Showing posts with label Daily Kos. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Daily Kos. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 27, 2021
GOP Finds Ways to be Worse
It's not bad enough the Republicans tried to deny our entire presidential election---and some still are. It wasn't bad enough they then began attempts at vote suppression in Georgia and then took it to 47 other states. No, all that wasn't bad enough. Now they want to punish Americans for our First Amendment right of Free Speech, too. As always, click on picture for larger picture, easier reading.
We have got to, got to vote them out. We've got to vote them all out.
Wednesday, April 14, 2021
Donald J "Jenius" Trump & His Political Party
God, I love this. Their own destruction and all of their own making. Fantastic. Poetic justice.
Thanks, Mr. Trump!
Thanks, Republicans! You did it, you're doing it, all of it, all to yourself!
Pass the popcorn.
Monday, April 12, 2021
Difficult to Believe What Comes Out of Republicans' Mouths
Herewith, a short, short list, very short, of some of the deeply ignorant, ugly, negative things that come out of too many Republicans minds and mouths. As always, click on picture for larger picture and easier viewing/reading
Let's vote them out, America. Let's vote them all out.
Tuesday, March 30, 2021
The GOP Just Now on Guns, Voting and America
God help us, folks.
The only thing this doesn't also show is their racism. Oh, and their love of power. Over all else.
Tuesday, March 9, 2021
Quote of the Day -- On Un-American Vote Suppression
Thursday, February 11, 2021
The Dangerous Place We Stand Now
Senate Republicans are working hard on excuses to acquit Trump despite the powerful case against him
This one scares me most, frankly.
Republican state parties stand ready to rip any GOP senator who betrays Trump
“Trump left everyone in the Capitol for dead” as mob hunted for victims like VP Pence
Once more, God help us.
It would be so, so nice if all the Senators would put our nation and people and Democracy first on this vote this week and not their own political party. Meanwhile, a last glimmer of hope today.
Republicans will to have to work to blow off the impeachment case against Trump
A freight train is bearing down on the Republican Party ahead of impeachment vote
The case against Donald Trump is already rock-solid, and it isn't done yet
FBI Provides Proof of Incitement
Republican state parties stand ready to rip any GOP senator who betrays Trump
“Trump left everyone in the Capitol for dead” as mob hunted for victims like VP Pence
Once more, God help us.
It would be so, so nice if all the Senators would put our nation and people and Democracy first on this vote this week and not their own political party. Meanwhile, a last glimmer of hope today.
Republicans will to have to work to blow off the impeachment case against Trump
A freight train is bearing down on the Republican Party ahead of impeachment vote
The case against Donald Trump is already rock-solid, and it isn't done yet
FBI Provides Proof of Incitement
Tuesday, February 9, 2021
Happy 2nd Impeachment Day!
Yes, America, impeachment trial number two begins today for none other than one Donald J "Jenius" Trump. Fantastic. As it should be. As he's earned.
Keep this in mind, too, for some perspective.
This is what we Americans, what America wants and what we need, let there be no doubt. And it's not just keeping him from any further federal office, either. Americans support this impeachment. We all need and want accountability in our legal system. We also need to know and let the world know that no one, no one, even a President of our United States, is above the law.
And we don't just want him impeached, oh no. We want more than that.
It just keeps getting better, too. Check these out.
Additionally, this broke yesterday.
And let's be clear on this, too.
So absolutely! Let's do this! It's Happy 2nd Impeachment Tuesday! Let it all begin!
Final side note. It's not just the Trumpster who's in trouble, either.
Think happy thoughts, campers. Have a great, great day. I know I will be.
Monday, February 8, 2021
Daily Kos Asks Very Fair, Even Important Questions Today
The claim by a former KGB spy that a former U.S. president had for decades been a Russian asset should be stunning, but in Donald Trump’s case, this report was not even surprising after five years of his party accepting and normalizing his behavior.
Just some, the most important, poignant parts of the article:
So, Mr. or Ms. Republican, what is your reason for not judging Donald Trump by the same standards of conduct that you would judge any Democrat?
There’s no question, Mr. or Ms. Republican, how you would have judged Hillary Clinton had she been an unhinged sore loser who maliciously lied and incited a seditious, murderous mob. And there’s no question how you would have judged anyone in her party who had abetted her by parroting those lies.
So, once again, Mr. or Ms. Republican, what is your reason for believing that Donald Trump and those in your party who abetted him should not be judged by the same standards you yourself would judge any Democrat who acted the same way?
Keeping in mind, of course, that all of this also feeds directly into the impeachment trial of Mr. Trump which begins tomorrow.
Take your time.
We'll wait.
We'll wait.
Monday, February 1, 2021
News About the Trumpster Just Keeps Getting Better
It was bad enough he was ever, ever in government office, let alone the highest office in the land but now that he's out---THANK GOD AND GOODNESS--the news just does seem to keep getting better and better about this old orange buffoon.
Of course, we'll be starting an impeachment, his 2nd, God love him, on February 9, little over a week from now--JUST AFTER THE CHIEFS WIN THE SUPER BOWL--and of course, his, Trump's 5 lawyers all quit on him about one week before this trial is to start because they wouldn't testify falsely in court that he won the election.
The state of New York is still, still going after him about his taxes, God love 'em, and in 2 different cases, I believe. Also, he had to turn over yet more tax documents it was ruled by and in a court last week.
And now this.
Scotland Parliment to Vote on 'Unexplained Wealth Order' Against Trump This Week
An "unexplained wealth order", you ask?
The Scotish Parliment is about to jump in on the fun of dumping on Trump.- Scotland's government could investigate Donald Trump's Scottish assets
- MSPs are set to vote on whether to pursue an Unexplained Wealth Order
- Wednesday's debate is being brought to the chamber by Patrick Harvie
- The vote to seek an Unexplained Wealth Order (UWO) would not be binding.
- However, it would increase pressure on Sturgeon to act in accordance with Hollyrood.
- Most notably, they would probe where the £35.7 million Trump used to purchase the Turnberry resort came from.
Ain't it great?
Have a terrific day, campers.
Final, side note. A reader---yes, apparently I had a reader!--commented that he thought I'd stop unloading on Trump now that he's out of office.
Not a chance in Hell.
As long as he or I am alive, I will be dissing on this greedy, selfish, self-centered, reckless, dangerous, ignorant old fool that tried so hard to wreck our nation.
But thanks for asking.
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Yet more wonderfulness, too.
Monday, January 4, 2021
Where We Are Now With This President Trump
16 days out. Only two more weeks and two days to inauguration. Yahoo.
This happened today, thankfully.
Judge Reject Last Ditch Effort to Overturn Election
This broke earlier today, about an hour ago.
A federal judge has rejected a legal effort from groups of Trump voters to block Congress from officially counting the Electoral College votes and suggested the attorneys involved may be subject to sanctions, suggesting they were using courts to "engage in such gamesmanship or symbolic political gestures."It was yet another defeat for the dubious last-ditch legal maneuvers aimed at overturning President-elect Joe Biden's victory.
Fortunately, also happening now, today, our Missouri Senator Josh Hawley is getting skewered, too, for supporting the overturning of our votes and election.
Former Senator John Danforth blasts Hawley
Ex-GOP senator blasts Hawley's challenge to electoral vote
The Washington Post puts Senator Hawley and his recent views in excellent, accurate perspective.
Fortunately, Senator Tom Cotton, of all people, of all Senators, from our neighbor to the South, Arkansas, at least did the right thing.
And Paul Ryan, of all people, also came out against Trump and his electoral gambit.
Amazingly, even Senator Lindsey "Lap Dog" Graham came to his senses.
Unfortunately, this became necessary. Fortunately, they all spoke up.
All 10 currently living ex-Defense Secretaries — two of whom served in the Trump administration — have banded together with a new op-ed in The Washington Post in which they insist upon the critical importance of an orderly transfer of power between presidential administrations without any military involvement in dealing with election-related challenges like those which outgoing President Donald Trump and his allies have raised.
Even Dick Cheney--freaking Dick "Right Wing" Cheney came out against Trump's power grab here.
And rightly so. Also fortunately, the business community is coming out with their opinion of Trump's trying to overthrow our election results.
Meanwhile, Trump's colossally misinformed, misguided, quite possibly illegal phone call he made over the weekend to Georgia, asking them to overturn the election and find him, very specifically, "11,780 more votes", is quite possibly, if not likely either getting or going to get him into yet further legal trouble.
There's talk he could be arrested in Georgia when he goes there tomorrow to help get out Republican votes for their two senate candidates.
What took place is incredible.
During the hour-long phone call, which was first obtained by The Washington Post, Trump insisted to Raffensperger that he, rather than Biden, was the winner of the state’s votes. “All I want to do is this. I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have. Because we won the state,” Trump said on the call, where White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, Georgia Secretary of State office’s general counsel Ryan Germany, and various lawyers were all present.
It was so incredible, in fact, he isn't even vague about it. He spells out specifically the number of votes he wants, needs them to find. Completely blatant and yet more unprecedented, outrageous Presidency.
Carl Bernstein, one of the two Watergate reporters who helped effectively bring down Richard Nixon, put Trump's phone call, at least, into perspective.
All other Presidents, when voted out of office, respected the votes, the election, the process, the people, Democracy and nation.
Until now.
He needs to concede.
In closing, this is a thing.
Tuesday, December 22, 2020
So Proud of Our Kansas City Star
Wow.
What can you say but "Wow"?
Our own local paper, the Kansas City Star stunned me and I feel, probably lots of us this week. Their report, their reporting, their confession was just that, stunning. You likely know of what I'm writing. It's this.
The truth in Black and white: An apology from The Kansas City Star
Today we are telling the story of a powerful local business that has done wrong.
I'll only post the beginning of the editorial.
Today we are telling the story of a powerful local business that has done wrong.
For 140 years, it has been one of the most influential forces in shaping Kansas City and the region. And yet for much of its early history — through sins of both commission and omission — it disenfranchised, ignored and scorned generations of Black Kansas Citians. It reinforced Jim Crow laws and redlining. Decade after early decade it robbed an entire community of opportunity, dignity, justice and recognition.
That business is The Kansas City Star.
To repeat, there's no word that describes this any better than stunning.
This took guts. This took courage. Just freaking wow.
They could have recognized their past faults internally and vowed to never repeat such things, sure. But this? Confessing to the supporting of Jim Crow laws and redlining and segregation and other obscenities, however legal?
Stunning. Nothing short of stunning.
It went national, too, it was that big a story. This was from the New York Times.
NBC News.
Daily Kos.
You get the idea. It was covered nationally from virtually every media outlet.
I think there are two huge things to take from this, too, besides the fact that, as I said above, they didn't have to do this cleansing so publicly like this.
The first is that this was an important move for them, the Star, the newspaper, to own up to but it's much more than that. We all need to own up to what and how we've gotten to where we are. We all, as a people and as a nation, need to know how we got here, where we are today. We need to know our nation's history, our full national history. We need to really know all the details about slavery and our Civil War, sure. But that's for starters.
We all need to also know about our Reconstruction and the failure of it, our failure and how that impacted African-Americans then.
We all need to know, really know about Jim Crow laws, what they were, what they did, the fact that they were legal and the deep, deep damage that they did to those same Americans, African-Americans. That's a great deal to know there alone.
Then there's the "redlining" the Star's story mentions and its corresponding segregation, legalized, thank you very much.
If, as a people, you are kept away, legally, from the best housing and jobs, good education and so, consequently and understandably, also kept away from better paying jobs and careers? Is it any wonder the wealth of Black Americans today is, still, to this moment, a fraction of white America?
And that's how we got now, here to where we are. It's why still, to this day, so many Black Americans do not and even, for a lot of them, cannot still live wherever they wish. It only makes sense. It's a natural outgrowth of all that then-legalized racism and hate and ugliness. It's why do many cities in the United States--including, of course, our own Kansas City on both sides of the state line--are still so very, very segregated even though that legal segregation was made illegal decades ago now.
So, again, wow. Kudos to the Star.
In their article, they made a great and important point of saying that their paper, over the years, highlighted white people's accomplishments but virtually never Black people's.
In the pages of The Star, when Black people were written about, they were cast primarily as the perpetrators or victims of crime, advancing a toxic narrative. Other violence, meantime, was tuned out. The Star and The Times wrote about military action in Europe but not about Black families whose homes were being bombed just down the street.
Even the Black cultural icons that Kansas City would one day claim with pride were largely overlooked. Native son Charlie “Bird” Parker didn’t get a significant headline in The Star until he died, and even then, his name was misspelled and his age was wrong.
It reminded me of a KCPT PBS broadcast on Kansas City's own Charlie "Bird" Parker. Lonnie McFadden made the very fair and important point that Winston Churchill, of all people, is on our Country Club Plaza.
But not Bird.
How else can we heal? How else can we repair centuries long wrongs and racism if we don't examine ourselves, see where we are, see what we did, see what those ramifications are and then apologize for them and look to rectify them? We must do this as a society. We're long, long overdue.
Anyone, any American who thinks we don't owe Black Americans reparations should, again, study our national history.
And read this article, too.
Wednesday, December 16, 2020
Highly Placed Defections From the Republican Party
Yes sir and ma'am, there were two rather highly placed defections from the Republican Party in the last few days. First, a member of the House of Representatives.
Congressman Paul Mitchell Resigns from Republican Party
A bit of the story:
So yes, he was retiring but hey, we'll take it. He bailed on the party after being and working in it most if not all of his entire adult life, given its direction under this lunatic of a President.
Then, the second defection.
Steve Schmidt Officially Registers As A Democrat
And who is Steve Schmidt, you might ask? From Wikipedia:
Stephen Edward Schmidt[2] (born September 28, 1970)[3] is an American communications and public affairs strategist who has worked on Republican political campaigns, including those of President George W. Bush, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Arizona Senator John McCain.
Schmidt was the senior campaign strategist and advisor to the 2008 presidential campaign of Senator John McCain.[4] He pushed McCain to select Sarah Palin as his running mate, a choice which McCain came to regret.[5] He was a Vice Chair at the public relations firm Edelman[6] until he stepped down in July 2018.[7]
He's a long time, very entrenched Republican and member of that party. Or at least he was.
The smart people and the people of integrity and thought and backbone are getting out.
Wednesday, December 2, 2020
Anyone Who Thinks Lisa Montgomery Should Be Executed Should Read This Article
Lisa Montgomery is the woman who was found guilty of having killed another woman, supposed to be here friend, only to cut her open and take her unborn baby. Here's the story. Anyone who thinks she should be put to death now, executed, should read this. It took place, as some may know, in not far away Skidmore, Missouri.
Society Failed Lisa Montgomery in Every Way Possible.
So Now We’re Going to Kill Her
Here's just the core, just some of the story and this article.
...Montgomery’s crime was certainly heinous. She had befriended a young pregnant woman, Bobbie Jo Stinnett, 23, after the two met at a dog show. After arranging a meeting—ostensibly to purchase a rat terrier puppy—Montgomery killed Stinnett, then gutted her open to kidnap her then eight-month old fetus. Montgomery cleaned the baby—remarkably, the child survived—then brought her home to her husband. She pretended it was her own baby; it is possible she did not understand that the baby was not hers......Lisa Montgomery had little if any chance in life. She was born in 1968, the child of two troubled alcoholics. She had brain damage, likely caused by exposure to alcohol when she was a developing fetus. Mental illness ran in her family. Her father had a daughter from a previous marriage; the two girls grew up together. As part of an excellent story on the Montgomery case, the Huffpost tracked down the older sibling, Diane Mattingly, who described the traumatic world in which young Lisa grew up. It was a world of unimaginable cruelty and horror.
Her mother, Judy Shaughnessy, beat her daughters with belts, cords, or hangers. On one occasion, to punish her children Lisa’s mother killed the family dog in front of them, smashing its head in with a shovel. Her father was often away from home for long periods time. Her mother would bring home other men; fights would erupt, and the violence spilled over to include the young girls. When Mattingly was about 8, one of the men whom her mother brought home began raping her, as Montgomery, then only 4, lie in bed beside her. Mattingly escaped when child protective services removed her from the home.
Lisa was not so fortunate. Her mother married another violent, erratic man, Jack Kleiner, who beat his wife and the children regularly; he would often make the daughters strip naked before whipping them. The sexual component of that punishment morphed into ever greater abuse as Kleiner began molesting then raping young Lisa. The abuse lasted for years. The parents also allowed men who did work on their house—a plumber and an electrician— to rape Lisa as payment for their services. Lisa was thus a victim of child sex trafficking.
Shaughnessy and Kleiner divorced when Montgomery was 15. During those proceedings Shaughnessy told the court her husband raped Montgomery, saying once that she walked in on him while “he was in her. He was pumping her.” The court admonished her for not reporting the crime to authorities, but then itself failed to report the abuse. Kleiner was never charged. Lisa also told authorities of her abuse—she confided to a cousin who was a law enforcement officer—but the officer failed to report Lisa’s situation. At school, Lisa’s work was substandard, and she was placed with special needs students. She often came to class dirty and unkempt. School authorities suspected abuse, but they too failed to investigate or to report their suspicions to the police.
Like many victims of violent sexual assault, Montgomery blamed herself for her predicament. She also began to disassociate herself from what was happening to her. Her stepbrother told the court that “Lisa told me that when these men raped her, she would go away in her mind and try not to be present.” Clearly Lisa had only a fragile grip on reality because she needed to escape reality to survive. That break from lived reality would plague her later life.
As with many children who experience chaotic, unstable childhoods, her adult life mimicked those conditions. When she was 18, at her mother’s instigation, she married her stepbrother who then coerced her into sterilization. She drank heavily, could not hold a job, had multiple car accidents, and neglected her own children. She lived in extreme poverty and was constantly moving from home to home; by the time she was 34 she had moved sixty-one times. She was said to often space out, to be disconnected from reality. After she was sterilized, she repeatedly told people that she was pregnant.
If this young woman's circumstances shouldn't be taken into consideration then I don't know who we are. We certainly aren't a "Christian", forgiving, understanding nation, I'll tell you that. And this would no way be anything remotely close to anything called or considered justice.
Tuesday, November 24, 2020
Breathing a--Big--Sigh of Relief
No doubt you've heard the great, if overdue, news.
GSA Chief Says Decision to Allow Transition to Begin
Fantastic. A relief, as I said. Unfortunate it took this long, nearly 3 weeks to get to it.
And here are the markets response.
We're not completely out of the woods, so to speak, since the Orange Man is still technically in power and in the White House, of course, very unfortunately.
What he, Trump, is doing, is still doing:
--Sabotaging the Fed
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has demanded the Federal Reserve return $455 billion in unused funds from a lending program meant to prop up American businesses. The Fed could legally continue with the funds if Mnuchin didn't claw them back, but he argues the program should end at the end of this year -- a decision panned by the US Chamber of Commerce.
This will create political headaches for Biden, but it'll also have a negative impact on everyday Americans...
A report by CNN's national security team is emblematic of how Trump's administration is working actively in ways to make Biden's life more difficult.
The goal is to set so many fires that it will be hard for the Biden administration to put them all out, an administration official tells CNN in the report.
Trump's administration is:
Trump's administration is:
- Further removing troops from Afghanistan and Iraq in the final days of Trump's time as President.
- Contemplating new terrorist designations in Yemen that could complicate efforts to broker peace.
- Rushing through authorization of a massive arms sale that could alter the balance of power in the Middle East.
- Planning a last-minute crackdown on China.
- Floating the idea of a last-minute military strike on Iran, according to The New York Times.
- Building a wall of sanctions that make it difficult for Biden to rejoin the Iran nuclear deal Trump scuttled.
- Sending Mike Pompeo on the first-ever official visit by a US secretary of state to an Israeli settlement....
Trump's failure to negotiate a new Covid stimulus with Congress will set Biden up for a political fight on Day One about how to help Americans hurt by the pandemic.
Here's what expires in December without further action:
- Provisions to beef up unemployment insurance
- A deferral on student loan payments
- A paid family leave provision
- Coronavirus relief funding for states whose tax base has been decimated
- And a moratorium on evictions...
The most important of these various nails left under the couch cushions is Trump's steadfast refusal to accept the legitimacy of Biden's win, an ultimately futile bit of pique, since Biden will take the oath of office and Trump will no longer be President in January.
Either because he wants to retire campaign debt, seed a new media empire of democratic disbelievers or is personally incapable of admitting defeat, Trump's actions will have consequences.
As if all that isn't bad enough, there's this horror of a thought.
It does look like Biden was just elected to be our 47th President.
Let’s not forget about the upcoming five-minute Presidency of Mike Pence, during which he will be allowed to say exactly twenty-one words: "I hereby pardon Donald Trump for all crimes, known or unknown, he has ever committed against the United States of America."
God forbid and heavens help us.
But for now, at least, Joe Biden is finally confirmed as President and he's picking his staff, the people in his administration.
Thank goodness.
Link:
Trump strips Biden’s options to boost the economy
Pennsylvania once again confirms and reassures.
Not done there, Nevada does same this morning.
And just to remind us just precisely how small, petty and shallow he is, Trump did this today.
Tuesday, November 17, 2020
The Devolving Insanity of This Excuse for a President
It's difficult to even keep up with both how little and how much this sorry excuse for a leader or President is doing since he got his election defeat. I'll try here, now. Here's the first.
Officials aim to sell drilling rights to the pristine wilderness’s coastal plain before the president-elect takes office
Forget that there is a huge glut of oil on the markets, the international markets and there has been ever before the international pandemic struck but now, with this COVID, there's even MORE oil on the markets because we all are driving so far less. The world doesn't need more oil and likely won't for at least some time, if ever, given the push, however slow, to go electric and sustainable.
Ultimately, it seems this is all he's doing, however, these last few weeks, at least.
Here's the truth of the matter.
But though Trump will be remembered for all these things, he will be judged for one thing above all: When the pandemic came and hundreds of thousands of Americans died, he didn’t give a damn.
Where we stand now with the Orange Man. This, basically, is what he IS doing.
And this.
Trump’s stonewalling of the incoming administration is leaving even some in his own party concerned
President Donald Trump hasn’t called President-elect Joe Biden. The Trump campaign hasn’t reached out to the Biden campaign. The White House and federal agencies haven't briefed the Biden transition team...
There are no briefings being given about coronavirus, troop drawdowns in Afghanistan and Iraq, or aggression by China and Iran. No background checks being done for job applicants. No security clearances being conducted for potential Biden staffers.
The silence could continue into December, when states must certify their results to Congress, according to several Republicans familiar with the expected plans. Until then, they said, Trump and his team will continue to assert the election was fraudulently stolen from them, using unsubstantiated allegations of voter fraud to file lawsuits and recounts challenging the results.
It’s a situation without parallel since at least 1963, when a federal law implemented modern presidential transition procedures, mandating the sharing of office space and the spending of money for the process.
The posture threatens to leave Biden’s team unprepared in January when it takes over a millions-strong federal workforce, according to officials who worked for Republican and Democratic presidents and lawmakers of both parties. And, they added, it sends a message to the world that the United States, generally a model across the globe, is vulnerable and unable to administer a seamless transition of power.
Here's the irony, too, added to this insanity.
I mean, really, what the heck? He's trying, fighting to deny he lost the election, seemingly fighting to stay President but HE'S NOT DOING THE JOB. For another example of proof of this, check this out.
He always touted and flouted he was "tough on China" but he doesn't attend this Southeast Asian conference? Not only that but this is far from the first time, too, that he skipped it.
This, however, is the absolutely most frightening thing that did at least occur to him.
But hey, last Sunday? He got in his golf, let there be no doubt.
Mr. "You Won't See Me Out There Playing Golf" did, in fact, do just that.
One more thing he's doing, to the nation, to us, to the people and to Democracy, our Democracy.
It has been nearly two weeks since the election. President-elect Joe Biden won the electoral college by 306-to-232. His lead in the popular vote is 5.6 million and growing. Republican efforts to get courts to shut down counting and invalidate huge numbers of votes are being laughed out of court. This is over.
And what is the president doing? Complaining on Twitter.
He will not prevail, and everyone knows it. The White House staffers desperately spinning on his behalf know it. The Fox News hosts propagating conspiracy theories about stolen votes know it. Every elected Republican knows it. The only ones who don’t know it are the millions of Trump voters who are the targets of this noxious propaganda campaign, the ones being told that American democracy is worthy of nothing but contempt.
This was this morning.
Pool report: "The president has nothing on his public schedule today. He also has not posted any falsehoods on Twitter about winning the election or fraud or anything else, for that matter, in more than 11 hours. The day, however, is young."
His political party is no help, either, far from it.
Not done there, his political party members in Congress are trying to do their own partisan damage, too.
The Senate is expected to vote as soon as this week on Trump’s nomination of Judy Shelton to the Fed. Simply put, Shelton is a demonstrably unqualified partisan quack who has no business working at the world’s most powerful central bank. Her nomination has been condemned by hundreds of economists and Fed alumni, including prominent Republicans and at least seven Nobel laureates. The senators poised to confirm her appear to know she is unfit; ahead of February hearings, a former Republican Senate Banking Committee aide said that “the idea of even calling her as a witness for something was beyond the pale” not long ago.
It's not bad enough we have a non-functioning, non-leading President that's sulking, doing nearly nothing but thrashing about, the people in his political party set up, first, another extreme Right Winger on our Supreme Court and now want to do the same on the Federal Reserve.
But help Americans? During the worst, most killing, deadly international pandemic in the last more than 100 years?
One of the most important things you'd think this Congress could and should do is pass COVID relief aid just now. People's livelihoods and work and homes all depend on it, given our current national situation. The pandemic is spreading and wildly across the nation. It's exploding in cases and deaths, both, and Congress is doing seemingly nothing to help us. It seems it should be issue one for them just now.
So what can we say now except "Thanks, Mr. President! Thanks, Republicans!" You're doing so much for us.
Not.
The other thing we can say?
Bring on inauguration day.
#Throwthebumout
God help us all.
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