Republicans…Where’s the beef?

This just in: Benjamin Franklin famously said, “Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”

Take a moment to think about that.

Now consider the following: While president, 6 months before the next election, Trump claimed there was a conspiracy to “rig” the election against him. With all of the power of the presidency behind him, he was apparently unable to stop the “rigging”. More interesting to me is the fact that he is claiming that there was a coast-to-coast conspiracy against him in the election. Still, he produced not a single bit of evidence.

Republicans: The election was stolen.

Democrats: Show us the evidence.

Republicans: We have it but can’t show it to you until next week.

Conclusion: Since evidence would certainly help the Republican case, the lack of them showing the evidence means that there is NONE.

How about this one:

Republicans: We need to protect our country from the Biden crime family.

Democrats: Show us the evidence.

Republicans: This guy told us.

Democrats: You mean the guy that admitted to lying to the FBI about Biden? The guy that admitted to getting his marching orders from Russian intelligence?

Republicans: No, you shut up.

Conclusion: Since evidence would certainly help the Republican case, the lack of them showing the evidence means that there is NONE.

How about this one:

Republicans: The Biden administration is doing nothing about the southern border.

Democrats: You mean he is doing nothing besides the mammoth immigration bill that was crafted specifically to meet the demands of the Republican party? The same immigration bill that Biden pushed for passage? The same immigration bill Republicans voted down because they wanted to be able to say, “The Biden administration is doing nothing about the southern border.”

Republicans: No, you shut up.

Conclusion: Biden offered to do everything the Republicans wanted. The Republicans turned it down citing that it didn’t do enough. They never specified what would be enough. They are not interested in the border other than using it against their political opponents.

How about this one:

Republicans: Biden is destroying democracy.

Democrats: How so?

Republicans: No, you shut up.

Or this one:

Republicans: Donald Trump will save America.

Democrats: How so?

Republicans: No, you shut up.

Let’s face it. The Republicans have not accomplished a thing for decades. DECADES. If I’m wrong, tell me.

Republican: Trump accomplished a lot by appointing 3 justices to the Supreme Court.

Me: That was not an accomplishment. A toaster could have done that. All he did was what the Constitution said he had to do. BTW, that Supreme Court voided Roe V. Wade.

I challenge you to tell me what Biden is doing to destroy democracy, to destroy freedoms, to destroy the economy.

I challenge you to tell me what Trump or the Republican party is going to do for the country.

Be specific. If you say, “Trump will do great things,” I’ll know you have nothing. If you tell me, “He’ll solve the problem in Israel.” I’ll ask you how…and you will then say, “Trump is a great negotiator,” and then I’ll know that you have nothing.

Note: This post is written out of frustration that Trump supporters seem to be cult members to me rather than rational thinkers.

Time to save the world.

Up, up and away…

Jim

The Republican Trainwreck

This just in: I’m going to try to concisely list what I think is wrong with the Republican party. This will include their leader and presidential candidate Donald Trump.

Let’s start with just the Republican Party in general.

  1. Republicans are anti-abortion. They call it “pro-life” and their justification is that they think they know the will of their version of the creator of the universe.
  2. Republicans are pro-“unrestricted ownership” of guns. They call this “pro-2nd amendment” but the reality is that they don’t want ANY gun regulations. Instead, they like “Thoughts and prayers” as the appropriate was to keep us safe.
  3. Republicans want to impeach Biden. However, they don’t know why but they have “suspicions.” The claimed to have a star witness who, it turns out, is a Russian stooge who has just been charged with lying to the FBI and fabricating 100% of the evidence the GOP claims to have on Biden and his son, Hunter.
  4. Republican continue to side with Putin and against Ukraine. This baffles me.
  5. Republicans gave Democrats a list of demands for securing the border. When Democrats surprisingly gave in to all of the demands, the Republicans turned down the bill. Their rationale is that if the border is secured, then they won’t have anything to campaign on. Now, they intend to blame the border on Biden, completely ignoring that they voted against the very legislation they wanted to secure the border.
  6. The same week the Republican party turned down billions to secure the border, the voted to impeach a Democrat in charge of securing the border. They are blaming him for the border being weak while, at the same time, voting against legislation that would secure the border.

Let’s take a look at the leader of the Republican Party – Donald Trump

  1. One of the few people in the history of the world to have a casino go bancrkupt.
  2. Claims Democrats want to change the name of Pennsylvania.
  3. Had his Charitable foundation shut down because he was using the funds on himself.
  4. Had Trump University shut down due to fraud.
  5. Was found guilt of slandering a woman he sexually assaulted. Fine over $80 million.
  6. Claimed that being famous meant he could grab women ‘by the pussy.”
  7. Has a trial starting next month about hush money paid to a pornstar he had sex with while his wife was pregnant. Hush money is not illegal but using his money for this purpose and then calling it a “legal” expense is. So is using this money to influence and election by keeping the woman quite while he was running for office.
  8. Today, was fined over $350 million for falsification of financial records.
  9. Has a trial in May for stealing and refusing to return dozens of highly classified documents.
  10. Said he would not support NATO countries even though they were in compliance with the treaty.
  11. Will be going on trial for election interference in Georgia.
  12. Trumps college proffessor in Economics claimed that Trump was the dumbest student he ever had.
  13. Trump routinely disparages the men and women of the armed service even though he never served a day in his life. He claimed bone spurs kept him out of Vietnam but there are no records to support this.
  14. Told over 35,000 documented lies while in office.
  15. Sides with Putin over the United States in nearly every instance when he had the opportunity to choose.

Both of these lists represent just the bits that I can think of as fast as I can type. The lists are far from complete but I feel they are very representative of the Republican Party and Donald Trump.

In a nutshell, the Republican Party thinks you are stupid. Donald Trump is a dim bulb conman.

Time to save the world.

Up, up and away…

Jim

“Dog catches Bus!!”

This just in: The GOP is so incompetent that it would be funny, if not so tragic.

The Affordable Healthcare Act was dubbed “Obamacare” by Republicans to demonize what has become an extremely popular bit of legislation. Granted, it’s not perfect. My annual healthcare costs continue to rise. However, it is far better than before.

Once it was passed, Republicans spent years claiming that not only was Obamacare a big failure but that they had a better plan. If only they were in charge, they could fix everything.

Then, in 2016, the Dog Caught the Bus.

By this I mean, the GOP came into power. During the next 4 years, they did nothing to improve healthcare. They had no plan. While this became immediately apparent, it was surprising to find that they didn’t even want to talk about healthcare.

For 4 years, the GOP did ZERO to improve healthcare.

So much barking about healthcare but when they caught the bus, when they were actually in charge, they had no idea what to do.

Fast forward to today. To this afternoon.

Republicans made huge demands on border policy. To get their way, they held ransom, badly needed money for the Ukraine war.

“Give us what we want or we’ll let Putin take Ukraine!!”

So, the Democrats said, “Okay.”

The GOP quickly huddled together and said, “Oh shit. Now what are we going to do?”

Once again, they caught the bus. They got their way and have no idea how to handle it.

Getting their way is the opposite of what they wanted. To them, Obamacare and the Border are the same thing. Just a couple of issues to be pissed off about. A couple of issues to hold up and say, “Vote for us and we will fix this.”

Then they catch the bus. In the case of the border, they got what they wanted and no longer had anything to hold over the Democrats. Why vote for a Republican campaigning on border issues when the Democrats are willing to implement what the Republicans are promising to do if elected?

Their solution: Move the bar.

“Yes, you gave us what we wanted but that is not really what we wanted. We don’t want to solve this issue. We just want to be able to pretend that we will solve it but only if we are elected.”

That last bit is the part that they are not supposed to say out loud, but they have.

In recent days, there have been numerous instances and sources saying that Trump has told them to walk away FROM ANY border deal so he can campaign on the issue. He can’t promise to solve something if it is already solved.

Catching the bus and not knowing what to do with it is the perfect example of the Republican Party’s inability to govern.

Forget the Trump train wreck. Yes, he is the bigger issue but even if he didn’t exist, the GOP is still a mess.

This inability to govern has gone on for decades.

Just had to put this out there.

Time to save the world.

Up, up and away…

Jim

We are what we eat; that includes our thougths

This just in: I’m in Alabama this week. The people are great; really friendly. Politics is never brought up. But, the television here is either a hunting show, a home shopping network, some reality show about swamp-living or some version of Fox News.

This is what is available for consumption. This is what forms their opinion about the world.

I watched one Fox-type show for 30 seconds and this is what I heard, “Let’s face it. Trump had solved every problem with immigration.” Interestingly, I didn’t know this.

Then, on the actual Fox News show I heard, “Bidenomics is a failure.” This is in reference to Biden’s impact on economics. Now I have heard this before but only by Fox News. So, if all you watch is this news channel, you get a constant barrage of “the economy sucks and its all Biden’s fault.”

By the way, there are never any solutions offered up; just observations to complain and blame about. The evidence is cherry-picked. There is always someone willing to say, “I paid twice as much for my milk today as I did yesterday.”

So much anger. It comes from what the “Fox watchers” are being fed. To me, it feels like the entire Republican Party is auditioning for the Jerry Springer show. The more ridiculous the better. They are throwing chairs at each other and then turn to the camera and say, “Biden did that.”

How about we just look at a few facts…take the economy for example:

  1. Overall job numbers: – Biden: +14 million – Trump: -2.9 million
  2. Overall manufacturing jobs: – Biden: +815,000 – Trump: -154,000
  3. Highest labor force numbers of presidency: – Biden: 167,930,000 – Trump: 164,546,000
  4. Lowest unemployment rate of presidency: – Biden: 3.4% – Trump: 3.5%
  5. Highest unemployment rate of presidency: – Biden: 6.2% – Trump: 14.7%
  6. Lowest black unemployment rate of presidency: – Biden: 4.7% – Trump: 5.3%
  7. Highest black unemployment rate of presidency: – Biden: 9.9% – Trump: 16.8%
  8. Lowest Hispanic unemployment rate of presidency: – Biden: 3.9% – Trump: 4%
  9. Highest Hispanic unemployment of presidency: – Biden: 8.5% – Trump: 18.8%
  10. Lowest woman unemployment rate of presidency: – Biden: 3.3% – Trump: 3.4%
  11. Highest woman unemployment rate of presidency: – Biden: 6.1% – Trump: 16.2%
  12. Lowest unemployment rate for those without a high school diploma of presidency: – Biden: 4.4% – Trump: 4.9%
  13. Overall GDP increase in dollars: – Biden: +$5.6 trillion – Trump: +$2.9 trillion
  14. Highest annual GDP growth rate of presidency: – Biden: 5.9% – Trump: 2.9%
  15. Lowest annual GDP growth rate of presidency; – Biden: 2.1% – Trump: -2.8%
  16. Highest Dow Jones Industrial Average: – Biden: $36,799.65 – Trump: $31,041.13
  17. Highest S&P 500: – Biden: $4796.56 – Trump: $3,803.79
  18. Highest Nasdaq: – Biden: $16,057.44 – Trump: $13,067.48

And today, the GDP growth from last quarter was 5.2%

Just sayin…

Time to save the world.

Up, up and away…

Jim

Trump for President?!?

This just in: Recent polls from this week suggested that Trump would beat Biden in several Battleground states which could result in Trump winning the presidency. Is this a good thing? Let’s Look.

Trump accomplishments while in office:

  1. Put in 3 Supreme Court justices who went on to overturn Roe V. Wade.
  2. Broke the treaty with Iran leading to Iran fast-tracking its nuclear program and aggressively funding several terrorist groups; one of which is HAMAS.
  3. Signed a major tax cut for the rich which is by far, the number one reason we continue to have soaring deficits.
  4. Delayed action on COVID response which, by some estimates, led to over 450,000 avoidable American deaths.
  5. Opened up several protect natural habitats for exploitation by Big Oil.
  6. Tried to pull the United States out of NATO.
  7. Conspired to overturn the election that he lost.
  8. Promoted an attack on the capital.
  9. Told a documented 30,000+ lies to the American public.

Trump accomplishments outside of office:

  1. Found guilt of massive banking and insurance fraud in the state of New York.
  2. Found guilty of rape
  3. Charged with stealing Top Secret documents.
  4. Charges with attempting to overtime the election results in Georgia

Biden accomplishments while in office:

  1. Passed the American Rescue Plan which financially protected millions of people adversely affected by COVID.
  2. Passed a $1 trillion infrastructure plan to repair roads, waterways, bridges, and railroads and to bring high-speed internet to rural communities.
  3. Brought unemployment rate down to 3.5%
  4. Ended the Republican war in Afganistan.
  5. Steadfastly supports Ukraine
  6. Signed the Inflation Reduction Act which includes brining down drug prices for millions of Americans.
  7. Passed the CHIPS act bringing microchip production back to the United States.
  8. Appointed the first black woman to the Supreme Court.
  9. Reestablish America as the leader of the free world.
  10. Tamed inflation
  11. Last quarter saw a GDP growth rate of over 5%. This is far above anything Trump saw.

What has neither Trump nor Biden done while in office:

  1. Immigration is a major problem. Ready workers are at our borders while companies struggle to perform due to a lack of labor in the United States.
  2. The Affordable Healthcare Act, meant to be an interim step towards fixing healthcare remains untouched and thus, unimproved.
  3. Racism and hate continue to run rampid.
  4. Gun violence continues to be normal.
  5. Military spending still dominates our budget.

In summary, Trump is a failed president and a convicted rapist facing 91 felony charges. He has no plan on governing beyond imprisoning those that he feels are disloyal to him. Biden has accomplished a lot; all in the name of making America stronger and a better place to live. As far as things not accomplished, presidents are not Gods. However, Biden continues to work on making things better. Trump…not so much.

Time to save the world.

Up, up and away…

Jim

Donald Trump is a False Idol for half of America

This just in: Alice in Wonderland is starting to seem more like a documentary about the thought process of the American public than a story about the absurd.

I saw an elderly woman interviewed a couple of weeks ago. When asked why she would vote for Trump, she said, “I lost my medical coverage and I believe he will make sure I get it back.”

I watched those words come out of her mouth and just shook my head. If she represents the average American, surely all is lost.

Let’s compare Trump to Biden

Biden

  1. He is about 10 years older than I would like him to be. It’s not that he’s out of touch. I’m more concerned with his health taking a bad turn and him becoming incapacitated. However, so far he looks to be in good shape with a sharp mind.
  2. Biden supports cancelling student debt. I oppose this unless it is accompanied by a plan to prevent the accumulation of future debt.
  3. Biden got us out of Afghanistan but was rather clumsy about it.

Trump

  1. Found guilty of rape.
  2. 4 indictments that include 91 felony counts from 4 different courts.
  3. Called for the execution of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff for being disloyal.
  4. Promised to take over control of media institutions like Comcast and MSNBC because they were not nice to him.
  5. Found guilty of years of fraud by the Trump organization which is now going to be put into receivership and have all of its assets sold off.
  6. As president, he gave a huge tax cut to the wealthiest Americans adding trilliions of dollars to the national debt.
  7. As president, he ordered the Kurdish soldiers to be abandon so the Turks could swoop in and wipe them out. These has been our best allies against Syria.
  8. As president, he slow-walked national response to COVID causing an estimated 400,000 unnecessary American deaths.
  9. Trump University was found guilty of fraud, ordered to be disolved and to pay $25,000,000 in damages.
  10. Had sex with a porn star while his wife was pregnant and then paid off the pornstar to keep him quiet.
  11. Told his staff not to allow wounded veterans to attend his public appearanced.
  12. Does not like soldiers that were captured.
  13. Avoided the draft due to bone spurs that have never shown up in any medical examination.
  14. Has more than 34,000 documented lies to the American public while in office.
  15. Wants to give Putin the land that Putin took from Ukraine.
  16. Has a long history of not paying for services rendered to him. Most recently, his lawyers.

But wait. That’s all about Trump. Let’s look at the Republicans…

  1. Want to execute Taylor Swift because she is encouraging people to register to vote.
  2. Want to impeach Biden even though they have no evidence of any crime.
  3. Routinely ignore subpoenas from Congress.
  4. Have multiple people listed as co-conspirators in Trumps effort to overturn the election.

Let’s interview a Republican and see how they repond.

Me: What is your plan to fix inflation.

Republican: No, you shut up.

Me: What is your plan to fix healthcare.

Republican: No, you shut up.

Me: What is your plan to end gun violence?

Republicans: Make sure everyone has a gun.

Me: What is your plan to cut spending?

Republican: Cut out food stamps, free school lunches and basically anything that might help the poor.

Me: What is your position on birth control?

Republican: No abortions. No birth control. No education about birth control

Me: Since there has been ZERO evidence that the 2020 election was stolen, what is your position?

Republican: Since we lost, we believe it was stolen. Our belief is our evidence.

Me: Why do you want to shut down the government?

Republican: Because Trump told us to. This way we can defund the DOJ and keep Trump out of jail.

Me: Aside from banning abortions and giving guns to everyone, what is your platform.

Republican: Platform? Platform?! We don’t need a stinking platform!

So there you have it. Everything I just wrote is easily verifiable.

And yet, nearly half of Americans will vote Republican because the believe Trump was sent to them by God.

Alas…

Time to save the world.

Up, up and away….

Jim

I’ve made a huge mistake (Finale)

This just in: I intended to stay with Fox News for a month for all of my news information. I was wondering if I would come to like the hosts. Perhaps I would become acclimated to their perspective. I wanted to be able to see “the other side” of things and this seemed like a good idea.

I lasted 8 days.

I basically saw ZERO news in 8 days. Well, aside from some hurricane coverage.

Here is a typical segue: Sean Hannity is preparing for a commercial break and says, “When we come back, Senator J.D. Vance is going to tell us what a disaster the Biden administration has been.”

Take that and repeat it over and over and over again. No specifics. Nothing like, “Biden did this and then the following happened.” No. It was more like, “Liberal policies are ruining our country.”

What’s a liberal policy?

Or then there is the “San Francisco is defunding its police department.” No one from San Francisco is interviewed. No mention of the police attack by Republicans on January 6th. No mention of ignoring the rule of law when it comes to the 91 Trump indictments. No. Just “Liberal policies are ruining our country” and wild accusations that even a child can see to be nonsense.

However, they keep on putting out the same dirty pile of nothing. I guess that they do this because there is an audience for it.

Imagine that. A large portion of our country tunes into Fox News every day to find out what they should be mad about.

There are no solutions discussed…ever.

It’s as if they walk out their door in the morning and find something they don’t like. “It’s a beautiful day today but liberals want you to spend your hard earned dollars funding China’s global warming hoax.”

The hosts, throughout, are cringe-worthy. I thought I might get used to it but every time one came on I would think, “How do you go home at night and face your children knowing what you did today?”

So, I gave up.

I didn’t go back to MSNBC or CNN not because they are biased but because they only present one side of the story. Don’t get me wrong. I’m not saying, “They all do it.” Fox is an outright propaganda machine peddling hate. The other side just spends too much time telling me what a criminal Trump is; something I already know.

I like ABC.

Time to save the world.

Up, up and away…

Jim

I’ve made a huge mistake (Part 2)

This just in: After 4 days of Fox news, I feel I am adrift in a world of make-believe.

Right now they are talking about Trump. They’re complaining about his schedule. It seems that it is very unfair he has so many legal issues on his calendar while running for president. Not a single mention that all of these legal issues are of Trumps own making.

Already this morning, the Joe Biden Crime Family has been brought up 3 times.

Time 1: Joe Biden is really old. Too old to be president. Yes, he is only 3 years older than Trump but they seem to think Trump is a picture of health so age does not matter.

Time 2: Joe Biden is bringing back vaccines and COVID to distract us from his disastrous “liberal” policies. No mention about what those policies are. They actually implied that the reason we keep getting new vaccines is because the previous ones didn’t work. One line was “Maybe they’ll get it right this time.”

Time 3: Joe Biden has 5,400 emails in the national archives under a pseudo-name. So far they all appear to be about his schedule. However, Fox wonders if Joe has a secret Yahoo account. Apparently just thinking that makes it so because the very next thing they are excited about is supposing it was true (what they just made up right there on the spot) and were hoping that someone would investigate that issue. OMFG!

Also this morning, San Francisco has a 31% office vacancy rate. Fox attributes this to “liberal” policies. Once again, I have no idea what policies they are talking about.

Good coverage of the storm approaching Florida.

Time to save the world.

Up, up and away…

Jim

I’ve made a huge mistake (Part One)

This just in: Last Friday (8/25), I decided to go for 30 days without watching any political news station other than Fox. This post is my first one covering how I feel about it thus far.

The first show was hosted by Greg Gutfeld. He started by saying Republican candidate Vivek Ramaswami reminded him of his Uber driver. I was 1 minute into my first episode of Fox and already saw a racist joke.

Over the weekend, my overall sense was that Fox is the place to go if you want to be mad about something. For example, they had a 15-minute segment on how Joe Biden is attacking small businesses that make fans because Biden wants the fans to be more energy efficient. Shockingly, up to 10% of small fan manufacturers may go out of business.

This was a typical segment. Let’s break it down a bit. First, I guess that Joe Biden has no idea that there is legislation in the works about fans. As president, he does not make laws or assign spending. These jobs fall to Congress which, by the way, has a House that is controlled by Republicans. Secondly, note the term “may” when referring to a possible outcome. This is akin to a software company that says, “You may save up to 10% using our software.” Pure speculation without evidence. And finally, there was no coverage of any possible “upside” to the legislation. I guess that its part of a larger program to reign in energy consumption but I don’t know because they never said.

This morning, Monday, things got even worse.

Let’s start with the scandals…

Apparently, someone on Jack Smith’s staff met with a lower level White House legal person sometime in March. Fox is outraged that this is apparently evidence that Biden is using the DOJ to file criminal charges against his opponents. WTF?

Next, the ousted Uranian prosecutor is claiming Joe Biden, in 2016, took bribes and helped his son get deals in Ukraine. Fox News is outraged at this complexly corrupted President. They left out that this was investigated by a Republican-led senate who found no wrongdoing. Here is a link. This is old news about a disproven issue. Still, combine this with the fan-gate and a meeting of unknown substance in March and you start to feel that Fox viewers are being influenced by a massive inundation of unimportant nuance that will leave them feeling as if “something must be up.”

Then comes mask-gate. Covid is making a predictable comeback due to the fall season and the very nature of a highly contagious virus. Fox made 2 points using an “expert”. First, there is no evidence that masks have any impact on the spread of the virus, and second, masks contain substances that make you sick. I found this interesting so I typed in “Are masks effective against COVID?” Response #1: Mayo Clinic says “Yes”. Response #3: Johns Hopkins says “Yes”. Response #3: CDC says “yes”. I found no evidence that masks make you sick although the FOX host said, “Yes, I don’t feel well when I have to wear a mask.” Join the club. That doesn’t mean the masks are making you sick. It means you are a normal human being that doesn’t like wearing masks.

Noticeably missing is any commentary on Trump.

It’s still early on Monday morning so I’m sure there is more to come.

Thus far, my finding is that FOX news is where you go to be sold anger by grifters.

Time to save the world.

Up, up and away…

Jim

Republicans pander to the uniformed

This just in: Trump has been indicted…again. I’m not talking about the tax evasion and insurance fraud case in New York. I’m not talking about the defamation/rape case. I’m not talking about the election interference case in Georgia. I’m not talking about inciting an insurrection case on January 6th. All of those are real cases. All of them are very serious but I’m not referring to any of those.

I’m talking about the case where Trump knowingly took highly classified documents from the White House after he was no longer president, denied he had them, and then tried to hide them. That’s the case Trump was just indicted for.

Jack Smith, the special counsel assigned to investigate this case has come through with overwhelming evidence. No hearsay or “read between the lines” to find some guilt. He has confessions. He has photos, videos, and audio tapes.

In short, the case against Trump is stronger than if he had shot someone on 5th Avenue in broad daylight in front of thousands of people.

He will go to jail for this.

But let’s look at how the Republican Party is handling this.

You might remember that they call themselves the party of Law and Order. They call themselves Constitutionalists.

They can call themselves whatever they want. The real question is: What do their actions say?

Let’s go through some of their defenses. The common thread here is that every one of these is easily countered with facts. Facts like: What does the law say? What did previous investigations find? That type of thing.

Let’s start with the Pillow Guy defense. This is where they accuse or promise something groundbreaking but never come through.

  1. Hunter Biden’s laptop, any day now, will show that he and his dad did something unspeakable. We can’t tell you about it just but believe us when we tell you it’s really bad.
  2. Joe Biden took $5 million from the Chinese. We don’t have evidence just yet but we’re sure to find it soon because we read all about this on the QANON site online.

Then there is the Deflection defense:

  1. What Hillary did was much worse. Really? Tell me more because Trump had 4 years to investigate her and found nothing.
  2. Joe Biden is a dictator. Really? Tell me more because I don’t think you know what that word means.
  3. Joe Biden did the same thing? Really? Tell me more. Don’t just say words. Go through the 37 points in Trump’s indictment and for each one, cite the thing that Biden did that was equivalent. How about you just pick one and show me the equivalence?

Then there are all sorts of other things.

  1. McCarthy claims it was okay because the bathroom door had a lock. He forgot that the bathroom door only locks from the inside. He implies that the documents would wait for everyone to leave the room and then lock themselves inside.
  2. McCarthy also claims that Biden hid thousands of documents in a garage and we all know that garages don’t have locks. In response to this, someone on Twitter said, “I’m going to invent a garage lock and make millions.”
  3. Jim Jordan said that if Trump claimed to have declassified the documents then he believed him. Never mind that this is a case of facts, not beliefs. For example, it’s a fact that Trump did not have the power to declassify any of these documents. There is also the fact that there is an audio tape of Trump saying he didn’t have the authority.

Ask a Republican about any of these points of fact and they will say, “I haven’t heard the tape” or “I haven’t read the charges.” What this means is they are twisting themselves into pretzels to defend Trump even though they claim to not know any of the facts.

Here is the problem: A lot of people only get their news from their politicians or Faux news. Thus, they are uninformed.

An uninformed public is the only reason any Republican is ever elected.

By the way, I post stuff like this on online all the time. Every now and then, someone will respond with “Hey, asshole. They all do it.”

I find this an uncompelling argument.

Time to save the world,

Up, up and away…

Jim