Well…just finished up cutting my hair and filling the bird feeders and thought I’d come here a do one of these before I get started on packing…not sure how I feel about the trial of the idiot boy that is going to start tomorrow…on one hand I know he is guilty as sin for egging on the mob to attack the capitol, but on the other hand I don’t want his lawyers being able to lie their asses off in their defense of the criminal….and we have a preview of that defense where they are going to assert that trump was only exercising his first amendment rights when he told the mob to go to the capitol and “fight like hell”….and at least 45 repub senators have already telegraphed that no matter what is said or what evidence is presented, they are going to acquit idiot boy for reasons or something…and that is enough to let him off again…but I think our side is going to be speaking to the country and laying out all of the criminality that came after the election where he tried to coerce the SoS of Georgia to “find” thousands of votes that would throw the state to him which is a felony and there is a recording of it…and this is another seditious act that is going to be part of the case and that won’t be easily dismissed…and shouldn’t we expose this criminality and get it in the record even if the repubs won’t convict? I will probably watch part of it anyway since it is a pretty serious thing that all citizens should see…and I sat through the Watergate hearings back in the 70’s…but I hope this is the last time we have to see the dems come in and clean up after the damn repubs…and they never have any price to pay for their screw ups…geezz…
Category Archives: Politics
Looks like fox “news” is in trouble…
Well…after the orange idiot lost in November, fox “news” has been bleeding viewers and advertisers so fast that, after a 20 year run of being in 1st place in cable news, they are now a distant third to both CNN and MSNBC….it’s funny how trying to destroy our country and overthrow an election will do that to you. There appears to be the start of a purge of the morons who were the biggest trump supporters, too, with Lou Dobbs getting axed Thursday and now there are rumblings that tucker carlson could be next and I really love the right eating their own. But the biggest danger they face are the lawsuits that have been filed by Smartmatic, the voting machine company that everyone on fox news lied about for a month, for 2.7 billion dollars and that include dobbs, bartiromo, and pirro personally since they were the ones doing the non-stop lying after the election…I don’t know if the dobbs firing was related to it since his lies are all on tape and can still be submitted as evidence, or if they are trying to come a little back to reality to get sponsors to come back…after all, if the my pillow guys is your biggest advertiser (oh, and who has already been sued by dominion for over a billion dollars) you have a problem…and that tap is going to shut off pretty quickly. I wonder if you tell a lie in the woods and there is no one there to hear it, is it still a lie? Of course it is but the no one there to hear it part is making me grin…
They passed it….
Well…just sitting here under a blanket trying to warm up after working on the snow for over an hour and thought I’d talk about the damn miracle that happened this morning in the senate…Joe’s 1.9 trillion dollar covid relief package passed with, of course, no repub support with Kamala casting the vote that broke the tie…it is now over in the house and should be approved later today for a signature by the first of the week. Unlike the 2008 stimulus that was way too small according to every economist who is not a right wing hack…Biden learned that lesson and just ignored the bleating of the repubs who are crying about the deficit…and they only do that when there is a dem president…you heard not one peep from them about the deficit when they passed their tax giveaway to the rich and corporations that added at least 1.9 trillion to the debt….and that wasn’t needed in an economy that was still good after Obama did all of the heavy lifting after the 2008 crash. Now, this relief package is necessary again to lift the economy and give people at least some money to pay their rent and continue to eat….and to my mind, this should just be the start of other targeted economic boosts that should continue until the pandemic is under control…people are hurting out there and we can afford to help them….and me, I hope…
Blue states do better….
Well…read an article the other day that may be a surprise to some people but I think I may have talked about this before….the article took a look at the economies of red states vs. blue states and found that, while population is almost even between the states, blue states account for 72% of GDP while red states and their economic policies only account for 28% of GDP…and this means that people in blue states make more money than in red states, are more highly productive, are healthier, and they have better schools than the tax cutting obsessed red states. I will admit that the total tax burden is higher in blue states but the higher incomes and more progressive policies make them better places to live on any measure of quality of life….and I think that’s important along with the idea that in most blue states there is more of “we’re all in this together” attitude instead of the “every man for himself” that pervades red states….as it does under every dem administration at the national level, the economy always does better under dem policies than repub ones….and that is true of the states, too, as the huge disparity in GDP shows….but people in this country continue to vote against their own self interest and elect repubs…and that is something I’ll never understand….
Back to politics…
Well…I think Joe has learned that you can’t negotiate with the repubs since everything they do is in bad faith and you can’t trust them. In the latest covid relief plan, the repubs tried to cut out all help for state and local governments, cut extended unemployment benefits and make the next relief checks, that I won’t get, only a couple of hundred dollars when people are losing their homes and hunger is at an all time high in this country…but that is normal repub crap since they don’t give a damn about anyone but the rich. So Joe just said nope and he has asked Schumer and Pelosi to go it alone and pass his 1.9 trillion dollar package without any repub help or input…and the normal whining has started from the repubs that there has never been anything this big passed by only one party…hey, morons, what about the 1.8 trillion dollar tax cuts that you guys passed without any dem support? I find it heartening that Joe has leaned to play hardball with almost 70% of the country supporting what he is trying to do…and no thought about the politics of it….just doing what’s right…keep it up….
The IRS can go to hell….
Well…just got a response from my e-mail to our new rep, Peter Meijer and the gist of the letter they sent is that if I haven’t gotten my 600 dollar covid relief check yet, I’m shit out of luck…or I’ll have to file a tax return to get a credit to offset the taxes I owe…hey shitheads, being on SS I don’t owe any taxes so how is that going to work? As I’ve said before, the SS admin has everything necessary to direct deposit the money into my checking account since they do it every damn month but the IRS can’t talk to them? Just another instance of doing everything right your whole life and then getting screwed since no one can do their damn jobs right…they can all go to hell…
Pay for play…exposed……
Well…these damn repubs are so stupid they are saying the quiet parts out loud…after most of the repubs in the House supported the lies that there was election fraud in the 2020 election that led directly to the attack on the capitol…there was huge backlash from their corporate donors who said they will stop giving money to the ones who supported the lie and insurrection…and what is the response of these repubs? To expose they are all doing “pay for play” by saying they won’t meet with any representative from the companies until they give them money again…gee…sounds a bit like blackmail or extortion to me and it does fit the criminal description of it….so now we know…okay, we knew this before…that the modern repubs are only in government to enrich themselves…they have no principles or any guiding system of governance…they are just in it for the money and when the money is shut off there is no reason for them to be there…not to make their voters life better since that never enters into their heads…just money…and money alone….god, I hate these guys…
Rudy is going to die broke….
Well…finally, some of the liars on the right are going to pay for lying about damn near everything…and it took companies to do it since the repub party is infested with liars that will say anything for advantage and are still lying about the election. After Dominion Voting Systems sued ole Rudy for 1.3 billion dollars for all of his lies about them that they cheated in the election and switched trump votes to Biden, he now is being sued by the Lincoln Project for lying that they were behind the attacks on the capitol when it has been clear from the start that it was a right wing plot financed by the trump campaign…and I just read the letter from their law firm on twitter and it is so damn funny that you should go out and read it…it just blasts rudy and asks “what happened to you?” and then goes on with a litany of things that rudy has done after becoming involved with trump….with this defamation suit, ole rudy is going to die penniless and they will take whatever is left over after the Dominion suit is over…how does that feel rudy? I think you probably should shut your mouth right now..and go away….
Jewish lasers in space….
Well…holy crap, the repub party is electing the worst of the worst to congress…a bunch of delusional, conspiracy spreader morons that is led by Marjorie Green of Georgia are so far down the rabbit hole you have to wonder how they even dress themselves in the morning…while she has advocated murdering Nancy Pelosi and supports the Qanon conspiracy theory, one of the craziest damn thing I have ever heard came out of this moron’s mouth last year during the Camp fires in California. When commenting on how the fires started and that California shouldn’t get any federal aid since it was California that didn’t keep their forest floors “clean”, parroting trump’s idiocy of why the fires were so bad…but then she added her own brand of crazy, saying that the fires were started by “Jewish lasers from space” and then went off on George Soros and bleated every anti-semitic trope that the right uses to attack them. And guess what? After it was revealed in Facebook posts that she advocated murder of her political opponents, guess what the repub leadership did? Nothing, not a damn thing, so I guess now it’s okay to foment revolution and call for murder of dems and there is no price to pay for trying to destroy our government or country…in fact it is now an operating principle of the repub party here in the US. This crap has got to end and Nancy Pelosi has to strip this gargoyle of all committee assignments and make sure she can do no more damage to this country until she can be expelled from the house…geez…
Too much good stuff going on in politics…
Well…do you hear that? It’s the quiet sound of competence that Joe is bringing to all parts of the of the government…no fanfare, no boasting, no fighting, no name calling and guess what? Over 70% of the country likes what he’s doing and that even includes a lot of repubs that haven’t drunk the qanon koolaid….now, how long will that last? Who knows but one thing that I am a little pissed about is the damn MSM like the NYT who are questioning the use of executive orders to reverse the damage that idiot boy did with his…saying he is using them too much…look, Joe has been in office for 9 days and they are already bitching? Especially for protecting the DACA young adults who just want to have some stability in their lives and to know that ICE is not going to show up at their college and put them on a plane to a country they have never been to? All of the things Joe has done with EO’s have to been to root out the racist and homophobic bullshit that trump was doing with them and protecting Americans from discrimination like the ban on trans people serving in the military. Gee, I guess it’s hard for the media to understand that what Joe is doing is what the people want done, not just the rich or corporations…what the people want…now that’s a strange concept that the media just doesn’t understand….