Trump once again showing the world what an idiot he is

I guess he doesn't realize that probably half the people there can tell him, firsthand, how dangerous Afghanistan was and that until you have IEDs in the streets of DC, he should shut the fuck up.

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— The Rude Pundit (@rudepundit.bsky.social) September 30, 2025 at 10:17 AM

Fuck Donald Trump

Peace,

emaycee

 

Iran will be just another long boondoggle that the GOP dragged us into

For those unconditionally cheering the attacks on Iran, remember that our early strikes in Afghanistan and Iraq were “successful”. But we ended up getting dragged into costly wars that created more terrorists than we killed. The American people haven’t forgotten that.

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— Chris Murphy (@chrismurphyct.bsky.social) June 18, 2025 at 11:51 AM

Fuck Donald Trump

Peace,

emaycee

 

The silver linings playbook?

You’re staring to see the formation of a midterm platform that Dems could run.

* Historic job growth
* Pandemic under control
* ISIS leader taken out
* Infrastructure bill taking effect
* The Encanto soundtrack

— Sam Stein (@samstein) February 4, 2022

Republican = Racist

Peace,

emaycee

 

Biden's great first year, part three

Congratulations Joe Biden on:

-COVID-19 vaccines + booster
-creating millions of jobs
-reducing the unemployment rate
-reducing taxes
-making America respectable again
-reducing hate crimes
-uniting Americans
-fighting gun violence
-infrastructure
-ending Afghan war

— 🇺🇸🌊Serena Democrat Patriot 🌊🇺🇸 (@USPatriotSerena) January 14, 2022

Republican = Racist

Peace,

emaycee

 

Biden's great first year, part one

Congratulations Joe 🇺🇲
-Added 6.4 million jobs
-Historic GDP growth
-Unempoyment down to 4.2%
-Stock Market all-time highs
-Passed American Rescue Plan
-Cut child poverty
-Largest vaccine rollout in history
-Ended our longest war
-$1.2 T infrastructure
-Reunited 100 families pic.twitter.com/SHJDXpVlGH

— Critter (@asclepiasyriaca) January 14, 2022

Republican = Racist

Peace,

emaycee

 

Let's Cruz away from here...

https://t.co/WeU9KeZD39 pic.twitter.com/GW5Z0XcAEw

— Michael Cohen (@speechboy71) August 31, 2021

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Peace,

emaycee

The original sinners

Can’t leave anyone behind if you never leave 🧠 https://t.co/gTD1StsL9U

— italien feeld (@julianfeeld) September 1, 2021

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Peace,

emaycee

Face it: bin Laden won

America is falling, too--it's just taking a little longer

 Boris Johnson, the U.K. Prime Minister, gave a speech this week wherein he claimed that the terrorist attacks in America on 9/11/01 failed to shake our belief in freedom and democracy, and did not divide us.  His statement was nothing more than platitudinous bullshit--and especially rich coming from a man whose nation recently decided to disassociate itself from the European union, in large part driven by a right wing that sent their crazy into overdrive beginning on...9/12/01.

Whether or not Osama bin Laden, as he orchestrated the September 11th attacks, foresaw the depths to which the republican party would sink (my guess is--after seeing the circus they made of Bill Clinton's impeachment over an extramarital affair--he knew) is debatable, but his plan to discombobulate America worked to a tee.  Make no mistake--bin Laden was not a fool and knew there was no way Al Qaeda could ever come close to destroying America, but that America was perfectly capable of destroying itself.  

Witness George W. Bush's foray into Afghanistan, which started as an exercise to capture and kill bin Laden but which became a multitrillion dollar disaster because Bush and his cabal turned it into a failed effort at nation building (the U.K. and Russia's failed efforts in the 20the century should have been a major clue that it was a fool's errand).  Republicans used fear of brown people to push through electoral victories in 2002 before embarking on another multitrillion boondoggle in Iraq, and the fissures between Americans at a time when we should have been united began to show.  Bush badly mangled the response to Hurricane Katrina (and republicans again showed just how little they cared about anybody who wasn't white), and then obliviously led us into the biggest economic calamity since the Great Depression., both because he was too worried about revenge to worry about other dangers to America.

Every single one of these wounds was self-inflicted by a party hell bent on executing its increasingly misguided worldview regardless of the cost.

Republicans then proceeded to take a bold initiative--healthcare for all Americans which every other democratic nation in the world already had--and turned it into an issue to further divide us and effectively sabotaging anything else President Obama could accomplish that would help the American people.  In 2016, republicans gladly accepted help from a nation (Russia) that is our sworn enemy to once again take power, and Donald Trump promptly destroyed the United States standing in the world before so overwhelmingly botching a pandemic that over 650,000 Americans died on his watch, causing more deaths than any war America had ever fought.  And most of it because he hoped that people dying in blue states would help lead to his re-election.  It did not.

But never fear, unable to win Trump began lying about the outcome of an election he lost handily, and like the dutiful cult they are, republicans across America began to implement voter suppression laws (mostly aimed at people of color) to ensure future victory.  And to put the icing on the cake, their supporters are refusing to wear masks and get vaccinated against a deadly mutation of the coronavirus to help protect their fellow Americans, and their leadership is actively sabotaging our economy.

So please tell me again how republicans believe in democracy or in any way want to be united with any American that isn't white or has a different political viewpoint.  Johnson's words, like those coming out of any conservative's mouth these days, are utter horseshit.

Yes, Osama bin Laden is dead, but his fellow Muslims believe he's in heaven surrounded by thousands of virgins while republicans are doing their damnedest to turn America into an autocratic theocracy by combining the worst of the Taliban's and Vladimir Putin's fascist playbooks.  

Osama bin Laden played republicans for the fools he knew they were, and the rest of America has suffered untold economic and health related harm because he so completely outplayed them.

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Peace,

emaycee

War pigs

New: CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News are hosting some of the primary architects of the Afghanistan War to serve as expert voices, even though many of them are responsible for deliberately misleading the American public for years https://t.co/84JjHp6bk5

— Media Matters (@mmfa) August 30, 2021

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Peace,

emaycee

No surprise--the national media hasn't done anything right since Watergate

Carville: There’s no elegant way to lose a war. We lost this war 15 years ago. All Joe Biden was doing was telling us what time it is and the hysterical and stupid coverage of the mainstream press, it’s just been awful pic.twitter.com/tP5PgaHwpk

— Acyn (@Acyn) August 26, 2021

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Peace,

emaycee

Works for me

So long, farewell, auf wiedersehn, adieu...

 Donald Trump this week:  "Any effort to dictate national Mail-in voting will be a disaster for our Country and for conservatism.  There will never be a Republican elected to high office again."

As if this would be bad, considering a) Reagan's disastrous economic policies which led ultimately to the greatest income inequality in the history of this country and doubled the poverty rate, b) George W. Bush led us into two disastrous wars and brought us the worst economic disaster since the Great Depression, and c) Trump himself oversaw 600,000 American deaths because of his incompetence during the coronavirus which also led to the second massive economic crisis perpetrated by a republican President in twelve years.

As far as I'm concerned, if mail-in voting will guarantee no more republicans in high office, we should hand deliver ballots to every American door and come back later to each one of them and collect those ballots so we never have another republican in office ever.

We'd all be much better off for it.

Taxing the Wealthy Is Good Politics for the Democratic Party

Peace,

emaycee

I can't hear you!

For all their bluster (and that's what it is--republicans are little more than fucking fraidy cats who want anybody but themselves to do the dirty and dangerous work) about Friday's attacks in Paris, here are four things they won't tell the American people:

• Republicans will demonize the Syrian refugees and call for walls! border security! but the murderous cretins who carried out these attacks are exactly what the refugees are trying to escape.
• You can forget those crockofshit tears republicans are shedding for the French--the right absolutely despises France and its people.
• There will be more Americans killed in the next five days by guns than were killed in the Paris attacks--and unlike Paris, the American deaths will continue ad infinitum.
• Most importantly, this whole mess is republicans fault.  From the Bush administration's having its head up its ass on 9/11, to their piss poor operation of the war in Afghanistan, to the ill-advised and ill-conceived Iraq War, to their disastrous torture program,  republicans have done more to create utter chaos and stoke hatred than President Obama could in ten lifetimes.

And this has been your daily dose of reality.

Peace,
emaycee

What is it good for?

Rick Santorum thinks we should bomb Iran back to the 7th century.

Marco Rubio thinks hunger and homelessness are the least of our problems--they won't matter if for the, oh, second time in our 239 year history some idiots decide to try to blow something up in the United States.  Because starving and the brutal elements of nature never killed anyone.

Lindsay Graham is desperately trying to relight John McCain's pretty much permanently snuffed out torch which would call for war in the Antarctic if a penguin farted.

It's beginning to look like the republican strategy for foreign policy in 2016 will be war, war, and more war--there's nothing like calling for the killing of people in foreign lands to excite the GOP base.

And this should be the Democrats response:

Good God, y'all--didn't you bozos learn anything from Iraq and Afghanistan?

Peace,
emaycee

Once again, we learn nothing from history

A new CBS poll shows that for the first time a majority of Americans (57%) favor sending ground troops to combar ISIS.  Against a group that while responsible for some despicably heinous acts against American citizens, hasn't come within, oh, 6000 miles of any kind of attack on American soil.

For fuck's sake, we still have in our collective rearview mirror the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the lives lost and permanetly disabled, and the disaster they both wreaked on the American economy, and how little difference either of them really made...and still a majority of Americans want to start another one?  For fucking what?

Someone needs to boot a lot of Americans in the ass and remind them of the futility of fighting other people's battles (see also, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan).

Peace,
emaycee

Bowe and arrows

While most Americans may not be knowledgeable about the ins and outs of military culture, most Americans nonetheless would be familiar with the tradition that our military does not leave its personnel, be they dead or alive, behind.

Unless, of course, you're the republican party and you're as desperate for a scandal to fire up your base (such are the disadvantages of not having an agenda that can do the same) as a heroin addict is for a full syringe of smack.

The faux republican uproar over President Obama exchanging five enemy combatants for the only American prisoner of war in the Afghanistan War, Bowe Bergdahl, has actually gone beyond the point of being repulsive.  Bergdahl may or may not have deserted/committed acts of treason (amazing at how much republicans scream about upholding our Constitution until it's no longer convenient--see also, presumption of innocence), but you would think Obama had exchanged Bergdahl for Hermann Goring.  In fact, in their never ending mud slinging at President Obama, Bergdahl is actually worse than a Nazi, because, um, he wasn't friendly with his fellow soldiers and because his father has a beard.

Six million Jews compared to aloofness and facial hair--yeah, that makes a lot of fucking sense.

Frankly, this is just another in a long line of republican bullshit that proves that everything--and I mean everything--that is wrong with America today begins and ends with the republican party and its brain dead minions.

Peace,
emaycee

On Benghazi and bears

Lindsay Graham says it's because of Benghazi (also causes pink eye and scurvy).  The noted foreign policy expert--due to being able to see Russia from her front porch--Sarah Palin is waxing poetic because Russian autocrat Vladimir Putin wrestles bears (Will. Not. Smash. Head. Against. Wall.).  There are a couple more here if you really need more proof republicans have no business near the White House other than as tourists taking pictures.

You know what's really amazing?  That after being asleep at the wheel for 9/11, after two disastrously conducted wars in Iraq and Afghanistan  that helped to bankrupt our economy, there is anyone anywhere (outside of Putin giving a shout out to his fanboys) who would take republicans seriously when it comes to foreign policy.

It's like asking Fred Flintstone about anti-lock brakes.

Peace,
emaycee

Hindsight is 20/1,000,000

Completely bungled the attacks on 9/11.  Managed to mishandle the only war America has fought since WWII that was necessary.  Got us involved in a second war by using false information, a war which eventually became an even bigger disaster than Vietnam.  Turning a blind eye to torture that destroyed our reputation.  Didn't pay for either war and we paid a steep price with our eventual economic collapse.  Watched over a thousand Americans die in a hurricane in New Orleans that his administration also completely botched.  Presided over the worst recession in American history, as financial disasters go, only the Great Depression was worse.  Watched helplessly as the housing bubble popped and destroyed the one equity that average Americans actually have that's worth anything.

All that, and yet, as of today, George W. Bush has a positive approval rating from the American people for his years in office, 49% to 46%.  For a man who will most likely go down as one of the three worst Presidents in U. S. History.

I'd say something about those who don't learn from the past are doomed to repeat it, but a mere six years after the most corrupt President in U. S. history was forced to resign from office we elected another republican who began the never ending economic downward spiral that the working men and women of this country have been sucking on for the last thirty years.

Word of warning:  hold onto your wallets, folks.

Peace,
emaycee

Twenty-five reasons to vote for Obama: #16--George W. Bush

Anybody remember what happened the last time we elected a man who had been born with a silver spoon in his mouth, had most of his success because of a) being born wealthy, and b) his father's success, and had a spotty record in the previous governmental leadership position he had held?

Let me remind you:

• In 2001 his administration fell asleep at the wheel and the tragedy of 9/11--and 3000 American deaths were upon us.
• They proceeded to get us into the first war America has fought since WWII that was actually necessary and proceeded to run it as badly as a blind man drives a car.  Over 1000 American troop deaths and still counting.
• As if one war wasn't enough, on the basis of faulty and completely erroneous information, they got us into a second war which went even worse than the first.  Combined, the two wars put a huge drain on the country's finances and we're still paying the debt (and will be for some time) for funds that could have been put to much better use.  Over 4000 American troops killed in this one.
• Proving that being asleep was the one thing they were good at, his administration blew the run up and the response to one of the strongest hurricanes in our nation's history--Hurricane Katrina--resulting in the deaths of over 1000 Americans.
• As if all of that wasn't bad enough, thanks to deregulation, a false housing bubble, and once again, falling asleep as they guided the mothership, the economy collapsed resulting in the loss of over five million jobs, nearly a fifty percent decline in the stock market, and a recession the likes of which this nation hasn't seen since the Great Depression of the 1930s.

Of course, I'm talking about George W. Bush, POTUS 2001-2009.

And we really want to hand the keys over to his blood brother, Willard Romney?

Thanks, but no fucking thanks.

Peace,
emaycee

Twenty-five reasons to vote for Obama: #18--Iraq and Afghanistan

When Barack Obama was running for President in 2008, two of his campaign promises were that he would bring home the troops from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Ahem:  Mission Accomplished.

The drawdown in Iraq has been completed.  Afghanistan begins in 2014.  Both have been completed with a modicum of fanfare.  Both have been done safely and securely.  While there are no guarantees, both countries have a viable chance to stand on their own.  Our standing in the world has been greatly enhanced.

There is absolutely no question that Presdent Obama's foreign policy actions have been successful.  For all the talk about Democrats being soft on defense, the President has shown we are anything but.

Peace,
emaycee

Thanks, but I'll pass

If Labor Day is one of my favorites days of the year, this is one of my least.

A moment of silence or remembrance for those who were killed or gave their lives in service to their country and fellow Americans on 9/11/01 is certainly a noble effort.  As for the rest...you can have it.

For newspapers and edutainment channels, it's become just another way to make money.  Frankly, after ten years there is neither anything new nor anything of genuine interest to add.  They should save their "what the day means to you"  stories for the Fourth of July, Memorial Day, MLK Day, or Labor Day.

In many respects, Bin Laden's efforts have succeeded. Thanks to republicans, Americans are more divided than ever since 9/11--and that division is downright rancorous.  Our moral compass has been shattered:  we let a President lie us into an unnecessary war that killed thousands of Americans and never held him to account; we turned a blind eye to torture and are a lesser nation for it.  We chewed up and spit out our precious freedoms, enacting civil rights killing measures like the Patriot Act and giving the Presidency untold power to spy on us.  Ten years ago, the tea party would  not have been considered mainstream--they would have been called what they are:  a lunatic fringe hell bent on the further destruction of America.

But Bin Laden's greatest success has been the financial ruin that is the American economy since 9/11.  Over a trillion dollars has been spent on two largely failed wars yet one quarter of our children now live in poverty.
Billions have been spent on Homeland Security and further increasing an already bloated Defense budget, yet our roads and schools are falling apart.  In fear, too many Americans helped to elect people who promised to protect them but whose main objective was to lower the standard of living for the many and imcrease it for the wealthy few.  Unemployment in America is over 9% and underemployment is over 16%, yet Sen. Kyl is threatening to quit the Catfood Commission II if there are any more cuts to the Defense Budget.  Want to guess the odds of one of the six Democrats on the Super Committee threatening to quit over cuts to the Social Safety Net?  Thanks to Citizens United, corporations can now effectively buy our elections--too many of us shrug our shoulders because, hey, we can still afford the cable and cell phone bills and never mind the shrinking middle class, the backbone of our country, and the fact that most of us are a medical crisis away from financial ruin.

Patriots Day?  No, thanks--I'll say a prayer for the innocents and heroes killed on 9/11/01 and spend the rest of my time working on the progressive values that make America greater and not so much on the lip service that has lessened our country over the past ten years.

Peace,
emaycee