Friday, May 23, 2025

Man, I miss Obama...and Biden...and Harris. I miss sanity, compassion, integrity, intelligence, capability, ....

I know that the news seems unmitigatedly grim these days, but DEMOCRACY IS HOLDING! Keep on keepin' on--we'll get there in the end!


Bruce Nelson is the Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, and Tom Lehrer of our age. How he crafts and produces these hilarious musical gems every day, like "Man, I miss Obama," is beyond me, but he sure is helping to keep the sane and rational among us sane and rational in these difficult times...


"Let’s Start Talking About Jail Time for Trump and His MAGA Enablers"
Accountability IS COMING. Call your Democratic electeds and tell them to remind their republican colleagues that THEY'RE BREAKING THE LAW. And, oh by the way, the Qatari flying palace was never even a gift--it was a shake-down. And, also oh by the way, trump, musk, and rfk, jr., are literally killing children dead. Once you've seen the video, read these:


Holy shit--cory booker went full maga!!!! I've had my differences with booker through the years, and I was hoping that, with his "filibuster," he'd turned the corner in favor of democracy, but booker going full maga was NOT on my bingo card! Seriously, if you vote for conman nepo-dad-in-law charles kushner, you are FULL maga, and you can GFY all the way off. 


38% of American companies WILL increase prices to cover trump's tariffs--whatever happened to trump's campaign promise to LOWER prices?!??



So far, maga only cares when the SNAKE they elected bites THEM in the ass. What do you think it would take for them to develop actual empathy for other people--what do you think it would take to make them join society?


And yet maga, who make up most this 60% category, which is concentrated in red states, VOTED to give ALL THEIR MONEY to billionaires who neither earned nor need it...

david frum helped sanewash and whitewash corrupt, fascist war criminal w and thus helped build the hot steaming mess we now find ourselves in, but apparently even he has his limits...




This is NOT good news. In fact, it's a compound whammy. trump and the republicans' tax cuts for billionaires plus their exorbitant spending plus their attacks on our trading partners is ballooning our national debt. The United States, which has the largest military budget in the world, was already spending more than its military budget just in interest on the money it owes to its trading partners. When you attack your trading partners with arbitrary, unnecessary tariffs, you both decrease your trading opportunities (and thus your income from trade) and cause the interest rates on what you owe them to rise. When you couple that with overspending to give the rich even more money that they neither need nor earned, then your debt skyrockets. So, as The Lincoln Project so rightly says, "The House Republican budget will balloon our deficits, putting the US on track to borrow even more than before. No matter what they tell you, MAGA is not conservative." 



Here's yet another headline from The Onion that sounds too real to be satire, especially in red states...


I still want to know whether the funeral after trump's assassination was as fun, inspiring, and exciting as she hoped it would be, since she keeps claiming she's being treated worse than President Lincoln...