You know they just don't care

Maybe we can pretend it never happened...

After six months, the Trump administration has finally had someone acknowledge the over 185,000 Americans who have died due to its epic mishandling of the coronavirus pandemic.  Both Melania Trump and Ivanka Trump (though not the man responsible, Donald Trump) mentioned in their RNC speeches this week that a lot of Americans had died--with a very stiff sniff, sniff. 

Awfully fucking convenient that it finally happened at their convention, don't you think?  My guess is this is the last time republicans will make any note of the over 185,000 Americans who have died due to COVID-19.  Or register the least bit of empathy for the survivors of those who have lost their lives because Donald Trump is an incompetent idiot.

185,000+ Dead Americans
Fuck Donald Trump,
emaycee

Down is up

You want to know how fucked up America is these days?

After last week's nearly flawless Democratic National Convention (seriously, the worst part of the four days was Paul Simon's horribly off-key rendition of "Bridge Over Troubled Waters"--embarrassingly bad), the best I have ever seen in following conventions of both parties since 1976, and the previous week's Republican National Convention which strongly resembled a freak show, as of today, Hillary Clinton has only a roughly 65% chance of defeating Donald Trump to win the Presidency (election snapshots here and here).

While I'd much rather be where we are than where republicans are, but for fuck's sake you'd think after the last two weeks (and Trump's insulting a fallen soldier's family, to boot) we'd be talking about who's going to be in Clinton's cabinet rather than whether she can win enough electoral votes.

Peace,
emaycee

Hellistan

After four days of the republican National Convention, we've seen an arena half full of people call for the imprisonment of Hillary Clinton, ten billionaires praise another billionaire in a time of rampant income inequality in America, and been informed that, should he win the Presidency, Donald Trump intends to purge the government of officials appointed by President Obama.

Seems to me rather than "Make America Great Again" the republican slogan for this fall's campaign should be "Make America Into a Third World Tyranny."

Despots, tycoons, and Big Brother oh my...

Peace,

emayce

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

U-N-I-T-Y

I saw about thirty seconds of the Republican National Convention tonight (because that's about all I can stomach), and in that thirty seconds, Ron Johnson, republican Senator from Wisconsin who's going to get his clock cleaned this November by Russ Feingold, said that after Donald Trump was elected President the republican party would unify Americans once again.

Because, you know, nothing says unity more than building a wall to keep Latinos out, banning Muslims from entering the country, selecting a VP candidate known for his anti-women and anti-LGBT viewpoints, and having an arena full of dimwits screaming to have the opposition party's candidate locked up for imaginary crimes.

You cannot make this shit up.

Peace,
emaycee

Watching the detectives

After the recent murders of police officers in Dallas and Baton Rouge, Steve Loomis, the President of the Cleveland Police Patrolman's Association proclaimed that President Obama was to blame (why--because he's black?) and wondered how police officers had become the bad guys.

I think I can answer that.

It's because prosecutors across America have decided that police officers can murder American citizens with impunity.

See how easy that was?

Peace,
emaycee