In a field already swollen to bursting new Democratic candidates keep showing up. The latest is Tom Steyer, the billionaire activist who spent the last year or so campaigning to get Nancy Pelosi to slam Trump with an impeachment indictment.
Steyer’s sentiments are certainly admirable but do we really need another billionaire with zero government experience in the White House? Don’t we ever learn?
Last Thursday in a press conference,Steyer announced he was going to run on a platform of reducing corporate influence in politics and addressing climate change. Both are excellent ideas. If you find it difficult to believe a billionaire who says he wants to reduce corporate influence on anything you aren’t alone. Yet that’s what the man says. But that doesn’t matter. What matters is he has no experience in politics or government and that gives him the potential to be about as effective a president as Donald Trump and do I have to put a score on that one?
On the better side of the coin we see that Eric Swalwell has done the intelligent thing by deciding to withdraw from the presidential race to concentrate on holding his seat in the House. This is a very smart decision to which more of the presidential candidates should give serious thought. Sure Swalwell was running out of money, but so are a lot of other candidates and that hasn’t stopped them from wasting what they have left on chasing the impossible dream.
I think maybe Steyer would be better off running for Senate against Mitch McConnell. That’s a seat that the Democrats desperately need to grab. McConnell is the greatest inhibition to democracy since Adolph Hitler bought it in the bunker.
Suddenly Amy McGrath, a Marinecombat pilot, a mother and seemingly a tough cookie, has emerged from wherever people emerge from to run for McConnell’s seat. Let’s hope the Democrats throw everything they have behind her. It may be the single most important battle after that of the presidency.
McConnell is such a loathsome growth on the ass of humanity that only surgical removal will do. He has stood in the way of more necessary legislation than any Senate majority leader in history. He has almost single handedly kept the last three congresses from accomplishing anything of note for this country, and he’s done it simply to stay in office. He isn’t shy about it. He doesn’t make excuses. He just does what he does and stonewalls.
McConnell has no interest in doing anything that will help the people of this country. His only interest is in supporting the worst President in US history and keeping his job. He actually may be less truthful than Trump, a trait he exhibited recently when he attempted to accuse Barak Obama and Joe Biden of keeping our intelligence forces from doing anything about the Russian intervention in our 2016 and 2018 elections. CBS News reporter Greg Miller pointed out that after being briefed on the Russian attempt to help Trump and then claiming it was Obama’s fault, McConnell tried to threaten the intelligence community into silence.
McConnell continues to block any kind of legislation that will help us keep Russian, or any other kind of interference, out of our elections. He has refused to bring bills to the floor that would allow for paper ballots, which is the only way to actually keep out Internet interference. He has blocked bills that sought to add cyber programing that would help defeat outside interference. He has also blocked bills aimed at nationalizing out election protections, claiming that they were an attempt to minimize states rights. Really?
It’s fairly obvious that McConnell’s obstruction of any and all election protections comes from the millions that some Russian oligarchs are currently pumping into an investment in an aluminum plant in the state of Kentucky and, into McConnell’s pockets.
Much like his idol in the White House, it’s an incontrovertible fact that Mitch has to go. The question is, will it be to a cell or just to a long vacation?
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According to the latest polls Donald Trump has a 45% approval rating from the American public. This includes almost a 90% rating from Republicans. Why? What are these people looking at? What part of his job is he succeeding at? His foreign policy is the worst since before WWII. Everyone in the world hates us, he is a joke to any serious thinker, no one believes anything he says and most nations are trying to figure out a way to get off the US dollar as the basis of their currency just because the Fat Liar in the White House is our President.
On the home front, he is busy trying to screw up healthcare. He has done nothing about our crumbling infrastructure. He has no knowledge of anything about climate change but still he denies it. He claims to have made great strides with an economy actually built by Barak Obama to counter the crushing moves made by Bush/Cheney when they crashed our economy. But even with the Obama created economy, Trump has not been able to reduce the number of Americans who must work at three jobs in order to keep their families from bankruptcy. What he has done is increase the income of those who already have more money than they can usefully spend.
How has he helped you? Are you doing better? We already know that his predecessors failed you and that’s the reason you voted for Trump, but the big question is why do you still think after two years of one failure after the other that he is doing a job worthy of your approval?
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The other night Donald Trump had another of his “Nuremberg Rallies” complete with cheers by the mindless herd of followers of “Send her back!” a racist repeat of the infamous “Lock her up.” Trump loves to incite his base against women doesn’t he? It’s pretty odious that this idiot who hates women, is frightened of women and doesn’t know how to deal with women on a human-to-human basis, needs to use his ignorant followers as a weapon to attack them.
Trump is banking on the idea that 40% of Americans are dumb enough, bigoted enough or just plain racist enough to buy his bullshit. I have spoken to any number of Republicans (not those who depend on him for their government jobs) who voted for him in 2016. Some say they will not vote for him again. Most of them say this because they expected him to provide the benefits he had promised and now realize that he has not and actually could not deliver. Some voted for him simply because they hated Hillary. What’s interesting is that most of them are considering voting for him again. Neither group seems moved by his disgusting personality, his lack of any human sense of values, or his obvious attacks on our governmental structure. Trump started leading chants by his idiot base back with the “Lock her up” nonsense and he hasn’t stopped yet. How far did that get him? Well Hillary’s still living the good life and a good-sized bunch of Trump associates are under indictment or languishing in the can. So who got locked up? If he really wants to be successful with his chants he should start them yelling “Lock meup” ‘cause that’s a sure bet as soon as he’s out of the White House.
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This week Congressman Al Green of Texas proved how dumb he really is when he moved to impeach Donald Trump. Sure impeaching Trump is the righteous thing to do. Many of us think he should be indicted for treason, but that would be a fool’s errand. The Senate will never convict him. Hell, you can’t even get any of those lily livered Republicans to agree that he’s a racist. So why waste political capital on a lost cause. It’s obvious that Green is too dumb to realize that this would give Trump a win he didn’t earn. Let’s hope that everyone else isn’t that dumb.