Well…just read an interesting article about the progress being made here in Michigan and one thing that you need to know is the dems did this…and it all started with the constitutional amendment that took redistricting out of the hands of the repubs resulting in fair maps being drawn…and that I will thank the people of Michigan for…or the 60% + that voted for the amendment…and that lead to the dems winning complete control of the state for the first time since the 1980’s. The people came through again last fall when they voted to enshrine reproductive rights and voting rights into the constitution…and now with the new majorities in place, we are going to see LGBT rights protected by law, repeal of the 1931 law outlawing abortions that the repubs were going to use to take women’s rights away…get rid of the anti union right to work laws that have depressed wages across the state…and expand the earned income tax credit to help low income families…any of this sound like anything the repubs would do? Nope…and under governor Whitmer, Michigan is number one on employment, personal income, home prices, mortgage delinquency, and the stock performance of publicly traded Michigan based companies…oh, and we were number one in adding energy related jobs and are set up to “dominate” the electric vehicle battery market…did you notice one thing? Not a damn tax cut for the rich or corporations in that mix…as always, economies always do better when the dems are in charge…and I hope it stays that way…geez…
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Send in the tanks…
Well…finally, the US is going to send some M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine to call Germany’s bluff and get them to allow sending Leopard 2 tanks from across Europe…now, I know that I was against this at first with the brand new supply lines of both fuel and parts since the Abrams is powered by a jet engine and takes jet fuel to run it….and there is no one in NATO who knows how to keep them running or how to use them since no one else uses them…but if they are needed to break the Leopard logjam, then we need to get them there fast….after all, we have hundreds of them in storage that will never get used so even if we just sit them and use them as artillery pieces, that would free up some towed or mobile artillery pieces for the front…I am stuck by how stupid putin has been throughout this whole invasion…and now he is going to have his 1960’s tanks going up against the best in the world and it isn’t going to be pretty….for him…geez…
The FBI is corrupt…
Well…with the arrest of a high ranking FBI agent last week for spying for the Russians, and all of the other nonsense that has gone on for years like comey getting trump elected by shooting off his big mouth about a new “investigation” of Hillary just before the 2016 election, the only conclusion you can draw is that the FBI has been corrupted both by outside influence and the adherence of many of them to the MAGA bullshit that has also infected the Secret Service. There have been stories of the complete magafication of the NY FBI office and the refusal to investigate trump in any manner there…so much so that they had to bring in agents from other offices to get anything about trump done…and don’t get me started on the Kavanaugh “investigation” where they were given over 5,000 tips about his sexual assaults and not one agent investigated them at all…all they did was give them to the idiot trump’s white house where they were just thrown away. Biden needs to root out all of the people involved in all of this crap an fire them at least, but if they broke the law, they need to be prosecuted….geez…
What are the Germans thinking?
Well…not sure if you’ve been following the Ukraine invasion closely or at all, I have an I can’t figure out what the Germans are thinking…over the past week or so there has been conflict with them about supplying German made Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine to give them the advantage in armor since most of the tanks they have are old soviet designs from the 50’s and 60’s and the Leopard 2 is Germany’s most advanced tank… and Germany itself won’t have to give up one since this tank is used by almost all of the NATO countries and all of them have volunteered to send them to Ukraine…but, since the tanks are a German design, the Germans have the say where they can be deployed and they are dragging their feet…and they have said that they won’t approve that use until the US sends M1A1 Abrams tanks…but that doesn’t make any sense since only the US knows how to operate and repair the M1 while the Leopards can be repaired and Ukrainians can be trained right next door in Poland…so, I think we should call their bluff and take some of the hundreds of Abrams that are stored in Germany and send them to Ukraine for use as non mobile artillery pieces since the drive is the least reliable part of them and the most complex to keep running since it uses a jet engine to move it…it would just take too much time to get the logistics and training for the Abrams for them to be useful in less than a year and Ukraine needs armor now…so get off your butt Germany and release the Leopards…geez…
Didn’t expect this from Kos…
Well…cripes we lost twitter when ole elon took it over and now it looks like we’re going to lose Daily Kos, too…one of the last progressive sites left on the internet but they are now threatening the writers guild that represents the writers there that they are going lay off 30% of the staff and it looks like Kos is not operating in good faith or is willing to work with the guild to try to figure out how to make the site profitable again….all this from a progressive? I guess that once you build a business with the help of lots of others, you turn into an asshole and abandon the very things that made the place profitable in the first place…support of workers and unions and you learn to treat people like crap…shame on you Kos…geez…
They really are going to crash the economy…
Well…today is the day the US hits the debt ceiling and it looks like the repubs really are going to crash the economy just to try to eliminate SS and Medicare….estimates out there say if they keep this crap up it could cost the US 6 million jobs…and one thing we have to remember is that every time the repubs are in charge, they tank the economy and add mountains of debt that the dems then have to fix…and over 25% of the current debt was added in the idiot trump’s term with the huge tax cuts that were given to the rich and corporations…and to show how stupid it is even having a debt limit, there is only one other country in the world that has one…I think it’s Finland or some other Scandinavian country…look, you don’t negotiate with terrorists and that’s what the modern repub party is…a terrorist organizations whose only purpose is to hurt people and you don’t reward people like that…do not negotiate, Joe…geez…
Distilled modern repub party…
Well…not sure if you’ve been following the saga of the newly elected repub from NY, George Santos, but that story is perfect distillation of what the modern repub has become….first, he lied about everything in his personal history…college, heritage, accomplishments, everything…nothing he told the voters was true and it has since been revealed that he was financed by Russian oligarchs and has been spouting Russian talking points since he got elected…just another extension of Putin’s screwing with our political system…and the sick thing is that the repub party knew all this and didn’t do a damn thing about it…and now McCarty is putting him on committees where he will be able to access classified material that will certainly end up in Putin’s hands and still the repubs don’t do anything about it…the modern repub party is just an arm of Russia anyway and has been since they installed the idiot trump as president…and yet they keep spouting that they are the party of “national security” and half of the country believes them…stupid, stupid Americans….geez…
It’s about time…
Well…with the repubs doing what they always do, holding the world hostage by threatening to not raise the debt ceiling, I was happy the other day when leading dems just flatly refused to negotiate with them, saying that they are not giving the repubs a “cookie” to get them to do their damn jobs. I sure hope the dems stick with it this time and don’t cave to public pressure…the last time the repubs did this, there was a bloodbath of election losses in the next election and there will be again…and that would make McCarthy just another loser repub that couldn’t get anything done….and we need to get out in front of this right now…putting the blame right where it belongs and keep hammering it until 2024 when we will take back the house and keep the senate and it will help Biden get elected again if he runs…as the saying goes “you don’t negotiate with terrorists…and that is just what the repubs are…economic terrorists…geez…
Hypocrites all…
Well…on the MLK day, I am sick of the repubs all quoting him and twisting or cherry picking his words to make themselves look like they are not the white supremacists they are…after all , once this day is over, these hypocrites will go back to trying to keep black and brown people from voting and will continue to support the racists like the proud boys while they try to tear down the social safety nets that the less well to do depend on…people like me…and none of them will again mention him until this day next year unless they are lying to say that MLK would be a maga repub if he was still alive…I’ve got news for you repubs…MLK was a socialist and proud of the social justice he advocated for and not one damn maga asshole supports that. So, let’s just agree that if you aren’t going to do anything to promote social justice, just shut the hell up…geez…
It’s not the same…
Well…the damn news media and the repubs are all breathless since they found 12 classified documents in Joe Biden’s house and office and the repubs are really trying to equate these documents with the 1100 that trump stole…first, as soon as the Biden documents were found, they followed procedure and notified the government and promptly returned them…and they were found in secure areas…and didn’t need to be subpoenaed…now lets contrast that with the idiot trump…he purposely picked and stole 1100 documents, left them where anyone could get to them, lied about having them, would not return them when asked, went to court to keep them, and finally the FBI had to raid his tacky Florida club to get them back…and they still don’t know if they have them all…so these incidents are not the same no matter what fox news says or the repubs say…finding the material in Biden’s home and office is part of the normal functions of government where trump is just a thief who wanted to profit off the material he stole….so shut the hell up…