Okay, folks … these are not snarky snippets … these are full-blown, out-and-out rants. I’m fed up with certain members of our government and …
I strongly object to corporate bailouts during this pandemic crisis. People who don’t have millions stashed in overseas accounts or investment portfolios ought to be the sole focus of any and all bailouts that use our tax dollars. Last month, numerous industries including the dying coal industry received stipends from our government, using our money, so that the CEOs wouldn’t have to dig into their own deep pockets. Now, the auto industry comes crying to us with their hands held out.
Auto sales are down. Duh … gee, really? There’s no place to go, so why buy a new car. Besides, nobody has money for non-essentials at the moment … we’re all trying to figure out how to pay the rent and buy food to feed our families, not how to afford a new overpriced Chevrolet. So, why is it our problem that the Big Three aren’t making money right now? We’ve got enough problems of our own without having to spend our money to put money in the pockets of rich dudes!
The argument is that massive losses could leave workers unemployed and stall any economic recovery. No, those automakers aren’t going to close their factories permanently just because they’re losing money now, and if we bail them out now so that their CEOs can still take their summer vacations, what happens then? Do they keep making more cars that they can’t sell? Shut the damn factories down until people can afford to and have a desire to buy cars, stupid! It isn’t rocket science!
And meanwhile, on the other side of town …
Democrats in Congress want to increase food stamps by 15% in an effort to help families who are running out of food. They claim that a similar move during the Great Recession reduced hunger and helped the economy. But, of course, the republicans would prefer to spend our money to bail out the auto industry, airlines, hotel industry and fossil fuel industry than to actually help people who need help.
Bah Humbug to you, too, Scrooge McConnell & Co.
The United States Postal Service (USPS) that Trump has refused to help out unless they raise their rates, which would hurt every single person in this nation, now has a new Postmaster General. The former Postmaster General, David Williams, resigned last week due to the meddling by Trump and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, that led to the loan Congress had already approved for the USPS being held up. The newly appointed Louis DeJoy is a North Carolina businessman who is currently in charge of fundraising for the Republican National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina. He just happens to be a top donor to Trump and the Republican National Committee. What a surprise, eh?
Trump’s ongoing feud with the USPS is largely tied to his hatred of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, who is also the owner of The Washington Post, a newspaper that calls Trump on his lies and pulls no punches when it comes to reporting on the madman at the helm of this ship. So, let me sum this up for you. Because Donald Trump is a lousy president, and certain media outlets call a spade a spade, hold his feet to the fire when he screws up (daily), and because one of those outlets is owned by a man who also owns a company that mails millions of packages to We the People via the USPS, Trump has installed a sycophant to raise postal rates which will cost us all. Amazon will pay more to ship our packages, and they will pass that cost right on to We the Consumer. This, friends, is not about the best interests of this nation, this is greed and revenge of the sorry excuse for a human being that resides at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Bah Humbug to you, Donald Trump and Steve Mnuchin, you greedy little weasel!
Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie … once given kudos by members of both parties and the people of New Jersey for his wise and humane responses to the devastation left behind by Hurricane Sandy in 2012, gets no kudos today! It seems that his view on the value of a human life has changed since he threw his lot in with Donald Trump.
In a recent interview with CNN’s Dana Bash, da Gov had this to say …
“Of course, everybody wants to save every life they can ― but the question is, towards what end, ultimately?”
To what end, indeed? To what end does the Secret Service continue to protect Donald Trump and his family? Why bother … just accept the inevitable.
And then … then he had the unmitigated gall to compare the coronavirus pandemic to World War II …
“We sacrificed those lives. We sent our young men during WWII over to Europe, out to the Pacific, knowing, knowing that many of them would not come home alive. And we decided to make that sacrifice because what we were standing up for was the American way of life. In the very same way now, we have to stand up for the American way of life.”
Not even close to an apples-to-apples comparison! More like a coconut-to-lasagne comparison. 
Bah Humbug to you, Bridgegate Christie!
Does everybody who comes into contact with Donald Trump just lose both their brains and their humanity? It sure seems like it. Okay, I’m done ranting for the moment … be thankful you don’t have to live with me!
sorry, but FUCK them all! So because we are old we aren’t worth the air we breathe? what sort of asshole thinks that way, much less says it? GAWD I am so SICK of those assholes! I seriously want to take advantage of my second amendment rights and buy a bazooka right now. You can simply imagine what i could do with said bazooka..and you’d probably be correct.
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I actually started to use that instead of ‘Bah Humbug’, but backed out at the last minute. Heh heh … somehow I have NO trouble picturing you with that bazooka, doing just what I’m imagining!
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If those telling people they need to suck it up and die for America were the first in line to offer their lives, well, I might feel differently….
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Exactly!!! But no, they are keeping safe in their ivory towers, condemning the rest of us to whatever fate has in store.
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the people that Trump puts in positions of power with no experience running such an operation is outrageous. and then they are beholden to him…
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Yep, and that is every single one of his cabinet picks. Betsy DeVos is in the news again, I see, making it harder for the victims of sexual abuse on campus. Sigh.
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It is odd how we never hear anything from Ben Carson…
I know a few of my friends were excited by his candidacy, but why he is not somehow involved with healthcare is beyond me…
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Ben Carson … oh yeah, the neurosurgeon turned boot-licker! He has zero qualifications for being over HUD, but … that was the whole point, I think. The token black man in charge of helping the poor with housing … except , it worked the opposite and most of my African-American friends refer to him as an ‘Uncle Tom’.
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and I don’t think I’ve heard a word from him on COVID-19. I would think he has to have some opinion about it…
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I just now went in search of, and found that ol’ Ben has actually had a bit to say. He says this virus (coronavirus) is like any other virus and should be treated like any other virus. He is actually a member of the now dismantled White House Coronavirus Task Force where in mid-April he said it was leveling off and would be ‘gone soon’. Three weeks later, and it is NOT leveling off! But the real kicker is he claims the economic crisis was ‘intentional’. He has apparently recovered well from his lobotomy!!!
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I was not aware of any of this (obviously!) I would have hoped with his medical background he would not have bought the party line so easily. I was not aware that the task force had been dismantled; I thought they were just talking about it…
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Perhaps it hasn’t been dismantled yet … I will look into it tomorrow, but Trump seemed determined that it was “no longer needed”, even though yesterdays deaths were over 1,200 in the U.S. Sigh.
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it’s still not under control…
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Not at all.
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Reblogged this on NANMYKEL.COM and commented:
Gov. Chris Christie:
“Of course, everybody wants to save every life they can ― but the question is, towards what end, ultimately?”
“To what end, indeed? To what end does the Secret Service continue to protect Donald Trump and his family? Why bother … just accept the inevitable.
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Thank you so much for the re-blog, dear Nan! I greatly appreciate it!
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I’ll be so glad if and when they can get that whole crew out of the White House and many of the Senators out with them. I’ll never forget when in the movie “Mars Attacks” when the alien destroys all the senators with a ray gun and the grandmother thoroughly enjoys it. Not even the alien liked them. 🙂 — Suzanne
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I will be glad, too, my friend. Not sure how much more of this we can take. Ahhhhh … a ray gun, eh? Why didn’t I think of that?
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All of America is now going officially insane, driven there by either worshipping the Donaldmeister, or by watching the Donaldmeister screw those who do not worship him. There is no in-between, or outsider.
The Dems had their chance when they decided to impeach him, but Pelosi was wrong to use the narrowest of charges. But that’s too late now. If the corona virus does not stop him, what will! I think we all know the answer. Why wait till November 3rd. Do It Now!
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I think you may be right. I certainly don’t feel completely sane these days … I no longer care about much of anything. House dirty? Oh well. Cook supper? Fix a piece of toast. Sigh. I agree that I would have liked to see Pelosi charge him with far more, for there were far worse crimes of which he was guilty. But, she went with what she thought stood the best chance, and I cannot fault her for that. And, I agree with your final conclusion. In light of recent events, I don’t see how we can wait ’til November 3rd, but … sigh …
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Loud as they were your rants weree all perfectly valid. I suppose Christie’s natural argument is that we don’t even treat the elderly now. Why bother.Save money, ave medicine, save time and just think of all of that lovely housing we free up.No talk of the middle aged Big Fat people born in 1962 suggesting sacrificing thermselves ffor those who fought in Vietnam for them or WWII.
Go lie down in a darkened room, I;m just warming up here.
Cwtch
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Loud? That was but a taste! Funny, isn’t it, that just after he said that, the Supreme Court threw out ALL the prior convictions of the Bridgegate scandal. Every bloomin’ last one of ’em.
Ah yes, we oldsters are such a drain on society that it would be far better for this and future generations if we just cooperated and died. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. I did lie down shortly thereafter in a darkened room and cried myself to sleep. Perhaps we oldsters with our ideas of caring, compassion and equality have outlived our usefulness in today’s money-grubbing world.
Cwtch
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And breathe. Then go and put your leaders face on a dart board and throw things at him.
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I tried breathing … deep breaths … and my fingernails turned blue! The dart board, though, is an excellent idea!!! xx
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Deep breaths, Jill, deep breaths.
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I took so many deep breaths my fingernails turned blue! Sigh. I’m trying to figure out how to keep these things from getting to me so much, but no luck so far.
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