Well..in what is becoming a sickening occurrence, the New York Times has gone off the rails again today with the worst sort of bothsiderism that I have ever seen…and a complete, stupid misinterpretation of the first amendment. As the right wing continues to whine that people are pushing back on their lies and conspiracy theories and won’t listen to them spew that nonsense, the Times is on it, first with a right wing college student who was given the editorial page to whine that no one listens to her spout her bullshit and calls it “cancelling” her rights under the first amendment, and today, the editorial page stays on that theme saying that the biggest danger to our first amendment rights is the left not listening and calling bullshit on these right wing assholes. Now, I’ve read the first amendment, and there is not one damn thing in there that says you have a constitutional right to be listened to as you lie your ass off and spout racist, misogynist bullshit…remember folks, the first amendment only applies to the government regulating speech…if I don’t want to hear someone spouting that the idiot trump was the bestest president in the history of the universe, I don’t have to give you a forum to continue to say it…or an ear to listen to it and the snowflakes on the right wing just don’t understand why no one wants to hear their crap other than other trump cult members….and it IS my right to call a right wing racist asshole a right wing racist asshole and dismiss them without letting them pollute my ears with their bullshit…back when I was young, none of the crap the repubs are pushing daily was accepted and the party policed that nonsense…could you imagine anyone taking Khrushev’s side 50 years ago? Or being on Russian tv on a loop to support a war that the rest of the world is against? This is just another incidence where the right wing editors of the NYT are doing everything in their power to normalize how far to the fascist side the repubs have gone over the past 30 years….we all need to call them out and make sure there is a price to pay for all of the lies the repubs continue to spout…and that is not protected by the first amendment…geez…
Category Archives: Politics
More companies to boycott over support for Putin…
Well…even with most US companies pulling out of Russia in response to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and his committing of war crimes there, there are still a few companies that have always supported Putin or his predecessor Stalin or even Hitler in WWII and are staying there…and you can guess at least one of them would be Koch industries whose war profiteering in Germany in support of Hitler gave us the Koch brothers who have done more to damage this country than just about anyone else…but guess what Ada, Michigan based company is on the same list as the Kochs? Yep the ultra right wing DeVos and VanAndel’s company Amway has stated they are staying in Russia…and, are you surprised? You shouldn’t be if you watched the damage the DeVos’s did to public education here in Michigan and across the country as Eric Prince’s sister, Betsy DeVos tried her best to ensure that we couldn’t compete with the world in our children’s education all the while trying to make our whole system a for profit one that her rich cronies could milk dry before they moved on to steal somewhere else. These are not the only companies who have decided to stay in Russia to support Putin’s murdering and war crimes…how about Nestle? Yep, they’re staying along with all of the brands they own…like Gerber baby food, Purina cat foods along with Friskie…you get the picture…please take a look at these companies and boycott them from this point forward…buying from them supports children being murdered in Ukraine…it’s that clear…geez…
What the hell is he thinking?
Well…cripes, normally when you are in a hole, you stop digging to get out of it but not with the moron Putin…just yesterday he gave a “speech” that basically attacked everyone in Russia that aren’t him and threatened to close the borders in a return to the bad old days of Stalin and basically make everyone in the country a prisoner who would not be able to leave…so, guess what the response was? everyone who could get out of the country did…and a striking thing was the 300+ private jets that made a run for it, heading to Dubai and other middle eastern countries and I would guess full of family and friends of the owners of the jets….and these weren’t the only people getting the hell out of dodge…since the invasions and war crimes started, everyone who could afford to get out have gone…and the Russian airlines have had to double and triple their flights out of Russia to meet the demand…and so far, almost 400,000 Russians have voted with their feet and everyone is scrambling to get out…and, in a real example of the crazy that is left in Putin’s government, one of his crazy assed “ministers” said the other day that Russia is “owed” all of the territory it has ever given up and the war will continue until it is returned to them…and that includes Alaska and other parts of the Northwestern US….so now we see where this is all going…Putin is going to continue to spiral down into madness until there is nothing left in Russia except a hollowed out husk that will never be a player on the world stage again…how’s that working out for you puutie boy? what a moron…geez…
Putin looks like he’s going to lose this war…
Well… I have been trying to avoid commenting on the point that Putin is going to lose in Ukraine as there are still untold war crimes he and his troops are committing there by targeting civilians and continuing to kill thousands of them…and it seems to be disrespectful to sit here on my soft warm couch and opine while Ukrainians are fighting for their lives…but, it does appear that with the latest round of support for the Ukrainians from across the globe, the tide is turning as they start concerted counterattacks on the Russian invaders. One of the things I find most stunning is that the Russian military, once thought to be one of the best in the world appears to be a hollowed out shell of itself…incapable of the things that normal armies do as a matter of course…I mean they are even using cell phones and commercial walkie talkies to try to talk to each other and even those aren’t working to coordinate attacks like a normal army does….and it is clear they can’t supply the army with even the basics of food and water as the videos of Russian soldiers stealing chickens and looting grocery stores show….and this just supports what I proposed in an earlier post, that 2 squadrons of A-10 attack jets could defeat this whole Russian invasion all by themselves…and if a NATO army was brought to bear on the Russian forces with all the force that entails, it would take a day or less for Russia to be defeated and driven from Ukraine….one last thing to remember is that Putin is now going to be isolated in Russia and will never be able to leave there again or he will be arrested and taken to the Hague for trial on the war crimes his troop have committed…this is a far cry from the superpower that he postured Russia to be…and maybe this will be his end…we can only hope…
No voting rights but bullshit…
Well…I guess the senate has devolved into a ceremonial body that can’t or won’t take on the true problems plaguing our country but are just so damn happy to work on nonsense to make it look like they are doing something. I’m sure you’ve followed the saga of trying to get a federal voting rights bill through the senate but Manchin and Sinema just don’t think it’s important enough to protect our democracy from the repubs who are trying to steal elections all over the country…but, just yesterday, they found something they could get behind as being so important that it needed action now…I wonder if you can guess what that was? Still thinking? I guess I’ll have to tell you…with the advent of daylight savings time this week where we moved the clocks forward to where they would be if there were no DST, enough people whined and bitched to their senators who thought this was the most golly gee important thing they could be working on and got right to it…and passed a senate bill that would eliminated DST right now and make sure that people don’t have to be subject to the horrors of having to reset their clocks twice a year…and with that, the country is saved! Yeah, that’s a bit of sarcasm on my part since I am so damn frustrated that the real issues in the US are not even being talked about in the senate…but they have time to get to bullshit like this that just doesn’t matter and pretend that it is important…and that’s one problem with the senate these days…the fake bipartisanship that is displayed when it means nothing but doesn’t happen when it does…and that sucks…geez…
Windfall profits tax…
Well…with all of the appeals to the heads of the oil companies to stop war profiteering falling on deaf ears, it is now time to enact a windfall profits tax to claw back all of the money they’ve stolen not only over the past few months, but the past few years. During the pandemic, we the taxpayers of the US bailed them out to the tune of billions of dollars to ensure that they would not go bankrupt and how do they repay us? By screwing over Americans by raising gas prices, not for any reason other than they can…yeah, I know they couch it in the bullshit of uncertainty and supply and demand, but then why are gas prices still rising when the cost of oil has dropped by over 25% in the past week? I know that downward prices are “sticky” to use an economic term but it is a decision by the CEOs of these companies to not lower prices as they try to wring every damn dime out of the American consumer….there was a time when we could at least shame some of them into doing the right thing, but those times are over with the unbridled greed we see from almost every damn company in the US…I mean they are all reporting record profits and, without greed, prices would be dropping and inflation wouldn’t be a thing…so, if they won’t regulate themselves and do the right thing for the American consumer who make those record profits possible, we need to tax those record incomes and return the money they are stealing to the American people…and do it right now…but you know who doesn’t want that to happen…the repubs since high gas prices can be used to hurt Biden and the dems in the 22 election…and you can bet they don’t give a damn about anything but getting back into power so they can continue to reward these assholes for stealing everything that is not nailed down….and if the regular Americans get hurt, they just don’t care…geez…
My next question about Tucker…
Well…if there is a traitor in our midst named Tucker Carlson…and there is if you have read the 12 page memo leaked from a Russian intelligence service by Mother Jones magazine that instructs all of Russian media to play clips of Tucker and his support of Putin all day every day and that China has jumped on, too…my next question about this traitor is: “is he getting instructed by Russian intelligence to do the spots on his show so Putin and his cronies can use the propaganda to hurt the US?” How about the next question: “is Tucker or fox news getting paid to spread the propaganda so the Russians can use it?” How else do you explain Tucker’s crazy support of the Russian dictator and the un-American bullshit he spews every day? As I made the comparison before, what tucker is doing is worse than what Tokyo Rose or Axis Sally did in world war two since Tucker has a built in audience of millions that believe everything he says and he is damaging the US so much more than those two traitors that he needs to be fired right now…and Rupert Murdoch and fox news need to be fined or shut down since there is no first amendment protection against treason against the US. Some enterprising lawyer should sue them right now for another billion dollars and put them out of business….geez…
Maureen Ferguson is a right wing hack…
Well…just read an opinion piece in USA today that has me pissed off that they would allow this right wing hack, Maureen Ferguson, to spew her right wing nonsense in a national paper. In the piece she goes on to essentially cheer for the defeat of a bill in congress that would enshrine women’s right to control their own bodies by federal law to take it out of the right wing supreme court hands…and she goes on to frame it as the women’s rights supporters not believing in democracy since they don’t want to allow the repub controlled states to codify their hate into law…hate of women, hate of minorities, and hate of the LGBT community and to restrict the rights of people they don’t like. She is living in the 19th century and using the same state’s rights arguments that were used to support slavery and ensuring that black people don’t have the right to vote…so I guess to this hack it is against democracy to try to protect everyone in the US…even those who live in states that have been rigged so the repubs control them and she is just fine with that rigging….again, this is the same bullshit argument that has been made since before the civil war…and it reeks of pushing her religion (catholicism) on everyone since she works for a catholic organization whose purpose is to outlaw abortion in this country….it is specifically because of people like ferguson why protections for all the groups she and her repub counterparts hate have been federalized…if we left it to the states she so reveres, slavery would still be a thing and women would still be property to be controlled by men….and minorities would still not have the right to vote…and she can’t deny that with the continuing efforts of her beloved repub party, that right is under attack in 2022….what a right wing hack….
Missouri wants to kill women…
Well…damn..I really don’t know what is in the water in Missouri but it is revealing the crazy that is rampant down there…and the latest two laws that the repubs there are going to pass are just stunning in the dripping hate towards women that comes from their Taliban like repub party…the first one that was reported on a few days back would prohibit women living in Missouri to go across state lines to get an abortion no matter if it would save the life of the pregnant woman…and they are using the same damn bullshit that the supreme court allowed in Texas…that private citizens will be allowed to sue any woman that goes out of state for an abortion…how this is not unconstitutional, I really don’t know but with the right wing capture of the judicial branch in the US, the theocracy loving judges appointed by repubs will think it just fine to treat women as second class citizens…after all, that’s what the bible says they are and that is good enough for them…the next law that will be passed early next week outlaws abortions for ectopic pregnancies, where the fertilized egg implants in the fallopian tube instead of the uterus and will result in the death of the woman if it is allowed to grow and destroy the tube…resulting in the woman bleeding out if nothing is done…but that is okay with these assholes in Missouri…and the sick thing is this one is introduced by a woman rep who is so ignorant that she doesn’t know or care that this law will sentence every woman that has this happen to death…but I guess that is just fine with these “religious” assholes…if a few hundred women die so they can push their theocracy on the people of Missouri that’s just the price that has to be paid….these people are murderers plain and simple and the courts are letting them get away with it…and it’s just the start unless we all get out and vote these assholes out…geez…
Watch out Gym Jordan…George is coming for you…
Well…I know you’ve heard of the trump toady, Jim Jordan, the rep from Ohio who is probably one of the nastiest people in all of the congress and who continues to push the lies about the 2020 election and all the other lies about the dems on a daily basis…but he is most well known, in some circles, for his ignoring the sexual abuse of athletes at Ohio State when he was a wrestling coach there and allowing it to continue for years….and then claiming he never saw anything even though multiple athletes testified that they told him when the abuse was going on and he did nothing to stop it. So far, he has avoided any consequences for his lack of action and the coverup that came after the abuse…but, that just may change in the near future with the announcement that George Clooney is going to produce a documentary about the scandal…and will pierce the bubble of coverup that has allowed Jordan to get elected to congress and avoid any responsibility for his complicity in this abuse…I really do hope that Jordan and everyone like him whether they are repubs or dems will finally pay for ignoring the abuse of people who they are supposed to be protecting…but, I don’t know if I have any hope that this will happen…after all, the head of the repub party has abused and sexually assaulted many, many women and has never been held responsible for it….and the repubs like it that way….geez…