Well…damn just got back from riding back on another flat and I am not in a good mood….and that gets me to this…it was revealed yesterday that Toyota gave and is stll giving money to 37 of the repub insurrectionists who voted to destroy our democracy and overturn the results of the 2020 election…and when asked about it, they doubled down with this statement: “we do not believe it is appropriate to judge members of congress solely on their votes on the electoral certification” yep, they think it’s perfectly fine that these assholes tried to overturn the fair election…you know that could lead to them this…”we don’t believe it’s appropriate to judge murderers solely on their murder…” you get the point, they are justifying supporting these folks because, other than overthrowing the government, they are very fine people….now, we should expect this from a company with a huge plant in Kentucky and the fact that the American managers are all right wing assholes….but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t boycott these asses and buy other cars…after all, there are many companies that don’t give money to insurrectionists and build perfectly fine cars here in the US….from what I’ve seen on the internet today, there is a firestorm building against these tone deaf assholes…nothing more than they deserve….geez…
Category Archives: Politics
Charges are going to be filed against the trump org next week…
Well….yeah, don’t get your hopes up with this news…it was announced Thursday that charges will probably be filed against the trump org next week…but the announcement didn’t say who will be indicted so that is something to look forward to….but, again, trump gets away with all of these crimes throughout his entire life so I don’t have a lot of hope that he will be included in the indictments….but, the grand jury felt that there was enough evidence of crimes being committed to approve charges and indictments…but the sparse details that have hit the news are a little disappointing in that they only deal with employees getting compensation that was not included in anyone’s taxes as income…now, that still is felony tax fraud but with all of the real estate and tax fraud that trump and his idiot kids have been doing forever, these charges don’t seem that serious…and they sure wouldn’t justify idiot boy fighting to keep his financial information secret all the way to the supreme court. I guess we just have to hope that Cy Vance is doing his job but has kept the main charges secret until they are announced….or he is just going to charge some of the small fish to get them to flip on trump…we can hope…
DOJ is suing Georgia…
Well…after Georgia passed a voter suppression law aimed at keeping dem voters from being able to vote that included making it a crime to give food and water to people standing in line to vote, there have been various lawsuits from voter protection organizations, but today, the big guns came out when the DOJ also filed suit against Georgia to get the law nullified. This law and over 250 others passed by repubs across the country are blatantly aimed at dems and the groups that normally support them and are based on the “big lie” of voter fraud that the idiot and his minions continue to spout and have no basis in fact at all…as evidenced by the report put out by the repub controlled Michigan senate that blew holes in the lies that are driving fake “recounts” in Arizona and stated bluntly that there was no fraud at all in Michigan and that people need to stop believing the lies that trump is spewing. It is about time that the DOJ got started going after these bigoted laws and start protecting the sacred right to vote…and now they need to go after every damn one of the over 250 laws that these cheaters have passed…and right now…
This is unexpected….
Well…there was a bombshell report issued by the repubs here in Michigan about their investigation into voter fraud that was alleged during the 2020 election…can you guess what it said? Nope, not that there was any fraud…it came out and bluntly said there was no fraud and the counts across Michigan were accurate…but the kicker was that it addressed all of the conspiracy theories that the idiot trump was pushing and called them what they were….lies…and that made my jaw drop…from a repub? And every repub that was on the committee agreed with the findings and actually said it out loud…they didn’t bury the report or denigrate the people on the committee…they just said plainly….no voter fraud. And the lead of the committee even said that people should wise up and stop believing the lies that are still being pushed by repubs across the country and that there is no need for an “audit” here…I can’t remember being so surprised by anything in politics in quite a while…oh, and he said that Joe Biden won Michigan fair and square…and that just blew my mind, too….but, my question now is why are they now passing all these laws here that makes it harder to vote if the current ones led to a “free and fair” election? Yeah…they are still hypocrites in my book….
I don’t understand….
Well….with the latest polls that came out yesterday showing that a full 70% of the US people think that our democracy is in danger of collapsing from the efforts of the repubs to subvert it, I don’t understand why they are still voting for these criminals….even almost 60% of repubs think their reps should make voting easier and more convenient and stop making it harder to vote…so why are they still doing it? Is it for just for the sake of power? I also don’t understand why the dems aren’t treating this as the existential danger that it is? We still have Sinema saying that protecting the filibuster is more important than protecting democracy and that thinking may have been right 40 years ago when we didn’t have this threat, but now is the time to run round like your hair is on fire and use every tool and tactic to pass the for the people act that would protect voting rights across the country since the repubs are putting laws in place to allow them to overturn any election results they don’t like. This is the most dangerous time our country has ever seen including the wars we have fought and Sinema needs to be made to understand that…and get rid of the filibuster…
Is there any wonder why religion is dying?
Well….yeah, that title may be a little misleading since this is really just about catholic bishops here in the US who are voting to withhold communion from Joe Biden, but the hypocrisy that this action shows is spread through all religion here in the US and across the world. These right wing bishops, who were perfectly fine with the idiot trump and the fact that he was the opposite of Joe Biden, are taking this action to highlight that Joe does support a woman’s right to choose…but it’s more than that…like almost every damn religion, they have taken a turn to be a refuge for hard right thinking and have strayed away from the teachings that underpin their religions…and let’s remember, the catholics spent decades protecting pedophile priests across the world and, to me, they have no moral authority left…and let’s remember another thing, religion in general here in the US don’t pay any taxes and to keep that tax free status, they have to stay out of politics…but this is a purely political act that is meant to damage Joe and give the repubs talking points to attack him in the next election….so , if you wonder why religion is dying here in the US, you just have to look at actions like these that should appall anyone who cares about hypocrisy…it appears to be a poison that is eating religion here from it’s core….geez…
Still the same after all these years…
Well….there were lots of racist assholes around when I was a kid and it is still the same after all these years til now….just last week, on the idiot tucker’s show, the racist in chief spewed on and on about white people getting replaced by black and brown people and he lamented that every new immigrant voter (that doesn’t exist) dilutes his political power because white people won’t get everything they want anymore and won’t be able to run everything anymore. Now, this same rant could have been done in the early 60’s and was done by repubs trying to kill the voting rights act…now, as then…it has nothing to do with non citizens voting since that never happens but it has everything to do with people like tucker thinking that only white people should even be allowed to vote….and that hasn’t changed, either, with all of the repub voter suppression laws passed across the country that are specifically to keep non-whites from being able to vote…just like they did during the Jim Crow era. I wonder why people like tucker are so scared of citizens of color voting? Could it be they know that their ideas will be destined for the ash heap of history if they can’t control voting? Things haven’t changed since I was a kid in the 60’s…and it really should have by now…geez…
Protecting voting rights here in Michigan…
Well…the cancer of repub voter suppression that has infected this country from coast to coast is one of the most important problems facing us in my lifetime at least…and while we have passed anti gerrymandering constitutional amendments, with repubs still in control of the congress here, they are still trying to rig the system by making it harder to vote…and a thought came to me on the bike today how to fix that…in Michigan, you can get referendum on the ballot if you get enough voter signatures…so, why can’t we do that for a constitutional amendment that would force any change in voting laws to be voted on by the people and not just the legislature? This would keep the repubs from being able to cheat in any election and make fair representation the norm here….if you’ve lived in Michigan, you know how the repubs are spending most of their time trying to rig the next election and to make it easier for them to overturn the fair results if they don’t like the outcome as is happening in many other states, too…so, let’s get this done and stop this election meddling in it’s tracks…geez…
The SC upholds the ACA again…
Well…yeah, running late again today with getting two rides in and going out to the beach to lie in the sun for an hour…and when I got back here, there was news that I wanted to talk about. Just this morning, it was announced the the SC has upheld the ACA for the umpteenth time in a 7-2 ruling that surprised most court watchers…and they rejected the suit from 20 repub state AG’s because they have no “standing” to even bring the suit that the trump judges in lower courts pushed up to the SC….what that means is that there was no harm to the parties filing the suits so they can’t bring the suits…and the big repub argument was that they were harmed by the elimination of the individual mandate that people had to get insurance….and since there was no longer any penalty, they couldn’t call it a tax anymore so the entire law had to be thrown out…yeah, sounds pretty convoluted to me, too, and the court felt the same to get to a 7-2 vote…even the unqualified judges whose seats that McConnell stole voted with the majority and I’ll bet that just pisses off moscow mitch. I do wonder how you get harmed by not having to pay a penalty? Without trump judges, this suit would have been thrown out the first time it was brought a couple of years back…and you can see that these idiots are not even judges…they are just partisans playing judges on tv…but it is going to take a while to get rid of them…geez…
Now it’s the FBI…
Well…if you’ve seen any of the news since the attack on the capital on January 6th, you’ve seen the right wing excuses change almost daily…first it was antifa, then it was just a “visit” like “tourists”, then it was just citizens expressing their first amendment rights…you get the picture…they will blame anyone but the terrorists who actually planned and attacked that day or the elected repubs like Josh Hawley and Paul Gosar who supported the attack and could possible even be involved with helping it. The latest right wing bullshit is that the FBI did it…all of the planning and leading the attacks so Biden could use the justice department to get rid of republican members of congress…and that is all based on the new part of the conspiracy theory that some people haven’t been charged so they must be FBI spies that was spouted on the idiot tucker’s show last night….the whole thing hinges on the idea that there were two people who rented a room in a nearby hotel and only one of them was charged…yep, that’s it, because the spouse of one of the attackers hasn’t been charged yet, that is “proof” that the FBI ran the whole show and the attackers were just victims of a conspiracy between them and the justice department….yeah, batshit insane but that is what the entire repub party is these days….any way to excuse thousands of right wing assholes attacking the country and it doesn’t matter that it is just made up bullshit….it is just as good as truth to them…better than truth, really, since they can make it be anything they want…what a bunch of crazy assed shit…geez…