The CPAC gathering of the cult happened last weekend and while this commentator didn’t see the whole thing, what I did see was hysterical. The first thing that caught my eye was a bunch of rich Ivy League brats attacking the elite. What’s wrong with this picture? Well, among the principal speakers that I saw, Tom Cotton, Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley and Trump himself all went to Ivy League schools where they all learned to screw the working man so their rich buddies could get richer. I happened to catch Cotton as he was stating that although CPAC was normally held in Washington it had been kicked out by the Biden administration and that’s why they were in Orlando. BULLSHIT! They were in Orlando because Trump wouldn’t drag his sorry ass up to DC, the scene of his most recent defeat. He could lie about the election result, but he couldn’t face the reality of it.
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What is it about stupid people that drives them to prove just how brain dead they really are? Yes the reference here is to Greg Abbott, the latest in a long line of moronic Texas governors who have expanded every last once of energy to completely screw up their state. It wasn’t bad enough that this moron’s administration allowed his state to disintegrate to the point where a winter storm caused their rotting energy facilities to collapse, leaving the state without heat, power or drinkable water for weeks but now the little engine that couldn’t has stepped up and declared his infected domain to be wide open and at the mercy of the COVID virus. All businesses, no matter how significant a spreader, are now open. No masks are required. What does this clown have against the people of Texas? Why is he trying so hard to kill them all off?
Because he is leading a functional administration, Biden announced this week that we would have complete vaccine coverage for adults by the end of May, two months earlier than previously announced. If Abbott or any of his GOP mental cripples had been in charge we would still be waiting for the first shot to arrive at locations other than Mar-a-Largo and Austin.
Abbott, who is too mentally defused to understand that the end of May is still 3 months away and until all the people are vaccinated it won’t be completely safe, has blundered into his latest attempt to kill off Texans in large numbers simply because there are now any number of armed survivors of the power failure, lining up outside his house. Dumb as he is, he gets the message.
We all know the corporate community of Texas actually runs the government, supporting the likes of Abbott and Rick Perry while telling them what to do. But occasionally someone has to stick up for the people of the state, the same ones who froze during the power outage and had to drink polluted water because no one in charge wanted to make sure that facilities and wells were up to code.
Now it’s time for the rest of the country to protect itself from Texas. Now we have to cut them off. Surrounding states must forbid access to or from the state that cares for nothing but the whims of a moronic governor. Isolate them just as we have foreign countries that present health threats to our security. If Greg Abbott wants to make Texas into a separate entity and not part of the United States, let’s show this idiot what that means.
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The Cuomo controversies are really getting out of hand. Now there are six Democrats screaming for him to be removed from office. The question becomes are we going to hang him now or are we going to try him first? We lost a very good legislator a while back because we let the PC police led by Kristen Gillibrand run amok with their cries of “Off with his head!”
Not that anyone wants to be equated with the Republicans who never said a word about Donald Trump who was accused of rape and by his own admission liked to grab women by the crotch. But Cuomo is a Democrat and therefore, thank God, is judged by a different set of standards. That’s why the NY AG is setting up an investigation. No woman should ever have to put up with any kind of inappropriate behavior in the workplace. That’s just a fact. If those accusations are true and there is no reason to believe otherwise, Cuomo must face up to them. It does strike me as odd that Lindsey Boylan is running for an important job, Manhattan Borough President and whether in fact her accusations are true or not, the fact that she didn’t have the strength to deal with them at the time they occurred, certainly leaves her in an unfortunate position. Who wants to put someone in an office of serious responsibility that has not had the gumption to deal with her own problems? It’s unfortunate.
The third incident, the wedding kiss, is another matter entirely, We have all been going to weddings for most of our lives and therefore we all know that everybody kisses everybody at weddings. It’s stuff like that that gets in the way of valid accusations and makes it harder for women with real problems to make their case.
The primary problem in this whole mess is the call for Cuomo to resign or to be impeached. It is at this point that the improprieties be considered in contrast to the job that Cuomo has done as governor.
Cuomo has been a pretty good governor. He guided the state through the worst aspects of the pandemic with the strongest hand of any governor in the nation. He is quite possibly the best person to guide the state through what looks like a bumpy recovery. While the acts he is accused of are certainly inappropriate, they are not of sufficient import to offset what he has done and more important, can do for the state. I am in no way inferring that anything he has done in his job should hold him harmless of any kind of untoward activity attributed to his person. If he is guilty of the accusations he should certainly pay some price, but I am also saying that such a price should not impinge on the needs of the state or its citizens.
We lost a pretty good Senator a while back for something that was at most petty. The state and the nation cannot afford to lose qualified leaders over unacceptable behavior that does not scale out against the greater good. Advancing the politically correct agenda must not be allowed to damage the needs of the state.
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And of course the hearings on January 6th continue. The most damning evidence that has come out of those hearings seems to come from Major General William Walker Commander of the DC National Guard who has testified that there was an almost 5 hour delay between the time that the Guard was requested by the Capitol police and the time it was released by the federal Government. There is also testimony to the effect that if the Guard had been released it would have made a significant difference in the seditionists ability to breech the Capitol.
It was unfavorable “optics” brought up by Lt. General Charles Flynn, brother of the criminal former National Security Advisor, Michael Flynn, who quite possibly used this excuse to slow down the whole process. This will create a whole other area of investigation.
There may not be enough proof here but it’s obvious to any fair minded human being that the problems t the Capitol were caused by the former President and made worse by a coterie of true believers who led the crowd and slowed the response to the crowd, thereby killing five people and endangering our entire congress.
New reports from our intelligence agencies indicate that there were new threats scheduled for March 4th that could have led to further violence. It is obvious that they never materialized but unless these militant bands of seditionists are quickly brought under control, this country will fall victim to a series of bloody clashes that no American would have imagined as little as a year ago. Trump, his white supremacist allies and a significant list of Senators and Representatives are leading this insurrection with ultimate power as their only goal. If they are allowed to succeed they will destroy the democratic system on which this country has been built since its inception and turn our nation into a Banana Republic.