Archives for November 2020

Thursday November 26, 2020

Election Day -23

54 Days until the Inauguration on January 20, 2021

There are two, no three, hold on – four themes to deal with.

Theme 1: Let’s Give Thanks.

Theme 2: Satan and the continuing Grifting, Pardoning, and Treason

Theme 3: Helping others, I’m trying to help friends in Central America

Theme 4: I reveal where the mysterious metal monolith found in Utah came from

Theme 1: Let’s Give Thanks. I’m alive. You’re alive. Let’s be thankful for that. Wear your mask. Stay home. Wash your hands. Pay attention to what the people grounded in reality are telling us. (Hint: We call them doctors and scientists.)

We watched the whole Macy’s Day Parade! (Don’t you think it’s appropriate that it is followed by a dog show?)

Theme 2: Satan has pardoned Mike Flynn and everyone is saying they are not surprised and then these folks go on to say they believe he’ll pardon everyone else. STOP IT! Don’t give him any ok to do that. 

Then there’s the question of can he pardon himself? I’m sure he will. So, yes, he can do it. Is it legit? No. Why? Pardon implies you are doing something for someone else. 

The Supreme Court has now reversed itself since RGB left and voted to say restricting religious gatherings for health reasons is unconstitutional. Great. Watch for more super spreader events like the Hasid Wedding in Brooklynn. (In good news it was only 7,000 unmasked people standing shoulder to shoulder and not the 10,000 expected.)

But the coup d’erat was the big Pennsylvania gathering of Republicans to go over the crimes of the election in Pennsylvania. The highlight being the former lawyer for Satan holding her cell phone up to a microphone so the collected could hear the voice of their dear leader. Rudy was right there on the other side of the mic too!

What did they hear? The same old routine: “As you know … the affidavits are flooding in … “ blah blah blah. Satan has not changed his lying routine on these things. Why learn new lines? Why bother with facts? He uses the routine on ever “investigation” he says is being done. It’s the same one he used on the Obama birther stuff. “We’ve sent people to Hawaii and you’ll be surprised what they’ve found…”

Theme 3: Helping others. I’m trying to help the folks down in Honduras around Copan. You? Who are you trying to help? Just askin’

Theme 4: A metal monolith has been discovered in a remote canyon in Utah. Who put it there and why is unknown at this time.

I have a suggestion.

Aliens.

Yup, that’s a suggestion alright.

Another possibility is an artist.

But couldn’t it also be the central communication port for Qanon from which they take their orders? And couldn’t it also be where Fox News, OAN, InfoWars get their information? 

Yeah, I think so. Definitely. 

God Bless.

And … if you haven’t seen Sarah Cooper on the bus with Helen Miran .. Do it.

Wednesday November 25, 2020

Election Day -22

55 Days until the Inauguration on January 20, 2021

Joe Biden is facing two directions to go with his administration and one huge millstone.

He must decide if he is going to go traditional or go progressive. He will inherit a government and an administration that is the most screwed up in history, much of it deliberate, some of it due to incompetence and a hollowing out either maliciously or due to the fact that posts were never filled.

Some fear he will be too timid. Others put it as not being bold enough. I am encouraged by what I see so far in his cabinet choices. He will have to rebuild many of our institutions. For those who have wanted to shrink the government to the size of a pea or to destroy the administrative state, they will see the consequences of what has been wrought by those efforts over the last four years.

It’s not just that we had someone incompetent. We had someone who was bought by special interests, notably Russia. Hopefully, we will find out in the coming months exactly whom he is indebted to and for how much. The current number is 400 million. That’s cheap to buy the willingness of the United States.

Meanwhile, the Satan lawyers are pressing their cases to not have states elections certified, even after the state has certified them. Maybe those lawyers aren’t in contact with reality?

Team Trump has lost 36 cases so far. There are 8 more in the hopper, queued up to lose. This based on the legal opinion of some who have looked at the complaints. The difference between these eight and the previous is that they are even more out there.

If they lose those eight the total will be 44 cases lost and none won. Maybe, one given a partial okay. But essentially they are batting 1000! Way to go. Now the question is, “Can they hit 50?” Fifty cases lost would be quite a feat.

Here’s the thing about Satan. He doesn’t go away. The one thing I’ve heard from people who knew him in his New York real estate days was that he just kept going. No one would lend him money. He didn’t pay people. He cheated them. Yet he kept putting out PR. People who didn’t know him thought he was a smart businessman. In reality he was terrible.

So there are three things that we need to be cognizant of when it comes to the Republicans:

1) The question was asked on a talk show, “Who’s going to beat Donald Trump in 2020? Mark Rubio? Ted Cruz?” Therein lies a problem for the Republican Party. They got no one.

2) Trump isn’t going away. He’ll go off and do something. He’s got his Twitter following of millions. It’s a potent force. Satan will obviously keep spewing lies to them, and they will believe him.

3) Mitch McConnell and Republicans for as long as I can recall, going back to Nixon, but not Ike, have always taken the position of obstructing the other party. Even if the other party has a good idea and even if it would help people. McConnell has nothing to help people in this country or even in his own state. I see no reason that this will change.

 It got worse, much worse, after Newt Gingrich came in, but the prevailing wisdom for them is to sound patriotic but do nothing while in power to help folks, enrich themselves, and when out of power block everything they can.

As far as compromise goes, how can you? They are operating in a totally different world. They don’t share the same values or constituents (ie the American people are not their constituents, never have been, never will be.)

Mitch McConnell claimed in his debate with Amy McGrath that “Kentucky punched above its weight” and he ascribed that to his efforts. Oh yeah?

Well if Kentucky is any indication of punching above its weight we are in deep do-do.

As of this morning 1 in 7 people in Kentucky struggle with hunger, 1 in 5 children in Kentucky struggle with hunger. Way to go Mitch!

When it comes to the Corona Virus they have an 8.82% positivity rate.

Is this his idea of helping Kentucky?

Of course he isn’t helping Kentucky. He’s helping himself and his special interests and dark forces.

Rather than doing anything about the economy or the corona virus he is stuffing the judiciary with unqualified right-wingers. When he’s not doing that what is he doing? What did the senate do when Obama asked for help with Syria? What did they do when the stimulus ran out this time? Same thing. They went on recess. 

They’ll be eager to get back after being yelled at by their constituents. Back to the Covid infected White Hose and chambers where they can ram through a few more life time appointments to the judiciary.

Screw the people, let the Dems take care of them. And don’t worry the Republicans will be there to block and obstruct as much as possible.

Tuesday November 24, 2020

    Election Day -21

56 Days until the Inauguration on January 20, 2021

We now come to the point in the story where “They live happily ever after” …

To which I say Bull. Ain’t gonna happen. What do we do? You ask. I’ll tell you. Hunt them down and eliminate them. 

Okay, got that out of my system. Where was I? Oh yes, where are we? What do we do? Well, let me say we aren’t there yet. We’ve got like 56 days to go, if my math is right and it probably isn’t, but close enough for now.

What we are learning is how fragile our system is, and how easily it can be, if not broken, at least messed up. One of the two historians they trot out – Meacham or the other guy – said that culture (or was it “a civilization”?) has two components: 1) shared values and 2) rational people. I am playing fast and loose with the terminology but the point is that ya gotta believe in the same stuff in some vague way and you have to be a rational sentient being. That is you have to have the capacity to think and to feel something with some degree of logic.

The problem that we face is that our nation has become divided into two worlds of information and thought. Rarely, do those worlds intersect. Two recent events have caused that to change: one is the election and the other is this corona virus.

George Orwell outlined in his book 1984 the efforts of fascists to influence you by telling you lies and trying to make you believe those lies. It’s called gaslighting.

Let’s not pull any punched here. Let’s call things as they are. Trump is a fascist and he is using the fascist playbook to spew lies to his followers, who are all too eager to believe them. Nothing is too ridiculous. Nothing too unbelievable.

When Lyndon Johnson was president and even before him, I guess it was when John McCormack was Speaker of the House and maybe going back to Truman there was a phrase that was oft quoted, “It takes a carpenter to build a barn but any jack-ass can kick it down.” We unfortunately have an administration full of not only jackasses but deluded gas-lighted followers. And cynical fascists and con-people. 

The problems are many. What will the new administration find when it takes over? In many cases a demoralized bureaucracy or no bureaucracy at all.

Should we say, “Oh well, let bygones be bygones.”? To which I say, “Hell no.”

These people should be hunted down, arrested, tried and if convicted thrown in the pokey – at a minimum. I mean “negligent homicide” or manslaughter at a minimum.

Besides calling for the withdrawal of troops to complete five days before he leaves office from our two theaters of hostile operations Satan has now pulled out of the treaty that allows us to fly over Russia and see what they are doing. He has ordered the two planes used for this destroyed and killed the funding for the new planes. 

I have to think that this was one item on Putin’s wish list and I wonder if Vlad has got anything else for the puppy in the White House to do before he leaves? 

I do wonder if Satan will leave the country and live out his life in Moscow. Maybe, pal around with Steven Segal? 

The man is a fascist and a traitor to our country and our nationally held beliefs. He is a danger still and will remain so. 

The best antidote is for us to get out and vote. Vote everyone of these malicious MFers out of office. Look into their crimes and bring charges. Put them in jail. We have paid the price for their greed, their incompetence, their callous indifference, and their outright sadism. Yes, make them pay. 

I see no way to “find common ground” or “to reach across the aisle.” 

Nancy Pelosi has learned that lesson and while the Republicans whine and moan that she should comprise or that Congress “should do something.” She has pointed out – repeatedly – that she and the House have done their job. They have passed legislation. It is sitting in the Senate, where Mitch McConnell won’t even consider it. As to compromise she asks, “On what?” On what should she compromise? There you get into the “half loaf” argument. She points out that the Republicans knowing that what they are saying they will accept is too low to do the job are saying she should accept anyway. Why? She asks. Haven’t we been down this road enough times? 

Remember Obama kept agreeing to compromise with the Republicans over the ACA. Then when it came time to vote none of them voted for it. Why compromise if they aren’t going to accept the compromise? Remember also that they then started to attack the legislation over the very things they insisted Obama put in.

No. Enough. Screw them. They have shown to be bad faith dealers. They can’t be trusted. We, the people, will have to go it alone. Oh yes, they will whine and cry and pule, but so what? They do nothing but complain, obfuscate and obstruct.

I gotta go,

Before I get pissed off.

 56 Days until the Inauguration on January 20, 2021

PS Possible Christmas gifts 

Monday November 23, 2020

    Election Day -20

57 Days until the Inauguration on January 20, 2021

Oh boy, I was getting ready to go upstairs to bed last night when I picked up the local paper and read the headline. Our state senator, Amanda Chase, has accused the Democrats of hating white people. As I said, oh boy.

Apparently the registrar in Richmond had not followed some of the new laws and guidelines in regards to the most recent election. While the article I was reading mentioned the mayor of Richmond saying that it should be looked into etc. I saw nothing of what Chase alleged. The article did quote the registrar as saying she hoped it wasn’t because of race. 

I had to dig around to find other articles that finally mentioned some state Dem officials saying that the registrar should step down. A position she has held since 1995. I could not find if the woman was a Republican or a Democrat, but I assume the former.

Chase for her part was pictured in the article, bullhorn to mouth. She looked like she had just stepped off a golf cart and she looked old and wrinkled, a far cry from the youthful smiling long haired blond pictures she puts on her campaign posters. 

Many consider her the front runner for the Republican nomination for governor. Lest we forget Amanda Chase likes to tell people she carries a gun in her purse, has belittled police for not letting her park her car in a restricted area in front of the Capital (because she didn’t want to be inconvenienced by walking from the parking lot), and most recently had some of her supporters arrested in Philadelphia for carrying unregistered arms while trying to stuff the ballot box, and oh yes they are members of Qanon, according to the bumper sticker on their Hummer.

Chase has been heading up rallies entitled “Stop the Steal.” Interestingly when the Virginia election results were being certified no one spoke up in opposition. Apparently, if you lie in court you can be arrested. If you are a lawyer you can lose your privilege to be a member of the court. This is the reason lawyers will hold press conferences and rallies, but will be strangely silent in court around such matters.

Then I read an article that said how horrible Joe Biden was for not … I forget. It revolved around the vaccine and the idea that had if it not been for Satan we would not be close to having a vaccine. While it seems to be true that the president did initiate a program to quickly distribute the vaccine once it became available, the president of Pfizer, one of the companies closest to having a vaccine ready, made very clear in an interview on 60 Minutes that his company did not take any money from Satan. (Ie Satan had nothing to do with the development of their vaccine.)

The other company, Moderna, is crediting someone with help and it’s not Satan. It’s Dolly Parton who gave a million dollars for corona virus research and Moderna says without her it would have taken a lot longer to get the ball rolling.

Meanwhile, the transition team is making clear that Satan has not helped in the transition and therefore more people will die because of Satan’s intransigence. It doesn’t help to have a project “Warp Speed” if in fact the incoming folks don’t know what they are doing at old WS. 

And Satan has called for troops to be drawn down in our two areas of conflict five days before he leaves office. 

In short, just to be clear, in case anyone doesn’t understand. The evidence is clear:

THE CURRENT PRESIDENT IS DOING EVERYTHING HE CAN TO DESTORY THIS COUNTRY, OUR GOVERNMENT, AND OUR WAY OF LIFE.

I mean how hard would it be for him to tweet, “Wear a Mask’? 

But he doesn’t.

And people like Amanda Chase support him.

PS Don’t Goat It Alone

Sunday November 22, 2020

    Election Day -19

58 Days until the Inauguration on January 20, 2021

“Thanksgiving on Zoom is better than Christmas in the ICU.” – Anon (or someone whose name I can’t remember)

“I read the news today – oh boy” Headline after headline, state after state, the number of Covid cases is rising. It’s not a slow rise, it’s a rocket trail straight up as it gets.

I wonder how the governors of North and South Dakota are excusing their earlier defiant behavior?

Meanwhile, Satan continues to try and overthrow the election and gum up the transition. This is like a bad movie you can’t stop watching.

Ms. Ocasio-Cortez made a good point a few days ago. She pointed out that the people who lost their elections had no digital campaign. They were moderate candidates, not the progressives, and they had no digital ground game. Hum, maybe making suggestions and taking actions that would really help people is the way to go? Oh no, wait, that’s too – what would you call it? – Progressive?

As I took a walk around the neighborhood I saw smoke, like smoke from a grill. It kind of wafted about and didn’t really rise. The air was calm. The look of the smoke wasn’t right for charcoal, and it wasn’t the acrid smell from a house fire, I recognized the look and the smell. It took some time to recall when last I had seen and smelled such smoke.

I was riding with my mother in Auntie’s ’39 Buick. We were on the straightaway on Peaceable Street. There were leaves, raked into the gutter along the road. They were burning. White smoke rose up from red embers.

Someone was burning leaves!

Memories of my childhood.

Good memories. Good sights and smells.

PS The smoke from leaves burning.