Sunday Sunday,,, ...

 World Cup news,,,,,

Group B :

US needs to WIN their match  against Iran to advance...   A tie or loss and they are OUT ! 

Group  C is the other one that I am watching: 

Poland Has a tough final match .vs Argentina... If they beat Argentina - they win the Group.  If they Draw they might not win the group , but they will advance.  SO Poland needs to WIN or TIE to ensure advancing 

 If they lose - the need to have the Saudias lose to Mexico to  advance... IF the SA ties Mexico and Poland loses then it will come down to Goal Differential - so Lots still up in the air in Group C ...

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The former POTUS , hosts a Dinner at Mar-a logo.. with  White nationalist and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes and rapper Kanye West  this week, demonstrating his continued willingness to associate with figures who have well-publicized antisemitic views as he embarks on another White House run.  And I do not hear any or so very few Republicans condemning this,,,  

I DO NOT KNOW why the GOP has such a hard time condemning Anti-Semites and Nazis. Seems like a no Brainer to me,,,but what do I know.... 

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The Aaron Judge Sweepstakes continue ....  I know that the Dodgers say they are interested,,, and maybe the Mets... I believe it comes to 2 choices.... GIANTS  or YANKEES...  it will be a massive contract either way ,,,   so far in his career he has made Approx 36 Million dollars...   bet cha that the next contract is more like $36 Million per year / probably more....   Mike Trout's contract is $35 million per ,, so Judge will be looking for more.... Now ,, let's not go down the path of how much money does one person need,,,, He is one of the TOP Players in MLB.. he deserves to be paid what the market will pay...  He is the face of the Yankees if not the face of MLB (along with a few,, very few others) ,,, look around the stadium,, or just walking around in NY.. how may Jerseys & T-shirts have his name on them ??    I will tell you that - the times I dod go to the games this year..........  either 99 or 2 are on the back of most of the shirts,,,

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Trump taxes... the former POTUS - even though he lost his bid with the Supreme court to have his taxes withheld from the Congress - he essentially won....  he delayed the process to the point that the Democrat's will only have the Majority for maybe a month - to do any ting with them. will they release them or leak them to the Public??? That would seems vindictive,, but this is TRUMP ...  and they have been waiting for years,, like since 2018 for them... maybe they should summarize them....  Listen - Presidential Tax returns are reviewed / Audited - so what cam of those audits while he WAS President ?? were there adjustments made ?    If they decide to summarize them : AKA - his total income , his debts and to WHO ?? What did he pay in taxes...   NOW - it would say something about our current tax structure - when a Billionaire (if he really is) can work the tax system so the he pays nothing !!! This might actually get us to a Flat Tax Scenario - or at least to getting the top 1% of the Money holders to Pay their share of TAX !!

Here is couple for Sunday ...  

A  old song fromJohn Prine - It's a Big Old Goofy World - off 1991's LP 

"The Missing Years" 

And a Chapin Song  - off Heads and Tails.... it's 50 years old !!

That is Steve Chapin on Guitar,  (big) John Wallace on bass, Kim Scholes on Viola, 

TAXI.

Why ??? Why does this happen in the US ??

At least 6 people were killed in a shooting at a Walmart in Virginia, officials say. The shooter is also dead.

Suspect in Colorado Springs shooting at an LGBTQ Club slated to appear in Court, 

I think there are few very understandable reasons that the US has more and more of these mass shooting events.... 

#1 - Obvious - we have more people that own guns,,, and more guns are available to anyone and everyone... Come on ,, how can this not be  factor... 

#2 - More and more lately the political rhetoric has radicalized these lone wolf type assailants. The more hate talk - the more that one side demonizes the other them more you are gonna have someone that thinks that killing others will solve what they see as "the Problem" ...   IMHO - we are not far away from an assassination of a Politician... Senator,  Representative.  Judge,,, someone is going to get killed,,   these people these days have guards following them and their families around...  think of that ,, seems like something that you hear about in a 3rd world country ... Not in the US.... But since the former POTUS got into the game - he has worked to Demonize his opponents -  he has used hate speak to do it... and he and the followers  in his Cult are at least part responsible for this .....   

Today more than ever - you cannot have a discussion of politics,,,  there is no more compromise in the system, its MY Way or nothing,,,  YOU are not allowed  different opinion....  and I think that mush of that is driven by the fact that we are not both dealing from a position of Truth, FACTS.... actual Truth - not Trump Truth (Lies) ......

and Away we go................

 1st - let me say that a message is being sent by the DOJ and the Attorney General Merrick Garland...

That Message??? - that if you are rich and can afford many many  Lawyers ..you are above the law.  There are two sets of laws in this  country - those for the RICH and those for the rest of us...  Garland needs to Indite and arrest the Former POTUS ... he got a Judge to sign a search warrant and found what they were looking for... there  has to be consequence for stealing Government secrets... and every day that goes by  shows that there  IS the  double standard that we all thought existed ,, I do not give a flying Fuck of he is running for president....  why do think he announced this earlier than any candidate EVER /??  cause he thinks it will shield him ...  and IF he is indicted,,he can say - "see - they are trying to stop me "  

#2 - the Republicans have said that they are going to use their power to issue subpoenas and lead these oversight committee to investigate Hunter Biden and the Biden Family..  I think it hilarious... that this is their agenda.... no word of any legislation that they want tp put forward.... Nope. nothing on helping the people of the US with Inflation, Drug Cost, Gas prices, Crime, etc etc....  nope -   I think we know who will really be running  House for the next next two years  - the former POTUS - he has say 6-10 members that are that far up his ass,,,, so that they will be taking direction from him,,, as we know they do not have an intelligent thought on their own.... not that he has that many either... So it should be great watching this Shit show for the next two years.... Then in 2024 the Democrats can do what Clinton did in to be reelected to his 2nd term - he attacked the Fact that the GOP had done nothing.. their Contract with America was in shambles, and hell I think that in 2 years Newt Gingrich was out of politics all together  that is how bad it was for them... Then Barack Obama did the same in running for his  2nd term,,, in Both examples - the GOP held one or Both houses of Congress....

Oh - and one more comment on the Dumpo speech the other night...  he stated that he liked theChina policy of Immediate Justice for Drug Dealers..... trial in the morning and Execution in the afternoon... SWIFT Justice  !!! None of this blocking witnesses,, and endless appeals to challenge  the Courts ,, thus avoiding court cases for years and years - yea right ,, who the hell does that sound like !>!?!?

And here we Go again .........

 #1 - The DOJ - Merrick Garland - have to act,,,they need to indite him . PERIOD... Maybe he thinks that by running for President he can escape being arrested.....  and I know he knows that being elected will keep him out of Jail....

I honestly believe that we are witnessing the end of Trumpism.....  even he knows that the Many many in the GOP are looking to get away from him...........  The Midterm elections just proved that he does not have the influence that he once did... many of the Candidates he backed -  LOST....

I am Surprised he announced that he is running--- because there are many federal elections laws  (not that he ever gave a shit about laws) these laws require accounting for donations received,, you cant just funnel money into your personal accounts and businesses.... 

Before I start ,,, let me says that those in the Congress could get rid of him .....  While there is still a Democratic Majority,,, let the Republicans work with the Dems.... and pass a law that states that a requirement to running for the Office of President will require that the Candidate release the last 4 years of their tax returns.   That should do it,,, cause he will NEVER do that  !! 

Ok -- so while i did not watch the Speech the other night - I did see some of it....  very dull...... you could see people trying to leave before the Speech was over,, but they were stopped for exiting,,, saying that it was for security reasons,,,,, hey - they just did not want the Visual of folks streaming out the doors - while the urines soaked cheeto man was still talking -errrr LYING !

1) The Oceans are predicted to rise 10+ inches in the next 30 years ,,, NOT 1/8 " in 300 years,,, and oh - thats  from the Pentagon data....

2) The price of Turkeys is up - yep between 7 and 10 % over last year,,,, NOT 300 % - and at least my look at my local Walmarts - had tons of Turkeys of evert variety ...

3) HE did not preside over Decades and Decades of a County with NO wars... I mean even of you use one of he  DECADE claims - thats TEN fucking years,,, and he was only the POTUS for 4  !!!

4) “Perhaps the most embarrassing moment in the history of our country, where we lost lives, left Americans behind and surrendered $85 billion worth of the finest military equipment anywhere in the world,” Trump said.  OK- we did leave some - the Pentagon,,,, remember them - said approx $7 Billion

5) Trump claimed his administration “filled up” the Strategic Petroleum Reserve but it has now been “virtually drained” by the Biden administration.

Facts First: Both parts of Trump’s claim are false. He didn’t fill up the reserve, and the reserve is not “virtually drained.”

7) Drump claimed that Chinese leader Xi Jinping had told him that China has no “drug problem” at all because of its harsh treatment of drug traffickers. Trump then repeated the claim himself, saying, “if you get caught dealing drugs in China you have an immediate and quick trial, and by the end of the day, you are executed. That’s a terrible thing, but they have no drug problem.”

And while Trump solely credits harsh punishments for what he claims is China’s success in handling drugs, the Chinese government also touts its rehabilitation, education and anti-poverty efforts.

8) On the US Documents HE stole.....  “Obama took a lot of things with him,” Trump said.

Facts First: This is false – as the National Archives and Records Administration pointed out in August when Trump previously made this claim. Though Trump claimed that Obama had taken millions of records to Chicago, NARA explained in a public statement that it had itself taken these records to a NARA-managed facility in the Chicago area – which is near where Obama’s presidential library will be located. It said that, as per federal law, “former President Obama has no control over where and how NARA stores the Presidential records of his Administration.”

9)  He said: “We were $1.87 a gallon for gasoline, and now it’s sitting five, six, seven and even eight dollars, and it’s gonna go really bad.”

Facts First: This is so misleading that we’re classifying it as inaccurate. While the price of a gallon of regular gas did briefly fall to $1.87 (and lower) during the depths of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, the national average for regular gas on Trump’s last day in office, January 20, 2021, was much higher than that – $2.393 per gallon, according to data provided to CNN by the American Automobile Association. And while there are some remote gas stations where prices are always much higher than the national average, the national average Tuesday is $3.759, per AAA

10) “The worst gangs are MS-13. And under the Barack Hussein Obama administration, they were unable to take them out. Because their countries where they came from wouldn’t take them,” Trump said from Mar-a-Lago.

Facts First: It’s not true that, as a rule, Guatemala and Honduras wouldn’t take back their citizens during Obama’s administration.

11) “We built the wall, and now we will add to it. Now, we built the wall – we completed the wall – and then we said let’s do more, and we did a lot more. And we did a lot more. And as we were doing it, we had an election that came up. And when they came in, they had three more weeks to complete the additions to the wall, which would’ve been great, and they said no, no, we’re not going to do that,” he said.

Facts First: It’s not even close to true that Trump “completed” the border wall.

AND Mexico DID NOT PAY for the Wall !!

Ok - thats enough LIES for yoday...

The LAST word... maybe

 In what maybe the last word on the Mid - Terms ....

The Attorney Generals that Dumpo endorsed LOST ! ya - get to that for a minute,

 Finchem in Arizona - yep a 2020- election denier also = LOST !

Marchant in Nevada - LOST !

Karamo - in Michagan - LOST !

And if you are not aware the Secretary of State essentially runs the State Elections... so that these state,,, and oh yea Georgia reelected Raffensperger - the guy that would not "Find" 11,800 votes for trumop in 20202. so that those state elections will not be fucked with in 2024..

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Now - I stopped even looking at FOX entertainment , even to just see what nonsense they were reporting,, BUT - I could not resist -,,,, So when CNN, MSNBC , Et Al were covering the Arizona Governors  race outcome for Hobbs over Lake (Lake was the Dump endorsed candidate) that FOX has been pumping for Weeks,,,, was FOX covering that outcome - NOPE !! they were talking about how Stacey Abrahams did not support blacks in Georgia,... (how laughable is that) and on theior WEB page - where they featured Lake nearly every day in the past week or so - the Hobbs win was down on line 20  !!!  What ASSHOLES !!

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Ok - so it will be at least interesting in the run off race between Warnock and Walker in Georgia -  Walker was a great Running back in football,,,, but he could not find a Logical sentence with both hands and a flashlight...

take his quote on  the Inflation  Reduction act -   Inflation Reduction Act doesn’t help Americans because “a lot of money, it’s going to trees” and “we have enough trees”

,,,claiming inflation affects women more than men because “they gotta buy groceries,” 

He has falsely claimed to have a Law enforcement background and he wwas an FBI agent  !  - HE DOES  and WAS NOT ! 

That he graduated at the TOP of his class - NOPE - did not even graduate !

He threatened his former girlfriend with a Gun,,  and funded an Abortion for her,,, and tried to fund a 2nd one,... 

and he said that the "United Stated was the Greatest country in the US"...  HUH 

and this is the Guy that you want voting on Major legislation ,,,, and Representing you in Georgia ???  Seriously - 

No Message , NO ideas,,, and little else....

 I think the GOP learned that you need to stand for something,,, Voting against Aid For Ukraine,, Against a fixed dollar amount for insulin, Against an Anti Inflation bill... against , against, against,....  What are your ideas to fix any thing ??? If you have them ,,, I aint heard them....

You campaigns that wanted to take away a women's right to chose ,,,,  and you thought that Women would take this  ???  You worked to limit voting ... and limit it by racial groups, with people of color the most affected.  and whoa,, what a big surprise that you have learned that the Younger voters  --  voted against you ..... you want to do away with the 26th amendment , that give the right to vote to those that are 18 years old ....  this done during  a war that was sending these men, and women to war ,, but denied them the right to vote...  this is totally ironic,, as you think that a 10 , 12 14 year old is mature enough to carry a baby to term , even if that was from incest or rape .... but that same person is not mature enough to vote.... and you wonder why these people do not support you !!1 ASSHOLE ! 

Did I already say that Desantis and Dump will destroy each other in the GOP primaries,, and IF Desantis wins the nomination,,, dump will not take this lying down,,, he will burn the house down before he loses to Desanctiminous.... he wont care that he destroys the GOP .. hell its mostly destroyed any way....  this split ticket essentiall will give the Democrat candidate the Win in 2024..

 

Happy Birthday DAYS !!!

 A few that were last week !!!  Couple of examples of just how great these two women are......

Susan Tedeschi turned 52 years old ....  here is I Pity the Fool !!

And Bonnie Raitt - is 72

RED WAVE............... NOT !!!

 

hummmmmm,.  Imagine being a FOX News - Ulta MAGA-Idiot and waiting for this to occur...

Well - wow - the RED wave - or  RED Tsunami !! Coming ......  well it's gonna have to wait a few year...

Maybe one of the biggest mid term disappointments took place this year at the polls .... the Democrats retained control of the Senate ,, and yes ,,lost some house seats,... but over all - it was a dumping of the Trump backed candidates, and in general the Election deniers.....  it was a larger turnout than expected - which historically - bodes well for Democrats over Republicans.  Dis they really think that Women were just gonna go away -  take their right s being taken away lying down! I guess not - and now we know that the demographics show a younger voter presence much larger than expected  when they see  WTF the GOP is talking about,,, they see them fucking up the Government and the Country ..... so that the majority voted with the Democrats,,, That most people understood that what Republicans stand for (if they even have a stance) is NOT what the Majority of the Country thinks.....   So now - with the Senate still under the Democrats,,, and IF Warnock wins Georgia over that Illiterate Walker - the Dems won't even have to worry about One Vote Manchin to derail what they want to pass.....  and it should be high entertainment watching the GOP Representatives tear each other apart ......

That voters turned away from the candidates that the Former POTUS endorsed I think means one thing. the GOP - WILL NOT want him - DUMPO - as their Candidate in 2024..although I think that Ron  De-Sanctimonious - yep that was Dumpos title for him looks like the Front runner right now - I am betting that if/When the GOP has De-Sanctimonious as their candidate - that Dumpo - will run as an independent  - thus splitting the GOP voters,,,and giving the 2024 Presidential election to the Democrats.....   

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