It was going to be just another mildly Snarky Snippets piece, but suddenly I discovered I really felt a rant building up. And so …
Another unqualified candidate on the bench …
Her name is Sarah Elizabeth Pitlyk, she is 42 years of age, her only judiciary experience was clerking for then-Judge Brett Kavanaugh, she has never tried a case as a lead or co-counsel, has never examined a witness, and yet now she is a federal judge for the U.S. District Court in St. Louis! The American Bar Association (ABA) gave her a “not qualified” rating … you can read their letter if you wish.
So, what has she done? What, exactly, made Trump think she was a good candidate for the federal court? Did she bat her eyes just right, or swing her hips just so? Oh no … here it is … “Sarah Pitlyk has spent most of her career defending our most fundamental freedoms, including religious liberty.”
Vanita Gupta, a former head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, said of Pitlyk’s confirmation …
“She is exactly the type of judicial nominee that Trump promised to fill the courts with: an individual who threatens reproductive rights and access to abortion. With Pitlyk’s confirmation, the administration is betting on her to carry out their agenda for decades to come.”
Another setback to women’s rights! One lousy republican, Senator Susan Collins, found enough compunction to vote against this woman’s confirmation. To the rest of you damn republicans … go soak your heads in a vat of boiling oil, please!!! Hear that low growl emitting from my throat?
Let them eat cake! Oh wait … they cannot afford that, either
Scrooge McTrump is at it again!
The Agriculture Department gave its final approval to the first of three rules that are ultimately expected to cut more than three million from the food stamp rolls. According to the Department of Agriculture, the economy has improved under the Trump administration, and assistance to unemployed, able-bodied adults was no longer necessary in a strong job market.
Sonny Perdue, head of the Department of Agriculture and one of Trump’s many yes-men, aka boot lickers, is a millionaire. Not one night in his worthless life has he gone to bed hungry! This is the problem with too damn many rich people in this administration … they have no concept … NONE … of what the average person deals with.
Cut food stamps, cut other social service programs, but increase military spending. Oh yeah … let’s not forget … cut taxes on the wealthy. Is this any way to run a government? No, it is not. Again, as I have said so many times before … this is a government of, by and for the wealthy and to hell with the rest of us. The growl gets louder …
Jim Jordan …
I think it speaks volumes when one of the Republican Party’s loudest mouthpieces is a man who is implicated in a sex scandal at Ohio State University (OSU). It says much about the values – or should I say lack of values – of the GOP.
Mind you, Representative Jim Jordan is not accused of sexual abuse himself, but when he served as Assistant Coach from 1986 – 1994, numerous students went to him with complaints that the campus doctor, Dr. Richard Strauss, had abused them. Strauss has been found to have abused at least 177 male students during his tenure at the university. Jim Jordan did nothing when students took their concerns to him, but simply blew them off.
Jordan claims that he did not know, but numerous students and even a referee have come forward to say that they went to Jordan, hoping he would help them, but instead he blew them off, saying, “Yeah, that’s Strauss.” Where there is so much smoke, there is a fire somewhere.
And this is one of the faces of the GOP today. How low they have sunk since the days when GOP stood for ‘Grand Old Party’.
The laughingstock of the world …
All throughout Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, when nobody thought he could possibly win the election (and for the record, he didn’t), he was the laughingstock of both the nation and our allies. Here in the U.S., we stopped laughing in the wee hours of November 9th, 2016. The rest of the world kept laughing until probably mid-March 2017, when they saw that he was not only a threat to the U.S. and its people, but to the entire world.
Now, he is seen abroad as a fool, but a dangerous fool, and world leaders spend a bit of time in the days leading up to a summit or conference he will attend, trying to head off any dramatics, any crisis.
It was reported on December 2nd that NATO leaders had done everything in their power ahead of this week’s NATO summit to ensure that there would be no disruptive incidents. But, wherever Trump goes, he insists on being the center of attention, and if he isn’t, then he will find a way to make it so.Yesterday, he stormed out of the summit in London after seeing a video of a group of leaders, including Boris Johnson, ridiculing him at Buckingham Palace for staging lengthy press conferences. I suppose it hurt his itty-bitty feelings, punctured that thin skin of his, and he took his toys and went home. He fully deserved the ridicule, and those who dished it out … Princess Anne, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, French president Emmanuel Macron, and Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte … were not aware they were being recorded, nor that the recording would be shown to Trump. But, let’s face it folks … the bully got just exactly what he deserved. As one commentor noted, the conversation wasn’t even newsworthy until Trump made it newsworthy.
And, I laugh, but at the same time I wonder, for Trump is a bully, he retaliates against those who would mock him. Perhaps cooler heads will convince him to drop it. Wait … are there any cooler heads left in the White House???
And Putin smiles …
Okay, well, it’s getting late and what started as a low growl is now a full-throttle roar, so it’s time for me to stop ranting and get a few hours of nice, peaceful sleep. And I leave you with a bit of chuckle-inducing humour from our friend Jimmy Kimmel …