Creepy Weirdo Republicans want to force Americans to live their lives as Republicans see fit and believe they should decide the Democratic Presidential Nominee

Stephen Tantrum Miller

"They held a primary!” Stephen Miller squealed. “People—they had ballots! They filled out circles that went to the voting booths!" 

Republicans are a deeply evil Party, who believe weird things and ascribe to unpopular policies.  With the elevation of Vice President Kamala Harris to the Democratic nominee for President, Republicans have already found it impossible to contain their bigoted, racist, misogynist, and deeply weird beliefs.

One of the things which doesn't get discussed enough is Republicans absolutely do not believe you should be allowed to live your life as you see fit.  Like their ideological ancestors, the Arch-Traitors of the Confederacy, Republicans believe only they are the true descendants of the Founding Fathers and you should be forced to live under their unenlightened tyrannical theocratic racist rule.  Liberty and Freedom in Republican definition is the liberty and freedom to live as they say.  Liberty and Freedom for them and Slavery for You.  And if you object, well Republicans have in the works "the Staging Grounds" to remove you from the Nation.

For several long decades Republican hatred for the United States of America, has been manifested with movements; Nixon's Southern Strategy, Raygun's silent majority, Newt Gingrich's Contract on America, Dick Cheney's 4th Branch of Government, the Tea Baggers, and now the final culmination of pure undiluted fascism MAGA.  Undergirding this fundamental hatred for the Nation and peoples a belief that only they are the REAL AMERICA which is the motivating animus of rightwing ideology.

Republicans hate you.  They viscerally hate America and wish to fundamentally change the Nation into simulacrum of a Democratic Republic, with hollow forms and tyrannical functions.  Since they have adjudicated themselves the True Americans they do not believe you should be allowed to live freely and therefore they should also get to make the rules for American society.

But, Republicans are desperate right now.  Having convinced themselves the election was in the bag, arrogant elitist Republicans have done no preparation.  Syphilis addled Trump choose utter buffoon MAGAppalachia J.D. Vance, and now following Joe Biden's statesmanlike leadership of ceding power are scrambling for someway to plant to seed that Kamala Harris is somehow "illegitimate" to be President.  This isn't merely going Birther on her ala Barack Obama and the Long-Form Birth Certificate, although that is part of the process.  No, Republicans are setting up to claim she is illegitimate in numerous ways, in order to screw up the upcoming 2024 Presidential Election. 

Of course, Republicans are going to suppress the vote.  Of course, Republicans are going to ratfvck minority polling places, like making sure voting takes hours and people in line are not allowed water.  Of course, Republicans are going to launch lawsuits to disenfranchise Democratic voters.

It's deeply cynical for a Party which lauded the 2016 Electoral College as the correct way to select a President even though he lost by 3,000,000 votes and then has adopted the Big Lie that Trump somehow won the 2020 election despite losing by over 7,000,000 votes and the Electoral College to claim the elevation of Vice President Kamala Harris is an affront to Democracy.

But, right now they are trying to see if a scheme to literally choose the nominee for the Democratic Party can get enough traction.   As I wrote it's deeply cynical and utterly shameless, but with this complicit Corporate Media it might just work as an avenue of attack.  Everyone knows Republicans lie brazenly and are utterly shameless.  Therefore, in the wake of their complete shock at having to face Vice President Kamala Harris, who they understand is going to obliterate the syphilis addled racist rapist in the General Election.

Of course, the Crypto-Nazi Heritage Foundation had already threatened legal action before Joe Biden graciously stepped aside to save America and Democracy.  Theocratic Squeaker of the House Mike Johnson tried to claim the Democratic Party will face numerous legal hurdles and challenges from Republican and rightwing groups.  Enough delays, enough lawsuits, enough injunctions, might be enough to snatch victory away from the American people and hand it to the Republican Traitors.  Remember even though these threats seem hollow, and the legal standing non-existent it's a two-fold part of the Republican fascism;  they confer upon themselves the absolute authority to determine 

We're in for a tough next 100 days.  Republican terrorists and traitors are going to do everything the can to destroy America.  But, though they do their worst, We, the People shall do our best.

Thus far, very fortunately, the entire Democratic Party, elected officials, and organizations inside the Party have coalesced around Vice President Harris and combined with the record number of donations from first time and small money donors it illustrates together with a united front against Republican Fascism we will win;  

And that is what I will continue to do in the days and weeks ahead. I will do everything in my power to unite the Democratic Party — and unite our nation — to defeat Donald Trump and his extreme Project 2025 agenda.

We have 107 days until Election Day. Together, we will fight. And together, we will win.

Republicans hate and want to kill you - Trumpian Governance - Project 2025 - and the Republican Destruction of the United States of America

In many regards the Republican Party has already accomplished their goal of destroying the United States of America.  Conservatives no longer adhere to the Founding Principles of the Nation and instead simply assert their beliefs over the Rule of Law.  And the Supremacist Court simply amended the Constitution in their role as untouchable College of Cardinals.

Republicans hate America.  Republicans hate You. And Republicans are coming to Kill You.

“So I always keep this fake Hollywood money in my car. So when a homeless person asks for money, then I give them like a fake $5 bill. So I feel good about myself. They feel good. And then when they go to use it, they get arrested. So I’m actually like helping clean up the community, you know, getting them off the street.” - McEntee said in the video posted May 2024 by The Right Stuff, a dating site for rightwingers of which McEntee is a co-founder. 

Do you remember what the initial call to the Police was for George Floyd? Passing a fake $20... Republican humor is to kill people.  John McEntee joined the Heritage Foundation Project 2025 last year.  Dismiss this if you will but, while the vicious Corporate Media spends every single minute of every single day trying to knife Joe Biden (and Kamala Harris), Republicans are openly declaring they will simply murder you,

"Some liberal somewhere is gonna say that sounds awful. Too bad. Get mad at me if you want to. Some folks need killing. It's time for somebody to say it. It's not a matter of vengeance. It's not a matter of being mean or spiteful. It's a matter of necessity." - Republican Lt Governor of North Carolina Mark Robinson.

Parker also hates the uppity Kamala Harris

Will the non-stop Corporate Media attacks be enough, as they were in 2000 and 2016, where Al Gore was eviscerated for "sighing" and the 25 year Media Whispering Campaign about HRC declared she was one foot in the grave, so vote Trump besides whatever happens we'll be fine!

Republicans see this election as the culmination, the golden opportunity to implement their murderous designs on the Nation.  Republicans have undermined Law & Order, National unity, societal cohesion, faith in elections in order to adopt a ruthless NeoConfederate slave state founded on the unequal application of law, sham elections, white power, and brutal male patriarchy. Bigotry, hatred and fear are the weapons they use to weld white men and women to their side.  And Republicans believe terror and resignation will keep the rest of society in check.

Most male election forecasters, and older comfortable white women like Kathleen Parker assume they'll be safe from the predations of the rapacious Republican Terror Squads.  After all Parker won't need an abortion anytime soon.  So, it remains to be seen if white women will vote Trump a 3rd time.  Trump in his low animal cunning seems to recognize Abortion and Project 2025 are at least a bit off-putting to his white women voters so he's tried to distance himself from both (while following the traditional Republican pattern of taking credit for everything.  The 3 step process Republicans traditionally use is:

• Take all the Credit 
• Pass all the Blame
• Yell, Whine, and Complain

Trump has added the following during his 3 ridiculous runs for Office:

• Promise Everything 
• Deliver Nothing
• Proclaim Greatness

I'm still waiting for the Media to discuss the Epstein Files revelation that Traitor Trump abused and raped children. Especially since Trump has already been found criminally liable for raping E. Jean Carroll.  But, the facts, evidence and court findings about Rapist Donald Trump are "olds" and the Corporate Media is in the business of "News"... 

And since the Corporate Media fucking loves his "showmanship" and more importantly the Rich love his deregulation and tax cuts and want him back in Office, they are busy helping to catapult Republican propaganda, as they have done ceaselessly for over 40 years.  We are in the fight for our very lives, you have to vote, but be prepared because even if Republicans lose again they are going to continue using the awesome power of the Government to immiserate your life and make living impossible.  Because Republicans hate and want to kill you.

The Republican Project 2025: Destroy the United States

Happy 4th of July to everyone, including the haters and the losers! - Traitor Trump

I take very little solace in having been right about the Republican Plan to destroy the United States of America and replace it with a NeoConfederate fundamentalist apartheid state.

It was famously reported that conservatives when shown the Paul Ryan budget did not believe it could be true since it was so heartless and literally was a granny-starving set of policies.  It just couldn't be true.  Conservatives don't believe a 2nd Trump administration will harm them, famously conservatives only complaint of the first Trump term was he "wasn't hurting the people he should be hurting".  It's grimly ironic that Republican policies have been killing conservatives (especially white rural men) and they cling more tightly than ever to their Republican malefactors.  But, it's wrong-headed to believe conservatives have been duped by their Republican representatives.  Conservatives of all stripes want this.

The Rich want no taxes, no regulations, and no constraints from the Federal government for their rapacious accumulation of wealth and power.  White men and women want to be able to spit on a N-word, piss on a homeless person, smack a Queer, threaten to murder any journalist who says something mean about Traitor Trump, and order an immigrant around like a slave.  The proliferation of so-called "Karen Videos" demonstrates what conservatives want America to be. And Fundamental Fascists want the power to act as the Taliban or Iranian Morality Police.

Conservatives believe America is a rigid hierarchy and must be returned to that status.  That's what MAGA means a Nation built upon the twin towers of White Power and Evangelical Tyranny.

"Are these the Nazis, Walter?
No, Donnie these [people] are cowards..."

Republicans hate America.  Republicans hate you.  Republicans are coming for it all;  the separation of Church and State, No-Fault divorce, birth control, Education, freedom of association, rights to privacy.  All of these things and more will be gone in the Republican MAGA Nation;  you will do as they say, you will think as they command, you will acquiesce, you will be silent, you will be deferential and if you do not, then Republicans have paramilitary domestic terrorists and, soon, the Apparatus of Law Enforcement and the Awesome Power of the State to eliminate you.

The cries of Weaponization of the Department of Justice and the Two-Tiered system are ardent declarations of exactly how Republicans plan to enforce their steady transformation of the United States of America into a Theocratic White Power simulacrum of a Democratic Republic.  And those who do not go along with the destruction of the United States will be murdered,

And so I come full circle on this response and just want to encourage you with some substance that we are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.- Kevin Roberts, President of the Heritage Foundation.

Republicans Hate America 25: Ben S. Shaprio says 'Work will set you Free'

 I can not stress enough how much Republicans HATE You.  Republicans hate Americans with a visceral passion.  And they get perverse pleasure at getting the people they hate to vote for them.

And no this isn't another leftist screed about how white people vote against their interests.  White people, especially poor and working class (the only workers the Corporate Media acknowledges) get exactly what they want from Republicans in office;  bad faith morality, racism, religious hypocrisy, and non-stop attacks on oppressed and powerless people.

If you think this post title is in bad taste Shapiro
defends rabid racist Jew-hater Elon Musk and 
argues for the extermination of the Palestinian people

However, every so often, a Republican will make it clear they intend to fuck over the working class by stealing social security and white people get indignant and upset... not at the Republicans mind you but, at Democrats, for instance when President Biden points out the Republicans absolutely intend to cut and swindle people out of the Social Security.

Back in 2010, Republican John Boehner, the soon to be Speaker of the House after leftists got mad Barack Obama didn't turn the United States into Plato's Utopian Republic, proposed eliminating Obamacare, raising the Retirement Age to 70 and making drastic cuts to the slender America social safety net.  Americans still voted in the Tea Party Extremists.

So, it's little surprise that Republicans continue their quest to impoverish Americans and ensure no one can every retire.  Here's Harvard educated elitist Ben SShapiro plainly stating American workers should not get to retire EVER but should work up until the day they die.

No one in the United States should be retiring at 65 years old. Frankly, I think retirement itself is a stupid idea unless you have some sort of health problem.  And let's be real about this - it's insane that we haven't raised the retirement age in the United States. It's totally crazy. Everybody that I know who is -- who is elderly, who has retired, is dead within five years. And if you talk to people who are elderly and they lose their purpose in life by losing their job and they stop working, things go to hell in a handbasket real quick.  It's totally insane that you believe that you should be able to work from the time that you are essentially 20 to the time that you are 65 -- which is a 45 year period -- pay in, and then you'll receive Social Security benefits sufficient to support you and your family, you and your wife or whatever, for, like, another 20 years. That's crazy talk. That is not fiscally sustainable.

Ben posits that workers should consider they must work from 20-85.  Life Expectancy for men in America is 73, for women is 79...  the reason Americans die within 5 years of retirement is because they’ve worked themselves into the grave.

 Perhaps Ben is considering how his leisurely life will play out and expects to make it to 85.  Must be because he's not doing anything anyone in the world would consider "work".  Remember Ben counts sitting on his ass talking about Barbie for 2 hours, or complaining about rap music, or demanding Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) send him pictures of her feet as "work".  This pampered dilettante has never done a day's labor in his life, has never had a real job, never served in the military, never helped his community, never put a shovel in the dirt, or hammered a nail into a board.  But, like all rightwingers he feels absolutely qualified to lecture others about things he has no experience and no knowledge about and he always has.

Ben Shapiro is a man of leisure who has taken his Elite Education and coddled upbringing and used it to advance murderous illiberal and authoritarian Republican governments for 20 years.  He argued anyone protesting the Iraq War should be tried for sedition and treason under the Espionage Act.

If you protest this War I have no intention of fighting you should be arrested! 

I'm certain my Reactionary police officer co-workers believe people shouldn't retire at 65 even though some can retire at 50 and even the Tier 2 pensioners can retire at 55.  I Got Mine, Fuck You remains an animating principle of rightwing politics. 

But, Shapiro is far from the first rightwing influencer to argue you don't get to retire peasant, you work until you drop.  Racist Rush Limpballs made this argument years ago,

No, you're not supposed to retire when you're 55. You sound to me like you are totally capable of still working. People are retiring now at 50 and 55 and so forth when they are still capable of working. According to the tables at 55, you've got 22 years left... ~ Racist Limbaugh, [Crooks and Liars]

Infamous Twitter Troll Catturd2, claims he came to his conservatism by listening to Limbaugh daily while working.  Catturd2 has turned in his work pants for rightwing trolling finding it much more lucrative to tweet and be paid by Elon Musk.

Republicans hate You.  They hate an America in which people can possibly find relaxation and enjoyment instead of dropping dead on the job.  Republicans don't believe in the American Dream.  They don't believe in the American people.  Republicans hate America.

President Joe Biden believes in America.  He believes in giving the American people freedom and a chance to live.  This is why Republicans hate Him.  The choice is simple;  Joe Biden and the American Dream or Traitor Trump and jack-booted Fascist Dictatorship.

Republicans hate America 22 : Tradwife Katie Britt breathy lies

 You can tell how much Republicans hate you by how easily they lie to you.  It's despicable and shameless and designed with one goal in mind place their rightwing drones into a constant state of Fear & Anger.

Katie Britt started off her State of the Union response by claiming Senator isn't here job,

My name is Katie Britt, and I have the honor of serving the people of the great state of Alabama in the United States Senate.  However, that’s not the job that matters most.  I’m a proud wife and mom of two school-aged kids.

Love that Joker!

So... one of the most powerful people in the United States Government and therefore the world claims not to be a politician.  I've mentioned before that every Republican runs as an "Outsider" like Wisconsin Drunk Van Orden claims on his campaign website. It's so fucking trite and insulting and the Corporate Media lets them get away with it constantly. Trump claimed to love the title of "Outsider" in a Feb 2024 interview with Maria Bartolomo on Faux News. 

But, Britt's horrific creepy lie-fest was punctuated with one of the most brazen lies of omission yet tried by a Republican. First though, Britt's weird breathy voice is a "virtue signal" to the Fascist Fundamentalists that she's a docile Tradwife, as this "Fundie Baby Voice" has been adopted by evangelical and female TikTok influencers and is immediately recognized by the faithful.

And much has been made of Britt's attempts to go from happy warrior, to tearful mother, to assertive but not angry woman, all while Republicans told her to smile more during her empty Kitchen response.  Britt’s Kitchen was as empty and bereft as she is of morals, ethics, and principles.

But, Britt told a tale of woman subjected to horrific sexual violence from the time she was child. 

I traveled to the Del Rio sector of Texas, where I spoke to a woman who shared her story with me. She had been sex trafficked by the cartels starting at age 12. She told me not just that she was raped every day, but how many times a day she was raped.

We wouldn’t be OK with this happening in a third-world country. This is the United States of America, and it’s past time we start acting like it.

President Biden’s border crisis is a disgrace. It’s despicable. And it’s almost entirely preventable.

Now, I am in no way discounting this women's tale of violence and trauma or saying the story is untrue but, Britt's Lie is in telling this story as though it's a direct result of President Biden's border policies. It isn't.

The woman in question, Karla Jacinto Romero, is an incredibly brave activist who has told her story of subjugation and sexual abuse for decades now. Former AP report Jonathan Katz uncovered this and I recommend watching his video essay detailing the fundamental dishonesty in Britt's recounting of the incident.  I suppose in an irony of ironies despicable liar Katie Britt didn't even "SAY HER NAME" during this shameless co-option of Karla's trauma.

This is a shocking level of insincerity and brazen dishonesty which and I want you be clear, NO LONGER FUCKING MATTERS anymore. Republicans have successfully groomed and cultivated a cult and have no need to worry about lies, slander, misconduct, or even criminal conspiracies harming their electoral chances.

This was merely Britt's biggest lie as her awkward code switching and her stern breathy voice bore FALSE WITNESS against the President.  But, while on line Republican operatives were angry at Britt’s terrible presentation the right wing doesnt care about Britt's shameless.  Retreating to the well-worn canard, 'Oh they all lie. Especially Biden! He's the biggest liar' and therefore having condemned all politicians as exactly the same they absolve themselves of any moral conundrum in voting for Republicans, which is the whole fucking point of Corporate Media BothSides rhetoric, false equivocation, and constant push to excuse Republican perfidy.

We are in for a fight everyone.  Republicans hate You.  Do what you can to defeat these Republican monsters in the November Election because they see Trump's election, the Six Supreme Court Injustices, the compliant Corporate Media, and Authoritarianism Rising with in Europe, in South America, and the Fanatical Genocidal Wars in Ukraine and Gaza as the perfect opportunity to finally destroy the United States of America and replace it with a MAGA Empire held aloft by the pillars of White Supremacy, Corporate Hegemony, and Fascist Fundamentalism.

As always Be Brave if you can but, be ready to fight for your very lives because Republicans are coming for them.

The Democratic Party in Illinois moves to protect Waterways & Wetlands

 Last year, the scummy SCOTUS ruled that the US Constitution and Clean Water Act aren't valid because the Supreme Six Injustices deem it to be so.

The fact the Clean Water Act was 50 years old or the that the first legal cases decided by the old SCOTUS dates back 200 years ago, or that the right of the Federal Government to regulate waterways is written into the very Constitution is irrelevant;   The Scummy Supreme Six Injustices are aligned with the rapacious Rich and those who despoil the Nation.

The Clean Water Act of 1972 survived decades of litigation from opponents seeking to limit the authority of federal agencies like the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to regulate the Waters of the United States, typically referred to as WOTUS. Before the wetlands decision, the Supreme Court upheld the definition of WOTUS to not only include navigable bodies of waters but also adjacent wetlands with meaningful hydrological connections. 

For over a decade, Michael and Chantell Sackett, an Idaho couple, challenged this definition before the Supreme Court twice. In 2004, they bought a lakeside property with the plans to build a home on the site. The couple began excavation without applying for the appropriate permitting to develop on top of a wetland and the EPA stopped the project. 

Last May, in a 5-4 ruling, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Sacketts.

You might have missed this ruling seeing as the Reactionary Court has been pushing through all manner of regressive bills designed to return the United States to its' Roots as a Slave Owning Kleptocracy built upon white supremacy and fundamentalist hyporcisy but, the Injustices financial backers and benefactors also have a eye on undermining any regulation which stymies their ability to despoil the land, strip it of it's natural beauty and reap the financial rewards.

All the meanwhile, leaving behind a shattered wasteland to be inherited by the meek.

Fortunately, here in Illinois we have a Democratic Legislature which will not simply turn the rivers, lakes, streams, and wetlands over to rapacious billionaires to do with as they wish.

In response to another unjust overreach by this Court, Illinois State Senator Laura Ellman introduced a New Act 30 ILCS 105/5.1015, the Wetlands and Small Streams Protection Act:

to restore protections for wetlands and small streams that were formerly protected from pollution and destruction by the Clean Water Act. Provides provisions concerning: exemptions; wetlands delineation, classification, notification, permits and veto; general permits; appeal of final decisions made by the Department of Natural Resources and judicial review; investigation and enforcement; and county authority. Creates the Wetlands and Small Streams Advisory Committee and establishes duties and rules for the Committee. Creates the Wetlands and Small Streams Protection Fund. Provides for permit review fees. Defines terms. Makes conforming changes in the State Finance Act and the Illinois Environmental Protection Act. Effective immediately.

Marshes, bogs, ponds, streams, and other waterways are not things to be drained, damned, or reclaimed but integral pieces of a functioning landscape, a refugee for wildlife, and repository of natural beauty.

But, the 1% won't be satisfied with the massive gains they've made over the rest of America; the Rich want it all, which is why they know if they put Trump back into power they'll be able to finally eliminate the Middle Class, end the American dream, and shackle the American people into perpetual wage slavery and bondage. 

"I know plenty of you, and you're rich as hell...  And we're going to give you tax cuts."

Migrant Buses and the Governments inability to respond to a crisis - Part 6: Republicans hamstringing Government to Make America Fail Again

Before Ken Paxton and Greg Abbott tried to cosplay Sam Houston, the Texas response to the border has been to take large sums of money from the Federal Government and funnel it into the hands of Private businesses. Privatization of governmental functions is the hallmark of Republican "governance" such as it is.

"The government should be run like a great American company. Our hope is that we can achieve successes and efficiencies for our customers, who are the citizens.” - Jared Kushner, 2017. 

Turning Americans from free individuals in a shared society into customers and commodities of the 1% has been the goal of the Republican Party for 50 years;  undoing the Melting Pot and returning the United States to the Glided Age of Robber Barons and Wage Slaves.

Trump: Make America Fail Again

Republicans always root for America to fail when out of control of government and when in charge of government Republicans make America fail.  Because Republicans hate America.

We all know that Trump businesses failed over and over and over and over and over again and the way Trump finally successfully ran his businesses was with a heavy influx of ill-gotten cash from the Russian mob, while he stiffed everyone who ever did work for him.  James Comey can testify to that.  

But, long before Steve Bannon dreamed of drowning the administrative state, Republicans have chipped away at a functioning government and have insured the government can not do big projects as was done under the FDR administration.

There are many things which should and must be done as by Government because Profit is not the motivating factor.  Long ago, when FDR inherited an American economy wrecked from the result of Republican malfeasance and unwillingness to do anything for the American people, he stood up the Works Progress Administration (WPA) to put Americans to work since businesses weren't willing to do so.

We've been living on the bones of the WPA and New Deal for almost 90 years now. Our infrastructure shows it, but Republicans have always hated the idea of Americans having living wages and a steady job that doesn't come with their complete obedience to a rich benefactor.  Republicans believe Corporate Persons should have free reign to hire, fire, and pay people whatever they wish for decades.  

(Except, when that Corporation fires a conservative that's NOT FAIR!!!)

Actor Gina Carano sued Disney and Lucasfilm on Tuesday for firing her from “The Mandalorian” in 2021, over a social media post in which she compared being a Republican to being Jewish during the Holocaust.

The suit, filed in California federal court, alleges wrongful termination and discrimination, as well as a demand that the court should force Lucasfilm to recast her and pay at least $75,000 in punitive damages.

Elon Musk is funding the suit, following his promise to pay for legal actions taken by people claiming discrimination from posts to Twitter/X.

Now, this arrangement of Companies worth billions paying the vast majority of Americans less than living wages with no benefits worked as long as people had a social safety net to fall into 

• Walmart and McDonald's are among the companies with most workers on federally-funded social safety net programs to help pay for healthcare and food assistance, according to a report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO).
• Thousands of people working at the chains are on Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) food stamps and Medicaid, the watchdog found.
• Walmart was in the top four employers of Medicaid and SNAP recipients in each of the states analyzed in the report.

But, steadily since Ronnie Raygun, accelerating under W(orst POTUS ever) and then skyrocketing under Treasonous Trump, Republicans have worked to slice away the meager social services American can rely on.  The Republican goal is simple; to impoverish Americans and make them so hungry and so desperate as to accept any job, no matter how underpaid, with gratitude.

Mean Jean Schmidt premature ejaculation over
the death of Obamacare*

President Barack Obama's ACA was a "big fucking deal" and look at how fanatically Republicans from John Roberts to little shit Jean Schmidt have tried to destroy it for the last 15 years. Republicans do not believe in a government which helps the American people, the current MAGAGOP doesn't even believe in a functioning federal government.

Of course, in trying to undercut Americans wages and benefits, Capitalists like Trump employ undocumented labor and have done so for decades. Businesses have always had a giant Now Hiring sign at the border to encourage migrants to come work here for far less than it would cost to pay Americans.  This has unofficially officially been supported by Republicans for a very long time.

However, since Ronnie Raygun granted amnesty to 11 million persons in 1986, Republicans have turned Immigration into a toxic miasma of racism, white fragility, and a political torpedo to keep the working class white men frightened and fixed as Republican voters.

Which leads us to today.  Back during the 1930's and then during World War 2, the U.S. Government understood the need to be able to build.  The Army Corps of Engineers and the Seabee's, turned inhospitable far away South Pacific Island's into environments for large numbers of servicemen.  Additionally, the coast of California was transformed from a remote primordial rainforest into the housing and jumping off point for the Pacific theater.

The scope of the building and the obvious necessity have been replaced by the non-stop rightwing effort to privatize profits and socialize losses.

Remember one of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney's favorite thing to do during the Phony GWoT was to funnel tax payer money to private businesses to do work which once was accomplished by an arm of the military.  Because it was highly lucrative.  When Republicans were lamenting the state of the US Economy under President Obama, first by trying to lay the 2007 Republican Great Recession at his feet) and then by claiming there was no money available for any of President Obama's policy goals, as John Boehner took to the floor of the House after Americans decided to give the Tea Party power in 2010, and said it's time to further slash the social safety net, 

“Everything is on the table. We’re broke! Let’s be honest with ourselves.”

Well, why were we broke?  It was because Dick Cheney spent that money during the Phony GWoT.  The Deficit was born and grown in the deserts of Iraq and mountains of Afghanistan.  At least 5 Trillion dollars were spent on 20 year mission, but the Corporate Media did their job and helped shield and protect Republicans throughout that period, so that when President Biden withdrew us from Afghanistan in August 2021, the Corporate Media lambasted him and declared it the biggest strategic blunder in American history.  The withdrawal wasn't the blunder you see, it was cutting off that spigot of Federal taxpayer money flowing into the coffers of rapacious private business. 

So that's a long way around reaching to the current Manufactured Crisis about the Border and Immigration.  Even the God's Army of Trump Truckers who went to the Border to see the massive invasion were surprised when they didn't see it.

So, now we have the spectacle of the Border Security Bill, which Republicans are going to submarine.  

And yet, coming on the heels of the failed Impeachment of Secretary Alexander Mayorkas the Corporate Media will not call this out as a continuation of Republican inability to govern, a failure of Republican leadership, as endemic to Republican policies and agenda; namely, Republicans hate the United States and want to make America Fail Again.  Look at this NPR headline; "Congress devolves into Chaos over border and national security" Congress en toto, not Republicans but all those Clowns in Congress. 

But, then the Corporate Media has for over 20 years followed Faux News lead and reported rightwing outrages and Republican disingenuous tantrums as though they were done in good faith and with an eye to helping the Country.  They aren't Republicans want America to fail, they want and need Government to be ineffective or dysfunctional or worse.  Because for 50 years Republicans have been telling their drones the Government is the Problem, and now those Drones are in charge of Government and they are dutifully destroying Government and destroying America to "Save it".

Saving America to rightwingers means turning it into White Supremacist Nation State in which women are tightly controlled, Queer folk are silent or incarcerated, concentration camps for immigrants and others are up and running full-speed, and anyone who dares question the orthodoxy of White Power and Fascist Fundamentalism is eliminated.  Make America Great Again means Destroy the United States. 

* - Seriously deplorable Jean Schmidt in 2011, "'Yes! Yes!' she shrieks in a manner reminiscent of Meg Ryan in When Harry Met Sally. 'Thank God! No, they struck down the individual mandate. They took it away.'  Then she adds a final, enthusiastic 'Yes!'  Since then Schmidt in Ohio declared a raped girl should feel god blessed them with an "opportunity" to have a child thanks to their rapist.

The Vibes Economy 2: Republican Thieves are coming to Steal Social Security because they hate you (and your Obamacare too!)

You... Want... This... Don't You?

Fundamentally, Republicans don't believe the Federal Government (or State Governments for that matter) should help the poor, the sick, the downtrodden, or anyone else who doesn't have a big bank account to shower them with campaign donations.

Republicans are coming to steal your Social Security.  This isn't some nefarious secret plot, Republicans proudly and loudly proclaim their intention to eliminate it but, know even if it is reported (not a guarantee) their base of Rightwing drones will simply blame Biden and vote agains the Democrats.

In 2022, Republican David McCormick, millionaire CEO of a Connecticut based hedge-fund, tried to run for Senate in Pennsylvania on a platform of gutting Social Security,

“I think as a matter of reality, those entitlements aren’t sustainable in their current form for the future of our country.  I don’t think my kids are going to be able to live under the same entitlements that all of us that are here. So, I think we have to face that reality and do two things at the same time: keep our promises to people we made them to and change our entitlements in a way that they’re defensible and fundable into the future.”

Multi-Millionaire Republican McCormick thinks his kids won't get Social Security so he plans to steal it now, so he's running for senate again.  The Mega-Rich in America don't build anything, like Mitt R-Money or Elon Apartheid Musk, they are Vultures who swoop in and pick at the bones of Corporations, often by raiding pensions.

Because Boomers were greedy and Gen-X was cynical and stupid, Business and their Republican and NeoLiberal allies convinced them that Social Security was a bad bet and Pensions were "unfair" somehow.  Enter the 401(k) and other personal investment plans. 

I can not glibly say I hope White Men vote to have their Social Security taken away, even if they deserve to get what they vote for because I can not agree with having aGovernment which harms it's constituents.  And understand that is precisely the Government Republicans want.  Republicans hate America and Republican hate you and Republicans want you to have a short, unfulfilled life of toil and misery, with no real education and scant chance you will escape the perpetual wage slavery and corporate bondage they wish to enforce upon you.

Every Republican is invested in lying to you about Social Security and have been for over 40 years.   King Chickenhawk Coward Ronnie Raygun breathlessly claimed Social Security was about to go bankrupt just before his dementia set in  Speaker Mikey Johnson barfed forth the same odious lies,

“The reality is, they’re headed towards bankruptcy,” Mike Johnson said in his July 2022 C-SPAN appearance. “In just a few number of years, Social Security goes belly up. So does Medicare, Medicaid, all of these big-spending programs because we’re drowning in debt.”

Republicans hate you and want you to work from childhood until death.  The ability to retire before your body fails you completely has galled Republicans for decades.  

Eric Hovde, another Millionaire Republican, who plans to run for Wisconsin Senate in 2024, doesn't want younger Americans he plans to lord over to retire;

"The retirement age is still 65, life expectancy is 79. So my view on Social Security is real simple.  If you’re 50 or older we’re not going to touch it. If you’re under 50 you’re going to add two years to retirement age. If you’re under 40 you’re going to add two more years and if you’re under 30 you’re probably going to have to add another year.”

Republicans are banking on the Boomer base to continue fucking over the younger generations and expect them to vote to pull the ladder up.  For Republicans you get to rest when you're in the grave, you get to relax when you're dead.  Until your death, Republicans expect you to work.  "Retirement" is for the idle Rich and Republican politicians like John Boehner who do their duty cutting the social safety net and ensuring the American working class labors themselves to death.  Republican propagandists are clever maybe they could call their swindling of social security, The 10-to-65 Plan.  Maybe the Republicans could get Robert Lamm and Chicago to adapt their mega hit 25 or 6 to 4?  To Work yourself to death fro 10 to Six-ty-Five.

One of the things which becomes irritating is Rightwing propagandists as they age out, they get to retire to an Emeritus position Glenn Beck.  One of the bon mottes, Beck has liked to invoke for 10 years is there's no Hebrew word for retire or retirement;  

"He has a new book called Buried Treasure: Secrets For Living from the Lord's Language, where he is taking Hebrew and showing ‑‑ for instance, I love this, and this isn't in the book and let me just make this side note. One of the things he taught me was, "Glenn, there is no such thing ‑‑ there's no Hebrew word for retirement. It's not in the Bible. There's no word for retirement, not part of God's plan."

What toil what labor has Beck every done in his life? He's worked at Radio stations since he was a kid. Beck claims if he were to retire, he'd just get another job.  He's never done a job which requires physical labor and Beck had so much lazy free time on his hands he decided to get hooked on booze and drugs. Yet, here's a man who invokes god and has changed religious affiliations so often he thinks nobody get to retire because of God's plan.  Of course, Glenn Beck's wrong because even God Rested after creating all manner of beasts, the Earth, and the Universe.  What's worse is Beck continues to this day to lie to his listeners about Social Security.

Of course, even amongst the well-compensated next generation of rightwing liars, millionaire Charlie Kirk  would also like to steal social security and eliminate the idea you can retire,

Look, for current beneficiaries, none of – none of your obligations should be touched. So in the future, and I'm talking about my generation, I – I'm 29 years old. I'm willing to say, you know what, I'm willing to strike a deal so that people in their twenties are going to get next to nothing for future Social Security if it means we can balance the budget.

Kirk gets a lot of money to go to Campus and per formatively attack freshmen college kids over their views.  He also hosts the roving, never-ending CPAC circus.  I'm not sure how that's a job but, he's wealthy so he's more than willing to cosign his generation to never-ending work.

Nikki Haley, whom the Corporate Media so fucking desperately wants to be the Nominee so they can pull her over the finish line as the Media works to defeat President Joe Biden, absolutely believes you the American people need to work until you drop dead,

“What you would do is, for those in their 20s coming into the system, we would change the retirement age so that it matches life expectancy.  It’s the new ones coming in. It’s those in their 20s that are coming in. You’re coming to them and you’re saying, the game has changed. We’re going to do this completely differently.” Haley said on Fox News in March of 2023.

Republicans believe by telling the Boomers, don't worry we won't touch your Social Security, we'll just make sure those lazy, crazy Millennials and worthless confused Zoomers don't get it.  I think it's a working strategy I think Boomers are overwhelmingly going to vote for Trump and overwhelmingly vote for Republicans again.   A open question is whether Gen-X'ers, who've been raised in this BothSides are too blame landscape, will vote for Republicans?

So, at this point remember it's not me finding some rightwing random on-line espousing crazy views on Social Security; elected Senators, Congressmen, candidates for President, the Speaker of the House, two former Republican Presidents, and major conservative media personalities are pushing to eliminate Social Security.  I'd like to believe evidence would alter the minds of voters, but what we've seen clearly most Americans do not vote on their so-called policy positions.  So, we'll see if Republicans stated desire and plans to steal social security motivate younger voters or if the allure of Trumps nascent fascism and appeal to white power draws them in.  The Corporate Media will continue to do their best to soften Republican perfidy and dismiss peoples' concerns as they did with Abortion, which we know Republicans will never eliminate and we all know Republicans will never criminalize women who get abortions.

Republicans are a fascist organization which plans to impose the most austere, most murderous Government onto its own people.

The political Revolving Door (County, Wisconsin) seems to have let Nazis in

As goes Door County Wisconsin so goes the Nation...

The Washington Post has another article on Door County. This makes sense because Door County is one of those things White People Like.

Anyway in the article about the swingin' nature of Door County (the previous one on this exact same topic was in June) has voted the last 6 elections for the Presidential winner.  But, like most Americans this 2024 election fells like a slog and they are just tired of politics.

Well... Voting for Republicans has consequences

While the people who live on the "Quiet" Side or the Party Side of the Peninsula tend to be more liberal south of Sturgeon Bay is farmland.  And like most of the large expanses of Wisconsin farmland its' peoples have been infected with the rabid reactionary virus of Republican fascism.

Now, much of the electoral defeats in Wisconsin have come down to rightwing ratfvcking of elections and obscene gerrymandering providing Republicans with statewide victories even when they lose the over all vote totals overwhelmingly.  Wisconsin voters have continuously pushed back against Republicans, which has just made Republicans turn to more outrageous non-democratic means of holding onto political power.

Since April, Robin Vos, who considers Wisconsin a solid Republican state when you simply exclude the voters of Milwaukee and Madison, has been engaged in the time-honored rightwing tradition of looking for post hoc justifications for his pre-planned Impeachment of Justice Protasiewicz because voters made the wrong choice and Justice Protasiewicz is going to undo the outrageous gerrymandered district drawn by Vos, Fitzgerald, Scott Walker and all the other anti-democratic goons ruining Wisconsin.

And with so many anti-democratic forces working in the state, it's not surprising a group of Neo-Nazis "The Blood Tribe" would feel free to march in Madison, (yes I know it's Dane County not Door).

As to The Washington Post article which relates the weary tales of various retired people, tavern owners, and small business people who long for a time when politics wasn't so fractious, divisive, partisan, and all-encompassing. I can only imagine these people blissfully ignored everything Republicans did to divide the Nation after George W. Bush's spectacular failure on 09/11/2001 (You're either with us or with the terrorists), never heard Republicans shout "You Lie" at President Barack Obama, never had Faux News on in the background of their favorite Supper Club, and are unaware Traitor Trump proclaims he will use the Government to lock up numerous people into Concentration Camps.

"Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you."

Republicans hate America 3 (And they can't Govern): Shut it down and hurt people

"I voted for him [Trump], and he’s the one who’s doing this,” Crystal Mintnotof Marianna, Florida told FTFNYT Reporter Patricia Mazzei. “I thought he was going to do good things. He’s not hurting the people he needs to be hurting.”

Back during the last Republican Government Shutdown, the Corporate Media was very interested in What Trump Voters Think, and what they thought then as well as now, is the Republican Party needs to be hurting those people.  Fortunately, or perhaps unfortunately besides viscerally hating America,  Republicans also can not govern in any way, sense, or form.

Perhaps this should be obvious, that a Political party, the GQP, wedded to domestic terrorism, which proffers lies and conspiracies, and wishes to destroy the Nation, would also lack the will, skill, ability, or desire to keep a Nation going.

But, that's Republicans for you; a fully-fascist, fundamentally unserious, collection of thieves, scoundrels, bigots, villains and traitors.

Essentially,  Republicans seek to make your quality of life worse in every... single... conceivable... way.  Whether this means undermining your Union, stealing social security, inculcating bigotry against you, passing laws to deny you your bodily autonomy, helping to flood the nation with firearms, or actively empowering insurrectionists and mass shooters, Republicans will do whatever they can to harm you and your loved ones.

So, in classic maneuver to fuck over the American People another Republican shutdown is here.  And predictably, the Republican Squeaker has proposed a budget which guts the already meager Social Safety net while also advancing every hare-brained and vile Republican bigotry knowing a Democratic President will Veto it, if it somehow passes through the slender Democratic Senate control.  At which point Squeaker of the House Qevin McCarthy will go on tv and declare Democrats have shut down the government hur-dur-dur expecting, with good reason, the stenographers of the Corporate Media to dutifully report Both Sides are to Blame and ask Why doesn't President Biden use his vast experience and the bully pulpit to get things done like Ronnie Raygun did with Tip O'Neil?

Besides leading to a lot of damage at National Parks, this shutdown will hurt Unionized Federal employees, cause markets to scramble, keep the military from being paid, fuck with the US economy, crush the poor, devastate working people, and damage your financial situation and quality of life.

It must always be noted:  This pleases the Republican Party.

Republicans hate you and want you to suffer.  Republicans don't want you to have the American Dream; that's reserved for Supreme Court Justices taking lavish gifts, trips, private jet travel, fancy dinners, expensive wines, and every other way of saying BRIBES without saying BRIBES. 

The Republican Party vision for 99% of America is continual toil from childhood to your death at 65.  They don't want you to be able to retire, they don't want you to live a fulfilling life, the Republican Party is against life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.