Well….I wonder if everyone has as short a memory as the repubs think we do…I sure remember the lies when the ACA was being worked on with the repubs shouting every damn day that there were things called “death panels” that would condemn the old folks in this country to death after they reached a certain age or started to need more care…all of it a blatant lie to scare people into hating the bill…but that didn’t happen and the ACA is more popular than ever, especially in these pandemic days. But just yesterday, and I think I mentioned this a little, the new repub trial balloon that is being floated is that we are going to have to sacrifice older people to the virus to get the economy going again by removing the measures that are in place across the country to keep people isolated and prevent the virus spread…the idiot trump started it the other day when he said that he will “open” the economy in 15 days if the damage that closures are doing too much for the economy…and one of trump’s parrots, Lt gov Dan Patrick of Texas (of course) said that killing hundreds of thousands of seniors could be “worth it” if it got the economy going again…asking what kind of country would be left for his grandkids if we wait until the virus is controlled…yep, the “pro-life” party is just perfectly fine killing lots of seniors if his rich buddies need to steal even more money from the rest of us and they can’t do it when the economy is shut down. We know one of the reasons the idiot boy trump wants the economy going again no matter the cost is that it is costing him money with his hotels shut down….and nothing else matters except him and the world’s effect on him….the one thing that idiot boy doesn’t understand that he didn’t do anything to “close down” the states that are trying to stop the spread of the virus by isolation so there isn’t a damn thing he can do to “open” them…do you think Cuomo or Whitmer are going to listen to anything that the big orange moron says? They are going to do what the science says, what the experts say to protect the people and not corporations….so bloviate as much as you want moron, we in Michigan are going to do what’s right for us and you can just go right to hell….
Category Archives: Politics
Not sure about politics today…
Well…not sure if I’m going to talk about politics or not today…haven’t found anything yet that I want to comment on..oh, yeah, there is one thing…have you seen the trial balloons being floated by the idiot trump and his minions that they are about done with doing anything about the virus since it is harming the economy too much to protect people? Yep, they and their propaganda arm, fox news, have started to say that protecting people from the virus can’t be done cheaply so they are going to give up in a week or so and just let everybody get the virus with the prospect that millions will die just to get his precious frickin stock market to go up again and protect his re-election campaign. I think there is more to it than that, though and it has to do with trump’s mental illness and the fact that he just doesn’t have the capacity to focus for the months necessary to manage this crisis…and he is getting bored with the whole thing so he is just going to declare victory and let people die as he reopens factories, restaurants, and bars…letting the chips fall where they may…and they will fall with millions dead just so he can go golfing again. These millions of dead could have been avoided if the repub party hadn’t turned into a cult and had removed the criminal trump from office in December…but they couldn’t be bothered with doing their jobs or thinking ahead….the blood is on your hands, repubs….
Good on ya, Harbor Freight…
Well….as you know, I talk about Harbor Freight quite a bit here since I buy lots of cheap stuff from them to work on the house…and I also signed up to get their catalogs since that saves me money and it’s fun to just pass the time looking at them…and sometimes I find things that I didn’t even know I needed…and I get e-mails from them sometimes…and today, I got an e-mail from the founder with this remarkable action in it…they are going to donate every respirator and every box of gloves they have in their stores and warehouses to hospitals across the country…and all the hospitals have to do is ask…and he lays out the process for the asks in the e-mail in clear terms…and then explains to customers this is why they won’t find any of those items in the stores and ask for people to understand that we’re all in this together and everyone needs to do their part to help. I wish that we had a competent government so this wasn’t necessary but as it is, Good on Ya, Harbor Freight…nice damn job…
They just don’t know how…
Well…I’ve come to a realization after watching the idiot trump and the entire federal government fail at the response to the deadly virus that is going to kill many, many Americans….they just don’t know how to respond…this is what you get when you purge the entire government of expertise and replace it with political appointees that have no experience or desire to do their jobs…none of them, starting with idiot boy, even care that they are in way over their heads…they just go out and lie to make the moron in chief feel better…as the head of FEMA did today when asked why they haven’t invoked the Defense Production Act to commandeer factories to make medical supplies that are necessary…and his answer was that they didn’t need to since companies were phoning him to volunteer to do stuff…what stuff he wouldn’t say…and then went on to say that it would be worse to have leftover supplies in warehouses than people dying from not having protective equipment….so things that should have been done months ago like asking doctors and hospitals what they need and getting every damn factory started on making respirators, masks, shields and the rest of the PPE’s needed just wasn’t done because the entire repub party believed that the virus was a hoax…or because trump believed it was and not one of these assholes had the guts to tell the moron that he was wrong and was going to get people killed. Now, it’s left up to governors to try to save their states since idiot boy just stated “we’ll step in when you fail” to the governors who are asking for something that the federal government has always done….and I’m sure the problem is that the states that are asking are blue states as I’ve said before…watch for the response when it’s Florida or Mississippi asking…you can bet the incompetent in chief will fall all over himself to help them since their governors will kiss his ass and tell him he’s doing just the bestest job…we’re all gonna die….
Social distancing….
Well…as you can see, I’m not counting the days of the recommended social distancing anymore because it appears that it is going to last a couple of months and I don’t want to get depressed when I see how many days it’s been…I did text all of the kids yesterday and they are doing fine and are all working from home…my son in NYC is taking a couple of weeks off since it is a hotbed of the virus infection and he is trying hard to avoid it…and I am a little concerned about him but what can I do? Talked to a few friends over the past couple of days and, with them being normal people who go out and do things, it appears that this stay at home thing is much harder for them than it is for me…at least at this point…I really haven’t had any social life for a couple of years now so I’m used to being by myself…and part of that was the need to save cash until I officially retired and got some money coming in…oh, and that reminds me that I need to bitch about something…it appears that the stimulus that is wending it’s way through congress and is supposed to put money in people’s hand to spend to keep the economy going is mostly a bailout of business and individuals have had to file taxes last year to get anything…and that leaves out all of us who are living on Social Security since we don’t pay taxes on it…and we are the ones who can use the money the most and will spend it….so, the repub bullshit that this is going to help people is blown up…and they are giving billions to cruise ship companies that are not even American…but they are well connected in conservative circles….did you expect anything else? Oh, well…I won’t starve but I do worry about the older folks who could really use the cash and I fault Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer for letting this happen…okay, that’s enough for now….more later…
It’s all wishful thinking..
Well…it appears that you are going to get a bunch of these every day since I have time on my hands as I wait for the weather to get better so I can start on the outside of the house…have been seeing stories about conservatives who are getting the virus and appearing to change their ways from the selfish, conspiracy theory morons that they have been for decades…yeah, I don’t believe a bit of it…it’s all wishful thinking on the part of the media that they have the capacity to be compassionate human beings and to put aside their hate if even for a little while….after all, 95% of repubs think the idiot trump is going a “great” job of handling this crisis and how can you square that with the facts on the ground that his 6 week delay on doing anything and his lying press conferences are getting people killed as we speak? This whole thing is just the typical conservative’s behavior to hate people and programs that enhance the public good until they personally are affected by a crisis and then it’s a miracle….and they make a big show of “changing” until the spotlight is off them and then they just go back to their anti science, hate filled lives…so, media, spare me the “foxhole conversion” stories about conservatives…they are and will always be terrible people and no virus is going to change that…
We’re not a shipping clerk?
Well…now I know we’re all doomed when the person supposedly in charge of making sure that the country has enough medical supplies to fight the virus flippantly dismisses the state’s requests to do something to help by saying “we’re not a shipping clerk” and pushing it back to the governors to do it…if this is what the asshole trump thinks is not his job then what the hell is? The federal government has always stepped in when an emergency happens and the states either don’t have the resources or the ability to deal with the emergency themselves…and I’m sure part of it is that the states that need the most help right now are blue states that didn’t vote for idiot boy and he doesn’t think anyone is worth anything unless they voted for him…and he always makes everything about him…how he’s doing, what the effect of any action is on him….okay, repubs..by voting to acquit this moron you have blood on your hands…the blood of thousands of Americans that are going to die because you put politics and personal gain ahead of your duty to protect all Americans….I wonder if we can survive until we throw moron boy out in the next election?
They knew weeks ago…
Well…the latest story that has just come out on the news wires is that a repub senator knew how bad the coronavirus was going to be and he warned a group of his donors about it over three weeks ago…so, the repubs knew that this outbreak was going to be bad long ago but didn’t do a damn thing about it…no testing, no ramping up of protective gear for doctors and nurses, and no crash “all hands on deck” moment…just lies and preening by trump and his cronies to try to make it all about him…and the “wonderful” job he is doing. So they deliberately didn’t do one damn thing that could have saved lives….while the idiot trump waited for the moron Jared to get a “plan” together to fight this virus…what the hell does jared know about it anyway? Not much since he has been googling what other countries are doing and talking to his family about what to do….geez I can’t wait for these entitled assholes to be gone…and Sen Richard Burr, who was the repub senator who told his donors about how bad this is going to be, should resign today since he did nothing, no call to the WH to get their asses moving, no press…no nothing…just let people die while he scoops up cash…just like the rest of the repubs. They all need to be gone in November…and we can make that happen…vote!
Permanent absentee ballots…
Well…with the coronavirus situation looking worse by the day and the prospect of sheltering in place looming for months, there is one thing we can do here in Michigan to ensure that we can vote this fall and throw this incompetent asshole and his cronies out in November. Due to a citizens initiative here ( and no thanks to the vote suppressing repubs) everyone who wants one can now sign up to get a permanent absentee ballot sent to you for no reason at all…it is quick and easy to do at the SOS website and, and you can change it through the county clerk’s office as I did when I changed my address to GR…and the city of GR did it for me when I did that address change. I know that some of you like the process of going out to vote as I did…but I’ve seen the lines that come with repubs closing polling locations and moving them, so to stick a sharp stick in their eye, I signed up and got my first ballot for the dem primary and it was 5 minutes to fill out and send back….and it got here about 10 days before it had to be sent back so no pressure….so, let’s be proactive and get this done so the repubs can’t screw with our voting anymore…oh, and one more thing…if you got the census request in the mail, go to the website and fill it out…it is important for all kind of reasons especially the re drawing of districts here…and lots and lots of funding for our state depends on it…so take a few minute and fill it out…I’m doing mine tomorrow…
Dire predictions….
Well…as more and more assessments of the dire state of the country and the future depression come in, it is clear that the two months that the idiot trump and his cronies downplayed the effects of the virus to both individuals and the economy and diddled around because they don’t know anything is going to have worse effects than even the worst case scenarios. This incompetence and willful dereliction of duty are going to cost the lives of upwards to a million Americans and is going to put over 20% of workers out of work…and do permanent damage to the economy that will not be repaired in my lifetime….these assessments are calling 2020 a “lost year” where all we are going to be able to do is survive…and supply chains of food and other necessary supplies are going to crash unless the government gets involved and right the frick now…so everyone is going to be affected and it is not going to be pretty…and I am so damn mad that the repubs are still playing like it business as usual…with Rand Paul blocking the start of the recovery legislation because he want to know how were going to “pay” for it…we’re going to pay for his obstruction by putting hundreds of thousands more out of work and killing thousands more Americans…the time to act is yesterday..the depression is here and we have morons in charge…not sure if we’ll survive this….