Well….when I was on the bike this morning, a thought hit me that really, really pissed me off…with the anti vaxxers getting sick and spreading delta everywhere, these assholes could cost me 5 grand if I get sick and have to go to the hospital…see, even with my Medicare advantage plan, I am on the hook for 5 grand of co-pays if I end up in the hospital and that is pretty damn personal for me…and for the retirees who are still on regular Medicare, the plan only pays 80% of the bill and the patient is on the hook for the rest…and you know that weeks in the hospital with constant care is not going to be cheap…it could run up to half a million bucks and that would leave the patient with a bill of 100K….and I don’t know of many retirees who could foot that bill with leaving them completely broke…so here’s another reason to hate these selfish assholes who are solely responsible for the trouble this country is in…and who are responsible for me and many others masking up again when we did everything right by getting vaccinated to help our country…I have had enough and have no sympathy for those who chose to not get vaccinated and who are killing our healthcare workers…shame on them….geez…
Category Archives: Politics
Just remember this…
Well…with all of the attacks on Biden about his handling of the exit from Afghanistan and the Taliban taking over…again…just remember one thing, the Taliban offered to surrender and give up all of their weapons in 2001…but ole GW and his war mongering neocons wouldn’t accept since their biggest donors needed the war to go on for the purpose of profit and to prove they were the baddest army on the planet…so, 20 years of death and destruction and 2 trillion dollars later, the idiots who gave us that war are now criticizing Biden for ending it? These chickenhawks should just shut the hell up and go away, they have been wrong on every point starting with the WMD’s in Iraq and could have gotten us out of Afghanistan 20 years ago…and the media needs to stop feeding the right wing talking points to the rest of the world…just a sordid bunch of lies to sell papers and to try to weaken Biden so they can have a “horserace” in 2024….geez…
This is child abuse…
Well…someone please tell me how what the repub governors are doing to endanger children is not child abuse? Sending them back to school with no protection at all and essentially forcing them to expose themselves to a deadly virus is the essence of child abuse…how must these kids feel when the are old enough to understand how bad this virus is or have had a family member die from covid? And the people who are supposed to protect them show them they don’t care at all…I’m amazed that most of them don’t have symptoms of PTSD and no kid should have to deal with that…but the repubs across the country are letting ideology rule and making nice with the 22% of the country who are the freaking nuts is the new order for them….in every damn district that opened with no mask mandate in place, almost all of them have closed with so many kids and teachers sick that they can’t hold classes….and this only took a week of holding these superspreader classes….in any other time, every damn one of these asses would have killed their political careers by killing children…but not now…for the modern repubs it is a badge of honor, and that makes me sick…I hate them all….
The “fraudit” ends…
Well…just got done with the lawn and thought I’d talk a little about the “fraudit” that has been going on in Arizona for almost 6 months now….I guess the auditors are going to release a report Monday that says that they found mountains of evidence that idiot boy won Arizona even though there is no such evidence…and the repub SOS and repub county election head are both out with statements warning the media not to run with the report since it is all going to be lies and conspiracy theories and there is no voter fraud for them to find…and just the past couple of days courts have ruled that even though the “cyber ninjas”, the company that is handling the “audit” is a private company, they have to turn over all of the info about their processes and everything else and that the senate has to turn over all of the correspondence they had when hiring that unqualified company in the first place….so the crap is going to hit the fan Monday and will probably determine whether or not Michigan is going to go through that crap, too…sure hope not….geez…
Isn’t this pay for play?
Well…we’ve know for some time that the repub party is infested with grifters and thiefs but what the senator from Wisconsin, Ron Johnson did for two of his biggest donors is breathtaking in its crookedness. When the big tax giveaway to the rich that the repubs passed was being written, Johnson had a little bit of specialized tax code added that would benefit the two families that gave him 20 million dollars for his campaigns…and that benefit? They got tax breaks of almost 500 million dollars…not a bad return on your 20 million dollar bribe. This is normal for the repubs these days, scratch any one of them and you’ll find a petty crook inside, using their office to enrich themselves as people starve and the roads crumble….and yet, nothing is done…not one of them goes to jail and the rich keep stealing with their help…it’s pretty damn depressing…geez…
More Afghanistan…
Well…with all of the whitewashing that is going on with the repubs about their role in the Afghanistan debacle…wiping out twitter threads, scrubbing the RNC website, and any other place that they supported the idiot trump’s deal with the Taliban, let’s just remember what that “deal” was…idiot boy’s cronies negotiated the Taliban’s takeover by not even including the real government of the country…yep the government and army that we spent 2 trillion dollars supporting and building were not even included in the deal, and that telegraphed to the Taliban that the US didn’t care what happened after our withdrawal…and idiot boy gave them cash that the Taliban used to buy off cities, towns, and Afghan army units across the country so they wouldn’t fight…and why would they fight when they knew that the US didn’t care about them anymore with the master idiot giving the country to the Taliban in exchange for not attacking us as we left….so, let’s not let the revisionists on the right pull the same bullshit they always do to scrub their roles out of history and try to blame Joe for this crappy deal…he was bound to abide by it and did the only thing he could…get us the hell out of there…cripes, they had been fighting that war since I was in my 40’s and I’m a whole lot older than that now…geez…
Afghanistan…
Well…with all of the hand wringing and finger pointing that is going on with the collapse of the Afghan government and the Taliban takeover of the country, we need to remember the bottom line in this whole debacle…that no matter what we did and how much money we spent the Taliban was just going to wait us out and take over the country when we left…and there was no agreement that would have stopped it, any agreement was just part of the wait it out strategy that is happening there just as it was for the Vietnamese at the end of that war…and 20 years and 2 trillion dollars is enough…when should it end? If you listen to those on the right, they permanently wanted to occupy the country and part of that is that it keeps their buddies in the defense industry raking in cash….what is the profit on 2 trillion dollars spent? Now, with the chaos that is going on there, I will say there should have been better planning on how to withdraw and I do put some of the blame on Biden…but the generals and the intelligence community have had 20 years to plan how to get us out and I don’t see where the effort has had any effect…if there was any effort that is….I feel for the people of Afghanistan but most of them are perfectly fine with the Taliban taking over if it gets the Americans out so we needed to go….let’s not do this nation building crap again…okay? geez….
Biden to the rescue…
Well…as you’ve read here, the asshole repub governors of Texas and Florida are doing everything they can to get teachers and kids sick by forbidding any mask or vaccine mandates while threatening them with loss of pay and state funding for any school that tries to protect their staff or kids….but yesterday Joe Biden had his education secretary send a letter DeSantis of Florida telling him that any funding he cuts will be made up by the feds, essentially taking that threat away from him and doing the right thing by the staff and kids of the state of Florida…and that funding will be sent directly to the school districts so DeSantis can’t screw with the funding like he did with the 7 billion dollars Florida got from the coronavirus relief package and never gave to the schools just so he could have leverage to force people to die for his being an asshole. Look, if repub governors want to try to make sure their people die by forbidding them from using life saving equipment and vaccines by mandate, then Biden will do everything in his power to help the unfortunate residents of Florida and Texas who really would prefer not to have their governors kill them…geez…
I missed it..
Well…I was busy this afternoon so I missed the idiot trump being installed as president again…today was the day that the pillow guy said it was going to happen…did he move back into the WH yet? I can’t find any of the footage on the news…I wonder if the media is censoring conservatives again and that’s why I can’t find it? Did you hear his inaugural speech? Was it the most wonderous thing you have ever heard from the stable genius? Is Joe Biden in jail yet? That’s what trump’s cult has said was going to happen today and I can’t find anything about that, either…I wonder if they did it in secret just to hurt the media? This is really confusing…fox news has been trumpeting this for the past 6 months and it’s not true? How can that be? Yeah, it was never going to happen and this was all just sarcasm….after pillow guy’s meltdown at his “cyber symposium” this week I thought some of the trump cult would walk away from him…oh, and the guy that was supposed to confirm that pillow guy’s information that China hacked the election for Biden called the random numbers that pillow guy put forward as evidence is nothing but “a pile of crap”…and a judge is letting the 1.6 billion dollar suit against him go forward…now I can understand the meltdown…hope it continues…
Repub governors are ghouls…
WelI…I am never going to understand how the repub governors of Florida and Texas can live with themselves as they do their best to kill the children of their states. Both Abbott and DeSantis are making sure people are going to die by downplaying the effectiveness of vaccines and by outright banning the mask mandates that schools could use to try to protect these kids…DeSantis going so far as to withhold money from districts that mask up and even farther by cutting the pay of superintendents and principals that try to protect their children. The results of these ghouls actions are already being seen with every damn pediatric ICU bed already filled in both states and kids having to be flown to other states to try to keep them alive….and DeSantis has overseen an explosion of new cases in Florida of over 150K new cases in the past week…and he doesn’t care about anything but looking like a mini trump. Look, we don’t know what the long term effects of covid are on kids but it could cause long term health problems just like the adult “long haulers” who will never recover from the effects of being infected. But that doesn’t matter to these ghouls…they just don’t care about anything but looking good to their cult…and kids will die for it…geez…