It Just Gets Better And Better!

As Carl Bernstein said, the last time there were tapes like this a gang of Republicans went to the White House and told Richard Nixon to get out. Now whether they did that to save their own asses or did it because they were Americans first and GOPers second is not knowable. All we can do now is see the new Republican response 46 years later and its yeah they go to the White House and kiss the ring of Ghent Mass Murderer in Chief. Massive disingenuous defense of a man who allowed 200K of his fellow citizens to perish to save the goddamned stock market. Like a modern day Sophies Choice this SS Officer in Chief sent everyone to the right to be gassed by a virus he knew was worse than anything that had come along in ages. The indifference and downright criminality of such a decision is beyond the scope of human decency. Everybody knew that this inhuman shitheel was exactly that, but by being propped up by a collaborating Republican Congress, grifters robbing the Treasury, family members looting the campaign and a political base of mouth breathing racists, misanthropes and plain old unhappy marks begging to be conned 200,000 Americans were eliminated to save the Flim Flam Man in Chief's ass. I mean this is evil shit.

Ben Sasse (Phony-Ne) is thinking again and that is not healthy for a sane America, Sasse, who is definitely running for President in 2024, is concerned about the Worlds Greatest Deliberative Body, the United States Senate.........I shall pause for the spit takes to be cleaned up......Sasse, the worlds worst commencement speaker, wrote up one of those articles for the Wall Street Journal in which after a lame joke, wondered what the Founding Fathers would think of the Senate now? Well Benny has just the solution direct from the ghosts of Tom Jefferson and that Hamilton dude.

Sasse loves the filibuster because he sees what will happen come next year when he's a simple back benching minority member. But he loves the idea of going back to when state legislatures picked the Senators (the fact gerrymandering will guarantee a Republican majority in perpetuity has absolutely nothing to do with Sasse's idea and how dare you think different). He also wants to throw all Senators into a giant dorm where they can do shit in secret. And he also wants to make Senators all one term of 12 years lame ducks.

None of that will happen of course. Ben Sasse is great thinker in the same way that Donald Trump is a great businessman. Both are bankrupt upstairs and down.

My only thinking regarding the United States Senate is this. WHY in the fuck does Nebraska, Wyoming, South Dakota, North Dakota and Montana have 2 Senators each while a state that contains 5 times the population of all of those vast wastelands combined has 1/5 the number of Senators. Thats my question for the ghosts of the Founding Fathers. What the hell were you thinking? I mean other than kissing slave owning states ass.

Racism In The Heartland!

There were all sorts of people driving all over Lincoln, Nebraska on Saturday with pro-Trump signs because we dont have anywhere to sink our Trump flagged boats. But this guy really really loves Donald J Trump. Loves the guy so much he draws on the back window what Trump says behind closed doors when hes not lusting after 15 year old girls.

This caused all sorts of trouble on social media when the guy who took the picture posted it on twitter and various twitter big wigs re-posted it. Social media did its thang and identified this racist jackboot in no time flat. Im not mentioning his name because I am just sick of hearing it. But he comes from rural Nebraska and lives in a 98% white county so that excuses explains is what it it is.

The guy finally slithered back out from under his rock and claimed that he came out of a mall and voila, there was the graffiti in red white and blue with Trump 2020 underneath. He was just driving to a car wash to wipe it off. Being a former resident of Lincoln, I happen to know that there is no car wash the way he was heading and he was also nowhere near that mall. But whatever, when you get caught in that kind of firestorm and know how much you fucked up, lie lie lie.

Austin J Cordis of Ohiowa, Nebraska The guy who owns the truck is getting death threats and already faces other charges of drug related crimes. His claims of innocence are ringing hollow. The whacko Trumpers are claiming that the poor guy was "set up" by Black Lives Matter graffiti thugs who pick out random pickup trucks and make the poor owner look like a racist pigs. Its completely conceivable if your IQ is right around freezing.

This is the kind of shot that us Nebraskans have to take every now and then considering we are as red as it gets. The ironic thing is had the football team played yesterday this guy would have been just another truck in a sea of red. This story would have died as we here in Nebraska perused every story of  every play of the loss to Purdue. But since the team is under the iron boot of  the fascist Big 10 who pussed out on playing because of some virus so Austin J Cordis  this guy wins the day.

The Good Life is our state slogan. Trust me, its as big of a lie as Austin J Cordis  is telling.

Contemplating!

A lot has happened in the last couple of weeks. The RNC, Kyle Whatshisname, Portland, Trump, Trump, Trump, just as he likes it.

1) Representative Clay Higgins (Nutjob-La)

As if  Louisiana doesnt have enough troubles what with hurricanes and police shootings and Coach Ed Orgerons voice, along comes this kook that people actually vote for to be their Congressperson. Clay Higgins, a former sheriff (of course), has just fucking had it with all these uppity blacks and that Antifa and that BLM stuff. Police in Lafayette shot and killed a black man named Trayford Pellerin 11 times as he walked away from them. Yeah he had a knife and was probably in some sort of crisis mentally but being tazed and walking away kind of didnt warrant a police firing squad which is what it kind of looked like.Clay Higgins, Congresscritter, had no qualms about shooting a guy walking away. Higgins is a tough guy ya see. He's all Sheriffy and John Wayne and shit and appeals to a certain mindset of racists ,dummies closet cases hillbillies manly men. So when Sheriff Lobo saw a picture of armed black men someplace on earth  he immediately took advantage. They are comin here my fellow Cajuns. Armed black men and oh yeah Antifa are comin to disrupt your gatorin or footballin. Clay stated he would personally "drop 10" which I assume doesnt refer to his dick size and instead refers to the number of black men he wants to kill in his twisted fantasy mind. Clay Higgins is a tough guy the same way that Buford T Justice is . Pure fantasy.

2) Marjorie Taylor Greene (Qanon-Ga)

Recently when a very Red congressional district in Georgia voted in a Republican primary they had a clear choice. They could put on their MAGA hats and go vote in person like real Americans and have a clear choice. A bootlicking Trump supporter John Cowan (Cult45-Ga) or a Q Anon crazy person named Marjorie Taylor Greene (9/11 inside job-Ga). Well in true Georgia Republican fashion when faced with a choice of a rubber stamp Trumpanzee or a fucking kook by a wide margin they picked the lunatic. Greene, who is full blast Q Anon, hates the Muslims and the Clintons and the Muslims but loves Jesus H Christ. Oh and she loves her some guns and loves to fondle her guns so much she posted a picture of herself on the evil Facebook pointing said guns at "the Squad". Ilhan Omar, AOC, and Rashida Talib. Ya know, the women who aint white enough for Greenes world. Facebook took it down because threatening Congress folk isnt cool even for spineless wimps named Zuckerberg. Greenes gonna win that seat cuz of that R nest to her name and this kind of crazy shit is going to continue until Greene resumes taking her meds.

3) Governor Kristi Noem (Unfeeling Monster-SD)

Kristi Noem used to be the only Congressperson form the bustling state of South Dakota. Then she decided being a backbenching nobody wasnt as cool as running your own  fiefdom. Her goal as Governor seems to be making the cool Dakota into the shithole  Dakota. She is succeeding at an alarming rate. But hey who can argue with "Meth We're On It" ?

 Noem doesnt care much for the people who had the land stolen from them and made it clear when those people attempted to keep Noems filthy Covid infected blankets off their homeland by setting up roadblocks to make sure people entering had no symptoms she ran off to her Dear Leader and made them stop.

Noem then not only allowed the Covid Fest Sturgis Bike Rally  to proceed, she encouraged it. Nobody gonna stop US from infecting the entire fucking country. Now its the South Dakota State Fair she allowed to proceed because who listens to that "elite class of so called experts". Proceed! Ya know some stupid event held in every state with cows and pigs and fried food and a crowd of underlying conditions waddling around.

South Dakota has a 21.9% positivity rate with the Covid tests thanks to this nitwit Trumper Governor. But Noem wasnt sticking around that hotbed of death over the weekend. She was in another hotbed of Covid called Iowa doing what I assume is a 2024 test for her running for President against Kamala Harris. Noem,  in a sleeveless dress showing off her Michelle Obama like guns, was in Council Bluffs Iowa speaking with maskless Iowa  Republicans which looks about as bad as it sounds. So watch out Iowa. If you havent got the Trump Virus yet, you sure are working hard on it.

And oh yeah Trump called military veterans suckers and losers and asked what was in it for them regarding dead military veterans. And he doesnt like to look at amputees. And he's afraid to get that mess on his head wet. And he still hates John McCain.

So thats 2020 Trumps America. One shithole country.

RNC Day One!

Hey I've been blocked on social media by the best but you never forget your first. And Donald Trump Jr was my first so he holds a special place in my sights to wish only the worst for. When the coked up dumbass took to the podium last night, fresh off a last line sniffed off his gal pal's plastic ass, I wasn't watching. But immediate reaction on that twitter machine means you dont have to watch the shit show. You let others watch and seconds later tell you what dumb fucking thing came out somebody's pie hole.

Trump Junior rambled on, complete with rehearsed hand gestures, slurring his way thru such whoppers as the virus came courtesy of the Chinese Communist Party and ruined Daddys economic miracle which of course neither one happened because Junior is a lying scared sniffy boy. He called Uncle Joe the "Loch Ness monster of the swamp" which of course begs the fact there is no Loch Ness Monster and the swamp is where Trumpers crawled out of.

Oh Junior, when Daddy slapped you way back then when you were just Date Rape Don, thats as close to human touch as you will ever get from Daddy.

There was more in that Republican Klan Meeting last nite...

Kimberly Guilfoyle , the plastic paid escort for Junior, SCREECHED her speech to an empty room of cowering cockroaches and shaking mice. Forgetting or not even knowing that her ancestors are American citizens she claimed to be the daughter of immigrants from Puerto Rico. Who's gonna tell her? This meltdown is getting all the attention but there were far more insidious meltdowns with a lot less decibels.

The gun totin museum dwellers in St Louis. The couple of billboard ambulance chasing lawyers who decided that a bunch of black people marching on THEIR goddamned street warranted them walking out da museum house with an AR 15 and a popgun. If you dont re elect the Suburb Protector in Chief the blacks will move into the low income housing forcibly built in your neighborhood (which in their case low income housing means less than 12000 square feet) and start walking around and other intimidating shit. These two billboard parasites hiding in the museum house should stay in the museum house and become museum pieces of the past themselves.

Matt Gaetz, a drunken Florida congressman with a 49 year old adopted son, claimed if Biden won that MS 13 gang members will move next door to you. Aye yi yi. I hear thats in the Biden playbook. But only moving them in next to Gaetz so he can wear his gas mask more.

Even the Mail In Voter in Chief himself sitting in a circle of hostages letting them praise him for getting them out of various shithole countries and back home to this one. It led to the precious, only in 2020 America, moment when Pastor Andrew Brunson told his story of being imprisoned by a Turkish thumb breaker named Erdogan and Trump then referred to the kidnapper as a righteous dude. Never miss the opportunity to praise a dictator.

And finally Nimrata Nikki Haley, firing the first salvo for the November 4th launch of Haley 2024. Reasonable tone and understated points. Haley spoke of her lowering of America's swastika Confederate flag after Dylan Roof murdered 9 black folk at a church (remember the cops bought him dinner on the way to jail). She also claimed America was not a racist country. Yeah thats why she changed her name from Nimrata Randhawa to Nikki Haley. Totally not for reasons you may think. And then she endorsed the guy who would run the Confederate flag right back the flag pole.

People of color like Nikki Haley, Tim Scott, Vernon Jones and Herschel Walker were not there to draw minority voters into the GOP. They are nothing but useful idiots that make the white folks on the fence about a racist like Donald Trump vote for him because those nice articulate colored folk dont think hes so bad. Its deplorable.

Day One in the books. A Horror book...............

Uncle Joe!

Hey he wasnt my first choice. He wasnt even my second choice. He may not have even been third or fourth. But I am and have always been a Joe Biden fan boy. I think the man is as real as it gets right down to the gaffes and the pauses as he gets his thoughts together to avoid stuttering. The Republicans, who support a one man blabbering fool of a cult, take stuttering or any disability as a weakness and attack it as dementia or senility which is failing. Biden is a scrapper who never tolerates bullies and people who punch down , the 2020 version of an actual American political party.

Years ago, Joe Biden wasn't even veep yet, he was running for the 2008 Democratic nomination for President (remember that?) and came to Omaha to appear at a local independent bookstore just blocks away from my Moms house. I wanted to go, Mom wanted to go, and we piled into the car for the short ride. Well needless to say the crowd waiting to get in was David Sedaris worthy. Way too many people for my Mom to wait in line with so we left. The Biden appeal even in purple Omaha was evident. Joe of course didnt last long in that campaign but he remained in the eye and became Barack Obamas running mate and Vice President.

This is a serious time folks. There is a real threat to not only American democracy but to America itself. A fascistic moron is leading a cult of fellow fascists and white supremacists to bring the iron hand of authoritarianism down on the people. Though I wish the Democrats had another Obama or anybody under 70 rising to the forefront the Democratic voters decided that 3 people over 70 were the way to go. I get it. I do. My desire to send Trump into oblivion and hopefully prison made me never ever not put Biden in my thoughts. He is Uncle Joe. He is the cool uncle, the relative everyone loves, the buddy who when he asks you how you are really means it. He's a decent man. My hope for progressive policy and Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders was always a house of cards. Decency was what America needs.

When Bidens candidacy was saved by Rep Jim Clyburn and the black voters of South Carolina and the sudden dropping out of Mayor Pete, Amy Klobuchar, and Mike Bloomberg "saved" the party from Bernie Sanders Joe was the apparent man. Lets face it, Sanders was a risk that could have been taken in 2016 but in 2020 wasnt a risk worth taking. Biden was the safe choice. The choice of the cautious. And dammit, cautious is what we have to do to rid ourselves of this fascist menace.

So here we are. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.A 78 year old white man and a 58 year old woman of color. Against a 74 year old loudmouthed strongman and a admiring closet case. Its not ideal but it is what it is.

Biden gave what is called the speech of his life Thursday night. He was forceful, decent and there were no gaffes. The Republicans sat there in awe, and could only rebut it with their normal far left obsessive screeches and the teleprompter insults. As if being able to read is a flaw. Why not be like our guy, a dyslexic Adderal addict with a tendency to go off the rails and tell people to inject bleach.

Decency. Normal. Fuck policies, those never get done anyway. We need the stability of a guy who can calm down a fractured society. Once that happens, policy becomes a fight again. But the only way for that to happen is to vote out a party of racists, dummies and fascists and send them back under the rock. Look, the GOP has become the National Socialist Party of America 2020. Everyone who is a decent person has abandoned this band of thugs and bullies by now. The only ones left are the deplorables. For that is never ever to be forgiven. Even after these adoring collaborators are voted out of office, they shall forever be known as American traitors, Vichy type cowards, spineless suckups and never to be taken seriously again. Yeah Im talking about you Ben Sasse.

Vote dammit! Uncle Joe is what we need now.

Kiwi Envy!

I cant keep up. Every day every hour this country drops further into the abyss. And is led by an orange Lucifer enabled by what can only be described as collaborators, traitors, racists and the truly stupid.

Yesterday the Degrader in Chief flew into Minnesota and babbled on about talking to God and yammering about "crummy" colleges and dumb people and crummy people and rolling his eyes back in his head as trained monkeys applauded. What it is that causes people to applaud a mentally ill madman is just beyond my comprehension but there they are.

The Monster in Chief decided to gloat at the "surge" of Covid cases in New Zealand. New Zealand is led by a nasty woman named Jacinda Ardern who eradicated the Trump Virus for over 100 days before it "exploded" with a "massive" 9 cases. Trump, a dimwitted American orangutan , and obvious inferior to a Kiwi female, said the New Zealand government had bragged about zero covid cases just to "show me something". Yeah, President Pandemic, they showed how to successfully handle a global pandemic. Your "plan" to keep the Dow Jones high, encourage people to inject bleach, discourage mask use and try to keep a base of  older susceptible boneheads alive until November really sucked.

Somehow, an duly elected human being tries to insist that 22 deaths is far worse than 170,000 deaths and still maintains 40% support. Nobody on earth has fucked this up more than the greatest shithole nation in the world and anyone with the IQ of a fly knows it. Yet the Virus in Chief continues to blame China, Europe, Democrats, Antifa, crummy people, blue states, Minneapolis, Portland, Fauci, Birx, Persons, Women, Men, TV and anybody but the obvious culprit.

The Democrats begin to unravel tonite. Be assured, this virus called Trump and his gangsters are ready. Toughen up.

Husker Football!

 

My Dad took me to my first Nebraska football game when I was 6. I dont remember that much about it because it was in the 1960s and I was 6 but I do remember it started a 35 year father son bonding over a goddamned football team. I dont even like football that much. Of the 5 major sports it ranks 5th with me and if the NFL got sued out of existence it wouldnt bother me at all. 

But Nebraska football? Its really the only sports team I honestly have an emotional bond with. I grew up watching them. I went to the University and actually went to class and graduated from there. I watch them play football every week and even though they suck, I still keep coming back for more.

 I have season tickets and go in person every chance I get. Trust me, its a pain in the ass as I get older to endure the traffic, the crowds of younger and younger people drunk off their ass, the shitty weather and the losing. but I endure because quite frankly, they are family to me. So when the Big 10 called off fall sports today, including football, I was actually happy. Happy that my family was being looked after because they sure as hell wont look out for themselves. 

Nebraska football is big business in this state. It fuels the economy of its home city, Lincoln, and it makes a shitload of money for this University. Its the pride of this state which really doesn't have that much to offer. Yet, this Covid 19 pandemic is taking control. Because this state and its piss poor leadership did absolutely nothing in March when this killer virus started, we are in this position now. No fucking football. And as usual, with the Republican mindset in this state, reality is still being denied. We're gonna play anyway is the mantra coming out of the University, the Governors office, the Regents office, the coaches office and the locker room. Who they gonna play? Uhhhh The University of Mars? The Omaha Balloon School? Nobody knows. But dammit they gonna play somebody cuz what the hell else is there to do around here?

They will defy the $51 million they get from the Big 10 conference they just joined a few years back to be the cannon fodder for the Ohio States and the Michigans and the Wisconsins of the football world. They will play anyone at anytime, no matter how outclassed they or the opponent might be. They will let fans into the 90,000 seat covid dish called Memorial Stadium and take their money. They will play football and aint nobody gonna tell them what to do. Nebraska, the mask deniers of college football.

But of course, NONE of this will happen. $51 million is a lot of money to risk over a game thats been cancelled by your boss who has forbidden you from playing. Nebraska will throw a tantrum and guffaw and huff and puff and their 2020 football record will still end up at 0-0. Because in the world of college athletics, risking money is wayyyyy more important than risking lives. The lives are unimportant. You can always recruit more lives willing to risk their health and future well being for instant gratification.

I will miss Nebraska football. I really will. But its not worth it. I gave up my tickets this year before they cancelled the season because I had no intention of going to a game due to oh I dont know, common sense. I had no intention being around screeching maskless droplet spewing fanatics while this virus exists in this  denial State.

So to the 2020 football season I say after a 5-7 season last year, a .500 season is progress, even if its is 0-0.

Sidenote---despite the objections of a band of maskless kooks spouting off conspiracy theories and bad science and general nuttiness, the Omaha City Council passed a mask mandate today. Lincolns positivity Covid rate went from 8% to 5% after that city defied our moron Governor and passed a mask mandate. Omaha;s rose to 11% for kowtowing to our idiot Governor. Maybe the future is brighter here now.