SAM AND MARTHA. THESE ARE THE KIND OF PEOPLE WHO ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE RULES WE ALL HAVE TO LIVE BY.

ANOTHER HARPY HEARD FROM.

It was bad enough when Americans realized that our lazy Supreme Court Justice, Clarence Thomas, was married to an anti-democracy harridan who was probably influencing his recent anti-constitutional decisions. But now we have learned that our most racist Associate Justice, Samual Alito, is also married to a traitorous Trumpest who not only defended our would-be dictator from her anti-Trump neighbors, but flew our American flag upside down to show her contempt. It seems that Martha Alito took offense at a neighbor's printed criticism of Donald Trump and in a hissy-fit of defiance raised the upside down flag in front of their house. So much for an unbiased court, not that 74-year-old Sammy was ever unbiased or law-abiding since, like Thomas, he was also a freeloader. quick to dash off on any free vacation. Keep in mind this upside down flag was flown days after the insurrection at the Capitol making Alito no more a patriot than those destructive morons sitting in prison. Patriotic Americans have a lot of work to do. We have to get the poisonous Trump out of our lives, clean house at the crooked and mysogynistic Supreme Court, deal with spousal-whipped legislators, and stop ignoring the many assaults, large and small, on our country.

SMASH HIT AND STINKERS.

One of the best streaming services on radio is Sirius XM. And one of the best streaming services on Sirius XM is On Broadway. At least most of the time. But I am astounded at how many shows have been produced on Broadway that just plain suck. There was a time when most shows on The Great White Way promised a good story, wonderful lyrics, and memorable music. No more. So many shows are just rehashed movies or TV shows with mediocre lyrics and discordant music in songs that go on too long and are sceamed more than sung. In the past even good shows like On the Twentieth Century and The Boys from Syracuse had that rare horrid teeth-gritting song like "Veronique" and "Let Antipholus In" but most of the numbers were well worth the cost of admission. But most of the songs I hear on On Broadway are tuneless, tedious, and inconsequential. I can't imagine why anyone would pay $100 or more to see newly created second-rate shows that are nowhere near as entertaining as high school productions of Broadway classics like Damn Yankees, Guys and Dolls, or Pajama Game, I would love to list the shows in the past ten years that I think are absolute dreck and why. But I'd rather mention how thrilling Broadway used to be, like the matinee when  I saw the original production of Ragtime whose opening number was so brilliantly written and fantastically staged that it still plays in my mind twenty-six years later.

LOUDER THAN ANY DOG.

 I live in one of the dumbest states in the Union: Florida. Not only do we have a moronic prude of a governor who is constantly creating idiotic and repressive new laws,  but we have very dumb old laws. For instance peacocks are a protected species. Peacocks! They're not native to Florida. They have no actual value. They're incredibly loud. They steal our pets' food. They foul up our lawns and driveways. And they often jump onto cars leaving scratches from their very sharp and ugly claws. Yet they're protected. How stupid is that? On some days as many as 12 peacocks congregate on my lawn terrifying our outdoor cat while they eat his lunch.  So while our prig of a governor Ron DeSantis bans books that allude to the his most frightening subject, sex; passes laws that allow anyone to carry an unseen and unlicensed gun; and recently created new laws that curb all defense methods against global warming in our already-hotter-than-hell Hades;  he completely ignores the loud, excreting, car-scratching, food-stealing beggars of the why-in-God's-name-are they-protected peacocks.

ONCE A RACIST...

I find it amazing that the national news suggests that Trump may win the votes of America's black men. Why is that even a possibility? With an autocrat and racist like Trump in office, African Americans will suffer more than anyone. He is a proven bigot. How can anyone forget his attack on the Central Park Five? Even when these teens were proven innocent, he still railed against them. His racist attacks against Obama were equally shameful. There are dozens of incidents-all on tape -that show Trump's contempt for blacks, latinos, anyone not white or at least orange like him. Black men have nothing to gain from Trump and everything to lose. The situation would be even direr for black women, his anti-abortion stand just the beginning. Surely these reports about Trump winning over black men are rumors. Why would men with a history of slavery endorse another dictator? They wouldn't. Not ever.

HOT FLASH.

If you're a Jewish woman who suffers from menopause symptoms, there's a new drug on the market that will help you, Since it's made by the greedy pigs at Bayer it costs $500 a month. But here's what you should do. Tell Bayer you want if for $10 a month in recognition of the fact that they provided the gas to the Nazi's that murdered your relatives in the last century. Tell them it's the least they can do to make up for their major role in the holocaust. Since a lot of people don't know how culpable Bayer is, insist you will spread the word if they don't honor your request.

A DISGUSTING AMERICAN THIEF.

Senator Rick Scott of Florida is and has always been a thief, who should be in prison not in Congress.  He has stolen millions in Social Security funds, which allows him to live a lavish lifestyle. He is also a compulsive liar and is running commercials falsely accusing President Biden of promoting socialism. Like all Republicans this evil, bald-headed criminal is out to support Trump's anti-democracy policies which will allow him to steal more millions of America's money. He's taken enough of your money. (His net worth is $132 million.) Don't let him take more. 

"Rick Scott is saying Democrats are committing Medicare robbery, when in fact he's the ultimate Medicare thief. He lost the right to accuse Democrats of raiding Medicare when he oversaw the largest Medicare fraud in the nation's history. Rick Scott's company stole money that should have gone to health care for seniors," said Florida Democratic Party spokesman Joshua Karp in the Feb. 25 press release.

HUSH, HUSH LITTLE BABY

 It seems to me that for most of my life blackmail was a crime. I recall seeing lots of movies where a blackmailer,when caught, was hauled away by the local police, or dispatched by the victim. Now it seems it is no longer a crime. After all Dino Sajudin, the Trump Tower doorman who falsely claimed Donald Trump had an affair with his former housekeeper that resulted in a secret love child, walked away with $30,000. No arrest. N0 jail time. I'm surprised that Donald even admits he was swindled by an insignificant servant. I call that stupid. Unless, of course, it is true and they're still covering it up. Still it's blackmail and it should be punished. If it is true that so-called Love Child is in for a hell of a payoff when his mother finally tells him about daddums. 

SATAN'S DEADLY DEAL.

Did you know that Donald Trump has offered to sell America out for one billion dollars?  He has told the oil industry that he will kill all non-drilling laws and stop all electric car manufacturing if he is elected if they give him a billion dollars to fund his campaign. Does anyone really need more proof of his villainy than this? With our precious planet already in grave danger, Trump's insanity would wreak the final destruction. Trump couldn't care less since he's already close to his expiration date. So this is further proof that he doesn't care about anyone but himself, not his loyalists, not even his children.  Would the greedy oil industry meet his demands? Probably. They seem to be motivated as he is by money. With so many acts that define the madness and sadism of Donald Trump only a suicidal society would ever vote him in for another vengeful and  catastrophic term.

THE SPITTING IMAGE?

 

I wouldn't dream of suggesting that Donald Trump's children are not actually his, but let's be realistic. Donald Jr. looks nothing like him and could easily be the offspring of one of Ivana's Italian boyfriends. Then Eric looks nothing like his supposed brother Jr. and is probably the issue of a Swede Ivana slept with for spite after Donald beat and raped her. Ivanka is another mystery Since she's had so much work done we can't tell what she would have looked like if it was left to nature. And maybe Donald is hot for her because he knows she's no relation. And Barron is the latest mystery. He's far taller than Trump and no more a recipient of paternal affection than the other love-starved sons. Tiffany could be Donnie's, but it's doubtful. I wonder if all his children know  they are of suspicious origin and have ever had a DNA test. I doubt it. Better to have a ruthless liar of a millionaire father than some fly-by-night ex gigolo. Besides, not trusting Mama would explain why they didn't fight tooth and nail to keep their status-conscious mother out of her solitary weed-grown golf course  grave. 

FEELING SORRY FOR SATAN.

Today someone on MSNBC suggested that we should feel sympathy for Trump because he worried that Melania would find out about his sexual fling with Stormy Daniels. Huh?  Was this supposed to suggest that he had human emotions? If he worried about Melania finding out why cheat on Melania in the first place? Also are we supposed to believe that Melania is anything but a heartless  gold-digger who married this fat fuck because he was rich and could provide a U.S. home for her aging parents? Surely she was thrilled that some other unlucky bimbo had to sleep with this mound of flesh and incontinence.  It seems to me that Melania has kept herself and her beanpole son as far away from Trump as possible. She is one of the few people who has successfully played Trump for a sucker.

LOWEST FORM OF LIFE.

Today. I figured it was time to clean the refrigerator, a loathsome but necessary task. I assumed it would be easier and more efficient to clean the vegetable bins if I took them out in the yard and hosed  them off,  Unfortunately that was not possible. While the hose was.still there someone had stolen the nozzle , an essential tool to the project at hand. The last theft we had was surprisingly a new power hose which cost me about $50.00. It truly amazes me that there are some people so low on the human scale they will trespass on a neighbors property to steal a garden hose nozzle. Since I don't claim to be a Christian, I can happily wish any  number of tragedies to happen to this thief and if any one of them did occur, I would be delighted. Hmm. The Chinese Water Torture seems  particularly appropriate.

IT. IT. IT. IT.

I don't get it.You would assume that you have to be reasonably intelligent to be hired by a TV network. Yet at least 50% of on-camera persons cannot pronounce "antisemitic" and most have difficulty with the word "didn't". Is diction a thing of the past?

MAYBE SHE ASKED NICELY.

Interesting that Donald Trump, the epitome of verisimilitude, denies that he ever had an affair with Stormy Daniels. Hmm. Then why did he give her $130,000? Was it just another example of the generosity he's famous for, and have nothing to do with the fact that she's sexy and gorgeous? 

THE TRANSPARENT WHINER.

One of the best things about Trump is his monumental stupidity.  He tells you everything that's wrong with him by complaining about someone else. For instance this weekend he accused Biden of Nazism. Translation:Trump is a Nazi. It's a simple little system. 

ENOUGH ALREADY.

 Why is the already boring FIRST RESPONSE commercial played hundreds of times a day? It's become sheer torture to see it again and again. I would think viewers would develop a hatred for this product rather than be willing to buy it. Networks have got to stop deluging consumers with thousands of tedious commercials, especially considering that we pay monthly charges for TV,

A WARNING TO THOUGHTFUL PEOPLE.

(Another person offered me

a seat on the bus today.)

Please don’t offer me a seat

Although your gesture's grand,

And I'm sure you're kind and sweet

I’d really rather stand.

Although I'm only 81

I have often wondered

Why well-meaning folks like you

Make me feel a hundred.

 

THE LADY AND THE PIG

Donald Trump is a pig. Hope Hicks is a babe. Are we supposed to believe that during their close working arrangement, he never made a vulgar proposal, never suggested they could mean more to each other. Never complimented her in his uniquelyvulgar way. Give me a break!

SATAN'S STAND IN.

How did this happen? The most evil man in America is playing us all for fools. He demand our attention, is spending our money, treats all of us like lackeys, tells us constant lies, yet nobody calls him a liar to his face. Why do we put up with it? He's not young, not attractive, not literate, no even smart. He's fat, has fish eyes, and seems to wear the same clothes every day. He stole our presidency, ran a crooked college, cheated on all his wives, stiffed hundreds of hard-working tradesmen, and pretends to be religious. As a businessman he sucks, as a husband he's a failure. as a human being he's worthless. Yet there he is, every day in court, whining,  glowering, complaining, leaving most of us with the same satisfying thought which we are not allowed to express, mores the pity.

ANOTHER KNOW-IT ALL WOMAN HATER

I know women are annoyed about all these arrogant Republican males banning abortion without any medical education. Frankly I am surprised women aren't homicidal. After all if these misogynists can doom a pregnant woman to death, isn't turnaround fair play. I''m not even female, but Florida Senator Mike Beltran's smug doughy face makes me furious. Who the hell is this schmuck to decide the future of any woman? In the coming election, I hope women destroy the GOP for their sadistic cruelty and pathetic chauvinism. 

AVOID A BLOODY NOSE.

 At 81 years old, I can't think of anything stupider than anti-Semitism. Talk about biting off your nose to spite your face. No group of people in history has done more for the world than Jews. They are the most notable contributors in Enterainment, Law, Science, Medicine, Travel, Industry, Literature, every field. Am I Jewish? No. But I'm smart enough to realize how much richer my life is from the contributions of Jews since the day I was born. And that's true of your life, too. 

LOSER STARTS WITH K.

I can't t think of two more pathetic losers than Kristi Noam and Kari Lake. Both harridans are hoping to be Donald Trump's running mate.and neither stands a chance in hell. First of all I doubt that a miisogynist like Trump would even choose a woman. And Kristi has destroyed her chances at respect by admitting she shot an innocent puppy. Kari is just an opportunistic bitch who looks like an understudy for Peter Pan. And while it's true that Trump never actually works, he might want a female VP as a plaything, except he's been impotent for years as well as incontinent, incompetent, flatulent, and constantly petulant.

FRIENDS? REALLY?

The news tells me that Donald Trump and David Pecker had a long-term friendship.  But how can you be friends with a liar and narcissist? I would assume your so-called friend would lie to your constantly, not be interested in anything concerning you, and probably resent any achievement that wasn't his. I would guess that Trump would bore Pecker to death with his constant bragging, endless exaggerations, and tedious tales of victory. And how could a snob like Trump show any interests in a low-brow rag like The National Enquirer? Also if their friendship was based on comparing cheating-on-your-wife sexual conquests, that would suggest that Pecker was as immoral as Trump himself, so maybe yes they could be pals.

STUPID COMMERCIALS

Having been an award-winning copywriter for 40 years, I feel qualified to comment on today's commercials, most of which have no concept, no wit, no nothing. Here are my most offensive.

Anything from Liberty Mutual, who create the worst of the worst and then play them endlessly, Most offensive other than smelly and the emu is, "How many people did you tell?" 

I have seen The First Response spot about 80 times, often three or four times in a row. There should be a law against running a commercial that often. Same is true of L'Oreal's mascara.

The 12-year-old boy racing the Dodge Hornet is plain irresponsible. (Just yesterday a boy of about the same age took his parents' car for a joy ride and killed two people.)

Any pharmaceutical, as who wants to hear all the ways the product can cripple or kill you, or worse make you kill yourself?

Most car commercials who try to flatter you into buying their product by telling you how adventurous you are when you're not.

All ambulance chaser spots who brag about how much money they squeezed out of companies on behalf of a greedy client without ever mentioning the large slice they keep. 

The new trend for whole body deodorants in which an attractive women tells you how repulsive she actually is.

The good news:

The best commercial of the year remains the very touching "Thanks Dad." spot for Publix. Pity it's for a supermarket chain that supports anti-democracy politicians and is most noted for high prices and lowbrow music.

Another series of excellent commercials is for Freshpet. Love that these people value their dogs over their stupid friends.

ANOTHER POSSIBLE TRAIN WRECK.

Tomorrow the Supreme Court will hear arguments as to whether Trump should be granted immunity for his crimes and should given free reign to be the criminal asshole we all know him to be. Considering all the recent idiotic and biased judgements of our Inquisition, it wouldn't surprise me at all if the republican toadies kissed both sides of Trump's enormous buttocks and ruled in his favor. And if they do, consider all hope gone for a fair and lawful democracy.  The fact that Clarence Thomas is married to, and pussy-whipped by, a traitor to the United States is shameful enough, but that the majority of the court ignores the Constitution and rules based on their religious superstitions is appalling. 

"Honeybun,  let's discuss tomorrow's vote."

THE AMERICAN SUCKER.

You now who thinks you're stupid? The TV networks.  They think you are so mindless that they can treat you any way they like. Mostly that means deluging you with commercials knowing you will never complain. You're so uncomplaining they have recently not only upped the number of commercials at each break, but repeat the same ones one after another often as frequently as three times. And guess what? They don't even have to run as many commercials as they do to make a great profit.They're doing it out of greed. So you, poor sucker, are forced to see thousands upon thousands of commercials, mostly boring, so a network exec can make a ton more money. And keep in mind you were told years ago that if you paid for TV service, there wouldn't be any commercials. So the jokes on all of us.

BIG PAYOUT FOR NOTHING.

Supposedly the story by the doorman at Trump Tower that Trump fathered a love child with a tower maid is false. Then why did Trump, and Pecker and Cohen give him $30,000? That seems like a generous reward to someone peddling a false story. Hmmm.

GOOD NEWS, BAD NEWS

 The bad news is that our Supreme Court has become a joke. With few Democrat exceptions it is controlled by a lawless bunch of Trump appointees who care more about their magical thinking religion than their country. We have a drunk, a wimp, a traitor, and two religious fanatics. It wouldn't surprise at all to see this panel of dummies grant Trump the immunity he has been begging for and insists is his right. Never mind that it would be an insane precedent.  The only good news is that that same immunity would apply to Biden, so he could shoot Trump in the head and get away with it, which he would never do, damn it. 

AN ESSENTIAL BLOG

I didn't write these two paragraphs. They are taken from a much longer blog from The Rude Pundit, whom everyone should read regularly if they want to save our democracy. 

In a sane country, Biden should have already all but won the 2024 election, his age and verbal gaffes be damned. He's been a historically successful president, and that's not me saying that. That's historians. In a survey of them, they already have Biden as the 14th-best president after just one term, ahead of Reagan, ahead of Wilson, tied with John fuckin' Adams himself. You already know who's last.

I get the idea that more attention needs to be paid to Trump's obviously declining mental faculties, and, sure, we always need to be reminded of just how fucking bugfuck insane and just downright fuckin' weird Trump is. Seriously, he's a creepy weirdo. But we're not gonna convince the MAGA cretins to jump ship now. They've mortgaged their souls to get that dumb orange motherfucker back into office. Trump could impregnate a 10 year-old girl during one of his wannabe Nuremberg rallies and laugh because she can't get an abortion, and his idiot hordes would cheer his virility. They're gone. Forget about them for now. So it's about making sure that anyone opposed to Trump gets out and votes for Biden.

DEMENTED DONNIE'S DREAM.

While Trump's dwindling fans are yacking about "Sleepy Joe" and carping about the few years difference between Trump and Biden,Trump is sitting on his more than ample ass in a New York courtroom while Joe is out vigorously campaigning. And on the first day of his trial, not only was Trump, as usual, argumentative and self-absorbed, part of the time he was sleeping. Yes sleeping. He closed those wrinkled orange lids over his dead-fish eyes in order to dream about world control, violently assaulting his enemies and plunging his pallid obesity into swimming pools of the money he conned out of all the working class people he needs so badly and hates so much.

FROM YUMMY TO YUCK.

 There are many food products that have proven to be successful despite their tasteless mediocrity. The one that comes immediately to mind are Pop Tarts. I had Pop Tarts for breakfast this morning, or at lease half of one, and found it a completely unsatisfying experience, not unlike, I would imagine, eating cardboard sprinkled with cinnamon and sugar. This surprised me because I remember liking them. Did they change the formula? Have my taste buds matured? Who knows? But I am aware of other seemingly popular products that are equally distasteful, like Hostess coffee cakes, (unlike Drake's) and several flavorless treats from Little Debby (Debbie?). If anybody actually reads my ravings, I could expect them to submit their own favorite yucks.

THIS IS YOUR HERO.

America has always shown respect for its service members. To fight for your country in a time or war is the ultimate expression of courage and patriotism. Which makes one wonder why so many brave veterans who served their country during dangerous conflicts admire a coward like Donald Trump, who was so terrified of being hurt that he had a crooked physician claim that he had bone spurs. During Vietnam, while many Americans were risking their lives, and just as many were losing theirs, Donnie was wasting his father's money, sleeping with hookers, cheating suppliers, and considering those who served their country to be losers.

"When President Donald Trump canceled a visit to the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery near Paris in 2018, he blamed rain for the last-minute decision, saying that “the helicopter couldn’t fly” and that the Secret Service wouldn’t drive him there. Neither claim was true."

A VERY EXPENSIVE OOPS.

Here's just one example of what amazes me about advertising.  A well-paid advertising agency with the Metamucil account creates new ads for the product. This takes at least a copywriter, art director, and account executive. They present several ideas to the client, which includes several member of the company. They settle on  a TV commercial. Then the concept is given to the director and his staff who plan its production, which requires the assistance of many people. Assuming that most of those  people involved in this very costly procedure is educated, what amazes me is this: The Metamucil ad I see every day encourages viewers to use Metamucil "everyday", which is grammatically incorrect. Didn't anyone notice? 

THIS FINGER IS FOR YOU.

Every person in America who came here from another country to avoid violence and repression must be determined to vote for President Biden in November and Vote Blue in general.  If you don't do so, you may soon find you are living in the kind of country you escaped. This is the face of a very angry, power hungry man. And such people are very, very dangerous.

RING UP "NO SALE"

I was ready to make two internet purchases today: a microwave oven and fitted decorative bedspread (a rare item). But in both cases the form was too fucking complicated, and they want a password, which I detest. I am certain that many retailers lose millions in sale because they don't have a simple purchase plan without the irritating red tape of passwords, i.d. numbers, and more information than necessary. If I want to buy something all they need is the mailing address and my credit card number. Why do they need my e-mail? So they can send me endless ads and notices which I don't want. 

DON'T WAIT FOR ME.

I have had several friends encourage me to listen to the popular Public Radio program "Wait. Wait. Don't Tell Me." I did. I'm sorry to say I find it to be the least funny program I have ever heard in my life. Whether the audience is real or recorded, they react with uproarious laughter at the weakest jokes and lamest puns. The hosts indulge in the most insipid commentary, and the guests respond in kind with their own lame chatter. I detest this program, but then I am also not a fan of Saturday Night Live, so who cares what I think?  

ADS INFINITUM.

 I haven't commented on advertising much lately, though I should. Not only are most TV ads terrible these days, either because they are hard to understand, badly produced, or just plain stupid. All Xfinity ads suck because they are so cynical. from the kid who insults his brother, to the pseudo-doctor who walks out on an operation. Ha ha. The Hornet ad with the 12-year-old driving a speeding car is tasteless. And any commercial from Liberty Mutual is boring at first watching and torture when seen 500 times. Which brings up this new trend for showing the same commercial two or three times in succession. Most car ads are transparent in their desire to flatter the ego of the possible buyer. And the epidemic of pharmaceutical ads is disgraceful considering the hypochondriacal U.S. is the only country that permits such visual tedium. Worst of all, today's station breaks often include 9-12 commercials. Networks obviously have no regard for their viewers.

I hate to admit it, but the best commercial on TV is the one in which the girl finally calls her stepfather "dad". Gets me every time. Pity it's for Publix, a major supporter of the traitorous Republican Party. 

DID TRUMP SAY HELL OR SMELL?

He must have said, "In 72 hours all smell is going to break loose." After all he is incontinent and sitting in a courtroom for a period of time is sure to wreak havoc with his bowels and bladder. Which makes one wonder why anyone would want to have a seat for that trial. 

THERE ARE A MILLION TRUMP CHUMPS.

 I wonder how many Trump fans are tradesmen. How many of the men and women who attend his rallies and shout his praises are electricians, plumbers, carpenters, and owners of their own shops. And of those who are self-employed, I wonder how many know their hero's reputation among small businessmen. Trump is notorious for not paying  his bills. He spent his whole life stiffing armies of workers, tearing up mountains of bills he never intended to pay, and leaving countless owners and employees kicking themselves for ever buying his lies and promises. So if you're one of the adoring fans who, for some inexplicable reason, plans to vote for Trump, consider this: If Trump hired you for your expertise, you would never receive the payment you earned, never; but if Biden hired you would receive a prompt and full payment. Unless you're a masochist, that should tell you something. 

These are only Trumps unpaid rally expenses.

A GRAVE INJUSTICE

I am still mystified as to why  Ivana Trump,  a successful New York business woman with a coterie of friends is buried on a golf course. The Trump National Golf Club at Bedminster is such an ignominious grave site for such a well-known person. We know that Trump chose the site to save on taxes, but why did Ivanka's children not protest? And why did the news not make a bigger fuss about this bizarre burial? Surely given the choice while alive, Ivana would have chosen an elegant mausoleum in a prestigious setting with a flattering metal plaque and the regular upkeep of a gardener instead of a weed-filled pauper's grave in New Jersey. Why did her ex-husband even get to make the choice? And were her three wealthy children so indifferent to their mother's disposal they never complained? It's sad that whatever friends Ivana had must visit her in this dreary setting. And instead of bringing flowers only, they had better also bring garden shears and weed killer.

ONE OF THESE DAYS.

 The top UN climate official used jarring, controversial framing in a stark speech in London on Wednesday, claiming we only have "two years left to save the world."

That's a dire warning. Only two years left. And that's if we have a president who wants to save the world, which doesn't apply to Trump. Since his only concern is his own welfare, why would he care about a world that exists when he's not around? He wouldn't. He's so self-centered and jealous, in fact, that he would hate the idea of life going on without him - in other words the Jim Jones attitude. Sadly Trump fans don't have any idea of how evil and selfish Trump is, and how quickly he would snuff out their lives if they ceased to be of value to him. He's not a fool; He knows his days are numbered. He's also not an altruist and has never given a thought to what he leaves behind. There is no behind for Trump. No loving bequests. No hospital, school, artistic institution, medical grant. I don't think any man has been more afraid to die, or more unwilling to accept it as a possibility. He is as unwilling to leave mortality as he was to vacate the presidency. And when he does he intends to cause just as much chaos. 

THE BIG, FRIGHTENING, AND COMPLETELY UNEXPLAINED WHY.

 Why are we allowing a compulsive liar, thief, con man, grifter, mountebank, philanderer, and rapist to run for president of our proud country? What can we possibly be thinking? Why would we so blindly place our democracy in the hands of a mentally unstable autocrat? Are we just trying to be fair to all the nearly illiterate morons who have no ability to make sane decisions and feel if they are unhappy, they want everyone to share their misery? 

SCHLOCK OF AGES.

 Being an atheist, it's hard for me to believe anyone actually thinks there's an invisible deity who knows or cares what everyone is doing at any minute. That these same people believe that after they die they will rise again to play God's parlor game: Heaven or Hell?, is also astounding, But I accept that there are such people in the U.S. in basically this breakdown: Christians, 31%; Islam, 24%: Unaffiliated.15%, and Hindu, 15%. This means that when the pious and bigoted Republicans push for a Christian nation, they are spitting in the face of more than half of U.S. citizens. What a way to get votes! To my mind most Christianity is a scam, which explains why so many churches are rolling in money, real estate, and valuable art works thanks to its gullible worshippers. Recently, one such GOP moron in Alabama actually used God as an excuse to prevent INV births and the State's other magical thinking GOP  idiots went along with his superstitious devotion. This Christian daffiness is spreading. In Florida we have one of the most brainwashed boobs in America, Ron DeSanctimonous; but American politics is rife with religious anti-science zealots, who are eagerly pushing for laws that aren't in the Bible and acting is if their warped view of religion should be the only law of the land.  Even in my atheistic conviction, I shout: God help us!

IS ANYBODY THERE?

Does  anybody read my blog?  If so,  please let me know by clicking "no comments", which I agree is a very stupid way to solicit comments. If you do respond, tell me what you would like me to bitch about.

WORDS MANY PEOPLE CAN'T PRONOUNCE.

 For some reason people have terrible trouble with contractions, even newspeople and actors. I constantly hear people say cunnint, dinnent,  and woonent. Why? It's not that hard. Other super popular mispronunciations are innanat, innaview, and many other words with an interior T like Atlanic, mennal illness,  rennal, sennimennal, and dennal which is even slurred on toothpaste ads. Another popular mispro is iony instead of the correct I-ron-ee. But the most offensive mispronunciation of all is antiSemetic instead of the correct antiSemitic. Many Jews and Arabs were Semites not Semetes. 

Semitic people or Semites is an obsolete term for an ethnic, cultural or racial group associated with people of the Middle East, including Arabs, Jews, Akkadians, and Phoenicians. The terminology is now largely unused outside the grouping "Semitic languages" in linguistics.

WHERE ARE THEIR SPOUSES?

Since it's pretty obvious that every Republican in office in Washington, D.C. has turned his or her back on America and democracy, one can only wonder if all their husbands and wives have done the same. Surely there must be one or two spouses who remain patriotic Americans who want to maintain our democracy and preserve freedom for their children. Where are they? I have not seen a one single story about a mate leaving their traitorous spouse or at least protesting the disappointing turncoat nature of a once-patriotic partner. We have seen the shocking loyalty a justice on the backstabbing Supreme Court pays to his quisling harridan wife but where are the morally strong still clearheaded mates of brainwashed GOP cultists?

MY MOST HATED WORD

I have been watching MSNBC all morning mostly to hear more condemnation of the world's worst person, Donald Trump.  But there is also a lot of coverage about today's eclipse. And here's what bothers me. All morning highly paid anchors and deeply educated reporters can't seem to find a better description of this rare and remarkable event than "cool". I hate the word cool since it is a lazy replacement for hundreds of other adjectives that are far more descriptive. It seems to me to be a word for tween ages who have not developed a vocabulary, yet it is epidemic among adults, even those who are college educated but unwilling to employ descriptive words they have learned over a lifetime. Among the lexicon lazy, cool is used to describe an endless selection of experiences, events, and encounters. What a waste of an education! The word "cool"has been leeching off our language for a long time now, but it's just the latest in slop-pop language and sure to fade like its cousins fab, funky, groovy, fly, phat, gnarly, rad and the cat's meow.

A CLEAR CHOICE.

Like Joe Biden I am 81 years old. Actually I'm older than him since I was born in July of 42.  Thus when people criticize his age, I can only assume they are unimaginative Republicans or petty carpers looking for an excuse to fault him. These people are bitching about the minor flaws he always had while devoting his life to our country. They are whining about the careful steps he takes which is a wise course for anyone over 60. But while I am in good shape and weigh a healthful 150, I could never deliver the speeches with the passion he does, never cope with the amount of traveling he does, and never maintain the volume of facts he accesses with such ease. Joe Biden is strong because he has led a purposeful life and continues to fight for the American people. Contrast that with his younger, by 4 years, rival who had led a dissolute life of lying, cheating, grifting, philandering, rape, and unrelenting greed. A man who has never used his once-healthy brain to benefit humanity, nor his inherited wealth to ease the suffering of anyone. A man who today spews his evil objectives along with insufferable grammar and mountainous mendacity to the gullible masses he pretends to protect but privately despises. At 81 I am pleased to still be strong, alert, energetic, and wise enough to not be taken in, even slightly, by an evil, ruthless, transparent mountebank like Trump.

THE MISSING MONTHLY CHECK.

Many elderly people (if not most) depend heavily on their Social Security payments. So it surprises me when I see news coverage of Trump rallies how many seedy senior citizens are devoted to the Monster Trump. He constantly threatens to do away with Social Security and Medicare. So how delighted will these elderly people feel about having voted for Trump when they are living on the street without relief from the many painful maladies of aging? And how will younger people feel when their elderly and infirm parents beg them for shelter and sustenance? If our government allows a criminal and would-be dictator to run for office and he wins, how many gullible cultists will rue voting away their future happiness for the once preventable nightmare of sudden poverty? 

LET'S FACE FINANCIAL FACTS.

I am fascinated by the number of anti-Biden "Americans" who bitch about inflation, as if Joe were to blame.  The reason prices are so high on so many items is not caused by inflation, but by greed. American industry, given the chance to raise prices, will do so; as well as lowering content and diluting ingredients. Since the madness of Trumpism, greed has been on the rise everywhere: rents, ticket prices, home services, restaurants, etc. Every electrician, plumber, doctor, dentist and veterinarian has raised their prices in the hope of becoming wealthy. Greed is inflation. Greed is the landlord who can do well with $500 a month rents, who wants and can demand $1,500. Very few business owners today take pride in giving a quality product or service at a fair and reasonable price. This is true from finding a comfortable affordable first home to being able to afford the electric bill if you do. Think about that the next time you're having an $8.50 ice cream cone.

P.S. President Biden recognizes and fights greed, as he did with bringing down the cost of Insulin. Trump has not and will not bring down the price of anything, included his $60.00 Bible, which is free in any hotel room.

P.P.S/ This Monday there are many people who are traveling to various cities to see the Eclipse. This is causing the greed monster to thrive and some hotels are charging up to a $1000 for a room.

MASS MURDERER?

In January of 2020, when President Donald Trump entered the final year of his one and only term. the U.S. recorded its first confirmed case of COVID-19. Having no concern for the health of others and being an incompetent,Trump, without further research, lied and said the virus was “totally under control.” Believing this madman, many, mostly Republicans, avoided vaccines. Thus a year later, in his final hours of lying and denials, the pandemic's U.S. death toll had eclipsed 400,000. I personally knew one of those who died of COVID 19,  a 40-year-old Trump devotee, who refused to be vaccinated, a decision that resulted in him dying alone attached to a hospital ventilator. 

 

JIM JONES WITHOUT THE KOOL-AID

 On November 18, 1978, in Guyana, Jim Jones, the charismatic leader of the People's Temple knew his time was up.  He had to commit suicide or face exposure and years in prison. But being a cruel and arrogant leader he would not die alone. Thus he forced over 900 men, women, and children to commit a willing or forced suicide by swallowing a flavored drink laced with potassium cyanide. Donald Trump is a very similar cult leader with millions of followers, none of whom he feels any affection for. They merely exist to fund his coffers or keep his ego inflated. Like Jim Jones, he will face a day of reckoning, and believing himself to be the most important person on earth, he will not face defeat and humiliation alone. But one cannot get millions of followers to ingest a poisoned drink. However if he is President or dictator at the time of his ultimate madness, he will have a nuclear arsenal. 

AMERICA'S WORST GOVERNOR

 Just because I haven't mentioned Ron DeSantis lately doesn't mean I don't still regard him as an arrogant, prudish, ignorant, pussy-whipped piece of shit. I do. He's still prancing around Florida passing his moralistic laws against literacy and free speech, which are mostly anti-women and anti-education. What a joyous day it will be when he's out of office and finds out how worthless he is without power.

LIES DICTATORS TELL THEMSELVES.

 

      "I DID NOTHING WRONG."

THE ANTI-CHRIST IS IT AGAIN.

Donald Trump is, was, an always will be an atheist. He only worships himself and money. Don't be one of the suckers that buys his $60 Bible. He thinks  you're stupid and gullible. Don't prove him right.

In private, many of Trump’s comments about religion are marked by cynicism and contempt, according to people who have worked for him. Former aides told me they’ve heard Trump ridicule conservative religious leaders, dismiss various faith groups with cartoonish stereotypes, and deride certain rites and doctrines held sacred by many of the Americans who constitute his base.

THE MISOGYNISTS ARE IT AGAIN.

The mostly Catholic, male dominated, women hating U.S. Supreme Court is happily engaged in another opportuniy to punish women. Is there any question of how they will rule on the abortion pill? 

THE LYING PHARMACIST

The most obscenely deceptive fraud on television is for a useless placebo called Prevagen. Sadly a lot of gullible viewers buy it every month for more than $35.00 for 30 worthless capsules. Why? Because the maker's very expensive ad campaign has lots of well-paid professionals lying about its effectiveness, claiming they were impressed by its unimpressive research, and suggesting that their memories have been reignited by this jellyfish-based capsules of no more value than a Tic-Tac. Now the perpetrator of this successful fraud  has found the ultimate con man: an actual pharmacist who swears that Prevagen is effective despite all the facts that prove it's a scam. Being a Prevagen user is like buying 30 jelly beans every month for more than $1 a bean

How is it legal? Common sense tells you theres no drug in existence that can make your brain healthier, if there were, it would be a remarkable scientific breakthrough. The drug company who invented it would charge insurance companies thousands of dollars per pill. It would not be sold over the counter for $39.99 at CVS. There would be massive shortages of it because everyone in the country would be prescribed it. People make fun of the fact that Geritol in the 1950s would advertise about improving “tired blood”…how is this not the same thing?

Evidence that it works

Evidence that Prevagen works

But, according to the FTC and the New York attorney general, the trial involved 218 subjects taking either 10 milligrams of Prevagen or a placebo and “failed to show a statistically significant improvement in the treatment group over the placebo group on any of the nine computerized cognitive tasks.”Sep 11, 2021

FAST TRACKING

The reason so many Republican second-raters want to be Trump's VP is obvious, Trump is so mentally unstable and deteriorating at such a fast pace that even if America's Maga morons vote him in, he's bound to be completely incompetent in no time. This will give his ass-kissing VP an easy presidency. So even if you are so stupid that you admire the detestable Trump, consider how you feel about whatever obsequious clown he chooses to the take office when he croaks or is shuffled off to an asylum, 

Note: The self-proclaimed stable genius is shown here staring blankly into space through his fish eyes wondering if the damp feeling in his pants means he's overflown his Depends yet again.

THE BIG LIE

 The Big Lie is that no one is above the law. Donald Trump is above the law. He has been a criminal for his entire life and never been stopped by the law.  Even today judges bow and scrape to him, jump through hoops to grant him the postponements he demands, take his petty requests to his Supreme Court cronies. Today they lowered  the bond he couldn't possibly pay. But it's not just the law; networks air his every obscene assault on civility, make him the star of every broadcast. repeat each insane comment from his lying lips, and allow his mentally challenged fans to declare him an honest patriot innocent of all the criminal charges for which he never actually does time or penance. No other person has been so pampered and indulged by the legal profession. Every convict in every prison should be pissed to see this career criminal so indulged by the so-called long arm of the law.

THE REAL ANIMALS

 In a rally last night, Donald Trump, the world's most evil man, described those persons on the border in search of freedom as animals. How inaccurate that is when the real animals are those sick and angry people who attend his rallies. Look at them. Pathetic losers. Ignorant bigots. Programmed to cheer at ever word of hate. Glassy eyed morons totally unaware of how hungrily they gobble down his feasts of false claims. These are not Americans. They are without kindness, honesty, morals. Their hero is a rapist, thief, con man, and most of all liar, who showers most of his lies on them. He is not their leader but their trainer. No matter how cruel and vulgar he is, they bark with blind loyalty.

A BOMB ABOUT A BOMB

I finally sprang for the $5.99 to watch Oppenheimer on TV. I want my money back. It was so boring so convuleted, so hard to follow. Sorry to disagree with all my friends who loved it, I can't, imagine why.

Why does the Academy keep rewarding boring films like The Shape of Water.

IT not ET

 Why are so many people, even highly paid announcers and reporters on television unable to correctly pronounce "antisemitic" and instead ignorantly say antisemetic? Lester Holt for one gets it wrong every time. 

Xfinity commercials suck

 Xfinity commercials must be created by the world's worst ad agency. I wrote a critique of three past duds. Here are two more. A teenager is sitting  on the steps with his older brother.He realizes that Xfinity's wi-fi will give him a shot at "dancing" with the girl of his fantasies. He then insults his older brother  in a malicious manner. The other dud compares earning a regular high-salary to the temporary  pittance you might save with an Xfinty account as if they two were comparable.  Who writes these? A bitter misogynist?

TRAITOR STAYS ON THE BALLOT

 THE INEFFECTIVE, OVERPAID, BIASED, CHRISTAN-LEANING, MOSTLY ARROGANT MALE REPUBLICAN SUPREME COURT HAS SPOKEN.

THE PROFITABILTY OF LYING.

 Lying is a very profitable business. Not just for Trump who cons his millions of Clems and Doras to send him money, despite claiming to be a billionaire. But for ordinary citizens who tape commercials for Prevagen claiming miraculous benefits from a product that has proven to be nothing but a placebo, thus encouraging America's gullible consumers to spend over 40 dollars a month on a worthless product. It's pure bunk. Sadly the government no longer bans deceptive advertising, which is why we have so many ads for Golo, tooth-whitening toothpaste, scam like febrize who claim to eliminate odors which they just mask like everyone else. And if companies don't outright lie, they exaggerate like Nature's Bounty who has their own army of liars claiming incredbly renewed energy and health after feeling moderately more energetic. The mendacious Kathie Lee even suggests adding a useless prayer to her promo. All the liars are happily banking their ill-gained payoffs while the corporations who hire them are rolling in huge profits thinking nobody is the wiser.

THE PREMIER POISONER

 It's no surprise that the Bayer company is the leading maker of poisons,  for fleas, weeds, all kinds of unwanted life. After all they were the German company who created the poisons to kill millions: Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, and the handicapped. Which is why I don't buy Bayer aspirin or any of their products. In fact I had to do quite a search today to find St. Joseph low-dose aspirin since all Publix had for sale was Bayer. I don't think most people know about Bayer's shameful history.  I certainly have known more than one Jew who reached for Bayer at the first sign of a headache.  That is until I told them to look up the company's history.

Did Bayer make Zyklon B?

During World War II, Bayer was part of a consortium IG Farben that made the Zyklon B pesticide used in Hitler's gas chambers. Through a series of acquisitions, Bayer has grown into a drug and chemicals behemoth and employs some 100,000 people worldwide.Aug 13, 2018