Best Christmas Gift Ever

 Donald Trump needs to be arrested, indicted, tried and jailed.  They will probably arrest, indict, try and imprison on seditious conspiracy charges - - but the real truth is that Donald J. Trump is a traitor and has committed treason.  The records recovered at Mar-a-Lago prove this.  The records we are not yet aware of  that are missing are also evidence of treason.

How did a messed up, idiot of a man like Donald Trump ever get elected in the first place?

This is America.  Uneducated.  Violent.  Stupid.  Rubes just waiting for a con. 

Pollsters and Pundits

 I truly find the news media outlets to be supremely annoying in election years.  If they're not spelling doom for the democrats, they're spelling doom for the republicans.  It varies day to day, and it's all based on sample polling, which has an awful lot of room for error.

The media in this country needs to stop being so full of themselves that every irrelevant opinion they form makes its way to national coverage.  If its comfusing to me, it is really confusing to people with less experience than me in understanding that some news has become entertainment driven.

This election is important.  And unless you have an IQ of less than 65 points, I think all of us understand how important it is.  The right wants to push their religious based autocratic agenda.  The left is thinking about what's best for everyone here, and not worrying about tax increases. 

Speaking of tax increases, why do millionaires and billionaires want to hang on to all that money?  They can't possibly spend it in a lifetime.  I wish they'd shut up and just pay their fare share instead of buying media outlets and politicans to help them avoid taxes.  If only they'd spend a little of all that money they spend on buying a nation unfit for anyone but themselves to live in, on humanitarian issues. What a utopian society we would have.  But they're all for dystopia.

There is a thing called too much information.  It's sort of like being on a first date and explaining you want six children to make up for the abortions you've had in the past.  Some things are just better left unsaid, unless asked.  I feel this way about CNN, MSNBC, FOX, ABC, CBS, NBC, VICE and numerous other outlets all pushing for media ratings, not truth.  Shut up.  Present the facts and let the people decide.  Leave your countless opinions out of it.  (Disclaimer - everyone knows Fox is incapable of presenting anything more than right wing propaganda that never comes close to factual truth).

So I've turned off the news.  I've voted early and blue.  I am going out on Tuesday night, having several cocktails and not paying attention to the exit poll interviews, the predictions or the doomsday sayers.  What will be is something I will have to find out Wednesday morning. (Not withstanding the bull$hit that's happened in other elections).

As long as I'm on my soapbox, can we all agree that Arizona is one of the most disgustingly insane  places on Earth?

Hoping for a Blue Tsunami!

Trump's Game Plan

 The only reason the orange doufass hasn't announched his 2024 run for the presidency is the simple truth that he gets to keep all the money idiots keep sending him, to do with what he wants.  Once he announces his candidacy, all that money goes into a campaign fund, complete with campaign finance rules.  So if you are one of the people sending him money, what a sap/rube you are!  Just another example of a fool and his/her money quickly parting ways.

I have watched this mental cripple dance around laws and decency for many years.  I have always found him repulsive and stupid.  I don't know how he managed to get elected to a first term as president, but I certainly will do everything in my power to prevent him from ever getting near that office again.  It's not merely that I detest the man and the hatred he always brings to whatever he does, it's that this democracy simply cannot survive another round of Trump.

But in a way, I hope he does run.  It will bring out every apathetic voter in the land, people who are now well aware of the fact that not voting gets them into dangerous waters.  I don't think he could win the nomination from the GOP, much less the presidency, but sadly I was totally wrong about that in 2016.  Now I am a bit more educated about how many uneducated voters there actually are in America.

Been watching NetFlix's "The Handmaid's Tale" for several seasons now.  I think Margaret Atwood got some things very right.  We can't survive in a capitalist/consumer driven model.  We must change.  In Margaret Atwood's nightmare, the religious right takes over and it's chaos for people like me, who don't believe in religion.  In my dream, we need to have socialized medicine, especially for people with mental illness.  We ALL have to pay our FAIR share of taxes and stop complaining about it.  We have to have a global perspective rather than an isolated superpower view.  And we have to find a different way to do government, because the way it is done now just shines its dysfunction everywhere.  I propose term limits.  I propose campaign finance reform.  I propose no business interfering with governing bodies on any level.  

But mostly I propose that we stop giving Donald Trump any credibility as a human being of any value.  He simply is a disgusting has-been and an avaricious wanna-be.

Mid Terms Will Determine Everything

 I am filled with trepidation when I think of what's at stake in the mid-term elections.  Perhaps never before has our democracy been so on the line.  

I belong to no political party.  My agenda has always been on the liberal side of things.  I believe in the simple truth that you can only judge how successful a country is by how it takes care of its most vulnerable members.  Based on that, this democracy is failing.  Our children are poorly educated and it's a fight to get them fed, clothed and medically sound if they are in the lower income brackets.  Our mentally ill people do not get treatment, they get arrested.  I could write an entire manifesto on how public health has always failed this class of people.  And lastly, we warehouse our elderly people in disgustingly inappropriate care facilities where they are abused, robbed and sometimes killed.  America's report card is not so great.

But I am also optimistic that if we all come out of this ridiculous malaise we've been in for decades, not holding our elected officials accountable, things might get better.

The mid-terms will define where we go as a nation.  I am hoping that women, ALL women, will realize that overturning Roe vs. Wade means we are once more relegated to second class citizenry.  I hope my sisters will come out and vote.  If we lose body autonomy, we lose everything.  I do not believe abortion is a good method of birth control.  I do believe preventing pregnancy is a relatively simple thing.  Still, my body - hands off.  

Everything is riding on the mid term elections.  I am cautiously optimistic that the females in this country will not let me down, that we will realize what a powerful voice we have with our vote.  Then I hope future generations of young women are encouraged to go into politics, to grab a seat at the table.  It's not just enough that we vote the rich old white bastards out of office, we need to replace them with smart, savvy women of every color.  

I am sick to death of politicians being elected to Washington, tying on the feedbag and gorging themselves at the public trough.  Everytime I watch someone elected to the house or senate, I will see a picture of them 3 years into their term and they will have gained 30 pounds.  Term limits, campaign finance reform and equal representation (do you hear me Wyoming and Montana) would go a long way in convincing me this country has a chance..

Meanwhile, I'll be looking at Belize, Costa Rica, France and Canada as my potential next home should things fall apart (even further) here.  

THE LIE BUCKET IS DAMN NEAR EMPTY

 We've all been around for the lies Donald Trump throws around like paper towels after a hurricane.  Most of the lies are absurd, and thank you, Universe, for giving me enough of a brain to know when I'm being lied to.  Most of the people I know also know that if Donald Trump's little anus-like puckery lips are moving, the lies are forthcoming.  It would be laughable, except he poses such a danger to this nation and democracy.  

You have to wonder about the intelligence of someone who decides to run for president after decades of shady business practices.  Did he not know how much scrutiny he'd be under as a presidential candidate, and even more so, as a president?  No, alas, he did not.  Because Trump doesn't know much of anything and he guesses at the rest.

But this morning's lie --- "all I have to do is think documents unclassified," is about as childish and surly as the Trump idiot who wakes each morning.  

The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals finds absurdity in every piece of Trump's defense.  As the saying goes, you can put an incompetent judge on the bench who will side with you every time, but the real test is what kind of character most judges possess when they take the oath of office.  Bottom line, no judge wants to be characterized as talentless, incompetent and devoid of legal acumen.  Except the little slut in Florida who gave Trump a Special Master.  God rest your soul, sweetheart.  Let's see what happens to you next.  We'll all enjoy it.

I digress.  

You can't think documents unclassified.  Donald Trump thought he was presidential  material and it turned out he could get elected, but he'd never be presidential.  That's where his "thinking" stems from.  The deep trench Trump has dug for himself is his familial grave.  His businesses are collapsing, his children will be indicted and the Trump name, now and forever after, will be synonymous with the stinking pile of fecal devastation he has left in his wake.  Sadly, there isn't enough gold leaf in the world to cover up the $hit that this man and his morally bankrupt children have brought to all of us.

Lipstick on a Pig Sty of the Trump family.  They may all live in palaces, but the thing that they actually CAN take with them, their characters, are beyond worthless.

Roevember

I certainly hope that every eligible woman in this country votes in the mid-term elections.  The mid-terms will determine our autonomy over our bodies.  I believe most intelligent women voters in this country understand this.  I believe we will turn out en masse to defeat the old white men who would dictate our futures.  I believe we will be an overwhelmingly large blue wave.  We will tell our society that we will not stand for any man dictating to us what we can or cannot do with our own bodies.  As I was thinking about this earlier today, I realized the sad sad state of our country, because this kind of fascist control would have been unheard of in the past fifty years.  And I also was thinking that, despite our willingness to turn out the vote and turn this nightmare around, women are truly sick to death of coming in to clean up the mess the men of the world have made of things.

I hope that every woman who votes against the religious right dinosaurs realizes her power.  If we can shut these rich old white men down (as well as their sycophant hair sprayed counterparts), think of what else we can do.  Let's talk about it and let's do it.  Women can think progressively.  Forward thinking change makes the status quo of this country very very nervous.  Let's give them a reason to run for the Xanax.  Let's take this country not back, but over.  Because I, for one, am very over this utter bullshit.

Trump's Playbook is As Worn Out as His Face

 There we have Donald Trump in Pennsylvania, spouting his usual victimization rhetoric and calling Joe Biden an Enemy of the State.

Come on Donald.  Get a clue.  The only people buying into your sad and unenlightened statements are the radical right bearded (both sexes) hillbillies.  

Donald Trump is the Enemy of the United States of America.  The FBI had enough evidence to gain a search warrant.  And where, or where, are the missing classified documents?  My guess they are with Putin, or at least, in a briefcase waiting for Putin.  Donald does, afterall, owe a huge favor to Putin, having helped him win the election in 2016.  Trump was supposed to stay in power for four more years to satisfy Putin's intent to destroy the United States.  Sadly, the orange clown quickly proved his incompetence to the majority of American voters.  He lost the election.  Putin is mad.  Probably a good thing Mar-a-LOCO doesn't have an eighteenth floor.  Or is it?

Donald Trump is a Liar.  He projects all that he is onto his enemies.  Any first year psychology student understands Trump's behavior, something he never will because of his complete lack of insight.

Anyhow, good to see there's no new tricks up the Donald's sleeves.  It's the same crap he campaigned on the first time around and frankly, it wins him no new voters.  In fact, he's losing so badly in every arena, it is highly doubtful the GOP will want to nominate him.  If they do, it will be just one more pathetic attempt by a bunch of old white men afraid to die without leaving a stain on history.