Wednesday April 8, 2021
I have read about abusive relationships where a dominant woman forces a submissive male into giving her all his money and he is left starving (and vice versa). I guess it happens. I never expected to witness it from a political party in our country, but here we are.
After the New York Times revealed that the Trump campaign had to return over $122 million dollars in campaign donations and that they were hit with hundreds of thousands of complaints of theft, fraud, and stealing what did the National Republican Party do? Be contrite? Say they were sorry? That if wouldn’t happen again? NO WAY.
Double Down. That’s the ticket!
Apparently what happened was they sent out emailers asking for donations. If you gave money they pre-checked boxes saying make it monthly, or in some cases make it weekly, and then they also pre-checked another box that said give that same donation around the time of Donald’s birthday June 15th. Nice. (“You should sign something if you haven’t read the whole thing!” blah blah blah – Like what the Republicans say of the kids caught in the student debt scam.)
In the most recent round of mailers the Republicans are saying per-checking the boxes – again, but this time they are saying they will report you to Donald Trump for being disloyal and accuse you of helping The Radical Left if you do uncheck the box. Nice. Double nice, in fact.
The Matt Gaetz thing gets worse – I forget how, but he pulled it off.
The trial about the man who killed George Floyd grinds on. Apparently, this 19 or was it 21 year veteran was not trained to put his knee on the neck of someone until they were dead. So how did it happen? Crappy training? No training? Racism?
The defense is saying that Floyd saying he can’t breath was a form of resisting arrest. Oh boy.
Meanwhile, the Biden administration is pushing ahead with an infrastructure bill. In a surprising twist (NOT!) no Republicans are going to vote for it, regardless of what is in the bill. Joe has said he’s open to good ideas. The Republicans have none. They’d like the bill to be smaller. You know. Smaller. Why? Well, you know. Will they vote for the smaller bill? No? Why make it smaller? Well you know, smaller is better. That is until they get in and then they will spend more and do nothing.
There’s a guy running ads here in Virginia that is a Republican who claims he’ll restore the economy and cut taxes. How exactly, he’s going to do the former is never mentioned. Hum.
The Biden infrastructure plan is wildly popular on all points with all types of voters. The Republicans vow to vote against it. Do they have a plan? Yes, smaller.
Okay. Let’s summarize. The President has a plan that rebuilds America and helps people. The Republicans don’t like it. They have no plan. There plan is to fleece their base some more.
Which would you choose?
PS The 2020 Refund Donations Chart
Some how I don’t feel sorry for those folks who got scammed. As one commentator put it, Trump just got an interest free loan. The paybacks are not going to return any interest accrued on those “loans!”