Archive for May, 2017

They Just Say Stuff Like This to Piss Me Off

May 02, 2017 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized

Okay, so it doesn’t look like they can repeal Obamacare and that’s great news.

However, it’s sumbitches like this who are shivers just looking for a spine to run up.  If you are concerned that your pre-existing condition will jack your insurance rates up to $25,700 a year, there is a solution – move.

“People can go to the state that they want to live in,” Rep. Robert Pittenger (R-NC) told reporters Tuesday morning when asked if people with pre-existing conditions could be charged much more under the American Health Care Act.

“States have all kinds of different policies and there are disparities among states for many things: driving restrictions, alcohol, whatever,” he continued. “We’re putting choices back in the hands of the states. That’s what Jeffersonian democracy provides for.”

Pittenger is the the wealthiest member of the North Carolina delegation, hoarding in at $14.1 million.

I hope that money cushions his fall into hell.

Thank you to Sarah for the heads up.

The Single Most Disgusting Thing Yet

May 02, 2017 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized

You know that piñata you got for your kid’s birthday party?  Trite, cheap, and lowbrow.

Enjoy!

Donald Trump knows how to entertain!

Speaking at some fancy pants conservative think tank thing, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross recalled his time at Mar-a-Lago with the Chinese president.

“Just as dessert was being served, the president explained to Mr. Xi he had something he wanted to tell him, which was the launching of 59 missiles into Syria,” Ross said. “It was in lieu of after-dinner entertainment.”

As the crowd laughed, Ross added: “The thing was, it didn’t cost the president anything to have that entertainment.”

And tonight’s after dinner entertainment will be watching Arkansas execute prisoners.

And as a small aside, I fret when the Commerce Secretary thinks missiles are free.  On the other hand, I am pretty certain that it didn’t cost Trump anything since he doesn’t pay taxes.

Thanks to Deb for the heads up.

I Think He’s Trying To Get Us Ready

May 02, 2017 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized

I think you’d have to be deaf and blind or a Republican not to see that Donald Trump is cuddling-up to people we used to call the enemy.

As he settles into office, President Trump’s affection for totalitarian leaders has grown beyond Russia’s president to include strongmen around the globe.

Egyptian President Abdel ­Fatah al-Sissi has had his opponents gunned down, but Trump praised him for doing “a fantastic job.” Thailand’s Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha is a junta chief whose military jailed dissidents after taking power in a coup, yet Trump offered to meet with him at the White House. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has eroded basic freedoms, but after a recent political victory, he got a congratulatory call from Trump.

Then there’s the case of Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte. He is accused of the extrajudicial killing of hundreds of drug users, and he maligned President Barack Obama as a “son of a whore” at an international summit last year.

Trump is peddling his theory that the only way to beat Isis is with totalitarianism.  So we give them permission to kill their political enemies and build up their reputations, meanwhile insulting democracies all over the world.

I don’t get it. I bet a plate of Momma’s fajitas that Trump doesn’t get it either.

Verdelia says that Trump admires these leader for their ability to kill people in cold blood.  Nobody will let Trump have a gun, so he’s using his health care plan to do it.

 

He’s FREEKIN’ Insane

May 01, 2017 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized

Okay, Donald Trump taped an interview with Sirius/XM Radio.

Apparently, some damn fool told Trump he was a lot like Andrew Jackson.  Only in the hair department, I suspect.

Andrew Jackson was the founder of the Democratic Party.  He was a lawyer, a member of Congress and the Senate, served as Justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court, and was pretty much a career politician.

His nickname Old Hickory came while marching his volunteer army from New Orleans to Nashville.  Imagine Trump doing that.  No, don’t.  Trump sweating is painful to look at.

Anyway, before I get all carried away with pride and demonstrate convincingly that I am a high school graduate who took American history, here is Trump’s interview.

PRESIDENT TRUMP: His wife died. They destroyed his wife and she died. He was a swashbuckler, but when his wife died you know he visited her grave everyday? I visited her grave actually because I was in Tennessee.

SALENA ZITO: That’s right, you were in Tennessee.

TRUMP: And it was amazing. The people of Tennessee are amazing people. They love Andrew Jackson. They love Andrew Jackson in Tennessee…

ZITO: He’s a fascinating…

TRUMP: I mean had Andrew Jackson been a little later you wouldn’t have had the Civil War. He was a very tough person, but he had a big heart. He was really angry that he saw what was happening with regard to the Civil War, he said “There’s no reason for this.” People don’t realize, you know, the Civil War, if you think about it, why? People don’t ask that question, but why was there the Civil War? Why could that one not have been worked out?

Yeah, why didn’t Abraham Lincoln “work it out?”  I mean, a little slavery is alright, is’t it?

Jackson owned 150 slaves. He died 16 years before the civil war so how the damn fool tarnation could he have been angry and said, “There’s no reason for this?”  Are the ghosts talking to Trump in the White House?

Oh good Lord, y’all, he’s crazy. He knows diddle squat about this country and he’s not even curious.

Little known fact: Andrew Jackson also hated CNN.

 

“OK, it’s enough”

May 01, 2017 By: El Jefe Category: Trump

John Dickerson of Face the Nation interviewed Trump as part of CBS’s 100 Days of Hell coverage.  Dickerson got all the way to the wiretapping claim and pressed him to give an answer.  After jousting for a minute, Trump dismissed Dickerson and ended the interview.  Here’s the transcript of the exchange.

JOHN DICKERSON: Did President Obama give you any advice that was helpful? That you think, wow, he really was–

DONALD TRUMP:  — Well, he was very nice to me. But after that, we’ve had some difficulties. So it doesn’t matter. You know, words are less important to me than deeds. And you– you saw what happened with surveillance. And everybody saw what happened with surveillance–

JOHN DICKERSON: Difficulties how? (more…)

There’s a Reason for That

May 01, 2017 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized

There’s a newspaper in England called the Daily Mail Online.  They like to report American goings-on because we’re so damn entertaining.

Today they did a story about how Louisiana is the most corrupt state in America.  They have charts, graphs, and big ole pictures.

 

So the cutline under this graph says, “The states with the most public corruption convictions per 100,000 population.”  So, what you have here is not the most corrupt states, but a list of the states actually doing something about corruption.

Texas heads up the bottom quarter on that list only because we don’t indict or convict our crooks. And if we do, they just keep putting off their trial until everybody dies or the law changes.  Texas Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton has been under felony indictment since July of 2015 and from all appearances, he’ll be going to trial after Jesus comes again.

And if we don’t ever get around to indicting them, it’s just easier to send them to Washington, DeeCee to be a congressman or Secretary of Energy or something.