Well…when you hear the repubs complain when they are called fascists for doing fascist things…just remember that they have a scheme to ignore voters and just install whoever they want in whatever office that is in the supreme court today…it’s called the independent legislature theory and it’s main tenet is that state legislatures are the only bodies who can set rules for voting in federal or state elections…and they argue the legislatures can ignore any votes they want…so dem votes will never be counted in repub controlled states again…how do you guys feel about that? This crackpot theory that is based on a lie is being argued right now and all of the conservative justices are just drooling that they can help out their repub cronies to just nullify elections they don’t like…that’s not fascist, right? Yeah, in reality that is right out of the fascist playbook on the first page….and the only reason it was taken up is alito wanted it so we know it doesn’t have to have any basis in law, truth, or reality for him to embrace it….look, if these guys are allowed to make this legal, this democracy is gone but that is what the repubs want…they know demographics are slowly dooming them electorally so they have to get the ultimate cheat authorized by the court…geez…
Category Archives: Politics
Hide the ketchup…
Well…I guess the waiters at trump’s tacky resort in Florida should hide the ketchup now that the trump organization has just been found guilty on all counts in it’s fraud trial in NYC…you know the one…not paying taxes on gifts and compensation for it’s execs and lying on tax forms…all that kind of stuff…now this won’t result in prison time for the idiot boy but it does show the techniques that were used to defraud the government in this case were probably used in the criminal case that is winding it’s way through the courts in NY…oh, and the NYC AG just brought in a new prosecutor to use this information for the criminal case against every damn one of the trumps….get moving Bragg….
The January 6th committee strikes..
Well…great news out of the January 6th committee this morning when it was announced they are going to make criminal referrals to the Justice department from the evidence they gathered…and one of the key parts of the announcement is that it is referrals plural, so there are going to be more than one…and one of them has to be against the idiot trump but I curious who the second or third or fourth is going to be…if you watched any of the committee presentations, it was clear the they had trump in their sights since he was the ringleader of the whole thing but rudy could be one or even Mark Meadows…or it could even be one of the lawyers who helped trump push his bullshit…I guess we’ll see…oh, and the new special prosecutor brought in to take over the investigations of January 6th at the DOJ just issued a whole bunch of subpoenas to people in states like Michigan where trump and his cronies tried to install slates of fake electors…so there is movement in the investigation there, too….let’s put this bluntly, if trump is not indicted from either of these investigations, this country is lost…there is no excuse for the DOJ to ignore his criminality anymore so get at it DOJ…geez…
Right wing terrorists…
Well…see, this is what happens when you don’t hold the right wingers responsible for breaking the law…they see the idiot trump and his cronies still walking free so they think they are above the law, too…just this weekend, we saw an act of right wing terrorism when some group shot up some electrical substations in NC Saturday night leaving 40K people in the dark for the weekend and the power is still not back on…and is it a coincidence that there was a drag show that was scheduled for the area that same night with right wing protestors threatening people outside of it? This is not “vandalism” as some reports have said…it is domestic terrorism and I’m glad to see the FBI is now involved since you can’t trust local law enforcement in the south since most of those departments are filled with white nationalists who are sympathetic to the terrorists….this kind of crap is what comes from the lawlessness that the repub party supports every damn day…and you can bet it wasn’t anyone on the left doing this crap….they need to find these assholes and throw the book at them…geez…
Can the idiot just go away?
Well…damn, I am so tired of the idiot trump and I think he needs to just go away, or get locked up, or something so no one has to listen to him again…we all know he has no respect for any law in this country or he wouldn’t be constantly breaking them…and just the other day he was quoted everywhere about his rant that he should still be re-instated as president for some reason and using any method up to and including destroying the constitution to do it…and I couldn’t get away from his bullshit even on Mastodon since multiple people posted the rant there…I have a question for the repubs out there: is this enough for you to stop supporting this criminal? Since only a few of them have condemned the rant, I guess not…and it just shows the rot that is infesting the modern repub party…not one damn honorable person in the bunch that will stand up for the country…geez…
Nancy’s goodbye gift…
Well…with the repubs doing their best to telegraph the chaos they are planning when they take over the house in a month, Nancy Pelosi has a parting gift for them since they are planning to hold the country hostage with the cost being cutting SS and Medicare…Nancy and her counterparts in the senate are working on a deal to fund the government for a year so so they will only have a year to screw things up until the 2024 election…now this is something I’ve advocated for in the lame duck session of congress, get everything done you want and that the country needs before the bomb throwers take over and wreck the place…and they’ve started out well with codifying same sex and interracial marriage and I really do hope they get the protection of democracy done by passing a new voting rights act and federal abortion rights…but there really is no time since in the 30 days they have left, they are only going to be in session for half that….so get after it dems before the darkness falls…geez…
Trump lost twice today…
Well…you would think that the idiot trump would get tired of losing and stop filing all the damn lawsuits he files against anything he thinks is beneath him…but today idiot boy lost twice when his tax returns were sent to the House committee investigating him….and he lost again when the federal appeals court looking at the corrupt judge he appointed and her appointment of a special master to decide the ownership of the documents that were seized from his tacky Florida resort….and they went right to the point when they said they couldn’t allow and subject of a search warrant to block government investigation after the execution of the warrant…and they sent the case back to a lower court with instructions to dismiss the case in it’s entirety…what that means is that this judge made the whole thing up when she appointed the special master…there was no statute that she based it on and it was only because she was incompetent that she made the ruling…so, now the government is free to use any and all of the seized documents to build it’s case against him…and will put the final nail in his coffin…as I’ve said before, I could not believe that she would let a criminal dictate what evidence the government could use to build a case against him…and I was right that it was one of the worst decisions I have ever seen…tick tock, trump…your time is coming….geez…
Not sure how I feel about this….
Well…with the major rail unions having a hell of a time getting the owners of the railroads to bargain in good faith even with profits in the billions of dollars, I don’t know how I feel about the Biden administration threatening to impose a no strike law to keep the trains moving. I know a general strike would cripple the economy and would cost the dems in the next election, but we on the left are supposed to support unions and the fact that they lift people out of poverty and give workers a say in their jobs…and unions built the middle class in this country…so why attack them now? I’m not sure if everything that can be done has been done…like getting mediators involved to make sure the owners are bargaining in good faith especially with their history of screwing over their employees and creating terrible working conditions…so what now? At the very least this law should mandate a short cooling off period and then suggest milestones that have to be met in the negotiations and then allow for a strike to happen if there is no progress since that progress is going to hinge on the cooperation of the owners of the railways….it always comes down to the owners trying to steal the contributions of their workers…and that needs to stop not only with the railways but across all industries…after all, the ceo’s make an average of almost 300 times what a worker makes…and that was only about 25 times in the 70’s…so we know where all of the profit goes….geez…
That was quick…
Well..you know that I talked about the need for the dems to get their butts in gear over the next month and accomplish whatever they can before the repubs take control of the house…and they got off to a quick start today with the Respect for Marriage act that will pass the senate today then go back to the House for amendments and passage, then on to Biden’s desk by the end of the week….and this bill will protect same sex and interracial marriage on a federal level and no state law can supersede it so all of the red states that have been salivating for attacking same sex marriage and trying to make the LGBTQ community second class citizens is shit out of luck…but now it needs to go further to protect trans men and women from the discrimination that repubs across this country have been codifying into law….now the most urgent thing the dems needs to do is get the federal voting rights act passed to keep the repubs from suppressing dem votes across this country like we just did here in Michigan where we put expanded voting rights into our constitution so the repubs couldn’t screw with voting here…but in red states there have been hundreds and hundreds of new restrictions passed that need to be nullified by a federal standard…until that happens, our democracy is not safe and this needs to happen now…get after it dems….geez….
They’ve got a month…
Well…with just over a month before the idiot repubs take over the house, the dems need to get their butts in gear and get things done before we have 2 years of endless “investigations” that have been promised by every damn repub out there. One of the things that should be at the top of that list is to take the debt ceiling hammer out of the repubs hands by passing a long term extension that will last at least the two years that the repubs will have control…but that’s not the only thing they should do….how about an assault rifle ban? Or adding dental, vision, and hearing to Medicare? Or passing enough Ukraine aid so that the assholes on the right can’t cut it off and help putin like they have been threatening? Or getting the January 6th report completed and all of the evidence released before the January 6th conspirators take over the house? It’s going to be a long, dark two years but at least we didn’t lose the senate so the crazies taking over the house won’t be able to do a lot of damage and let’s hope the damage they do is to themselves in the next election….and then we can take back all of the government in 24 and really get things done for the people of this country…geez…