Author: momdude

It was true in 1992 when Bill Clinton was running, and it’s just as true now. But here’s a bigger problem. Not only do the clowns in charge, particularly in the White House, not know much about actually having policies and thinking them through and being responsible, but they know even less about the actual nuts and bolts workings of the government.

Billionaires. Wall Street tycoons. One stuffed suit after another who haven’t been in a grocery store in decades, if ever. Egomaniacs who haven’t pumped their own gas since the Arab oil embargo in the early 1970’s, if even then. Ignorant yahoos who wouldn’t be caught dead in a less-than-four-stars restaurant, let alone grabbing a burger and fries at Mickey Dee’s.

(Anyone want to take a bet that 90%+ of the top people in the Trump regime wouldn’t know what “Mickey Dee’s” is if you used the name?)

But these are the guys driving the ship of state now, without a clue about how it works. And the wheels of the government (and reality) grind on, regardless of whether or not anyone sane or competent is at the tiller.

Remember the debt ceiling? Remember how every time the Obama administration needed to raise it it was just short of an all-out shooting war in Congress to get the job done, and at least twice they didn’t. At least twice that I remember, the government just shut down all but critically essential services because it had no money and no legal authority to borrow.

Guess what’s coming at us like a freight train?

Guess who’s now scrambling and trying to raise the debt ceiling without being seen to be responsible for raising the debt ceiling?

Guess which Cheeto-colored imbecile is clueless about what’s happening, what his job is, what the Congress’ job is, how dangerous this sort of bullshit can be if you don’t work with the other side to get it done. Go ahead, guess!

We put blind, mentally deficient, insane people in charge of our national government. This after years of putting similar people in charge of state governments has proven to be a universal catastrophe. (Hello, Kansas, I’m looking at you!)

Unless calmer, cooler, and more intelligent heads prevail and prevail quickly, we’re going to see the US economy crash into reality like the Hindenberg exploding into flames over New Jersey.

Pro tip: there aren’t any calmer, cooler, and more intelligent heads in Washington.

So Michael Flynn “has a story to tell, and he very much wants to tell it, should the circumstances permit.” (Emphasis added.)

Those “circumstances” would involve immunity from prosecution since he’s decided to be the first rat deserting this sinking ship. Rather than have the integrity and spine to take responsibility for his actions, he’s going to save his own pathetic hide and tell us who else in the Trump Administration was committing treason.

What a guy!

Do you remember during the campaign when he stood up there at the podium screaming “Lock her up!” at the top of his lungs?

Do you remember when he went on Faux News and said that anyone asking for immunity must almost certainly be guilty of a crime?

Except for when it’s your pink, puckered ass that’s headed toward Leavenworth, apparently. Different rules then!

Anyone want to be that after proving he has even less integrity than he has actual patriotism or intelligence, he ends up making a million dollars a year as a Faux News “expert” or “consultant”?

I know – sucker bet.

I hope they hold a cell open for him at Leavenworth, just in case.

There are many things that appear to be “the worst part” of having the Trumpencritter as SCROTUS, and there’s no doubt they all are, but today’s worst thing is how having this ignorant turd in office along with his motley crew of fanatical sycophants all trying as hard as possible to drag our country back to the 50’s (that would be the 1650’s) just leaves you constantly on edge, worn out, and twitchy.

That in turn makes it that much harder to endure a really shitty day when one rolls around. Instead of just being another really shitty day with lots of stress and pressure, everything is that much more frantic, that much more high pressure, that much more grating and intense.

Even when the really shitty day passes, you still have that constant background buzz of terrified anticipation, wondering when the next outrage will get triggered by some attack on the very bases of our government. You can go weeks without a day of rest.

Thanks, Trump!

I’m thinking about Las Vegas tonight with the Raiders moving there (stupid, stupid, stupid) and the question popped into my head:

Do the Vegas bookies have a line on which Trump staffer or Cabinet member will be indicted first? Convicted? Jailed?

Anything on SCROTUS himself? Impeachment? The over and under on the vote to boot his ass out of the White House?

If for some bizarre reason Vegas can’t take those bets, can I make them in London? Moscow?

And where can I find out what those odds are?

The White House has announced that SCROTUS son-in-law Jared Kushner will be heading up a newly created government agency which not only will have “sweeping authority to overhaul the federal bureaucracy and fulfill key campaign promises ― such as reforming care for veterans and fighting opioid addiction,” but in their spare time will be “modernizing the technology and data infrastructure of every federal department and agency; remodeling workforce-training programs; and developing ‘transformative projects’ under the banner of Trump’s $1 trillion infrastructure plan, such as providing broadband internet service to every American.”

Well, it beats picking lint out of his navel.

I’m confused about one little thing.

Since Kushner has even less government or business experience than the Conman-In-Chief and has about 0.000000000000% of ever doing ANY of those things described (and yes, I do know about significant digits, thanks!), what is the difference between this and Sadaam Hussein putting all of his kids and relatives in charge of government departments, and Kim Il-sung doing the same, and Putin, and Amin, and Mugabe, and Assad, and well you get the point.

I’ll wait here patiently for the answer.

I expect an intelligent and honest and rational answer to have even lower odds of existence than Kushner’s success in that new job.

As I asked yesterday, “What’s Next, Donny Baby?”

You knew the answer to that wouldn’t be good, right?

As we speak, the raving lunatics, Wall Street insiders, and multiple billionaires who truly don’t give a second thought to how many people they fuck over or kill if it will get them an extra dollar, they’re all working on their next assault on 200 years of progress.

The proposed new head of the Securities and Exchange Commission is Jay Clayton, a lawyer representing Goldman Sachs who has made his entire career out of fighting and battling against the SEC, trying to bend, break, or ignore every conceivable regulation. The SEC is supposed to be the watchdog over Wall Street to prevent companies like Goldman Sachs – again, the Trumpencritter is trying to put another insider fox in charge of their particular hen house.

On behalf of the energy and oil companies that have contributed tens of millions of dollars to his campaign, on behalf of the members of his Cabinet (such as his Secretary of State, the former CEO Of Exxon-Mobil), and in complete disregard for the hundreds of millions of Americans who are fond of breathing and not getting lung cancer, Trump is going to start using Executive Orders to dismantle the “Clean Power Plan.” The fact that it will also make climate change WORSE is just the icing on the cake for these douchebags.

They’re going to ram their Supreme Court nominee down our throats, no matter how bad and despicable he might be.

They’re going to start trying to “change” and “update” the tax code. Any guesses as to who will get billions of dollars in tax cuts and who will get billions of dollars in tax increases?

Two questions, and I’m serious, to anyone reading this who actually believed Trump when he promised to “drain the swamp” and fight for the average American, the people (particularly rural, white, males) who were feeling disadvantaged by all of that stinkin’ prosperity that the Obama Administration had stuck us with:

“Did you really believe his bullshit?”

“How on Earth can you still believe his bullshit?”

Now you’ve had a day to think about how publicly & miserably you fucked up – what’s your next stupid and egomaniacally-based move?

A seventh golfing trip in ten weeks at $3M a pop? Yeah, THAT will convince everyone that you’re fiscally responsible!

What, you’re going to blame everyone except yourself and then try to line your own pockets by fucking over 100,000,000+ Americans and breaking every promise you ever made about “tax reform”? You think you can con and lie and bullshit and distract your way through that?

News bulletin – we may have caught on to that act.

Let’s see what SNL has to say tonight…

So poor, poor Trump and his pet wanna-be wonk Ryan got their asses handed to the today. Obamacare is and continues to be the law of the land.

WONDERFUL!

Let’s not forget that a key reason it failed was because so many Republicans wouldn’t support it because it didn’t fuck over enough people badly enough.

We have won the day, but not the war. These cockroaches will be back.

As we watch the GOP and the Tea Party argue over how to best control the monster that they created and put into the White House, I have a radical new concept to propose for anyone remaining in the GOP with two brain cells to rub together and the common sense God gave a kitten.

Yes, I’m assuming that there must be at least one. You have to start somewhere.

So here it is – instead of fighting and destroying the country over whether or not you want to take away insurance from 24,000,000 Americans or whether or not to take insurance away from 30,000,000 Americans, how about you start fighting over whether you want to give insurance to 24,000,000 more Americans, or only to 2,400,000 Americans.

In other words, stop trying to see who can cause more pain and hurt more Americans and be the biggest flaming asshole.

We get it! You’re all deep in the pockets of corporate America and the 0.1% and the billionaires and the Russian oligarchs and they yell “shit!” and you squat and ask, “What color?” We’ll give you full credit for that!

Maybe that’s not a good thing? Maybe, sort of like Darth Vader at the end when the Emperor is trying to kill Luke, maybe deep down inside there’s still a tiny little spark of “good” that remembers the other 99.9% of Americans that they’re actually supposed to be helping?

Maybe?

Remember “good”?

Anyone?

It’s such a smorgasbord of evil and corruption it’s hard to figure where to even start!

Multiple intelligence agencies are now reporting “non circumstantial” evidence that high members of the Trump campaign were in contact with Russian agents prior to the election. These weren’t just casual calls or placing bets with their Russian bookies. They were handing over information and giving instructions TO THE FUCKING RUSSIANS on how to torpedo the Clinton campaign.

Trump keeps repeating the disproved lie that Obama had him wiretapped. Instead, reality seems to be showing that our intelligence agencies were legally wiretapping Russian agents and were surprised to find that Trump advisers and high-level campaign managers were talking to these bad guys.

When this shit started to hit the fan, today the head of the House intelligence committee, instead of protecting this sensitive and critical information, went straight to the White House and gave them the inside information. This is the #1 guy who’s supposed to be investigating and prosecuting those in the government who are breaking the law. Instead, he went and gave them a huge heads-up about what the evidence against them was.

As a side note, if the local DA has a huge, huge case, say, against a group accused of ISIS ties and terrorist intent, and before they can be charged or arrested he goes running to them and tells them what’s going on, what would they call that? If it’s a national security matter, I think the term is “high treason.” What does the Constitution say about that?

Remember the Constitution?

This is a song about the Constitution…

But while that’s happening, the only marginally evil bastard that President Bannon and his Trumpuppet put up for the Supreme Court, Neil Gorsuch, is being voted on later this week. But today the Supreme Court overturned a case which was based on one of his rulings, regarding educational requirements for special needs students. The decision was unanimous, 8-0, which means that even Clarence Thomas, Satan’s sidekick himself, thinks that Gorsuch was wrong.

When Thomas thinks your legal opinions are full of shit and votes for a more liberal and humane interpretation, you must really be a piece of work!

But all of this might not even be the best of it. They’re supposed to vote on the new, Republican-proposed “American Health Care Act.” It’s called that despite the fact that it’s un-American as hell, will destroy people’s health, doesn’t care about anyone at all except billionaires, and only acts like it’s not going to fuck over everyone who makes less than $500,000 a year.

But the hard-right Republicans are voting against it – BECAUSE IT’S NOT EVIL AND DAMAGING ENOUGH. They’re out there right now negotiating to add in provisions that make it even more painful for 99% of Americans.

Let’s cut straight to the chase:

How bad will it have to get before we start: A) Removing them from office, and; B) Putting their asses in jail for treason, bribery, obstruction of justice, racketeering, and probably a hundred other crimes that will come out in the wash if we ever stop ignoring this mess we’ve gotten ourselves dragged into?