Well…have been looking for a topic since I finished up with all the work I had to do today and I found one….with the seating of Justice Ketanji Jackson on the supreme court…people have been focusing on the fact that she is the first African American woman on the supreme court, but after her first day on the court and with how she handled herself and illuminated how damn good she is, all I can say is I’m damn impressed and I know she is going to be a good one. During arguments where Alabama is trying to gut the voting rights act, blathering that any redistricting in Alabama must be race neutral, she patiently explained the history of the 14th amendment and that it specific purpose was to protect the rights of freed slaves…and she asked how that could be “race neutral?” And she went on to explain that taking race into account in redistricting is perfectly constitutional….how much this going to matter with the right wingers salivating to allow the repubs to gerrymander to their hearts content and them not needing any reason in the constitution or law to make that happen, it is still heartening to see someone explode the idea that the “fix” is in and her opinion doesn’t matter…I can’t wait to read some of her dissents…I think she is going to end up a legal giant who will rule to the law and not to political goals…and she will show just how much the right wingers on the court are just hacks with no business at all of being there…can’t wait….
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Terrible, terrible people…
Well…it’s been another long day and I just finished up my work for the day so I thought I’d come here about the jaw dropping revelations about two of the repub candidates for senate and all I can say is I’ve been warning about the modern repubs here for a long, long time, and this bears me out…first, the senate candidate for Pennsylvania (who is really from New Jersey) Dr. Oz, who has made millions of dollars selling his snake oil treatments on tv that do not work but the rubes don’t know that…it was reported yesterday that when he was testing his bullshit treatments, he killed 339 dogs including one litter where he killed half of them then stuffed the dead bodies into a garbage bag with the rest of the litter and just threw them in the trash to die….this is the kind of people who infest the repub party and not one of the leadership says word one about it since they are so hungry for power that anything these candidates do is just fine with them….then in Georgia, Herschel Walker (who called himself too dumb to debate) has a history of violence and who put a gun to his wife’s head and threatened to shoot here along with putting a knife to her throat and threatened to cut it if she continued with a divorce filing…and his son came out the other day to tell everyone that they had to change houses 6 times in 6 months to hide from him as he threatened to kill them all….and the topper for the absolute abortion opponent is that he paid for an abortion for his girlfriend at the time….but none of that is too much for repub voters, they don’t care if their candidates are the worst people in the world, they don’t care because they are like them…bad people who are just the worst in the world and just want to burn it all down to “own the libs” and it is a plus to them that these candidates are awful…the worse they are, the better they like them….geez….
Ron DeSantis is a grifter…don’t give him a dime…
Well…just got the first ride in and thought I’d do one of these before I go back out…with the devastation across Florida from hurricane Ian last week, you would think the governor of Florida would be asking for donations to organizations who are already on the ground like the American Red Cross or Jose Andres’s World Central Kitchen and any other established relief organizations…but no, the first thing that ole Ron did was to set up his own “relief” fund and is asking people to donate to it instead…only one thing wrong with that…DeSantis is just another repub grifter who sees disaster in his state as a opportunity to grift large quantities of cash from the rubes…and, it’s even worse…this “relief” organization is run by his wife and there is going to be no oversight of it…so ole ronnie could use the cash for whatever he wants…I guess he took lessons from the big grifter trump who stole a couple hundred million from the rubes pushing the “big lie” and saying he would use the cash to contest the election…which he didn’t…how can anyone vote for this asshole who is going to siphon off money that could help the people of Florida recover from this disaster but ole ronnie will use it to line his pockets and pull more political stunts…are the people of Florida so stupid to keep voting for this crook? I guess so…geez…
They’re not even trying anymore…
Well…with the damage done by hurricane Ian to Florida, NC, and SC….the dems did the responsible thing and got an emergency funding bill up in front of congress to have 12 billion dollars ready to go as soon as it’s needed…and they didn’t try to extort anyone or threaten to withhold the money since the damage was done to red states like the idiot trump would have and did to blue states….but, since they are not in charge of congress, the repubs there are acting like they are not even trying anymore…especially those who are supposed to represent Florida like Matt Gaetz who voted against the funding along with one of their senators, Rick Scott…and their other senator, Marco Rubio, didn’t even show up for the vote…but that’s no surprise since he never talks to his constitutents and no one ever knows where he is…surely not doing his job. Let that sink in for a minute…and hey Floridians, these guys do not give a damn about you or what you are going through…they vote against all help to score cheap political points while you sit there with no food, water, or shelter…what the hell are they good for? Nothing from what I can see…and we in the blue states are rushing in to try…that is the difference between dems and repubs…we know you need help and we are going to provide it…but the repubs all believe that government is a bad thing and will just sit there and pout as we get things done….remember that in November…geez…
Putin has gotten as stupid as trump…
Well…reading the analysis of the dictator Putin’s latest speech where he tried to justify the annexation of Eastern Ukraine and all I can say is that Putin has gotten as stupid as trump…and he sounds like him, too….and we know how the “vote” for joining Russia was just too perfect with the yes votes of 97-98% of them…a typical Russian election by the way….Putin went on and on and on about how terrible the US is and bitched about the US bombing Germany and Japan in WWII…and not letting North Korea (or China) win the Korean war…and the “fact” that the US is forcing people to change sexes and take drugs…and he kept on about how “powerful” Russia is and how weak the west is…and one funny thing is that Lyman, that is in one of the annexed parts of Ukraine, was liberated today and the Ukrainian army is sweeping to the east capturing another 3,000 Russian soldiers as his “powerful” army cuts and runs…in no way the toughest army in the world as tucker carlson bleated just a few months ago….oh, and another stupid thing this speech directly resulted in was President Zelensky asking for an expedited process on their bid to join NATO…didn’t think of that vlad? If this happens and Ukraine is allowed to join, any attack by Russia will trigger article 5 in the NATO charter that says all member nations will come to the aid of any member that is attacked….and putin can’t even deal with Ukraine…what the hell can he do if NATO gets in the fight? If they wanted to, they could be in Moscow in a week…but they won’t, it will be enough to just throw Russia out of Ukraine and then just let the sanctions rot the Russian economy until the oligarchs get tired of losing money and depose putin. From the start, putin has been just a stupid as trump in starting the invasion that has gutted the Russian military and resulted in more than 50,000 of their soldiers killed…and yet the repubs keep cheering him on…if you listen to fox news, is sounds like they have the same writers as putin…and they are all traitors…geez…
Ian…
Well…with the reports coming out this morning from sheriffs in the Ft. Meyers area of hundreds dead from hurricane Ian…and I hope that’s not the case…I think there are a couple of reasons why people didn’t heed the warnings and evacuate…first, and I’ve written about this before, is the fact that almost 60% of the people in this country can’t cover an unexpected emergency of 400 bucks since they don’t have money in the bank for it…and, with a 3 day evacuation costing upwards of 2 grand for the travel and housing, they just couldn’t afford to leave and that is on us in the US…we should be able to take care of our fellow citizens if only the asshole governor of Florida, DeSantis, didn’t spend money on political stunts and actually cared about governing instead of his culture war bullshit that he is focused on…and the other reason is that the right wing has done a really good job of teaching people to not trust the government…so when even the president comes on tv and pleads with people to evacuate, they think it’s some kind of conspiracy and reflexively won’t believe him since the “libs lie all the time…look at covid” conspiracy that has been pushed and pushed on fox news over the past week…so we have the perfect storm of people wanting to leave but can’t afford it and people who won’t leave because fox news taught them not to trust the government…and the result is hundreds dead…I truly hope that’s not true but with many coastal cities under 9-12 feet of storm surge, I fear that the worst is yet to come….and I feel for Floridians no matter what their politics….
A big difference…
Well…I sure hope the media compares the disaster response from Joe Biden to the idiot trump over the next few days…with the huge hurricane that is coming ashore right now plans have been in place for over a week from the Biden administration and it didn’t matter that Florida is a red state or that DeSantis is an asshole who attacks Biden almost every day, Biden did what a president is supposed to do…take care of all Americans, not just those who voted for him…and he has every department of the government already on the ground there and Biden hasn’t said on thing about the constant quid pro quo’s that trump thrived on…and he hasn’t thrown paper towels at Floridians or tried to steer the relief aid to his unqualified cronies like trump did in Puerto Rico….that is the difference between dems and repubs…we believe that government is there to help the people of the country and that government, when done competently like Biden does it, is really a force for good that can help alleviate suffering of Americans everywhere….just watch and see the repubs try to take credit for Joe’s work just like the have been with all of the bills they have voted against that will fix the roads and bridges in this country…cynical bastards, all of them…..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…
One more thing about Favre…
Well…I think I may have talked about this one before but the 5 million dollars that Favre and his cronies stole wasn’t the only thing stolen…this same set of cronies paid him 1.1 million dollars to give speeches that he never gave…again out of a fund that is supposed to support the poor people of Mississippi…oh, and he tried to get millions more to build a practice stadium at his alma mater in Mississippi….so, okay, that was two things but damn, he is sure a crook….and I still can’t figure out why he hasn’t been arrested for fraud yet like one of his cronies in this scheme has been….he should be cooling his thieving ass in jail right now…but the whole state of Mississippi is run by his cronies and he is a white football star so that gives him immunity to state charges….so get after it feds, it’s your turn…geez…
Brett Favre is a thief…
Well…what the hell is it with these repub assholes who think it’s no big deal to steal millions of dollars from the poor…and the latest one is the asshole Brett Favre who took 5 million dollars that was earmarked for poor people in Mississippi to build a volleyball arena for the school where his daughter played…yep, he took food out of poor people’s mouths so his privileged daughter could have a nicer place to play volleyball…and the even more sick thing is that Favre is worth over a hundred million dollars and could easily afford to pay for it himself but no, he had to steal money from taxpayers just like every damn repub out there who scream about “big government and high taxes” but lines up at the government trough shouting gimme, gimme while his cronies help him steal…I hope this is one time where the rich don’t get away with it…and the guy who helped him steal is cooperating with the feds so I’ll keep my fingers crossed that this will be one of those times….geez…