People like Chuck Todd and Martha Raddatz keep talking about Biden getting ahead of the science on the booster shots but just because the media wants a juicy story does not mean they know what they’re talking about. I haven’t always been a huge fan of Dr. Anthony Fauci but he nails it on this one. He tells us that while Biden talked about getting shots for everyone over 16, he was also talking about doing so only if the FDA approved it. Apparently, many of our big -time reporters haven’t really learned to listen.
I watched Fauci explain very clearly to Chuck Todd on Sunday what the expectations were and how long it might take to get everyone a booster. Fauci’s explanation was clear and easy to understand but Todd kept coming up with his own interpretation of what Fauci was saying instead of just letting Fauci say it and letting the viewers get the message. Chuck has to learn that sometimes all you have to do is listen. Sometimes we just have to keep our mouths shut.
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I really don’t understand why our current media feels it must find fault with everything that Joe Biden is doing while he is trying to pass the infrastructure and reconciliation bills. These are the two most significant financial bills since WWII and if he can pull them both off it will be the most significant boost for the average American since The New Deal. It’s very important that we get them through a negative GOP, which is only a few votes away from stopping them. The Republicans don’t care how many Americans starve or don’t receive proper medical care or education as long as their wealthy buddies and contributors get to keep all their income. Mitch McConnell would rather see a family of four that makes less than thirty grand a year shell out a couple of hundred in taxes than see some rich son of a bitch get taxed peanuts.
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The latest hassle being caused by Mitch McConnell and the useless infestation of Republican slime currently crapping up congress is the refusal to help with the raising of the budget cap. Everyone knows they want the cap removed but they are holding things up just to cause trouble during a Democratic administration. The obvious goal is simply to add to the work and problems of Joe Biden, thereby reducing the possibility of the big bills being passed. Sure they know it will hurt millions of Americans but they just don’t care as long as they make the Democrats look bad.
McConnell’s pathetic ploy is so obvious that six former Secretaries of the Treasury including Henry Hudson, Timothy Geitner, Larry Summers, Jack Lew, Michael Blumenthal and Robert Rubin have signed the following statement attacking the GOP reluctance to do the job they were elected to do.
“Even a short default would threaten economic growth. It creates the risk of roiling markets and of sapping economic confidence, and it would prevent Americans from receiving vital services. It would be very damaging to undermine trust in the full faith and credit of the United States, and this damage would be hard to repair.”
Every single GOP congressmen agrees that the debt ceiling must be raised but not a single one of them is willing to vote for that raise and they want us to believe it’s the Democrats fault if we don’t have the money to pay our bills. This is truly McConnellian logic.
The United States is one of only three countries in the civilized world that even has a debt ceiling. I won’t blame the GOP for it but they are the ones who are always using it to slow the economy. Right now they are using it to try and slow down the economy to make the Democrats and the Biden administration look bad. Unfortunately there are not enough intelligent people out there to realize what a fraudulent strategy this is.
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It must have been a very slow news week because the media and especially Morning Joe Scarborough have been beating the Australian submarine deal in which we cost France a few billion, almost to death. Why everyone is getting their pants on fire is more than this blogger can see. It wasn’t international diplomacy; it was a business deal, pure and simple. It wasn’t something Biden was running. He has so much on his plate right now that he was probably barely aware of it. This was purely and simply a business and security deal run by the Pentagon and the American war machine. We wanted a strong and efficient submarine fleet somewhere in the South Pacific to counter Chinese aggression there. The Aussies wanted to be the ones to assume that role. The French offered to supply them with the subs but all they could provide were inefficient diesel subs at a very high cost. We offered nuclear subs at a lower cost and the Aussies bought our deal. It’s that simple. The French would have been the first to crow if they had won that hand.
Biden, because he is a diplomat has stepped in and apologized but Macron understands what happened. Pulling his diplomats was just a matter of saving face and as if to prove that, he has agreed to a meeting with Biden next month. This will give Biden the opportunity to slip him a little something to make up for the whole thing.
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It’s hard to believe but they did it again and with the same result. Yeah, the morons that follow Trump got another vote count out of Maricopa County Arizona and they got the same result as all the other vote counts of the last election. Biden won by more votes than we thought. And it cost Arizona over $6 million bucks to allow this travesty to happen. How many vote recounts is it now, all with the same result? One of the first things I learned in my college logic course was, people who keep doing the same thing, expecting a different result are insane. We know that’s true of Trump but what about the thousands of other nuts that are following him?
The simple fact is, Trump has never won a popular election. The closest he came was getting stomped by over 3 million votes by Hillary Clinton who couldn’t even get all the women to vote for her. Why would anyone want to follow this loser? Forget that he came close to destroying our democracy. Forget that he is still trying. Forget that his actions were the cause of tens of thousands of deaths in the COVID crisis. Forget his disgusting personal morals and his completely heinous business tactics. Even forget his polluted personality and the fact that he set almost every country in the world against us. Forget all that and concentrate on one fact: he was completely unsuccessful at everything he tried to do as a president. That alone should rob him of the votes of every voter in the country that is not a certified idiot.
But wait; maybe it has, maybe all those morons who are still wearing MAGA hats and making fools of themselves at Trump rallies actually are certifiable.