Wednesday, February 10, 2021
A Question for All Republican US Senators Just Now
Sunday, January 10, 2021
Things We Americans Can All Now Thank Republicans For
Herewith, just that, a list, incomplete as it is, of all the things we have Republicans and their Republican Party to thank for.
--Senator Joe McCarthy and his attacks, repeated, on fellow Americans
--Richard M NIxon, who famously/infamously quit the office of our Presidency because he illegally had his own men break into a room of the Watergate Hotel to get information on his opponent(s) in the Democratic Party
--Ronald Reagan and his dismantling of the middle class what with cutting taxes on corporations and the already-wealthy and then his additional attacks on Unions across the nation
--The very illegal Iran-Contra affair of, again, Ronald Reagan which was when "Senior administration officials secretly facilitated the sale of arms to the Khomeini government of the Islamic Republic of Iran, which was the subject of an arms embargo." (Source: Wikipedia)
--George W Bush, who also famously/infamously ignored his Presidential Daily Briefs warning us of a pending attack on the nation
--The 9/11 attack, see above, in which 2,977 very innocent Americans lost their lives
--The squandering of our national budget by, again, yes, George W Bush who took that budget surplus we had under his predecessor, Bill Clinton, and blew right threw it
--And the way "Dubya'" blew through our nation's budget surplus was by, of course, using 9/11 as an excuse to attack not just one but two nations, Iraq and Iran
--Then there's the way Dubya' flew TWELVE BILLION DOLLARS, in an airplane, to Iraq. And let it disapper. Yes. True. Really
How the US sent $12bn in cash to Iraq
--The intentional disenfranchising of at least hundreds of thousands, if not, in fact, millions of taxpaying citizens by using "voter ID" laws all so they, Republicans, could either get or stay in government office
--The denial of fair and true representation in our government due to gerrymandering which either puts or certainly keeps their own members in government office, instead of the rightly-elected
And now:
--Donald J Trump.
--Immigrant children in cages at our Southern border
--Immigrant families separated at our Southern border
--Immigrant children lost in our governmental penal system, away from their parents, because they were separated at our border and with no clear way to rejoin them, the children to their families
--Some of the greatest wealth inequality, today, in our entire nation's history
US income inequality jumps to highest level ever recorded
--Large tax cut after large tax cut for the already-wealthy and corporations all the while ignoring or denying the people's true needs, fairness, decency, equity and/or the nation's debt
--The worst national response to the worst international, killing pandemic in the last more than 100 years resulting in our nation's death toll from it all is the worst in the world, literally. The "world's wealthiest nation" with nearly 400,000 citizens dead from COVID-19 and still counting
--An insurrectionist, treasonous, traitorous attack from a President's supporters, on our nation's Capitol
--Pipe bombs, during that same attack on our Capitol, by this President's followers, at the Republican National Committee and Democratic National Committee Buildings
--Feces and urine left behind on this same treasonous attack on our nation's Capitol
--Threats from more of those same treasonous, traitorous people following a/this President to do it again, that is, attack our nation's Capitol again, this time on January 17, January 19 and/or January 20 because their leader told them he didn't lost an election which he really did decisively lose
--The legitimately most scandalous, scandal-ridden presidency and President in the nation's historycomplete with obstruction of justice, perjury and collusion with our known, sworn international enemy, Russia, to get himself elected. (That last part verified by our own FBI and intelligence agencies
So there you are, fellow Americans. An ugly, ugly and yes, keep in mind, very partial list of what Republicans have done and are responsible for in our nation and our nation's history. And keep in mind, this is still with 10 days left to go in this President Donald J "Jenius" Trump's presidency.
Let's hope it doesn't get any worse.
Additional link:
50 Reasons You Despised George W. Bush's Presidency
Wednesday, July 1, 2020
Two References to the US as a Possible "Failed State" in 24 Hours
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, within the last 24 hours, I've seen two--count them, two--different references to the US either being or questioning whether we are just that, a failed state. Here's the first one I saw yesterday from the website AlterNet.
"What Is a Failed State?
People use this expression to indicate a political entity whose government has ceased to perform most or all of its basic functions. Such a condition can result from civil war, untrammeled corruption, natural disaster, or some combination of those and more. The Fund for Peace, which has been working on such issues for more than 70 years, lists four criteria to identify such a country:
--Loss of control of its territory, or of the monopoly on the legitimate use of physical force therein
--Erosion of legitimate authority to make collective decisions
--Inability to provide public services
--Inability to interact with other states as a full member of the international community'”
3 out of four, presently? Or all four, already?
Oh and this broke this morning.
And that's just a short list, a very short list of some of our worst current predicaments.
Under the amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act of 2021 proposed by Senate Majority Whip John Thune, the U.S. Army would be able to purchase the S-400 missile defense system from Turkey, provided the country certified that money from the purchase would not be used to buy equipment deemed "incompatible" with the NATO alliance.
Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said Tuesday that Senate Republicans forced the removal of the election reporting provision as a condition to include the intelligence bill on the must-pass defense policy legislation.

Sunday, June 28, 2020
Seriously, Honestly, For Whom Is This Republican Party President Donald J Trump Working?
I ask again, for whom is this President working?
I'll show and post 3 different examples of just why I ask. First this. This President Trump proposed this in August last year, 2019.
Trump Again Pushes For
Russia's Readmittance To G-7
Next up, the President proposed this in early June this year.
Trump Directs Pentagon to Pull 9,500 Troops
from Germany

Republicans?
Saturday, September 1, 2018
What Most Americans Don't Know About Our National Defense Budget--But Should
There is an excellent, even important article out presently at Alternet I wish all adult, voting-age Americans would read. It is this.

How to Blow $700 Billion and Lose Wars
This year, President Trump signed the largest defense budget in our history: $700 billion. The budget includes $13.7 billion for 90 F-35 Joint Strike Fighters, which according to CNN are “in service and mission capable only 26 percent of the time.” Not a single F-35 jet has yet to see combat duty.
The budget will provide $4.5 billion for the construction of a new Ford class aircraft carrier, $450 million for three Littoral Combat Ships, $4 billion for two new guided missile destroyers, $5.5 billion for two new Virginia Class submarines, and tens of billions more for upgrades and repairs on various aircraft and naval vessels. Two of the guided missile destroyers already in service were involved in deadly collisions with cargo ships in the western Pacific last year. A Navy investigation revealed that for all of the hundreds of billions spent on defense, there was apparently not enough in the budget to provide for adequate training in standing watch and driving Navy combat ships...
From 2011 to today, 2018, we more than doubled our national defense budget from 354 billion dollars to 700 billion.
Wednesday, October 25, 2017
How Pathetic and Desperate--and Wasteful--This Republican Congress is Presently
The Republicans in Congress are so desperate to take the nation's attention off their/our bumbling President, they're resorting to old tricks. Nearly unbelievable. Check this out.

House Republicans launch new probes into Obama-era Uranium One deal, FBI handling of Clinton case
They investigated Hillary Clinton over and over in Congress, each time coming up with absolutely nothing, nothing illegal, wasting thousands of manhours and millions of dollars and still they want to do this all, one more time. Again.
But just yesterday, they did this.
Senate Overturns Rule That
Helped Customers to Sue Banks
Wednesday, June 21, 2017
Sh*t Republicans Say
Forgive the suggestion of the expletive in the title today. It's taken from a theme, a meme, if you will, people have been using for the last year or two at least.
But I saw yet another nearly unbelievable thing a, you guessed it, Republican said and it inspired the post. Here it is.
Trump White House Says Diabetics Don't Deserve Health Care
Saturday, January 28, 2017
Emotionalism, Narcissism, Irrationality and Xenophobia Abound
Tom Tomorrow has it right. Still. Some more.
Wednesday, January 25, 2017
Welcome to the "It's All About Me" Presidency
We're only less than one week into this Administration and already he's inflicting turmoil in Washington, across the nation and world, in fact, with his paranoia and insecurities.
Undaunted Trump seeks probe of
debunked voter fraud claim
Trump’s disregard for the truth threatens his ability to govern
Apparently, this helped get him riled.
White House sources say Trump was ‘visibly enraged’ at the size of the Women’s March
It must come from his TV viewing.
White House Sources Say Trump Was 'Visibly Enraged' at the Size of the Women's March: Report
He wouldn't take intelligence briefings, prior to becoming President but he would, apparently, watch lots of television.
Four More Journalists Slapped With Felony Charges for Covering Inauguration Unrest
'It's Day 4 and It's Already Happening': Rachel Maddow Sounds the Alarm on Trump's Science Gag Order
And here's Mr. "Small Government", Conservative, "Get Government Out of Your Life" Republican President Trump:
It's going to be a long and, I fear, scary, turbulent four years, ladies and gentlemen and it's only just begun, we're only less than a week into it all.

Friday, June 19, 2015
Kansas and the Guv All Over the Internets
Check out all the press Kansas and their glorious leader are getting lately:

From Yael Abouhalkah at the Star:
From Barbara Shelly at that same local Star:
Only in Sam Brownback’s Land of Oz is a $400 million tax increasenot a tax increase
While this one is from Slate magazine:
Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/yael-t-abouhalkah/article23827357.html#storylink=cpy
Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/yael-t-abouhalkah/article23827357.html#storylink=cpy





