Well…with the dysfunction in the House driven by the repub morons being in charge and the news coverage of it, this just might be good for our side especially if the media starts calling them out and gets it right that all of the economic damage that is coming is the fault of the repubs…and I think that it is a mistake by Biden to even talk to mccarthy about the hostage taking they are doing about the debt ceiling….I really don’t think they even know what the debt ceiling is if you listen to mccarthy try to explain it…he thinks it’s like using a credit card to spend more when it is really just paying for what has already been spent…it’s that simple but they just don’t get it….one tiny little bright spot that may be a preview of things to come was from Chuck Todd of all people just blasting jim jordan on MTP Sunday and not letting him lie his way through the interview…now we need the rest of the media to do the same thing every time they have one of these liars on their shows…not really confident they will but I can hope…geez…
Category Archives: Politics
Their latest tax scheme…
Well….the repubs are out with their latest tax scheme and it is aimed right at poor and middle class taxpayers…and for people like me who live on SS and have no income tax liability, it would raise our tax obligation to 30%. If you haven’t read about it yet, the repubs propose to get rid of the IRS and income taxes and replace them with a 30% sales tax on everything…and that would be the biggest tax increase on middle and low income taxpayers in history, and the biggest tax cut on the rich and corporations in the history of the country…as actual economists have commented, sales taxes are the most regressive type of taxes that there are and they impact the poor most since the percentage of their income taken with the sales tax is such a greater proportion than the rich…and I really don’t know how I would even be able to live if my SS was cut by 30%…but this is what the repubs always do when they are in charge…attack the poor and middle class even though they are their voters…and those idiots keep voting for them and that leads us to where we are now…with SS and Medicare in danger and the biggest tax increase in history proposed by these idiots…geez…
Trump is a murderer…
Well…a new article out this morning shows that in the last 6 months of the idiot trump’s administration, he allowed his minions across the country to execute 10 times more people than the previous 10 administrations combined…and even 6 after he lost the election… and you can guess that racist asshole was just loving it since the majority of the prisoners on death row are minorities…every damn day when you think the news coming out about this absolute waste of skin can’t get worse , it keeps getting worse….how the hell do..okay, yeah, I understand how this asshole could do something like that…after all, he let hundreds of thousands of Americans die during the pandemic and he didn’t care…and he sent a mob to the capital with the knowledge that they may kill a bunch of people..and he watched gleefully as they were doing it…god I hate that asshole and I wish he would just die already…geez…
This is what a blue state looks like…
Well…after the 2022 election and the blue takeover of our state, I had high hopes that we could return to normal and stop the repub bullshit that had polluted our political air here…and I was so happy that we have tough, capable women who live in the real world running the show here….and what you know you’ll never hear from any of them? Attacks on the LGBT community or teachers…read this quote from Dayna Polehanki, the Education Committee Chair: “At this stop, we will not participate in the demonization of teachers or LGBTQ students, and we will not give credence to fake scandals or conspiracy theories. Let me be clear that those days are over for the next four years while I hold this gavel.” Notice that she covered all of the things that repubs would be doing if they would have taken control and that we see in every damn red state…so thank you Michigan voters for turning out and voting for sanity and making Michigan a better place to live…
Where are my classified documents?
Well…with the press doing it’s best to equate Jo Biden finding some classified documents in his house to the thief trump stealing 11,000 of them, and now both Pence and McConnell saying they found some, too, my only question is: Where are my classified documents? It seems everyone else has some so why not me? I wonder why the media is still equating trump and Biden? Could it be the the stupid disease of both siderism that even the so called objective media is infected with these days? Look, I’ll speak very plainly…the only this that is the same is that both cases involve documents, that’s it…the idiot trump picked over documents that he though would make him some money and packed 11,000 of them in boxes that he stashed in an unlocked part of his tacky club…and when asked about them, it took an FBI raid to get them back after he stonewalled the government for two years…when Biden found his 11 documents, he immediately called the FBI and turned them over…and then allowed the FBI to make sure there weren’t any more…he didn’t say they were his, he didn’t say he declassified them, and he didn’t move them around so no one could find them…so do you finally get it, media…they are not the damn same and you need to get it right…geez…
The dems did this…
Well…just read an interesting article about the progress being made here in Michigan and one thing that you need to know is the dems did this…and it all started with the constitutional amendment that took redistricting out of the hands of the repubs resulting in fair maps being drawn…and that I will thank the people of Michigan for…or the 60% + that voted for the amendment…and that lead to the dems winning complete control of the state for the first time since the 1980’s. The people came through again last fall when they voted to enshrine reproductive rights and voting rights into the constitution…and now with the new majorities in place, we are going to see LGBT rights protected by law, repeal of the 1931 law outlawing abortions that the repubs were going to use to take women’s rights away…get rid of the anti union right to work laws that have depressed wages across the state…and expand the earned income tax credit to help low income families…any of this sound like anything the repubs would do? Nope…and under governor Whitmer, Michigan is number one on employment, personal income, home prices, mortgage delinquency, and the stock performance of publicly traded Michigan based companies…oh, and we were number one in adding energy related jobs and are set up to “dominate” the electric vehicle battery market…did you notice one thing? Not a damn tax cut for the rich or corporations in that mix…as always, economies always do better when the dems are in charge…and I hope it stays that way…geez…
Send in the tanks…
Well…finally, the US is going to send some M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine to call Germany’s bluff and get them to allow sending Leopard 2 tanks from across Europe…now, I know that I was against this at first with the brand new supply lines of both fuel and parts since the Abrams is powered by a jet engine and takes jet fuel to run it….and there is no one in NATO who knows how to keep them running or how to use them since no one else uses them…but if they are needed to break the Leopard logjam, then we need to get them there fast….after all, we have hundreds of them in storage that will never get used so even if we just sit them and use them as artillery pieces, that would free up some towed or mobile artillery pieces for the front…I am stuck by how stupid putin has been throughout this whole invasion…and now he is going to have his 1960’s tanks going up against the best in the world and it isn’t going to be pretty….for him…geez…
The FBI is corrupt…
Well…with the arrest of a high ranking FBI agent last week for spying for the Russians, and all of the other nonsense that has gone on for years like comey getting trump elected by shooting off his big mouth about a new “investigation” of Hillary just before the 2016 election, the only conclusion you can draw is that the FBI has been corrupted both by outside influence and the adherence of many of them to the MAGA bullshit that has also infected the Secret Service. There have been stories of the complete magafication of the NY FBI office and the refusal to investigate trump in any manner there…so much so that they had to bring in agents from other offices to get anything about trump done…and don’t get me started on the Kavanaugh “investigation” where they were given over 5,000 tips about his sexual assaults and not one agent investigated them at all…all they did was give them to the idiot trump’s white house where they were just thrown away. Biden needs to root out all of the people involved in all of this crap an fire them at least, but if they broke the law, they need to be prosecuted….geez…
What are the Germans thinking?
Well…not sure if you’ve been following the Ukraine invasion closely or at all, I have an I can’t figure out what the Germans are thinking…over the past week or so there has been conflict with them about supplying German made Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine to give them the advantage in armor since most of the tanks they have are old soviet designs from the 50’s and 60’s and the Leopard 2 is Germany’s most advanced tank… and Germany itself won’t have to give up one since this tank is used by almost all of the NATO countries and all of them have volunteered to send them to Ukraine…but, since the tanks are a German design, the Germans have the say where they can be deployed and they are dragging their feet…and they have said that they won’t approve that use until the US sends M1A1 Abrams tanks…but that doesn’t make any sense since only the US knows how to operate and repair the M1 while the Leopards can be repaired and Ukrainians can be trained right next door in Poland…so, I think we should call their bluff and take some of the hundreds of Abrams that are stored in Germany and send them to Ukraine for use as non mobile artillery pieces since the drive is the least reliable part of them and the most complex to keep running since it uses a jet engine to move it…it would just take too much time to get the logistics and training for the Abrams for them to be useful in less than a year and Ukraine needs armor now…so get off your butt Germany and release the Leopards…geez…
Didn’t expect this from Kos…
Well…cripes we lost twitter when ole elon took it over and now it looks like we’re going to lose Daily Kos, too…one of the last progressive sites left on the internet but they are now threatening the writers guild that represents the writers there that they are going lay off 30% of the staff and it looks like Kos is not operating in good faith or is willing to work with the guild to try to figure out how to make the site profitable again….all this from a progressive? I guess that once you build a business with the help of lots of others, you turn into an asshole and abandon the very things that made the place profitable in the first place…support of workers and unions and you learn to treat people like crap…shame on you Kos…geez…