October, 2024 - A Re-Declaration of Independence …
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are:
The right to not have small minded men and women of low character continually sticking their noses in everyone's business about any matter their leash holding magnate feels is a requirement to preserve their wealth and power.
Among these are the right of women to chose. Since when did a bunch of elected and appointed officials, usually with backgrounds only in law have the gall to believe they have been given the authority to control decisions of what a woman does with their body and their future. They are like lecherous underwear gnomes, groveling to be involved in all facets of people's private lives from sexual preference, reproduction and what people are allowed to read.
And we should have the right to send our children to school, go to places of worship,
work, leisure or shopping without fear of being gunned down due to military grade automatic and semi automatic assault weapons being easily accessible to any clown or moron off the streets. Read the god damn second amendment! It doesn't apply no matter how you pervert the wording to your point of view. You are anything but a well-regulated militia.
And we need to re-secure the right that our vote will count and not be subject to a continual barrage of hastily convened, ad hoc, unauthorized, Republican committees and electors at all levels of government casting intimidation, baseless allegations and dispersions on all facets of our elections when the results aren't as they like. These people are juvenile and should face consequences when their actions are frivolous. And to that end we should seek to end the mechanism that has facilitated bold face corruption in campaign financing and politics across the board. Overturn the Citizen United decision that has enabled corporations and the wealthy to own our representative government.
Also, can we deal with the fact we are no longer thirteen colonies, skittish about leaving a monarchy and get rid of the Electoral College? It seems like our national elections are entirely focused on 6 or 7 battleground states with total disregard for the overall popular vote. I know the Electoral College is the Republican Party and the 1%'s life line to having a shot at controlling the government.
Throughout our history, the children and now grandchildren of the tycoons, evangelical leaders and captains of industry have carefully crafted a system where they are the recruiters and puppet masters of small men and women, deficient of morals, who like rats in a maze have found the easiest, and it seems like safest path, to misbegotten riches is through law making itself and thus, politics.
Our education and media has been carefully honed and administered/monitored by the small men/women to ensure the learning taught to the masses is strictly filtered. Science, math and English are exempt as they fuel the oligarchic growth (English only because it is essential to crafting ambiguous laws which are beyond the understanding of the common person). There has been no need to focus any social or historical studies that may cast shadows on our carefully edited and censored, glorious past or give clues to what elite have been up to and how to stop it in the future. Billionaire puppet masters are pulling the strings of small men and women, using the law to make laws to make them bullet proof from justice.
The Tories have wormed themselves back into the fabric of our government in the form of the Republican Party to the point they are using the Supreme Court to control all facets of our being. Voting has begun across this nation. Democrats need both Houses of Congress if they are to be able to effectuate any change.
The Republicans had control of the House of Representatives for two years and did nothing except hold clown show hearings with no findings and play Speaker, Speaker, Who's Our Speaker over and over.
We live in a serious world with serious problems we can no longer afford to be governed by small men and women of no character who wish to re-make our democracy into a cloistered authoritarian regime in service to themselves.
Christians don't seem Christian-like anymore. 'Do unto others as you would TRULY have done unto yourself' is out the window and into the sluice-way. "In God We Trust" has seem to have devolved into "In God's Name We Profit - No, no, not you though". It's ironic that these sanctimonious morons are so vain and self centered as to believe THE MOST POWERFUL ENTITY, that is responsible for the ultimate creation of EVERYTHING IN THE UNIVERSE AND THINGS WE DON'T EVEN HAVE WORDS FOR OR KNOW OF YET would in any way require eni-weany SMALL people to intercede on Its behalf in anybody else's business about anything! Who the hell do they think they are?
Silent apathetic majority arise. Your country needs you - vote, no matter what the obstacle.
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On Other Matters of Republican Concern:
-I have found the breakdown percentages of good people to assholes universal across all races, creeds and legal status. It's not the label, it's the individual person. You'd probably decide to be an immigrant also if your country devolved into the cesspools that their countries have become. Are we still the country with a statue in the harbor of our largest city that says "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" or are we overly concerned with making America a "GREAT" that we, Nazi Germany, al Qaeda, the Khmer Rouge never were and never became?
-Oh, by the way, the fine "business" acumen of Republican Administrations has brought you the Dot.com collapse, deregulation resulting in devastating frauds like Enron and Madoff, corruption in the largest public accounting and consulting firms, the banking implosion and mortgage crisis of 2008, and previously unimaginable government deficits. Then the Democrats come in like the cleanup crew after the party in the movie "Babylon" and reduce the deficits, and do useful things like implement Social Security and Medicare, the Civil Rights Act, Affordable Care Act, The Infrastructure Bill, and The Chips Act.
-Tax dollars due to corporate subsidies, bailouts and tax avoidance are estimated to outweigh tax dollars to social programs by over 70 to 1! But screw the poor; we don't want our CEO's having to skimp on the options on their next Escalade!
-And damn Joe Biden, forgiving those over priced college loans to overpriced colleges to under paid college graduates.
We need that money to reimburse us for those forgiven PPP loans which funded the backbone of America during a time when the Orange Oracle had his head up his ass waiting for the $20 per roll toilet paper to arrive!
-And please rid the Senate of the following slime bags this year - Rick Scott, Josh Hawley, Marsha Blackburn and Ted Cruz. They have demonstrated they are the lowest of the low people. And whatever you do, don't let that slug Kari Lake slither in the door. Don't get me started on the Republicans in the house! You can start with the godless G's - Greene, Gaetz, Gosar, and Gohmert. The list goes on and on from there.
- As long suspected, FOX NEWS is actually a 24/7 live streaming stage production of the prequel to "Idiocracy" titled "We are Dumbassistan". It stars, Howdy Doody Hannity and Wackjob Willie Watters with the Anorexia Blondie Singers .
-And before we go, let us not forget how well off we were during the previous Presidency https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdstZDCCgAc&list=LL&index=1&t=2s
July, 2024 - IF WE CAN PRESERVE OUR DEMOCRACY FOR TWO MORE YEARS …
If we can hang on for two more years … we will have reached AVERAGE, not GREAT AGAIN or even GREAT on a relative scale. Two hundred and fifty years is the average lifespan of an empire. We just reached our 248th year! "J.J., the United States isn't an empire," you may chortle. Well, I'd say the native American nations, Great Britain, Spain, and Mexico might have something to say about that as we marched across the continent saying ,"We'll take that, this and that. Oh what's that black stuff coming out of the ground? We'll take that too."
In 1776, we declared our independence and resolved through action, deed and sacrifice, we would never again be ruled by a King or Queen nor be subjects to their Tory overseers and henchmen. That possibly ended on July 1, 2024, not due to overthrow by a foreign monarch but from subterfuge from within by a partisan and blatantly corrupt Supreme Court, which was a long time in its design by its treasonous architect, Mitch 'Benedict Arnold' McConnell.
We defeated and evicted King George, but many of his Tory constituents were left behind and allowed to stay. (Remember, you history deficient MAGA adherents, there were no phones, internet, TV or social media back then. Nor were there cars, trains or airplanes despite what you've been told by Trump the Tangerine Dream. Basically it could be weeks or months until you had a clue what was going on in the next city, never mind colony). So the Tories survived.
With the instincts and the survival skills of a cockroach they adapted by assuming varies labels throughout our history. They also loved their societies, private clubs and organizations with strict vetting processes. They've emerged with names such as John Birch Society, The Klan, and the Confederacy. More recently, Christian Nationalists, Right to Lifers, NRA, Aryans and now - the Republican Party. Universally, they identify as Conservatives. Want to blow your mind? Spend a bit of time and poke around this page - Conservative_Organizations_in_the_United_States
Strip it away; wealthy white (at least in this country), racist, narcissistic, homophobic, misogynist, habitual pocket-pool enthusiasts who are obsessed with accumulating wealth and power through the subjugation and exploitation of their fellow human beings are behind these movements. This species has been with us throughout our evolution - a genetic defect, no doubt. Through slavery they built their empires monetarily and geographically. They maintained those empires by bestowing trinkets and bobbles to those of low character and simple minds to protect and insulate them. A popular term now a days would be 'trickle down', which in reality is equivalent to the second half of an octogenarian's tinkle.
Once slavery was abolished, they regrouped and came up with Plan B - cultivate unscrupulous lawyers and groom them for political office - on an enormous scale. Infiltrate the seats of government, make the laws, suppress regulation, education and dumb down the masses. If the newly labeled, Republicans (don't call me Tory) oligarchs can't have slaves they'd adapt and settle for low paid simpletons. Yes, they'd have to pay them a bobble or two and provide token benefits fought for by those damn bleeding heart Democrats and human rights foundations, but on the plus side they no longer had to feed, house or whip them. Though, they sort of miss the latter.
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This year I had planned on analyzing The Republican Primary Debates and labeling it something snappy like Son of Clown Car or Return of the Pathetic Clowns. But like most sequels, this edition was a bust. The cast turned out to be a bunch of talent-less saps. Without the Cotton Top Tomato mercilessly berating the other candidates like in 2015, you were left watching paint dry as they droned on and on about the phantom menace at the
border equating it to that memorable scene in World War Z or the Democrats being responsible for the shit stains left on the economy by the aforementioned Top Tomato as he decimated the Treasury with tax benefits to the ultra wealthy (and MAGA saps, you got a simpler form to pay the same amount of taxes).
Alas, missing was the bumbling, stumbling Jeb Bush, the groveling, boot-licker Ted Cruz,
'Lil' Ricky' - Marco Rubio, sleepy Ben Carson and Mr. Irrelevant - Rand Paul. Instead we got India's knock-off of Butthead, Vinny Ramaswamy; Timmy 'Chuckles' Scott, this campaign's more lively GOP token; the Tallahassee Moai, Ron DeSantis; No Flies on Me, Mike Pence; Hop-a-Long Doug Burgum; and the weather variable burgee pole, Nikki Haley.
That left me with only the Republican National Convention. What a shit show! It featured a non-stop cavalcade of over fifty speakers consisting of Low-Life's, Degenerates, Scumbags, and Morally Corrupt bullshit artists who triggered the regurgitation of bile into the mouths of millions. Besides many of the previously undressed debate participants shamelessly contradicting their own campaign rhetoric and lapping the shoes D-Cup Don, hoping for acknowledgement with a passing belly rub, there was Marjorie Taylor Greene and her twin brother, Hulk Hogan; Kimberly Guilfoyle and Matt Gaetz, the latest proud patients of Dr. Jaffe( Dr. Jaffe at Work); Shoot-Your-Pooch Noem; Stepford wife, Katie Britt; and the champions of lower education, Sarah Huckabee, Tom Cotton & Marsha Blackburn. When you go down the list, it resembles a confab of real life versions of the criminals from the Batman comics.
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MAGA adherents displayed their desire to be just like the treasured vine-ripened former Tomato-in-Chief by applying Silica gel packets to their ears, having been advised by Dr. Oz it is perfectly safe and would only evaporate any remaining brain cells and pesky remnants of scruples! https://www.zazzle.com/z/ftkkdwy4?rf=238357096768943277
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With the election only months away and the closeted Tories having to decided to take off their hoods and reveal their presence among us, I am reprinting excerpts from the original post in this thread as it is more applicable than ever …
REPRINT: June 24, 2022 - VOTE OUT THE FRICKEN DOG CATCHER IF HE'S REPUBLICAN!
There's a heavy weight I have to get off my chest. It's the elephant in the room, so to speak. They're know as REPUBLICANS. At one time, I even identified as one. Now that I look back on those younger days, when I was working my ass off with my head buried with concerns of providing and caring for my family, generally unaware of what was going on in world affairs and living off sound bites gathered here and there, I now feel like a total fricken DOPE.
The unease started creeping in during the Bush Junior administration. It was during his reign when I formally switched to Independent, where I have been since. Now that I am retired, I have done a lot of catching up on what the hell's been happening in the world - it's more than what was being told on the news at 6 and 11. There are a shitload of sleaze bags and morons (their lemmings) out there and the societal structure which has been ingrained in this country has enabled them to flourish, much to the county's detriment. Not only that, the internet unwittingly (or maybe intentionally) made the universe of sleaze bags and morons aware of each other thus emboldening them by removing the apprehension of abnormality or uniqueness. It also has provided a library of resources appropriately simplified to enrich themselves at the expense of others and not from creating any added value.
I have come to the conclusion the Republican party has been on a path of treachery for many years ... in the shadows. Ironically it was their loud mouth golden idol, who like the pied piper, summoned the previously disinterested moronic lemmings from under their rocks and as he has been prone to do with everything he touches, gleefully drove the franchise into a puss filled sluice-way while he and Secretary Munchkin were backing up a line of Brinks trucks up to the Treasury.
While Donny the Dunce and family were joyfully stealing the silverware and anything else that wasn't tied down Mitch, the tripled chinned turtle, saw he had the cover to accomplish his life's goal - finish packing the courts with Federalist Society judges. And as we are seeing, it is paying off in spades this session - Roe v. Wade, concealed carry reversal and god knows what else is coming (insert 'making the President a monarch, bring back bumpstocks, stripping environmental regulators of their power'). I imagine his paydays from the NRA, gun manufacturers, evangelicals, oil companies and every other lobby that will profit greatly from these acts, will be unimaginable
(too bad he turned into a vegetable before he could enjoy those paydays but on the plus side, there are plenty of new immigrants willing to clean his butt with Turtle Wax daily).
The REPUBLICAN PARTY has become the equivalent of the AMERICAN TALIBAN.
Thanks to the out-dated electoral college and the structure of the Senate (two for every state regardless of population size) they have disproportionate power contrary to the will of the vast majority of the people. This flaw in our structure could will be the cause of the loss of our democracy.
This election will be one of the most important in our history. If you truly value our heritage you must vote in this election. Vote out Tories Republicans in every election right down through the position of dog catcher. This year it is critical that this party be decimated and sent a message to go back and re-invent itself. There is nothing Harris Biden can do without the support of both the House and the Senate.
There are evil people who wish to re-make our democracy into a cloistered authoritarian regime in service to themselves. This country has gone way too far to the extreme right. The only way to fix it is to swing way back to the left with the goal of returning normalcy and settling somewhere in the middle where reasoned discourse can resume again. Christians don't seem Christian-like anymore. 'Do unto others as you would TRULY have done unto yourself' is out the window and into the sluice-way. "In God We Trust" has seem to have devolved into "In God's Name We Profit - No, no, not you though". It's ironic that these sanctimonious morons are so vain and self centered as to believe THE MOST POWERFUL ENTITY, that is responsible for the ultimate creation of EVERYTHING IN THE UNIVERSE AND THINGS WE DON'T EVEN HAVE WORDS FOR OR KNOW OF YET would in any way require eni-weany them to intercede on its behalf in anybody else's business about anything! Who the fuck do they think they are?
Silent apathetic majority you are needed. Register and vote, no matter what the obstacle.
Septmeber 4, 2023 - Republicans: Defend the Fetus at all costs, but f*ck feeding, clothing, educating, providing medical care and preventing the little bastards from getting their face blown off when they stop using disposable diapers. It only fosters big government.
Nine months into his term as speaker of the Republican controlled house, the only thing Kevin McCarthy has been able to accomplish is the downgrade of the country's bond rating. Now they're looking to have it downgraded further by trying to force a government shutdown. What they should do is shut down Congress until the majority changes. It's proven to be the least productive, most costly function of government. Republicans are as useless as tits on a bull. All they do is fuck things up and blame the Democrats.
His party has been self-flagellating over dead-end investigations into everything under the sun with no trace of anything that they allege to have taken place. They are constantly having wet dreams of a Biden impeachment with no idea as to what to charge him with. They're like a blind man in Arizona feverishly seeking the little man in the boat belonging to a lady who left for Mexico last week.
Meanwhile the mass shootings of beautiful children and innocents continue unabated. There is no place for semi-automatic weapons in civilized society. If you bring up hunting, you either suck as a hunter and can't hit shit, or you’re a pussy who finds a regular rifle too heavy to carry around and are fearful of the recoil. Face it, they're weapons of war whose sole purpose is to enable unskilled humans to efficiently kill other humans. If you say otherwise, you're a lying sack of bile, in my opinion. They should be illegal. Make them available to rent at gun ranges to be used only at gun ranges for people who need to get their jollies pretending to be G.I. Joe.
The second amendment has nothing to do with the right to own semi-automatic weapons. It says, in its entirety:
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
Keywords conveniently always overlooked are "A well regulated Militia". None of our hundreds of mass shooters/clowns were part of a well regulated anything never mind a body of people organized to secure one of our fifty states. You can't legally own machine guns; shoulder fired missiles, grenade or rocket launchers; nor flame throwers. Why are semi-automatic weapons exempt? The reason is that to do so would severely impact the disposable income our congressional representatives and result in them having to opt for a shitty vacation in Florida as opposed to a luxury stay in Cancun to escape the wrath of Mother Nature at home.
I love the jingoist catchphrases the NRA has repeatedly armed their bubble head minions with such as, "The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is good guy with a gun!" Cops yes, average Joe's and Jane's no. I think the annual tally for deaths by criminals and mental cases is 20,000+ versus maybe 15 prevented by Dudley & Daisy Dorights. Even the Washington Generals had a better record against the Globetrotters.
No, a better proven deterrent is a mandatory twenty year sentence for illegally possessing an outlawed firearm and a mandatory life without parole for using any firearm in the commission of a crime. As far as the mental cases, the Republicans are now rallying around "the need for better mental health care" but then voting it down every time the subject is brought up in any way, shape or form in the House.
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March 14, 2023 - Six-Year-Olds with guns look to the Republicans for direction on what's Right and are directed to George Santos's office to sit on the couch and watch Fox News.
Thank you. There were enough sane individuals voting in the mid-terms to knock down the feared red tsunami to a toe tickling, leach laden, poisonous red tide in the House. Yet a number of morally bankrupt Senators and Governors still managed to retain their offices. You can't win them all. Thanks to the youth of America for turning out when you were needed. I'm afraid you will be needed from here on if the human race is ever to evolve and survive.
In my day, Good and Bad were deemed to be simply Capitalism versus Communism, two fantasy ideologies which never actually existed but were great stories to distract an inadequately educated populous while the respective oligarchs of each bandstand committed an unchecked, closeted, gluttony of riches on the backs of the masses. Democrats and Republicans worked with each other and kept their backstabbing out of public view in the interest of preserving a continuous flow of graft.
Today it's more complex. It's as if the internet has unlocked an abundance of Ian Fleming's SPECTRE's. WTF! We have Kim Jung-un, North Korea (Odd Job with Nukes), Bashar al-Assad, Syria (the insane eye doctor with the luck of the Caddyshack gopher), Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela (the Escobar of Oil), Ali Khamenei, Iran (titular head of the Women Haters Club), Viktor (Get off my lawn) Orbán, Hungary, Alexander (I'm with Putin) Lukashenko, Belarus, Xi Jinping, China (Pandemics-R-Us), Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Arabia (It wasn't me. Here, let me get you a check), Vladimir Putin, Russia (I'm a somebody!). The world has become a giant WWF, complete with partisan promoter news networks willing sacrifice integrity in a quest for that all important quarter of point rating, so important to peddling advertising spots to gullible corporate suckers.
Yes, we must remain vigilant. We elected but did not re-elect an inherited wealth idiot who did more lasting damage to this country and democracy than anyone since the Civil War. Now he's back again with even a more dangerous clone from Florida opposing him.
And like Stripe in Gremlins, his bombastic, unintelligible logic, which is so popular with open mouth gawking morons, has managed to spawn a horde of identical mogwai creating havoc throughout federal and state governments across the country, on your dime to boot.
There are a slim majority of knuckleheads in control of the House led by a spineless worm, who frighteningly, is third in line for the White House should the unimaginable happen. (However, I guess if this nation survived the presidency of a thieving Cheesy Poof it can survive anything, although I would strongly not recommend tempting fate). Luckily the Senate is in Democratic hands, though that is subject to debate, thanks to two weather vane candidates who will twist in the direction of the best remuneration.
Back to the House, the knuckleheads are now controlled by a fringe element lead by representatives from the sticks (study the Congressional District maps and tell me what's missing in their district - (https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/map ) hint, civilization. They seem to follow the marching orders of a Bob's Big Boy Mascot look-alike, a blonde human manifestation of Cocaine Bear and Bubbles, the poster child for the dangers of grammar school dropouts.
Luckily, they are unable to accomplish anything, first because their ideas are fricken insane and second because they're busy making fools of themselves having hearings on every Fox News, National Enquirer-like allegation thrown out over the past two years including their quest for the coveted and elusive, Hunter Biden penis pics.
Speaking of Fox … (I just can't call it news) based on the evidence revealed in the Dominion Lawsuit only an idiot would continue to believe anything they say. They are a national disgrace and should be prosecuted for knowingly inciting a riot and relegating this country to looking like a third rate banana republic on January 6th.
Education and thus human evolution has been repressed in this country. Even more so now. An educated worker is problematic to the wealthy. If oligarchs can't have slaves they will adapt and settle for low paid simpletons. Yes, they have to pay them and provide benefits fought for by the damn bleeding heart democrats and human rights foundations, but on the plus side they no longer have to feed, house or whip them. Though, they sort of yearn for the days of the last one.
What the second and third generation inherited wealth billionaires lost sight of or never studied while serving their time showing up for their mommy and daddy's, bought and paid for diplomas from Ivy League institutions with buildings named after their ancestors, is history. When there is gross disparity between the classes bad things happen to them - always. Let's start with the obvious ones, The American and French Revolutions. Then there are the less obvious ones, The Russian Revolution of 1917, The Chinese Revolution of 1911, The Haitian Revolution 1791, Vietnam, the Arab Spring to name a few. The moral of the story is you can only push people so far, then BAM, rightly or wrongly, the rich find themselves being dragged through the streets. The resulting society may or may not suck but it sure felt satisfying for the people seeing their oppressors soil their underroos.
Republicans may want to reconsider their stance on gun control, because hell has no fury like a mental case scorned, and there are a lot of mental cases with an armory of AR-15's who have been swearing by what they've been fed by Fox and the Republican party. Now it's out that they've been played for a fool.
Ye of rational mind, please come to MASS before things get out of hand. It's time for people still possessing all their marbles and those who can possibly still recall where they left them before being seduced by the Tangerine Tongued Teller of Tall Tales to join forces in the furtherance of accountable government. MASS - Make America Sane Soon! Or … support a party that believes in armoring educational institutions and making Navy Seal training part of teacher certification for Ms. Crabtree rather than simply re-instituting the assault weapon ban and instituting tougher background checks.
October 28, 2022 - Political Action Committees (PAC's) spend billions each election betting we're morons.
Politicians spend billions each campaign year betting we're morons. Just look at the ads. Turns out it seems to be a winning bet due to many of us being either apathetic, lazy or willing simpletons. Ever wonder why spending on education is low on the totem pole? A logic starved constituency is an easily manipulated constituency. A good education fosters common sense and logical thinking, which is counterproductive to a rewarding, kickback enhanced career in government. It's the ancient Chinese Mushroom Cultivation Theorem of Governance - feed them shit and keep them in the dark.
Republican stooges, Howdy Doody Hannity and his sidekick, Clarabelle Carlson, would have you believe a Democratic President has satanic powers and is responsible for your every ailment in the world, from higher prices to the heartbreak of psoriasis. They always vaguely back it up by referencing obscure sources and telling their chuckle head peanut gallery, just go look it up; which no one ever does because it's un-findable with the information given. But convinced it is true and God is on their side they will re spew their blather.
With a lack of high school historical or political science education, many people fail to realize it is hard for a President to accomplish anything if 100% the opposing party has marching orders of "Whatever it is, we're against it."
You also have to wonder when the former President's son-in-law comes merrily skipping back from Saudi Arabia with $2 billion dollars in a suitcase and shortly thereafter it's determined the President had a stash of Iranian (the arch enemy of the Saudis) nuclear secrets stashed behind a crate of tangerine skin cream next to the copier at Mara Largo. Wonder why oil prices keep trying to creep back up?
Then there are the billionaires, the real behind the scenes inflation manipulators. Could they hold a grudge over having to finally have to pay taxes like the commoners and pay a living wage? They cry about higher wages and supply chain difficulties driving inflation. As far as supply chain issues, their fortune 500 CEO's are paid an average of over $15 million a year plus stock option sweeteners. You'd think these captains of industry would have worked out the logistics by now, since the problem dates back to the Trump administration.
No, for these snickering little weasels, the Fox Fantasy News trumpeted culprits of 'high wages' and 'supply shortages', provide a perfect cover to gouge the shit out of the consumer. The higher they can get the prices now, the higher they'll remain when it comes time to magnanimously roll them back, … a generous 50% of the unwarranted increases. If you think I'm full of shit, here's a reference for ya, with a link actually provided.
God bless you Katie Porter and your fabulous white board! Unfortunately, I don't think the peanut gallery has a clue as to who you are. I don't imagine you get much air time in the Fox Den.
Trump's Wall was a symbolic deterrence meant to placate the feeble minded. The only things it disrupted were confused armadillos. No, the wall was a great ploy to grant sweetheart contracts to construction companies of limited construction experience and ongoing sweetheart maintenance contractors to perpetually repair and maintain the shoddy work performed.
The reality is, the last thing the deep pocket backers of the Republican Party wish to see is the faucet supplying cheap immigrant labor shut off. Ever since the emancipation proclamation, their John Bircher backers have depended on cheap immigrant labor to maintain the next best thing to slavery. And they deliver the votes come Election Day by pitting races against each other. They make them believe illegals are coming across the border like the scene in World War Z, to take their jobs and keep'em from asking for raises.
P.S. Locally, I never realized NH Congressman Chris Pappas was Nancy Palpatine Pelosi's Darth Vader. I had never heard of him before the Republican election run up commercials. (Just between us, I don't think Nancy's heard of him either. She's too busy defending the Capital Death Star from the ex-Creamsicle-in-Chief's disjointed rebel alliance).
This mid-term election will be one of the most important in our history. If you truly value our heritage you must vote in this election. Vote out Republicans in every election right down through the position of dog catcher. This year it is critical that this party be decimated and sent a message to go back and re-invent itself. This country has gone way too far to the extreme right. The only way to fix it is to swing way back to the extreme left with the goal of returning normalcy and settling somewhere in the middle where reasoned discourse can resume again. Register and vote, no matter what the obstacle.
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October 22, 2022 - BREAKING NEWS: WEWO awarded an injunction to require the Republican Party to immediately cease and desist
BREAKING NEWS: WEWO (World Elephant Welfare Organization) has been awarded an injunction in Federal Court to require the Republican Party to immediately cease and desist from using and elephant's likeness in any form in association with their Party's business. Elephants from around the world have joined in this class action suit.
Elephant spokesman, Barbar, released a statement saying, "We elephants are a compassionate, empathetic and loving species and no longer wish to have our likeness associated with such a vile organization!"
Anticipating the Party would be seeking a replacement logo, lions, tigers and bears all quickly filed immediate restraining orders to prohibit the use of their likeness. Other species are lining up to follow.
With the mid-term elections looming, Republican are said to be in emergency talks with the leader of a species (pictured below) more representative of their "family values" and policies .
September 2022 -ARE YOU HUMAN? OR NOT YET?
I've railed against the Republicans ad infinitum in previous posts and on twitter. They deserve it. Their most vocal supporters are mindless fools with no concept of history except the purified, homogenized history fed to them by their manipulators. If they are the ones to turn out in mass this November, while independent thinking individuals don't exert the effort to vote, regardless of obstacle, this country will be well on the way to its downfall. It happens to all great empires, though most seemed to have lasted a lot longer than our miserable 250 years. Consider the empires of Ancient Greece, Rome, Britain, Spain, France … all now a mere shadows of the empires they once were. Greed and corruption is the fastest way to neuter a country.
And the Democrats are not without fault either. They too are susceptible to their share of greed and corruption. BUT AT THIS POINT IN TIME. Again, AT THIS POINT IN TIME, they are the necessary solution due to our self sustaining 'ONLY TWO'-party system. And the fact that in 2016, America lost it mind and didn't have the intelligence to recognize a lying, bigoted, snake-oil salesman and made him President due to him being a boisterous, fake TV star and saying outrageous things. To be fair a majority of Americans actually voted for Hillary, but the idiotic, out-dated Electoral College system gave the office to the bloated orange.
As a result, for four years there was nobody running the ship. The head of your Executive Branch was preoccupied with draining every cent he could get his hands on from the Treasury, deflecting the public's attention in other directions with outlandish accusations only a moron would give credence to, decimating the EPA, CDC and the Courts, giving tax breaks to billionaires, setting in place a phalanx of lawyers, judges, elected and appointed officials, to ensure he'd escape jail time. He installed dynamos like Ben Carson, Betsy DeVos, Louis DeJoy, Robert Redfield, John Ratcliff, Rick Perry, Wilbur Ross, among many others, who dutifully decimated a previously functioning government while no doubt carving out their own little pieces of the pie.
He tried to kill America (and a bunch of Americans too) and blames it on everyone else. His shining example to the children of this nation is learn to lie, lie, lie, lie again, cheat and steal. Yell while you do, call people names, say 'family values' a lot and people needing to belong to something, anything, will follow you. AND ALWAYS ASK FOR THEIR MONEY because, you know, there's a sucker born every minute.
It's time to put Republicans on the shelf for awhile, a time-out, so to speak. They've become the party of hate and avarice.
However, if you think pompous white men with jowls know what's best for a woman's health and that of victims of rape, incest and pedophilia - vote big, vote elephant. If you're okay with armed forces grade, semi-automatic large caliber weapons being used to make your children into a heap of chop suey to ensure the right of pea brains morons to pretend they're army men or video game heroes - vote for the Grand Old Party.
Like having to run a gauntlet to cast a vote in a democracy and have it being in danger of being ignored if it's not to the liking of the party of the Secretary of State or Governor? Don't like lower cost medical insurance and prescription drugs? Don't give a shit if that FICA deduction you've been contributing all your life to be able to retire are for naught - poof - gone? Go RED!
Do you prefer prison level fortification of schools, requiring navy seal trained teachers (Uvalde proved police training may not be sufficient) and indoctrinating elaborate active shooter drills in the brains of smiling six year olds, just so that retards in East Bumfuck can have huge arsenals in preparation for the impending government takeover that they've been waiting for 200 years? (Nobody told them, the government could vaporize them in 15 minutes, if it had a mind to regardless of how much they spent. No, they spent too much time working overtime to afford those guns instead of investing in their brains). Oh, if you do … vote Q.
If you prefer the new, snappy, Klu Klux Klan attire of khakis, polo shirts, ball caps and face coverings, vote MAGA. If you think it's God-fearing to fuck around with the lives and futures of desperate families who have spent months walking through scorching heat and risking their lives to escape the tyranny of a country, the likes of which Ron Desantis, Donald Trump and their ilk would love this country to become - then go fuck yourself and whatever preacher you're wasting your money on.
This mid-term election will be one of the most important in our history. If you truly value our heritage you must vote in this election. Vote out Republicans in every election right down through the position of dog catcher. This year it is critical that this party be decimated and sent a message to go back and re-invent itself. This country has gone way too far to the extreme right. The only way to fix it is to swing way back to the extreme left with the goal of returning normalcy and settling somewhere in the middle where reasoned discourse can resume again. Register and vote, no matter what the obstacle.
Please.
June 24, 2022 - VOTE OUT THE FRICKEN DOG CATCHER IF HE'S REPUBLICAN!
Enough of this madness. I've decided to activate the Litany of Gibberish post (A B.L.O.G.) as a vehicle for putting forth thoughts which pop into my brain from time to time, without structure or form. They may be short or they may be long. Each entry will be dated and appear at the top of the post so you will not have to scroll through stuff you've already seen. Most will be written on the fly, largely unedited and sometimes unsubstantiated ('MOTHER OF GOD, how dare he, in this day and age where those we look up to for leadership would never lie ... well not big lies ... well not often anyway ... ahh ... let's just move on, shall we, and see what he has to say'). So let's bloviate!
There's a heavy weight I have to get off my chest. It's the elephant in the room, so to speak. They're know as REPUBLICANS. At one time, I even identified as one. Now that I look back on those younger days, when I was working my ass off with my head buried with concerns of providing and caring for my family and generally unaware of what was going on in world affairs and living off sound bites gathered here and there, I now feel like a total fricken DOPE.
The unease started creeping in during the Bush Junior administration. It was during his reign when I formally switched to Independent, where I have been since. Now that I am retired after dealing with cancer, I have done a lot of catching up on what the hell's been happening in the world - it's more than what was being told on the news at 6 and 11. There are a shitload of sleaze bags and morons (their lemmings) out there and the societal structure which has been ingrained in this country has enabled them to flourish, much to the county's detriment. Not only that, the internet unwittingly (or maybe intentionally) made the universe of sleaze bags and morons aware of each other thus emboldening them by removing the apprehension of abnormality or uniqueness, it also has provided a library of resources appropriately simplified to enrich themselves at the expense of others and not from creating any added value.
I have come to the conclusion the Republican party has been on a path of treachery for many years ... in the shadows. Ironically it was the their unintended loud mouth golden idol, who like the pied piper, summoned the previously disinterested moronic lemmings from under their rocks and as he has been prone to do with everything he touches, gleefully drove the franchise into a puss filled sluice-way while he and Secretary Munchkin were backing up a line of Brinks trucks up to the Treasury on a daily basis.
While Donny the Dunce and family were joyfully stealing the silverware and anything else that wasn't tied down Mitch, the tripled chinned turtle, saw he had the cover to accomplish his life's goal - finish packing the courts with Federalist Society judges. And as we are seeing, it is paying off in spades in this session - Roe v. Wade, concealed carry reversal and god knows what else is coming. I imagine his paydays from the NRA, gun manufacturers, evangelicals and every other lobby that will profit greatly from these acts, will be unimaginable.
The REPUBLICAN PARTY has become the equivalent of the AMERICAN TALIBAN. Thanks to the out-dated electoral college and the structure of the Senate (two for every state regardless of population size) they have disproportionate power contrary to the will of the vast majority of the people. This flaw in our structure will be the cause of the loss of our democracy.
This mid-term election will be one of the most important in our history. If you truly value our heritage you must vote in this election. Vote out Republicans in every election right down through the position of dog catcher. This year it is critical that this party be decimated and sent a message to go back and re-invent itself. There is nothing Biden can do without the support of both the House and the Senate.
The Tangerine Twat decimated the Executive branch of government. In November, he had the head of the GSA, Emily W. Murphy, thwart the incoming transition team at every turn. Then Republican representatives delayed and dragged out the approval of almost every Biden cabinet appointee. PEOPLE FORGET OR WEREN'T AWARE THIS WAS HAPPENING.
And yet everything in the world is Biden's fault. You realize that he can't just walk into the White House, wave a magic wand, and have the enormous, unending, shit stain left by the previous administration disappear like it was a Tide commercial. Remember, the stooges given jobs by previous Cheeto-in-Chief, in all the departments administered by the Executive Branch (President) don't have to go away if they don't want to. The Executive Branch oversees 4.2 MILLION employees. And as government employees, they can't be fired except for cause which takes ages to effectuate. They can be pigeon holed though, but you need the department's cabinet position filled first and it takes time for them to have their people identify the idiots, if they ever do.
There are evil people who wish to re-make our democracy into a cloistered authoritarian regime in service to themselves. This country has gone way too far to the extreme right. The only way to fix it is to swing way back to the extreme left with the goal of returning normalcy and settling somewhere in the middle where reasoned discourse can resume again. Christians don't seem Christian-like anymore. 'Do unto others as you would TRULY have done unto yourself' is out the window and into the sluice-way. "In God We Trust" has seem to devolved into "In God's Name We Profit - No, no, not you though". It's ironic that these sanctimonious morons are so vain and self centered as to believe THE MOST POWERFUL ENTITY, that is responsible for the ultimate creation of EVERYTHING IN THE UNIVERSE AND THINGS WE DON'T EVEN HAVE WORDS FOR OR KNOW OF YET would in any way require eni-weany them to intercede on his/her/it's behalf in anybody else's business about anything! Who the fuck do you think you are?
Silent Apathetic Majority (SAM) you are needed. Register and vote, no matter what the obstacle.
October 28, 2019
I'm contemplating starting a blog. I'm calling it B.L.O.G. or a 'Bloviator's Litany of Gibberish'! More to come when the urge comes to bloviate ...
Just what we needed ... follow this blog.