Ain't That America VIII

Another week, and more scandals ... Jeffrey Epstein is dead but his story and connection to The Felon will not die ... our attack on Iran wasn't at all what The Felon said it was ... Josh Hawley flip-flopped like a dying fish on a dock ... James Comer proved himself both stupid and hypocritical in one swoop of a pen ... and Gym Jordan might have to testify to his part in a college rape scandal after nearly twenty years ... and some Good News, too ...

The Felon has been diagnosed with a “benign and common” vein condition known as chronic venous insufficiency after he noticed swelling in his legs; according to Johns Hopkins, chronic venous insufficiency occurs when veins in the legs struggle to allow blood to flow back up to the heart.

And because his veins are filled with cheese.

The team at the state Department’s Office of Casualty Assistance, which supports US diplomats and their families abroad in the event of death or severe injury, received termination notices last week as the team was repatriating the remains of a senior US official who died in a car crash in Mexico. The State Department says that such future operations will be handled by another department though staff in that department have no experience in dealing with such a solemn task.

Just dead people so who cares, right?

Remember the Great Obliteration of the three nuclear enrichment sites in Iran struck by the United States missiles last month?

One was destroyed but the two others were not as badly damaged and may have been degraded only to a point where nuclear enrichment could resume in the next several months.

He lied to us again.

In Stoopid News The Felon claimed during an Oval Office press event that he was “surprised” that Jerome Powell was appointed Fed Chair.

Funny, cuz The Felon is the one who appointed him in 2017

GOP Senator Josh “Chicken Run” Hawley has introduced legislation that would repeal the cuts to Medicaid that he helped make possible only two weeks ago.

Seriously, you cannot make this shiz up.

Florida’s Director of Emergency Management is defending the conditions at the “Alligator Alcatraz” internment facility, arguing that people sheltering from hurricanes wish they had the kind of space undocumented immigrants get at the site.

No food, few toilets, sleeping on the floor. Sounds plush.

Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, The Felon’s Regime has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people abroad who need it.

Nearly 500 metric tons of emergency food—enough to feed about 1.5 million children for a week—are set to expire and America will just burn it rather than feed children.

Well, since the children are no longer fetuses, The Regime doesn’t care about them.

Republican lawmakers have blocked a move that could have forced The Felon’s Regime to release the files on the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s death and investigation with all but one of the GOP members of the House Rules Committee voting against a Democrat amendment that would have allowed Congress to vote on whether the files should be made public or not.

He’s on the list.

GOP Representative James Comer has been leading the probe into Joe Biden’s cognitive state during his presidency, with Republicans alleging that Biden’s occasional use of an “autopen” to sign documents—a practice other presidents have done as well—proving he wasn’t fully in control or aware of what his administration was doing.

But documents show that some of the letters and subpoena notices James Comer sent out in connection with his investigation have been signed using a digital signature—not written by the congressperson himself.

Every GOP accusation is an admission and I need James Comer to have a cognitive test.

Hundreds of immigrants with no criminal charges in the United States are being held at Kristi’s Koncentration Kamp in Florida that federal officials have characterized as a place where “vicious” and “deranged psychopaths” are sent before they get deported.

It’s like being arrested for DUI and sent to Death Row.

 Trump officials have directed staff at national parks to review all items in gift shops for anti-American content that “inappropriately disparages Americans past or living” or that includes “matters unrelated to the beauty, abundance or grandeur” of a natural feature in its description.

Erasing history.

Attorney General Pamela Jo Bondi has fired her personal ethics adviser because she ain’t got time for ethics!

She has files to scrub.

An ideologically divided Supreme Court on July 14 allowed The Felon’s Regime to fire hundreds of workers from the Education Department and continue other efforts to dismantle the agency.

They want to keep Americans poor and stupid so any scrap they toss your way is seen as a gift and you’ll continue to fall in line.

Maurene Comey, the daughter of former FBI director James Comey, was fired from her job as a prosecutor in the Manhattan U.S. attorney’s office, according to two people who were granted anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.

Comey had worked in the U.S. attorney’s office for ten years and prosecuted both Jeffrey Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell. but there's nothing to see here except ...

He’s on the list.

George Retes, a US Army veteran, arrested during an immigration raid at a Southern California marijuana farm, says he was sprayed with tear gas and pepper spray before being dragged from his car and pinned down by the ICEstapo. Retes works as a security guard at Glass House Farms in Camarillo was arrested despite him identifying himself as a US citizen.

But, you know, he’s brown and works at a farm.

Pedophile enabler, and GOP Representative Jim Jordan, was deposed last week about allegations that he failed to protect the wrestlers he once coached at Ohio State University from a sexual predator.

Jordan has been running from this story since 1994, before he got into politics, has repeatedly and publicly denied any knowledge that the team’s doctor, Richard Strauss, was preying on the athletes.

But why hide Gym??

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, AKA Pee Wee German, one of The Felon’s fascist friends went on national television and ridiculed the city of Minneapolis as a crime-ridden haven for undocumented immigrants.

But then Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty responded:

“If we wanted a white supremacist’s opinion, we’d ask. But we don’t. So we won’t.”

Poor Pee Wee.

California will partner with the Trevor Project to provide suicide prevention support to LGBTQ+ youth; the announcement comes weeks after The Felon’s Regime said it will no longer provide national suicide and crisis hotline services to LGBTQ+ youth.

Cuz, it’s just kids and LGBTQ+ ones at that killing themselves so who really cares?

Fox News host Jesse Watters acknowledged this week that his program made a mistake he lied about California Governor Gavin Newsom’s phone call with The Felon during last month’s immigration raids in Los Angeles.

Newsom filed a $787-million defamation lawsuit against Watters and Fox News and both the network and their little bitch boy Jesse apologized.

The Felon’s Little Johnson claims his boss’s approval ratings are skyrocketing saying CNN—that bastion of journalistic integrity—says The Felon is at a 90% approval rating. But, facts are facts, and Nationalist Christian, AKA Nat-C, Mike Johnson is lying …

After declining slowly, but steadily, since the beginning of July, The Felon’s approval rating started to drop more quickly. His net approval rating was -6.9 on July 10th. A week later it’s down to -8.9. And his net approval on most of the issues has also fallen:

Immigration: -3.4 —> -7.4

Economy: -12.1 —> -14.1

Trade: -14.5 —> -17.5

Inflation: -24.5 —> -24.8

And the share of Americans who strongly approve of The Felon has fallen below 27% percent for the first time in his second term; 43% of Americans strongly disapprove of the regime.

The midterms are coming and you know what to do …

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 ... 

Bobservations

No Carlos story, but a funny story about a repairman.

Last Friday our oven stopped working; wouldn’t heat up or would take far too long to reach the desired temperature. So Carlos calls a guy we know who has repaired appliances in the past; he doesn’t work weekends but Monday morning he called early to say he’d be out at 9AM.

On the dot he shows up and heads into the kitchen, and as I enter the room he is walking to the refrigerator and opening the freezer door, and says to me:

“What’s the trouble here?”

And I say:

“That’s not the oven.”

Man, he was embarrassed, because his second call that morning was for an ice maker that wasn’t working; he turned all shades of red and so I said:

“If you want something to eat just ask.”

He didn’t, but he laughed and then he did get the oven back up and running for a mere sixty bucks.

This Tuxedo Memory is from September 13, 2015:

“I Can't With This Cat ... Tuxedo Kills Me

First off, what's with the 'Don't shoot,' pose?

And then why does he always lay down like he's trying out for the US Luge team for the next Winter Olympics?”

That boy knew how to pose down the house!

I have seen this sign at our local recycling center ever since we bought our home, but this last weekend I finally took out the phone and snapped a picture.

First off: FlATTEN? Why all caps except for the “L”? And CARDboarD? What does that mean? And then to add to the confusion, “Squished, STOMPEd, etc etc etc.”

It boggles the mind.

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer was all about impeaching Joe Biden; so much so that he even had a book deal at the ready to make some coins off the impeachments. And just last week when asked about the impeachment evidence he said, “Wait and see.”

And now he’s saying, “I give up.”

After 15 months of coming up short in proving his claims against Biden, Comer recently told one of his GOP colleagues that he was ready to be “done with” the impeachment inquiry.

Cuz there’s no there, there.

As Taylor Swift accepted the Grammy Award in February for best pop vocal album she told the crowd that she had a new album, “The Tortured Poets Department,” coming in April.

First off, “tortured” poet? Bitch please. It's billionairess bitching about mean boys.

Anyway … she spent a lot of the album dogging her last two boyfriends—pre-Travis Kelce—even though she claimed she was never happier; seriously, while dating Matt Healey she declared she was the “happiest” she’d ever been. And now she sings about him in a song called “The Smallest man In The World.”

Here’s the deal: sing about all your old boyfriend if it sells your albums, but admit you are also to blame for the breakup because it don’t happen alone. And pay attention, Travis, because if history teaches us anything, it’s that your songs will be coming sooner rather than later.

Okay, I am all about interesting and different clothing, but whoever came up with these shorts needs a good smackdown. What in the ever-loving culotte-drapery hell is going on here?

And then these flip-flops … unless you’re leaving a trail for people looking for dick, maybe rethink your footwear?

Well, well, well … dozens of migrants that Florida Governor, and Head Gogo Dancer, Ron DeSantis tricked into flying from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard  for a $615,000 taxpayer funded political stunty, have now been granted visa as human trafficking  victims of Ron DeSantis.

This is Leon Nieuwoudt, a model and actor and realtor … really, realtor? Whatever he might be the question remains: Would You Hit It?