Well…you know, I’ve really never watched a crazy person as long as I’ve watched Trump without someone coming to lock them up so they don’t hurt themselves…this guy is just nuts. And stupid, and ignorant…going off today on wind and solar power saying it’s too expensive and will kill “all the birds”….let’s break this one out for a sec…the cost of solar has dropped by over 70% in the past 5 years and now costs abut 4 cents a KH for an installation…compare that to a coal or gas fired plant that averages almost 11 cents a KH…so, again the ignoramus is wrong….and yes there have been birds killed by wind turbines, but how many have been killed by the pollution from coal fired plants? Or from mining coal that destroys habitats across the country? Okay, we all agree that Trump is an ignorant idiot…but his latest outrage is that he is trying to de-legitimize the election itself…saying that if he loses the election it will have to be “rigged” since he is so popular and has so many people showing up at the freakshows he calls campaign rallies. This is the true danger of Trump….he will say and do anything…even destroying the trust in the country for the 40% that are his followers and not caring about the smouldering wreckage he leaves behind….this alone should disqualify him…and does…sad…
Category Archives: Politics
The worst and most stupid person in the world…
Well…have been staying away from Trump the past few days since it really pollutes my being to even think about that idiot…but, after his breathtaking stupidity from the past few days, I just can’t stay quiet and not comment. First, this idiot attacks the Muslim mother and father of a young man that was killed in Iraq…and, by the way, they are and were citizens of the US….comparing his “sacrifice” of working hard (which I don’t think he ever has) to the loss of a son in service of their adopted country. I could go on about that one but it is readily available all over the web so I’ll move on to the Donald’s breathtaking ignorance of what is going on in the world….on one of the news shows this morning, the idiot was asked a question about Ukraine and his response was basically that Putin would never attack Ukraine…”he wouldn’t go in there” were the exact words from the idiot…now, I think that would be a surprise to the Ukrainian army who have been fighting Russian troops for over two years now and to the over 10,000 people who have been killed in the conflict. I know the repubs revere ignorance and despise “experts”…but the ignorance this idiot would bring to the presidency should disqualify him from getting anywhere near it….there will be more of this tomorrow…now I need to take a shower….sad….
Finally, some wins on voting rights…
Well…with the repubs across this country doing everything they can to make sure dems can’t vote by many different types of voter suppression laws they have passed since the supreme court gutted the Voting Rights Act…saying that racism doesn’t exist anymore (yeah right)….it looked like they were going to be able to rig the election this fall. But, over the past few days, the courts have started to understand that these laws intent is not to prevent “voter fraud” but to make sure the poor, minorities, and anyone else that traditionally votes for dems can’t vote. The most egregious of these was North Carolina…big surprise…who called a special session the day after the supreme court ruled to blatantly use statistics on how blacks vote to make sure the new law would make it harder for them to vote….and the court slapped them down by saying that the new restrictions violated the constitution and immediately stopped them. The same thing happened in both Wisconsin and Texas this week so maybe the tide is turning and the rigging of the system by repubs will stop…and if they can’t cheat, they can’t win…geez…
The DNC…
Well…I’ll admit that I didn’t watch much of the repub convention last week…someone would have had to pay me to watch the idiots there spout their hate and nonsense…I did read about it though to get a pretty good idea what it was about…fear, fear, some more fear, and then more fear….the contrast of that crap to the DNC this week is just so striking I can’t believe that Trump is almost even with Hillary in the polls….and the narrative that the media is trying to push, that the normal, everyday disagreements that pop up between people is dooming the dems to a loss in November has gotten so bad, even from MSNBC, that I reverted to C-span to get rid of the commentary. The meme that Bernie supporters are not going to vote for Hillary is another one that is getting a huge push from every network…and they are conveniently ignoring the polls that say that over 80% of Bernie’s supporters are already on board….when did the media get so lousy? Oh, well…at least we have had inspiring speeches from our side…I mean I was clapping when Joe Biden was on last night…going to miss him when he is done in January….and I am looking forward to Hillary’s tonight and I laughed at a tweet that I saw today…that Trump’s speeches are rated as wonderful if he doesn’t punch somebody but Hillary’s have to be better than the Gettysburg address or they are a total failure…yep, that’s just about right….geez…
How is this different than Watergate?
Well…with the hack and spying that was done to the DNC by the Russians to try to throw the election to the idiot Trump, I have only one question: “how is this different than Watergate?” The Watergate burglars got caught breaking into and bugging the DNC to gather information for Nixon to use to against his “enemies”…and the Russians broke into and bugged the DNC..although electronically, to do essentially the same thing…to dump the e-mails to give Trump information to attack his “enemies”. Where is the difference? There isn’t any and the very idea that Trump can spout off about Islamic terrorism and the threats to the US while at the same time he colludes with Russia to hurt the US is treason pure and simple…and we can connect the dots to the influence that Putin would have with a president Trump by looking at the only thing that Trump was interested in the repub platform…to soften the promise that we would protect the Ukraine in case of a Russian invasion…just what Putin wants. It is breathtaking to have a presidential candidate already doing the bidding of a foreign power…foreshadowing what Trump will be like if elected…the first wholly owned president of a foreign power….sad!
From Russia with love…
Well…as the bromance between Putin and Trump blossoms, it has taken on the slight stink of scandal…after all of his bankruptcies, the Donald can’t get any bank in the US to lend him money to do his “deals” so he has gone to Russia and the criminal oligarchs that surround Putin for financing to keep his house of cards standing….and now, Putin appears to be meddling in our election by having his security service hack the Democratic National Committee and then giving the information to Wikileaks to be leaked to news services across the world to try to discredit the dems in front of their convention. Now, if this kind of thing was going on between Hillary and Putin, you could bet that Fox news would be all over it with a headline like “Hillary pals around with a murderer” or some such nonsense but, as always, silence out of almost every news organization…there is one good thing, the FBI has just opened an investigation into the whole affair and the question I have is “did the repub leadership and Trump know or coordinate with Putin to hurt the dems?” Sad! That would be treason folks….
I had reservations…
Well…with the pick of Tim Kaine for Hillary’s VP, I had my reservations that the pick was a good one…but, just listening to Tim give a speech right now, I will say many of those reservations are gone…not just from the speech but from all of the articles that have been written about him in the past day….and the differences between the two parties could not be more stark…the repubs were all hate all the time during their convention while the dems are all about hope, hope to make the US a better and more accepting place for all of our citizens….and you can bet there won’t be a plank in our platform that proposes discrimination against anyone….it appears that we progressives are going to move this country forward…at least I can hope….
The cost of hate in NC…
Well….to hear the idiot governor of North Carolina talk you would think his anti LGBT bill HB2 has been wonderful and has not cost the state a thing due to most companies objection to the discrimination that is codified in the bill. Ha…that cost has just been raised with the NBA announcing that it is moving the 2017 NBA All Star game out of Charlotte due to the government basically saying they won’t change the bill due to pressure from anyone. So, we now know one cost of hate in NC…the All Star game was projected to bring 100 million dollars in economic activity to Charlotte and now it’s gone just so the haters can hate on people they don’t like…typical repub crap that was also a key part of the national repub platform at the convention in Cleveland. If you ever needed a clearer example of the hatred that is at the center of the modern repub party…I’ve got two if them right here….sad!
Mike Pence is a liar….
Well….I still can’t bring myself to watch any of the delusions being presented as fact at the repub convention…but I did read of one that was put forth by the VP pick of the repubs, Mike Pence, during his speech the other night where he asserted that “conservative economic principles work wherever they are tried..” Now, this is one of the delusional “facts” that is just so easily debunked the only place that he could utter such nonsense would be in front of a crowd of idiots like those at the convention. In reality, everywhere “conservative economic principles” have been tried it has been a disaster…you just have to look at Kansas, the test lab for the huge tax cuts for the rich and business that is the core of conservative economics…that state is on the verge of collapse after the cuts and the cuts have hurt revenue so much that they are trying to eliminate public education as a way to pay for it…also decimating help for the poor since the state “just can’t afford it” according to the idiot governor Brownback. The same thing has happened in Louisiana where the other conservative genius, Bobby Jindal did the same thing and now the new democratic governor has come in to try to clean up the mess of deficits as far as the eye can see….so no, governor Pence…conservative economic principles have never worked for anyone but the rich so you are either an idiot or you are lying through your teeth…which is it? Sad!
Trump foreign policy run like a Trump business…
Well…in a very scary interview with the NYT, it is clear that any Trump foreign policy is going to mirror his business practices…and that is not a good thing. In particular, he said that he may not uphold our obligations to NATO if one of the countries is attacked….only if they have met their “obligations” to the US…whatever that may be. Now, to even a novice in foreign policy, saying that Russia can attack anywhere and we might support out allies and we might not is an invitation for Putin to expand his mischief in eastern Europe…but, it looks just like his business practices…where he might or might not pay the people who have done work for him…and it is entirely up to his whim whether he will…just like saying that he will “negotiate” on the repayment on our national debt to get the people who hold our bonds to take pennies on the dollar…which would destroy the credit rating of the US…just as his reneging on our NATO treaty obligations would obliterate any trust the rest of the world has in our word. These are just two reasons why this idiot should never be even considered to be president…he just has no comprehension of how diplomacy or the world works….sad!