My Snarky Snippets Bucket Overflows

Posted on by under Bits 'n Pieces, Election 2024, Political commentary, Racism & Bigotry, Social commentary

You probably expect me to comment on the Iowa caucuses last night, but you’re in for a surprise.  The only thing I have to say is that there was no surprise, and that the Iowa caucuses are the least democratic of the entire election process.  If you are disabled, have health problems, don’t drive, work nights, or cannot find a babysitter, then you don’t get a vote.  No ballot boxes, no online or mail voting, no early voting … you either show up by 7:00 to register and fill out your ballot, or you have no vote.  In addition to being unfair and biased, they are pretty much meaningless except to stroke egos – the last three primary elections were lost by the winner of the Iowa caucuses that year.  And contrary to what he claims, Trump did NOT win in the 2016 Iowa caucus – Ted Cruz did.

Now, on to things that actually matter …

More than eight million children will be left out of a new federal food assistance program for needy families this summer because they live in one of the 15 states, all led by Republican governors, that refuse to participate.  Why are those 15 governors turning down federal funds that would help feed hungry children?  Here are a few of their excuses …

  • Mississippi governor, Tate Reeves, says that he rejects “attempts to expand the welfare state.”
  • Nebraska governor, Jim Pillen, said “I don’t believe in welfare.”
  • Iowa governor, Kim Reynolds, claims “an E.B.T. card does nothing to promote nutrition at a time when childhood obesity has become an epidemic.”

Our very own Marie Antoinette who famously did not actually say, “Let them eat cake”.  I would really like to see these governors live for one month on naught but a minimum wage paycheck!

Republicans really don’t like D.E.I. – Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.  Just in the last few days, Fox host Jeanine Pirro said that DEI is “just a rebranded version of hating white people, hating people who are part of this country, part of the West.”  Worse yet, another Fox persona, Laura Ingraham, claims that DEI is responsible for the recent Boeing plane incident … “Boeing recently bragged, not about being the best in the business, but about surpassing its diversity quotas with 92% of interviewees they say being diverse. Oh, goody. But then, not so good, a door flying off of one of Boeing’s 737 Super Maxes.”  So, I guess she thinks Black or LGBTQ people can’t build planes as well as white people?  And the worst of the lot is a group in Houston, Texas, holding up this sign on a highway overpass last Saturday …

Yesterday was Martin Luther King Day in the U.S., honouring the late Dr. King, a man who preached nonviolence, brotherhood, and resilience, and who sought to extend the most noble elements of this nation’s rights and protections to those from whom it had been long unjustly and brutally withheld. Meanwhile, down in North Carolina, a Republican candidate for governor in that state spoke his mind, such as it is, saying that Martin Luther King Jr. was just an “ersatz pastor” and a “communist,” and the 1960s civil rights movement was “crap.”  This is candidate Mark Robinson …

Any questions?  I wonder if he realizes that without the Civil Rights movement, he probably never would have come as far as he has, that Jim Crow would still be alive and well, and that he’d still be relegated to the back of the bus?

Apparently in Trumpworld, free speech means “freedom of speech for me, not for thee.”  Donald Trump went batshit crazy because “Fox and Friends” had the unmitigated gall to interview the three remaining competitors for the Republican nomination.  I knew he had never read the U.S. Constitution, but surely somewhere along the line he has heard of “freedom of the press”?  Or perhaps he thinks he is now Rupert Murdoch and owns Fox?  Who knows how his mind works, but that’s yet another sign of his dementia in my view.

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53 thoughts on “My Snarky Snippets Bucket Overflows”

  1. wow, the amount of racism in these comments is astounding. and youpeople talk about wanting everyone to get along but yet you disparage white people? Whatever. This is typical though.

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    • Scott … I just went back and re-read every comment and I do not see a single racist comment here. I think you’re looking for bogeymen behind every tree and letting your imagination run wild. Calm down.

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  4. This country is going to the (mad) dogs so “rabidly” that it will be too late to stop the death spiral if Trump becomes President again. This is as obviously inevitable to me as the proverbial death and taxes, but even Trump can’t evade death, which probably won’t come in time to save the country.

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    • You are so right, my friend. I cannot understand how so many people can be so blind/ignorant as to be willing to support a ‘man’ who is obviously an egomaniac and who is facing 91 felony charges!!! It’s madness, I tell you! More than a few times I have thought that the best possible outcome at this point would be his death … preferably due to natural causes, like too many Big Macs clogging his arteries … but even then, the maga crowd would no doubt concoct conspiracy theories to claim that somehow President Biden had him murdered!

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      • There are those who might, in good conscience, hold that murdering even so evil a man as Trump is immoral, but there is such a thing as the GREATER good. Consider the suffering and loss of hundreds of thousands of lives not spared because the plot and attempt to kill Hitler a year before the end of WWII did not succeed. Is Trump, IN HIS OWN WAY, as dangerous as Hitler?

        Think hard before you answer, people.

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        • I thought hard … have thought of this more than a few times … but I cannot draw a conclusion. Yes, I believe that Trump has the capacity for great evil and that he could be just as bad as Hitler, that thousands or even millions could die under his regime if he destroys the safeguards as he has said he will do. And yet … I still stop short of being able to justify killing him. I would not be at all saddened, however, if he choked to death on his Big Mac one day soon.

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    • Best part of his post..

      Iowa’s Republican caucusgoers don’t reflect the American electorate.

      Per ABC News,

      White voters account for 97% of Iowa caucusgoers.
      Evangelical white Christians account for 51% of caucusgoers.
      66% said they don’t think President Joe Biden legitimately won in 2020.
      58% of GOP caucusgoers say they’d favor a federal law banning all or most abortion.
      63% of caucusgoers say they consider Trump fit for office even if he is convicted.
      The American electorate does not look like Iowa caucusgoers. For example, per NPR (in 2021), white evangelicals represent 14% of the US population (compared to 50% of caucusgoers in Iowa).

      Similarly, 61% of Americans are white, compared to 97% of Iowa caucusgoers.

      And 36% of Americans believe Joe Biden’s election in 2020 was not legitimate, compared to 66% of Iowa caucusgoers.

      The point is obvious: Exercise caution when attempting to extrapolate Trump’s victory based on a skewed sample of Iowans who attended the low-turnout caucus on Monday.

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      • I’d noticed the same about Iowa’s demographics yesterday on my own after reading a reporter’s comment about Iowa’s ‘diversity’. Then, reading Iowa chose Cruz in 2016 brought a delighted chortle out of me. Iowa does not represent America, nor does America goes as Iowa goes. That’s all just lazy reporting. Thanks for sharing the info. Cheers

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    • Yes, I did! I was pleased with his analysis of Trump’s “win” in Iowa, and also pleased to see him call out Mike Johnson and House Republicans on their obvious use of border policy as a political football!

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  7. “I would really like to see these governors live for one month on naught but a minimum wage paycheck!”
    What I would like to see is them living in a homeless encampment for… They wouldn’t last a day!

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  8. Jill, what occurs on Fox and Friends has little relevance to me. The same goes for other shows on the network with internal emails that appeared in their two defamation trials indicating they purposefully gaslit their viewers as they broadcast Donald Trump’s unproven and still unprovable bogus election claims. They are out $1.1 billion and counting with three more defamation cases pending.

    Fox has shown news is secondary to ratings. As for Fox and Friends and their on air personalities, news is even lower down the totem pole. Citing these sources is not helpful to any reasonable debate. Keith

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    • Agreed, and I don’t often pay attention to them, but … they have a far-too-large audience who DOES listen to what they say, so when I hear such ignorant statements being spewed, I can’t help wanting to reach through the screen and smack them!

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  9. Thank you for sharing!!.. I rarely listen to the debates, etc. as they are just telling a percentage of voters what they wish to hear, “It’s a saying they have, that a man has a false heart in his mouth for the world to see, another in his breast to show to his special friends and his family, and the real one, the true one, the secret one, which is never known to anyone except to himself alone…” (James Clavell), but I use today’s technology to do research and the reality of their way of thinking, not the “smoke and mirrors” they use in an attempt to sway the people… 🙂

    Have a wonderful day, every day, life is all that you wish for it to be and until we meet again..
    May love and laughter light your days,
    and warm your heart and home.
    May peace and plenty bless your world
    with joy that long endures.
    May all life’s passing seasons
    bring the best to you and yours!
    (Irish Saying)

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    • Last night was meaningless … all for show. It was a given that Trump would get the most voters, and the other two would fall somewhere lower, but Iowa isn’t a swing state, isn’t a highly populous state, isn’t a diverse state, and literally does not represent the majority in this nation, so it’s a waste of time in my book! I’m sickened and disgusted, though, at hearing some of the people who were interviewed gush praise on the turdhead!!! 🤮

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  11. America IS white, Wikipedia claims that 77% of America’s population is white. So what are they whining about. And, it has NOT always been white, has it? The brown ones where there first … until the white man came and brought measles, syphilis and other niceties, apart from the massacres.

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    • Well, that’s true, but … a couple of things. Statisticians are predicting that in the next decade or so, whites will become a minority, which is why the racists among them (note, I’m not saying ALL whites are racist) are up in arms trying to stop immigration and reverse civil rights and voting rights and more. Second, for that bunch it isn’t just about skin colour but about “status”. They don’t mind Blacks, so long as they “know their place”, and don’t try to … oh, sit at the same lunch counter, vie for the same jobs, etc. And third, it isn’t just Blacks, but immigrants from Hispanic or Middle Eastern countries, and Asians, all of whom come here willing to work hard and even do the jobs the uppity whites think they are too good to do.

      And to your other point, you are exactly right! This nation was once inhabited by the Indigenous People until white people came from Europe and along with bringing diseases as you mention, they literally committed genocide, stole their land & livestock, killed most and the ones they didn’t kill, they forced onto “reservations”. Our history is filled with shame, almost 100% of it done by the white people.

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  12. Thanks for the explanation on the Iowa ‘thing’ Jill.
    It would seem all the fanatics and cultists turned up to vote. As they always will. Hence why ‘Your’ vote is important.

    Normally I try to avoid going snarky ‘nuclear’ trying to balance a fine line but this guy Mark Robinson, with his list of hate posts and the rest….he got this comin’

    “Come, listen, all you girls and boys, I’m just from Tuckahoe;
    I’m going to sing a little song, My name’s Jim Crow.

    CHORUS:
    Wheel about, and turn about, and do just so;
    Every time I wheel about, I jump Jim Crow.”

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    • Iowa is but one of 50 states, and its populace among the … shall we say, lesser educated. And they always vote Republican, no matter who the candidate is, so it’s not particularly relevant at this point.

      You are spot on about Mark Robinson. He is, in my book, a traitor, not to mention a bloomin’ idiot. I never knew you were such a good songwriter, Roger!

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          • It has an interesting history, though White folk should approach it with caution.
            I wonder if in the African American community it gets used in an accusatory way?

            One of the classic stories I heard about Roots involved a sub plot where an older Kizzy is courted by another plantation owner’s coachman.
            The latter is allowed to take Kizzy out on a date using the coach. He is a tall handsome fellow with a courtly voice. He gets back late, his white master is furious with him and threatens to send him back to the cotton fields or sell him. The man cowers, pleads with The Massah, Kizzy is horrified.
            The actor playing the part warned the director he was only doing ONE take of the ‘servile pleading’ fellow.

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  13. Interesting fact out of Iowa. 34% of their college graduates leave the state upon graduation. I wonder how much of this hateful conduct toward children is inspired by their sense of the loss of their own children? Parenting is hard and expensive. They grow up, tell you they don’t want the farm and if you’re lucky there might be a grandkid with city problems to help when you get old. America, just one big unhappy dysfunctional family!😒
    If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you’ll be going, ‘you know, we’re alright. We are dang near royalty.’
    Jeff Foxworthy

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    • That kind of makes sense, though. Farming is hard work with little payback, and if you’ve just spent four years in college, it’s doubtful you’d want to go back and work on the farm 12-16 hours a day for about 10% of what you could earn elsewhere. And Iowa is far from what I would call a progressive or forward-thinking state.

      Never having been to a state fair, I can’t really say if Foxworthy is right, but I’ll take him at his word. Doesn’t sound like my kind of ‘entertainment’!

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