FOR FUCK’S SAKE Mon 4/23/2018–Day 458 of The Hostage Situation

1 year, 93 days, 12 hours, 9 minutes and 50 seconds until it’s over

Let’s see..the so-called-ruler-of-the-United-States (SCROTUS) has been a busy little bee.

Today we’re talking about his nomination for Secretary of the Veteran’s Administration. Imagine him getting push-back on nominating his own personal physician for the position. Compound that with the fact we have breaking news that Ronny Jackson might have created a drunken hostile work environment while pushing pills out of the White House pharmacy. The stall seems to be a bipartisan showdown so, we'll see if it last. 

Over at the CIA there's trouble concerning the nomination of a new Director (since Pompeo is gracing the Secretary of State position with his presence. We think). There appears to be some concern America could be sending the wrong message by appointing a woman who was directly implicated in the humiliation and, some say torture, of prisoners of war. Gee, you think? God, help us. 

Two “adult” entertainers are in various stages of taking SCROTUS to court for sex-related acts deemed inappropriate – they both have 2 names.

Trump claims he couldn’t have been compromised by Russian hookers because he didn’t stay overnight in Russia but we have flight records and interviews by the man himself which totally blows that alibi out of the water. He did stay in Moscow overnight. All in the day of the life….

Mueller is still going on with his investigation while PutinsMiniMe continues to call it a witch hunt. The GOP is doing nothing to save Mueller or Rosenstein from Trump’s temper tantrums and still has no spine nor moral compass. The Country is waiting for Michael Cohen’s next move therein Trump’s next meltdown. Good times.

DJT is still supposed to meet with North Korean dictator about nuclear situation. Trump is clueless he is, once again, being played like a fine-tuned piano. He can’t make a deal to save his life and inevitably gives away the baby with the bathwater each time, offering to gift-wrap the whole deal to boot. He will negotiate America away in no time if left to his own.

French President Macron is in town to talk about the Iran Nuclear Agreement. The Idiot will probably fixate on the damn French military parade again having no attention span left over for actual policy discussions. I mean, it’s only nuclear weapons with Iran, it’s not like it’s North Korea or Russia.The King wants to hold court but the subjects don’t exist. Sorry, Donald.

As if on cue the Universe and World seem to know the United States is no longer holding the bar high in regard to respect of human rights, tolerance or moral authority, There seem to be no acts that are responded to involving an American conscience. Today 10 people were mowed down by a white van in Toronto, Canada, leaving 15 more that were injured. The 2nd worst act of killing that has ever happened in Canada. Yesterday 4 people were killed in Tennessee by a 29-year-old American in a Waffle House around 3 in the morning. An assault rifle was used. Again. The discussion about the tragedy and senselessness of the act has barely been given a nod in the news. #ThisIsNotNormal

Jack Johnson is being considered for a potential pardon after Sylvester Stallone contacted Trump about the boxer.

I think this is enough crazy for today.

Why didn't Trump's personal touch help Republican Rick Saccone win in Pennsylvania? (Quora Question Answered)

In my humble opinion if that was Trump’s “personal” touch then the man lacks sorely in personal. But, I do believe that fact was quite self-evident even before AF1 wheels hit the tarmac in PA. His speech to encourage PA GOP to come out and vote for Saccone missed the point entirely. Actually, Trump’s speech missed many points entirely except for one which was to remind himself, in front of an audience, of just how grand and wonderful he has been, is and will be in the future.

Saccone did about as little as a candidate can do to promote themselves in an upcoming election. Lamb out raised him 10X and that was from grassroots attempts with no special interest. Saccone raised, what? 660,000? And the national GOP Committee put in an additional 10 M to try and maintain a hold on a seat in a district Trump walked away with a 20 point win. Add to that the faces of the top GOP lawmakers stumping for him. As a group, his visibility was increased but even the Repubs viewed Saccone as “underwhelming.” There was so much more going on than the need for Trump to rub his personal touch all over District 18.

Lamb ran as a conservative Dem which was a wise choice in PA at the moment. The Dems need to be able to accommodate the varying degrees of “liberal” bias that they have come to be identified with. The DNC doesn’t hate guns or the ownership of guns, they hate the lax, unbridled entitled right the RWNJ feel trample common sense as well as life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The NRA’s rhetoric that any type of constraint on gun ownership is a direct intrusion to the 2nd Amendment is distorted merely for profit and to promote chaos.

For Lamb to be against Pelosi isn’t anti DNC either. There has been a growing number of Democrats who feel Nancy’s time may be coming to a close and a new, fresher & more invigorating face of the future has been long overdue, according to many.

Lamb embraced stance on abortion that has been suggested as an approach the Left should consider for a while now. While he, personally, didn’t feel abortion was a good decision for him or his family, he still promoted the right of the women to decide which direction should be taken on an individual basis while respecting the SCOTUS decision.

The DNC needs to turn over the reins of the party to the young kids that are showing an interest in politics. It is time for the up & comings to find their niche in the cogs of the political environment of the 21st Century. It isn’t our parents DNC anymore, nor is it ours. Sure, they will make mistakes and trip and fall. So did we. But, we need the youth to get excited and involved in politics or it will become the stagnant bookend of the belly-up GOP that is bobbing around the waters of the cesspool they have created.

The Dems need be open to new ideas and not see change as an insult to the ideology we feel define the DNC. As we have seen the DNC isn’t defined which has been the entire problem leading us up to this point in time where we are dealing with the likes of a man called Trump. Trump and the GOP are fading and are desperately grabbing onto anything they can to take with them when the time comes for them to lick their wounds while out of favor (which by my estimations could be quite a while after they sanctioned this debacle in DC). We need to take this opportunity and run with it, offering no apologizes to those old and worn out ways we leave in our wake.

Insanity & the Alabama Special Election

I was truly disturbed by many aspects of the whole debacle. I mean, really, did we just have an election where there was an alleged child rapist actually running for Senate? Did we just have the so-called-leader-of-the-United-States tell us that a vote for an accused sexual malcontent was preferable to voting for a Democrat? Are we at that place, politically, where the Right just boldly says we need the vote for our policy because our millionaire donors have threatened to withhold future money if we don't pass a tax reform bill that benefits them specifically and to hell with the American voter's needs?

Yes, yes and yes.

With that said I absolutely had no problem at all with the results of the election. The election should have been a no-brainer on morality alone, but as many witnessed morality is of short supply in America these days. I knew that in this surreal quasi-political environment we exist in that Roy Moore could have possibly won the race in Alabama. The fact he didn't made many things that have felt wrong with the world lately fade away for a few minutes restoring, albeit it briefly, faith in our government, the scale of checks and balances and the human race as a whole.

I thought the Democrats got exactly what they put into it - the win. This was a much needed dry run against this unique & ever-changing political landscape. With the ever-decreasing length of the ol' attention span, seizing the moment as soon as it presents itself is critical to achieving success. The left, and I mean all facets of the left, from DC to Delaware to Detroit to Denver, has been not only discussing what was needed to begin to flip the Hill blue but has actively been engaging in activities that are laying the groundwork, on grassroots level, for potential continued success until the 2020 elections. 

I say potential because this is going to be a race that requires constant focus, energy and unusual approaches that the DNC has not been comfortable in the past but seem to be more open to embracing with this new breed of GOP insanity. With this win in Alabama, the Dems remember the thrill of winning due to a job well done. Add that to the fact resuscitation of the left has been needed for a long time and with the unique challenges from a Trump GOP, we are training for a marathon. We just have to give back to the Right what they put out. 

The GOP got what they put into the election as well. It was a half-arsed attempt to finish yet another unfinished “project” they have laying around that they keep tripping over. Even with their collective minds they still have too many pots boiling on the stove to keep track of them efficiently. They keep running here, there & everywhere trying to finish something, anything and end up looking the fool. The lack of any kind of flexibility in their mindset makes impromptu problem solving a deal breaker. The GOP has a set of policies they feel are imperative to their success and identity and seem unwilling to accommodate new approaches or ideas leaving them in an utter heap of unfinished policy. 

Add to everything the rapid demise of mere warm bodies on the Hill due to scandals and lawmakers who no longer wish to perform beneath a wannabe leader whose numbers are rapidly deteriorating in the polls makes for an unknown factor of a solid headcount by the Right who has blown almost a year in the majority with very little to show for their #1 position. 

The popular vote and polling numbers most incoming administrations have to feed off never gathered enough speed to take them through the special elections. Maintaining their election-year momentum was never an option because they never had any momentum, to begin with and that is exactly what usually carries the incoming party through to mid-terms election successes. The lackluster showing by the GOP opens a huge door for the Democrats to take back Congress but they must never get comfortable, confident or matter of fact. They must continue to fight each battle with entire heart and soul and they may be able to continue this streak of ousting Repubs & taking back the direction of policymaking in America sooner than either party thought was possible at first glance a year ago.