Archives for October 2020

Saturday October 31, 2020

3 Days until the election on November 3^rd

83 Days until the Inauguration on January 20, 2021

Happy Halloween and Day of the Dead

Now, down to business. Many people are afraid to make a prediction. Not me. I think Biden will win with one of the greatest margins in history. I think he will get 405 Electoral votes. He will clinch the election on the evening of November 3^rd when Florida releases their early vote totals. The Republicans and their operatives will try everything they can think of to steal the election. They will have gotten their judges to say they won’t count votes received after 8pm on Election Day. Then when the election day votes are so overwhelming they will say they will count them. Then when those totals are so overwhelming they will say the election is rigged and Satan will try to throw it into the House so each state gets one vote, but it will fail because by then all the other states’ totals will be coming in and the three key swing states that Hillary lost by less then 1% will all go to Biden by 2 to 6%. That’s Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania.

But it will get worse for Satan. He will have lost Florida, Arizona, and North Carolina.

He will loss Georgia and Iowa, possibly Texas and Ohio. (I say he loses them too.)

In fact he will lose every swing state and most of the “leaning Republican” states too. Maybe, all of them. If so Biden wins with 405.

The question for me becomes what happens in the Senate? I think the Dems will have 54 seats, maybe one more. I predict Ernst will lose in Iowa. Why? Because she’s an idiot. She’s in a debate in Iowa and she didn’t know the price of soybeans. Iowa has corn and soy beans. If you are running for a seat, any seat in that state you better know the price of corn and soy beans. She tried to fake it in her debate. Idiot. I do wish that when she made her motorcycle trip that a few older gentlemen had ridden up next to her in their Harleys with flags saying “Ridin’ with Biden”.

I also wish that someone had thought to send buses to the people stranded in the subzero temperatures after the Trump rally. Buses sent from Joe Biden with big signs on the side saying, “Joe Won’t Leave You Out in the Cold.”

Ah me.

Okay so in the Senate Graham loses in South Carolina. Both seats in Georgia go Democratic. Did you see Jon Ossoff take apart his racist anti-Semitic opponent in one debate? Oh man, check it out. His opponent, David Perdue, decided not to debate Ossoff again. Smart move. I mean if you get your ass handed to you once, why go back for seconds? Ossoff wasn’t subtle either. He called Perdue out for making posters of Ossoff having a  longer nose then he really had trying to play up his Jewish heritage. He reminded Perdue that the Senator had done nothing about the Corona virus and maybe that was because he was too busy fending off those allegations about insider trading. Yeah. The other Republican senator is that woman appointed who made a ton of money off the insider information about how bad the virus was going to be. I’m sorry. Excuse me. She didn’t make the money. Her husband did. Nothing to see here folks. I hope they both go down.

I got a fund raising email from Jon Cornyn, the Republican Senator from Texas. The one with the white hair that always comes in with something he heard on Fox News or some right-wing site. He wants money “to keep Texas red.” Red, Johnny? What kind of red are we talkin’ here? Red, like Russian red? You lame ass bastard. You didn’t impeach Satan when you had the chance. Now pay the price. I’ll send you money. Two cents. I’ll put a check in the mail. You should get it in time for your burial.

Speaking of the post office, a recent study came out that said some of the mail sorting machines were sabotaged to make sure they wouldn’t work. I hope the thugs who did that are found and put on trial for destroying government property. Surprisingly, the first class mail is slow in  certain areas. Mainly, black areas that vote Democratic. Who could have seen that coming?

Speaking of black areas, a recent survey in Mississippi reported that the health department found black area of the state were highly infected and the health department did a media campaign to encourage people to wear masks. They did and the virus went down – in those areas. They tried to do it in the white areas and it failed. No one was gonna tell them what to do. Hey, guess what? The rate of infection in white area in Mississippi went up! Huh? Wonder why?

Seems the Republicans are running the same old ads to try and get elected: “Don’t vote for my opponent. They are going to raise your taxes! Socialism! AOC! Pelosi! Bad.”

That’s it. That’s their campaign. What they don’t mention is they cut taxes. Not for you, but for the rich. They don’t do anything for you. Ya know, like help you fight the virus, raise your kids, or get you a decent wage. They let the gun nuts run loose killing people. And, this is the big one they hate to be reminded of – THEY SPEND MORE MONEY THEN DEMOCRATS. It was Bill Clinton who reminded people that the biggest complaint the Republicans have about the Democrats is “they don’t clean up the mess fast enough.” Remember the looming recession when Obama took over? Remember GM was about to go under? Remember the war started in Iraq that had nothing to do with Bin Laden? Remember that W and Cheney didn’t care where Bin Laden was?

Who saved GM?

Who restored the economy?

Who found Bin Laden?

I tell you who didn’t. The Republicans.

Now let’s look at Texas. Jon Cornyn wants to keep Texas red and by that I’m assuming in control of the Republicans. Lemme ask you all a question, “When was the last time the state of Texas worked?”

It was when Ann Richards was governor. Before she was governor she was the state’s treasurer. She modernized the state’s systems and had audits of every agency. As governor she oversaw the inclusion of women and minorities in government. The state was functioning pretty well. There were problems but they were on the mend. Then  what happened? 

George W. Bush came in and did what Republicans always do. Cut taxes, cut services, put the government in a hole and say, “Sorry we need to screw over the poor and help the rich.” After Bush came Perry. Now Perry is not a bright guy. Remember he decided to wear plain lens glasses to make himself look smart? So he cut a deal with Waste Management to allow them to dump nuclear waste on the Texas New Mexico border. This will be fine, until the plastic sheet splits and ruins the water aquifer for five or six states for ten thousand years, but hey, Rick got a big campaign donation so what the heck?

Now Texas has Greg Abbott and Tom Cruz and a bunch of other Trump Republican toadies. No masks, soaring infection rates, anti-abortion laws, soaring STDs and unwanted pregnancies – who knew? Way to go Texas.

It seems much of the populace has woken up and decided to get them out. The damage they have done is enormous. It will take decades to repair if at all. The only hope is to stay vigilant and hope the Dems don’t lose their spines.

3 Days until the election on November 3^rd

83 Days until the Inauguration on January 20, 2021

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PS Polls showing Biden in 2020 vs 2016 polls for six states

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Day 1378 – The Real Donald Trump

Wednesday October 28, 2020

6 Days until the election on November 3^rd

86 Days until the Inauguration on January 20, 2021

Are you a Trump supporter?

Do you think the news is fake and that snowflakes and liptards won’t have the guts to post “Trump 2020” pictures that you put up on your Facebook page?

Well, I’m not afraid. I’ll post such pictures.

Here’s one for ya. Why it shows a “Trump Truck” being repossessed. 

File it under “The Real Donald Trump”

Isn’t that what he calls his twitter account?

A buddy of mine used to say, “Reality is a cold place.”

It seems reality is coming to visit “the current president” (as Barack Obama calls him) and all the posturing and whining about fake news and people being unfair to him and people being terrible people (those who don’t swallow his lies hook line and sinker.)

Did you like the 60 Minutes where Satan said Leslie Stahl didn’t ask Joe Biden as tough questions as he was getting. Stahl told the president that she had never interviewed Biden. (Hey, Satan isn’t wrong is he? Am I right? Yeah. 4 more years! Make America Great Again, again…)

Did you like when he tweeted about the last moderator before the debate? Calling her a terrible person and all the usual lines he uses? Then he tries to compliment her at the debate telling Kristen she ws doing a fine job?

Seems to me the excrement is beginning to leak out of the bag. Not from the top but the seams. The bag of lies and untruths has so soddened the environment in which it is in that it is hard to hold it together.

But here’s a little reality for ya.

(I won’t tell you where I got it because I’ll be accused of “fake news” and being all them bad terrible things those folks addicted to Fox News say.)

The governor of Kansas issued a mask mandate on July 3^rd of this year.

She’s a woman and a Democrat. Do you think the Republican legislature was going to listen to her? Heck no. Stand your ground. The mask mandate could therefore only be a request. Most counties opted out. That’ll show her. And show her it did, and the rest of the world.

Two weeks after the mask mandate went into effect the counties that did implement the mask mandate (and really implemented it, not just give it lip service) showed less people getting the virus than counties that ignored it. A difference of 50%!

The counties that ignored the mask mandate have a climbing number of cases with no end in sight while the mask mandated counties show the line flattening and trending downward.

Turns out there’s more to it. There are some area that only partially mandated mask wearing. Either they were late to adopt the recommendations of the governor or it was a situation where the county said no but a city within the county went along with the mask mandate. (They aren’t represented in the above graph.)

How’d that work out?

If those partial areas are included then the drop is 30%, not 50%. 

The lady from the University of Kansas in charge of the study said she didn’t have to do any fancy modeling. It was right there, nothing fancy.

Here’s the whole report:

https://ipsr.ku.edu/covid19/images/MaskMandateUpdate.pdf

Hum. The takeaway?

Masks work. They work really well if everyone does them. They work okay if only some people do them.

Now let’s imagine what would happen if this had been an implemented statewide thing and the Republicans hadn’t stood in the way. You wouldn’t have infected people from unmasked counties wandering into masked counties spreading the virus so the effect of masking would be even better.*

Dare I say, you could actually get this thing under control?

*(But if you’d been paying attention you’d know this because the doctor who did the breakthrough work on HIV/AIDS had told us this months ago. ie – better to do it all at once than piecemeal.)

So what has the White House done? Mark Meadows, chief of staff for the president, and conservative pain in the ass when he served in Congress said that the White House was going to let the pandemic “run its course.”

What does that mean? It means they are going to keep doing what they’ve been doing. Nothing. That they are going to let the virus kill more people. That they are just going to say, “Oh well, nothing we can do.”

But wait! There is something the White House can do and has done. The president is going around the country babbling nonsense to packed spaces of mostly maskless crowds. So what happens? Why two weeks later wherever he has been sees an uptick in corona virus cases. I mean it’s not a subtle thing, like the masks in Kansas. It’s obvious and apparent. Remember when those meetings were called “Rallies”? Now they’re called, “Super Spreader Events.”

Reality can be a cold place sometimes.

“Mr. president, We have a situation. We’ve run out of hospital capacity.”

Vote Vote Vote. Make sure to take your vote to the county election commission. Don’t trust the post office to get it there in time.

David Plouffe said that if everyone can find two people who haven’t voted and aren’t planning to vote to go vote, and if that was repeated 100,000 times, or a million, imagine the consequences of all those little actions?

Tuesday October 27, 2020

7 Days until the election on November 3^rd

87 Days until the Inauguration on January 20, 2021

I was on the way out to an appointment. I turned on the radio. A person was speaking about the night of the election in 1960. That would have been the night of November 8, 1960. I think the person recalling those events was Ted Sorensen. He was talking about being with Jack and his family watching the results on TV. It was too close to call and Kennedy went to bed. Sorensen stayed up and watched. Early in the morning Nixon gave a half way concession speech. 

Nixon was in a room with his wife Pat. She was crying. Nixon said that if the results in California kept coming in as they were then Kennedy would be the next President.

He didn’t concede. And why Sorensen wondered would you stand up there with your wife and family members and say what you did? Why put them through that?

By morning it was clear Kennedy had won. Sorensen went to where Kennedy had been sleeping. One of the servants had said that they had heard him moving about. Sorensen went in and said, “Mr. President, you won the election,” or words to that effect. 

Kennedy asked about California. He was told about Nixon’s semi-concession speech, or he saw it replayed. His comment?

“That’s Nixon. No class.”

And how far we have come from that day. How far we have fallen. Where “You Suck” is considered appropriate. Where the phrase “Me and him” is used as the subject of a sentence. (ie Just in case you don’t understand the reason for the lament. Both pronouns are the objective case and therefore should never be used as the subject of a sentence. It shows a lack of education – ie class.) But that’s the world we now live in.

On to the events of the recent week:

The Republican Senate rammed through their pick for Supreme Court justice. This makes the third pick Satan has had. The first one was really Obama’s pick that McConnell refused to seat. The second one occurred when Justice Anthony Kennedy suddenly decided to retire, which was odd because he already had his interns all picked out for the season. It turned out that his son had been the guy at Deutsche Bank who had signed off on giving Satan piles of money. Kennedy didn’t want to be the deciding vote in a possible upcoming case that would send his son to jail. 

So we got Brett Kavanaugh. Now Kavanaugh lied to the Senate. Accused the proceeding to be somehow trumped up by the Clintons and insulted Senator Klobuchar. I should note that Senator Harris made him cry. I wish that the senators had pressed him a bit more on the lie about “a drinking game.” I mean I guess if you get a woman on her knees and one guy enters her from behind and the other sticks his penis in her mouth you could argue that you were drunk and hence it’s a drinking game, but otherwise – I don’t think so. 

Kavanaugh used to hang out with Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham, and Ann Coulter back when they were fresh faced young up and comers (can I say that? “Comers?” ) They went to parties in Georgetown, but who cares? Good fun. I wonder if Laura or Ann … never mind. 

So now we get to Amy Coney Barrett. She’s 48 years old, has two years of being a judge, and was rated the least forthcoming of any prospective justice at her hearing. She has written about her opposition to abortion, the ACA, and knows nothing about cases involving race (one of the few things she did concede). It is possible that doctors who practice invitro fertilization could be charged with murder or manslaughter if she gets her way. But let’s not dilly dally on such trivialities. Let’s not talk about her being in a cult religion that says women are to be subservient to men, especially their husbands. Or that she had the title of Handmaiden in her church. Or that she wore the color of a handmaiden the first day of her hearing. No, let’s let all that go, for the moment and let’s see how the conservative justices on the Supreme Court twist themselves in knots as originalists when faced with an emerging set of facts that would – theoretically – disqualify ACB (Hey, cool huh?) from even being considered to sit n the court.

There’s this little thing called “The Religious Test” that says a person can not be considered for a position based on their religion. It goes back to the early 1800s. So to say that this is “settled law” is an understatement. 

The Republicans have been jumping up and down saying, “You can’t hold her nutty religious beliefs against her for this pick.” Okay, fair enough. And no one did.

However, it turns out this was not the president’s first pick. No he wanted a Cuban American woman. The religious right wanted a person that they knew would be against Roe v Wade and that was Barrett. Trump had looked at the polls and saw that he was slipping mightily with evangelicals, like 11%. He was desperate to try and get them back, so he went with Barrett. 

That’s a no-no. Remember the religious test? Oh yeah. You can’t appoint someone based on their religion and for political purposes. 

Well, we’ll have to see what happens.

Meanwhile, the Supreme Court has said that ballots mailed in that aren’t received by election day can’t be counted in the state of Wisconsin. Nice. Seeing as how the election is underway and the ballots have been mailed and the Postmaster General has done all he could to make sure the ballots don’t arrive in time. But then again the right winger in Wisconsin have a history of pulling these kind of stunts. 

Remember Scott Walker? The nebbishy Governor? Yeah, just before the 2016 election he got all the student IDs declared not legal ID for voting. Fishing and hunting licenses – sure. Student IDs – no way. The result? 68,000 students in Wisconsin couldn’t vote and tah-dah the state went to Trump. Good work Scott. 

Then as the new governor was coming in, Walker and his Republican buddies tried to strip the governorship of any power. Kind of what Satan’s folks have done in the court system and now trying to do with government employees. Stuffing unqualified toadies in positions of power to gum up the works for the next administration.

I have never seen some commentators so angry, or Senators, or Nancy Pelosi. They are no longer mincing words. 

Angus King said it best. In regards to Barrett he said that the Republicans had cheated, no respecting the traditions or rules of the Senate or our democracy and now they want to make sure the Democrats and he an Independent are going to play nice?

Ha.

Let’s hope the outrage lasts.

Oh and then there are the folks putting up Trump 2020 things on facebook and saying stupid stuff like “I bet none of your snowflake friends have the balls to post this.”

Yeah? Here ya go. I bet YOU don’t have the cojones to post this. Go ahead. Make my day.

PS Trump boat at the bottom of a lake in Texas. One of four that sank that day. Not counting the boat that caught fire due to a Trump flag being set on fire by the Trump supporter. Hey, I get it. Accidents happen. Especially, to stupid people.

Friday October 23, 2020

11 Days* until the election on November 3^rd

91 Days until the Inauguration on January 20, 2021

I have been fortunate enough to have obtained an interview with Bryce Holliwell, intrepid reporter and man who inhabits my self same body.

According to Mr. Holliwell he was in the audience last night and had special access to some of the pre and post debate activities. Here is his exclusive report:

Ladies and Gentlemen, Bryce Holliwell here with a special in depth report. I was able to chat with some of the president’s aids and I have learned that he took a horse lude before the debate. Unfortunately, it wore off before the debate was over and in the closing half hour he went off the rails again.

What? Oh, it’s about the size of an egg. No. Chicken not Ostrich. Swallow? No he didn’t swallow it. It’s a suppository. He took it up the … well you know. Who administered it? Why Mike Pence, of course. The president had to be talked into it. Kelly-Ann Conway told him it was Viagra. He was worried about getting an erection during the debate and insisted on having his tidy whites wrapped in duct tape. Melania told him not to worry even if he got a full hard-on no one would be able to see it. 

PS Four panels, all the same color, but you’d never know it.

Friday October 23, 2020

11 Days* until the election on November 3^rd

91 Days until the Inauguration on January 20, 2021

A few days ago Kamala Harris said Trump had exhibited a reckless disregard for human life.

Harris a former prosecutor obviously knew what she was saying. It’s the core definition of the crime of manslaughter.

This raises an interesting question for me, and I hope some of my legal friends can weigh in.

“Could Trump be charged for mass-manslaughter for his reckless behavior as president?”

A week or so ago Kieth Obermann pointed out that by the president not insisting people wear masks in public it meant that another 86,000 people would die by Inauguration Day. (This based on a statistical study saying that if 95% of people in public wore maks, deaths could be reduced by that amount.)

So is he? Is Trump guilty of manslaughter? Could he be arrested and tried?

Chris Rock said in his opening SNL monologue that the presidency is the only job guaranteed for four years. Rock asked the question what would happen if a cook had a four year contract, but his cooking made people vomit? Would you have to put up with four years of vomiting?

So many questions.

But now I must work on the debate from last night. Fortunately, Bryce Holliwell, ace reporter was in the room and I have an exclusive interview with him.

Stay tuned.

PS This is the entire output from an over three year effort to grow pumpkins. Never Give Up!