Well…yeah, I’m running late today and there really is no reason for it other than I’ve spent the past hour looking for a topic and no luck…I could talk about the infrastructure deal that the repubs are supposed to have “taken over” to push it over the finish line but we all know they will drag that out until it dies of natural causes since they don’t want anything to pass that will help people other than the rich and I can’t understand why Schumer is going to let that happen….this bullshit emphasis on “bipartisanship” is so damn naive or just plain stupid that I can’t remember being so mad at the dems running the show…just dump the repubs and do it through reconciliation so you’ll only need 51 votes…you’ve given the repubs every thing that they wanted and they haven’t given anything…just like every damn time you try to negotiate with these pricks and you end up passing a repub bill…what about the people who voted for you? Don’t they get anything for all the work they did to put you there? At least Nancy Pelosi is taking a wait and see attitude about this bill since she knows that no repub can be trusted and she won’t sign on to anything if it doesn’t achieve dem goals…so Chuck, listen to Nancy this time…hey, I did find a topic….should I change the title? Nope…let’s leave it and confuse everybody….
Category Archives: Politics
These were no “tourists”
Well…If you haven’t been following the first day of the 1/6 commission, you should be…the officers who defended the capitol from these terrorists, to quote one of the officers, he described the battle as something from “medieval” times and it appears to me that all of these men have been sorely damaged by this attack…and the attackers weren’t any damn “tourists” as the repubs keep spouting that bullshit nonsense. This is just the first day of the hearings and hearing these officers talk about their experiences and the video of the attack, it is so much worse that any news reporting to this point….it was a pitched battle against people in tactical gear who shouted racist epithets at the African American officers who were protecting this country…we all know who started this crap, and I can’t figure out why the idiot trump is not in jail right now, along with gosar and the rest of the elected officials who helped plan and carry out this attack on our country..it is against the law to incite violence to try to overthrow the government…so Garland need to follow up after the commission does it’s work and charge these assholes…every damn one of them…including hawley and jordan….geez…
The crazy runs deep in the GOP…
Well…if you thought that the repubs couldn’t get any crazier than believing in all of Q conspiracy theories, you were wrong….just today a new frickin over the top one came out…Joe Biden doesn’t live in the White House…the military stopped him from moving in and he is living in a 80% scale replica on Tyler Perry’s estate in Georgia….and that Biden and Harris have been using this replica to fake leadership and impose despotic rule on America…and that’s where Jen Psaki has been doing the press briefings and where Biden has been hosting foreign dignitaries….and all of the media including fox news are covering the whole thing up….yeah, I don’t even know what to say about that other than it just keeps getting crazier and crazier out of the repubs….and not one of them in leadership will say anything about it since they still need the crazys to win elections…I can only shake my head….geez….
Peter Meijer should be next…
Well….with the addition of Adam Kinzinger to the January 6th committee this morning, I have a suggestion for another repub to add to it…rep Peter Meijer, who used to be my rep in the House and who appears to be a person that will put the country first and who has shown it by voting to impeach the idiot trump…and calling the repub party a bunch of snakes. Now, while I don’t live in his district anymore with my move to Muskegon, I will relate that when I was trying to get my stimulus checks that weren’t getting to me, he put his staff on it and got me the information I needed to get the 2 grand that I was waiting on….and that is what a rep is supposed to do…help his constituents when they have problems. One problem that appointing him would make is that he was one of only 10 repub house members who voted to impeach and that is going to be the talking point the repubs will use to attack the whole process….that the repubs on the committee all hate trump so it’s going to be biased…but all of the dems on the committee hate trump, too, but they love the country more and will get to the truth of how much trump was involved in the insurrection and who planned it…etc. It is sick that only three repubs in all of the House will uphold their oath to protect the constitution from all enemies both foreign and domestic…. lets hope three is enough…geez…
Now that their voters are dying, vaccines are okay…
Well…with the super infectious delta variant of the covid virus roaring through the unvaccinated population which is mostly repubs, I guess losing voters to the virus is now too much for some repub figures and they are now trying to get the people they have been lying to for over a year to get vaccinated …and the biggest outbreak is in Florida, of course, with almost 20% of all the new cases and three other repub run states make up 40% of the rest…so 60% of these killer cases are in repub run states and when the Florida governor was asked what he is going to do about, he said “nothing”….no lockdowns, no mask mandates, or anything else that would save the lives of American citizens….I guess he doesn’t understand that if he loses 1% of his voters, he would not get re-elected since his margin of victory was less than that. But other repub governors understand this fact and are doing an about face and blaming all of this outbreak on the vaccine resistors and telling them to get vaccinated….fat lot of good that will do…resistors are not rational and won’t listen to anyone but fox news and they are still pushing all anti vax, all the time….you know, I hate these people for how badly they’ve damaged this country, but no one deserves to die for believing the non stop lies they have been fed…..but, they are dying and will continue to die since they still believe the virus is a hoax…sometimes they believe it right up until they die…and that’s a shame and the fault of every talking head on the right starting with the idiot tucker….geez…
Good job, Nancy…
Well…Nancy Pelosi really does know her job….just a couple of days ago, minority leader Kevin McCarthy appointed 5 repubs to the 1/6 committee with two of them only there to sabotage it and they came out said it out loud…one of the saboteurs was even “gym” Jordan….you remember him, right? The guy who helped cover up athlete abuse at Ohio State when he was a wrestling coach there….but Nancy was not having any of it and as speaker, she has the last say on who gets what committee assignment….so she wouldn’t seat two of the repubs and McCarthy threw a hissy fit and pulled all 5 of his repub appointments and said he would do his own “investigation” but without subpoena power or funding since Nancy controls that, too. It really does appear this was a trap set by Nancy and McCarthy walked right into it…and since Nancy appointed a repub, Liz Cheney, to the committee, it has a quorum and can get started without any other repub appointees….good job, Nancy….now lets hold these pricks accountable…geez…
Who Cares?
Well…with the launch of Jeff Bezos rocket with him in it today and getting to space, my reaction to it is who cares? Who cares that a billionaire has taken his vanity project and spent a lot of money on it? This rocket has no purpose other than to put people into space and it’s just like Branson’s flight last week….another toy for rich people to spend money on….you could say that this rocket was built by you and me since Bezos brags that he doesn’t pay any taxes on his billions…and his tone deaf comment after the flight that the rocket was paid for by the people of Amazon and it’s customers shows how out of touch he is….and I’m sure the underpaid and abused workers at amazon’s warehouses will just love to hear that their abuse allowed this rich prick to fund his vanity project while they take their 5 minutes of breaks in a 10 hour shift. I really have had enough of the rich getting to do these kinds of things because of the inequality in our system…wouldn’t it be better for the US and the world to have Bezos pay his damn taxes so we can fix the roads and schools instead of buying a new toy for the richest person in the world?
So now they’re the tax cheat party…
Well…with the dems doing everything they can to pass the infrastructure bill and think of ways to help pay for it, one of which was to give more funding to the IRS so they could go after the rich tax cheats that steal hundreds of billions of dollars every year by not paying their taxes. But today, we found out that the repubs are now the pro tax cheat party since they refuse to agree to have the rich tax cheats pay their fair share….it is one of the millions of “red lines” that they say they won’t allow to be crossed…and all of those millions are about raising revenue…they prefer to have their big donors have the ability to cheat or they will stop giving them money….and they can’t have that…or fairness in taxation….can’t have that…or these rich cheats paying one penny more…can’t have that….you get the idea. Now, it’s damn time for dems to act like dems, tell the repubs to go to hell and pass this bill without them since the repubs never negotiate in good faith and everyone knows that but we keep treating them like honest brokers…and they just can’t be trusted…geez…
A little surpise…
Well…as I sit here contemplating if I should go out on the bike since the rain has stopped, a little surprise in the infrastructure bill that is getting ready to get passed by reconcilliation, which will bypass the filibuster, made me smile a bit…in that 3.5 trillion dollar bill, the dems have closed one of the biggest holes in medicare…that it doesn’t cover dental, vision, or hearing problems and all of us who have medicare have to pay for all of that out of pocket…even medicare advantage like I have only covers tiny amounts of those…no real dental work…maybe one cleaning a year…but that’s about it for dental….but this bill will cover everything including hearing aids, glasses and all dental care…for me, that is really welcome since I have been putting off the thousands of dollars in dental work I need to be able to eat ice cream again and fix the loose molar I have on my right side….so, I guess I can suffer a few more months if it will save me a couple of thousand dollars…it probably wouldn’t take effect until the next sign up period that ends Jan 1 of next year….I’ll keep my fingers crossed…
Back to the middle ages…
Well…the repubs truly are trying to take the country back to the middle ages…just yesterday, Tennessee repubs fired the head of vaccinations for telling the truth to a question about whether kids could get vaccinated without their parents consent (the SC there said they could)….so the repubs fired her and then went even farther to end any vaccine outreach at all for children…that’s all o fthe effective vaccines…whooping cough, diptheria, measles, mumps, rubella and even polio will no longer even give information out when they are asked that has any state seal on it…the seal has to be removed first and the health department will no longer be allowed to coordinate any vaccine events at schools or anywhere else…and they specifically said it was because the repubs pressured them into it…so now, Tennessee has gone back to before vaccines were developed and are going to willingly kill children just because of some right wing conspiracy theory that was created whole cloth out of lies…but the repubs and right wing media don’t care if they kill a few more children…after all they were responsible for over 400K Americans dying during the pandemic that is still raging in red states so what’s a few more dead to add to the total? I hate those guys….geez…