Showing posts with label Hurricane. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hurricane. Show all posts

Saturday, November 23, 2024

Why Is It ...

… that my boss has yet to realize that a work meeting without food should be an email.

… that when you come to my house and I say “Make yourself at home” I mean do a load of laundry and run the vacuum.

… that I am 60% tired and I am also 40% tried.

… that my Mind will say, “Don’t say anything, just let it go. It’s not worth it,” and then my Mouth says, “I just find it funny how …”

… that life is better when you don’t care what other people think.

… that I don’t like to think before I speak because I like to be as surpised as everyone else by what I say.

… that I am already to get off work … tomorrow.

… that I just watched a lady look at my tattoos and clucth her purse so I said to her, “Ma’am, my ankle cost more than your handbag.”

… that I need to get a hurricane named after me because I’ve been a disaster all my life.


Monday, October 14, 2024

GOP Dumpster Fire: Racists, Liars, Grifters and Some Good News

There’s an old saying about when someone shows you who they are, believe them; and when someone says something, openly and publicly, believe that, too, and not the spin machine that envelopes the liar afterwards.

Here are a few examples of liars, and morons, and weirdos showing us who they are …

 

The far-right website The Gateway Pundit acknowledged for the first time this week that there was not any fraud during ballot counting in Atlanta in 2020 when The Felon lost the presidency.

The statement came days after the site settled a defamation lawsuit with two local election workers who the site falsely accused of wrongdoing. The terms of the settlement were not disclosed publicly, but the site appears to have removed all mention of the two women.

So, they lied, and now they admit they lied, and are liars who lie because that’s what they do: lie.


Hurricane Milton’s rampage is not swaying House GOP leaders who oppose returning to Washington to approve billions of dollars for disaster assistance because they do not care about the American people.

Athina Lawson, a spokesperson for Christian Nationalist House Speaker Mike Johnson, said:

“To be clear: Congress will act again upon its return in November to address funding needs and ensure those impacted receive the necessary resources.”

Weeks after the hurricane Congress will talk about what to do; weeks after.


The Kremlin confirmed that The Felon, while in office, sent Russian President Vladimir Putin Covid-19 testing devices during the height of the pandemic.

Americans were sick and dying and he gave our tests to the Russians?

If you’re still voting for this asshole, I hope you get everything you deserve.


Former Georgia gubernatorial candidate and now county official Kandiss “Jesus, Guns, Babies” Taylor talking about “weather manipulation”:

“Like the whole thing with North Carolina, I know though it’s a grab for the land—land grab and they want the lithium. But I also believe they don’t want the voters turning out that are all around Asheville. Those Republican, red voters. They are trying their best to keep Mark Robinson from that governorship because he understands—oh, I feel the Holy Spirit—he understands the Constitution.”

Hey Crazy, can I call you Crazy, cuz y’are crazy … the only person hurting Robinson’s campaign is the Black Nazi himself.


The Felon claimed he’s “basically a truthful person” during a podcast interview and that caused the host, Andrew Schulz to burst out laughing.

The Felon claimed Kamala Harris is running ads they’re full of falsehoods about him and says there should be a law against telling lies in campaign ads before adding he doesn’t lob similar attacks at his opponent cause he’s “basically a truthful person.”


Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene has doubled down on her allegation that an unspecified “they” can control the weather:

“Yes they can control the weather. Anyone who says they don’t, or makes fun of this, is lying to you. By the way, the people know it and hate all of you who try to cover it up.”

Hey, Large Marge AKA Russian Asset or just Russian Ass, careful what you say because they just might send a tornado through your living room.


After The Felon was asked about the future prospects of Gaza, he said:

“You know, I’ve been there, and it’s rough.”

Funny, though, that there is no evidence of his going to Gaza; he never went as president, and CNN, The New York Times and The Washington Post have all found no proof he made a prior visit. Still, his campaign, working overtime to redefine the lies, says that he meant what he said and insisted the claim is true though they refused to say when this happened:

“[The Felon] has been to Gaza previously and has always worked to ensure peace in the Middle East.”

Perhaps Demented DonOLD was confused because his campaign once claimed that Gaza is “in Israel”—it’s not—so he can say that he visited Gaza. And now even that stupid lie isn’t enough.


GOP VP nominee JD Vance AKA Sofa Loren campaigned in Detroit, where he described $500 million that the federal government is providing to convert a General Motors plant in Michigan for electric vehicles as “table scraps” compared with larger job losses he contends could be on the horizon.

Several hundred people attended the event, including more than a dozen who were wearing “auto workers for [The Felon]” shirts but six of the people in the shirts say they were not actually auto workers.

Huh. Lies. Who knew.

Thousands of copies of [The Felon]’s “God Bless the USA” Bible were printed in China, a country he has repeatedly accused of stealing American jobs and engaging in unfair trade practices.

Global trade records show a printing company in China’s eastern city of Hangzhou shipped close to 120,000 of the Bibles to the United States between early February and late March. The estimated value of the three separate shipments was $342,000, or less than $3 per Bible. The Felon is selling those $3 “Bibles” for $59.99.

Grifters gonna grift.


FOX “News” Channel’s Harris Faulkner will present a town hall with The Felon focusing on issues impacting women ahead of the election. The event, which will be held with an audience entirely composed of women, will pre-tape on October 15th and, after heavy editing and reworking of his lies, will air on October 16th.

One of the issues facing women is that sexual predators, like The Felon, are not being held accountable for their actions, and that their rights to healthcare have been stripped away from them by a man who bragged about doing so.


Back to How Stupid Are They news, The Felon’s campaign is rushing to relabel some of its new “Latter-day Saints for [The Felon]” merchandise—coffee cups and koozies—after it was criticized for not understanding some of the key tenets of the religion.

Most devout LDS Church followers do not consume alcohol, which most koozies are used for, nor drink caffeine.

Seriously.


Four cities and a county have confirmed that they’re still waiting for The Felon’s campaign to pay bills often associated with reimbursements for the costs of local law enforcement and other first responder personnel. The final price tag is more than $750,000 for those five jurisdictions, with some bills dating back eight years.

A Felon campaign official said in a text message that “questions related to local law enforcement and first responder costs should be directed to secret service.”

No, they are the bills to be paid for by a con artist who never pays his bills.


JD Vance AKA Sofa Loren really did not want to answer a New York Times reporter’s question about The Felon losing the 2020 election, refusing to answer it a total of five times. Vance also said that if he’s been Veep in 2020 he would not have certified the election.

This traitorous fascist does not belong anywhere near the Oval Office.


Again with the lies … this time it’s the Scranton Fire Department firefighters’ union who say they had nothing to do with several signs stating “Scranton Firefighters for [The Felon]” held up and displayed by members of the public at a campaign event last week.

Neither the International Association of Fire Fighters union nor its local chapter in Scranton, Local 60, have made an endorsement in the presidential race of either candidate  but that doesn’t stop a Felon and his Lap Dog from pushing the lies forward.


After mocking Vice President Kamala Harris over her teleprompter use, The Felon’s rally in Reno, Nevada, ground to a halt as he was forced to fix his teleprompter on-stage after a campaign sign fell on it.

God heard you DonOLD and She sent that sign crashing down to show the world what a lying POS you are.

Remember when The Felon accused Biden and Harris of withholding hurricane relief from North Carolina?

Well, now he’s threatening to withhold funds from any future California wildfires because he doesn’t like Gavin Newsom or his policies.

Again, and pay attention: EVERY GOP ACCUSATION IS AN ADMISSION.


Vice President Harris released her medical history this week, which said she is in “excellent health” and has the physical and mental resiliency required to be president, if elected in November.

The Felon refuses to release his medical records because he’s a bloated gelatinous mass in diapers.



President Joe Biden said he believes his administration is “breaking through with the truth” when it comes to misinformation lies surrounding the federal response to Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton. Now, while Biden continued to criticize The Felon, he did say The Felon was “not singularly to blame” but that he did have the “biggest mouth.”



Democrat Representative Ruben Gallego now has a ten-point lead over Republican Kari Lake in the Arizona Senate race. Ninety-five percent of Democrats are in favor of Gallego while 81 percent of GOP members favor Lake. Both candidates received an almost equal share of support from the state’s male voters.

Vote Ruben!


GOP Representative French Hill shut down Fox “News” host Maria Bartiromo’s on-air lie that the Federal Emergency Management Agency [FEMA] is “out of money” to handle the aftermath of Hurricanes Helene and Milton, telling her:

“FEMA is not out of money. Congress is ready to replenish the funding as soon as we get back to Washington. They have the money to take care of Florida, take care of North Carolina, and take care of Georgia.”

Trouble is, Speaker Johnson will not ask Congress to return to work to allocate those funds, so, yes again, it’s the GOP at the root of the problem.

Still, nice of a Republican to stand up to the GOP lies,

And then Florida GOP Representative Carlos Gimenez said that GOP QAnon Loon Marjorie Taylor Greene and others who think like her that humans can control the weather need “to have their head examined.”

Large Marge’s examination would show her head to be completely empty.

Representative Chuck Edwards of North Carolina sent a letter to his constituents debunking the misinformation lies and conspiracy theories that have spread in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, telling them, “Nobody can control the weather.”

Edwards, who represents western North Carolina, which was devastated by Hurricane Helene, urged his constituents not to believe everything they see on social media and noted there’s been an increase in “untrustworthy sources [The GOP] trying to spark chaos by sharing hoaxes, conspiracy theories, and hearsay about hurricane response efforts across our mountains.”

“Hurricane Helene was NOT geoengineered by the government to seize and access lithium deposits in Chimney Rock.”

Seriously, only MAGAts are this dumb.


CNN anchor Kate Bolduan hammered The Felon’s National Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt over his lies about hurricane response and ended the interview by telling Leavitt she never answered her question after “I offered you three times!”

Bolduan then left Leavitt flatfooted when she pointed out The Felon himself diverted FEMA funds to house migrants and after refusing to respond to that three times, Leavitt simply sputtered about Harris “allowing in 20 million illegals.”

He’s crumbling, y’all.

 

Remember, the GOP is a party that promises but never delivers, a party of demented old men, and mascara-wearing RuPaul wannabes who hate women, the  LGBTQ+ community, immigrants, education and members of our military.

We don't need that so ... 

Monday, October 07, 2024

GOP Dumpster Fire: Racists, Liars, Grifters and Some Good News

There’s an old saying about when someone shows you who they are, believe them; and when someone says something, openly and publicly, believe that, too, and not the spin machine that envelopes the liar afterwards.

Here are a few examples of liars, and morons, and weirdos showing us who they are …


The Felon visited North Carolina last week and took questions from supporters, telling them that the federal response to the storm had been “rotten” and “terrible.” GOP Representative from Florida, Anna Paulina Luna moderated the event and told the crowd that federal authorities have “intentionally not helped out residents” because “it’s red communities impacted.”

Ten days ago #ThisBitch was among the 87 House Republicans who voted against a stopgap funding bill to keep the government running which included funding FEMA.

Remember, every GOP accusation is an admission.


The Felon was reportedly caught on tape saying vile thing s about Helen Comperatore, the widow of Corey Comperatore  who was actually shot and killed a Felon rally, into a source of amusement for his uber-wealthy dinner guests:

“So they’re going to get millions of dollars but the woman, the wife, this beautiful woman, I handed her the check—we handed her the check—and she said, ‘This is so nice, and I appreciate it, but I’d much rather have my husband.’ Now I know some of the women in this room wouldn’t say the same. At least four couples here would have been thrilled, actually.”

F*cking pig.

JD Vance AKA Sofa Loren AKA Lying POS tried to distort his own position on abortion at the debate last week saying  he “never supported a national ban.”

In the past, this Lying POS has said that he “certainly would like abortion to be illegal nationally” and was “sympathetic” to the view that a national ban was needed to stop women from going to another state to get an abortion.

His lips move, he lies.


The Felon has vowed to revoke Temporary Protected Status for the Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, and deport them if he is reelected in November.

“You have to remove the people, and you have to bring them back to their own country. They are, in my opinion, it’s not legal. Absolutely. I’d revoke it, and I’d bring them back to their country.”

Temporary Protected Status means these immigrants are here legally.


It was a substantive and mostly civil debate between JD Vance and Tim Walz who showcased the difference between the two parties on immigration, abortion and foreign policy. But no issue made clearer the size and stakes of the country’s current political divide than when Lying POS refused to concede that The Felon lost the 2020 election, saying:

“Tim, I’m focused on the future.”

Walz replied:

“That is a damning nonanswer.”

Then Lying POS actually uttered the line that The Felon “peacefully gave over power on January the 20th.”

I guess he skipped right over January 6.


Once again proving he’s anti-military, the draft dodging, bone spur riddled Felon actually referred to brain injuries more than 100 U.S. troops sustained in an Iranian attack on a base in Iraq as "headaches":

"What does injured mean? You mean because they had a headache? Because the bombs never hit the fort?"

He has no business being Commander-in-Chief.


The Felon has openly admitted that he “hated” to pay his workers overtime at his organization and would in fact fire those who were due overtime pay:

“I know a lot about overtime. I hated to give overtime; I hated it. I’d get other—I shouldn’t say this—but I’d get other people in. I wouldn’t pay.”

He has built his ego and his so-called empire of screwing over his employees.


The Felon has called for “one real rough, nasty” and “violent day” of police retaliation in order to eradicate crime “immediately”:

“One rough hour—and I mean real rough—the word will get out and it will end immediately, you know? It will end immediately.”

Yes, the bloated gasbag of lies said he can end crime in the entire country in one hour.


House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chair, Republican James Comer, who couldn’t get any real dirt on Hunter and no dirt at all on Joe, now says he has information relating to Tim Walz and a vague alleged connection to the Chinese Communist Party.

Comer said in a letter accompanying the subpoena—issued on the day before the VP debate—that his committee received whistleblower disclosures about “serious concern among Department of Homeland Security (DHS) personnel regarding a longstanding connection between” Walz and China.

Vague, and stupid; kinda like James Comer.


The Felon, on Kellyanne Conway’s Fox Nation show:

“We’re going to move education back to the states where they can run their educational programs, and they’ll do great. And you take states like Iowa and Idaho and so many, they’ll have great education. Right now, you have mostly transgender. Everything’s transgender. Some of these school programs I looked at the other night, they’re destroying our country. So education is exciting.”

Yes, again Demented DonOLD thinks schools are doing gender reassignment surgeries in the cafeteria.


At a recent campaign event in Whitehall, Montana, the GOP US Senate candidate Tim Sheehy told voters that when he set up the aerial firefighting company through which he made his fortune, he and his wife were living “below the poverty line.”

But in his own memoir that he ALLEGEDLY wrote, Sheehy says:

“So, we had amassed a nest egg of close to $300,000. I also had some money that my parents had been putting away for me since I was a kid. All told, we had roughly $400,000 to allocate toward building a business and establishing a new life.”

The poverty level is $400,000 in this buffoon’s America.

You may remember that Sheehy was previously busted for lying about a gunshot wound that was actually accidentally self-inflicted. Since then, Sheehy has given no interviews to local or national press and his election events are now “closed affairs,” no media invited.

Sheehy is hiding something, like his lies.


Y’all remember that Oklahoma school Superintendent Ryan Walters wanted to buy Bibles for all state schools, but according to the bid documents, vendors must meet certain specifications: Bibles must be the King James Version; must contain the Old and New Testaments; must include copies of the Pledge of Allegiance, Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights; and must be bound in leather or leather-like material.

A salesperson at Mardel Christian & Education searched, and though they carry 2,900 Bibles, none fit the parameters except for one: Lee Greenwood’s God Bless the U.S.A. Bible, endorsed by the Felon. They cost $60 each online, with The Felon receiving fees for his endorsement.


A bipartisan forum in a small Latah County, Idaho community took a turn when GOP Senate incumbent Dan Foreman stormed out of the event, following a racist outburst directed at an Indigenous candidate.

It all began when Foreman was asked if discrimination existed in Idaho, and he said ‘No.’ Trish Carter-Goodheart, the Democratic candidate for House Seat A and member of the Nez Perce tribe, pushed back on that idea, pointing to her own experience and the history of white supremacy groups in Northern Idaho.

Foreman responded using an expletive to criticize what he cast as the liberal bent of his response but according to people present at the forum, he then told Carter-Goodheart:

“I’m so sick and tired of this liberal b*llsh*t! Why don’t you go back to where you came from?!”

Sounds like Idaho does have a problem with discrimination and it’s in the GOP.


Support among North Carolina Republicans for their candidate for governor, Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, has dropped by 20 percentage points, and now, among all voters polled, Democratic Attorney General Josh Stein now has a 17-point lead.

In a previous poll, Robinson had the vote of 83% of Republicans but that support has dropped to 63% … which is still too high.


This past week Mexico inaugurated its first woman president, Claudia Sheinbaum, a climate scientist who is facing surging violence, a major constitutional reform and maintaining a key relationship with the U.S as our top trading partner; $807 billion worth of goods were exchanged both ways last year and Mexico has been a critical ally in stemming migration to the U.S.

Under a Sheinbaum presidency, the U.S. will likely see continued cooperation on migration, including massive efforts from the Mexican government to detain migrants at its border with Guatemala and elsewhere in the country before people head to the U.S but that cooperation could shift if The Felon is elected in November.

You know what that means …


Judge Robert McBurney, in Georgia’s Fulton County, struck down the state’s six-week abortion ban last week, allowing the procedure to resume and making it legal up to 22 weeks of pregnancy. GOP Governor Brian Kemp signed the bill into law in 2019 but didn’t take effect until July 2022 after it faced a legal challenge and the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade.

McBurney wrote in his ruling that a review of “of our higher courts’ interpretations of ‘liberty’ demonstrates that liberty in Georgia includes in its meaning, in its protections, and in its bundle of rights the power of a woman to control her own body, to decide what happens to it and in it, and to reject state interference with her healthcare choices.”

Simple, common sense … letting women make their own healthcare choices.


US job growth accelerated much more than anticipated last month, providing further reassurance for the ongoing stability of the labor market.

Employers added an estimated 254,000 jobs in September, a higher tally than August’s monthly total—which was upwardly revised to 159,000—and blows economists’ expectations for a 140,000-job gain out of the water.

The Federal Reserve, now keenly focused on protecting the labor market as high inflation appears to have been tamed, is closely scrutinizing employment data for any signs of weakness.


Vice President Kamala Harris and former GOP Representative Liz Cheney appeared in Ripon, Wisconsin, the birthplace of the Republican party, as Cheney endorsed Harris for the presidency and spoke of her love for country and the need to stop The Felon. As she spoke, the crowd, at several times, broke into chants of:

“Thank you, Liz! Thank you, Liz!”

Cheney’s eyes visibly welled with tears; with the exception of Adam Kinzinger, Cheney was the sole Republican fighting for Democracy in the wake of The Felon’s incited riot on January 6. I have often said that I don’t agree with Cheney on anything … except this one thing, so I will join that chorus:

Thank you, Liz!


Remember, the GOP is a party that promises but never delivers, a party of demented old men, and mascara-wearing RuPaul wannabes who hate women, the  LGBTQ+ community, immigrants, education and members of our military.

We don't need that so ...