Well…we here in Michigan have a unique perspective on the DeVos family and in Betsy in particular…she is one of the people who tried to destroy the public school system here with bankrolling the fight for charter schools that siphon public dollars off to give to private schools for profit and have left our public schools scrambling for the money they need to educate our children. And the dirty little secret behind all of this theft of public money is to allow these charter schools to be defacto religious schools that are supported by tax dollars which should violate the constitution of both the US and Michigan…but, her money and the money of other right wing assholes have bought enough judges here that they have been able to get rulings that allow them to keep indoctrinating children into their right wing christian cult that gave us the idiot trump. Even now, as she is on the way out with idiot boy, she is trying to cement the awful changes she has made to the education department by exhorting the people there to “resist” the Biden administration and continue her right wing destruction of that department. One thing that she and all of the other rich assholes that trump has installed don’t get is that the career professionals hate them and the destruction they have done…and I’ll bet that this resistance will never materialize…they will just breathe a sigh of relief when a professional educator who really does have the best interests of the nation’s students at heart takes over….and the wicked witch goes back to her 20 million dollar, Cayman Islands registered yacht that she doesn’t pay any taxes on…good riddance…
Category Archives: Politics
Bye, bye Bill Barr….
Well…hey, can you tell I’m still bored? I am…so let’s do another one…just yesterday, the worst AG int he country’s history announced that he is “resigning” effective on the 23rd of December to spend time with his family for the holidays. I’m sure this has nothing to do with the “heated” meeting this crook had with the idiot boy after he announced that there was no widespread vote fraud that the justice department could find that directly destroyed all of trump’s lies about the election. I think Barr is afraid of trump’s delusional followers since he wrote the most ass kissing resignation letter I have ever seen…praising trump’s “leadership” and all of his accomplishments…and all of the other bullshit that his synchophants always put in these letters…even though Barr’s damage is already done…at least he won’t be able to do more before January 20th…but the trump lover who takes his place could so we still need to watch out for that…good riddance asshole…
I’m already bored….
Well…it’s 9:21 am and I am already bored with this day….and it’s still only 21 degrees outside so even the prospect of getting a ride in today is far, far in the future…so, let’s talk a little politics…yesterday, the electors made it official and Joe and Kamala won the election…but the stupid repubs just won’t give it up…here in Michigan, they tried to send a bunch of “alternate electors” into the state capitol to vote for the idiot trump but they were stopped at the door since they had no legal standing other than in some delusional repubs head…I do like that Joe has started to call out idiot boy’s behavior for what it is…damaging to our country and democracy but I think he is naive if he thinks he is going to be able to work with the trump cult as he said in his speech….these people are too far gone down the rabbit hole and Joe needs to see the reality of it…that none of this is normal and normal methods aren’t going to do the job…he needs to have a plan in place for the alternatives when working with them fails…but, I’m sure that they have smart people working on that problem right now since Joe’s people are competent….not like idiot boy’s whose only skills are kissing trump’s butt….still haven’t seen trump’s tweetstorm for today but it must gall the hell out of him that Putin called Joe to congratulate him on his win and there will be comments coming…that should be rich…
The electoral college votes today…
Well…in any other presidential election year, voting by the electoral college to elect the new president would go by without many people even noticing it, since it has always been a foregone conclusion that the person getting the most votes in each state go the vote of that state’s electors. But, with the new, radical repub party, there are no rules and they are still trying to use the EC to cheat like they do everywhere and install the idiot boy for 4 more years. In all my long lifetime, I have never heard of threats of violence aimed at the electors in any state, but this new trump repub party, it is standard procedure to try to bully people and threaten violence if they don’t get their way…the threats got so bad here in Michigan that they closed the capitol for the EC votes in the senate chamber today and the electors have been given police escorts both to and from the chamber for the vote that is going on right now. Look, this is not normal…this kind of thing has never happened before and shouldn’t be happening now and the blame lies squarely on the repub party and it’s ringleader trump….at any point, or at every point the repub leadership should have shut this bullshit down but they are too damn scared of getting a trump tweet aimed at them…what kind of person can be scared of that asshole? All I know is that everything that is happening is the fault of the repubs…and there is no “both sides do it bullshit”…not once, not ever, has a dem politician called for the cancelling of election that they lost in a desperate attempt to stay out of jail…but that is just what is happening now…and that is the only reason idiot boy is doing it now…he needs the office to stay out of jail…nothing deeper than that…and he believes that because he would do anything to win in business or politics, he projects that the dems did that in this election…a delusion he will die with…
They are addicted to hate…
Well…there have been many articles that have tried to explain the blind devotion that 40% of this country has to the idiot trump and one I read yesterday hit the nail on the head…for me anyway. This article and study posited that hating people and being outraged all the time is just like any other addiction…it stimulates the pleasure centers of the brain and gives the haters a high from dopamine just like they would get from heroin or any other drug that does the same thing…and, just like heroin, it overrides the logic centers of the brain that would normally curb the behavior and makes the hater want to come back for more and more and more….and you can see this at any trump “rally” in the twisted faces and the look of euphoria that pervades the crowd…just like the look that is on the faces of those at the more right wing evangelical churches who practice speaking in tongues….it is all the same…they are hooked on this feeling and since it is the best thing in their lives, they will continue and continue to hate since it make them feel good and nothing else in their crappy lives does….I still don’t have any compassion for them, though….they are killing this country for their addiction and that is not forgivable…geez…
Purge the police….
Well….as many reports have revealed, police forces across this country are infested with white supremacists who have sympathy and connections to the facsist, white supremacist gangs like the proud boys and others…and this causes many problems in how these forces see and deal with demonstrations…just yesterday in DC, these right wing fascists started rioting and attacking peaceful protestors and what was the police response? “Oh, please boys…please stop”…as they proud boys stabbed 4 people and beat many others….I wonder what the response would have been if these would have been peaceful BLM protestors. Yeah, we really don’t need to speculate…we’ve seen the police wade into those peaceful protests and beat protestors just like the proud boys did last night…and as we saw in Milwaukee, where gun toting assholes were causing trouble, the police actually handed out water to them and asked if they were okay….as they beat any other protestors. To restore the trust in police that has been shredded by this white supremacy infestation, we need to purge every damn police force in this country from this cancer…from the sheriffs who refuse to carry out the laws they don’t like and foment hate, to the officers who look out for the proud boys, every damn one of them need to be investigated and fired or trust can never be restored….I hope this is one of the things that Joe takes on when he is sworn in…I know his plate is going to be overflowing cleaning up after the idiot boy and his minions, but this needs to be done so the police really are there to protect and to serve…everyone…
A supreme court smackdown…
Well…wanted to get a comment out early on the supreme court smackdown delivered to idiot boy yesterday evening when they ruled that the suit from the moron in Texas, Paxton, had no merit and they were not going to overturn the election on lies and stupidity. Even Alito, who dissented from the ruling on procedural grounds, added that he would rule that the suit would not succeed even if they took the case up…and even trump’s toadies, who he counted on to appoint him president for life, joined the majority in rejecting the case. You know what came next? Of course the Texas repubs were crying in their beer and threatened to take like minded states and form their own country that would “follow the constitution”…which is the biggest piece of irony I’ve seen in quite a while….this should end all this nonsense but with trump and his cronies, who knows? What I do know is that they are still fundraising as if the decision never happened and are still running ads that say the election was “stolen” from them and this is all that fox news viewers will see since they will never report the truth….we all knew this would be the ruling but were still holding our breaths until it came…now, just go away, trump…we’ve had enough of your crap…geez…
Superspreader in Michigan…
Well…just a shorty on the after effects of ole rudy’s sham appearance at the Michigan legislature last week…gee, I guess not wearing masks and jamming into small rooms is not the smartest thing to do during a pandemic…it was just reported yesterday that dozens of the legislators who were at that “hearing” have tested positive for covid…and they have probably spread it all over the state…and guess what follows next? Deaths…so now rudy is going to be responsible for even more deaths…hey trumpites, how will you feel when it is one of your relatives or close friends that dies from the lies and bullshit that rump and rudy are pushing? It’s all for show since the SC or the Michigan SC is not going to overturn the election…how will you feel when they die just for a grift that is filling trump’s pockets with your money? How stupid do you have to be to go along with this charade that was exposed a week after the election to just be a scam so idiot boy can walk away with the cash he needs to pay off his debts? Pretty damn stupid, I think…geez…
Why do repubs hate democracy so much?
Well….Joe Biden won the election…why the hell is that so hard for repubs to say and accept? There are even parts of the repub controlled government who have prohibited their people from even saying president elect Joe Biden and have retaliated against people for saying it…my question is: Why do repubs hate democracy so much? Why are they still trying to overturn the election that has been called the “Safest and most well run election” by even repub Secretaries of State across the country? We all know why…they just want power to be able to keep hurting people and stealing as much as they can for the 1%…and to keep putting brown people in cages who legally apply for asylum…they get their jollies from hurting people and they love that feeling so they are desperate to be able to keep doing it…and this lawsuit filed by the criminal AG of Texas Paxton (who is doing this to make sure he gets a pardon before trump is gone) and joined by 16 other repub controlled states? They want the results of other people’s elections nullified by the SC…not any state that idiot boy won mind you, but 4 swing states that he lost…since when does one state have the power to void an entire other state’s votes? To put it bluntly, they don’t….but these people are so damn dumb they think they can go to the SC with lies and bullshit and they will get their way….even though every other court has called bullshit on every suit….that’s not how it works in this country…the votes were counted and certified and Joe Biden is going to be sworn in January 20th….but this election aftermath has laid bare the fact that the repubs don’t care about our democracy at all…and the sooner they can be voted out the better….geez…
What’s the end game?
Well…with trump and his idiot cronies up to 1-53 in suits trying to overturn the election results, and every repub SOS across the country saying the election was clean and the counts accurate, what the heck is the endgame of trump and 80% of repubs still saying that Joe didn’t win the election? With 296 EV’s for Joe certified by yesterday, there is nothing that anyone can do about it, they can’t bribe legislators to appoint electors for trump, no lawsuit is going to disenfranchise anyone and throw out their votes, and the SC has said loud and clear they are not getting involved in any more suits…so what is it? Is it just fleecing the rubes? Is it that simple…that the repubs know idiot boy lost but they just want to keep their rabid base placated and squeeze every last penny out of them before they move on? It would be on point for them to do that…after all, they don’t give a rat’s ass about governing or making life better for Americans other than the rich….what a bunch of chickenshit assholes…geez…