Day 1098 – Football, Assassinations, Stupidity

Saturday, January 20, 2023

Okay, Super Bowl predictions: Buffalo Bills vs Tampa Bay. Bills win.

(Please note: my predictions doom whomever – be it football team, singer on The Voice, or Star dancing. The moment I confidently predict, they are gone ASAP. Therefore it will be the Texans, Ravens or Chiefs versus either the Packers, 49ers, or Lions with one of those six winning it all. You can bet on it!)

Moving on, The Orange One says he could have Seal Team Six assassinate his rivals. He does realize there is someone in The White House right now that’s not him and has the ability to call up ST6, right? In fairness, and for “complete transparency” he is not sure who it is in The White House. Sometimes, he says Obama, other times he says the crooked Joe Biden. He does say he’ll use the Justice Department, the FBI, and the military against his rivals, and immigrants, and everyone else. But for now, he’s bitching because they are doing that legal stuff. Against him! Imagine that?

In other news there is continuing speculation as to how much it will have to cost him to shut up. I say $530M. And maybe that isn’t enough, but it’s a start.

The Republican House of Representatives has passed either 14 or 24 bills. The lowest number ever, and I don’t know how many of them were for post office names and special days declared, but talk about DO NOTHING. 

Meanwhile, the economy keeps on keeping on despite dire warnings and woeful predictions.

The Supreme Court could make a decision that would destroy the working of government as we have always known it. Yawn.

Republican firebrands are outraged at the mess at the border. There is a bill that according to conservative Senators is the best deal they can ever hope to get. What should the House do? Move to vacate the Speaker, if he tries to bring this up for a vote. In the meantime they will continue to bemoan that the head of HomeLand Security has been doing things to help make the border more secure. Republicans are outraged and calling for his impeachment! Also, they chant, “Close The Border!” By this they mean close the offices where people can apply, legally, to enter the U.S. Then the only way to enter the U.S. would be illegally and they can bemoan the terrible job those in charge are doing, while forgetting to mention that they created and exacerbated the mess.

In other spiffy Republican moves they have gotten funding for the IRS cut some more. This will have two effects: 1) more people will be able to get away without paying their taxes, specifically the rich, 2) This will increase the national debt – something Republicans say they are against doing. Yet, somehow they happily do it. 

And I think it’s time to review some of the accomplishments of the Trump Administration:

– First President since Herbert Hoover to create net negative job growth

– Was able to make U.S. response to COVID 250 times worse than South Korea

– Created tariffs on goods from China thus increasing the cost to U.S. consumers

– a policy he promises to do more of if elected

– Destroyed U.S. farmers relationship with China thus eliminating that market for U.S agriculture

– Increased National Debt – Trump Admin is responsible for 25% of the National Debt

– Managed to lose the House, the Senate, and the White House

– Gave away northern Syria to Putin, Assad, and Erdogan, thus letting our allies be slaughtered.

– Created a catastrophic situation for withdrawal in Afghanistan that the next President was forced to deal with. This has led to him boasting what a terrible job was done in withdrawing. A situation he created.

– Planned and led an insurrection against The United States of America

It’s an impressive list.

Let’s not forget his promises:

– The Infrastructure Bill

– The Health Care Bill

Which version of each did you most like? 2016? 2017? 2018? 2019? 2020?

(Hint: They are all the same. ie nada. Nothing. Blank.)

And he has promised more of the same if re-elected.

To be clear, other than saying these things were going to happen nothing did.

I have to wonder if he thought holding a press conference was all he needed to do to make these bills appear? (Much like the joke about the ad man sitting on the edge of the bed telling the woman how great it’s going to be.)

Much like his thought that Covid would just go away and disappear on its own. It didn’t. It took concerted research, coordination, planning, and execution. All of which were done after he left office. Let’s not forget that his team had no plan for distributing the Covid vaccine, but they want you to know they gave money for its development. Forgetting that it was Dolly Parton giving a million to get it started.

There was some on the job training, to wit:

“Who knew health care would be this hard?”

“Puerto Rico is an island surrounded by water.”

Although, I have to think that the statement about Puerto Rico is more 4th grade geography, which he finally grasped as President.