Just Another Wednesday (Blobbo Update)

It isn't surprising that The Blob wants to involve himself in peace negotiations between Russia and Ukraine. His real interest lies in having an opportunity to cuddle up with (and fluff) Vladimir Putin, who's been ignoring him recently. If there ever really was a day when the hair god was a master of compromise, it passed long, long ago. 

Blobbo doesn't give a shit about the welfare of Ukraine, so fuck him and the burro he rode in on.

If The Blob wants to prove he still has the intellect and judgment of a skilled politician (he doesn't), he needs to immediately put his boot in the collective asses of Felon Musk, Tulsi Gabbard, Pete Hegseth, RFK Junior, Kash Patel, Bimbo Bondi, Tom Homan, and Russell Vought, and send them scattering.

The Blob (now being known online as Yambo) is so removed from reality he believes he can sign another "executive order" and instantly force fifty states to impose restrictive election laws he thinks will diminish voter participation.

Added 6:17 PM: Okay, fire Pete (Whiskey) Hegseth or demand his immediate resignation. He's one of the numerous useless assholes lacking qualifications, but chosen by Pussydent 47A for all the wrong reasons anyway.

Using federal tax revenue to compensate convicted felons who were active in the January 6th insurrection intended to overturn the election, then released from prison for no good reason? This is the sort of lunacy that The Blob wastes his time on. 

To sum things up: The Blob believes that he was chosen by god (sic) to save America because he's the only perfect human being capable of handling that task. He's perfect, but doesn't give a screaming fuck about law and order. Since he ignores every rule and is still perfect, the law must be what's at fault, not him and his zombie army of MAGA morons.

A Little More Nightmare News (Part 4)

I'm not sure that every state has completely finished tabulating every single vote, so I'll make the point with the most recent totals I can locate.

In 2020, Joe Biden steamrolled Fartzy the Psychotic Screech Owl in both the popular vote and the Electoral College. He won 81,283,501 votes, and carried Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia, Nevada, and Arizona. Fartzy still hasn't accepted the reality that Joe delivered a staggering ass-whipping that was overdue, and he'll probably spend his final term in office searching desperately for votes he thinks were stolen from him.

Moving ahead to November 5th, 2024: Kamala Harris has won a total of 74,613,484  votes so far and lost the six swing states Joe carried last time. The question that has many Democrats wondering WTHF? is this: How did MVP come up 6,670,000 votes short of Joe Biden's total? 

We'll probably never know the correct answer to that question. One possibility is that MVP's combination of gender and ethnicity were too much for white voters to accept. Another remote possibility is that millions of voters had forgotten what happened during Fartzy the Psychotic Screech Owl's term as 45 and sat out the election, giving him a final shot as 47.

My expectation is that 6,670,000 voters who wasted their opportunity to have an outstanding president instead of a lazy, ignorant fascist will spend the next four years thinking about Joe Biden's tenure in the White House as THE REALLY GOOD OLD DAYS.

Added 1:59 PM: When Tommy Tuberville was serving as the defensive coordinator at Texas A&M in 1994, I thought he was a real asset to the program. He used that job as his stepping stone to the next one, and I forgot about him for several years.

Now Tuberville is wasting time and space as a U.S. Senator from Alabama and he's essentially confirming that the only thing even slightly impressive about Alabama is the Crimson Tide football team. Tommy Tuberville is so damned ignorant, he should be embarrassing to every goober, yahoo and booger-eating dipshit redneck who voted for him. Fat chance of that. He's MAGA MORON up to his receding hairline.

Midweek Mumbling Part II

Sometimes the real story isn't about the votes he got, but the votes he didn't get. In the Florida primary yesterday, Don Old Dookiebird received 81.2% of the vote, but the other 18.8% went to Nikki Haley, Ron DeSanitized, Christie and some others who were out of the race long ago. Can the Waste of Shit really afford to have nearly 20% of (R) voters against him, either staying home or voting for Joe?

Okay, anyone with common sense understands that if Don Old Dookiebird thought he could win the cases based on his innocence, he'd be doing everything possible to get all the trials started so he could take victory laps for the media until the election. Instead, he's relying on his usual games: delay, then some delay, and then more delay. The courts (especially Loose Cannon and the Extremes) seem ready to play the game with him.

Green

If Ralph Nader's votes in Florida had gone to Al Gore instead, there would've been no Bush 43. If Jill Stein's votes in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania had gone to Hillary Clinton instead, there's no telling where Donny Jack Smack would be, but he wouldn't be watching Fox News in his pajamas at the White House.

Since the Green Party candidate has won just enough votes in two presidential elections to help two popular vote losers win the electoral vote, I can't deny that I've been frustrated.

Stuff like I just finished reading isn't improving my mood one damn bit.

Update: Timothy Adams lost the primary to another Green Party candidate, but he still got nearly 40 percent of the GP votes.

Liberal vs Blue Dog

Liberal Democrats are defeating "moderate" Democrats in primaries. This is being reported as a problem for the party?

Paraphrasing something I read years ago: When voters have a choice between a real Republican and a make-believe Republican, they'll pick the real thing nearly every time.

Trends?

Can Democrats flip 30-45 Republican seats in the House? Looks possible.

It would help Republicans in the long run to have a dose of harsh reality rubbed in their faces -- that there aren't enough Donnie lovers in North America to prevent a bloodbath in the next three or four elections if voters are mad enough to vote. As things stand today, everything that gets done is intended to make sure 38 percent of the people (Donnie lovers) are happy.

Update 12:29 PM Friday: The bogus House intelligence committee has issued a report with the bogus findings of its bogus investigation, and Donnie Wet Fart believes he's been fully exonerated. Yet another reason the Democratic Party needs to gain a House majority in November. Fortunately, the real investigation is building momentum.

Voting Day

It isn't unusual for me to skip party primaries, especially in non-presidential election years. In Texas, the primary action is almost always on the Republican side, and the few Democrats who run against any incumbent Republicans are destined to fail, so why waste my time?

There's a lot of chatter these days about the increasing possibility of a Blue Wave election in November. I try to avoid anything that resembles over-confidence, but I realized this morning that if a Blue Tsunami's coming, I want to say I was part of it. And that's why I spent 30 precious minutes of my life voting in the Democratic Party primary this afternoon. Let's just say that Donnie Turnip, Greg Abbott, Danny (Goeb) Patrick, and Rafael (Ted) Cruz motivated me to exercise my right.

Update: Additional motivation provided by worthless motherfuckers like Mitch, who can keep the country totally fucked up as long as he's majority leader.

The only votes that matter

Mitch McConnell has been acting like a guy who knows he can't lose. It started in 2016 when he locked down the Supreme Court vacancy created by Fat Tony Scalia's death until it could be filled in 2017 by a Republican president. If I didn't know better, I might think the Russians are now in control of American elections.

More from Kos on a related topic: Donnie Placenta's involvement in the laundry business (money, that is).

In 2018...

Nasty Man and the rest of the Republicans in Washington are making it clear they just don't care about the majority of Americans anymore. Everything they've done during the last eleven months or so has been intended to please about 34 percent of the country: the 4 percent who are worth at least a few million, and the 30 percent who will follow Nasty Man anywhere he decides to take them. The other 66 percent of us can fuck off if we don't like it.

Since all of those Republicans (other than Nasty Man himself and some cabinet members) are professional politicians, the probable explanation for what they're doing is that

• they know they can't possibly lose in 2018 (i.e., the elections are fixed), or
• they know they can't possibly win in 2018 regardless of what they do. 

Meanwhile, the evidence just keeps piling up.

And we're getting another painful lesson about the danger in letting all the big decisions be made exclusively by worthless GOP assholes.

A reason to smile: Former Green Party nominee Jill Stein may soon be under the microscope of the Russia investigation. If the votes that went to her had gone to Hillary Clinton instead, we wouldn't be up to our necks in shit today. Knowing what we know now, it wouldn't surprise me to learn that Russia was supporting her campaign.

First, elect 67 Senators.

I agree with Rep. Pelosi. Democrats need to develop an agenda that will win House seats for them next year, and the impeachment of Donnie Jerkinov is probably not an issue that will accomplish that objective. Motivating Donnie's fans to come out in force is a poor political strategy at a time when they might otherwise be feeling lethargic. 

Split Vote

It pisses me off, but we can add Bernie Sanders voters to the list of reasons we're dealing with the consequences of having Donny Johnny as the so-called precedent (sic). The math shows that Hillary would have won Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin if she'd gotten the votes in those three states that went to Jill Stein, or the Sanders votes that eventually went to Donny, or better yet, both.

I have to wonder what those Sanders fans were thinking, assuming they were. And I wonder if those votes could be won by any Democrat.

How They Did It

Alternet provides a review of the fraudulent and treasonous actions that Republican presidents since Richard Nixon have taken to win the White House. Maybe I should feel better knowing Turnip (sic) isn't the first one, but I don't.  

Kansas

Kansas may be one of the most schizophrenic states in the nation. Bernie Sanders and Rafael Cruz won caucus victories there today, and I can't imagine two people who are more different in every way. Bernie Sanders is likable even if you don't agree with him. Rafael is unlikable. Period. I have a feeling that deep down inside, even people who vote for Cruz wish he wasn't such a pustule.

Violated

A black man named Barack Hussein Obama won consecutive presidential elections in 2008 and 2012. In the alternate reality of conservative Republicans, this outcome was only possible because massive fraud was involved. That was all they needed to start grinding out voter ID laws.

The one thing that conservative assholes never explain is why voter fraud wasn't a problem in 2000 and 2004 when George W. Bush was being elected, but suddenly became a problem of crisis proportions after Obama was elected in 2008. I mean, there were illegal immigrants in Texas in 2000 and 2004 too.

Registering

Mrs. Clinton has proposed an approach to voter registration that interests me. Like everything else about Mrs. Clinton, this has conservatives in the early stages of a meltdown.

Republicans flourish in low turnout elections, which explains why bottom feeders like Rafael (Ted) Cruz, Greg Abbott, and Danny (Goeb) Patrick hold statewide office. Anything that could possibly expand the voting population to include more people who are not old, white, southern or religious will be resisted by the GOP like a new gun control bill.

Burwell, Blue Islands and Brain Power

Expecting the Gang of Five, led by mob boss Fat Tony Scalia, will rule in favor of the plaintiffs, the assumption has generally been that it would mean the end of the ACA. According to this article, things may not be so cut-and-dried. Theoretically, blue states that established their own exchanges can carry on as they have been, with about 15 million people receiving assistance through subsidies or expanded Medicaid. The 6 million people who get screwed would be red state residents who signed up through the federal exchange.

All factors considered, this might not be the worst thing in the world.

Added 4:48 PM on Monday 22 June:

In a recent email exchange, my bro wrote that he believed the Republicans will repeal most, if not all, of the ACA at the first opportunity, especially the parts pertaining to the individual mandate and denial of coverage based on pre-existing conditions.

From what I've read, there are sections of the ACA that are extremely popular, and the pre-existing conditions rule is one of them. Reverting to the old rules will go over with voters like the proverbial lead balloon. Of course, covering people with pre-existing conditions is only feasible when things like the individual mandate expand the population of premium payers.

There are probably a lot of Republicans in Congress who are relatively sensible and would be willing to work on compromises to remodel the ACA. Unfortunately, sensible Republicans are pussies who let the lunatic fringe dominate the party agenda rather than face primary challenges. A minority of crazy tea party fuckwads are allowed to set the direction because they show up in force to vote in low turnout elections (like primaries and run-offs).

There have been some examples of this in Texas recently. In 2012, relatively sensible Republican David Dewhurst ran for an open U.S. Senate seat, and was opposed in a run-off by Rafael Cruz, one of the greasiest tea party bottom-feeders on earth. Cruz based his whole campaign on an accusation that Dewhurst was willing to compromise with Democrats. In a red state like Texas, winning the GOP primary is equivalent to winning the general election.

In the 2012 GOP run-off, the total vote was 1,111,938 and Cruz got 631,812 votes (56.82 percent). In 2012, there were 13.646 million registered voters in Texas, and 7.994 million of them voted for Mitt Romney in the presidential election later that year.

The votes Cruz received in the run-off amounted to roughly 4.63 percent of the registered voters in Texas, and roughly 7.9 percent of the 2012 Republican voters. Approximately 86 percent of potential Republican voters ignored the run-off altogether.

In my opinion, too many Republican politicians witnessed the Dewhurst defeat and decided it was easier to capitulate to the tea party crazies than risk losing their safe seats to primary challengers. There's not a lack of brains among Republicans, just a lack of intestinal fortitude.

Mandate

Election return data for Texas (November 2014) ~

• Voting age population of Texas (May 2014): 18.915 million
• Registered voters in Texas (November 2014): 14.026 million
• Total votes cast for governor of Texas:  4.689 million
• Total votes received by Greg Abbott (Republican):  2.790 million

The 4.689 million votes cast in Tuesday's gubernatorial election represent 33.4 percent of the registered voters in Texas. Greg Abbott's total of 2.79 million represents about 19.9 percent of the RV population. In other words, 80.1 percent of the registered voters in this state did NOT vote for Greg Abbott.

More telling, only 24.8 percent of the state's voting age population bothered to vote at all, and only 14.8 percent of the Texas VAP voted for Abbott.

Greg Abbott is actively supported by less than 15 percent of Texans who are old enough to vote in state elections. That means 86.2 percent of the VAP voted for someone else or didn't give a shit one way or another.

The numbers were even worse for Danny (Goeb) Patrick, who only received 2,718,406 votes, fewer than Abbott. This is why Republicans like low-turnout elections in which white people over age 50 vote in large numbers, while younger people (under 30), lower-income people, and non-white people stay away on election day.

Epidemic

From the Houston Chronicle, Thursday, September 4th:

"Abbott...vowed a crusade against the 'epidemic' of voter fraud in Texas when he became attorney general in 2002. In the dozen years since, his zealous efforts have uncovered a grand total of two cases that would have been stopped by the state's voter ID law. That's no misprint; he's found two."

Conservative Republicans share several traits, one of which is the mistaken belief that everyone in America is just as stupid as they are. And only hopelessly stupid assholes still believe the Texas voter ID law was intended to prevent massive fraud.

As for Greg Abbott, he's a cheesy political hack.

Get out the vote ? No way, Jose.

Thanks to Little Green Footballs for this post which tends to confirm something that I've known all along, deep down inside. GOP leaders understand that people who are angry are likely to get out and vote, so their goal is to keep Republican voters pissed off all the time. Still, there aren't enough Republicans to win an election if everyone votes, so the second part of the strategy is reducing the turnout among voters who aren't pissed-off Republicans. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but voter ID requirements should help.

Handouts

USA Today says Donald Trump plans to solicit private donations from plain, ordinary folks to fund his potential campaign for the presidency next year. He says he wants to give Bobby Beergut a chance to invest in the nation's future or some hogwash along those lines. He'll probably have some investors, too, since he's on the TV -- however, I won't be among them. I have a principled objection to turning the White House over to anyone with a haircut like that.