“Don’t tell me what you value. Show me your budget, and I’ll tell you what you value.” -Joe Biden, 2019 Among numerous other bits in the news recently, people are still debating the potential impact of the “election reforms” passed by the Republican government in Georgia. Defenders are telling cynics to “read what it actually … Continue reading If Pro Is The Opposite Of Con, What Is The Opposite Of Progress?
I’m not really in the mood to give Viceroy Trump a political obituary the way I did with Barack Obama. For one thing, The Trump Organization will not actually be dead until it is staked in the coffin, has its head chopped off, then has the coffin blasted to bits in a sealed room so … Continue reading The Final Fisking
Well. Let’s see who ELSE is up this late. Technically, this election is not over, because a lot of the urban areas in Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Georgia do not have all their votes in, but the problem is, Joe Biden is going to NEED those votes. At the very least, he’s going to need … Continue reading Current Events
So in the short term, we had Wednesday’s previously scheduled event where incumbent Vice President Mike Pence went against Democratic California Senator Kamala Harris in the only vice-presidential debate. As in, where you have to choose your favorite vice: socialism or theocracy? What, you don’t like either of those? You want more choices?? Tough. This … Continue reading The Debate Of Vice
Well now. What’s my reaction to Trump getting the ‘rona after telling us all it was the Democrats’ new hoax? I would first recommend reading David Frum’s column, reproduced from The Atlantic: “What Did You Expect?” That says it as well as anybody could. http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/what-did-you-expect/ar-BB19Edcu?ocid=ientp But in the meantime, it’s good to recall something Mitch … Continue reading Actions Have Consequences
So we have passed through the 2020 Democratic National Convention, or the first stage of bowel movements in the Taco Bell overload that is a presidential campaign season. These are some of my impressions: I seem to be in the minority, but I think the whole thing would have been better if Julia-Louis Dreyfus had … Continue reading The DNC
Ironically, Viceroy Donald Trump has something in common with Bill Maher, Stephen Colbert, and the other professional Trump-haters on late-night TV: Their jokes go flat without a live audience. And if you watch Colbert (and I’m not sure why I still do) you know he’s very vocal about wanting to get back in front of … Continue reading I Was In The Pool
(credit for title to Virginia Bauman on Twitter) Just a little over two weeks ago, September 21, I went on Facebook and posted a little tweet by Libertarian Party Chairman Nicholas Sarwark: “Nancy Pelosi is one of the most experienced House speakers of the last century. She’s only 70 votes short of an impeachment inquiry. … Continue reading Ukraine Clown Posse
“Fox News and Breitbart have done to our parents what they said video games and Marilyn Manson would do to us.” -Internet meme “It’s easy to fool people when they’re fooling themselves.” -Mysterio, Spider-Man: Far From Home The phrase “reality-based community” was, tellingly, first meant as a pejorative. During the George W. Bush Administration, journalist … Continue reading The Fantasy-Based Community
It is appropriate that on official Tax Day, I look over the legacy of Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives Paul Ryan, who this week announced he would not run for re-election. This links to Paul Ryan’s mostly consistent support for Donald Trump, since Trump as president was instrumental to Ryan’s long-term goals of … Continue reading Paulie Numbnuts and Liddle Donnie Clown Boy
The surreal part of living through the reign of King Donnie, First of His Name is that we have to ask ourselves civic questions that we really shouldn’t have to ask. Like: Can a president pardon himself for gross corruption involving Russian agents and criminals? And then in the wake of Charlottesville, there’s another question … Continue reading Are Nazis Bad?
I was thinking of doing a review of the Logan movie, but my friends didn’t want to see it on a crowded opening weekend, so for this week I’ll go back to political observations. Of course if you have a full-time job and only so much free time for an unofficial blog, you can’t really … Continue reading Here’s An Idea