November 30, 2022

I am mystified by letter writers concerned about election integrity, which is code for their belief that the last election was rigged. The burden of proof is on the deniers to prove fraud. However, the work on proving there was no voter fraud has been done once again. A recent report stated that “state-level enforcement units have provided no indication of systemic problems.” The three states involved have Republican governors, yet 45% of Republicans are still in denial.

Some writers have suggested solutions like requiring voter ID’s, limiting voting to only US citizens, curtailing mail-in ballots, eliminating harvesting, auditing balloting machines, having equal numbers of observers from both parties, and having poll workers sign honesty pledges.

Voter ID’s clearly discriminate against poorer citizens. Federal elections are already restricted to US citizens. Voters clearly prefer mail in voting versus standing in long lines, and I trust the USPS. Ballot “harvesting” is regulated by the states. There was a case of fraud committed in North Carolina by Republicans. There is no evidence that balloting machines were reprogrammed by Dominion, Italians or Hugo Chavez. Election fraud by anyone in federal elections is already a crime.

As one election official said, “This is a solution looking for a problem.”

November 23, 2022

Now that the GOP has regained control of the House of Representatives, it can turn its attention to the serious business of developing an agenda and governing. What is up first? Hunter Biden’s laptop. Republicans want to know what’s on the laptop. I can save them a lot of time because I already know what’s on the laptop.

First, there is definitive proof that Hilary Clinton was behind the attacks at Benghazi. There is also evidence that she was actually in Libya at the time of the attacks. What was she doing there? It’s political malpractice that the Republicans couldn’t pin the blame on her despite countless hours of Congressional hearings at a cost of millions of dollars.

The laptop will show that Ukraine tried to swing the election to Hilary in 2016. The hundreds of contacts between the Trump campaign and the Russians was to solicit their help in stopping the Ukrainians. Rudy Giuliani was on to something before the FBI shut down his investigation. Trump was justified in withholding military assistance from Ukraine.

As it turns out, the Clintons really did kill Vince Foster, and the laptop will prove it. It will prove that Ted Cruz’ father killed Lee Harvey Oswald or JFK or both. It will prove that there was more than pizza in Pizzagate. There is an authenticated video of JFK, Jr. on the south of France. There are videos of Democrats drinking the blood of young children. I can’t remember if there is proof that the Yeti, the abominable snowman, and the Loch Ness monster actually exist. They won’t find the pee pee tape.

November 20, 2022

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Tweedle-lee-dee-dee-dee, tweedle-lee-dee-dee

Tweet.tweet.tweet.tweet

He’s locked in his office all day long

Hiring and firing and doing what’s wrong

All the little turds on Jail Bird Street

Love to hear Elon go tweet tweet tweet

We’re mockin’ Elon.tweet.tweet.tweet

We’re mockin’ Elon, tweedle-lee-dee

Let’s dump on Elon

‘Cause he’s really gonna suck tonight

(Tweet, tweedle-lee-dee)

He is a nasty fellow, He’s on a spending spree

He’ll turn 40 billion into one or three

The rich, young fool, and the old orange crow

Flappin’ their gums yellin’ go Elon go

We’re mockin’ Elon.tweet.tweet.tweet

We’re mockin’ Elon. Tweet, tweedle-lee-dee

Let’s dump on Elon

‘Cause he’s really gonna suck tonight

…(Tweet, tweedle-lee-dee)

He let Donald Trump back into Twitter land

He’ll post his Nazi shit, isn’t he grand

Trump is crazy and bless his soul

He’ll be tweeting again just to be a troll

We’re mockin’ Elon.tweet.tweet.tweet

We’re mockin’ Elon. Tweet, tweedle-lee-dee

Let’s dump onElon

‘Cause he’s really gonna suck tonight

November 17, 2022

I visited the FDR Library in Hyde Park, NY the morning after Donald Trump declared his candidacy for the presidency…again. FDR actually declared his candidacy four times, and won each time. In his monologue, Trump once again claimed that he accomplished more than almost any President in history save for maybe Abraham Lincoln.

In the face of an economy that had expanded every year for the previous eight years, Trump succeeded in not screwing it up until COVID came along. In contrast, FDR had to deal with this thing called the Great Depression. FDR created programs for the poorest among us. Trump cut taxes for the wealthiest among us. Trump took over at a perilous time in our history when the world was at peace. FDR had to deal with this thing called WW II. FDR had to deal with homegrown Nazi sympathizers known as the America First movement. Trump encouraged Nazi sympathizers with his Make America Great Again movement. FDR had to deal with polio. Trump suffered from bone spurs. FDR had fireside chats. Trump had chopper talk.

It looks like Trump is only the third best President of all time, and not second, which is still an historic achievement.

November 16, 2022

I don’t know and could care less about what Donald Trump announces tonight. Will he declare his candidacy? Will he start a third party? Will he ask for donations? What I am more concerned about are the lessons that Republicans have not learned from the mid-term elections. I have seen a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth from Republicans about the red tsunami that never happened. They are blaming Trump for their losses. Trump is blaming everyone else. They don’t seem to be blaming him for any of his bad behavior, however. If there had been a red wave, all would have been forgiven. They just don’t get it. What they are implying is that everything that had on gone before would have been okay if the voters had validated it.

The poison that is Donald Trump still infects us. Trump did, in fact, declare his intentions for 2024, and Trumpism is not dead. The Petri dish that is the Republican Party is still the perfect medium for,his poison. Have they learned their lesson? I think not.

November 12, 2022

Harvard didn’t beat Yale in 1968 in The Game, but it sure felt like it. Similarly, the Donkeys didn’t beat the Elephants in 2022, but it sure felt like it. For the record, Frank Ciampi, Harvard’s quarterback, is not me.

Now, bless its heart, The Republican Party wants to move on from Donald Trump. The epiphany comes six years too late, but better late than never, I guess. And the only reason it wants to move on from its toxic marriage is that Trump is a loser. Tragically, it has nothing to do with January 6th, two impeachments, his political malpractice regarding COVID, etc. The new season of this political soap opera starts next week when Trump declares himself a candidate for the presidency in the 2024 election.

The disgraced former President is jealous of his party’s new boyfriend, Ron DiSantis. He is younger, smarter (despite going to Yale), and, darn it, voters seem to like him. Apparently, the ex-President has dirt on the boyfriend, which will be revealed in a future episode. What it entails is anyone’s guess. Harvard was dead, but, in a script too unbelievable even for a soap opera, rose again. Trump may be dead, but, as it happens often in soap operas, it may be just a dream.

DEMOCRATS BEAT REPUBLICANS, 29-29

Harvard didn’t beat Yale in 1968 in The Game, but it sure felt like it. Similarly, the Donkeys didn’t beat the Elephants in 2022, but it sure felt like it. For the record, Frank Ciampi, Harvard’s quarterback, is not me.

Now, bless its heart, The Republican Party wants to move on from Donald Trump. The epiphany comes six years too late, but better late than never, I guess. And the only reason it wants to move on from its toxic marriage is that Trump is a loser. Tragically, it has nothing to do with January 6th, two impeachments, his political malpractice regarding COVID, etc. The new season of this political soap opera starts next week when Trump declares himself a candidate for the presidency in the 2024 election.

The disgraced former President is jealous of his party’s new boyfriend, Ron DiSantis. He is younger, smarter (despite going to Yale), and, darn it, voters seem to like him. Apparently, the ex-President has dirt on the boyfriend, which will be revealed in a future episode. What it entails is anyone’s guess. Harvard was dead, but, in a script too unbelievable even for a soap opera, rose again. Trump may be dead, but, as it happens often in soap operas, it may be just a dream.

November 11, 2022

I couldn’t believe my eyes when I spotted Doug Flutie standing by Herschel Walker on election night. I thought the football hero from Boston College, who is famous for his Hail Mary pass to Gerard Phelan against Miami, was smarter than that. Maybe, as they used to say about Endicott “Chub” Peabody, he played too many games without his helmet on. At least Peabody was a governor of Massachusetts, and was responsible for creating the University of Massachusetts Boston.

Other than being a quarterback, Flutie is known for his ads touting Nugenix, which claims to be a male enhancement supplement. Maybe that is what Herschel Walker needs. Walker would probably say that the proof is in the pudding regarding his sexual prowess while at the same time denying that anything ever happened. However, being a man is more than creating life. It also about taking care of and providing for that life. In that, Walker has failed miserably. There is no supplement for being absent.

Walker is behind Raphael Warnock as he heads into a run-off. He is hoping that Doug Flutie can find him in the end zone with another Hail Mary pass. I am hoping he runs off.

November 9, 2022

As someone much smarter than me said, “It’s never over til it’s over.” The votes are still being counted, but it looks like an election characterized by Democracy, Deniers, Dobbs, and the Donald. Democracy and abortion rights prevailed. Deniers and Trump were rejected. Hopefully, we have moved back to some sense of sanity.

Despite his overwhelming victory, Ron DiSantis probably said the dumbest thing of the night as he teed up his 2024 presidential run. “Florida is where the woke mob goes to die.” I know a lot of people who have moved to Florida, and no one ever said they moved to Florida because Massachusetts was too woke. It is true that people move to Florida to die. They move to Florida for the weather, which is miserable six months of the year. They move to Florida because of estate taxes. They move to Florida to play golf and go fishing. They move to Florida despite DiSantis’ war on woke, and not because of it. His rants may work in Florida, but, what the mid-terms point out, it won’t work nationally.

November 7, 2022

With the elections scheduled to take place tomorrow and the polls tilting towards the Republicans, we may get a preview of what MAGAnomics actually looks like. The MAGAniacs don’t have an agenda so it is anyone’s guess. They voted against funding for infrastructure expenditures, and climate mitigation strategies. They voted against reducing drug prices. They are opposed to increasing minimum wages. They are not for student debt relief.

What is their economic plan? Their economic plan is to impose a federal ban on abortion. They want two guns in every garage. They want to rid kindergartens of Critical Race Theory and sex education. They are obsessed with bathrooms. They want to make voting a privilege and not a right. They want to overturn elections they don’t agree with. They want us to cower in our homes because of rampant crime and immigration. They want to troll the Libs, and offer comfort to anyone willing to attack them.

Their economic plan hasn’t changed. They want to lower tax rates for wealthy individuals and corporations while at the same time they attempt to lower Social Security and Medicare benefits. They offer no ideas on reducing inflation because they have none.