A couple of months ago, I talked about a person I had known since high school who unfriended me over a very brief Facebook discussion about cadet bone spurs. I called it exhibit a as to why you cannot talk to a maga. Today, I present exhibits b and c.
Exhibit B
I have known this person for about twenty years. He is a colleague in the legal profession. He is an ex-marine. I have known for years he is a conservative; however, we have always been reasonably friendly and our conversations always respectful to each other, and something I rather enjoyed.
Until this past Monday night.
The fun and games started when cadet bone spurs addressed the nation prior to making his way out to St. John's Church for his photo op with the Bible. In his brief remarks before heading out into the wilds of Lafayette Park, cadet bone spurs noted he was out there protecting our second amendment rights, as if that had anything to do with the ongoing protests. I said exactly that in a facebook post, wondering why he would mention the second amendment at that moment. I did not say how ridiculous it was to encourage anyone to bring weapons to public protests that were already tension filled.
My now ex-friend responded heatedly that anyone would have the right to bring their weapons to protect themselves against the marauding mob of looters out there who were setting fires, throwing bricks, etc. I responded simply that I disagreed with him and could not disagree more. I did not explicitly say that I was referring to weaponry in a tension filled public protest; only that I could not disagree more with what he said. I was not advocating looting, arson, etc.
His response was to invite me out into the street with the hoodlums, where he sort of hoped I would be bashed in the back of the head by a hammer wielding thug, that I had obviously not paid any attention to anything taught to me in law school and good luck with whatever is left of the rest of my life. He not only unfriended me, but blocked me from any attempt to tell him he had completely misinterpreted anything I had said in my post.
A number of people thereafter told me I was not missing out on anything having been unfriended by him.
Exhibit C
This one involves a friend of mine. I will only use her first name --Karen.
Karen posted on Facebook after cadet bone spurs made his heroic pilgrimage across the mountains and deserts of Washington, across the street to St. John's Church, waved his Bible and posed for photos with a bunch of folks from the office, who all looked like they may have preferred to have been sunbathing on Mars. Her post showed a photo of his highness, holding the Bible in front of the church, with the caption, "He tear gassed Americans to get a photo in front of a church he doesn't go to holding a book he never reads".
The response?
Several defended the indefensible. Many claimed everything said was a lie. My favorite was this guy -- no names this time -- who questioned if there was really tear gas used, if the crowd was peaceful, as opposed to his claim of being unruly and violent, that we really did not know if he does not belong to the church and that he does not read the Bible. It was pointed out to this MAGA that the teargassing was on several videos shot by several different news organizations, clearly showing tear gas being shot at a peaceful group of protesters. Some pointed out that the pastor and the bishop of the church both said that cadet bone spurs is not a congregant there, and hardly ever shows up at all. No priest, pastor, reverend, bishop, cardinal, pope, rabbi, or holy man of any kind has come forward to say he is a member at their house of worship. It is conceded that we do not have personal knowledge as to whether or not he has ever cracked open the Bible, read a single passage of if, or did anything with the Bible other than autograph it next to a reference to God.
The next response?
Our MAGA worshiping hero told Karen that this is why he does not read newspapers or watch the news, but that he knows in his heart that none of this can be true...
As we say in court, no further explanation is necessary. I rest my case.
Thursday, June 4, 2020
Saturday, May 30, 2020
In Answer to Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan used to tell us when we considering whom to vote for to ask if we were better off today than we were four years ago.
Minneapolis.
We have become the laughingstock of the world. They would be laughing out loud and slapping their knees trying to get their breath if it was not for the fact that this buffoon has caused misery all over the world. All the while, constantly blaming somebody else for his own ignorance, his own bigotry, his own cruelty.
Louisville.
On January 20, 2016, the unemployment rate in this country was 4.1%. As of today, most economists agree that the true unemployment rate is greater than the officially announced rate of 14.7%. Yet all he talks about is how great things were, if only for that damned virus, which he blames on a laboratory in China.
Atlanta
We have put children in cages, apparently because their parents came to this country looking for a better life for their families, but did not sound like the rest of us. You know, just ike his grandparents at the end of the last century.
Denver
We have systematically withdrawn our authority as the leading voice of just about everything around the world. We are no longer a part of the Paris Climate Change Accords, as the pace of climate change accelerates to the breaking point. As the pandemic surges around us, he has withdrawn from the World Health Organization. Never mind that this hamstrings the medical and public health world at perhaps the most critical time in its history. He has also guaranteed that if a vaccine is found, but is found outside the United States, we will not be in line to receive it.
Charlottesville
In not condemning white terrorism for what it is, he has set free and given the imprimatur to all would be white nationalists, the KKK, Nazis and other second amendment terror types to prey upon the rest of us with impunity.
Philadelphia
Russians interfered with our election in 2016. He stonewalled every investigation. He has all but shut down the possibility of election security, threatening to veto any such provisions in any legislation given to him to sign. Why would you want to veto legislation designed to ensure the integrity of our elections?
New York
At a time when the nation needs somebody to lead by example, he refuses to wear a mask in public and outright says Wall Street is more important than the lives of the people he serves. So no masks for him. Not even encouragement for others to wear them. No social distancing. No testing. No tracing. More than one hundred thousand dead and counting is a badge of honor.
Miami
Our cities are on fire. We need soothing words, soaring words from our leaders to assure us that we will be okay. That people of color are not going to shot when they go jogging in their neighborhood, shot by the police when they are asleep in their own homes, or snuffed out by an animal with a badge who grinds his knee into a handcuffed black man until he dies, while his partners stand around doing absolutely nothing even after the black man has stopped breathing. Instead of words of healing, this imbecile offers images of the Jim Crow era, of lynchings, of dogs set upon people simply for protesting their rights. He then tries to silence dissent when a single social network finally has enough of he lies and the dog whistles. As staggering as it seems , all of this happened simply in the last week.
Chicago
So are we better off than we were four years ago? On a personal note, I have not been able to work in the profession I trained for and made a good living in for nearly forty years since March 16. Although I had given up my private practice a year or so ago, it was nice having a stream of income coming in. That ended when they closed the courthouses around here. Since then, I have not been able to socialize in person with any friends. No visits with families. I cannot hug or kiss my ninety year old mother.
Columbus
In the meantime bread lines form across the country. People wait in their cars for hours for basic staples.
Minneapolis
Louisville
Atlanta
Denver
Charlottesville
Philadelphia
New York
Miami
Chicago
Columbus
Seattle
Los Angeles
Any Town, USA...
Although I am infinitely better off than many, if not most, yesterday, I received my first installment of unemployment insurance from the government. Aside from this, I do not know what other income I personally will have for the foreseeable future. Am I better off than I was four years ago?.
You tell me.
Saturday, April 4, 2020
you can't talk to a maga -- exhibit a
A few nights ago, I was unfriended on facebook by a person I have known since high school. This was a person I had accepted a friend request from almost as soon as I signed up on facebook back in the stone ages. You know, like about twelve years ago. I am not all that upset that I was unfriended. Frankly, I barely knew this person in high school, and as I think about it now, if you showed me her picture from our yearbook without her name tagged to it, I don't think I could have picked her out.
For reasons you will easily figure out, I will refer to this now ex-friend as "Maga-ette". While Maga-ette was mostly quiet for a long time on facebook, only posting pictures of wineries she visited every now and then and of her grandchildren, once Cadet Bone Spurs got elected, it started. Nothing he could do was wrong. All the problems of the world were caused by "libtards". I debated unfriending her myself, but never got around to it. Then came the events of this week.
It started a few nights earlier, when Mitch McConnell announced that the reason the coronavirus was allowed to spread through the United States as it has is that the president was distracted from the looming disaster by the "impeachment hoax". From there, the inevitable happened. A few right wing pundits backed this statement, none of them showing a bit of proof for the claim that the president was distracted by proceedings in the house that ended in December and in the Senate that was over in the first days of February all the way through the middle of March. Then Maga-ette posted McConnell's statement word for word in boldfaced font on her newsfeed for all to see.
I pointed out to Maga-ette that the impeachment proceedings had long since ended before the president even considered taking the coronavirus threat seriously at all, and in any event, if any politician suffers from such a severe case of attention deficit disorder, perhaps they should not be serving in public office at all. Another friend on my side of the political spectrum added that Cadet Bone Spurs did not seem all that distracted during that time so as to prevent him from running around the country giving campaign speeches and playing golf at his clubs. Maga-ette professed not to know what either of us were talking about. I then explained that he did not seem distracted from making nominations to judicial and government posts. He did not seem distracted from working on deregulation of any number of industries. He did not seem distracted from making speeches or golfing. Why was he distracted from attending to perhaps the single most looming existential threat in history, but nothing else?
Maga-ette responded that in times like this, we should all be working together, which is true. That would have been good enough if it ended there. Instead, she added that it is clear that I do not want to work together for the greater good at this time.
I note that Maga-ette lives about three thousand miles away from me, and to the best of my knowledge has no clue of what I do now or what I did before I semi-retired. So I decided to educate her, at least as to the last two weeks.
During the last two weeks, my wife and I have formed a facebook group called "Stitched Together Long Island". The purpose of the group is to mobilize the home sewing community and get them to make masks for health care professionals on the front line fighting the coronavirus pandemic. We are in just two weeks at just under one thousand, five hundred members. In that time, together with a sister group in California, we have distributed just about fifteen thousand masks throughout our community. Now that the CDC is calling for all to wear facemasks outside of the home, our people are shifting slightly and making masks for their friends and neighbors, while still cranking them out for the first responders and the medical community. All the while, we do not ask about political affiliations. In fact, there is a rule in the group that there is no political discussion allowed. We provide for everyone, regardless of political belief. I also pointed out to Maga-ette that we do all of this for free and do not accept monetary donations.
I concluded by saying that I thought I was doing my part, and asking what she was doing. Her reaction?
Maga-ette instantly had two one sentence responses, which sort of told me she had not really read what I had written. The first told me to stand up, pat myself on the back and give myself an "ada boy" (her spelling, not mine). The second was to tell me I was an "arrogant dem".
Frankly, I am quite proud of what my wife and I have done in the past two weeks. The response from Maga-ette was so asinine I went immediately to my friends page to unfriend her, only to find out she had beat me to it.
And that, in a nutshell shows you how difficult it is to talk to somebody who has made up their minds that they are not going to listen, no matter what you say. In other words, she might as well be the president himself.
For reasons you will easily figure out, I will refer to this now ex-friend as "Maga-ette". While Maga-ette was mostly quiet for a long time on facebook, only posting pictures of wineries she visited every now and then and of her grandchildren, once Cadet Bone Spurs got elected, it started. Nothing he could do was wrong. All the problems of the world were caused by "libtards". I debated unfriending her myself, but never got around to it. Then came the events of this week.
It started a few nights earlier, when Mitch McConnell announced that the reason the coronavirus was allowed to spread through the United States as it has is that the president was distracted from the looming disaster by the "impeachment hoax". From there, the inevitable happened. A few right wing pundits backed this statement, none of them showing a bit of proof for the claim that the president was distracted by proceedings in the house that ended in December and in the Senate that was over in the first days of February all the way through the middle of March. Then Maga-ette posted McConnell's statement word for word in boldfaced font on her newsfeed for all to see.
I pointed out to Maga-ette that the impeachment proceedings had long since ended before the president even considered taking the coronavirus threat seriously at all, and in any event, if any politician suffers from such a severe case of attention deficit disorder, perhaps they should not be serving in public office at all. Another friend on my side of the political spectrum added that Cadet Bone Spurs did not seem all that distracted during that time so as to prevent him from running around the country giving campaign speeches and playing golf at his clubs. Maga-ette professed not to know what either of us were talking about. I then explained that he did not seem distracted from making nominations to judicial and government posts. He did not seem distracted from working on deregulation of any number of industries. He did not seem distracted from making speeches or golfing. Why was he distracted from attending to perhaps the single most looming existential threat in history, but nothing else?
Maga-ette responded that in times like this, we should all be working together, which is true. That would have been good enough if it ended there. Instead, she added that it is clear that I do not want to work together for the greater good at this time.
I note that Maga-ette lives about three thousand miles away from me, and to the best of my knowledge has no clue of what I do now or what I did before I semi-retired. So I decided to educate her, at least as to the last two weeks.
During the last two weeks, my wife and I have formed a facebook group called "Stitched Together Long Island". The purpose of the group is to mobilize the home sewing community and get them to make masks for health care professionals on the front line fighting the coronavirus pandemic. We are in just two weeks at just under one thousand, five hundred members. In that time, together with a sister group in California, we have distributed just about fifteen thousand masks throughout our community. Now that the CDC is calling for all to wear facemasks outside of the home, our people are shifting slightly and making masks for their friends and neighbors, while still cranking them out for the first responders and the medical community. All the while, we do not ask about political affiliations. In fact, there is a rule in the group that there is no political discussion allowed. We provide for everyone, regardless of political belief. I also pointed out to Maga-ette that we do all of this for free and do not accept monetary donations.
I concluded by saying that I thought I was doing my part, and asking what she was doing. Her reaction?
Maga-ette instantly had two one sentence responses, which sort of told me she had not really read what I had written. The first told me to stand up, pat myself on the back and give myself an "ada boy" (her spelling, not mine). The second was to tell me I was an "arrogant dem".
Frankly, I am quite proud of what my wife and I have done in the past two weeks. The response from Maga-ette was so asinine I went immediately to my friends page to unfriend her, only to find out she had beat me to it.
And that, in a nutshell shows you how difficult it is to talk to somebody who has made up their minds that they are not going to listen, no matter what you say. In other words, she might as well be the president himself.
Friday, March 20, 2020
let's play softball -- questions...
It was a softball question. As softball questions go, it doesn't get more softball than this.
NBC's Peter Alexander gave Cadet Bone Spurs the opening all political leaders crave. He asked him, "What do you say to Americans watching you right now who are scared?".
This was his Fireside Chat moment, his "Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself" moment, his "Shining City on the Hill" moment. It was his opportunity to bring all Americans together, to rally around the flag and we are all Americans moment. It was the opportunity to shine and let all Americans rally around the effort to beat back the coronavirus. It was the chance to be proud for a moment.
Instead...
What does he say to Americans watching right now who are scared?
"I say you are a terrible reporter. I think it's a very nasty question, and I think that's a very bad signal that you're putting out to the American people. The American people are looking for answers and they're looking for hope. And you're doing sensationalism, and the same with NBC and Comcast. I don't call it Comcast, I call it Concast, for whom you work. Let me just tell you something. That's really bad reporting, and you ought to get back to reporting instead of sensationalism. Let's see if it works It might and it might not. I happen to feel good about it, but who knows? I've been right a lot. Let's see what happens".
And then while a reporter was asking him the next question, he told Mr. Alexander "You ought to be ashamed of yourself", signalling, if nothing else, that he was not paying attention to the question being posed to him even though he had called on the reporter to ask it.
He was given the chance to shine and took it to make gratuitous insults and say a softball question is nasty. We can only imagine how he would answer hard questions. On the other hand, we have already seen how he does with those.
Don't believe me? Watch the clip. And watch the fact that nobody in the background bats an eye when he comes up with this drivel.
Leader of the free world, my ass.
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2020/03/20/trump-responds-to-question-about-coronavirus-fears-by-bashing-the-media/23956487/
NBC's Peter Alexander gave Cadet Bone Spurs the opening all political leaders crave. He asked him, "What do you say to Americans watching you right now who are scared?".
This was his Fireside Chat moment, his "Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself" moment, his "Shining City on the Hill" moment. It was his opportunity to bring all Americans together, to rally around the flag and we are all Americans moment. It was the opportunity to shine and let all Americans rally around the effort to beat back the coronavirus. It was the chance to be proud for a moment.
Instead...
What does he say to Americans watching right now who are scared?
"I say you are a terrible reporter. I think it's a very nasty question, and I think that's a very bad signal that you're putting out to the American people. The American people are looking for answers and they're looking for hope. And you're doing sensationalism, and the same with NBC and Comcast. I don't call it Comcast, I call it Concast, for whom you work. Let me just tell you something. That's really bad reporting, and you ought to get back to reporting instead of sensationalism. Let's see if it works It might and it might not. I happen to feel good about it, but who knows? I've been right a lot. Let's see what happens".
And then while a reporter was asking him the next question, he told Mr. Alexander "You ought to be ashamed of yourself", signalling, if nothing else, that he was not paying attention to the question being posed to him even though he had called on the reporter to ask it.
He was given the chance to shine and took it to make gratuitous insults and say a softball question is nasty. We can only imagine how he would answer hard questions. On the other hand, we have already seen how he does with those.
Don't believe me? Watch the clip. And watch the fact that nobody in the background bats an eye when he comes up with this drivel.
Leader of the free world, my ass.
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2020/03/20/trump-responds-to-question-about-coronavirus-fears-by-bashing-the-media/23956487/
Tuesday, March 17, 2020
something not political or coronavirus...
My wife tells me if I post something today, it should be entertaining and not so political, coronavirus, or just a downer in nature.
Soooooooo....
This one was originally published in the Daily Pennsylvanian, my college newspaper, some time around 1978 or so. I do not remember who wrote this. He/she is an immortal in my opinion. I may not get it exactly right, but so what? I am now a senior citizen, eligible for social security, if the GOP does not ravage it (oops...). When I finish with this, I am going to the kitchen. My wife will tie a bib on me, and she will try to spoon feed oatmeal to me...
A cow is standing in a pasture, minding its own business, when a rabbit walks up to him and challenges him to a race to the fence on the other side of the pasture and back. Knowing he cannot beat a rabbit in a footrace, the cow declines, but the rabbit persists (not unlike Elizabeth Warren, but then again, I digress...).
"Mr. Cow, I am a good sport and I know you need something to make you feel better. I will let you win the race". With that, the cow and the rabbit take off. Sure enough, they get to the fence on the other side of the pasture and the rabbit is letting the cow lead. They turn around an head to the start/finish line. Just before they get to it, the rabbit puts on a burst and finishes just ahead of the cow.
Dismayed and utterly (I avoided saying udderly. Oh wait, I just did...) heartbroken, the cow runs across the pasture where the old mare is munching on some hay. Upon reaching the horse, the cow lets out his heart.
"Oh Ms. Horse. The rabbit told me he would let me win a race from to the fence and back, but at the last moment, he ran past me! He cheated! He lied! Just like the president (oops again...) I cannot believe he would do that to me!!! What can I do?"
The mare looks up from her pile of hay, looks at the cow, and says...
"That's funny. A talking cow"...
You're welcome. I am ready for my oatmeal...
Soooooooo....
This one was originally published in the Daily Pennsylvanian, my college newspaper, some time around 1978 or so. I do not remember who wrote this. He/she is an immortal in my opinion. I may not get it exactly right, but so what? I am now a senior citizen, eligible for social security, if the GOP does not ravage it (oops...). When I finish with this, I am going to the kitchen. My wife will tie a bib on me, and she will try to spoon feed oatmeal to me...
A cow is standing in a pasture, minding its own business, when a rabbit walks up to him and challenges him to a race to the fence on the other side of the pasture and back. Knowing he cannot beat a rabbit in a footrace, the cow declines, but the rabbit persists (not unlike Elizabeth Warren, but then again, I digress...).
"Mr. Cow, I am a good sport and I know you need something to make you feel better. I will let you win the race". With that, the cow and the rabbit take off. Sure enough, they get to the fence on the other side of the pasture and the rabbit is letting the cow lead. They turn around an head to the start/finish line. Just before they get to it, the rabbit puts on a burst and finishes just ahead of the cow.
Dismayed and utterly (I avoided saying udderly. Oh wait, I just did...) heartbroken, the cow runs across the pasture where the old mare is munching on some hay. Upon reaching the horse, the cow lets out his heart.
"Oh Ms. Horse. The rabbit told me he would let me win a race from to the fence and back, but at the last moment, he ran past me! He cheated! He lied! Just like the president (oops again...) I cannot believe he would do that to me!!! What can I do?"
The mare looks up from her pile of hay, looks at the cow, and says...
"That's funny. A talking cow"...
You're welcome. I am ready for my oatmeal...
Saturday, February 8, 2020
worst person addendum
Oops... Worst Persons in the World Addendum...
Sometimes, you just have to admit you made a mistake. I do so here.
I started the second annual Worst Persons in the World list a few months ago, and then finished up after having strayed for a while, publishing it earlier today. Then moments later, I looked at the list...
How on earth I could have excluded William Barr is beyond me.
He undercut the Mueller investigation, gutting its findings before it was actually published.
He publicly embraced a president gone wild and promoted a unitary executive theory that states that the president can do just about anything he wants, and because he is the president, it is not illegal. That would include the famous boast about shooting somebody in broad daylight on Fifth Avenue.
He announced that Christianity is a guiding force and that Christians have been persecuted for their beliefs throughout the history of this country, and notably, in the last several years. As a result, "Christian" values that impose upon just about everybody else, are perfectly find by him, first amendment be damned.
As soon as the senate got through gutting the constitution, shredding the thought of fair and legal process, he announced that there would be no more investigations of presidents or presidential candidates henceforth without his approval. Who do you think he is thinking of? Andrew Yang?
I could go on. I believe you get the point...
Sometimes, you just have to admit you made a mistake. I do so here.
I started the second annual Worst Persons in the World list a few months ago, and then finished up after having strayed for a while, publishing it earlier today. Then moments later, I looked at the list...
How on earth I could have excluded William Barr is beyond me.
He undercut the Mueller investigation, gutting its findings before it was actually published.
He publicly embraced a president gone wild and promoted a unitary executive theory that states that the president can do just about anything he wants, and because he is the president, it is not illegal. That would include the famous boast about shooting somebody in broad daylight on Fifth Avenue.
He announced that Christianity is a guiding force and that Christians have been persecuted for their beliefs throughout the history of this country, and notably, in the last several years. As a result, "Christian" values that impose upon just about everybody else, are perfectly find by him, first amendment be damned.
As soon as the senate got through gutting the constitution, shredding the thought of fair and legal process, he announced that there would be no more investigations of presidents or presidential candidates henceforth without his approval. Who do you think he is thinking of? Andrew Yang?
I could go on. I believe you get the point...
2nd annual top ten worst persons in the world -- well in the united states, but it sounded good
This one falls under the better late than never category, especially since I announced the list was just about to come out and solicited nominations about three months ago. Oh well...
Tis the season. With help from our loyal legion of followers, and simply because I can do it, the good folks here at White Fluffy Duckies, with herald trumpets blaring, hereby present the Second Annual Top (Bottom) Ten Worst Persons -- IN THE WORLD!!!... well, at least here in the good old USA...
As a reminder, last year's list was:
10. Susan Collins
9. Ryan Zincke
8. Duncan Hunter
7. Sarah Huckabee Sanders
6. Ted Cruz
5. Brian Kemp
4. Lindsay Graham
3. Sean Hannity
2. Steve King
1. Mitch McConnell
Before the big reveal, I once again note that the President is not on this list, as he remains in a class of worstness by himself, and by including him herein, I would be permanently rendering lists of this sort obsolete and even more irrelevant in the grand scheme of things than they already are.
I also note again that in whittling the list down to only ten, I know I am leaving out much deserved people, who tried their darndest to get on the list, practically soliciting inclusion from me personally. You cannot, however, include all fifty-two republican united states senators and one hundred and ninety-seven members of the House of Representatives. It just does not work in a top ten list, unless you happen to use math employed by the President, which I will not do, even if we share the same alma mater. By the same logic, the entire staff of the President at the White House cannot be included; therefore, we tearfully leave Kelly Anne Conway out once again. We note, however, in a world of alternate facts, she is at the top (bottom) of the list once again. But wouldn't you want to be a fly on the bedroom wall when she and George get into it?
But I digress...
Sooooo.... with our second annual nod to Keith Olbermann, and without further ado:
10. Betsy DeVos -- To be honest, I was not going to include Ms. DeVos here, although it does seem to me that in less than three years she has demonstrated clearly that her name and the word "education" should never be mentioned in he same sentence. It does take a massive amount of talent, however, to have a member of the president's cabinet held in contempt of court, not once, not twice, but on sixteen thousand counts. Aside from the punishment of being included on this list, Ms. DeVos is going to be asked to write "I will not be in contempt of court" on the blackboard sixteen thousand times, assuming she knows where the blackboard is located in the classroom, is not offended by holding a piece of chalk and knows how to spell "contempt".
9. Jodi Ernst -- This is by popular demand. How on earth a woman can approve of defunding planned parenthood, sponsor legislation that denies a woman the right to choose, cannot bring herself to pass any kine of legislation controlling the ridiculous explosion of weapons in the hands of those clearly unqualified physically or emotionally to own one, let alone an arsenal is beyond me. She has solidified her stance, however, by being the first to call for the impeachment of Joe Biden, who has not even been nominated to run for president, let alone be elected to the position.
8. Rush Limbaugh -- I almost gave this one a pass; however, in light of his health, this may be the last chance for him to make the list. Call this a lifetime achievement award that balances off the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Hint to the president -- if Mr. Limbaugh's lifetime of bigotry and vile comments about anyone he disagrees with makes him deserving of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, please do not consider me for the prize.
7. Steve Mnuchin -- A bastion of consistency, he refused to release the president's tax returns, claiming there was no legitimate legislative purpose in doing so, but immediately upon being asked, never mind subpoenaed, he released Hunter Biden's info. You know, the son of the guy who is running for president against his guy. Well, he is consistent. He consistently aides the guy in the oval office regardless of whether or not it is ethical or legal to do so.
6. Jim Jordan -- This one was rather close between Rep. Jordan and Mark Meadows, who according to the transcript of the closed door hearing of Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch questioned the Ambassador over where she got the nickname "Masha" from, as if that established that she was a Ukranian mole for the democratic party. But Mr. Jordan, who has made it a mission in life to make very loud, abrasive and completely baseless claims about just about anyone to the left of him, which means just about everybody, and then staring blankly into space when confronted with the proof that he was once again wrong, wins out herein with his performance in the public impeachment hearings. He has a talent for making baseless allegations in the most abrasive manner and then, as noted above, staring blankly into space when confronted with the fact that his claims have already been debunked. We won't even get into the fact that he was an assistant wrestling coach at Ohio State for years and claims he had no idea there was a sex abuse scandal playing out under his nose nearly the entire time. Well, I guess I just did get into that. Nothing to see here.
5. John Cornyn -- This is the guy who usually is standing in the background when Mitch McConnell is at the microphone telling us why Democrats to do nothing and then explaining why he is blocking a vote on (fill in the blank), just past by the House, that happens to have a democratic majority. Senator Cornyn gets on the list this year, as well as a vote for humanitarian of the year by supporting the decision to have our troops get out of the way, thereby allowing Turkey's rampage and ethnic cleansing of the Kurds, hinting that this was perhaps a good thing. Perhaps someone should have whispered in Senator Cornyn's ear the simple fact that the Kurds were supposedly our allies.
4. Mitch McConnell -- You knew he had to be here somewhere. I'm sure Mitch is devastated that he did not repeat his championship performance of last year. I suppose he can take solace in the fact that he is part of the group that took this year's honors and led the way for the nonsense that is our elected representatives.
3. Bone Spurs, Jr. -- He is this year's best selling author, as long as the Bone Spurs Re-election Committee, the Republican National Committee and the Fox Cheerleading Network continue to shop for stocking stuffers this coming holiday season. BSJ makes the list this year, however, for repeatedly wondering in public how an underqualified, apparently uninterested and completely idiotic son of a politician can land a cushy job on an international corporate energy board simply by being the son of that politician.
2. Rudolph Giuliani -- 'nuff said...
1. with a nod to all the congressmen and senators who are listed above -- EVERY REPUBLICAN MEMBER OF CONGRESS. Yes, I said that I could not include every single one of them, but then again, with the exception of Mitt Romney, they all showed a complete lack of spine, morals or whatever it takes to be a decent human throughout the impeachment fiasco. I would also note that this is my list, so if I want to ignore my own rules, it's still my list. Go make your own. That said, even Mitt did not vote for a conviction on teh obstruction of congress count. Hey, he announced he would not comply with a single subpoena and then he did not. I agree here that no witnesses or documents were needed on this count. By definition, this is obstruction of congress. Not a single GOP legislator or senator agreed. We will now all reap what they have sown.
Can't wait til next year...
Tis the season. With help from our loyal legion of followers, and simply because I can do it, the good folks here at White Fluffy Duckies, with herald trumpets blaring, hereby present the Second Annual Top (Bottom) Ten Worst Persons -- IN THE WORLD!!!... well, at least here in the good old USA...
As a reminder, last year's list was:
10. Susan Collins
9. Ryan Zincke
8. Duncan Hunter
7. Sarah Huckabee Sanders
6. Ted Cruz
5. Brian Kemp
4. Lindsay Graham
3. Sean Hannity
2. Steve King
1. Mitch McConnell
Before the big reveal, I once again note that the President is not on this list, as he remains in a class of worstness by himself, and by including him herein, I would be permanently rendering lists of this sort obsolete and even more irrelevant in the grand scheme of things than they already are.
I also note again that in whittling the list down to only ten, I know I am leaving out much deserved people, who tried their darndest to get on the list, practically soliciting inclusion from me personally. You cannot, however, include all fifty-two republican united states senators and one hundred and ninety-seven members of the House of Representatives. It just does not work in a top ten list, unless you happen to use math employed by the President, which I will not do, even if we share the same alma mater. By the same logic, the entire staff of the President at the White House cannot be included; therefore, we tearfully leave Kelly Anne Conway out once again. We note, however, in a world of alternate facts, she is at the top (bottom) of the list once again. But wouldn't you want to be a fly on the bedroom wall when she and George get into it?
But I digress...
Sooooo.... with our second annual nod to Keith Olbermann, and without further ado:
10. Betsy DeVos -- To be honest, I was not going to include Ms. DeVos here, although it does seem to me that in less than three years she has demonstrated clearly that her name and the word "education" should never be mentioned in he same sentence. It does take a massive amount of talent, however, to have a member of the president's cabinet held in contempt of court, not once, not twice, but on sixteen thousand counts. Aside from the punishment of being included on this list, Ms. DeVos is going to be asked to write "I will not be in contempt of court" on the blackboard sixteen thousand times, assuming she knows where the blackboard is located in the classroom, is not offended by holding a piece of chalk and knows how to spell "contempt".
9. Jodi Ernst -- This is by popular demand. How on earth a woman can approve of defunding planned parenthood, sponsor legislation that denies a woman the right to choose, cannot bring herself to pass any kine of legislation controlling the ridiculous explosion of weapons in the hands of those clearly unqualified physically or emotionally to own one, let alone an arsenal is beyond me. She has solidified her stance, however, by being the first to call for the impeachment of Joe Biden, who has not even been nominated to run for president, let alone be elected to the position.
8. Rush Limbaugh -- I almost gave this one a pass; however, in light of his health, this may be the last chance for him to make the list. Call this a lifetime achievement award that balances off the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Hint to the president -- if Mr. Limbaugh's lifetime of bigotry and vile comments about anyone he disagrees with makes him deserving of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, please do not consider me for the prize.
7. Steve Mnuchin -- A bastion of consistency, he refused to release the president's tax returns, claiming there was no legitimate legislative purpose in doing so, but immediately upon being asked, never mind subpoenaed, he released Hunter Biden's info. You know, the son of the guy who is running for president against his guy. Well, he is consistent. He consistently aides the guy in the oval office regardless of whether or not it is ethical or legal to do so.
6. Jim Jordan -- This one was rather close between Rep. Jordan and Mark Meadows, who according to the transcript of the closed door hearing of Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch questioned the Ambassador over where she got the nickname "Masha" from, as if that established that she was a Ukranian mole for the democratic party. But Mr. Jordan, who has made it a mission in life to make very loud, abrasive and completely baseless claims about just about anyone to the left of him, which means just about everybody, and then staring blankly into space when confronted with the proof that he was once again wrong, wins out herein with his performance in the public impeachment hearings. He has a talent for making baseless allegations in the most abrasive manner and then, as noted above, staring blankly into space when confronted with the fact that his claims have already been debunked. We won't even get into the fact that he was an assistant wrestling coach at Ohio State for years and claims he had no idea there was a sex abuse scandal playing out under his nose nearly the entire time. Well, I guess I just did get into that. Nothing to see here.
5. John Cornyn -- This is the guy who usually is standing in the background when Mitch McConnell is at the microphone telling us why Democrats to do nothing and then explaining why he is blocking a vote on (fill in the blank), just past by the House, that happens to have a democratic majority. Senator Cornyn gets on the list this year, as well as a vote for humanitarian of the year by supporting the decision to have our troops get out of the way, thereby allowing Turkey's rampage and ethnic cleansing of the Kurds, hinting that this was perhaps a good thing. Perhaps someone should have whispered in Senator Cornyn's ear the simple fact that the Kurds were supposedly our allies.
4. Mitch McConnell -- You knew he had to be here somewhere. I'm sure Mitch is devastated that he did not repeat his championship performance of last year. I suppose he can take solace in the fact that he is part of the group that took this year's honors and led the way for the nonsense that is our elected representatives.
3. Bone Spurs, Jr. -- He is this year's best selling author, as long as the Bone Spurs Re-election Committee, the Republican National Committee and the Fox Cheerleading Network continue to shop for stocking stuffers this coming holiday season. BSJ makes the list this year, however, for repeatedly wondering in public how an underqualified, apparently uninterested and completely idiotic son of a politician can land a cushy job on an international corporate energy board simply by being the son of that politician.
2. Rudolph Giuliani -- 'nuff said...
1. with a nod to all the congressmen and senators who are listed above -- EVERY REPUBLICAN MEMBER OF CONGRESS. Yes, I said that I could not include every single one of them, but then again, with the exception of Mitt Romney, they all showed a complete lack of spine, morals or whatever it takes to be a decent human throughout the impeachment fiasco. I would also note that this is my list, so if I want to ignore my own rules, it's still my list. Go make your own. That said, even Mitt did not vote for a conviction on teh obstruction of congress count. Hey, he announced he would not comply with a single subpoena and then he did not. I agree here that no witnesses or documents were needed on this count. By definition, this is obstruction of congress. Not a single GOP legislator or senator agreed. We will now all reap what they have sown.
Can't wait til next year...
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