Blatant disrespect and other ramblings

I think I said something about staying on topic with each blog post.  I feel like I need to say a few things though, and I'll start with the unbelievable disrespect the right has shown for President Obama for 8 years.  Obama is a constitutional scholar and he is a good a human being as we've ever had for a president.  He leads the right way--by walking softly and carrying a big stick (thanks Teddy).  He tries to please everyone--to a fault, because all Republicans did was thumb their noses at him.  Obama faced more obstruction than any president in history.  And yet he still saved the auto industry, was able to get the ACA passed in order to get more people than ever on health insurance, he killed Bin Laden when Bush could care less, and he tried like hell to pass jobs/infrastructure bills.  The GOP blocked everything either in the House or in the Senate by filibuster even when the Dems had a majority there.  He spearheaded getting the Iranians to stop making nuclear weapons, and meanwhile Republicans are against that deal because they like sanctions better (and let's face it, because they want to go to war there to grab more oil).  Most importantly perhaps is that he acted to increase our use of renewable energy to try to reverse climate change.  All of it and people just still shit on the guy.  The one thing that really ticks me off the most though, is that they keep saying he's a weak leader.  The GOP wants a leader like Vladimir Putin, or Trump--bullies who are just alpha males.  To them, alpha males make better leaders, despite the fact that ultra right wing policies are extremely dangerous to us all.

So Donald Trump has taken just a few of his intelligence briefings.  You'd think that you would want to know who is plotting to terrorize us next or trying to influence our elections (ha), but the fact that he has time to spew shit on Twitter but not for those things scares the piss out of me.  I'm still of the camp that thinks and knows that 9/11 was preventable.  Not only did Bill Clinton warn George W. Bush about the fact Bin Laden wanted to strike in the U.S., but Bush infamously ignored his August 6, 2001 intelligence briefing that re-iterated just that.  Five weeks later our country was changed forever, and we lost 3000 American lives.  Then when W and Cheney lied us into two wars, we lost and continue to lose more, to the tune of 4500 more lives plus another 30K+ wounded.  Not than any lives are more precious than others, but we've grilled Hillary up and down for almost 5 years about Benghazi where four Americans were killed.  Why are we not investigating Bush and Cheney for lying to us and wasting all of those lives and money?  Well, in part because Obama was too nice.  But that's another story.  But the bottom line is a president that is ignoring warnings makes us more at risk than ever.

I'm sick and tired of the same old GOP policy of trickle down.  We have a recent example of how this doesn't work, in Kansas where Governor Brownback slashed taxes to almost nothing and expected prosperity overnight by then also cutting social programs.  Kansas is a financial mess right now and yet this moron wants Trump to employ his ridiculous strategy nationwide.  Let's also remember that this policy leads to market crashes (see Reagan 1987 and Bush 2008).  States like Kansas and here in Wisconsin with extreme right governors, all they do is slash corporate taxes and give taxpayer money to corporations who then re-purpose that money to CEOs and stockholders while moving operations overseas.  All of that leads to more wealth inequality which only leads to undermining democracy more every day.

Kellyanne Conway, just shut the fuck up already.  We are not going to respect your boss just because you or he say he deserves it.  Not only has Obama been disrespected to enormous lengths, Trump's values and actions and what he says only reinforces what those of us who know better think--that he's a horrible human being who should be nowhere near the White House.

And I'm sick and tired of Trump supporters making comments like "I am enjoying my cup of liberal tears....you lost, get over it!"....yes we lost, in large part because your party prevented large swaths of Democrats from voting.  Also because of James Comey's timely work, and because of Russian hacking in order to hand your guy the White House.  And let's also remember that Trump finished 3 million votes behind Hillary, so this was no fucking landslide in his direction.  Fine, if these are tears, they are real tears not because our candidate lost, but because the one who won is so dangerous that we are legitimately fearing for the future of our country and of the world.  So enjoy those tears, and I hope that you choke on them just enough to need medical care when you need it most and after your party has taken that care away from you.  And to you Trump supporters, give me a policy you like other than "he's better than Hillary or Obama!"  I don't think you can.  So enough already, but prove me wrong and I will happily admit that here in a few years if we are all still on the planet.

Hypocrisy and Extremity

Republicans are hypocrites.  Big fat giant hypocrites.

I'm going to try reining in my desire to go off on rants and just focus on one or two topics at a time.  But let's be real here--Republicans feel like they have the keys to the candy store, and they don't give a shit that they're about to inflict pain on any Americans that are not wealthy and/or extreme and powerful GOP players.

You want hypocrisy?  President-elect Donald Trump, and Michael Flynn, the incoming National Security Advisor, think Hilary Clinton should be in jail because she had a private e-mail server and because she was accused of leaking classified information.  Meanwhile, Flynn had a private e-mail server when he worked at the Pentagon as chief of the Defense Intelligence Agency.  And Trump considered David Petraeus for Secretary of State.  This one's a beauty, because this was Hilary's position from which she is accused but not found guilty of, you know, e-mails.  But Petraeus actually gave classified info to his former mistress and hid it in the walls of his house.  He pled guilty to this and was convicted.  So why is it okay to have an actual criminal in that position but not one that was proven innocent (I'm not defending her completely, but I'm just pointing out the sheer hubris of the Republicans).

We find out that Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell wanted the classified info about the Russians hacking the election stay classified, and lookie here....his wife Elaine Chao was given a cabinet position by Trump.  Meanwhile, the whole thing about Russian hacking to help Trump get elected is utterly terrifying.  If that was something done to help Hilary, those two-faced bastards of the GOP would be all over her.

Speaking of which, Jason Chaffetz, head of the House oversight committee, had planned on more and more investigations into Hilary had she been elected, but is in no rush to investigate Trump for all of his ridiculous and blatant conflicts of interest, because he hadn't even been inaugurated yet.  Really? But would he give Hilary that same courtesy?  Absolutely not.

With every cabinet pick, I become more and more terrified.  But the one that is Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson being the pick for Secretary of State is the worst by far.  He and Vladimir Putin are tight, just like the hilarious SNL skit last night portrayed (yes, Donald, it's fucking hilarious).  Between that and all of the pro-fracking, pro-oil, anti-clean energy extremist picks in the incoming cabinet, spells trouble for climate change research and let's be honest and just a little hyperbolic here--speeding up the end of the world as we know it.  That's not to say of course that having a dumbass in charge of our country doesn't spell doom in any other number of ways, but this is just way over the top.  Oh and having The Weather Channel's Kait Parker debunk a Breitbart story about the earth not warming is extremely therapeutic.

Every pick for that cabinet or everyone being considered are all extreme right wingers.  Are you people that voted for Trump okay with that as well as everything I just wrote about here?  Or are you starting to worry as well?