Well…with all of the talk of “bipartisanship” in trying to get an infrastructure renewal bill through the senate, you just have to look at the repub proposal to see they are not serious…almost 3 times smaller that what the dems have proposed and and with a hard no on any increase in revenue…so that means that any money spent on the serious problems we have in this country will have to be offset by cuts to other programs that are already operating at severely reduced levels….and they go on to whine about the tax increases on the rich and corporations that the dems propose to pay for their bill lying that it will mean a loss of the jobs created by their tax cuts when every damn study has concluded that the only thing the tax cuts did was make the rich richer and allow corporations to buy back their stock…no damn jobs created at all. They all know that and yet they keep lying and lying…another reason why their proposal is just not serious…but the modern repub party doesn’t operate on facts or the truth as evidenced by the hundreds of voter suppression laws based on the big lie of voter fraud that just doesn’t exist….and now an infrastructure proposal that they think is “enough” is based on hypocrisy…they never asked to pay for trump’s huge tax cuts for the rich but now it is their reason for being….I say leave them behind and fix this country without them…after all, 70% of the country support Biden’s proposal and want it passed…even 50% of repubs want it done…so do it…
Category Archives: Politics
MTG is a liar…
Well…Majorie Taylor Greene has proven that she is the worst of the worst of the qanon believing repubs…so bad that she was relieved of all of her committee assignments by other repubs in the House for her attacks and lies…and now she is back at it trying to foment hatred and racism in the wake of the Derek Chauvin conviction, spewing her lies that DC was deserted and there were soldiers on every block in anticipation of riots that were sure to follow after the announcement of the conviction…the only problem was that people have cameras on their phones showing that people were out in the streets, going to ball games, eating in outdoor restaurants, playing in the parks with no police or National Guard presence to be seen anywhere…and no riots, or buildings being burned down, or any looting that she was sure was going to happen in that racist pea brain of hers….and here’s a big part of the problem…not one repub has come out to rebuke her lies or racism…they just sit there bitching about black congresswomen hurting their fee fees by calling them racists…which they most certainly are. There has to be a price to be paid for this egregious lying behavior by MTG…she should be expelled from congress…today, and sent back to the hole she crawled out of before she can do more damage….geez…
Derek Chauvin guilty on all counts….
Well…I’ll admit that I was concerned that the jury would come back with a not guilty verdict for Chauvin murdering George Floyd and I am happy that finally, Chauvin is being held responsible for kneeling on George Floyd’s neck for 9+ minutes until he died….it’s about damn time that one of these assholes is convicted and is going to jail for a long, long time….from the start, I was outraged that this smug prick…grinning while Floyd died was not charged for months…and nothing could bring George Floyd back but again, finally, one of these thugs is held responsible…it’s about damn time…
Another covid denier bites the dust…
Well…okay, I probably shouldn’t revel in other people’s suffering but hey, it’s the idiot Ted Nugent so here goes…ever since the start of the pandemic, old ted has been one of the most vocal of the covid deniers…ridiculing people doing their part for our society by wearing masks and taking other precautions…along with getting the vaccine when it became available…and constantly telling anyone who would listen (and who would?) that the “china virus” was a hoax and even if you did catch it, it was no worse than the flu so you should just “man up” and not lose your “freedoms” by doing anything…and in the sweetest bit of irony, ole ted announced today that he has covid and has been “sicker than he could ever imagine” for weeks and he “thought he was dying”…so, does the flu make you feel that way? In my long life, I’ve had the flu numerous times and never felt like I was dying…I felt lousy, yes, but there was never the fear that I was going to die from it like there is from covid…and assholes like ted make things worse as his right wing moron followers do what he says to “own the libs” even though almost 600K people have died in this country since the pandemic began…and guess what? The virus doesn’t care if you’re a science denier or don’t “believe” that it exists, or bluster that people are “sheep” for taking precautions….if you give it the chance, the virus will get you and no amount of bloviating bullshit like ted spews will stop it….I have no f’s to give for people like ted who has caused the deaths of many people by his lies…and even getting the virus won’t change him…just wait, I predict his next statement is going to be “be a man, I beat the virus and you can, too”….just sick…
Why all the hate for trans kids?
Well…damn, it appears that the repubs aren’t happy unless they have a new group to hate…Muslims, African Americans, Latinos, Gays have all had their turn in the box with these assholes and now they have picked trans kids as their latest group to be attacked across the country with laws that are legislated child abuse and cross the line over into sexual abuse….and all this from the biggest damn group of hypocrites the world has ever seen and who say they are against government intrusion in people’s lives…but I guess that’s just for people like them. Why the hell is there so much hate for trans kids? First, they started with banning trans kids from sports from kindergarten through college and are still trying to force them into standard binary choices of how they were born when we now know that sometimes you are born into the wrong body and the medical literature now support that there is a myriad of types of how sex is manifested in humans….okay, I think there is a religious component to all of this hate since religion is quoted by every damn repub hater who are responsible for these hateful laws….and that is just wrong…why should it be allowed to use your religion to hate an entire class of people? The worst law in the country has just passed in Florida that requires children to submit to “inspection” of their genitals before they can go out for sports to make sure that no trans kids can participate…now, how would you feel if some “doctor” hired by a school district forced one of your kids to expose themselves for “inspection” just to go out for sports? Never in a million years would I let any of my kids suffer this degrading crap that could scar them for life…but repubs don’t care…their hate trumps everything…
Here’s your “bipartisanship”…
Well…I am just shaking my head at the lack of awareness that both Sinema and Manchin have when it comes to their magic pony of “bipartisanship” and their efforts to find it when they have actually met mitch mcconnell….just today, ole mitch directed his repub senators to “use” both Sinema and Manchin and string them along with lies about the possibility of “bipartisanship” to block any and all of Biden’s agenda…you hear that Sinema? You hear that Manchin? mitch has revealed that he and his caucus will lie to you all day long to make sure they can dupe you into blocking Joe’s agenda and the agenda that will help the American people…and guess what? You are swallowing it hook line and sinker with your preening bullshit while you wallow in your self importance…and that is just another tactic of mitch’s….stoking your crappy sense of importance so you’ll think you are in control but mitch is playing you like a stratocaster and you are either complicit or too damn dumb to realize it. Now, anyone with a tiny bit of self respect would tell mitch and his asshole caucus to go to hell and get on with doing right by America…the ball’s in your court…
Foreign policy takes center stage…
Well…wow, lots of stuff to talk about on the foreign policy stage today and after the chaos of the past 4 years, we have a coherent policy taking shape that will start to restore our standing in the world. First, and something that went basically unnoticed when it was announced two weeks ago, the US is entering back into talks with Iran on their nuclear program that was discarded by the idiot trump and that lead to Iran advancing it’s uranium enrichment that has been stopped under the agreement negotiated by damn near all of the world that trump crapped all over…now, it’s going to be slow going since no one in the world trusts us anymore after the incompetence of trump and his cronies but at least diplomacy is back and is retaking it’s rightful place in foreign policy. Second, Joe has done what I have advocated for years…he is getting us out of Afghanistan in September after 20 long years of losing our soldiers to a war that has no reason for being other than to enrich defense companies…I know the hawks out there are wringing their hands about it but nothing we can do will change the outcome there…so let’s declare victory and go home. Third, and the coolest thing yet is the announcement of stiff sanctions on Russia, Putin, and his oligarch cronies for their interference in our elections and the hacking of most of the US government last year…and hey, let’s contrast that to the previous guy who had the same information from the intelligence agencies and didn’t do a damn thing since he just loved him some Putin. Joe even went farther than expected when he tied Paul Manafort to Konstantin Kilimnik and stated that Manafort gave information to Kilimnik who then gave it to Russia and it’s intelligence agencies to allow them to micro target our election and install the idiot trump….so, and I know we knew this before, there was collusion between the trump campaign and Russia that got trump elected…and no matter how many times trump chants “no collusion” the truth is the truth…and I hope these sanctions crash the Russian economy and stirs a revolt against the murderer Putin….it is so cool that we finally have someone with backbone as president who will look out for the country and not just himself…go Joe…
It gets worse for the repubs..
Well…damn, the repubs are looking dumber and dumber every day with their efforts across the country to suppress the votes of people they don’t want to vote…like everyone who won’t vote for them. But, I’m pretty sure they didn’t count on their reliable partners in business reacting as they have been…with over 300 more businesses pushing back on these un-American bills by condemning them in just the past day…and all of the big three automakers here in Michigan joining in and schooling them on why they are opposing them…that all people in the US have the right to vote without repub interference by the erection of barriers to any and all kinds of voting. Okay, sternly worded letters are all well and good, but what concrete steps are these businesses going to take to punish this crap? At the very least, they need to stop giving a dime to any repub…and I don’t care about the ones who sit there and whine that they had nothing to do with it…just by being repubs, they are supporting every damn law across this country and they shouldn’t get one thin dime…and all of that money should then go to dems who have proven over and over that making sure that everyone who is eligible can vote without repub interference…only then are these protestations actually doing something that the repubs will pay attention to. I guess this is a start but only a start to getting rid of every damn repub across this country…they have proven they hate this country and they need to go….
Joe Manchin really is delusional…
Well….if you have been following the drama of trying to get anything passed in the senate with dem senator Joe Manchin preening and displaying his delusions for everyone to see, you have to think he must not read anything or hasn’t looked at the repub behavior over the past 20 years. First, he keeps talking an talking about finding “bipartisanship” with the repubs to get the infrastructure bill passed and he continues to look through the horseshit pile that the repubs have piled on this country looking for that elusive pony…one that doesn’t exist…damn, Joe, have you seen the repub votes for the recovery act? Yeah, there weren’t any and that was supported by 70% of the American people. the second thing is that ole Joe has bought into the repub idea that tax cuts create jobs when not one damn study of any tax cut over the past 40 years says it doesn’t…but that doesn’t stop Joe from parroting the repub talking points and holding up more legislation to try to give more tax cuts to the repubs…and that is complete bullshit…damn, Joe…read the study that just came out on the trump tax cuts…not one damn job was created and the only thing that happened was stock buybacks that transferred wealth to the 1%…so, Joe, read something for a change and stop listening to the liars on the right…it’s all they do…geez…
I think they miscalculated…
Well…how damn dumb do the repubs have to be to not have seen the backlash to the 300 voting suppression bills that have been introduced by them across the country? It’s not only dumb but it is wrong and business across this country are weighing in with actions that highlight their opposition to this attack on their customers…and you can see the rift with ole mitch mcconnell essentially saying to them to shut up about voting rights and just give money to us…an abrupt about face from the Citizens United decision where the repubs just loved the “speech” of corporations since it supported what the repubs wanted…but now, when these same companies are appalled with trying to take the vote away from their customers and making it known, ole mitch blatantly wants them to stop and is even thinking of new laws that will punish companies that don’t support the repubs…some kind of free speech, huh? The rift got even worse over the weekend when the heads of 100 of the largest US businesses and even the Chamber of Commerce had a conference call to try to figure out how to most effectively oppose these new Jim Crow laws…and one suggestion was to stop giving money to any repub who supports this voter suppression aimed at minorities and designed for the repubs to be able to cheat…if this new law in Georgia had been in effect for the 2020 election, the repubs could have “found” the 12,000 votes that would have given the state to the idiot trump and installed him as president when he lost the election. Make no mistake, the repubs in this country hate democracy and are going to do everything they can to ensure their continued rule even when they lose the vote….and we all have to oppose this crap at every turn…let’s hope business will be partners in these efforts…