MTG quits, Mechanics wanted, Putin’s (?) Ukraine surrender proposal

MTG quits, Mechanics wanted, Putin’s (?) Ukraine surrender proposal

Marjorie Taylor Greene the author of some of the weirdest comments of anyone in Washington, finally started to make some sense and is leaving the congress because Trump threatened to primary her. It was probably due to her pushing for the release of the Epstein files (raise your hands if you are sick and tired of hearing that name). Trump had said that MTG had aligned herself with Thomas Massie, the republican that Trump hates the most, in calling for release of the files. But Trump was probably upset with her when after he said about Pelosi retiring, that Pelosi was evil and corrupt and that her retiring was a great thing for America, MTG said “I served under her speakership in my first term of Congress, and I’m very impressed at her ability to get things done. I wish we could get things done for our party, like Nancy Pelosi was able to deliver for her party.” She also said “The cost of health care is killing people. That should be the top issue. Cost of living, electrical bills haven’t gone down, they’ve gone up. They’re dramatically higher, cost of food has gone up.” Did Trump get upset by these comments and take them as being critical of his management of the economy? 

Trump, ever the statesman tweeted “because of PLUMMETING Poll Numbers, and not wanting to face a Primary Challenger with a strong Trump Endorsement (where she would have no chance of winning!), has decided to call it ‘quits.’” Of course, that is not true. MTG would have won re-election easily in a district where a ham sandwich with R by its name would garner 65 percent of the vote.

But Trump was calling her “wacky” and Marjorie “Traitor” Greene. She then responded “But even through this, I still support the Trump administration and want to see it succeed for the American people.”

Thomas Massie said “I’m very sad for our country but so happy for my friend Marjorie. I’ll miss her tremendously.”

Drop out of Harvard to be a mechanic?

With one of the topics of the day being the value of a college education, Ford is looking for a few good mechanics at $120,000 a year. That’s right. Ford’s CEO Jim Farley says that 5,000 mechanics jobs are unfilled despite paying $120,000 a year. He says “We are in trouble in our country. We are not talking about this enough. We have over a million openings in critical jobs, emergency services, trucking, factory workers, plumbers, electricians and tradesmen.” Farley, of course is right. We do have a severe deficit of skilled workers. Remember the raid on the Hyundai-LG plant in Georgia? Only 114,000 Americans in their 20s completed vocational programs during the first 10 months of last year, compared to 1.24 million who graduated from four-year colleges and 405,000 who received advanced degrees. There would be nothing wrong with this if those who graduated from college actually learned something rather than the mush that is dished out with a grade of “A” for attendance.

Of course the president wants to shut down immigration that includes H1-B workers. Yes I know there have been abuses in the system but if we cannot grow our own skilled workers and we cannot import them, what are we to do? This is from the Wall Street Journal “The National Federation of Independent Business reported this month that one third of small business owners reported jobs they couldn’t fill, and 49% reported few or no qualified applicants for positions they were trying to fill. Twenty-seven percent cited labor quality as their most important problem.” Does JD Vance know how to repair an F-250?

Trump’s Ukraine (surrender) proposal

Correct me if I misinterpreted the president’s surrender (er, peace) proposal for Ukraine. It says that Ukraine should cede land to Russia, some of which is not even occupied by the Russians, reduce the size of its army, never join NATO and recognize Russian control of Crimea. Trump is saying that accept this or else we will stop supporting Ukraine militarily. Did Trump’s buddy Vladimir Putin write this proposal? Sure sounds like it. If Ukraine capitulates, then expect Putin to ramp up his war because you can bet that Trump is not going to send the US military to fight Russia in the Ukraine. Trump insists that this is Europe’s war – and it is. Maybe he is hopeful that Ukraine will reject this outrageous offer so he can wash his hands of the whole matter and let the Europeans deal with it. The underlying question is that if Russia decides to attack NATO will Trump honor this country’s commitment to defend it?

For me what is equally outrageous is the offer to rescue Russia financially. The document reads “Russia will be reintegrated into the global economy and return to make the G7 again the G8 group of nations.” Also the U.S. will enter some “long-term economic cooperation agreement” with Russia. Yep. Putin had to have written this “agreement”. Naturally, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt tried to put some lipstick on this pig by saying “This plan was crafted to reflect the realities of the situation, after four years of a devastating war, to find the best win-win scenario, where both parties gain more than they must give.” Win-win?