Let's Play "Guess Which Political Party"!

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, let's play that time honored tradition and game GUESS WHICH POLITICAL PARTY!  Here we go!! Here's the headline and story:

A Missouri lawmaker sold a ‘potential cure’ for coronavirus. It was a fake stem cell treatment, feds say.

Let's take a look and see, shall we?

As she planned a run for the Missouri House last April, Patricia Ashton Derges went on local TV to trumpet a stem cell treatment offered at three clinics she owns as a “potential cure” for the coronavirus.

But when federal officials began investigating the claim, they found Derges was making “misleading statements” about the treatment, prosecutors said — it didn’t actually include any stem cells.

Derges, a 63-year-old Republican who was elected to the state House in November, now faces 20 criminal charges, including wire fraud and distribution by means of the Internet without a valid prescription, a federal grand jury indictment unsealed on Tuesday revealed.

So if you guessed Republican, ladies and gentlemen, YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY CORRECT! You win the Grand Prize! (Whatever that is).

This is not to say, by any means, that all Republicans are bad and all Democrats are good, no, no, not at all. The political party of Ronnie the Raygun and his Iran Contra scandal and illegalities--- that he got away with, it should be added. The political party now of insurrectionist, treasonous, "I never did turn over my taxes" Donald J "Jenius Trump. That political party.

Let's just say I and a lot of us out here saw this one coming, m-kay??

Quote of the Day -- Dumb President's Edition

So true. So dumb. 

Now, let's 86 45

BYEDON

Vote, folks.

And VOTE BLUE!

Quote of the Day -- On Capitalism

We have to grasp, as Marx and Adam Smith did, that corporations are not concerned with the common good. They exploit, pollute, impoverish, repress, kill, and lie to make money. They throw poor people out of homes, let the uninsured die, wage useless wars for profit, poison and pollute the ecosystem, slash social assistance programs, gut public education, trash the global economy, plunder the U.S. Treasury and crush all popular movements that seek justice for working men and women. They worship money and power.

Chris Hedges

What This Pandemic Is and Is Not, Here In America

I found this on the interwebs, on Facebonkers, today and thought it good to the point of important.

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but you need to know how silly you look if you post some variation of, "Welcome to Socialism..."

You are not seeing Socialism. What you are seeing is one of the wealthiest, geographically advantaged, and productive capitalist societies in the world flounder and fail at its most basic test. Taking care of its people.

This crisis is not about the virus.

This crisis is about the massive failure of our, "Booming economy," to survive even modest challenges. It is about the market dissonance of shortages in stores, even as farmers/producers destroy unused crops and products. This crisis is about huge corporations needing an emergency bailout within days of the longest Bull Market in our history ending and despite the ability to borrow with zero percent interest rates.

This crisis is about corporatized healthcare systems being unable and ill equipped to provide basic healthcare, at the same time they post record profits. It is about crisis response depending on antiquated systems nobody remembers how to operate.

But most of all, this crisis is a direct result of the politicization of every aspect of our society for the benefit of a privileged few. The vilification of education, science, media, natural rights, rural lifestyles, urban lifestyles, charity, compassion, and virtually everything else for brief political gain has gutted our society.

What you are seeing is a quarter century of technological brilliance being reduced to a narcissistic popularity contest. You're seeing the folly of basing the health and welfare of an entire society on personal greed. You're seeing all the necessary tools, for us to shrug off this crisis, go unused while people argue over who should get the credit and profit. Even worse, you're seeing vital help withheld because recipients might not, "deserve it..."

You're seeing a lot of things nobody thought they'd ever see, but you're not seeing Socialism...

"Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves."  -- Horace Mann

-- Paul Field

Republican Party Covid Concerns

 

Thanks, fellas!

It's Important Americans Understand Trump's "Tax Cut"

Yes it's very important Americans know and understand what this Republican Party President is proposing with this current attempt to "suspend the payroll tax."  For an explanation of what this President is proposing presently:

When Trump says he wants to suspend "payroll tax," he's talking about the 7.65% withheld for your Social Security and Medicare.

Here's the scam: it would suspend the 7.65% your employer matches.

See?

You will not get that, nor will your wage or salary increase by 7.65%. Plus, when Social Security collapses due to this de-funding, It will provide an excuse to keep it.

This is to help businesses and corporations, certainly not the American people.

It will at least weaken, if not eventually destroy Social Security and Medicare.

Thanks, Mr. President.

But no thanks.

Thanks, Republicans.

Links:

The Social Security System Is The Most Successful Government Social Insurance Program

Social Security has kept millions of Americans out of poverty

Social Security Keeps 20 Million Americans Out of Poverty

Social Security Lifts More Americans Above Poverty

Social Security Keeps This Many Seniors Out of Poverty

Quote of the Day -- On Health

"It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society."

--J Krishnamurti

Libertarianism: The Only Thing Worse Than Being a Republican

Wouldn't it be great to be a billionaire and then fund Libertarians and the Libertarian cause---so you could destroy government, lower your own taxes and so, make and keep yet more money?


Wouldn't that be great?