POKING AROUND 12-13-24
All the Awful is already happening.
Jeff Bezos and Amazon have joined widdle Markie Fuckerberg and FleeceBlock in making a million dollar bribe, er, I mean a donation, to Trump’s inaugural committee. “Democracy dies in darkness” indeed. He just really really wants some of the table scraps Elmo leaves from turning the U.S. space program into a wholly-owned subsidiary of Space-X. Elmo can have Mars if Jeffie can have Ceres (if you haven’t read the novels or seen the series “The Expanse,” this is pretty much the way the 22nd century happened as it did).
Not to be outdone, Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong has spiked another L.A. Times editorial that was going to be critical of Trump, this time about him planning to use recess appointments to get the Clown Car of Broken Toys into their new positions. Senator Chris Murphy has accurately called out what’s happening as an Oligarchy.
How bad is it? It’s this bad: The newest Monmouth University Poll released on Thursday finds 48 percent of respondents think Trump is serious about going after political foes, while 47 percent think that’s an exaggeration. 77% of Democrats take Trump’s statements seriously, while 71% of Republicans ay the statements as exaggerations; only21% of GOP voters take Trump’s remarks about retribution seriously - that figure was 33% in June. A whole 52% of all those surveyed would be bothered if Trump tries to suspend some laws and constitutional provisions; that figure was 675% in June. Only 77% of Democrats said they would be bothered, which was still higher than independents at 55%. Only 23% of Republicans would be bothered.
The two geniuses running DOGE are now asking if we really need the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the governmental agency that insures bank deposits so that customers don’t lose everything when one of their fellow geniuses runs his bank into the reef. Seriously! Potential nominees to lead bank regulatory agencies are now being asked this question by the two aforementioned geniuses.
Donald Trump admitted yesterday that just like “who knew it was so hard?” when it came to killing Obamacare and replacing it with something “totally exellent” back in Trump 1.0 that the lady who wanted to buy the three apples the store was selling out of the refrigerator (!) and all the rest of the dildos who voted for him so he could lower the price of eggs for them, will not in fact be seeing the prices drop because “once they’re up there, “it’s really hard to bring them down.” Back before November 5, Fatso Fatass was saying, “They call it groceries! Bacon, lettuce, tomato. All the everything is so much higher than it ever was. And we’re going to bring that down, and we’re going to do it very simply.” Not that he really gives a shit - all he wants is for the rubes to keep buying into the con.And since 60% of them have a 6th grade reading comprehension level or less, and most of them don’t read, he’s making a good bet (see Monmouth University Poll above).
Amidst all this news is the good news that Elmo is demanding to know if President JBiden is targeting him after his bitter feud with the SEC caught fire again with the news the SEC has reopened an investigation into his brain-chip startup Neuralink over allegations that Musk misled investors about a brain implant Neuralink developed.. Elmo’s in a dither about the SEC “harassing him” for mor than six years and is absolutely certain the campaign against him was politically motivated and had nothing to do with the fact he’s a lying sack of shit about this, like he’s a lying sack of shit about everything else. The letter from Musk’s attorney also said the SEC gave him a 48-hour ultimatum to settle a probe into his $44 billion investment in Twitter or risk facing charges. I’m sure his work with Trump in choosing a new SEC commissioner has absolutely nothing to do with any of this - and if you believe that, I’ve got a movie deal for you that you can’t resist.
David Kurtz at TPM describes everything perfectly: “Putting charlatans in charge is the point. Whatever they do or fail to do is gravy. It’s not as simple as his appointee being unqualified. It’s that their own lack of seriousness mirrors the contempt and lack of regard they have for the institutions they are set to lead. It’s all part of the destructive impulse. The descent towards a less democratic America isn’t a cliff’s edge we fall over but a steepening slope. We’ve already come down a considerable distance and the speed of the descent is quickening.”
Just yesterday, I told my chiropractor that there are too many days now where I wish I wasn't so knowledgeable that I can see what is happening and understand what is going on. I really really never thought ever that it would be so easy to destroy this country and that so few of my fellow citizens would give a damn about it happening.
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I don't know that so many of our fellow Americans are unconcerned ("don't give a damn") about what's happening as they just don't see what they're in a position to do about it. With the Democratic "leadership" bailing out without much of a peep, it's hard to tell where to turn.
The problem, Tom, isn't so much with what's happening now. This is precisely what I feared would happen. Way back in 2023 I started ranting about Amendment 14, Section 3. I wrote monthly emails to my Governor (Newsom), My Senator (Padilla) My Congressman (Bera), my Assemblyman (McCarty) all to no avail. All of us, nearly every citizen (excluding the 30 million brain dead MAGAts) knew trump had texted and posted on social media the infamous "Come to DC Jan 6, it will be wild"
The more than 100 million of us who watched on TV the destructive invasion of OUR Capitol Building. All of us bloody well knew trump had instigated, encouraged and prompted his minions to attack to stop the counting of the electoral college ballots.
Then we heard it all over again as the January 6 televised hearing. There isn't a person in the US that, whether they denied it as an insurrection or not, didn't know.
That being said the only people, with the authority to do anything, and did invoke Amendment 14, Section 3, was the Legislature of the State of Colorado. Not another single State joined nor backed them. That made it easy for the Unsupreme Court lackeys to find for trump.
Every Democrat Governor should be hanging their heads in shame. The lame answer from California was 'they didn't think they had the authority' bullshit! Why do we have a Constitution if only one State in Fifty is willing to use it. And yes I'm angry. No use lamenting now.
The only thing left for us (if we can drag up the courage) is to oppose, resist, defend the Constitution. It would help a hell of a lot if those who have not done so would take the time to read the thirty pages of the Constitution and decided for themselves if it's worth defending.
When I became a citizen I didn't pledge my allegiance to an insensate piece of cloth, I pledged it to the Constitution and the Country which it guides.