I’d get this one done before I retire to the couch for some relaxation…just read about a new study done on what drives the tea party…not the founding of it..we all know it was an astroturf organization founded by the Koch’s and other right wing billionaires to use to funnel money into right wing causes…but, what has been kept hidden to the mainstream media..well…not hidden but of no interest to them….is the glue that holds it together….and, a new study done at Florida state puts science to work to divine what that is…and guess what? It’s racial resentment! And racism….thank you Captain Obvious for that little nugget of truth…from the start, the tea party was a movement of white guys that just hated that there was a black guy in the White House…how else do you explain the constant effort of everyone on the right to de-legitimize the president? It’s not complex…they hate black people and this is how racists react…simple as that…..geez…
Well…I am trying to stop laughing as I write this but it is not easy…if you haven’t heard, today is tea party revolution day…the day where the tea party says 10-30 million people will show up in DC and overthrow the government and return to “constitutional” principles…okay, still laughing at the irony of the whole thing…that you have to ignore the constitution to save it…kinda like the old Vietnam saying that you had to “destroy the village to save it”….but, nevermind that…I just loved the screenshot of the turnout at the designated gathering point….by my count from the shot, 10-30 million people have turned into 18-20 people…unless the rest of them are camouflaged and just waiting for the right time to reveal themselves….okay…still laughing…this is just the definition of delusions of grandeur….that’s enough for now….
Well…I have been laughing a little today about one of the features out on Kos where Kos goes out to the right wing echo chamber and finds the craziest ideas and people out there…and this week was a special one since there seems to be a surge in people hating us over at Kos since we are starting to win some of the political battles that are being fought…and what I find the funniest thing are the comments that we are violent socialist, totalitarians that are the worst people who have ever lived on the earth because we care for other people, want healthcare, and want the tea party to go back under the rock they crawled from….and then the righties that are posting invariably say they are coming with their guns and we’d better watch out…and much other violent imagery…..so who are the violent ones? I’ve never seen anyone on Kos say anything but that we need to continue to win elections…and the right thinks that is violent? I think these idiots are really, really, confused, since they equate losing elections to coups, government takeovers, and a loss of freedom….just a big ole bag of stupid over there on the right…geez…
Well….If this wasn’t so sad, I’d just laugh and shake my head….the other day, one of the tea party idiots was at a town hall meeting and went on and on trying to justify his votes to cut over 40 billion dollars out of the food stamp program…since he thinks almost all of the people that use them are committing fraud…and his reason for thinking this way? He was in line at the grocery store (which I just don’t believe) and saw two people using food stamps that weren’t fat..in fact he went on and on about how fit they looked and they couldn’t be poor enough if they were fit since everyone knows that poor people are fat….never mind that the occurrence of fraud in the program is down below 1%….but the one thing you can count on with the tea partiers is that they never let facts get in the way of their prejudices….I am still amazed how such stupid people can get elected…geez…
Well…just a short one on a jaw-dropper that I read somewhere today…our buddy Eric Cantor, had a wonderful idea (yep, that’s snark) to eliminate government funding of elections that would do nothing but increase the influence of corporations and the rich, but he tried a little bit of misdirection to confuse people what the whole thing was about…including a clause that would take some of the money and put it towards funding medical care for sick kids…but the sick, heartless bastards of the hard right (yeah, you can read that tea partiers) came out in full howl that helping sick kids would create a “constituency” that would then have to be helped forever…just like people that get food stamps or unemployment insurance. I am at a loss how to respond to someone as heartless as this…of course you should help sick kids forever! Who is a government supposed to help forever? Oil companies? Oh…I forgot…that is exactly who these bastards want to help while kids die from lack of health care…geez…
Well…still in the funk from this morning and even I’m getting bored with my topics…so, no politics today…or, I should say it won’t be the primary topic…or, it could be…this one is just a free form one that I have no idea where it will end up…it’s been a tough couple of weeks with being so broke but the car is running right so that is a plus…and I may even be able to put the top down tomorrow…got to keep the crazy bubbling or I won’t be me…I think I may have slept about 3 hours last night and I am still just exhausted so there may be a nap in my future…have been wracking my brain for most of the morning trying to figure out what to do to figure out how to get some cash coming in…I never would have expected to be my age with 4 degrees and not be able to find any sort of work…but, you’ve heard me bitch about that a lot so I think I’ll stop….okay…there is some politics that I wanted to talk about…what the hell is is with those batshit crazy repubs that think that just because they don’t agree with the president, it is an impeachable offense? That has been the theme from a bunch of the tea party nuts over the past week or so…the latest introducing a constitutional amendment that would make not balancing the budget raise to the level of “high crimes and misdemeanors” that is the bar for impeachment…but the idiot boy forgets that it is the congress that spends money….this is the quality of the tea party folks that seem like they flunked high school civics class….stupidity, thy name is tea party…geez…
Well…I am kind of laughing today when the terrorists on the right were out maneuvered by some of the adults that are still in Washington on the fiscal curb…they have repeatedly just said no, no, no on everything that has been done to try to actually govern the country and the people that are still there and want to actually move the country forward have figured a new way to cut these idiots out of the process…and the big irony here is that they could have gotten more of what they wanted if they would have negotiated in good faith, but now there is a path that can basically ignore the tea baggers and let them continue to throw their tantrums while business gets done. The good thing is that even the repub leadership, such as it is, has gotten tired of the nonsense and has started to listen to the people…some of them have even started to use math again; something that is beyond most of the baggers, and see that if they don’t start doing the peoples work again, they will be gone. One other thing that I see that is a plus is that there will be less of these idiots on Thursday when the new congress convenes….it’s about time….geez…
Well….I have been just trying to get my strength back all day without much luck but I thought I’d share this dream from last night before I forget it…and it is kind of political since ole Mitt is in it….okay, the dream was basically a set of vignettes where I followed ole Mitt around Michigan being an obnoxious jerk about all of his lies and blowing up the idea that he will move to the center if he is elected….got him so pissed at me that he that he had his tea party thugs drag me out a bunch of times and then barred me…but, that didn’t stop me and he and his followers got so annoyed that I was getting the press to start questioning as I was that they planted a bomb that I avoided but got the hint…..and then, I woke up at 4 and have been up since…I know, not really political but I thought it was interesting….I will try to get back later for another but I can’t promise anything…