Author: momdude

One can’t wallow in bile 24/7/365. It appears one can SPEW bile 24/7/365, but Congress has been showing us that for years before the current mess.

A little exercise and recreation will be a welcome break from the stupidity. Try to not blow up civilization and planet while I’m gone.

Toodles!

Speaking of a whole room full of brain-dead morons:

My money says that any of those plants outside the window have IQ’s an order of magnitude higher than everyone in this photo combined. I’ll guarantee that those plants have more culture, class, and humanity than any of them.

Also, if you ever thought that “A Clean Desk Is The Sign Of A Sick Mind” was just a bumper sticker slogan – here’s your proof.

And they say that these guys are out of touch with reality! Really?

WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST CLUE?

Anyone else want to bet that he has aides who have to retrieve his email and print documents for him and show him how to take pictures with his phone?

What planet are these people from?

We found out today that SCROTUS and his evil minions and sycophants were bluffing last week when they loudly announced that they were sending an air craft carrier task group toward North Korea as a show of strength.

The clowns in the Trump Regime do understand that these are real aircraft carriers, real planes, real pilots, real sailors, real Marines, real nuclear weapons, and real insane dictators they’re dealing with, don’t they?

They do understand that if they fuck up, several millions real citizens of both this country and our allies could end up really dead?

They do understand that they’re really fucking up?

They do understand that this isn’t a video game that they’re playing in the middle of the night on the couch in the basement of their mom’s house, “fighting” against other pathetic nerds around the globe on the couches of their respective basements in their respective mom’s houses? They do understand that there’s no “save” or “restart” button on reality?

They’ve heard of reality, at least in passing?

I try not to be too jumpy and I don’t get involved with oogaty-boogaty conspiracy theories. However, when you keep seeing one “coincidence” after another that always seem to benefit one side, and it’s the side that celebrates evil and hatred and intolerance, then I think you have to reconsider.

It’s an incredibly tight race in the Georgia special election, a US House seat that’s been held by a Republican since dirt was young. Yet this Democrat is way ahead in the polls, mainly because even in Georgia folks are stepping back, looking at The Trumpencritter, and saying to themselves, “What the fuck??!!”

So the night before the election, voting machines get stolen, which could be used to figure out how to hack the machines, to generate false results, to not count certain ballots, and so on.

Not that anyone in our current administration would… Oh, who the hell am I trying to fool? These bottom feeding douchebags would sell out their own mother for another second in power and another day sucking at the corporate bribery teat.

As I learned at a young age, “Just because you’re paranoid, it doesn’t mean they’re not really out to get you.”

Keep a close eye on the Georgia 8th tomorrow, folks.

Always trying to see the good, to flip a bad situation on its head and find the silver lining, I was trying to figure out how to spin SCROTUS’s latest demonstration of narcissistic ignorance:

It’s been a “quiet” weekend, if only because SCROTUS has been playing golf in Florida at our expense AGAIN, all the while his idiotic rhetoric and mindless spewing of bullshit on Twitter has worked toward triggering a nuclear exchange with North Korea.

Meanwhile, back in the pile of scandals, outrageous acts, and outright felonies that he’s accumulated so fast that we barely can remember some of the earlier ones, there were massive protests across the country as people protested the fact that Trump still hasn’t released his tax returns, despite (or more likely, because) the fact that they may contain the smoking gun that shows just how deeply indebted he is to the Russians, how much he’s skimming off of his Presidency for his own profit, and what blackmail material the Russians have on him.

At this point we’re not even surprised that the self-centered, cowardly, petulant piece of shit that we’ve elected to the White House is so insular and ignorant that he can’t even understand why everyone doesn’t idolize him. He can only conceive of someone objecting to him and his actions if they are paid to do so.

This constant barrage of outrageous behavior and ignorance on Trump’s part, along with the actively evil actions being undertaken under his protection by his family, Bannon, Ryan, McConnell, his entire Cabinet full of billionaires, it all threatens to just numb us to remember just how non-normal and horrifyingly dangerous it all is.

If Trump would just shut up for a few days, we would be so grateful for the respite that we might stop thinking about how badly he’s fucking us over and how dangerous he is to the very existence of our democracy.

Since he NEVER shuts up, we should be grateful for tweets like this one. As annoying as they are, and as numbing as the constant barrage from them is, they do serve to keep causing us pain, and that keeps us from ever forgetting what a total cluster fuck this whole situation is.

These days you have to find gratitude where you can.

The whole concept of a free exchange of ideas depends on the assumption that everyone is playing by the same rules, and playing with the same deck of 52.

If I argue that 2+8=10 and someone else argues that 6+4=10 while a third party argues that 4+6=10, then we have the basis for a disagreement on our beliefs, and possibly an opportunity to expand our understanding of this thing we call “reality.”

But if I’m arguing that 2+8=10 and you’re arguing that 7+13=84,219 then we have a problem. Especially if five minutes later you’re arguing that 7+13=-88.

Thus our current conundrum.

If we both believe that education is a good thing, something to be supported by our society, then I can believe we should increase funding by 5% and you can think that we should decrease it by 2%. We can lay our our reasons for our positions and we can reach some compromise.

If I think that school funding should increase by 5% and you think that school funding should be slashed by half, school music and arts education eliminated completely, and if you’re too poor to go to a private school that’s Ivy League prep, then tough shit for you… Then it’s hard to compromise.

If I think that health care should be a right and available to everyone in society, from the Koch Brothers down to the most recent immigrant (legal or otherwise), and you think that everyone who can’t afford health insurance at twice what it costs now should just go ahead and die and stop bothering you… Then it’s hard to compromise.

If I think our military budget is just fine as it is, especially since we already spend more than the next dozen countries in the world combined, and you think that we need a trillion dollar increase (mot of it going to line your own pockets, or the pockets of you evil sychophatns) while truly not giving a flying fuck whose life it utterly destroys… Then it’s hard to compromise.

The pendulum has swung this far to the right, where there’s no need to stay in the closet if you’re ignorant, racist, misogynistic, xenophobic, uneducated, or simply filled to overflowing with hatred and fear.

We need to get it back to the left and keep it there. Fuck MAGA. For America to be great in the future we need to remember what made us great, and it wasn’t sealing our borders, inciting nuclear armageddon because SCROTUS had his wittle itty bitty feelings hurt, or letting a significant percentage of our population die from fully preventable diseases.

That may have been where we were at times in our past history – but we weren’t nearly as great then as we are now. Nor as great as we will be if we remember what we were and why we were that way.

Over on the more civil and civilized part of my website collection, tonight I posted pictures from our visit to Ellis Island in August, 2016. Seeing the pictures again and describing what we saw there, I couldn’t help but think about what Ellis Island shows us about our past, which in turn can be seen in contrast to what our country is doing today.

For the last couple of weeks we’ve seen pictures and video of children killed by sarin gas. In the last few years we’ve seen pictures of families dying and drowning trying to escape countries in Northern Africa.

(Side note – if you think the Syrian video and photos are fake, as the current Russian propaganda machine would like you to believe, then there’s no other option other than to think that you’re too fucking stupid to have any useful purpose on the planet, so please eat shit, fuck off, die horribly and painfully, and never visit my sites again. Is there anything vague or ambiguous in that opinion or my instructions?)

The argument that opening our borders to these people is so ludicrously full of logical and factual holes that it defies belief that anyone can actually say it with a straight face. Talk to anyone who’s actually had to apply for entry into this country and see how many months of interviews, security reviews, and background checks they have to endure to get into the country. The bullshit term “extreme vetting” describes something that we’ve been doing for decades already – to imply that we’ve been slacking and now we need to really get serious is to show an astonishing level of ignorance.

So The Trumpencritter uses the Syrian gas attack as an excuse to throw nearly $100M in cruise missiles into an empty airfield, which no doubt got him all hot and bothered and convinced that he’s one powerful and important dude, but accomplished NOTHING to actually improve the situation for anyone, especially the United States.

We did it all because of the poor victims, young children, mothers, grandparents, all of whom died a horrible death – but we’re not going to let any of those survivors in because there’s a one in a billion chance that after months of vetting they might pay us back by become a terrorist.

If there’s a hell, I hope that those pushing this policy spend eternity there and know the whole time WHY they’re in hell for all of eternity. Unfortunately, I’m an atheist, so I would really like to find a way to punish these assholes here and now in this life. As much and as often as possible, so they can serve as an example to the next narrow minded, bigoted, xenophobic, racist piece of shit who wants to run for Congress.

I’ve asked before, I’ll probably ask again…

What’s the betting line on which Trump is indicted first? Jailed first? What’s the over/under on how long The Trumpencritter himself stays in office before exiting? How do the odds of impeachment stack up against the odds of his quitting against the odds of a massive coronary as he waddles that Depends-covered ass around the golf course for the next long weekend?

I’m going with the last one, personally. Those twenty-hour work weeks must be a living hell, even with the “stamina” that he boasts of.

It’s been pointed out that a well-read person knows that “Frankenstein” was the name of the doctor, not the name of The Monster. A wise person knows that “Frankenstein” was indeed the name of the monster.

We have our own Monster roaming around, a monkey with a machine gun. There were many hands involved in creating The Monster – Putin, the GOP, the Tea Party, Faux News, the lazy mainstream media, a big chunk of the American voters…

I’m sure that each and every one of them was sure that THEY would be able to control The Monster once they were successful in seating it in the highest position of power in the world.

I wonder how many of them still think that. I wonder how many are either working themselves up to a furious boil or are recoiling in shocked horror at what they’ve done.

I wonder what Putin will do once he realizes that in his effort to influence the US elections he managed only to put a madman and his evil sycophant cronies in charge. If he thinks that it will fracture the United States and destroy our government and our society, then: a) he’s wrong, and; b) if he’s somehow right, he’ll find that the fire he starts here will sweep across the entire globe.

His country, his oligarchies, his billions of rubles won’t be worth the paper they’re printed on. His people will starve as they descend into the New Stone Age along with the rest of us as the global economy collapses. His children will die along with everyone else’s when there’s no more medical care and plagues sweep the world. All the offshore accounts and gold bullion in the world will be worthless when there’s nothing to buy.

But at least before it happens, we’ll get to see the infamous blackmail pee recording with The Monster and his prostitute golden showers.