Just remember twenty-three years ago

Reporting on the Iran war shows, unsurprisingly, how extremely one-sided it is. So far. Just remember that on May 1 23 years ago, when George W. Bush presented his “Mission Accomplished” speech, only 3% of the Americans who would be killed in the Iraq war had been.

— MeteorBlades (@meteorblades.bsky.social) March 4, 2026 at 1:43 PM

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

 

What has the GOP ever done right?

 Fuck Donald Trump

Peace,

emaycee

The apple doesn't fall far from the tree

 Republicans = Nazis

Peace,

emaycee

Soulless ghouls

Just like the weapon that cut Jamal Khashoggi into pieces

 Normally, I'm all for any athlete making as much money as they can--their careers are often short, can fade in an instant, and they generate untold millions for their corporate overlords.  And had the LIV Golf Series originated in Japan or Mexico or Australia I wouldn't have batted an eye as numerous professional golfers bolted the PGA for greener pastures.

But when an association is the brainchild of Saudi Arabia, led by Mohammed bin Salman whose claims to fame include responsibility for the torture and murder (his henchman, the Tiger Squad, literally cut Khashoggi into pieces while he was alive) of journalist Jamal Khashoggi for being critical of Saudi Arabia's piss poor record on human rights, the murder of countless civilians, including women and children, in Yemen with reckless bombing, as well as the crushing of women's rights...something isn't quite right with selling their souls to the highest bidder.  And for men who are paid quite handsomely for basically hitting a ball into a hole with a stick, it's unforgivable.

And also note that their spokesman is Ari Fleischer, George W. Bush's former press secretary whose resume includes helping Bush lie America into the Iraq War (5000 dead Americans, 30,0000 wounded, and over a trillion dollars wasted for nothing), helping to out CIA agent Valerie Plame, and defending Bush's use of torture, forever destroying America's credibility on the world stage.

And just because it's not surprising that a bunch of pampered rich boys wouldn't give a fuck about anyone but themselves, doesn't make it any less disgusting. 

One does have to wonder, though, how long it will be before some sect, similar to ISIS or Al-Qaeda, takes a dislike to a bunch of rich white boys taking home so much Saudi Arabian cash while their fellow Arabic citizens wallow in poverty and numbing human rights abuse, and decides to take matters into their own hands....

Republican = Traitor

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.

People Who Refuse the COVID-19 Vaccine Are Why Our Lives Can't Return to Normal

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

She'll get right on that

Watevs, Andrea!

In light of Michelle Wolf's tour de force at this year's White House Correspondents Dinner, NBC journalistic has been Andrea Mitchell called for Wolf to apologize to lying sack of shit Sarah Huckabee Sanders, among others, for her comedy routine.

I agree--I think Wolf should apologize...right after Mitchell, NBC's Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent since 1994, apologizes to all of America for having her head so far up her ass that she completely missed the fact that the Bush Administration was lying through its teeth when it justified the need to go to war with Iraq in 2003 by falsely claiming not only that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, but also that it had ties to Al-Qaeda.

Or better yet, if Mitchell's husband, former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, would also apologize, this time to America's poor and middle class, for his horrendous stewardship of our economy, which directly led to the Great Recession, and for the economic hardships it caused and from which many Americans will never recover.

Wolf told a few jokes that had some all too painful truths to them.  Mitchell and her husband's obliviousness had horrific real world consequences.

Frankly, the sense of entitlement that Mitchell, and people like her in the Beltway, have is beyond mind boggling.  Frankly, she can take her phony outrage and place it right beside the head that she still has so firmly situated up her ass.

Fuck Donald Trump,
emaycee

The persistence of selective memory

The republican national convention--a veritable smorgasbord of blog posts...

Funny, don't you think, what with republicans screaming incessantly at their convention this week to lock up Hillary Clinton in jail on trumped up (so to speak) charges, how they forget their very own President, one George W. Bush, lied America into a war with Iraq that has thus far killed over 4000 Americans, bankrupted the country with its outlandish expense, and bankrupted us morally with its ill-advised torture campaign which in turn led to the inception of ISIS.  Bush the Lesser is most certainly guilty of war crimes--where's the party of law and order when it comes to very real crimes?

The hypocrisy is staggering.

Frankly, if it's good for the goose, it's most certainly good for the gander.

Peace,
emaycee

Do they have an app for war criminals?

So far this week, George W. Bush administration Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has appeared on Charlie Rose, Stephen Colbert, and The View, ostensibly to hawk his video game app for "Churchill Solitaire," all the while appearing before crowds (except Charlie Rose) who are prompted to cheer at the introduction for a man who played an integral role in lying us into the Iraq War, which, by the way, resulted in the deaths of 4500 Americans and (by the most conservative of estimates) 150,000 Iraqis, the vast majority of whom were civilians.

Not to mention the three trillion dollar sinkhole it became for our budget, which President Obama has gamely been trying to help dig our way out of for almost eight years.

Am I the only one who wonders where our moral compass is when we celebrate a man largely responsible for such carnage?  Or wonders how the wheels could have fallen so far off the track?

Is a dollar really worth that much?

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

Jeb! jumps the shark

The powers that be in the republican party may eventually decide that Jeb! Bush gives them the best chance to avoid catastrophe in the 2016 elections but even they have to be wondering these days.  Jeb! is tanking in the polls (down to 5% in Iowa) and seems incapable of keeping his foot out of his mouth.  This past week Jeb! did it again when he said that President Obama and Secretary Clinton were responsible for the mess in Iraq.

I know Jeb! loves his brother and all, but I'm pretty sure that outside of Fox News not even our clueless national media is going to give Jeb! a pass on that one.  Bush the Lesser and his cast of clowns made an epic error going into Iraq and no amount of wishing on the part of republican candidates won't make it so.

Besides, it's my guess that voters in 2016 will be looking a lot more to candidates keeping us out of the mess in the Middle East rather than than those like Jeb! who want to drag us further in.

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

Stinker to...

Out on another fruitless book selling tour, Dick Cheney called the foreign policy actions of President Obama as "...those of the worst President we've ever had."

Huh--I thought Dick Cheney was the worst President (two disastrous wars, economic collapse, Hurricane Katrina, just to name a few) we ever had...oops, that's right, he was Vice-President.

Silly me.

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

Obama and ISIS

While I agree with those on the left who believe the War on ISIS is not ours to fight, won't solve anything, and will probably make matters worse, I would be less surprised by the Chicago Cubs winning this year's World Series than I would be of an American President, whether republican or Democrat, taking any path other than that of the most aggression.

After 9/11/01, the free pass for Presidents for terrorism on American soil expired.  Any President--current and future--who has another attack on his watch, unless utterly tenacious in his quest to cross every "t" and dot every "i" in protecting American lives, can kiss his Presidency goodbye, both in terms of his or her agenda and how it will be judged historically.  Much worse will be the horror of more American lives lost and the finger pointing ensuing soon thereafter.

It'll also be lame duck for every meal for the opposition party.

Some may scream about political courage, or the fact that an attack by ISIS on American soil is unlikely, but no politician wants to go down in history like Neville Chamberlain after his role in the Munich Agreement.  Aggression will supersede appeasement forever, especially when it comes to even minimally taking chances with American lives.

I don't know if President Obama made the right call this week, but it can't be easy in these times to have the very lives (even minimally) of over three hundred million Americans in your hands.

And it had to weigh heavily on his decision.

Peace,
emaycee

November reign

While I haven't seen any polls that make me giddy for this November's elections, it sure doesn't seem like 2010 either.  I mean by this time in 2010 election cycle, everybody on the left was warning that the November results could be ugly--they were and then some.

The feeling this time around seems to be that we might lose some ground but nothing is looking as catastrophic as the 2010 midterms (yeah, yeah, yeah--famous final words, etc., etc.).  It certainly doesn't hurt that republicans seem to have adopted a strategy which calls for shooting themselves in the foot on a regular basis...

...like having Dick Cheney scatter his mug all over TV criticizing President Obama for his Iraq War policy, which would be like the Democrats trotting out James Buchanan, the man who fiddled while the country smoldered, to criticize Abraham Lincoln for his guidance of the Civil War.  Trotting out Cheney is like a cruise line featuring the Titanic on the front page of its sales brochure.

Not to be outdone by the man who wanted to be king, some republican Senators are calling for a government shutdown to block the President's new environmental regulations.  Because the last one worked so well.

My dear republicans, in the immortal words of President Obama, "Please proceed."

Peace,
emaycee

The republican deb-iraq-cle

While republicans take their completely oblivious potshots at President Obama over the deteriorating situation in Iraq, it's important to remember who created this mess.

Republicans.

Yep, from the get go republications were undeniably wrong about everything in Iraq.  But that hasn't stopped John McCain (McCain must be Scottish for "moronic asshole") from bitching about the events transpiring today (though he did take a colossal bitch slap from Chris Hayes).  Willard Romney, the noted foreign policy expert after serving one term as Massachussetts Governor and also getting his ass kicked by President Obama in 2012 (i.e., he's the Man Who Would Not Be President, Thank God), is taking the opportunity to bash Hillary Clinton and say Obama's foreign policy has been a failure (pretty much expected from a half-wit).  They're even recycling republican trolls like David Brooks (has learned nothing over the past eleven years) and Judith Miller (has there ever been a journalist who was more incompetent on an issue than Miller was on Iraq?).

Fortunately, President Obama has been prescient from the beginning on Iraq, and yesterday noted that we will not be committing more troops to the debacle that republicans created.  Frankly, I wish we'd just walk away--Iraq has been a monumental disaster in American lives and American capital and the ills it produced have not been worth it from the moment we were lied into it until this day.

One thing you can be sure of--when republicans are on TV tomorrow blaming President Obama for their mistakes, if good foreign policy was to jump out of their collective asses and yell "Howdy-doo!" they still wouldn't know what the fuck it was.

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