Month: February 2022
Parents Organize To Fight Back Against GOP’s Classroom Culture War
Trump adviser called out TO HIS FACE over election theft scheme
Michael Smerconish: Voter suppression may not be reason Democrats lose midterms
‘Water closet-gate’: Acosta pokes fun at Trump for reportedly flushing documents
GOP Senate candidate runs ad featuring armed ‘showdown’ with Dems
Daily cartoon / meme roundup: Republicans & the wealthy rigged the economy and now they are rigging the elections for the same reasons, to give themselves more wealth and power
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Scottie’s word today
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Rigged economy sold as ‘trickle down’.
The ‘do as you’re told’, ‘comply or die’, ‘only mobsters take the fifth’, ‘law & order’ bad faith cult.
Being a complete idiot would get you fired from most jobs. Republicans elect them.
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Misleading right wing media cartoons / memes
Oh Klem. Do you not understand the difference between a right and a freedom? The Pettus Bridge marchers were seeking to exercise their voting “rights” as granted in the Constitution. Truckers, or for that matter, anyone operating on public highways, are exercising a privilege that comes with defined conditions and restrictions. They have the freedom to choose whether they want to cross the border, and comply with the conditions, or take local gigs only. And all this over a freakin” vaccine when the truckers have MANDATORY medical exams as conditions for their licenses. Remember the way the Selma to Montgomery marchers disrupted the supply chain and threw thousands of people out of work? Remember the swastika flags? The open expressions of anti-Semtisim? Remember the calls to overthrow the government? Remember? ‘Cause I don’t.
Yes as the science changes so does the government advice. Normal and acceptable. Anything else is propaganda by those who deny science and want to promote confusion and dissent.
Right wing cartoon sites I have commented on today.
https://comicskingdom.com/lee-judge/
https://comicskingdom.com/lee-judge/2022-02-12/ again
https://comicskingdom.com/darrin-bell/ I expect a bunch of crap on this one, don’t expect it will survive Republican snowflake outrage.
https://comicskingdom.com/mike-smith/
https://comicskingdom.com/lee-judge/2022-02-12/ Again
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And now some for fun
Again hurrying to spend time with my family a comment is blocked.
Our son is home and we are having time with him, yet I need to finish up the Roundup. This came up. So I tried to repost the comment removed and it has gone crazy. You decide if my comment was out of line.
this is the comment I was responding to.
and yet this is the highest paid govt ‘servant’ that should be able to thus clearly state to the public what advice he imparts. The fact that his advice changes so often is not helpful nor is it helpful to find he provided funding and other aid to the Chinese to develop the virus.
He is assuredly ingenious and has made himself worth more than $10 million.
He advised Trump on how the virus would evaporate and then turned on a dime when it did not. Trump and the public are not used to advisors who can twist so violently and then at as if the new proclamations were always what he claimed.
So my response which has been deleted.
Dr Fauci gives his advice based on the current situation as it is, as the data shows at the current time. The situation / data changes. It would be silly to think the advice would stay the same, never changing when everything else changes all the time. The protection his advice gives wouldn’t be much use if he gave information based on what was known 2 years ago and never updated it.
The conspiracy fueled by misleading right wing media and used by Rand Paul to fund raise aside, the evidence is clear that the grant money funded to the lab in Wuhan was never used for gain of function.
Dr Fauci has invested his hard earned salary well, wrote books, and does speaking engagements. Are you trying to infer something wrong with his finances?
Your nuts if you think Dr. Fauci was saying the virus would just disappear. That was what tRump was spouting to try to keep himself looking better than the markets from reacting badly. Talk about projection. tRump went on TV and tried to deny and minimize Covid at the same time the CDC and NIH were saying how bad it could get and dangerous it was. Reports from other countries were coming in. But tRump had all sorts of nonsense theories that it would be gone by April, it was 15 and then would soon be zero and so on.
Again I never understood the obsession with a public servant that the right has with Dr. Fauci. I guess it is because he is smart, well accomplished, well educated, knows what he is talking about, cares about the public instead of himself, and doesn’t lie or act like an sycophantic jerk. He cannot be bribed nor frightened away. Yup that is why they hate him so, he corrected their deity tRump and showed what a moron loser tRump was. Sorry Den, facts matter and in this case, you don’t have them on your side.
Yet I cannot seem to win against the authority of the system. Is there any doubt that the US is being pushed to what the Russians want?
FedEx driver is on unpaid leave after being shot at by 2 white men
Rand Paul: I Hope Truckers “Clog Up” US Cities
The Louisville Courier-Journal reports:
In an interview Thursday with the Daily Signal, a conservative media site, the U.S. senator from Kentucky said “it’d be great” if the protests spread to Washington, D.C., when asked about his thoughts on the protests and how the nation’s capital would react if they spread south across the border.
“The thing is, it wouldn’t shut the city down because the government workers haven’t come to work in two years anyway, so I don’t know if it’d affect D.C.,” Paul joked. “It’d be nice change. We’d actually have some traffic.”
“I hope the truckers do come to America, and I hope they clog up cities,” Paul said. “We’re seeing a break in the dam now. Several Democratic governors are finally sort of relinquishing. What they’re finding is moms and dads are upset about this, they’re not just Republicans. Everybody is upset about this.”
Read the full article.
Remember Rand Paul has large investments in medical companies that produce treatments for covid. it is to his benefit to keep people getting sick and needing medical help / treatment for Covid. So why do what is right when he can stuff his pockets with money from the suffering of the people.
Scottie's Playtime 
What we are witnessing is PRICE GOUGING, NOT INFLATION.
INFLATION is when business owners raise prices commensurate with higher costs to make ends meet.
But when corporations are reporting record all-time profits, raising prices is NOT INFLATION, it is PRICE GOUGING to capitalize on supply chain disruptions caused by a national emergency.
McDonald’s profits soared 59% in 2021, to $7.5 billion.
ExxonMobil reported a $8.9 billion in profits in the FOURTH QUARTER ALONE, while it was jacking up prices to new records.
Numerous other companies jacked up prices while raking in record profits in 2021.
Donald Trump crashed the economy, destroyed the supply chain, blew up international trade relations by imposing ridiculous tariffs that hurt farmers and consumers, mishandled a pandemic that exploded into a worldwide economic crisis and now as Biden is putting people back, restoring consumer confidence, which stimulates demand, but the devastation wrought by Trump on the supply chain is taking longer to undo, especially as anti-science right wing nut jobs continue to undermine recovery from the Trump plague.
If there were a hurricane, tornado, flood or wildfire and vendors were charging $20 for a bottle of water, they would be arrested. We need to see some of the corporate heads who have tripled their profits on the backs of consumers being frog-marched into the Big House.