I’ve been running this blog for five years or so now, using WordPress. In exchange for giving me a free page, they’d run ads everywhere.
But they never showed me the ads. I’d just get a message saying, “Some of your readers may see an ad here.”
I recently looked at this page on my phone and then again from a computer where I was not logged into WordPress automatically and was surprised at how often these ads popped up.
So I finally gave in and paid the extra yearly fee so you won’t have to see any ads.
You can thank me by maybe buying one of my books — they make good holiday presents, too.
Wait, was that an ad?
If you saw this in a movie, you’d think “This is so unbelievable and so cliched.”
President wins by a loophole after being supported by our cliched Russian enemy using underhanded and illegal means. The President is a reality show host who has a history of being a terrible landlord who has been married many times, mistreats and abuses woman while bragging about it, lies constantly, and has the maturity of a kindergarten child.
He then appoints the man most responsible for the foreclosure crisis to be in charge of the economy; appoints a woman who wants to destroy public education as Secretary of Education; appoints people who don’t believe in science in charge of science, appoints lawyers who have no experience in law to be judges; and gives the rest of his appointments to his family despite laws against nepotism.
He then channels government funds in a way to profit his personal businesses, which he refuses to place into a blind trust, and refuses to release his taxes despite promising to do so.
He tries to cut a popular health care program for no reason, wants to raise taxes on the poor and reduce them on the rich while letting his billionaire friends write off expenses like personal jets and yachts.
He has a propaganda machine concentrated in one network in particular and supported by many smaller stations and newspapers which repeat lies enough that eventually people believe them.
And to top this all off, he is supported by KKK members and literal nazis.
In a movie, this would be rejected as being too blatantly obvious. “These bad guys are just too evil — no one would believe it!”
All we’re missing is a maniacal laugh.
Trump: “I like to brag about grabbing pussies against their will and walking into underage girls’ dressing rooms. And I don’t apologize for it.”
GOP: “What a guy! Let’s elect him our leader!”
Franken: “I posed for a funny picture where I pretended to grope a sleeping woman. There were witnesses, a photographer, and I’m clearly doing it for humorous effect. I apologize completely for my crude actions, and hope everyone will forgive me for this.”
GOP: “He needs to resign immediately!”
Republicans spend an inordinate amount of time and money trying to take away your most basic right in a democracy: The right to vote.
They use illegal voter purges. They make registration extremely difficult if not impossible. They move voting precincts around randomly. They block efforts to allow for early voting or mail-in ballots. They try their best to make people ineligible. And, of course, they use gerrymandering and the electoral college.
And you know why. Because they know there are more of us than there are of them, and when we vote in equal numbers, we win.
So the only way they can keep power is to cheat — to do everything they can to keep us from using the power we have.
Don’t let them.
Vote.
Another mass shooting in the only country in the world that won’t do a thing to stop them.
“I know!” Republicans say. “Let’s do nothing! That should solve the problem!”
The vast majority of Americans support reasonable gun control such as stricter background checks. Even the majority of NRA members.
Republican Jesus says “Beat your swords into plowshares … No, wait! Guns! Much better.”
The NRA, however, is no longer a group of hunters but instead is the lobbying arm of the gun industry which funds most of its activities. The NRA acts in opposition to the desires of a majority of its members.
That’s the real enemy: The people who profit from the deaths and the politicians who care more about money than lives.
If we did nothing to protect ourselves against Islamic terrorists, people would scream that it would then be our fault for not defending ourselves properly.
These exact same people who scream about Islamic terrorism are not only doing nothing to prevent more gun deaths like this, but are actively working to make these deaths even easier, by getting rid of reasonable laws to prevent the mentally ill from getting guns (while at the same time eliminating funding for treating those mentally ill).
If this had only happened in a church, where the prayers would be so much more powerful and … Oh, wait
Well, if this had only happened in one of those states where everyone can open carry, because then a good guy with a gun would have stopped the … Oh, wait
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