Random thoughts #61

Random thoughts #61

Remember when some universities and businesses offered counselling, safe rooms and Legos to those poor souls traumatized by Trump’s election? Are the rooms still there for Jewish students to use?

The right is chuckling over Jasmine Crockett’s ending her bid to be the head democrat on the House Oversight Committee saying that even her own party doesn’t want her as a leader. Crockett said “It was clear by the numbers that my style of leadership is not exactly what they were looking for, and so I didn’t think that it was fair for me to then push forward and try to rebuke that.” Her “leadership style” was called a “clown” by Fox’s Greg Gutfield. Actually “clown” may be a term befitting more members of congress than Crockett. Consider that James Comer is the ranking republican and that Majorie Taylor Greene also sits on the committee. High entertainment has been provided by the interchange in the committee. Remember when Crockett called Greene “bleach blonde, bad-built butch body”?

Speaking of clown, Texas’ Al Green who seems to introduce an article of impeachment weekly just introduced another one. Did anyone say “clown”? AOC joined the impeach Trump crowd. Trump called her “stupid” calling her “one of the ‘dumbest’ people in Congress.” Wow. You would think he would have tried to insult her. I wonder what he thinks about Arizona’s Paul Gosar or Florida’s Maxwell Frost? Or how about New Mexico’s Melanie Stansbury who is not the brightest bulb displaying the results of a poll whose numbers totaled 110 percent?

And of course we have been witnessing the clown show called the annual debate over which penny on dead men’s eyes are we going to move to the other eye. Seriously, congress is debating Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” which only shifts goodies from one group to another while smothering all of us in more debt. The only red in Washington is the national debt.

I just saw an ad saying Trump’s BBB will cut taxes by 15 percent. Of course that is a lie. The BBB only makes permanent the Trump tax cuts from the first term. It is maintaining the status quo and does not cut income taxes.

JD Vance again showed how classless he is by calling Sen Alex Padilla “Jose”.

Iran fired missiles at a US base in Qatar. There were no casualties – mainly because the ones that were not shot down missed their target. Seems that the most dangerous place to be is somewhere not targeted by Irani missiles.

Where’s Hezbollah? Why aren’t the Houthis shutting down the Red Sea in support of Iran? Didn’t they say that they would start attacking shipping if Trump bombed Iran?

One of the pilots of the B-2s that bombed Iran was a woman. Maybe DEI will now become diversity, equality and inclusion rather than diversity, equity and inclusion.

ICE arrested 16 Iranians, three with terrorist ties. Will the left stage protests to free them too? It is estimated that over 1,500 Iranis came across the border illegally during the Biden years.

Trump wants US oil to drill, baby drill. Maybe that’s why he started bombing Iran. If the Iranis retaliate by trying to shut down the Strait of Hormuz, then oil prices will skyrocket enticing oil companies to start drilling more oil. As it now stands the price per barrel is not enough to spur drilling. Darn profit seekers! Why doesn’t Trump simply issue an executive order mandating drilling?

For all those folk who think that term limits lead to better government be reminded that the California legislature is term limited.

The Supreme Court decided that Trump could deport illegals to a country not their own. It is sending a group to South Sudan. Of course the vote was 6-3 with Sotomayor doing her usual bemoaning. She was joined by Kagan and Jackson. Actually the threat of being deported to South Sudan may cause an explosion in self deporting. Would you rather go back to Nicaragua and Daniel Ortega or be shipped off to South Sudan?

A socialist won the democrat primary for mayor of New York. Most people thought Cuomo was a shoe-in but Zohran Mamdani a state assemblyman mounted a credible challenge. He is a socialist so naturally AOC and Bernie Sanders endorsed him. Mamdani wants to put in a city owned grocery store in every borough, free public transportation, he is antisemitic accusing Israel of genocide and using the slogan “globalize the intifada”, free healthcare, freeze rents in already rent-stabilized housing, raise taxes on the rich among other things. Radical yes but he virtually everything he is for you can find some “mainstream” democrat that agrees with him. Consider his statement on Trump’s bombing of Iran. “While Donald Trump bears immediate responsibility for this illegal escalation, these actions are the result of a political establishment that would rather spend trillions of dollars on weapons than lift millions out of poverty, launch endless wars while silencing calls for peace, and fearmonger about outsiders while billionaires hollow out our democracy from within.” Find me one democrat in Washington who disagrees with that statement.

I hope he gets elected. Seems like the best way to educate voters on socialism is to elect one. Chicago anyone?

Speaking of elected, would you believe that there is all this talk now about a political comeback for Kamala Harris? Seems she is contemplating emulating Richard Nixon and running for governor of California. Didn’t Nixon lose that race too?