Showing posts with label Senate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Senate. Show all posts

Thursday, January 28, 2021

Impunity


Not guilty

            There isn’t any way that I can see 17 Republicans siding with Democrats to vote Trump guilty of inciting an insurrection. He is clearly guilty, but if they find him guilty then they are admitting their own guilt as well. They are judging themselves and they are their own jury.

            They have either backed Trump or excused his lies, actions, false conspiracies, behavior and sedition. They will hide behind the Constitution that they have sought to destroy while they continue to incite the Republican MAGA seditionists.

            Everybody should be held accountable!

But them.

Republican Sampler. 

  • A current member of the House, Marjorie Taylor Greene, threatened to kill Democrats and FBI agents PRIOR to getting elected. She believes in the Q! (She also thinks the wildfires in California were started by giant space lasers.)
  • Republican MAGA Congressional seditionists tried to overturn the lawful vote of “We the People”.
  • In Texas, Rep. Kyle Biedermann submitted a bill for the state to secede from the United States. Prior to the 2016 election, the largest secession website in the country was in Texas and run by the Russians. There are other Republican secession movements as well.
  • Secession movements among Republicans aren’t new. Sarah Palin’s husband Todd, now divorced, was a member of a secession Party in Alaska and she attended one of their conventions.
  • In Oregon, the state RNC passed a resolution calling the attack on the Capitol a “false flag” and that the Democrats were actually the ones that did it. (For reals.)
  • Representative Kevin McCarthy said that it was all our fault. (And some Nazis are very fine people too while we’re at it.)
  • In Arizona they censured their Representative Cindy McCain, Senator Jeff Flake and Gov. Doug Ducey for not being seditiony enough even though McCain supported overturning the lawful vote of “We the People” in the Presidential election.
  • Alaska Republican Jamie Allard defended a 3Reich vanity plate as being benign. She was on the Human Rights Commission and has since been removed.
  • Georgia Republican State Representative David Clark was removed from the chamber for refusing to test for Covid. They don’t like wearing masks and they don’t like being tested.
  • This is a favorite of mine. Neo-Nazi and Holocaust denier Arthur Jones won the Republican nomination for the 3rd Congressional District in Illinois. Yes, an actual Nazi won a GOP primary. The RNC blamed media for him winning. Classic!
  • I’m going to just stop here without bothering to list all the racists that were uncovered in the Trump Administration. Some of you might remember their resignations.

 The Dudes

            I should avoid starting these lists because they could just go on forever and seditious MAGA Republicans will either respond with some irrelevant whataboutism or share some highly detailed erroneous piece of information. The link provides a nice explanation of the concept of whataboutism and I love this line from their definition, “If everyone is guilty of something, is no one guilty of anything?”

            House Minority leader Kevin McCarthy signed on to answering the above quote affirmatively.  “As a nation, I know we sit back and we’re appalled by what we’re seeing,” McCarthy said. “But I want everybody to take a deep breath and understand: We all have some responsibility here.”

Cray. Real cray.

            But keep in mind that they are using the “Dudes” defense as in some other dudes did it. It wasn’t the seditious terrorists Proud Boys and MAGA insurrectionists. It was Antifa, Democrats and BLM infiltrators! So the crowd that just looked and acted like the people at every Trump rally that has ever been were cunningly disguised imposters with all of their Trump flags, paraphernalia and White Racist gear.

            They were good. They were so good that they fooled the FBI by infiltrating hundreds of Facebook pages with videos posted by people that actually looked like the people they were impersonating.

             So, Republicans are the ‘Law and Order’ Party with the following exceptions and disclaimers:

  • Upholding their oaths of Office.
  • Sacking the Capitol.
  • Their own responsibility for continuing to incite treasonous behavior.
  • Being truthful about Trump losing the election.
  • Recognizing 62 court decisions about the election being legal and their being zero widespread fraud.
  • Holding the President accountable for inciting an insurrection while holding the Seditious Republican MAGA terrorists responsible.
  • Being truthful in general.

            So they are the Law and Order Party.

Kind of.

Trial of the Century

            We’re going to have ringside seats to the Senate trial concerning the article of impeachment. There will be lots of really good speeches. LOTs. Evidence will be presented. Republicans will reject it. Make that denounce it. They have pressing party matters to protect. Trump is giving them orders perceived as threats. The party is still his.

            We need to keep in mind during the trial Trump’s infamous remarks to the Proud Boys to “stand back and stand by!” until he turned them loose on the Capitol and Congress. In the immortal words of Vice President Pence in regards to excusing whatever malicious act Trump commits.

“Well, that’s Donald Trump.”

 

Thursday, December 3, 2020

Trumpin’ in Georgia.

 

On message.

            The head of the RNC, along with other Republican spokesliars, was in Georgia campaigning for the two filthy rich Senate Republicans seeking reelection with unique messaging.

            The election was and is hopelessly rigged against Trump by Republicans that supported Trump!

            Everything in the electoral process in Georgia, like the rest of the country, is corrupt, including the Republicans running it!

            The Republican Senators supporting Trump’s river of lies aren’t supporting him enough by demanding the vote of the people be overturned!

            Voting machines are rigged!

            Software is rigged!

            Mail in ballots are rigged!

Trust the electoral process and vote Republican in the upcoming Senate election!

            Got it?!

Whaaaaaaaaaat?

Normal people.

            Their messaging might seem to be on the illogical side and somewhat counterproductive. On the one hand they’re saying the system has failed completely while on the other they’re saying trust the system. To their credit the Republicans actually running the electoral system in Georgia are saying that not only are they Trump supporters and voted for Trump but that the system worked. Trump says that they’re liars.

            Now on the face of it some folks might consider that this kind of messaging is kind of a hard sell to make. Some folks might think that if they’re being told the system is rigged it seems kind of pointless to turn out and vote since their votes won’t matter anyway.

            “Some folks” aren’t Trump supporters. Being crazy isn’t a requirement for believing messaging like this but it helps. For them messaging of opposite claims is an

Easy sell.

“Alice laughed. ‘There's no use trying,’ she said. ‘One can't believe impossible things.’

‘I daresay you haven't had much practice,’ said the Queen. ‘When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes, I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.’” –Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll

Agendas

            Right now the Trump Administration is like a Disney ride. Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride comes to mind. Republicans are holding super spreading parties, super spreading hearings and attending super spreading election rallies in order to commemorate what will be the worst medical disaster in the our nation’s history, THAT THEY CAUSED. They are a plague in and of themselves. Concern for the wellbeing of others is out the window. Killing people is their agenda. Denying health care is their agenda. Starving people back to work during a pandemic is their agenda. Giving money to the wealthy is their agenda. Obstructing legislation that benefits working people is their agenda. It’s what they’re good at.

            Will the people of Georgia vote out the two corrupt Republican Senators seeking to line their own pockets while paying allegiance to McConnell and their Chosen One Liar? Hard to say. BUT if people want a chance at coming out of this in better shape then they should consider voting for Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff for Senate in Georgia. Put someone in office that cares about

YOU and those that you care about!

Thursday, November 19, 2020

Biden’s for life!

 


We define who we are.

            So yes, I am pro-life and pro-choice and not for abortion. The terms are not mutually exclusive. If you are serious about lowering the abortion rate you can be too. The Evangelical Party of Trump likes to think that they’re in charge of defining who we are. They aren’t.

We are.

Pro Life

            President Elect Joe Biden is pro-life and pro-choice; that’s why I voted for him. The same holds true for Vice President Elect Kamala Harris and any Democratic candidate that is also pro-choice like Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff seeking the office of Senator in Georgia.

            The BEST way to lower the rate of abortion is to vote for pro-choice candidates. They aren’t looking to punish vulnerable women by putting them in jail. Pro-choice administrations have succeeded in reducing the rate of abortion.

BTDT

            Evangelicals and Republicans haven’t been able to punish abortion away. Doesn’t work like that. When and where abortion was and is made illegal women continue to get abortions. Making it illegal doesn’t change the ‘why’ women seek abortion. It just drives desperate women to seek even more desperate measures. Evangelicals along with Republicans are into punishment. They want to designate a few million women as being murderers and throw them in jail. Don’t think so? Then it isn’t the murder that they say they believe it is.

Those women aren’t murderers.

Make a real difference.

            Interested in reducing the number of abortions? There are ways that are proven to succeed. Proven to reduce the number of women seeking abortion.

Ω  Support affordable contraception.

Ω  Support sex education.

            Just those two items alone make a difference. Not even complicated. Unless you’re a Conservative or Evangelical. Naturally they oppose the simple measures that work. Just like they oppose wearing masks. We had basic sex education when I was in grade school. We needed it!

Ω  Support reducing poverty.

A tough one.

            Reducing poverty is a tough one. The 40 to 50 million people living in poverty haven’t seen much difference made in their lives regardless of what party controls government. It isn’t going to be quick and it isn’t going to be pretty. If you’re serious about reducing poverty and the need for abortions never vote for a Republican again. I was a Republican. I’m not any longer and I will leave the ballot blank before I will ever vote for a Republican again.

What can be done?

Ω  Increase the minimum wage.

Ω  Get people health care!

Ω  Make higher education available to the poor and affordable to the middle class without crushing debt paid to banks!

Ω  Multimillionaire Republicans think providing people food and shelter is asking too much! Take back the senate!

            Vote for candidates like Warnock and Ossoff that will provide President Biden the support that he needs to….

Make America kind again

Tuesday, April 7, 2020

Pandemic RDP


        ^ Every day when I wake up I find that a part of me wants to believe that President Trump is privy to some secret inside information and knows something that means this will truly be over soon.

Then he starts talking.

        ^ Then I do as many others are doing and look at the unfiltered world. I continue to hope, not pray, that I’m wrong. The reason that I added ‘not pray’ is because too many have already died and continue to die. People like us. People that just went about their lives without even knowing they had COVID-19 and that their future was already written. I just pray for the best outcome now.

(The picture used online at the top of this essay is of the police in Seattle in 1918 wearing masks provided by the Red Cross.)

The Art of Killing People

First to go.
        ^ The first deaths to gain serious media coverage came from a nursing home. Nursing homes, like hospitals, need Personal Protective Equipment. People working in them are begging for supplies just like those on the front lines in hospitals. Nursing homes though are at the bottom of the list. As of 4/7/20 there remains a critical shortage of protective equipment.
        ^ Making old people die by everyone going back to work was never going to save the economy. The leadership of the Republican Party already knew that. It was already too late. The novel coronavirus had already spread. Old people were already dying. Old people already had COVID-19 as did the very young and everyone in between.

Messaging from the Administration.
Ω    The President is doing a great job. Congratulate him at every opportunity.
Ω     Media is lying, causing panic and hysteria. (Except for Fox Pravda and except for when even they are truthful.)
Ω    The Democrats are making the Pandemic political.
Ω    The President is doing a great job.
Ω     There has been plenty of testing available.
Ω    This will be over soon and we can get back to work.
Ω    The Governors that don’t support the President are wrong.
Ω    There’s too much negativity.
Ω    The President has always done a great job.
Ω    Only a relatively small number of people will die.
Ω    The media and Democrats are making more of this than it is.
Ω    Denial. Denial of responsibility of anything but a GREAT VICTORY!
Ω    The President is doing a great job.

Poverty kills
Living on the edge.
        ^ Poverty has been stalking generations in this country for centuries. Yes, centuries. Yes, from the very beginning. When a pandemic such as this hits people living on the edge it crosses them over.
        ^ There are 40 million people living in poverty in this country. This number stays fairly much the same whether Democrats or Republicans are in charge. We have multi-generational poverty. Tens of millions more are just above the cut, generation after generation.
        ^ They can’t afford to stock up on food and supplies. They can’t stock up on disposable diapers. They don’t have health insurance. So a lot of the poor are in this pandemic with underlying and untreated health issues. Sometimes as simple as not being able to afford medications. If masks were available they wouldn’t be able to afford them in the quantities that they need.
        ^ Thank you President Trump for delivering on your promise to have the greatest of insurance available to replace Obamacare!
        ^ The poor will die at a higher rate simply because many of them don’t have the advantage of staying home. They are the “essential” minimum wage workers like the cashier checking out your groceries. But again this isn’t really a problem for Republicans. There are 40 million people living in poverty in this country so there will be plenty of low wage replacements for those “essential” workers that lose their lives.
        ^ They also don’t all have smart phones or internet access to stay in touch and know what’s going on in the nation at the same level as those that do. If they’ve only been watching Fox News Pravda they’re already at risk. They may have already exposed themselves to the coronavirus.
        ^ None of this is really new. Poverty kills people and has been for decades whether administrations are Democrat or Republican. The differences of emphasis of the two main political parties are magnified in certain areas. Lack of health care kills. Poverty kills.

They are expendable.
        ^ The medical field is also staffed with low wage workers. (I’m not talking about the doctors and nurses in this instance but rather all the support staff that a hospital needs to operate. It’s like in combat where it takes 10 people to support 1 person actively engaged in combat.)  These people right behind the front lines of combatting the disease are often doing so at minimum wage. That’s asking a lot of people. But they keep doing it. They keep showing up to take care of the sick. They aren’t going to get hazardous duty pay.

A story
        ^ My dad was a WWII vet. He was in the Battle of the Bulge. He was a mechanic for a piper cub. They were usually close to the front lines but not on the front lines. He said generally they were a couple of miles behind the front lines until one morning they woke up and were no longer behind the front lines. They were in front of the front lines.
        ^ That’s when my dad got awarded a bronze star for fueling up their Piper Cub and getting it in the air and safely away while under direct fire from a German 88. The mission and his lieutenant came first. He spent 6 months under fire. Six months under fire is stressful to the physical human body. It was during this time that his heart problems started but they didn’t catch up with him until his later years.

Same o same o
        ^ It’s the same thing for those working in the medical field. They are going to spend months under fire. There will be long term physical and mental costs for their service to the nation and their fellow citizens.
        ^ They end up in front of the lines and somehow catch COVID-19. Doctors and nurses can do everything right and somehow still contract COVID-19 and they aren’t expendable. They don’t have a ready replacement waiting behind the lines to jump right into their place and carry on. They have expertise in dealing with COVID-19.
        ^ And they don’t have the right equipment and enough supplies to do the job properly and protect themselves and their patients. AND it isn’t their fault!
        ^ They are dying because of the incredible lack of response from the Federal government across the board. They are dying because the President and his court jesters have taken government apart. They are dying because when they should have already been staying in their homes the President and his jesters were telling them that everything was okay and they went about their lives. It was a hoax by the Dems! The President was still holding rallies and golfing even though he said that he knew how dangerous the pandemic was from the very beginning.
        ^ In other words they were killing people and Fox Pravda was with them every step of the way.
        ^ While the President tweets people are dying.
        ^ While the President is telling the country what a great job he’s doing people are dying. Those brave souls on the front lines still don’t have what they need and we’re not close to peaking yet as a nation.

He’s killing his own.
        ^ Here’s where it gets a little twisted.
        ^ Because of what the President said and did the majority of his supporters ignored the pandemic warnings as well. Not only were they okay with him murdering someone on 5th Avenue they’re okay with him killing them. MAGA! If statistics are correct there will be a greater number of them in body bags because of their actions. At around 6 minutes he talked about losing nobody. Said it was under control.
        ^ Young people are dying too. Young workers.
        ^ The slow response from state Republican Administrations is also killing people. They are mirroring their President in order to curry his favor. These are the Republican court jesters that I talk about. Their actions or rather their lack of actions are killing people and have killed people.

God didn’t do this.
        ^ In spite of what the Evangelical Party says, God didn’t do this. We did. Mankind did. This disaster is of the physical world. The world we live in. The real world.
        ^ People can call what is happening ‘fake news’ if they want. People will continue to die regardless of what it’s being called. Democrats will make more of it. Republicans will make less of it. What’s happening is in between the two positions and the in-between isn’t pretty.
        ^ It’s a lot of dead people. It’s bodies being loaded into refrigerated trucks because hospitals are out of room and morgues don’t have the capacity to handle this many dead.
        ^ The countries that have made a difference have one thing in common. They have benefitted from decisive leadership. Leaders that made the critically right decisions at the right time. Leaders that had the correct priority. And by correct I mean leaders that put the welfare of people first not their reelection and staying in power.

Point of no return
        ^ What does point of no return (PNR) mean anyway? Well when an airplane is on a trip and can turn around and have enough fuel to make it back home then they haven’t passed the PNR. The pilot will reach a point where if they turn around they won’t have enough fuel to make it back home. They will have passed their PNR. The options for the pilot are to proceed forward to an attainable destination or to crash.
        ^ My belief is that we have already passed the point of no return. I think that we passed it last week. (Last week in March) Others believe that we still have time left to flatten the curve. I hope that they’re right. The graphs, including those produced by the White House, tell a different story.

How many?!
        ^ We are four months into this pandemic in this country and still don’t have accurate numbers provided by large scale testing for a nation with a population of 329 million people. This isn’t an accident. It really doesn’t serve the interests of a President and Party that says this isn’t that big of a deal to have accurate numbers.  Their talking points are that it’s blown out of proportion, a hoax and it’s mainly old people that are dying anyway. We need to get back to work. What’s a few more bodies?
        ^ On a national scale a huge number of conservatives still don’t believe that what is taking place is all that serious. Check Fox News Pravda and the ministers of misinformation. I would list all their names but you know who they are. They are all the talking head jesters that switched their positions 180 degrees. I would rather not give names of the killers and there are too many of their victims to be named. They will be named in quiet ceremonies across the nation. Check Rush Limbaugh: he’s got his hand on the pulse of the coronavirus. All of the above is why posts saying that the majority of people will be just fine and not affected by the virus are still being circulated. The jesters don’t want people talking about the reality of the bad news. It puts people in a bad mood instead of thanking their Ducé.

The Death Panels.

        ^ Remember back in 2009 when Republicans accused President Obama of creating death panels with the Affordable Care Act (ACA)? Irony. He didn’t and neither did the legislation of the Act.

Ω    Five men dressed in black robes.
        ^ It seems Appropriate to start off with the five men in black robes that make up the conservative and now dominant side of the Supreme Court of the United States. Their decision to let the vote in Wisconsin go ahead will kill people.
        ^ The Democratic Governor tried to stop the vote and was overridden by the Republican Jesters (RJ) of the legislature. A lawsuit was filed and the people lost. The vote will continue. Many voting places will be closed by the lack of volunteers unwilling to jeopardize their lives to run them.
Ω     President Trump and all his enablers.
        ^ I know that there are those that would place the President first but this is one victory that I’ll deny him and it only applies here. He has botched the handling of this pandemic from the beginning and at this stage his behavior qualifies for being a mass murderer status.
Ω    Republican Jesters (RJ)
        ^ At all levels of government in the Federal and state legislatures that refused to act in the interests of the people and supported their “Chosen One” instead when he maintained that everything was under control.
Ω    Health Insurance Company executives.
        ^ The lack of insurance and gutting of The ACA. by RJs is in this as well. I also include all the Democrats that have supported their lobbying efforts over the years.
Ω    Health Care Triage
        ^ Sadly it is also going to fall upon those on the front lines when they have to make decisions affecting who gets to live and who gets to die. RJs created this as well but the fault belongs the RJs.
Ω    Dysfunctional Federal Government.
        ^ This what you get when the President, supported by all his RJs, takes the federal government apart. They make up the head of all the other death panels that they created and sustain.
Ω    The enablers
        ^ All those that have enabled an Administration of lies that seeks to undermine the fundamental pillars of our Republic.

In closing.
        ^ This list is dominated by all the well-dressed people in suits that set the stage for this happening. The death panels have been busily working there for years. They are why we have 40 million men, women and children living in poverty in a nation that portrays itself as a government of the people.
        ^ Currently they dominate the Senate, the Supreme Court and have the Presidency. They have crippled government. They crippled the very agencies needed to deal with a pandemic. They have left hundreds of positions unfilled across government. They got rid of the professionals. They ignored all the warnings. They don’t believe in science. President Trump didn’t know who the Inspector General was because he never appointed a replacement. They don’t believe in our form of government; it doesn’t suit their needs. They reduced or eliminated the supplies, agencies, connections and people needed to deal with a pandemic such as this.
        ^ What they didn’t count on was they got an actual honest to god pandemic. They got caught with their government down and there’s no one but themselves to blame.

The Republican Death Panels.