Well…not sure if you watched the debacle of the commander in chief forum last night, I did watch part of it and all I have to say is shame on you Matt Lauer. What a poor excuse for moderating this idiot did…the difference in how he treated Hillary vs. Trump was just stunning…going on for almost half of Hillary’s time about the stupid e-mail “controversy” that has been ginned up by Fox news with Matt interrupting Hillary constantly and showing her no respect at all…but when ole Trump came on, it was an ass kissing festival where Lauer let Trump lie and lie and lie and never called him on any of them…even the easily proven lies; never interrupting Trump once…just letting him go on and on spewing his ignorant nonsense and basically kissing Putin’s ass through the whole thing…lavishing praise on his “leadership”…when his “leadership” meant the murder of thousands and causing a war in the Ukraine. The ironic thing here is that he treated Hillary like some kind of criminal when she has never been charged or convicted of anything but completely ignoring the bribes, bankruptcies, and cheating that Trump does on a regular basis…along with the scam school of Trump U whose only purpose was to steal money from the rubes. I have lost all respect for Matt Lauer and think he should just go back to fluff pieces on Today…he has shown that he doesn’t have what it takes for serious political journalism…shame on you Matt Lauer…geez…
Category Archives: Politics
Not going to watch…
Well…have been feeling better today after being kind of queasy for the entire weekend so I thought I’d do one now and maybe another later….the first big event for both candidates is tonight and I’m not going to watch it…it’s a serial forum on military matters and I know for a fact that Trump doesn’t know anything about that so there is no need to watch…and we all know Hillary’s views so there will be no surprise there…and, I can’t stand the sound of Trump’s voice….it makes me ill just to hear him mangle the English language….oh, I did want to talk just a little about another…not sure if I can call it a flip flop by Trump since he really doesn’t seem to have any positions that last longer that a sentence…but, earlier in the campaign ole Trump said that he knows more about Isis than any of the generals in our armed forces…and then yesterday he said that he would let the generals plan how to attack them….this is the frustrating thing that I will keep harping on until the election…not one reporter called him on it or asked any follow ups….. and Trump gets to go his merry, delusional way….geez…
Just trying…
Well…not sure why I am not creative at all when I don’t feel well but you can see it with me missing post number two the past few days….now, there is one thing that just makes me furious with my fellow Americans…over 40% of them want the idiot Trump to be president…just let that sink in for a while….that there are millions of people that have bought the fox news bs so totally that they could run a Saint Bernard and they would vote for it…..I am at a loss why that could be other than they really enjoy hate and they really do hate gays, AA’s, and anyone that has a thought that is to the left of Ghengis Khan….I wonder what it would be like to live in that world? Now, I used to be angry quite a bit, but it was a righteous anger aimed at the inequities and stupidity in the world…and mostly at the idiot GW since he did so much damage to this country…damage that would look like a tea party compared to what Trump would do…but, I got better over time and I find myself more bemused most of the time since I realize that there isn’t a damn thing I can do about anything….much easier on my psyche….
The DeVos family buy themselves a legislature…
Well…are you as damned tired of the DeVos family buying themselves laws here in Michigan as I am? Their latest interference in the basic operation of Michigan’s government came during the reform of the Detroit Public Schools that was working it’s way through the legislature in the spring, and included reform of the charter school laws that let basically any idiot start a school with no oversight. But, no, making the schools better by holding them responsible for outcomes is not part of these idiots ultra right wing, free market delusions…so, they did what they always do…they spread almost 2 million dollars around to the repubs through their charter school lobbying firm and poof, that pesky oversight was gone from the law…basically guaranteeing that the 50% of kids in Detroit who are enrolled in charter schools will get substandard educations…but, do they care? Hell no, as long as their cronies who run these for-profit schools get their cut of the tax money that supports them. Just another example where the repubs think that government is a tool to be used to push their agendas or to transfer more money from the taxpayers to the 1%…..I just hate the rich these days…they won’t even allow us to TRY to make things better for the majority….they can all go to hell….
This isn’t equivalent…
Well….with the news media trying it’s best to gin up some scandal about the Clinton Foundation, they are ignoring a real, true scandal happening at the Trump Foundation…a scandal that, if it happened by the efforts of the Clintons, would spawn a least a dozen congressional investigations. The particulars of the Trump scandal is that they actually laundered money through the foundation to bribe the AG of Florida to drop her investigation of Trump U….and the Trump folks admitted they did it and paid a fine…now, how are these two things equivalent? The Clinton Foundation gets the highest ranking by two different organizations that rate non-profits for it’s work and transparency, while the Trump slush fund makes illegal donations (bribes) and gives money to Trump’s cronies and the media treat it if they are doing the same things….who are running these news organizations to have them act this way? I am really tired of this crap going on….where the repubs can do whatever they want and never get called on it and then the media (I’m talking to you AP) fakes “scandals” that supposedly involve dems and run with those stories….geez…
The media is in the tank…
Well…I am so damn frustrated with the media lately and the low, low bar they set for the Donald…a bar so low that I heard one pundit describe it as a paint line on the parking lot….that was shown in all it’s glory yesterday with the idiot’s trip to Mexico when they said he looked “presidential” by just standing there and looking like the idiot he is…and none of the media called out his lies when he said that the subject of the wall he wants to build never came up…and then the president of Mexico made a statement that it did…who are you going to believe? The serial liar, Trump, or the president of Mexico? And after all that “presidential” nonsense…ole Donald gave the most racist, crazy speech that he has ever given and lied some more saying that Mexico will pay for the wall “100%”. Now, I know the media has a vested interest in keeping the race close, but to be deliberately in the tank for one candidate, especially one who is so insane as Trump, is just journalistic malpractice writ large….geez….
Trump does have a black hole in him…
Well…it it wasn’t already obvious that there is something seriously wrong with ole Trump, you just have to see the tweet he sent out this morning that shows that, as his ghostwriter says, he has a black hole inside of him. After the tragic death of Dwyane Wade’s cousin in a shooting in Chicago Friday, Trump’s response is just the worst thing I have ever seen: Dwayne Wade’s cousin was just shot and killed walking her baby in Chicago…Just what I have been saying. African-Americans will VOTE TRUMP!
Not sure what more I have to say about this but if the delusional Donald thinks that any black person would vote for him after that cynical use of a tragedy, he is just stupid, too…and yes, he did spell Dwyane Wade’s name wrong in the tweet….what an utter asshole….sad
She let them off the hook….
Well…it was refreshing to see Hillary tear into Trump yesterday and his connections to the white supremacists that appear to be his core of support, and to call out his racism, homophobia, xenophobia, and every other phobia that the Donald has embraced. But, one thing I don’t agree with was that she let the rest of the repubs off the hook for being exactly the same as Trump, but just being that way with the dog whistles that were their mode of operation until Trump started using his bullhorn. At least since Obama was elected, and much sooner than that if you look at history, the repubs have been the party of hate, an you can still see that with the passing of all of the anti LGBT laws that are always pushed by repubs…the model being HB2 in North Carolina but that was preceded by the crap in Indiana. So, I think it was a mistake to give the rest of the repubs a pass on their roles in fomenting hate across this country…the light needs to shine on them, too….geez…
The Clinton Foundation…
Well….another day, another fake “scandal” by the idiots on the right who just know that there must be a “scandal” if Hillary is involved. Unlike ole Donald, who cheats everywhere he can and uses his foundation to bribe the AG of Florida to drop the Trump University case, the Clinton foundation follows all of the rules and discloses all of their donors and has never been found to have done anything illegal or unethical since it’s founding in 2001. The Clintons have never even drawn a penny of salary from the foundation…in fact, they have donated millions in speaking fees to the foundation to help continue it’s work…you know, the work…like keeping 800,000 kids with HIV alive in Africa who would have died without the foundations work to make HIV drugs available to them. Now, the shouts from the idiot Trump to “shut it down” since he thinks the crooked way he runs his foundation is how everyone does it…need to be tied to the death sentence that these kids will be under if the foundation is shut down…but, that never matters to the repubs, the only kids they have ever cared about are unborn ones…once they are born, they are on their own…this is the real “death panel”…staffed by modern repubs….geez…
I just couldn’t resist…
Well…it you didn’t already know that old Donald’s entire campaign is just a huge grift to separate the rubes from their money, you just have to look at the latest little nugget that showed up in the press today….since ole Donald started taking outside money to run his campaign, the rent for his headquarters magically went up by 500%…in a building that Trump supposedly “owns” (but who knows if he won’t release his tax returns) so he is now paying himself almost $200,000 a month to rent the space….and it’s not only in the rent that the grift goes on…he’s paid his own properties millions for food, lodging and incidentals; never using anything but his own properties or cronies for campaign expenses…a good gig if you can get it…take money from the rubes and pay yourself millions…sounds like the televangelist playbook to me….sad…I just couldn’t resist this one…