Well…when you listen to any of the Trump kids, you can see that the stupid from dad doesn’t fall far from the tree. Just today, Donnie junior was opining on why wages have been stagnant for workers and made the assertion that it was Syrian refugees coming here that were the problem. Donnie, Donnie, Donnie….wages have been stagnant here since the 70’s not since the Syrian crises began in 2011…and we have only taken in a few thousand..compared to the 145 million workers in the US, the number of refugees is a not noticeable tiny little blip that can’t possibly have the effect that Donnie the stupid younger thinks. But that is the thing with the modern repubs, they are the party that has no relationship with the facts…and facts are facts, not the opinions they think are facts…oh, and it is people like little Donnie’s father who trash unions, stiff small businesses, and offshore jobs who have depressed wages here…not some small handful of refugees….sad….
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I was going to write about Trump….
Well…as you can see in the title, I was going to write about Trump but thought better of it…so, what to do? I feel like I’m living “the ashes the rain and I” by Joe Walsh right now…just the part where you sit and stare at the rain….it is kind of hypnotic….had a new person move in next to me and so far so good….no loud music or parties….but, it is only one day so I guess I should reserve judgement…okay, I can’t resist a little Trump…I mean what the hell is it that he goes to white communities and makes speeches demeaning black people and calls it “minority outreach”? No wonder he polls at 1% support from black people…but my question is when you take Ben Carson out of the poll, does that mean no black support? Hmmmm…okay, I’m not feeling this right now so I guess I’ll go watch soccer some more….
Finally, some sense…
Well…I think you may be as disgusted and tired of Trump as I am so none of that today…instead, I want to comment on the announcement yesterday that the federal government will no long support the private, for profit prison system that has grown to gigantic proportions in the past 15 years or so. Now, most of these prisons are operated on the state level under the misguided premise that privatizing this responsibility of the state will save money…a mantra of repubs across this country that has been shown to be wrong everywhere it has been tried…but that is not the worst part of it…when the contracts are signed with these private prison corporations, there is a minimum amount of prisoners that are written into the contracts and if the city, county, or state don’t supply them, they have to pay a penalty…now, I may be a little dense at times, but it is pretty obvious that these types of contracts practically guarantee that every little infraction will be criminalized to ensure the quota is met….and the profit motive leads to substandard food, and just warehousing the prisoners since the private corporations have no interest in rehabilitation. Then there is the cost angle…it has never been shown that private prisons save any money to the public at all…but just enrich those who run them…an who invariably donate to repubs to get the laws passed that allow them. The same cost cutting was tried by the army in Iraq, buying private soldiers at 150K per when a real soldier was only about 50K with benefits. Again, the real goal was to line the pockets of the big donors, not to save any money…the saving just being a smokescreen to have private corporations bleed our tax dollars into their pockets. It is a small step, but it is at least a step…now, the same thing needs to happen at the state level and get rid of these bloodsuckers once and for all…geez…
A pivot in Trumpland?
Well…if you were waiting for a pivot in Trumpland to more of a normal campaign, you can just put that little thought away and forget about it with the latest “reorganization” that was announced today. The money laundering Putin buddy campaign manager, Manafort has been pushed aside…or into the background as they said…to be replace by the head of Breitbart….not sure if you know about Breitbart but it is one of those hate spewing, conspiracy pushing, right wing crazy websites that truly believe that Hillary actually killed people like a hit man…and now this guy is running old Donald’s campaign…it’s not as if ole Donald hasn’t had a close relationship with them in the past…he regularly spouts Breitbart talking points during his “speeches” so now it will just be easier to come straight from Breitbart to Trumps lips…with these moves, it appears that ole Donald has given up on any sanity in his campaign and has gone all conspiracy, all the time…after all, it worked during the primaries…but, in the primaries, all he had to appeal to were other crazy assed people like him, but now, there just aren’t enough crazies to carry the general election. Oh, one last thing on how delusional ole Donald is, his “minority outreach” speech last night was given in an almost all white suburb of Milwaukee where there were no minorities in sight…genius I say, just genius…sad…
Aetna throws a tantrum…
Well…if you are anything like me, you are tired of the entitled asses that run corporations in this country who think that they should be able to do whatever they want without any oversight by anyone…the latest of these entitled corporations is Aetna insurance who, over the past few days have said they are pulling out of the ACA exchanges for some unclear reason that they won’t share with anyone…but it can’t be that it’s unprofitable with their profits up 38% in the past year and their market cap doubling since they joined the exchanges…nope the curious thing about this whole affair is that this action follows the refusal of the Justice department to approve another merger, citing the fact that the merger would create monopoly power for Aetna and allow them to control pricing in the healthcare market. So, in a tantrum that will hurt thousands of Americans, Aetna is trying to hurt the Obama administration and force them into approving the merger by causing pain for the exchanges…now, not sure how you feel about this, but I think that this action by Aetna just shows that they are already too powerful and if given the merger, the first thing they would do is use their new power to line the pockets of the 1%’ers at the expense of the rest of us. So, I applaud the justice department and the Obama administration for striking back for the little guy…and Aetna can just go to hell…geez…
More from Russia with love….
Well…I wonder when ole Donnie Trump is going to have to register as an agent of a foreign state? After all, his campaign manager, who has worked for the Putin ally in Ukraine and other oligarchs with close ties to Putin is still on the payroll of those folks to the tune of almost 13 million dollars….and Trumps people did Putin’s bidding when softening language in the repub platform on the protection of the Ukraine….and now we have ole Donnie’s wife pallin around with Putins girlfriend in Russia….not to mention the billions he owes to Putin’s cronies since he couldn’t get any business loans from banks here after all his bankruptcies. So, would you expect someone with all of these shady connections to be able to “stand up” to the Russians as he says all the time? Nope, me either….I would expect that eastern Europe would be back under Russia’s thumb within months after ole Donnie got elected…thankfully, that won’t happen since he is cratering in the polls and it gets worse every time he opens his mouth…sad….
Keep whining, Donnie…
Well…the thin-skinned idiot is at it again…okay, I know, I promised to not write about little Donnie Trump anymore but damn, when you have such a target rich environment, you just have to especially when I need to get two of these out every day…and really, it is fun to poke at this moron and his moronic campaign. The latest in this mess is ole Donnie’s attack on the media since he thinks they do nothing but lie…and boy, does he know about lying….his new bitch is that since the media reports on the stupid things he says and does, he is behind Hillary when he thinks he would be ahead by 20 points if they would just stop reporting. Yeah…don’t report on the stupid shit I say because that is a “rigged” media…just go and attack Hillary or Obama since he started the war in Afghanistan when he was a state senator…there has to be something there….just go look at it…or, Benghazi, or birth certificate….or, or, or….you get the gist of it…..his rallies are so biggly that he has to be ahead but it is the “rigged” polls that are wrong….oh, that’s another line from today…I am really kind of enjoying this idiot blowhard’s self-destruction….almost as interesting as the Olympics…sad….
I’m getting tired….
Well…I’m getting tired of talking about how much ole Trump lies, so I’m not going to talk about that much more…just one little thing that I read this morning…in a deposition, under oath, that took about two hours….it was verified that the Trumpster lied 30 times…yep, 30 times in two hours! Now, take a look at your own day, do you lie more than 30 times for the entire day? The entire month? Didn’t think so….so why would any foreign leader trust a pres….nope can’t even write that….it’s just too far afield of what the US stands for to think about the idiot running the country…let’s just leave it that no one in their right mind…even Putin would ever trust anything this moron says…how does the world work without trust? Sad….
Attacking the “rigged election” nonsense…
Well…was just sitting here marveling (not in a good way) about how Trump and his minions have been trying to delegitimize the election results before they happen since they are so far behind and Donald is just so damn dumb it looks like it’s hopeless for them….if I were in the Clinton campaign, I would attack these charges straight on by invoking the hard working honest poll workers, our fellow citizens that volunteer their time to do a thankless job and who are the people who make sure our elections are fair…and, I would ask Donald point blank..”why do you think your fellow citizens that run elections for all of us are dishonest?” This would shut that blowhard and all of his followers up…elections don’t just happen…thousands and thousands of our fellow citizens give their precious time to make sure our elections can’t be questioned and they do a great job…okay, go ahead and attack again Donald…sad…
Never before….
Well…the dumpster fire that is the Trump campaign hit a new low yesterday with the Donald actually threatening violence against Hillary and the judges she is going to appoint…yep, this idiot said this “Hillary wants to abolish, essentially, the second amendment. By the way, and if she gets to pick-if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do folks. Although the second amendment people, maybe there is, I don’t know.” Now, never before in the history of this country has a nominee of a major party actually threatened to send his “second amendment people” to kill the other candidate if they get elected and do their jobs….and never before has the secret service had to talk to a candidate and his campaign to tell them that it is against the law to do this…but, I guess nothing is out of bounds in the modern repub party….led by the idiot Trump….how can this conceited, homophobic, asshole even be polling even one percent of the vote? This is not America…or maybe it is to the repubs…geez…