Imagine for a Moment You're Donald Trump Just Now

Imagine for a moment you're Donald Trump just now. Yeah, I know. Sorry. Anyway, you're facing the following-- You have your back against the wall and in a couple ways--

• New York State is investigating your taxes in at least 2 different cases, for possible fraud
• Ireland is also investigating your for your taxes so that's international problems, too
• He likely, apparently owes, reportedly, nearly, if not actually 1 billion dollars to who knows who,and then finally,
• There's anything and everything he may be investigated for and possibly found guilty while he was President.

He's reportedly now turning on his Vice President and virtually, if not actually, everyone.

Trump Turns on Everyone

A bit from the article:

“President Trump, in his final days, is turning bitterly on virtually every person around him, griping about anyone who refuses to indulge conspiracy theories or hopeless bids to overturn the election,” Axios reports.

“Targets of his outrage include Vice President Pence, chief of staff Mark Meadows, White House counsel Pat Cipollone, Secretary of State Pompeo and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.”

“Trump thinks everyone around him is weak, stupid or disloyal — and increasingly seeks comfort only in people who egg him on to overturn the election results. We cannot stress enough how unnerved Trump officials are by the conversations unfolding inside the White House.”

So happy holidays, y'all. Think happy thoughts.

There's a vaccine on the way and this Presidency and 2020 are both nearly over.

Okay, Republicans and Trump Supporters, The Next Four Years Are All On You

Yes, Republicans and all who supported and voted for Donald J. Trump for president, after today, he and all he does and all the ramifications are all, every one of them, on you.

Sure, Mr. Trump is already taking us down his deep, dark "rabbit hole" and we'll all suffer but his actions? The blame for what he does and says and tweets and all the ramifications? Even the ones from the election to today, while he was only president-elect, everything from November 8 to today and for as long as he is president, it's all on you. We have you and your vote and your actions to blame.

The economy?   On you.

The nation's international standings?

You.

Any debt or debts he accrues?

Wars?

All.

On you.

And believe me, if he should do anything right and/or well and good, sure, you absolutely get any credit there.

Should that occur.

Same for Mike Pence, as Vice President or, God also forbid, President.

You get all the blame.  It's all on you, to repeat.

You wanted this. You voted for it. You supported him and all he represented then and represents since.

Yes, he's all our President, the nation's President but not because we voted for him, not because a majority of us voted for him.  You did this.

So buck up and suck it up, kids, because Mr. Trump has already shown us all, since that fateful November election day last year that this is going to be a bumpy, bumpy, unpredictable ride.

It's just on your hands.

Big money in our government

It's why we have to fight to end campaign contributions, folks, I say again.

We have to get the big, ugly, corrupting money out of our election system so the corporations and wealthy don't keep buying our legislators, their legislation and so, our laws and finally, our government.

And it has to come from us.

We have to demand it.

Related link:  Government Hands More Than $1 Trillion to Wealthy While Deficit Is $642 Billion

We must end campaign contributions

We have to get the big, ugly, corrupting influence of money from the wealthy and corporations out of our election system and government.

We must.

It's the only way we'll get our government and so, our country, back for the people and good of the nation.

Quote of the day

Even if that concern for the less fortunate is from someone of color.

Quote of the day

Romney picks his VP candidate

Click on picture for larger, better viewing.

"Mr. Politics" and "Mr. Politician"--Mr. Lifelong Politician, who also hates government--but who has full healthcare benefits and a big, fat, juicy government pension for himself but wants to slash your government and spending, to boot.

He wants to cut social spending but doesn't want to touch the biggest share of spending in the Federal government--that is, defense spending where all the big money as well as waste, is.

Paul Ryan has never done anything outside his government job, folks. It's great for him but no one else.

The bloody hypocrite.

Once again, thank you, Mitt Romney.

You just keep doing our work for us.

What doesn't make me laugh about this appointment, nearly makes me wretch.

Side note to Mr. Romney: We still want to see your tax returns. sir.

Another beauty from Sarah "The Quitter" Palin

"It's no wonder Michelle Obama is telling everybody you better breastfeed your baby--yeah, you better--because the price of milk is so high right now!"


As long as she doesn't get any national, elected office, I love this woman.


Enjoy your weekend, y'all


Link to original post:  http://views.washingtonpost.com/leadership/post_leadership/2011/02/palin-breastfeeding-joke-gos-sour.html

Keep in mind they were supposed to be on the same team

From the Kansas City Star today:

"An angry (McCain) aide characterized the shopping spree..."--of Sarah Palin and her brood at Neiman Marcus, etc., as... 'Wasilla hillbillies looting Neiman Marcus coast to coast,' and said later the full amount wasn't reported yet."

So it looks as though it will go higher than the $150,000.00 earlier estimate.

Yeah. She was a maverick, all right.

She was--excuse me, is--just dressed up white trash, folks, with little education.

And she was going to be in the number 2 spot, for power, in the United States and the world.

And you thought that "Bridge to Nowhere" died

Yeah. I know I did, too.

I thought the $223,000,000.00 requested by now-indicted Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska had been laughed out of the government and it died.

Right.

Seems the bridge, so far, isn't going to be built but check this out: Alaska still got the $223,000,000.00.

To me, this is even worse.

They asked for one quarter of a billion dollars for a bridge to serve an island of less than 100 people, they still got the money and the American people weren't really "let in" on the little secret.

In addition--making matters much worse--THEY GOT ANOTHER 38 MILLION DOLLARS for a road that, right now, apparently, is being built UP TO THE BEGINNING OF SAID BRIDGE.

Oh, and folks, Sarah Palin, current Republican Vice Presidential candidate, was all for it, when she was in Alaska, in spite of what she says on the road now. She's on the record.

Some maverick, huh?

To quote McDonad's, of all things: "I'm lovin' it"

Noonan, Murphy trash Palin on hot mic: 'It's over'

Ben Smith

After a segment with NBC's Chuck Todd ended today, Republican consultant Mike Murphy and Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan were caught on a live mic ridiculing the choice of Sarah Palin.

"It's over," said Noonan, and then responded to a question of whether Palin is the most qualified Republican woman McCain could have chosen.

"The most qualified? No. I think they went for this — excuse me — political bullsh** about narratives," she said. "Every time Republicans do that ... because that's not where they live and it's not what they're good at and they blow it."

Murphy chimed in:

"The greatness of McCain is no cynicism, and this is cynical."

Original story here:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20080903/pl_politico/20576
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Translation: They see what you and I see, folks. The roller-coaster election continues.

Sarah Palin?

Okay, Biden I get now, of course.

And I get the choice of Sarah Palin, too. She fits right in with the right-wing, conservative, religious, intolerant gun-toters. It's easy to see the appeal to that group.

But really. How easy is this?

I can't wait 'til the debate.

Question: If a 17 year-old young lady is pregnant, isn't SOMEBODY guilty of statutory rape?

Just askin'.

Worst. President. Ever.

Proof, if--or as though--you need it:

-Iraq War
-Catastrophic, open-ended war
-Misrepresentation of reasons to attack Iraq
-Internationally illegal, unprovoked attack of another foreign, sovereign nation
-WMD's
-Complete lack of WMD's
-Guantanamo Bay
-Torture
-Abu Ghraib
-Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice
-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld
-Undersecretary of Defense Paul (I'm crazy and hungry for war) Wolfowitz
-Attorney General John Ashcroft (who actually turned out to do some good for the country after all, in denying the President and his staff the ability to "have their way" at the Justice Dept., with their illegal request)
-Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez (the stooley)
-Attorney General Michael (the shill) Mukasey
-Vice President Dick ("Darth Vader") Cheney
-Little or no planning for what to do after we, the US, attacked and invaded Iraq, again, against international law
-"Kangaroo" courts
-"Waterboarding" (like it's a fun thing)
-"Black Sites"
-Extraordinary rendition (from and by the United States)
-Halliburton
-"No-bid" government contracts for corporations and other "Big Business"
-$147.00/barrel oil (due, largely, to illegal attack on Iraq)
-Cronyism
-Graft
-Gross Incompetence
-FEMA
-FEMA scandals
-Hurricane Katrina response
-Recess appointments
-Warrantless wiretapping
-Unconstitutional warrantless wiretapping
-"Signing Statements"
-Fired US Attorneys
-Politicization of the US Justice Department, specifically
-Politicization of the US Government, generally
-Plamegate
-Outing an undercover CIA agent for political reasons
-Treason (see line just above)
-Doubling the National Debt
-Denying global climate change
-Undermining the Environmental Protection Agency
-Undermining EPA laws
-Undermining US laws and law
-Stripping the Endangered Species Act of all real power, even though it's US Federal Law, with much precedent
-Housing Crisis
-Credit Crisis
-Deregulation of the Banking Industry (see both lines above this one)
-Faith-based initiatives
-Virtually obliterating the line between State and Church, which is unconstitutional
-Undermining the rights of individuals in the United States
-Asking the Federal Government, through the FBI, to, once again, spy on private American citizens (this is very recent and ongoing)
-Denying homosexuals equal rights and "equal protection under the law", in spite of our Constitution
-Growing--and bloating, indeed, ballooning--the size of the Federal Government
-Cutting taxes for the wealthy and uber-wealthy
-Cutting taxes for the "Big Oil" Companies--at just the time they're making their largest profits--and the largest profits in the History of the United States (yeah, we need to cut their taxes, didn't we?)
-Making it illegal--yes, illegal--for the Federal Government to negotiate with pharmaceutical companies to lower the cost of medicines and medicinal drugs (Did you remember that one? Then again, did you even know it already? If that isn't FOR big business and against the American Public--the little guy, you and me--I don't know what is)
-Making all records of their own Bush Administration "off limits" from the American Public, once they're out of office (like it was never OUR government--it's apparently his--and we'd like it back)
-The dividing of the country into "us" vs. "them", rich vs. poor, right vs. left, religious believers vs. unbelievers, etc.
-The use of bullying tactics on foreign countries, telling us and them that they are either "with us or against us"
-The use of access to the President, his staff and the administration for reward, when they like someone's work
-The denial of access to these same people and individuals when the administration doesn't like their viewpoint(s)
-The denial of access to the administration to Betty Thomas, the longtime, veteran White House reporter, which actually happened, because they didn't like her and her questions
-The use of the Federal Government to make propaganda in our own press
-The use of the Federal Government to make propaganda in foreign country's press
-The use of the Federal Government and Federal dollars to create propaganda
-The use of the American Press to create propaganda in our own country
-The use of Fox "News" Network, specifically, to create propaganda in our own country
-Declaring "Mission Accomplished" in Iraq, when the war had virtually just begun
-Denying freedom of the press
-Denying Americans access to pictures--video or stills--of American Soldiers killed in action, coming back from the war in Iraq, even if their families felt otherwise and made that clear

The list goes on and on, longer than this, unfortunately.

Four things come to mind just now, seeing this list:

1) Warren G. Harding had nothing on George W. Bush, his incompetence, his corruption and his graft (just wait 'til he's out of the White House. Then he'll REALLY start reaping benefits from Big Business)
2) I'll be glad when this nightmare is over
3) I can hardly wait for January 20, 2009, when these people are gone
4) I hope we, as a country and, really, as a world, can recover from the damage George W. Bush and his entire administration, for 8 years, has done to this country.

(With thanks to Garry Trudeau and his "Doonesbury" comic strip, this Sunday, August 24, 2008. You can see the original comic here: http://www.doonesbury.com/)

Joe Biden?

That's the best we can do?

Joe Biden?

What is that about?

What is this, the "reassuring old white guy to calm down the racists"?

Let's face it, the racists aren't going to vote for Obama, no matter what.

Who, exactly, does Joe Biden bring to the table, in terms of votes come November, that we wouldn't already have gotten?

Hillary would have brought more votes.

Same with Kathleen Sebelius of Kansas--or any intelligent, capable woman on the ticket.

But Joe Biden?

Don't get me wrong, I think he's smart and capable and, yes, God knows he's experienced and he's on the correct side of a lot of issues. His work has been good and admirable. And, sure, he knows how the system works and yeah, we hope he won't just be a "yes man" in Obama's Administration but geez, what exactly does he add to the ticket?

What, we didn't have the requisite "old white guy" on the ticket so we have to counter-balance the opposition?

I don't get it.

What part of "Change" is this?



On a completely different subject and as part of a trend I've described and discussed here in the past, the nation's 9th bank failure occurred last evening, in case you didn't see or hear of it.