I may have some problems with Newsom’s policies, but I love the way he’s trolling Trump. He’s posting tweets that mimic Trump’s deranged ramblings along with fake AI pictures of the type Trump posts. And when Republicans say he’s not acting like a Governor should, he just laughs and wonders why they never say the same about Trump’s unhinged posts.
There’s a reason the support for Democrats is at its lowest in years, and it’s mainly because we’re tired of moderate Democrats who are too scared to fight back and who won’t push for the liberal policies the majority of Americans want. Chuck Schumer and his “strongly worded letters” may have been how politics was done in the days of political decorum, but that ended when Newt Gingrich came along, and Democrats have yet to learn that you won’t accomplish anything that way any more.
No more “When they go low, we go high.” Ignoring the neighborhood bully only makes him more powerful.
I mean, I am not really looking forward to Newsom running for President but duh, if he gets the nomination, I’m going to vote for him. I mean, come on, the worst Democrat is still better than the best Republican these days.
I’ve been a bit depressed to write too much about politics lately, but I do have some good news, if you don’t mind me sharing.
My wife, award-winning dryer lint artist Heidi Hooper (you may have seen her on ABC’s “To Tell the Truth” with Mel Brooks or on “Access Hollywood” or in Ripley’s Believe it or Not books and museums) had a major cancer operation around the turn of the century which took away much of the use of her right arm. She developed lymphedema which got worse over the years, and for the past 10 years or so was forced to get into a massaging machine for her arm three times a day for an hour each time. If she did not, the arm would expand, she’d be in terrible pain, and have to go to the hospital (and she did, too, from time to time when it didn’t work).
Just take a second and imagine if you had to do that, every single day, no holidays, no weekends, for ten years.
So when her doctor told her about a new procedure where they could transplant lymph nodes from her stomach to her arm and thus, if successful, prevent her from having to spend three hours a day in a machine, she decided to take the chance.
She made a video diary of the experience so that other possible patients would see what it was like.
And here it is.
Poll after poll shows that the majority of Americans disagree with Trump and his policies. His approval rating is terrible and people hate his “Big, Beautiful Bill.”
But Republicans don’t care. They control all three branches of government, and given what the Supreme Court allowed Trump to do last week, apparently plan on changing the rules as much as possible to make sure no Democrat ever gets elected again.
It’s kind of hard to call this kind of government a “democracy.”
“We can’t tolerate illegals! We have laws in this country!” — said by people who voted for a convicted felon
Calling immigrants “illegals” it’s an easy way for people to not say “I’m a racist.” (Hey, you notice that ICE never heads to Boston to round up all the illegal Irish immigrants that are there?) The “illegal” part is a misdemeanor at most (unlike President Felon) and we could change the law tomorrow and they’d be legal.
My ancestors on my father’s side came here legally in the early 1900s, because back then, there was no immigration law. You came here, you registered, and then you could apply for citizenship. There was no limit on how many could come here.
If you’re in America, your heritage is either native, immigrant, refugee, or slave — and it’s evilly ironic when you claim that “America is for Americans” when you’re standing on land stolen from natives. So unless you are a native American, you shouldn’t be screaming about how immigrants are going to ruin the country — chances are, someone said the same thing about your ancestors when they came here.
Besides, have you noticed that some of the people ICE rounds up are being caught at their immigration hearings — meaning the immigrants are DOING IT LEGALLY.
It’s pure racism, from an administration that yesterday refused to acknowledge or celebrate the national holiday Juneteenth.
In a related story, Trump now has a new policy to encourage women to have more babies, because we need to increase our population. Obviously, he means white babies (otherwise, if we want to increase our population, we should be bringing in more immigrants). It’s because these racists are really scared that white people will eventually be the minority in America and they’re convinced that once whites are the minority, that the non-white majority will treat whites as badly as whites are currently treating them.
Republicans are doing everything they can to try to make this normal — like it’s normal to ignore court rulings and politicize the justice department and call anyone who disagrees with them enemies of the state and spit on the Constitution and use the military against civilians…
I am not sure our democracy will endure now that the white supremacists have taken over. Even if we take over the White House and Congress again, there’s no reason to believe they won’t still have the same disgust for democracy as they are showing now.
Politics used to be liberals vs. conservatives, but now it’s good guys vs. bad guys.
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