Just one question

Al Qaida, the Taliban, and the DeVos family--all terrorists

If there was one question I would like to see the press ask Donald Trump is his daily bullshit dissemination conferences, it would be this:

"What do you think of the fact that the family of one of your Cabinet members--Betsy DeVos--is giving financial support to protesters who are carrying swastika signs, confederate flags, threatening the governor of Michigan with bodily harm, and waving guns threateningly as they protest desperately needed stay at home directives?"

While I'm certain Trump would give his standard response--they're fine people (they're not) and the DeVos family are good Americans (again, no), I think it's important that Americans know exactly how fucked up the Trump administration is.

Look 40% of American are going to vote for the idiot regardless, but I'm pretty sure the other 60% aren't going to be all the comfortable with a Cabinet member giving money to a fringe group of American terrorists.

Fuck Donald Trump,
emaycee

This is what they'll sacrifice

Take a good look at the young woman in the picture above these words.  Her name is Skylar Herbert, and she was the first child to die in Michigan from the coronavirus.  She was five years old.  Her parents are first responders.

A conservative guess would be that she lost seventy years of life.  Her parents lost countless years of the unbridled joy she would have brought them.  Her mother and father's lives have been irreparably worsened.  Their world will never be the same because of the incompetence of Donald Trump and his administration.

Slylar Herbert is what Donald Trump, the republican party, Fox News, and all the "freedom" protesters are willing to sacrifice to re-elect Donald Trump and keep Corporate America, Wall Street, the DeVos family, and the Koch family happy.

Never forget.

Fuck Donald Trump,
emaycee

Sacrifice? We don't need no stinkin' sacrifice

Probably also funded by the DeVos Family and the Kochs

Keeping in mind that the protests against Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's Stay At Home Directive here in Michigan earlier this week A) Feature a vast minority of Michiganders, numbering in at least the hundreds, B) Were bankrolled by the DeVos Family and the Koch Brothers (oops, forgot one of them died) Brother, C) For some odd ass reason thought that the flag of traitors from the Confederacy was good window dressing, and that D) Governor Whitmer's approval rating right now is in the mid-60's, which is twenty points higher than the orange shit gibbon in the oval office, can we just thank the stars that these morons weren't around when America was fighting World War II?

I mean if you can't handle six weeks of not being able to get a haircut or buy a juniper bush, how the hell would have have fought off four years of the greatest threat to America's freedom in our history?

If it were up to their clown show, Hitler would be calling the shots here in America.

Oh, wait....

Fuck Donald Trump,
emaycee

Racist much?

Conservative Christianity at its finest...

Hundreds of people from Michigan, bankrolled by the DeVos family, converged on our state capital in Lansing today to protest Governor Gretchen Whitmer's stay at home directive.

Everything you need to know about this rally can be explained by the shirt of the man in the photo--the vast bulk of the deaths in Michigan are occurring in overwhelmingly black Detroit and the rally is strictly, completely, and totally about their racism. 

Fucking period.

Fuck Donald Trump,
emaycee

A bad moon on the rise

Row, row, row your boat...

Last week Secretary of Education Betsy Devos had her 163 foot yacht (one of nine boats she and her husband own) unmoored in Ohio, causing the boat to float aimlessly for a short period and sustain a few scratches.

My guess is that considering the disaster that is the republican tax cut for the rich, and the growing chasm in America between rich and poor, it's only a matter of time before untying some billionaire's boat and casting it adrift as a means of protest is going to seem decidedly quaint.

Fuck Donald Trump,
emaycee

Back to the future

Fuck religion

Am I the only one who sees the irony in Mike Pence saying the Trump administration will support the Iranian people in their struggle for economic justice against the theocrats who rule Iran, when Pence was put in place by the DeVos and Prince families to...turn America into a theocracy where we'll be ruled by wealthy religious people who expect us to praise the Lord and starve?

You cannot make this shit up--these people know no shame.

Fuck Donald Trump,
emaycee

It could be raining

Dark and gloomy--republicans vision of America...

While I wouldn't place a wager on its ending, the Trump presidency is in serious trouble after the revelations of these past couple of weeks.  But as bad as Trump has been as President (it may be the worst four months in the history of the American presidency), should Trump get impeached and Pence assume the presidency it is a guarantee that Pence will be worse.

You read that right:  Pence will be worse.

Because as disastrous as it is, Trump's utter incompetence and abysmal approval ratings are keeping republicans from enacting much of their agenda.  They are simply too busy trying to deal with his rank lunacy, and the cries from the Liberal wilderness are more likely to fall on deaf ears with a President who isn't hated by everyone but republicans.

With Pence in the White House, every christian wet dream that the DeVos family has ever had will be enacted.  With Pence in the White House, every union smashing, wage busting, poor people crushing, and America destroying tax cut fantasy the Koch brothers have had since time immemorial will come to pass.

Donald Trump's buffoonery has helped keep them in check.  With a (seeming) return to normalcy under Pence, their psychopathic selves will doom all of us.

Therefore, in order to survive, it is vital that we make sure people equate everything Donald Trump does...with Mike Pence.

Trump=Pence.

Fuck Donald Trump and Mike Pence,
emaycee

I live in DeVos

Strangled by the mitten...

I used to live in Michigan.  Now I live in DeVos.

Our capital used to be Lansing.  Now it's DeVos--that's right, our legislature legislates in DeVos, DeVos.

We used to have a State House of Representatives and a State Senate.  Now we have the Lower DeVos and the upper DeVos.

Our Governor--terrible as he is--used to be called Rick Snyder.  Now he's Governor DeVos.

We used to have a republican party and a Democratic party here.  Now we have the DeVos party and the Democratic party.

People may think I'm being overly dramatic but I am not--our state has all three branches solidly controlled by republicans who are in turn solidly controlled by the DeVos family.  Whatever the DeVos family wants, they get.  And without the slightest hint of dissent--no republican member dare question them lest the DeVos family set up a well-funded primary challenger in a heartbeat.

I mention all of this because the Senate approved Betsy Devos--a woman who has no qualifications whatsoever and appears to have received her appointment due to her family's bribing of republican Senators--as our next Secretary of Education.

And anyone who doesn't think the DeVos family wants to do to America what it did to Michigan is absolutely kidding themselves.

And there's no more perfect pawn than Donald Trump.

Fuck Donald Trump,
emaycee

The man who would be the Ayatollah of America

Jesus was such a wimp...

Any folks who think the choice of  Mike Pence as Donald Trump's Vice President wasn't orchestrated by the powers that be in the republican party (most notably the Koch Brothers, the DeVos family, and Sheldon Adelson, among others) are seriously deluding themselves.  Should Donald Trump be unable to finish his term (not a prediction, it's just a possibility), or decide against a second term, or even eight years from now, Mike Pence would be their perfect wet dream, a capitalistic Theocrat.

The rest of us would not be so lucky.

Pence and his cult (aka, the religious right) seriously believe that God loves unfettered capitalism and that feeding the hungry, housing the homeless, caring for the sick, and being tolerant of others has nothing to do with Jesus' call to love your neighbor as yourself.  Separation of chuch and state to them is for sissies--they believe this country should be run by white Christians for white Christians.  The rest of us are going to hell anyway, so our cares and concerns don't really matter.

And with the country overwhelmingly run by republicans, Pence and his minions would be free to discriminate against the LGBT community, disenfranchise minorities, and to fight to keep women in the kitchen just like he did in Indiana.

And the United States would eventually grow up to be just like...Iran.

Peace,
emaycee

Take it from us

As Wisconsin republicans move closer to legislating a right to work for less law in Wisconsin, foks here in Michigan can tell them exactly what this law will mean:

It will not create any jobs.  It will not attract businesses to your state.  It will not increase anyone's wages.  It will not increase the state's standard of living.  It will not keep college graduates in your state.  It will not attract highly skilled individuals to your state.  It will not improve your kids education.

On the other hand, it will decrease wages.  It will lead to a lowered standard of living.  It will send your kids to other states that are more friendly to workers.  It will lead to an exodus of college graduates.  It will mean that fewer people want to teach in your state and your kids education will suffer.  It will lead to people abandoning your state in droves--who the hell wants to freeze their asses off for six months out of the year to work for peanuts?

It will also mean that your state, just like your neighbor to the east, is on the fast track to being as culturally, politically, and economically irrelevant as the Dakotas.

Probably should have followed the lead of your neighbor to the west, Minnesota.  Seems they elected a Democratic governor who raised taxes on the rich and raised the minimum wage--and now they have one of the best economies in the United States.

Too bad your governor, Scott Walker, chose to bury his nose in the Koch brothers asses, much like our governor, Rick Snyder, chose to bury his nose in the DeVos family's asses.  Funny how that works, isn't it?  He gets to run for President while you and your family get to survive on less and less money.

It's enough to make a man want to grab a pitchfork....

Peace,
emaycee

Wow

A staffer for Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder attended a private fundraiser for his Democratic challenger Mark Schauer wearing a pair of spyglasses (note:  at this point, a snicker, a guffaw, a "what the fuck?", a "for fuck's sake, Francis!" are all perfectly legitimate reactions), which she then proceeded to fucking lose and let fall in the hands of the Schauer campaign.

Now I have no problem with the Snyder campaign's tactic--bullshit trying to get a leg up in an election campaign has been done probably since the very first elections mankind ever held.

And I'm not surprised by the ineptness of the Snyder administration--I'd be hard pressed to name a single thing they've done right in the past four years here in Michigan.

What the story leaves me with, though, is hope.  Schauer is a good man, a good Democrat, and about as exciting as vanilla ice cream.  Snyder has the power of incumbency and wealth via the Koch Brothers, the DeVos family (of Amway fame), and his own fortune to make good King Midas envious.  Frankly, as much as I'd like to see Snyder go down to defeat, I thought the odds were long, at best.

But not so fast--if the Snyder campaign has to resort to such Donnie Dorko tactics, I've got to believe we have a much better chance than previously thought.

One tough nerd, indeed.

Peace,
emaycee