This headline says it all, “Dow logs best day in over a year to end volatile week as angst over Russia’s Ukraine invasion gives way to buying.” One can see from the graph above the before and after market moves of the most prominent indices — Dow, Nasdaq, and S&P 500. That sharp drop is the beginning of the Russian war on Ukraine. Two days later Americans could not be happier with the crisis! Un-f***ing-believable! The smart money has judged the war and concluded: Eh, whatever! It never f***ing fails. Americans, in their insatiable need to buy and ignore the rest of the world, fail to understand the significance of what Russia is doing to Ukraine and democracy. So, they carry on as if it’s just another day. Granted, the vast majority of Americans do not trade stocks, but the majority own stocks. And their stock ownership is, nonetheless, a pretty good proxy for the mood of the nation. When their investments are up then they are sanguine and oblivious. When their investments are down then they’re wondering how long until Ukraine surrenders! This is why America is doomed! Authoritarianism is welcome on our shores as long as the stock market is up and it does not interfere with American’s Facebook and Twitter time. Welcome to stupid America! Eh!
Harlan Ullman: Moron
Harlan Ullman is a senior advisor at the Atlantic Council, an American think tank in the field of international affairs. I read his article a few days ago and wanted to comment on it then, but I also wanted to make sure the war started first; I’d rather have egg on his face than mine. Needless to say, he authored an article and gave it an absurd title. Not to mention, the date of the article is only eight days ago when almost everyone’s analysis of the situation was yielding the likelihood of not invading as something approaching zero, yet we had the brilliant Ullman writing, “Russia will no doubt continue political and psychological pressure on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to make concessions, either to accept the Minsk 2 agreement (despite its grant of semi-autonomy to the Donbas) or to suspend any request for NATO membership. And Russian ‘active measures,’ such as disinformation campaigns, will continue to target Ukraine with the aim of eroding Zelenskyy’s standing and NATO solidarity by claiming ‘hysteria’ over an invasion that never occurred. This scenario suits Putin’s interests far better than an uncertain military adventure, which is why he will choose it—and not because of anything uttered from a White House podium, no matter how much credit the administration will take for deterring a war [emphasis added].”
Even though he had a rather cogent analysis in the preceding parts of the article, he seems to get to the final two paragraphs quoted above and draws the wrong conclusions at a time when it was becoming more and more obvious to everyone that Putin did not want peace. He seems to completely ignore the nearly 200 thousand troops parked on three sides of Ukraine as if they are purely window dressing and, therefore, Putin’s amusement. That man should be fired for being so colossally and obviously wrong.
I Wish Traitor [T]rump Would Just Die Already!
As Rolling Stone reports, “Missiles fell, lives were lost, and millions of civilians hoped to escape with their lives as Russian President Vladimir Putin launched an attack on Ukraine. It’s a war, a humanitarian crisis, a tragedy, a horror, and a time when real journalists are counted on to provide timely, accurate, and pertinent information. Or, as Fox News saw it, it was a perfect time to host Donald Trump for him to spew the same tired bullshit he does any time anyone hands him a microphone. And spew he did. Trump dialed into Laura Ingraham’s program, and while the screen showed the night sky in Kyiv, the former president turned full-time shitposter prattled through his usual string of petty grievances. Taking a cue from Ingraham, Trump claimed Putin’s invasion was the result of the Biden administration’s ‘weakness,’ ‘incompetence,’ and ‘stupidity.’ At that point, Trump had been talking for exactly 15 seconds and without falsely claiming to have won the 2020 election, so, naturally, he shifted course. ‘And it all happened because of a rigged election.’”
I have never hated a person and wished for that person to die more than traitor trump — and, well, I guess every MAGA moron, RepubliKKKlan, evil evangelical, and QAnon kook too, if I’m to be absolutely honest. I am astonished — yet not — that traitor trump takes the beginning of war in Europe as an opportunity to b*tch about losing the 2020 election — again. But what really pissed me off listening to the idiot leader of the RepubliKKKlan Party is how “angry” he was over the situation. He wasn’t angry at Putin for invading. Oh, no! Rather, he was angry at — wait for it, wait for it — Biden’s administration for their “weakness,” “incompetence,” and “stupidity.” Granted, I will be the first one to admit that I have used all these words to describe Biden, his administration, and Democrats, but I have never said such things as it relates to how Biden is handling Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Nor would I ever say such things, especially now that we are engaged in war, and make no mistake: America is now at war with Russia, f***tards. There is no other interpretation. Even so, I would not be bothered if people did criticize Biden’s handling of the situation, but what I will not tolerate is choosing Putin over Biden. That is treasonous, and 40 percent of Americans are G.D. m*****f***ing traitors of the highest f***ing order! Nonetheless, here we have traitor trump, traitor Faux News, traitor RepubliKKKlans, traitor MAGA morons, traitor evil evangelicals, traitor QAnon kooks, all lining up to blame Biden and defend Putin. Un-f***ing-believable! I can’t with the m*****f***ing G.D. treasonous stupidity in America. It hurts my brain.
Oh, but the hurt from the stupid continues as Business Insider reports, “‘You know what’s also very dangerous is you told me about the amphibious attack by Americans,’ Trump mistakenly said on ‘The Ingraham Angle.’… ‘You shouldn’t be saying that, because you and everybody else shouldn’t know about,’ Trump continued. ‘They should do that secretly, not be doing that through the great Laura Ingraham.’… ‘No, those are the Russians,’ Ingraham replied.” OMG! Traitor trump thought the U.S. sent troops into the war zone. As usual, traitor trump has no clue about anything. And, as usual, he just wings it with his “knowledge” and “expertise” while claiming to be a f***ing genius, and half of Americans always believe him. He’s the “genius” for whom they’ve been waiting. He is a world-class bullsh*tter, and Americans love him for it! I can’t! I just f***ing can’t with the stupid anymore. Traitor trump is the dumbest person on the planet, and he’s the leader of the dumbest political party on the planet that attracts the dumbest people on the planet — RepubliKKKlans, MAGA morons, evil evangelicals, QAnon kooks, and any other traitor trump lovers I may be missing. They’re all dumber than my morning sh*t!
I am angry, too. (In case you could not sense it.) You’re G.D. right that I’m livid! I’m angry at Putin for plunging the world into war because of his white grievance male fragility — just like 40 percent of Americans. I’m angry at traitor trump et al. for abetting and enabling Putin at every turn during his administration and now. I’m angry at every traitor American citizen who loves Russia and traitor trump more than America and democracy. I’m angry at how abjectly stupid America has become to have elected traitor trump in the first place and is destined to do again in 2024! Yeah! I’m f***ing angry this morning. There is a much larger picture developing worldwide that I will not dive into now, which is also fueling my outrage. I’ll save my thoughts for another post, but suffice it to say, today is the first day the world will truly be lining up on the side of democracy or autocracy. I’m not so sure Americans will choose democracy. Welcome to stupid America!
This Poll Pissed Me Off
According to The Hill, “The AP-NORC poll shows 52 percent of Americans approve of a minor role in Ukraine, while 26 percent are supportive of a major role and 20 percent do not approve of any U.S. role in the European country.” Normally, I take such poll results in stride, but this one just f***ing pissed me off. It was not the 52 percent nor the 26 percent — I’m in that camp — but it was the 20 percent. WTF?!?! Seriously! WTF?!?! I guess in a way I am surprised that number is not closer to 40 percent, but still, 20 percent are isolationists. F*** me! Are we really in the 21st century when people continue to believe that America is somehow completely cut-off from the rest of the world? (Yes!) That democracy in danger in Europe does not imperil our democracy? (Yes!) Is America still so stupid to have learned nothing from history? (Yes!) Are we still so ignorant to believe we are immune from the consequences of dictators running amuck? (Yes!) Poll results like this incense me to no end! There should not be a single f***ing red-blooded America that does not support defending democracies in Europe, especially. We’ve seen this movie before and we know what happens when Americans get complacent about national (world) security just because a nation across the pond is being attacked, and not us. News flash, f***tards. An attack on Ukrainian democracy by Russia is an attack on all democracies! Whatever! Welcome to stupid America! We’re constantly stuck on stupid here.
I keep Telling You!
From The New York Times, “The two prosecutors leading the Manhattan district attorney’s investigation into former President Donald J. Trump and his business practices abruptly resigned on Wednesday amid a monthlong pause in their presentation of evidence to a grand jury, according to people with knowledge of the matter, throwing the future of the high-stakes inquiry into serious doubt. The prosecutors, Carey R. Dunne and Mark F. Pomerantz, submitted their resignations after the new Manhattan district attorney, Alvin Bragg, indicated to them that he had doubts about moving forward with a [criminal] case against Mr. Trump, the people said. … Mr. Bragg’s office must meet a higher bar to bring a criminal case and has encountered a number of challenges in pursuing Mr. Trump, including its inability thus far to persuade any Trump Organization executives to cooperate. … And the prosecutors have thus far been unable to convince Mr. Trump’s long-serving chief financial officer to cooperate with the investigation, depriving them of the type of insider witness whose testimony can be crucial to complicated white collar criminal cases.”
If this situation were not so tragic, then it would be funny. But what have I been saying forever? What is the First Axiom of Political Science for Presidents? The axiom states: Ain’t no president or ex-president ever going to be convicted of a crime or go to jail — ever. This can happen at any level and by any means for traitor trump. That no jury will convict him is for certain. It is also equally likely that investigations and cases die on the vine, as is this situation with the Manhattan D.A. These prosecutors quitting is a big deal. Lead prosecutors usually don’t walk away from a case in which they’ve invested so much time and effort unless they have a good cause. In this case, it seems to be a new D.A. that has no stomach to prosecute traitor trump. What else is new? All traitor trump ever has to do is hold out longer than his adversaries and then he usually wins. Note also that this is a criminal case imploding. This was the case where Weisselberg was supposed to crack like an egg. I never believed he would, and, of course, I’m proved correct again. He was going to be the lynchpin to help convict traitor trump. How’s that working out? Oh, yeah. The case is now DOA.
What’s even more infuriating is that dumbass Democrats still keep thinking traitor trump is going to get caught for something. No! He! Is! Not! And it seems that relying on this fallacy is part of their political strategy to retain power! I can’t for the life of me comprehend why they keep failing to understand the enemy’s ability to get away with their criming. Every case the orange man defeats makes him stronger, yet dumbass Democrats are completely clueless and excessively quixotic. Unless they wake up and start learning how to fight, then America is doomed. Stop waiting for his political demise because — allow me to repeat myself again (again) — nothing is going to happen to traitor trump; he gets away with everything. He’s had an entire lifetime to practice. Welcome to stupid America!
White Man’s Grievance: Putin’s War
An article from The New York Times, “Word by Word and Between the Lines: A Close Look at Putin’s Speech,” does an excellent job of dissecting Putin’s Monday national address. The byline reads: “In an impassioned address about Ukraine, Russia’s leader laid bare grievances old and new.” And the lead-in paragraphs start, “In a long and heated address on Monday, Vladimir V. Putin, Russia’s president, spun a narrative whose implications sprawl well beyond his stated purpose of recognizing the independence of two Ukrainian territories held by Moscow-backed separatists. Mr. Putin’s speech was awash with hard-line Russian nationalism, angry paranoia toward the West, baseless claims of Ukrainian aggression, a sense of lost imperial pride on the verge of reclamation and, most of all, invocations of history, much of it distorted or fabricated.”
Suffice it to say, Putin is like every other white male (and female) conservative here in the U.S. in that he’s just another white aggrieved snowflake yearning for the yesteryears when white straight males ruled the world and told everyone else how to live their lives, which is all being powered by his toxic masculinity to top it off. Unbelievable that the war with Ukraine is all because of Putin’s white male fragility. Just like traitor trump! No wonder they love each other. No wonder RepubliKKKlans, MAGA morons, evil evangelicals, and QAnon kooks revere Putin, love Russia, and love authoritarianism more than Biden, America, and democracy. Forty percent of America is nothing but a reflection of Putin’s and traitor trump’s snowflake grievances. As I have said so many times, traitor trump held up a mirror to Americans, and they fell in love with the reflection. Putin is doing the same to Americans, and they are falling in love all over again. Moreover, Putin’s stated aim is to undermine and weaken America’s democracy, and sadly we have the same 40 percent of the population who oblige Putin daily because they are all f***ing traitors! Un-f***ing-believable! America is truly too stupid and cannot survive the [T]rump Party-Putin alliance. I expected nothing less. Hey, Putin, traitor trump, and all your devotees: F*** your fragile, snowflake feelings! You people are weak and morons. And one last piece of advice for all you American Putin-lovers. Take your Second Amendment right, stick it in your mouth, and pull the m*****f***ing trigger! Welcome to stupid America!
When Will Someone Kill the Traitors?
According to The Hill, “Former President Trump on Tuesday called Russia’s recognition of two breakaway territories in eastern Ukraine a ‘genius’ move ahead of its military invasion. In an interview on ‘The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show,’ Trump said Russian President Vladimir Putin’s recognition of the Donetsk and Luhansk people’s republics in eastern Ukraine on Monday was ‘smart’ and ‘pretty savvy.’”
Right on cue, Putin starts a war, and the leader of the RepubliKKKlan Party, MAGA morons, evil evangelicals, and QAnon kooks can’t wait to praise him for it. I really can’t even anymore. I just can’t. Everything speaks for itself, and that guy will be in charge of the country again in a few years. Like I’ve been saying, Biden is the intermission to the end of America’s democracy as evinced by the bromance between dictator Putin and wanna-be dictator traitor trump. In his first term, the orange man still had his dictator training wheels on, but Putin is showing him how it’s done for when traitor trump wins in 2024. I’m telling you, people. Traitor trump is the “strongman” “leader” America wants — 40 percent of Americans, that is but more than enough. Mark my words!
Oh, but wait! The list of traitors does not stop with the orange man. Mike Pompeo is another. From Salon, “For his part, Pompeo, who has touted Putin as ‘talented’ and ‘savvy’ in recent weeks, is the only living former secretary of state who has used the leadup to the Russian invasion of Ukraine to extol the Russian leader while criticizing President Joe Biden. As McClatchy notes, while former foreign policy chiefs like Condoleezza Rice have called Putin’ megalomaniacal,’ Pompeo has praised him as ‘very shrewd’ and ‘very capable.’ Russian media outlets have noticed, replaying clips of Pompeo’s Putin praise on state TV.” Yeah! Um, any time your comments get used on Russian state TV as support for Putin’s actions, then you’ve just become a useful idiot traitor. I watched Pompeo’s C-SPAN interview. He was literally gitty with praise for Putin. Un-f***ing-believable. P.S. Pompeo’s sudden weight loss looks like wasting from AIDS. I hope he gets tested regularly. I don’t know for sure either way. But I’ve seen no evidence that he doesn’t have AIDS. It’s up to him to confirm the truth of what may or may not be his HIV status. I’m just saying. It looks suspicious.
So, the likes of traitors trump and Pompeo are the future leaders of America — assuming Pompeo starts getting treatment for what appears to be advanced AIDS. But these guys — among other conservatives — are people of power in America. They love Russia more than America, and 40 percent of Americans totally respect that. Another 10 to 20 percent don’t care either way, so long as nothing interrupts their Facebook and Twitter time! Oh, well! America is too stupid to survive because these are the people Americans like to see in power — Putin lovers! Welcome to stupid America! Soon to be a client-state of Russia!
First Axiom: [T]rump Ain’t Going Nowhere
This CNN headline made me chuckle: “Donald Trump’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week in court.” And this RawStory headline engendered a smirk: “Trump pleading the Fifth will ‘begin to cement’ his legacy as ‘the mob boss president’: Former prosecutor.” Look, morons! I hardly read these stories and listen to the news coverage anymore because they are all more wishful thinking than anything else. Dumbass Democrats and liberals have been engaging in wishful thinking for five or six years now. I stopped after the Mueller report, and my trenchant skepticism has proved correct in both impeachment trial outcomes and will surely be so with traitor trump’s legal woes. In fact, listening to MSM breathlessly chronicle traitor trump’s legal vicissitudes is just a waste of time at this point. If I have to hear one more pundit, commentator, or “expert” claim, “this is it for traitor trump,” then I’m going to go postal. Once again, I will remind the reader and the world of one immutable fact: No court in the land of the U.S.A. is ever going to convict a former president. Ain’t never going to happen in any universe or in any time continuum. He is untouchable, and just you wait until he declares his candidacy. Dare I say that I can construct an axiom based on this self-evident understanding. Let’s call it the First Axiom of Political Science for Presidents: Ain’t no president or ex-president ever going to be convicted of a crime or go to jail — ever. Shall I evince some premier examples? Nixon was pardoned for his crimes. Reagan, with the Iran-Contra illegal arms sales, faced no legal consequences. Bush II committed war crimes, and Obama said let’s move on. Presidents always getting away with criminal matters is most certainly true. As for traitor trump’s civil cases, they will drag on for years and years, ending in a settlement at some point, especially those cases brought by a state. New York, for instance, just wants its back taxes plus interest and penalties from Trump Co.
The funny yet aggravating thing about all the news coverage of traitor trump’s legal issues, especially from liberal MSM who think all these revelations actually mean something to voters, is they really don’t matter to voters at all. How many times must I say it to all the f***tards out there? Traitor trump was a crook long before he ran for president. He was a crook while he was president. And he’s still crooking as an ex-president. Yet, he’s still the most popular RepubliKKKlan in the country. In the last election, he got 10 million more votes than he got the first time. Four years of being an incompetent and crooked con man leading this country, and more people liked him for it! I wish people would finally wake the f*** up and understand that the American voter is just too f***ing stupid — trump stupid! Americans like their “mob boss president,” so when people use the term derisively, half the country either doesn’t care or embraces the notion.
And again, I will remind the reader and the world that Biden won by half the votes in the key swing states that got him in office than traitor trump did against Clinton. In other words, it was a much tighter race between Biden and traitor trump than the popular vote count suggests. Again, it was a tighter race after four years of traitor trump. So, don’t think for a second any legal issues, which are all just smoke and mirrors at this point, are going to stop voters from voting for the same crook — again. And as I’ve said countless times already, the RepubliKKKlan Party is fixing all the problems in the states where they could not achieve Electoral College victories so that traitor trump can win in the next RepubliKKKlan-rigged election, which may not be as close as in 2020. The idea that the law is finally going to rid us of traitor trump is pure fantasy. Only his death will take care of that, and we all know God has a cruel, ironic sense of humor. That’s why evil people live forever. Mark my word, morons! Welcome to stupid America!
U.S.S.R. in the U.S.A.
An opinion piece in Newsweek by Tom Rogers nails it! He writes, “In the United States, while it goes unrecognized, we have our own USSR—a collective of red states that are bound together in our union benefitting from the very socialism they claim to disdain, but which is so apparent they must be termed ‘The Union of Socialist States of Red.’ … However, the real champions of redistributing wealth in a way that takes money from those who pay a much bigger share of the federal tax burden and channels it to those who shoulder considerably less in federal taxes are Mitch McConnell and his Republican red state ‘comrades.’ It is the blue states like New York, California, Connecticut and Massachusetts which pay into the federal government far greater amounts of federal tax revenue than what they get back from the federal government. Moreover, it is states like McConnell’s home state of Kentucky that pay far less in taxes to the federal government than what they actually get back. … What is remarkable is that even states like Texas with a huge economy get back more than they send to the federal coffers. Yet, Texas Senator Ted Cruz throws around the ‘socialist’ attack on blue state Democrats as much as anybody. So, one can surmise the way Republicans see it, as long as you are redistributing income back to their state disproportionally it is not wealth redistribution socialism, but if it is money going to lower and middle-class citizens as part of a social safety net then it is. … Democrats ought to be far better deflecting the all too often used ‘socialist’ attack with the compelling argument that their party stands for fairness for working families, while red state Republicans are advocates of diverting federal funds under a socialist game plan. However, given that key swing states Democrats need are beneficiaries of how income tax revenue is currently redistributed, the argument would need to be put forward in a way which simply points out Republicans in fact support the very ‘socialist’ practices they criticize. This disproportionate levying of taxes on blue states relative to what they get back is one of the key policy arguments in favor of allowing high tax blue states to get a federal tax deduction on their state and local taxes, though at this point that seems like a dead issue.”
I quoted quite a bit of the article, but it was worth the space because he absolutely gets it. This has long been a topic about which I get utterly apoplectic, especially when it comes to dumbass Democrats being abjectly incompetent at deflecting the s-word attacks from RepubliKKKlans back at them. What Rogers rightly pointed out is that American socialism, whereby the richest blue states subsidize poor and rich red states, has been well-known by the Democratic Party leadership for decades. Nonetheless, RepubliKKKlans consistently label Democrats the “Socialist Party,” and, infuriatingly, dumbass Democrats always let them get away with it. Look, there is really only one fervent socialist that caucuses with the Democrats — Bernie Sanders. And so be it! Fine! Whatever! But dumbass Democrats should not be complacent with allowing the label to stick as they have been doing for — again — decades!
For whatever reason morons of America are deathly afraid of the s-word even though they are perfectly fine with the socialist programs already embedded within our system such as Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. These are s-word programs because people, especially every retired person, definitely use more services than they’ve paid into. Funny how people love the re-distribution of other people’s wealth back to themselves — I’m talking to you red states, RepubliKKKlans, MAGA morons, evil evangelicals, and QAnon kooks — but God forbid liberals or Democrats get anything even though we pay more. F***! Once again, it just demonstrates that Democrats are completely incapable of fighting with the political ruthlessness required to keep America’s democracy from dying. As I say constantly: America is f***ed and our democracy is screwed because RepubliKKKlans want to kill the country and Democrats will let them. Of course! I live in stupid hell! Welcome to stupid America!
Mazars USA: CYA
From CNN, “On Monday, Donald Trump’s long-time accountants made a very important announcement: They no longer stood behind a decade of the former President’s financial information — and would no longer be working for him. Why is this such a big deal? Well, the language from Mazars, the accounting firm, masks it a bit, so let me translate: What they are saying is that neither Trump nor anyone who interacts with him should rely on their assessments of his relative financial health over the past decade.”
Look, morons! While this is bad news for traitor trump, it is not going to be his undoing. I will repeat myself again (again): No court in the land is going to convict a former president. It! Is! Never! Going! To! Happen! So, for all these dumbass Democrats who keep pointing to yet another shoe to drop as being the one that will put traitor trump in jail, keep dreaming. Traitor trump is untouchable, morons. How many lawsuits has he thwarted? How many investigations ended in a nothing burger? How many times has traitor trump been on the ropes only to survive and come back stronger? How many instances? How many years? He always comes out on top. The only person who can put traitor trump away is AG Garland, and he’s proving to be the worst AG ever! I don’t like it any more than you guys do, but it’s the truth.
And all Mazars is doing is covering their liability-exposed asses. They’ve been working with the Trump Organization for decades and they’ve always known traitor trump was a liar and a con, yet they never seemed uncomfortable with signing off on his financials. Now, all of a sudden, all the work they’ve been doing for him over the last ten years they’re unsure about? Whatever! I guess if Mazars wanted to advertise as being the unscrupulous accounting firm that launders the financials of corrupt, sleazy organizations, then they hit the jackpot. Welcome to stupid America! For every business, there is a client and for every client, there is a business. Yup!