Well…the world news service Reuters is out with a new report that shows that AT&T and it’s subsidiary direct tv created and is still supporting the right wing hoax news channel OANN….you know the one, the channel that is all hoaxes and conspiracy theories and anti vaxxers that daily undermines our democracy with constant stories about “election fraud” that doesn’t exist. They also use the channel as an in house propaganda network that heaps praise on AT&T constantly and helps them get the government to do what they want…like when they bought direct tv and needed government approval of the merger….now, AT&T has been at his kind of crap since before time essentially when they were part of the old Bell network and they are the primary funders of the Texas repubs that just ended women’s rights to control their own bodies there….and they are still funding the idiot trump and the thugs that tried to overthrow the government and who are still at it…so, if you have AT&T as your cell provider or direct tv as your tv provider, switch since every dollar you give them helps undermine this country and helps repubs make women second class citizens….there are better companies out there to give your money to…geez…
Category Archives: Politics
Still late….
Well…damn, started the day off late and I’m still running late now and it’s almost 3…and I can’t find a topic, either…I could talk about the debt ceiling crisis that appears to be pushed back a couple of months with a deal that allows the government to function until the end of December…and I think that is bullshit and the dems always give in…they should have ended the filibuster for good and told McConnell to go to hell with his obstruction…after all, the debt ceiling being raised is to pay for the 7 trillion dollars of debt that ole mitch and the idiot boy saddled the country with by cutting taxes on the rich and corporations…it not to pay for anything that the country needs and that the dems are trying to get fixed…I think I’m too tired to care much about it, though….can’t work up the outrage I normally have for this kind of stuff…and the two rides I did today were probably the most brutal I’ve had in a long time…going into the wind that was blowing about 20 out of the east and my legs hurt the whole way….and they still hurt now just sitting here…okay, this one was pretty jumbled but that’s how my brain feels right now….
I’m glad the progressives are pushing…
Well….finally, the progressive part of our caucus is pushing hard to get the infrastructure and other bills that will help ordinary Americans passed and are telling the “centrists” to come along or get out of the way…and I am glad to hear that…it’s about time that legislation is being built that doesn’t pander to the rich or the deficit scolds who wring their hands that we are adding to the national debt…it doesn’t matter when interest rates are almost negative and everyone knows that but the preening centrists want to look like they are the ones who are thinking about debt for the good of the country….and they love to have people kiss their butts to compromise…but it is not time for compromise, it’s time to go big to fix this country and make sure we can protect the right to vote….and that can’t be compromised…either you do that or you lose the country and the rest of this is just bullshit….so go progressives…the fate of the country is in your hands…geez…
They’ve lost the Chamber of Commerce…
Well…if you didn’t think the modern repub party has become a radical cult, you just have to look at the news from this morning where the repubs have stopped the C of C from being part of any repub gathering, fundraising, etc….and it’s because there are still some sane repubs in the organization who still can determine facts and want what is best for the country…like supporting the recovery act that Biden pushed through congress and supporting vaccines and mandates along with the infrastructure bill that is wending it’s way through congress. So, we now know for certain that the modern repubs don’t give a damn about this country, only the repub cult that has gone so far to the right they have left the ultra conservative C of C behind…and I think that is a good thing…the C of C realizes that the only sane party left that they can work with is the dems and maybe this will be another nail in the coffin of the crazy assed repubs who would tear this country down just to spite the dems…at least we can hope…geez…
Did some work today…
Well…don’t think this place has been this clean since I moved in…have been working on cleaning all day and just took the ac unit downstairs and I am about done for the day…I have been looking for a topic for today without a lot of luck and that is disappointing…I did read about another insider’s look at the idiot’s wh and it was even worse than anyone knew…I mean playing show tunes to keep idiot boy calm and not telling him the staff sent AF1 to take the Bush’s to GHW’s funeral? I had to laugh when a jury ruled that Alex Jones has to pay damage to Sandy Hook parents for calling them “crisis actors” on his infowars website…now we wait for the damages to be awarded that will probably bankrupt this asshole and his website…good riddance. The dems are still fighting with themselves over the bills that are necessary to save this country and I can’t figure that out….but, I do applaud the progressive caucus for standing firm against the so-called moderates who are just repubs in different clothes and who only want to do the bare minimum…they sure look like they don’t understand that it is time to go big to fix this country…and to give me and all the other retirees dental insurance for medicare….not sure how long I can wait to have my dental work started…can hold out for a while but not too much longer…what else? Yeah, I think that’s enough for today….got the two rides in and then cleaning for a couple of hours has me pretty worn out…and the loctite didn’t work on the seat so I took my 12″ crescent wrench and reefed on it..I seem to remember I had to do that to the black bike, too…got through the second ride with no problem but we’ll see tomorrow….
This is no longer a representative democracy…
Well….I have been following the sausage making on the bills needed to move this country forward that are supported by almost 70% of Americans, and the only thing I can say is that this is no longer a representative democracy…when two people can prevent the country from the progress that is needed to make this a fairer society and help people to have better lives, there is something wrong…and the excuses that Sinema and Manchin are using are as incoherent as they are stupid…nit picking that this 1.5 trillion dollar bill is too much and the country can’t afford it even though it’s cost is only 150 billion a year over the 10 years it would be in effect…and both of these idiots voted for the trump tax cuts that was the biggest giveaway to the rich the country had ever seen…and cost 2 trillion dollars, but when there is anything ever to help normal people they can’t be bothered to support it…they might just as well be repubs for all of the damage they are doing to the dem party and this country….one thing they don’t get is that there is no more business as usual, for this time our side needs to go big and these two don’t want to go at all…damn, they need to be primaried with some true dems but that won’t help now…they are giving the country away to the repubs and it will be the final nail in the coffin for democracy…hope you guys are happy killing the US…what a couple of preening morons…geez…
September 30th
Well…running about on time this morning with getting up at about 6:45 but I’m having a little trouble getting going with just starting on the coffee for the morning….I don’t have much to do today so I guess I can ease into the day with no stress….had an okay day yesterday but I was just so damn worn out all day and I hope today will be better….have some cleaning to do since one of my sons is coming over tomorrow afternoon to hang out and living alone, that is not too much of a priority…and I have some outdoor work to do, too….need to remove the last of the flowers along the back of the house and do some trimming on the trees to get ready for winter….and I need to mow the lawn and do the weed walk today….so I have lots to do and hope I have the energy to do it….I may cut back to one ride today just to be careful with how I’ve been feeling but we’ll see after the first ride….my shoulder barely hurts today and, with getting two shots in it, it should hurt worse but I’ll take it….I did eat more yesterday and am going to try to keep that up for a few days…I know it makes a difference but my calorie restriction is so ingrained that I really don’t like eating like a normal person…..not much to do today…yeah, that’s not true….have to pay some bills two weeks early since the post office is so screwed up it takes a full week or longer to get to Ohio….and then on to the yard and I need to get on the windows to get them cleaned before winter…but I need to be careful since banging my thumb still hurts like crazy and I need to not get it infected….more later….
I hate republicans…
Well…yeah, if you’ve ever been here before, that’s pretty obvious but I want to make sure there is no doubt in anyone’s mind…this whole debt ceiling bullshit that McConnell and the rest of his domestic terrorists are pulling is just the latest in a long line of holding the country and world hostage to prevent the dems from governing and doing things that will help the everyday American….look, what this raise is going to do is allow the US to pay for the idiot trump’s tax cuts for the rich…it’s not for current spending since there has been very little new spending that hasn’t been paid for…so, the repubs blow up the budget with tax cuts that never pay for themselves, and then the dems have to come in and clean up the mess they leave every damn time…but this time the repubs don’t want the mess cleaned up since they think it will hurt Biden and keep him from doing anything to deal with the economic problems this country has and fix it’s crumbling infrastructure….and they especially don’t want the for the people act passed since it will take away the voter suppression tools that the repubs have been using all over the country to keep dem voters from voting. Now, this is just a few of the things they have been doing…and any sane person would hate the people doing it…doing their best to destroy this country and handing even more of it to the rich….I hate every damn one of them…geez…
The fraud “audits” continue…
Well…now that the fraud audit in Arizona is completed and found no problems other than those the repubs invented, and gave Joe almost 300 more votes..you would think that these results would deter other repub states from pulling the same BS…but if you thought that, you would be wrong. Even with the memo from trump’s lawyer laying out the plan to steal the election by loudly shouting fraud before the election, and admitting there was none, repubs all across the country are calling for “audits”…even in states that the idiot won…so we now know this was never about fraud but about a long term project to rig elections for the repubs by voter suppression and casting doubt on any election that the repubs lose….shouting fraud is just one of many tools they are using to ensure minority rule by them for a century or more….so, more than ever we need to keep the heat on our side to pass the vote protection law that would preempt the 500 or so new voter suppression laws that have been enacted on the state level by repubs carrying out their un-American cheating….and it needs to pass now…there isn’t a day to waste…geez…
Subpoenas are going out….
Well…running a little late this afternoon with getting everything done before coming here…but, when I got back from the second ride, there was a pleasant surprise in the news when I read that the House committee that is investigating the January 6th attack has sent out subpoenas to all of the idiot trump’s inner circle who were involved in the planning of the insurrection…now all we need is to have them subpoena trump and get him into a deposition where he’ll lie his ass of and perjure himself…idiot boy is already bleating that everything they are requesting is covered by “executive privilege” but that privilege ended when he was kicked out of office and Biden is the one who is going to be making the decisions on what info is going to be provided….and a lot of what has been requested and that trump is pissed about has already been provided by the national archives since they belong to the American people, not idiot boy. This committee needs to work fast and it appears they are doing just that…I’m sure there will be lawsuits from almost all of them to try to get out of telling the truth about their attempt to overthrow the government…and I really hope that the justice department follows up with charges against these treasonous bastards…geez…