Most productive President in most of our lifetimes

For anyone who wonders if President Biden can do the job, I’ll remind you that, he’s CURRENTLY DOING THE JOB.

This President has been the most productive and progressive since FDR delivering time and time again for the working class from infrastructure to rebuilding the economy. https://t.co/BBTvd265X2

— Ray Reed 🗳 (@RayReedMO) November 5, 2023

Republicans = Nazis

Peace,

emaycee

 

The seal of approval

I approve this message. pic.twitter.com/f1q5giNM8j

— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) July 18, 2023

Republicans = Nazis

Peace,

emaycee

 

MTG making the case for four more years of Biden

Caught us. President Biden is working to make life easier for hardworking families. https://t.co/w0CwdlCfO9

— The White House (@WhiteHouse) July 17, 2023

Republicans = Nazis

Peace,

emaycee

 

Hoping for radical action from current Dem leadership is a fantasy

Our two greatest presidents - Lincoln and FDR - were great precisely because they both recognized there’s something precious and worth fighting for in America’s institutions, but that saving and redeeming those institutions sometimes requires truly radical action.

— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) June 24, 2022

Republican = Traitor

Peace,

emaycee

 

There's still time to make it a reality

Republican = Racist

Peace,

emaycee

Social Security, Medicare, and Obamacare--winning programs from Democrats

As 2021 draws to a close, I am proud to say that more than 4.6 million Americans have gained health coverage through the Affordable Care Act since I took office. From November 1st to December 15th alone, more than 13.6 million Americans signed up — an all-time high.

— President Biden (@POTUS) December 22, 2021

Republican = Racist

Peace,

emaycee

 

So did I

I did! https://t.co/PxdoPVyY1o

— Rep. Jim McGovern (@RepMcGovern) November 19, 2021

Republican = Racist

Peace,

emaycee

 

 

The difference between greatness and a turd

Which of these great Presidential Quotes is not like the others?

“I’m not into golden showers.”- DJT pic.twitter.com/m2k7Lgx3hZ

— Mark Hamill (Mar🐫) (@HamillHimself) October 16, 2021

The Republican Party Is Now a Fascist Cult Just Like Nazi Germany

Peace,

emaycee

 

Nothing compares

Who has the higher IQ--Trump or the creature above?

 I'm not sure what Kool Aid pundits on the right are drinking (or if it's liberally spiked with Jack Daniels), but last night Sean Hannity compared Trump's walking up the White House steps, taking off his mark, and obviously gasping for air to the actions of FDR and Winston Churchill in times of crisis (can you imagine Trump during WWII?  If his cozy relationship with Putin is any guide, Trump would be screaming "Sieg heil!" and wearing a funny little mustache).

Donald Trump compares to Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill about as much as an orangutan compares to Albert Einstein and Marie Curie.  And quite frankly, the orangutan compares much more favorably to the great scientists than Trump does to the great leaders.

How low does your self esteem have to be to embarrass yourself on national television with such obviously ludicrous comparisons just to kowtow to Donald Trump?  What level of stupid do you need to be to dream up such bullshit?

It's literally like grown adults truly believing that Santa is going to fly down on his sleigh from the North Pole and bring them everything from their letters' wish list.

215,000+ Dead Americans

Fuck Donald Trump,

emaycee

Who needs horror films?

 

This will seem tame compared to the 78 days after the election

The single scariest blog post I've read this week is this one, wherein the author posits that win or lose, for Donald Trump the pandemic will end on November 4th.  What's frightening is that he's absolutely right--Trump is only doing the minimum now to curb the coronavirus because he has an election coming up in six weeks.  After that he will have absolutely no reason to counter the virus, one which he already views as little more than a nuisance.  

Want losing candidate precedence?  In the aftermath of Hoover's crushing defeat at the hands of FDR in 1932, Hoover attempted to extort Roosevelt, telling him that unless FDR dropped plans for the New Deal Hoover would not lift a finger to help Americans in the depths of the Great Depression.  Roosevelt refused, and Hoover kept his word (good to know that Trump isn't the only psychopath to set foot in the White House).  It ended up becoming such a disaster for Americans that Congress changed the inauguration date from March 4th to its current January 21st to prevent future Presidents from having as much time to leave such carnage in their wake.

And after a win...let's just not fucking go there.

Either way, the potential for colossal damage to America is enough to keep me pacing the floor at three in the morning....

198,000+ Dead Americans

Fuck Donald Trump,

emaycee

Paging Herbert Hoover

Trump's giving him a run for his money as worst ever

Republicans are taking one hell of a gamble banking on the economy turning around enough in the next five months to boost their electoral chances--especially considering that they're going to need 100% of Americans actively involved in the economy (hard to see for at least a few more months as many elderly people and people with children will probably continue to take a hard pass) and the unemployment numbers dropping to an encouraging level (30 million people aren't all going back to work before November).

But the more I see their strategy the more it reminds me of Herbert Hoover's strategy in 1932, where he kept telling the millions of unemployed Americans who were going hungry to trust the markets and all would be well soon.

Spoiler alert:  The final tally in the 1932 election was 472 electoral votes for Franklin D. Roosevelt, and 58 for Hoover.  Democrats would hold the White House for the next twenty years, and control of Congress for almost a generation.

Here's hoping the old adage that what we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history bites republicans on Donald Trump's fat ass in a big way this November.

Fuck Donald Trump,
emaycee

Meet the new boss...

Not the same as the current boss...

You know, there's some delicious irony in the fact that 72 years after America led the way in defeating a psychopathic German despot and hence the President of the United States became the de facto leader of the free world, that a German Chancellor has become the de facto leader of the free world as she tries to help save us all from a psychopathic American President.

And for the umpteenth time in the history of humankind, truth proves stranger than fiction.

Fuck Donald Trump,
emaycee

Sad AND stupid

Truer words, my friends, truer words...

Earlier this week, CNN conservative commentator Jeffrey Lord compared Donald Trump to Martin Luther King (cue much deserved outrage).  Now I used to think conservatives/republicans made these comparisons out of some sad need to have a modern American icon to compare themselves to, since unlike Liberals/Democrats who have Harry Truman or the Kennedy's or Martin Luther King or Franklin Roosevelt (you know, politicians who have actual accomplishments that help ordinary folks), conservatives have no one.  I mean, outside of republicans, most Americans think Reagan was little more than a doddering old fool, and republicans are so far removed from Abraham Lincoln's legacy that he might as well have been a (modern day) Democrat.

But the older I get, the more I believe it's just stupidity--conservatives/republicans have no fucking clue what MLK or JFK or Truman did, but they know that most folks have positive opinions of them and so they throw the names out there hoping it will stick.

And good fucking luck with that.

It also illustrates a major difference between the two parties--republicans talk the talk but they can't walk the walk .  Could you ever imagine a Liberal/Democrat commentator saying that Bill Clinton was the Virgin Mary of economic recoveries?  Fuck no, because we don't have to--we actually fix problems and make the world a better place, unlike conservatives/republicans who have nothing to offer other than bullshit.

Fuck Donald Trump,
emaycee

I'm glad it's your birthday

Today marks Social Security's 81st birthday--the Social Security Act (the brainchild of Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, the first woman to sit in the U.S. Cabinet--and how apropos that is in the year we'll elect our first woman President...) was signed into law on this day in 1935 by the Father of the modern Democratic Party, Franklin Delano Roosevelt,  It has become the most successful program in the history of the United States and is the biggest anti-poverty measure in America.

In honor of its allowing working class folks like me to have a few years of comfort after our bodies, minds, and spirits have been exhausted by the cretins of Corporate America (as well as all the good it's done for the disabled and children), I've "come (to) pipe a tune to dance to, lad..."--the second greatest birthday song ever written ("Happy Birthday to You" might be dull and common, but it's served birthday parties quite well since 1893, thank you very much).

Enjoy (and Happy Birthday, Social Security!):

Peace,
emaycee

Seventy-nine years ago today...

...Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act, the greatest and most successful social program in the history of America.  It has kept innumerable seniors out of poverty--and helped thousands of young people who have lost parents and thousands of people who have become disabled.

I can't begin to imagine where my Mom would be without her monthly check.  And being one of those people (20% of people aged 55 to 64 have no retirement savings) whose ass has been kicked by Bush the Lesser's economic catastrophe--a.k.a. The Great Recession--I know I'm thankful for it because it's probably the only thing between me and working as a Wal-Mart cashier when I'm eighty (should I be so lucky to live so long).

Social Security was originally the brainchild of Frances Perkins, the first female to be appointed to a U.S. Cabinet (she was Roosevelt's Secretary of Labor from 1933-1945).

She is responsible for the greatest good for the American people in our history.

Not a bad legacy.

Peace,
emaycee

Dueling Liberals

There were conflicting pieces over the past couple of days on The Daily Kos as to whether or not Hillary Clinton is the best Democratic candidate for the Presidency in 2016.  Egberto Willies makes the case that what we need is a transformative President who fights for the kinds of causes that we Liberals have been fighting for years and Ms. Clinton is not that candidate--he's right (though at the end he mentions the rise of a populist republican candidate...which is only slightly less plausible than there being a man on the moon).  Kos  takes up the cause that Ms. Clinton is the best candidate because of what her candidacy would mean for Democrats down ticket, as well as into the all important 2020 elections (redistricting).  He's right as well.

You know the candidate I want?  This guy:

          "These unhappy times call for the building of plans...that build from the bottom up and not from the top down, that put their faith once more in the forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid."

Though those words could have been spoken today, they were spoken in April of 1932 by Franklin Delano Roosevelt as he campaigned for a Presidency he would eventually win four times.

Considerably more possible than a Liberal republican is that this Democratic candidate is out there for us to find (and not named Elizabeth Warren)--one who sets as his or her agenda the right and the fight for a better economic life for the forgotten men and women of our working class.

Peace,
emaycee

They say it's your birthday

Social Security, that wondrous program championed by the greatest American President, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, is seventy-eight years old today.  For a poor bastard like me, it's also the program that stands between me and being eighty years old, standing behind the counter of a McDonald's, and asking some scruffy seventeen year old if he'd like fries with his Big Mac.

Many people are using today to give a boost to the Harkin-Begich amendment which would--rather than cut as far too many fools are encouraging--actually give a generous raise to those collecting Social Security.  A most worthy cause for today, but...

...today is also a day when we can remind everyone that Social Security is not an entitlement.  I have been paying into Social Security, at a clip of 6.2% of my wages for almost thirty years now--as have the vast, vast majority of my fellow Americans.  When I retire, I am being given nothing when I receive my Social Security checks.  I earned every fucking penny of them--and so have my fellow Americans.

Today would also be a good day to remind the American people just who it is who would benefit the most from cuts to Social Security--big business.  Unbeknownst to many, our employers match our 6.2% contribution.  The same mother fuckers who ended pensions as we knew them for the crapshoot (for ordinary Americans, anyway) that is the 401k plan, who shifted health insurance premiums to employees (believe it or not, boys and girls, 'twas a time when employees contributed nothing to their company sponsored health insurance--the company bore the entire cost) for little more than to make the rich richer and the rest of us to live paycheck to paycheck ad nauseum, would certainly see their bottom lines balloon should they not have that match, and as before, all that it would mean is Daddy Warbucks would have a few more hundred dollar bills to light his cigars while the nation's elderly would keep Purina Cat Chow profits soaring.

Remember--Social Security is the panacea that will prevent the drool from my eighty-year old lips falling on your grandkids french fries....

Peace,
emaycee

Moral courage

As the bridge collapse in the state of Washington yesterday showed, the state of our infrastructure is abysmal.  Couple that with our still too high unemployment rate, and you have the perfect recipe for killing two birds with one stone:  fix our roads, bridges, and schools, and put lots of Americans back to work.  It's too bad we don't have a blueprint for...what's that?  We do? 

It was called the Works Progress Administration (WPA), set up during the FDR administration.  The WPA put over 8 million Americans to work during its eight year run and helped keep many unskilled laborers and their families in a house and food.

Unfortunately, what we don't have is a President who has the moral courage to fight for what's right and not for appeasing the republican party.  I've given up trying to figure out what President Obama wants his legacy to be, but you can be sure it's going to be a whole hell of a lot less impressive than is FDR's.

And he has no one but himself to blame for it.

Peace,
emaycee

We're #34!

Thank God for Romania.

Recent rankings from Unicef put the United States 34th out of 35 developed nations for relative childhood poverty rates.  With over 20 million of our children living below the poverty line (and considerably farther below the poverty line than those children in the other 33 nations), my question would be:  where's the fucking outrage?

I know those numbers are a good day at the office for republicans, who figure it's the kids faults for not being born to parents who were trust fund babies.  But what about Democrats?  Where's the Democratic politician, who, like FDR and the New Deal, LBJ and the Great Society, says these numbers are an embarrassment and are antithetical to everything this nation stands for?  Who says we can do much better than that and actually make it a priority?

Where?

Peace,
emaycee

The test of our progress

"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have too much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."--Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Had I not worked this past Monday, I would not have known that today is the sixth-eighth anniversary of the death of the greatest American President, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.  I work in a thrift store, and each day we get (much appreciated) donations to keep us in product to sell to customers to help us provide for the needy. On Monday I happened to go through a box of donated goods that contained a series of articles from the issue of Life magazine that was released the week after his death.  Considering the articles were from 1945, they were in surprisngly good condition, and yesterday I had the chance to read through them.  While the articles themselves contained nothing extraordinary, they did paint a picture of a man who was beloved by American because he loved Americans.  Franklin Roosevelt put human dignity, moral conviction, and human compassion at the forefront of his agenda.

It is sad that two days before the anniversary of President Roosevelt's death, the American people were betrayed by our current President, in a wisdom that is evident to no one, when he decided to embrace cuts known as Chained CPI to President Roosevelt's signature economic accomplishment, Social Security.   Social Security is the most successful government program in history, and has kept millions of Americans out of poverty.

In the midst of the Great Depression, with millions of Americans in need, Franklin Delano Roosevelt showed courage and worked to provide enough for those who have too little.  In the midst of the Great Recession, with millions of Americans in need, Barack Obama decided to stroke his own ego in search of a Grand Bargain.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt touched greatness because he cared about the American people, and didn't give a damn about his legacy.  Too bad for the well-being of ordinary Americans that we will never say the same of Barack Obama.

Peace,
emaycee