A sitting President lost his reelection bid by 74 Electoral College Votes.
The same sitting President lost his reelection by 7,059,526 popular votes.
The same sitting President, his party and his supporters lost over 62 court cases. These cases claimed voter fraud or election tampering without evidence.
With no other recourse to remain in power, the same sitting President rallied his cult-like following to the nation’s capital.
The same sitting President worked this crowd into a frenzy. He promised to lead them on a march on the Capital building. Instead, the President went back to the White House. His mob marched onto the Capital.
Yet this no now angry, frenzied mob, high on lies and intoxicated with hate, stormed the Capital. Police were brutalized, beaten, and killed. Building windows and doors broken. Entry was forced, the halls of the Capital, its offices trashed. Elected representatives from all parties were running, hiding, and pleading for their lives.
All the while, the same sitting President snuck away from his mob. He wanted to keep his hand clean. Instead, he chose to sit in a room and watch the violence unfold on TV.
And for hours, he ignored the calls and pleas to end the madness. He gleefully did nothing.
Why? Why did thousands of Americans rally in DC? Why did these people try to overthrow the government? It was a very misguided attempt to prevent the certification of the election results.
These people wanted their guy to remain in charge. Their guy wanted to remain out of jail.
Not since the Civil War had such a violent effort to overthrow the US Government had taken place. Never before was the leader of an insurrection the President of the United States.
Since the failed coup attempt Democracy has been slowly dying. The same sitting President, never accepted defeat. He led the clamor that he was robbed, that he was a victim. His party maintained that if “They” could “come after” him “They” could “come after you”.
Truth as we all know it. If you break the law through rape, sexual assault, fraud, or extortion, the justice system could come after you. Even if you cheat on your taxes, you could still face consequences.
Why? Because you would be a criminal.
Obey the law and no one will “come after you”.
Yet thousands of people decided it was in their best interest to break the law to keep their guy free.
In the end, their guy was found guilty of 34 felonies. He was labeled a criminal rapist. He surrounded himself with the most unqualified people the world has to offer. He lined his pockets with the support of many of the richest billionaires in the US and the world. He openly lies about his future actions. He lays false claims about his capabilities. He denies guilt for past actions.
All the while many of the people that attended his rally and rode on the Capital have been jailed. Only they have been held accountable for his call to action while their guy roams free.
The same sitting President is now the same sitting President elect.
He promises to make life harder on the middle and lower classes. He alienates and antagonizes our allies. He plays into the hands of the most despicable world leaders. He proves to be exactly what the majority of voters always knew he was – an unqualified man child. He lacks even the simplest understanding of taxes, tariffs, economics, US and World history, science, the environment, and globalization.
The same sitting President elect has been fortunate that the rich see him as a puppet. They manipulate him to grow their own riches and power. He enables them to take from the poor and give to themselves.
The same sitting President elect has been even more fortunate. The worst among us are easily deceived. The dumbest of the dumb believe what he sells. The weakest of the weak cannot resist his allure. The lamest of the lame follow him blindly. They buy not just gold tennis shoes and autographed China manufactured bibles. They continue to sell their souls, their futures and their own freedom. They sell out America just so their guy can stay out of jail.
Why? Just so they can help end Democracy. So they destroy the America that has been in development for hundreds of years. So that a professional con-man and life time criminal can steal from them, make their life harder.
January 6, 2021, was the first day that American Democracy was put on life support.
Now the world watches to see if the real America can perform CPR for the next four years.
The ability of the majority to outlast the minority is the only hope America has left.
We and the world are on notice.
Category: Politics
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Examining the January 6 Insurrection: A Threat to Democracy
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Understanding the NFL Name Change: Perspectives of Fans and Natives
I will admit it to many thinks.
I am a life long fan of the NFL team that plays in the Washington D.C. region. I always will be.
However, I can not bring myself to say the “C” word. Sorry, I won’t type it either.
Several years ago, the fuss started about the lack of PC in the old Washington Football Team’s name. I hadn’t ever thought about it. They were called what they were called. I knew the history of the team, the history of the logo, the history of the prejudice in the organization.
Under Dan Snyder, every fan was aware of how awful his ownership group was. But the team name remained the one thing all fans could still rally around.
Fans wore the logo, said the name, sang the fight song and participated in cheers. No one was thinking about anything other than celebrating the team that we all loved. Certainly, thoughts were not about insulting Native Americans.
In fact, real fans knew that Walter “Blackie” Weltzel was a leader of the Blackfeet Nation. He designed the logo. They also knew that the logo was based on Blackfeet Chief John Two Guns White Calf.
There was never reason to think of the football team’s name as anything other than a tribute. The name honored the Native Americans that once called the D.C area home.
D.C. sits on the ancestral lands of the Nacotchtank (or Anacostans), and neighbors the ancestral lands of the Piscataway and Pamunkey peoples.
D.C. is still home to over 4,600 Native American’s.
Yes, area schools, including the high school I went to, drooped references to Indians as logos, team names and mascots. Some rightfully so, some over reaction to the too sensitive.
Sure every few years someone would write a story, try to stir the pot. Those stories always has short lives, died easy.
Somehow, during the two to three years of intense cancel culture, the NFL felt blackmailed. They were forced to implement a name change. It was a change that nobody wanted, except for a handful of non-fans. Some fans described them as a “bunch of white women named Karen.” They said these women had a lot of time on their hands and no sense of history.
All that was accomplished was canceling of Native American association with the NFL. That cancellation was not called for nor wanted by Native Americans.
It seems that Washington is getting closer to changing the logo back, or at least using it somehow. Why? Because Native Americans sued, others asked, more demaned.
I respect your right to be offend by things. Just because you are offended doesn’t mean something is offensive. If something isn’t offensive to those you think SHOULD be offended, perhaps your time and energy are being misspent.
If you won’t want to use the old Washington team name, please don’t. No one is forcing you.
If you feel offended by the Washington team name, the logo, it’s best to discuss it with the 90% of Native Americans who support the old team name.
It really doesn’t seem to be a you problem. Why make it one? -
Biden Pardons Hunter: A Political Perspective
President Joe Biden decided to pardon his son, Hunter.
Hunter was put under the microscope by MAGA members of Congress. Why? Because his last name was Biden.
Yes, Hunter had been convicted on three federal gun charges because he lied on a firearms application. Hunter had also pleaded guilty to federal tax evasion charges.
None of these crimes were recent.
None of these crimes would have landed anyone else under the microscope of the DOJ and Congress.
None of these crimes resulted in harm to others. The tax situation was taken care of.
There was a trial. A plea deal was reached. Congress overstepped and blew up the deal.
President Biden said he would not interfere in the trail. He did not. He did not say he would not right a wrong.
Clearly the made dash to hang Hunter was political.
Which is funny. Why? People on the right are screaming about Hunter getting a pardon over 3 felonies and tax charges. Yet, they stand LOCK STEP with a President elect convicted of 34 felonies by a jury of his peers. This President elect also has a long history of tax evasion.
If what Hunter did was so bad, why is it acceptable to elect and support a convicted felon of 34 counts?
Sorry MAGA, you have no high ground here. You may want to find another hill to die on. With 4 years of 45 coming up, you will find plenty. -
Understanding the True Cost of Tariffs in the US Economy
It is truly amazing that every day more people realize their mistake. They screwed themselves by not doing even basic research before voting.
So, lets help out the remaining few so that in the future (2026) some of these insane wrongs can be corrected).
1) Tariffs are fees levied against imports, with the actual fee being paid by the consumer.
Example: A TV from China costs $200.00. A tariff of 25% is added to the cost of the TV. The cost of the tv to the distributor is now $250.00. The distributor still needs to make money, so they charge the store $300.00, keeping their $50 of profit. The store needs their $50.00 profit, so they now sell the TV for $350.00. The consumer who was only going to have to pay $300.00 is now paying $350.
End result – the US Consumer pays the 25% tariff that was placed on China.
(FYI.. Based on the Tariff treaty of 1974, the president can only increase a tariff to or by 15%. The increase can only be imposed for 150 days unless Congress extends it. Should not take 150 to see the crippling effect higher tariffs will have on the average American or the US economy)
2) Immigrants account for 68% of the farm workers in the US.
Immigrants account for 29% of the construction work force in the US.
Immigrants account for 21% of the food supply work force in the US.
Immigrants account for 19% of the total workforce in the US.
Undocumented Immigrants account for $96.7 BILLION dollars are year in federal taxes collected.
Immigrants average a year salary of $37,585.
There are not enough “other” people to fill the gap at the current salary offerings. This shortage cannot offset the deportation of 11,000,000 immigrants.
The cost of a onetime mass deportation of immigrants would cost the US over $350B.
(Other people being American Citizens, especially white people. You can not find a teenager working in fast food place now at $17 an hour, you will not find one in a filed shucking corn for $10)
Add the deportation cost of $350B to the loss of $96.7 billion in collected taxes and the US would be out over $446.7 BILLION.
That is simple math. You would have to subtract the savings of not providing services to undocumented immigrants. This will help you get the final number. The rough estimate would be a loss of well over $200 Billion.
3) With 19% of the total work force eliminated, 68% of the farm workers, and not having people in line to replace them at what works out to be $10.74 cents an hour, production would go way down for consumer items such as eggs, dairy products, fruit, vegetables. Demand for those products would remain high, supply would be reduced, and the cost would then go WAY Up. (If 10 people need a dozen eggs, but there are only 3 dozen eggs, the value of the eggs would increase up to 1,000% – why sell something for $2.00 when desperate people would pay $20 for the same thing)
4) Projected tax breaks for corporations, the top 1% of earners, the elimination of over-time taxes, the elimination of taxes on tips, the tax cost by the removal of 19% of the work force and an additional reduction of 1,000,000 well-paying government jobs, the increase costs of food and other items due to supply and demand and the added consumer burden of paying a 25% tariff, the bottom 99% would see an out of pocket increase in yearly expenses of over 15K a year, at least (The current international tariffs treaties, etc. save the average American $7,000 a year. That savings goes away, clearly)
5) With a lack of workforce, more business close, adding to the unemployment line. With the number of workers out pacing the number of jobs, salaries and wages go down, while the cost of living goes up (everything from housing, food, clothes, entertainment, etc. will see substantial increases).
Your total costs go up 30%, your salary goes down 30% you are now pretty well screwed. Say goodbye to your home, your car, our insurances. Say hello to Good Will, shelters, park benches and dumpster diving.
6) When welfare programs are cut (Medicare, Medicaid, unemployment, food stamps, house subsidies, etc.) additional cost burdens fall on the heads of the consumer, which will lead to greater poverty, homelessness, and push current non-profits to the brink of closure. No one will be safe from being hungry or sleeping outside.
Health care related costs are already the leading cause of personal bankruptcy in the US. The number of people that end up bankruptcy will only increase.
7) With more poor people, big ticket items will not be selling at current rates, if they sell at all. Fewer American made items being sold, means fewer American made items being made, means another reduction in America jobs. No company will keep on a workforce that cannot pay for itself through productivity and sales.
Higher taxes, higher costs, lower wages, reduction of services …
The only thing that will trickle down is poverty.
These are just a few of the painfully obvious concerns every American should have. Even the most obtuse can understand these simple facts.
Does not mean any or all of these things will happen. It just means that there is a good probability that they may. Just means that far too many Americans voted with their hate, not their head and certainly not their heart.
So what happened on election day due to the lack of individual education and people following their hate?
Legal immigrants voted to have their families and friends exported.
People in poor health voted to have their care reduced or eliminated.
Average Americans voted to increase their financial burden so that the top 1% could become the top .05%.
People with middle eastern roots voted to have Gaza leveled and a people eradicated.
People voted to have individuals in-charge of their wellbeing who they would not want as neighbors (known felons, sexual predators, con-men, racists)
Americans voted to have their mothers, sisters, daughters, nieces suffer neglect and prejudices not seen for over 150 years.
All because the price of eggs was too high (They are not).
All because the cost of gas was too high (it is not, especially on the world scale and the US does not set fuel prices so people voted for things other countries control)
All because the LQBTQ communities were being treated with the barest minimum of respect, their contributions acknowledged and narrow-minded people could not accept pro-nouns.
If you want to dispute this, do not. Showing your stupidity will not do you any favors and I will not waste my time trying to educate you about things you can easily learn yourself, even if it took you three times to pass the GED.
I had a discussion with someone tonight. They let their hate and intolerance flag fly under the guise of “I know what prejudice I’ve faced, and I am sick of being called white”.
Everyone has faced a degree of prejudice at one time or another, white, black, brown, straight, gay, trans, tall, short, fat, smart, stupid, fast, slow, wear glasses, don’t wear glasses, is in the band, not in the band, plays a sport, doesn’t play a sport, so on and on.
The only way that ends if we all decide that we do not want others to feel as we were once made to feel because of something that made us appear to be different on the OUTSIDE.
Life is not complicated. Just because you are unhappy or were once a “victim” of a bad break a time or two does not mean you heal by treating others worse than you think you were treated.
Voting to destroy your own life and the lives of others was not the solution or the “gottcha” you think it was. In the end, you won’t be better off and you will be even more bitter. You will also be out of people to blame – well, except for putting blame where it belongs – yourself.
Congratulations, America. You became the world’s lowest common denominator.
You do not like it? Read a book (before they get banned)
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