and Trump’s weird nominees
I really don’t have much to say about Trump’s address to the congress and the democrat reaction to it. Except the democrats showed out (to quote my sainted mother). Al Green – the representative from Texas – not the singer was “Full of Fire.” He started shouting at the beginning of Trump’s speech and would not shut up. He was escorted out of the chamber by the sergeant at arms, probably not singing “Let’s stay together” or “Take me to the river”. Green hates Trump and has put forth articles of impeachment. However, Green should be embarrassed (which he is not). The young boy that Trump made a member of the Secret Service lives in Green’s district. Yet Green chose to act out rather than to stay and congratulate his young constituent. Some democrat women wore pink to symbolize their “protest of Trump’s policies which are negatively impacting women and families.” Huh? Since when have democrat women politicians given a hoot about women? Didn’t all of them vote against the resolution to prohibit males from participating in women’s sports? And what’s with the ping pong paddles? Didn’t they get humiliated enough when Rashida Tlaib waved her ping pong paddle at Netanyahu during his speech back in July? Yet there they were, the women looking like a Pepto Bismol commercial waving ping pong paddles. Tlaib? She was waving a whiteboard (is that racist?) on which she wrote cryptic messages like “That’s a lie”, “Start by paying your taxes”, “Stop lying to the American people” and “No king” whatever that meant. Such deep thoughts from one of congress’s deepest thinkers.
I am certain that the petulance shown by the democrats only registered with their Trump hating constituents but not the American people writ large. Again this is the crew who are protesting and resisting for big government, big spending, big duplication, continued fraud and waste, DEI, ESG, men competing in women’s sports, men in women’s private places, open borders, benefits for illegals, higher taxes, more regulations, killing babies and subsidizing the greenie weenies. What’s not to love? Has ever there been a sharper division between the democrats and republicans since the Civil War? There almost were confrontations on the chamber floor. When Green was ousted, the republicans sang “Hey, hey good bye.” Several dems turned their backs to Trump displaying the message “resist”. Some yelled at Trump during the speech evoking images of the British House of Commons. Nancy Mace and MTG yelled at Green during his outburst. Melanie Stansbury (D-NM) had a sign that said “This is not normal” – whatever that meant – and Lance Gooden (R-TX) ripped the sign from her and tossed it away. At least Pelosi was no longer on the dais ripping up the speech. The next day the AP reported that a screaming match erupted on the House floor in the vote to censure Green. During the reading of the resolution the dems broke out in song singing “We shall overcome” while the republicans yelled “order”. Squad members Pressley and Tlaib shouted at the republicans who shouted back. I am waiting for the members to start beating up each other with Al Green’s canes and maybe a duel or two. Is it now accurate to say that the parties hate each other? Regardless, what is going on now is infantile. A pox on both of their houses.
Only John Fetterman had the guts to call out the members of his party saying “A sad cavalcade of self owns and unhinged petulance. It only makes Trump look more presidential and restrained. We’re becoming the metaphorical car alarms that nobody pays attention to—and it may not be the winning message.” Fetterman continues to surprise. He is still a liberal and will vote with the majority of his party most of the time. But he is definitely his own man. Who would have thunk it? I am starting to be glad he beat Dr Oz because the dems need more like him. Fetterman is rare because he has guts and doesn’t care what the Bernie Sanders/AOCs of the world think about him.
Dr Oz? Trump picked him to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. I have no idea how he will perform his duties but his boss will be RFK, Jr who is still a kook. Let’s just chalk this up as Trump continuing to find a place for losers. Recall he even appointed Kari Lake who almost single handedly flipped Arizona from republican to democrat to be head of Voice of America and changed it to something called “Special advisor for the US Agency for Global Media” whatever that is. I think this is the Orwellian foreign propaganda arm of the US government which includes Radio Marti broadcasting son cubano to Cuba. Does this agency do any good? Or is it just another black hole to toss money into?
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