Well…my cynicism has been destroyed today but a simple act that is going on in the US House of Representatives today where the dems have had enough of repub obstructionism of sensible gun legislation and are staging a sit in on the house floor. They are joined by their Senate colleagues who the repubs obstructed earlier in the week when THEY tried to get some sensible gun legislation passed…and the repub response? The chicken speaker of the house, Paul Ryan, ordered the cameras for C-span shut off so no one can see this remarkable act of civil disobedience but he is so stupid that he doesn’t understand that there are many other ways to get pictures out these days…then he forbids cameras of any type on the floor…now, which party is the one of freedom and progress and which one is for suppressing the will of the people? I think you can guess…GO DEMS!
Category Archives: Politics
An 8 year olds word salad…
Well…watched a bit of ole Donald’s supposedly “pivot” speech where he was supposed to show that he could be “presidential” and came away just shaking my head…the whole thing sounded like a word salad that some 8 year old would say…no, that’s not being fair to 8 year olds….the entire thing was Hillary bad, Hillary crook, Hillary murder, Hillary liar, Hillary responsible for everything bad that has happened in the world since she was born. I laughed when the fact checkers at MSNBC just threw in the towel since the whole speech was one big conspiracy laden lie fest…no policy, no nothing but 45 minutes of supposed applause lines that weren’t even getting much applause. So, do I need to ever watch one of these again? Not really…unless I want to see what the bizzarro world inside the Donald’s head looks like…it’s not pretty…..geez…oh, and he does have really tiny hands with stubby little fingers…couldn’t stop looking at them….
The Trump campaign really is a dumpster fire…
Well…have been trying to stay away from writing about the Donald for a while since it really makes me feel slimed like in Ghostbusters….but today, I think I’ll give it a go since there are things to comment on…first, ole Donald brags that he has raised more money than any campaign in history but then a problem comes up…he has to tell the truth to the FEC and we find he has a little over a million dollars on hand for the entire campaign…and it is easy to see why when the RNC gives him a list of twenty donors to call and he gets bored after 3 and says the hell with it…let someone else do it…all the while, Hillary’s campaign has already spent 23 million dollars on advertising in swing states…..kinda funny if you ask me…then, today, we find that the Trump campaign has spent 35,000 dollars on some fake company that may or not exist for “consulting”….now, having lived through Watergate, this appears to be just a slush fund to drain money from the campaign and enrich someone on the campaigns cronies….just like happens all the time with any Trump project….and then we find that 20% of all expenditures from Donald’s campaign has gone to businesses that he owns…and he has spent more on hats than on staff to run his dumpster fire of a campaign….man, I hope he keeps this up through the convention…I have lots of popcorn and will watch it for the first time in many cycles….I really think Donald thinks that running for president is just like his reality show….or he is confused on what reality is…either way it’s going to be fun to watch the implosion….
Too good to be true…
Well….I usually have to read some news item in at least a couple of places before I will believe it…but, sometimes something comes along that I just want to be true so that requirement is suspended…one of those came along yesterday with rumors the Clarence Thomas is thinking of retiring from the supreme court. I know, your first thought is “who would notice?” since he holds the record for the fewest questions asked by a justice in the history of the court and has no thoughts of his own…acting as little more than an echo chamber for Scalia’s rantings. I can understand why he would be thinking about leaving now…after all, when Hillary is elected and appoints a progressive judge, Thomas’s only job will then be to write dissents to cases that the conservative block will lose and that will just piss those asses off…maybe we can get Alito to do the same? Or all of the conservatives? All I know is that with progressive control, there won’t be any more “Citizen’s United” or cases that will infringe on a woman’s right to chose…to Thomas all I have to say is don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out….geez…
Hypocrisy, hypocrisy, hypocrisy…
Well…I didn’t know if it was possible for me to hate one person as much as I hate Ted Cruz…but, guess what? It IS possible after his speech in the senate today that was dripping with so much hypocrisy I wonder why he didn’t drown in it. Everyone knows that ole Ted is one of the biggest haters of the LGBT community in the entire US and has made that known through his associations with people and organizations that advocate the killing of LGBT people if they can’t be “converted” by christianity….and these same groups have been instrumental in taking the culture wars to Africa…where, in Uganda, they have worked their dark magic to get the government there to make being gay a crime that is punishable by life in prison but their first iteration of the legislation basically let anyone kill anyone that is found to be gay. These are the people that ole Ted still supports so when he comes out and announces his sorrow at the killings in Orlando, he is being the biggest hypocrite in the US…he doesn’t give a damn about LGBT people and never has…just another of his calculated lies that he thinks will get him the repub nomination in 4 years….geez….
Keep talking Donald…just keep talking…
Well….I think all we need to do in this election is just let the Donald keep talking…the more he talks the dumber he appears and the more his poll numbers tank….in fact…after the Orlando speech debacle, his unfavorables have hit a never before seen 70%…that means that 70% of the people in the US now have an unfavorable view of Donald….this number would better fit with a murderer or a serial killer; not a candidate for president from one of our major political parties…but, that doesn’t matter to him…he is so delusional that he truly believes that polling didn’t exist before he came along….”I think I’ve made polling a very important thing. ‘Cause I never used to hear about the polls.” How much more isolated of a person can there be? That polls don’t exist because he didn’t notice them before? We just need this guy to keep talking and we will not even need to spend any money on the election….typical rich repub….that nothing exists unless they can see it personally…what a maroon….geez…
More corporate welfare in Michigan…
Well…yep you are seeing right, no Trump for today even though he is such an easy target that I could write those with my eyes closed…yeah, I know some of these already look like I’ve done that…but, back to topic….here in Michigan, we have an energy supplier called DTE Energy that supplies gas and electricity to the eastern side of the state and whose job it is to project energy needs and build the needed infrastructure to support those needs…but, it appears that they are stuck in the past with the type of energy that will be needed over the next 20 years. Over the past few months, they have been trying to get the state of Michigan and us taxpayers to pay for a new gas pipeline to bring in gas from Pennsylvania and Ohio..but worse than that, they want us to guarantee that they will make a profit on the line for the next 30 years…nevermind that Bloomberg came out with projections that oil and gas usage is going to plummet over the next decade as more and more renewables come on line….these guys at DTE want to insulate themselves from any downside and make us pay for their bad decisions…oh, and the company that owns the pipeline? A subsidiary of DTE….since when is it fair that DTE gets any and all profits while any losses will be paid for by you and me? This is just the kind of corporate welfare that really irritates me….geez…
Trump really is an idiot…
Well…it only took 12 hours after the tragedy in Orlando for Trump to make it all about him…basically shouting in a tweet that he is happy so many people are congratulating him for being right about Muslim terrorists and then called for the closing of our borders to Muslims…again…no matter that he killer was born in the US and didn’t have to cross any border…as you know, facts don’t matter to the Donald…but the worst part is his interview with fox this morning where he went off the rails and said that Obama must be working with the terrorists since he won’t say Muslim terrorists….now…I really do think Trumps really is an idiot or he must be working with idiots to say any of that crap…and no one calls him on it….fox should be ashamed for allowing this….okay…just too irritated to write about this anymore…more later…
I’ve had enough of this crap…
50 people dead. I can’t believe I’m writing this…50 people dead. Just because they were gay. And, the “good guy with a gun” turns into a bad guy with a gun and ruins the lives of 50 families just because he was “upset” when he saw two guys kissing. I’m going to lay this at the feet of the people on the right who have been demonizing the LGBT community out of some stupid religious nonsense….and it continued after the murders with the Lt. Governor of Texas, Dan Patrick tweeting this: “Do not be deceived…god cannot be mocked…a man reaps what he sows..”
Yeah…this idiot blamed the victims for being murdered because they were born gay….and just trying to live their lives and enjoy themselves a little….but, we can’t have that…the right believes that the LGBT community deserves to be murdered because of some book written by ignorant goatherders 2K years ago….I’ve had enough of this crap…we need to do something….anything….this is on you repubs….
Congrats HRC…
Well…it was a day to remember yesterday with Hillary winning enough delegates to clinch the dem nomination for president….I was a Bernie supporter but I can live with Hillary…she is tough, smart, and knows what she is doing and has shown that with her time as SoS….and the 20 odd years she has endured the constant scandal mongering of the repubs…including the 50 million dollar boondoggle that was Whitewater where the repubs did their best but couldn’t find a thing that she had done wrong. I think it’s a great thing for our side that we are still trying to protect the progressive values that have been the hallmark of improvement in this country…while the repubs continue to regress to the 1800’s with their racism, homophobia, and the longing to return to the gilded age where 5 families controlled most of the wealth in this country. So, congrats Hillary…nice job….