Well…all through the tech sector, tens of thousands of people have been laid off and we hear nothing but whining from the companies that they can’t afford to keep them on, their going broke, and lots of other bullshit…and one of the worst is google who have been cutting people hand over fist since they don’t have enough cash flow to preserve their jobs…but, maybe the would have if they wouldn’t have spent 70 billion dollars for stock buybacks that started in April of 2022 and continue to this day…and we all know who stock buybacks benefit and it sure isn’t the remaining workers…it is a clear transfer of wealth to the rich that was illegal 30 years ago but the repubs repealed that law…of course. This is nothing but pure greed from the owners of Google and I think they are doing it now since the prospect of the dems taking over the entire government in 2024 is pretty good and the dems have said they will make these upward transfers of wealth illegal again…and the rich want to steal as much as they can before that…geez…
Category Archives: Politics
It’s just plain greed…
Well…not sure if you’ve heard that Bed, bath, and beyond just filed for bankruptcy the other day or if you’ve heard what the management did shortly before that filing but it is one of the worst things I have ever heard….the company had been flailing around for years as they couldn’t figure out how to make a brick and mortar store move into the present and defend itself from online retailers like Amazon…that same shitty management is the one that declared bankruptcy but not before they stole a billion dollars from the company in the form of stock buybacks and direct cash payments to management while long term employees got nothing…no notice, no severance, no health insurance, no nothing for anybody but the owners and managers. It is just plain greed that these people are allowed to gut the company and enrich themselves while their creditors and employees are left holding the bag…typical American business practices…all of the management should be in jail for theft…geez…
Bye, bye tucker…
Well…it’s a small bit of good news but it IS good news…it was just announced the fox news has fired tucker carlson effective immediately…not sure what the reason is but I don’t care…anything that gets that asshole off the air is fine with me…and he has now been fired by every national cable company…MSNBC, CNN, and fox…and his rabid fans are reacting typically, by threatening fox with boycotts and even investors are reacting…driving the share price down by almost 20% in trading today…ha, ha, ha….787 million dollar settlement to Dominion and now another couple of billion down the drain…couldn’t happen to a worse family but I won’t be happy until the murdochs are penniless and living on the streets….geez…
Going to be a bad week for idiot boy…
Well…I did find a topic that seems to have gone a little under the media radar over the weekend…it is going to be a bad week for the idiot boy with a new trial starting in the suit against him for raping E. Jean Carroll back in the 90’s…and since this is a civil suit, the evidence rules are different which makes it easier for the jury to find against him….and his schmuck lawyer has tried to get the judge to say that trump was “excused” from the trial so he didn’t have to be there…but the judge would say no such thing and told the lawyer he could come or not come, he has nothing to say about it…will this have an effect on the deplorables that make up his base? Nope, they love the fact that he is a low life rapist because it gives them permission to be a terrible person, too….I can’t wait to hear idiot boy rage when the trial starts in a week or so…jury selection is Tuesday and Carroll has a great team of lawyers who are going to shred the blustering moron that trump is using…I can’t wait…
That’s it, Joe…
Well…with the debt ceiling being held hostage by the moron repubs in the House, Joe Biden came out yesterday and essentially say that any of the cuts that mccarthy wants as ransom for not crashing the world economy are not going to happen…and the polls support what Joe and the dems have to say…and that’s the US shouldn’t default on it’s debt…to the tune of 70% of the people polled…and mccarthy has to remember the last time the repubs got us so close to default that our credit rating was crashed for the first time in our history…and the repubs lost in a bloodbath in the next election…but the stupid bomb throwers in the repub caucus just don’t care…unless everything that Joe has done is reversed, they will crash the economy…I think that every one of the dems that get in front of a microphone have to do is hammer the point home that it is the repubs who are holding the world hostage and they will be the ones responsible if there is a default…we need to get better at messaging and make sure the blame fall squarely on mccarthy’s head….geez…
They really don’t want the voice of the people heard…
Well…with the repubs on the losing end of many popular citizens initiatives like the ones in Michigan that took away gerrymandering from them and enshrined a woman’s right to control her own body along with protecting LGBTQ rights here, in other states they see this as the danger that it is too them…and what is their response? Not to bow to the will of the people and allow the majority to get what they support, nope their newest attacks on democracy is to take away the rights of the people to even be heard by citizen initiative in red states that they control to ensure minority control of their states. In Ohio, where abortion rights have 60% support of the public, and the constitution give people the right to put changes on the ballot, they are trying to change the constitution to make it almost impossible for supporters of abortion rights or opponents of gerrymandering to get those popular things on the ballot and then in the constitution….as I’ve said many times before, the only way the repubs can win is to cheat…that’s how they controlled the government here in Michigan for 40 years…by cheating until the people said enough and got rid of the gerrymandering that made us one of the worst state in the US…and now they want to do the same thing to Ohio…and it’s nothing but cheat all the time for them…since they have no ideas that anyone wants anymore…let’s get rid of them…and right now…geez…
Dominion settled…
Well…cripes jury selection just started yesterday and fox news decided to settle the lawsuit Dominion filed against them for 787 million dollars…and I will be the first to say I’m pretty damn disappointed that dominion didn’t inflict more damage on fox and drag their dirty laundry of lies out into the open….and force rupert murdoch, his son , and the on air liars to testify in court that they knew they were lying and didn’t care…and while 787 million dollars seems like a lot of money, the murdochs won’t pay a penny of it…all of you who have cable or satellite tv are going to be the ones who pay since you pay for fox now even if you don’t watch it…they will just raise the fees that all of the carriers pay them and probably end up making a profit off settling the suit…one silver lining in the whole thing is that the head of Dominion said they were just getting started and there would be more suits…and I’m hoping that individual suits will be fired against tucker and the rest of the on air liars…and remember that Smartmatic still has a 2.6 billion dollar suit that an appeals court has said can go forward so we still have that one to look forward to….geez…
The fox news trial is on…
Well…there was a lot of consternation by commenters and the news media that the Dominion/fox news suit was going to be settled before trial but jury selection has started today so I guess those talks are off…I wanted to see the suit go to trial for selfish reasons…that a trial will do much more damage that any settlement since settlements can be kept secret and we might have never known what happened and fox would be able to continue to lie about it…and I know why there was concern in the media about a settlement…since that would take away an easy story for them that will stay in the news now probably for months as the trial goes on…with the earlier summary judgement earlier that Dominion’s evidence gotten in discovery already proved fox’s liability, the only thing that Dominion needs to prove now is what’s called “actual malice” that fox new they were lying and kept it up anyway…and that may be a little difficult but is certainly doable….can’t wait to read more about the trial…and remember that this is just the first suit…Smartmatic has another, bigger one in the pipeline and if fox loses the Dominion suit, it will be in a world of hurt for the second one….geez…
Cut, cut, cut…
Well…as we approach the chaos that will be defaulting on the debts of the US by the repub led House, there is no plan by the somewhat speaker to do anything about it but to propose cuts to everything…and the place he wants to cut the most is to food assistance for the poor that will throw 41 million Americans to the wolves…but he is also trying to cut Medicaid, Medicare, and SS just to make the cuts hurt the most people…and the thing I don’t understand is why poor old white people keep voting for repubs when they constantly try to hurt or even starve them to death. As they start to realize that the repubs are really going to crash the world economy so they can get rid of every social program, economists are starting to run around with their hair on fire and have started to pressure repubs to not be stupid…but when you have repubs like MTG in the House, they can only be stupid because they are stupid….even senate repubs have stated they won’t support the plan that mccarthy has floated so why the hell is he still trying and trying to get support for it…cripes, I don’t even think he can get enough votes in the house but he is just too damn dense to realize it…this is the problem when you put morons in charge of the House…geez…
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…