Well…in my long lifetime, when there was a threat to the US or our allies there may have been a little disagreement between the parties, there has never been a whole side of our political discourse that sided with our enemies and blatantly announced that they wanted the other side to win…and all just to hurt the current president and help their political fortunes in the next election. but we have exactly that now with the modern repub party becoming the biggest cheerleader for Putin in the world, rivaling even Russian propaganda on fox news. This “giving aid and comfort to the enemy” is in the definition of treason in the statutes in the US and isn’t parroting Russian propaganda all day long giving aid? Remember that the various radio announcers in WWII like “Tokyo Rose” or “Axis Sally” who supported the Japanese and the Germans were caught and tried for treason after the war and you can argue that they didn’t do anywhere near as much damage to the US cause since everyone knew they spread pretty obvious lies and didn’t take them seriously like people do with fox news..why, I don’t know but they do. These traitors like tucker need to be held to account for their Putin loving bullshit…and no it’s not a violation of the first amendment if they are committing treason…there are some things you can’t say and supporting our enemies is one of them….lock them up…geez…
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Phil Mickleson is just a terrible person….
Well…you know I’ve talked about this before where Phil is just a big asshole and went on and on and on about California raising his taxes a small bit threatening to move out of state to one of the backwater ones run by repubs that don’t have any state income taxes but also have crumbling schools and infrastructure…but that doesn’t matter to these selfish assholes…it’s all me,me,me without a thought to anyone but themselves…and ole Phil is at it again with trying to “sportswash” the murderous Saudi regime by supporting their attempt to create a new world golf league…and guess where they are going to play here in the US? Yeah, that’s an easy one…at the clubs of the asshole in chief who went out of his way to protect bin Salman who ordered the murder of a US based journalist, Khashoggi, and never paid a price for it since trump was just fine with it….oh, and joining Mickleson is the owner of the company who is putting the tournaments on, Greg Norman, the Aussie who appears to be another asshole who has no morals and will help the Saudis burnish their reputation by getting other right wing asshole golfers to participate in these tournaments. We know one of the hallmarks of these entitled assholes is that they don’t care who they associate with if it make them some of that sweet, sweet, dirty Saudi cash to line their pockets…okay, do you have the idea of what I think of these guys? Yep, a bunch of entitled asshole whiners who have never had to work a day in their lives and act like they are better than everyone since they can hit a little white ball…..they should be ostracized just for their behavior over the years but to add this one should make them pariahs wherever they go….geez….
So nice to have a “real” president…
Well…no matter how much the right attacks and tries to belittle him, isn’t it nice to have a real president acting like a real president should? That thought came to me over the past few days after the Ukraine crisis bubbles on and as Putin has been trying all his old bullshit tricks to justify invading a sovereign nation…could you imagine how screwed up the world would be if idiot boy was still in charge? Cripes, Russia would be taking over it’s third or fourth country by now and trump would be in Moscow praising him for being so “strong” while abandoning all of Europe. It seems that someone in this administration plays chess with the moves that Biden has been making…and his restoring of our vital alliances and his leadership has all of the rest of the world on exactly the same page…and if Russia does invade, it will be the end of Putin as a player on the world stage and it’s economy will take a hit that will take decades to repair if it ever can. All of this from a “senile” old man who can barely talk if you listen to fox news…and I sure hope you don’t….look, Biden has restored the US’s leadership in the world by our actions, not the bullshit that trump and his administration spewed every day…and with Biden making sure that our allies understand they are equals that we value, I see a sense of relief from them and a willingness to back our actions since they are based on facts and not the “gut feel” of a moron…and that gives me relief to know that a real president is at the controls….
Whitewashing history…
Well…so now I guess the latest spasm that the repubs are going through is passing laws whose only purpose is to whitewash history and make sure that no teacher in repub controlled states can teach the truth about this country at all…they want it to appear that there was no slavery, no Jim Crow, or no continuing racism that goes on to this day…and no Klan or lynchings…and I guess nothing about the gilded age where the rich stole everything and rigged the system so no else could even get a tiny share…and their reason is that if little white kids are told the truth, it may hurt their feelings and they just can’t take that as it may scar them for life….and the irony of that whole argument is that little white kids can’t be taught about it…but a little black girl, Ruby Bridges, lived it when she was the first black to go to an all white school and had to listen to all of the white racists scream at her and call her the “N” word…and to have adults throw things at her and threaten her life…she can endure that but little white kids can’t be taught about it since they may “feel bad” about being white….now, this crap is just as racist as the whites who screamed at Ruby and tells you where all of these new laws are coming from…they want to keep the “uppity” minorities in their place and make sure they know they are not in any way equal to little white kids who need to be protected from everything….and their culture and experience in their lives has no value to “normal” society. Now these white southern racists are going after teachers by passing laws that give any screaming white racist the ability to rat out any teacher that teaches anything about race in this country and then get the teacher fired…so now Martin Luther King and the racial equality movement no longer exists in Texas. Mississippi, and every other southern state and the happy face of slavery is the new reality in schoolrooms across the south…I knew that racism was still bubbling under the surface of this country but I really thought that we had come past the overt stuff that plagued my childhood…but this is worse than then…and we have come nowhere at all…geez…
Well…maybe no one IS above the law….
Well…in a surprising ruling, to me anyway, a NY court just ruled that the trump crime family had to sit for depositions in NY’s civil suit against them for their corrupt manipulation of evaluations of their properties to get loans and avoid taxes. That means that the idiot boy, cocaine don jr., and griftanka have 21 days to comply and sit down with AG James to answer to the evidence she has gathered that show they have been breaking law for years…and after this, there is still the criminal case brought by the NYC AG for exactly the same things…and, in their letter firing the trumps from being represented by them, Mazars laid the whole thing right on the idiot boy, saying that he was responsible for providing them with the false information that they based his taxes on. Now, we know he is going to try to take this to the SC where his pet judges don’t follow the law and we can be pretty sure they will give him a “get out of jail free” card….but, if they don’t, we also know that the only thing we’ll get out of the three of them is new records for how many times someone takes the fifth in one deposition….I think the record now is 500 times and I would be surprised if the idiot even responds with his name instead of taking the fifth…hmmm…I seem to remember a guy named donald trump saying that only gangsters take the fifth and if you don’t have anything to hide, you don’t need to…but in a “witch hunt” as idiot boy calls it, all bets are off…tick tock donnie…and donnie jr. and griftanka…
Let’s get this straight…
Well…it looks like the movement of Russian troops away from the border with Ukraine was a lie and there is still a real chance that they are going to invade before the week is out…and with that, I will admit I was wrong to think that Putin has any thought about anything but himself and playing the tough guy on the world stage…and when sanctions are imposed, the Russian people are going to pay for his stupidity while he and his oligarch buddies sit there and count their money that China is going to guarantee keeps flowing into their corrupt hands….and let’s get this straight…no matter what fox news says, the only one responsible for the deaths and carnage that is going to happen is Putin…it is not Biden’s fault, it is not NATO’s fault, it is not Ukraine’s fault…it is all on Putin and I really hope that the UN and the rest of the world hold him accountable and make sure Russia no longer has the capability to threaten it’s neighbors…we need to remember that Russia is a third rate economy and Putin is doing this to distract from all of his theft of anything that is not nailed down…geez….
Inflation is profit taking…and Ceo stealing…
Well…I know inflation is on the mind of most people here in the US that aren’t independently wealthy, and I also know that fox news and everyone on the right is lying about the causes….like housing prices that have been affected by the industrialization of home purchasing by REITs and other big purchasers who have been snapping up starter homes to turn into rental units and who can afford to pay more than individuals since they can just raise the rents to ensure their profit margins….and this scramble by these corporations have shut most low income buyers out of the market and caused the crazy price increases that have even affected the house that I bought a year ago…I mean a house that I bought for 90K a year ago is now worth 140K? That is just nuts. When we look at food prices, lets use the example of Kroger whose revenues and profits are up over 40% in the past year and how do they use those increased profits? By increasing CEO pay, stock buybacks, and increased dividends, not by holding the line on prices…again taking advantage of the pandemic by transferring wealth to the rich while most of their employees can’t afford their rent anymore. Kroger is not alone…throughout the economy, corporations are blaming higher prices on supply chain issues or a whole host of other problems but the real reason is pure greed…all of them are taking advantage of small hiccups in the economy to steal as much as they can while the media falls behind in their reporting or just believes the lies and reports them…it’s easier than doing their jobs and reporting the truth….and if there is not profit taking going on, why are oil companies more profitable than they have been in years? They love the fact that OPEC is shouting about raising oil prices by restricting supply when that has no effect on American oil production or refining for retail customers of gasoline….but gas is at it’s highest price in 8 years as are the profits of the oil companies…just plain old price gouging that they are allowed to get away with…so when the right whines about inflation, you can be sure it is only a lie to attack Biden and his administration since their big donors are doing just fine and love them some of that sweet, sweet inflation that allows them to steal more than normal…geez…
I might have been right…
Well…with all of the noise that the Russian invasion of Ukraine is going to start tomorrow, Joe Biden gave a short and to the point speech that in no uncertain terms, the US will respond to any invasion of Ukraine or any NATO member with overwhelming economic sanctions and Putin must understand this…and guess what happened? Putin suggested that there may be a “diplomatic solution” to the crisis that he created…as I talked about this morning, I felt that Putin miscalculated the response from the west and thought that he could take over Ukraine with no opposition and just threats and it now looks like he may be coming to his senses…and Biden made a good point during his short speech today that we don’t want to hurt the Russian people but won’t be bullied by their government which they understand to mean Putin since they know Putin runs the show no matter who they vote for. So I guess we’ll see what happens over the next few days…I will gloat if I was right…it doesn’t happen too often….
Mazars is all in….
Well…with the news that came out yesterday that the accounting firm Mazars fired all of the trumps from being a client as of the 9th of Feb, more and more is being revealed about how they are cooperating with the AG’s in New York…first, with the filing with the court of it’s intent to no longer represent the idiots trump, it was noted that they have already turned over 500,000 pages of financial information to them…and that is a hell of a lot of pages and should be the detail that is needed to understand how the trump’s cheated on their taxes for over 10 years…but the less reported key to this whole thing is that Mazars is cooperating with the AGs…and can you think of a more damaging development than your former accounting firm that you lied to constantly for over 10 years is now cooperating with NY? Another thing that is a little under the radar is that Mazars will be trying to cleanse it’s reputation of it’s association with the trumps and will be really pissed that they were used by these criminals who don’t care about the truth or who they have to hurt to continue to commit crimes. I know that everyone has been saying that the trumps are in deep shit for years now but none of them have done the perp walk…yet….and I am not going to jump on that band wagon…I still think it’s going to be interesting to watch as the trumps get more and more desperate and we see more meltdowns as little eric did yesterday on fox….not sure if it’s time for popcorn yet….geez..
Let’s quit the “Putin blinked” crap…
Well…there is a bunch of confusing information coming out about Russian troop movements this morning with some reports saying they are moving away from the Ukraine border and others saying they are moving closer to the border…but there was an official Russian statement that gloated that the west was completely wrong about the invasion and it was just alarmism and trying to hurt Russia with lies….now, again, this could be one of two things…it could be Russia trying another smokescreen to lull the world into thinking they aren’t attacking or it’s Putin trying to figure out a way to get out of his self created crisis without damaging his standing in Russia or the world…now, if it’s the latter, we need to stop saying that Putin “blinked” and help him get out of this mess by essentially being quiet and letting him do it…the world all knows who is responsible for this and we can gently remind everyone that it was Putin and Russia that started the whole thing…but, we can also allow him to save face to defuse the situation with no war…smart diplomacy backed up by the concerted action of NATO showed it’s worth during this entire crisis…so, and I never thought I’d be saying this…give Putin a little time to declare victory and go home…and don’t gloat about the win…sometimes the best diplomacy is to just stay quiet….hmmm…