January 26, 2017 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized
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My name is Susan DuQuesnay Bankston. I live in Richmond, Texas, in the heart of Tom DeLay's old district. It's nuttier than squirrel poop here.
I am honored and privileged to know Miss Juanita Jean Herownself, hairdresser extraordinary and political maven. Since she does not have time to fiddle with this internet stuff, I type her website for her and you can read it if you want to. If you don't, she truly does not give a big bear's butt.
A lot of what I post here has to do with local politics, but you probably have the same folks in your local government.
This ain't a blog. Blogs are way too trendy for me. This is a professional political organization.
Dark ages? We’ve been there almost a week, JJ.
1It will be interesting to see who our friends will be in a few weeks.
2Perhaps Sarah Palin can invite Putin for coffee before he has dinner with Trump.
Not that I was invited to any of the Urination Balls, but the effect of waking up after the event sure feels like I rode under one of the buses.
*** Please stop reading now, Mama ***
Samantha Bee, speaking of those unspeakable events: http://crooksandliars.com/2017/01/samantha-bee-finds-trump-inaugural-not
3Trump’s saying he wants a 20% tax on all goods coming in from Mexico to pay for the wall.
4Let the trade wars begin.
Deb, that actually makes sense:
If we add a tax onto goods coming in from Mexico (which are pretty uniformly cheaper than goods made here), the tax will be passed on to the buyers, who are buying Mexican goods already because they can’t afford the more expensive American-made goods.
So the plan screws the little guys while the 1% skates by.
Sounds par for the course to me.
5Well, sweetie, it’s old news. If you wanna go backwards you choose R. Amirite?
6So far Trump’s fracking with Mexico has led to a drop in the peso and poorer economic prospects for Mexicans. Guess what that leads to: more illegal Mexican immigration!
That boy couldn’t hit the side of a barn if he were inside the barn.
And keep count of how many Republicans object to his multi-billion dollar “wall” and its impact on the US deficit. I’ll wait; it won’t take you long.
7Kudos to Mexico’s El Presidente for standing up to the Big Bully.
8A 20% tariff on Mexican imports will lead to an equal response by Mexico. What happens when Mexico quits buying US corn and the bushel price drops. Will there be a lot of Happy Republican farmers. The price of used cars will drop out of sight, because Mexicans won’t be buying them. new car sales will fall because we can’t afford to trade them in. We’re in for a heck of a ride. Isn’t it great to have such a far seeing leader. Putin’s pawn is such a genius. I should be so happy we are winning, I might get sick of it.
9Donnie’s version of “hold my beer”
Donnie, incognito and wearing a wig, playing with President Nieto’s dog: https://www.facebook.com/scuolazoo.official.page/videos/10151923331602639/
10https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-DFDTJwpmrEo/WIkr4W4V4-I/AAAAAAABjtI/fAeElHNqMlQGpJ9tIIzYV4fLl7OXpQ8SACLcB/s1600/3%2Blalo%2Balcaraz.jpg
We sel….. used to sell alot of Beef to Mexico. America’s farmers and ranchers will get hurt by the bawl baby poopy John Drumpf.
11Maybe we have reached the point where it would be a good idea to contact our Congresscritters and suggest that NOW would be a good time to check out the 25th Amendment and get cracking on implementing it? It hasn’t been a week yet, and Trump has already dug a hole so deep we’re going to have to work hard to climb out of it. We don’t have ambassadors in place, and the top administrators at the State Department just resigned—on top of all the other craziness coming out of the White House. This has GOT to stop.
12Story going around now is the State Dept officials were fired by form letter. Drumpf is so damn smart he can run everything by himself. Just ask him.
13so if there is a 20% tariff on all good from Mexico (avocados to cars) doesn’t that mean that folks in the US of A will be paying more and we will be paying for the wall? Huh?
14Priorities, people, priorities.
‘Mucho Sad’: Lindsey Graham tweets Trump’s wall tax would ‘drive up costs of Corona, tequila’
Damn straight it will!
15It is a trade-off, you dudes and dudettes. On the one hand, there is competent government. On the other hand, there is whack-a-doodle. The kleptomaniac Republicans prefer whack- a-doodle.
16I Tweeted the 3 kids and begged them to get Cheeto to a psychiatrist pronto~
17@linda: Yes, that’s exactly what it means. Trump is an idiot.
18OK, so I left TX for a safer environment, but…we’re all in this together.
tRump & Repugnant Associates — I’m sure that’s a forthcoming corporation name — will, through their nationalist policies, bankrupt WalMart, Sears, and every big box store that sells 99% foreign products. The cost of virtually everything “we” buy will increase by some percentage ABOVE 20% (yay capitalism). Who among us doesn’t see that happening soon?
I applaud President Enrique Peña Nieto for refusing to meet with tRump, and I sincerely hope his refusal is repeated by many leaders from other countries…although I don’t really expect tRump to give a rat’s a$$ because “he’s smarter than” anyone.
God/ess HELP the United States of America!
19e platypus onion,
20Corona cerveza, who could drink that hamster urine?
I’m just having a Negra Modelo with homemade pizza, yum.
Negra Modelo is Mexico’s answer to Guinness Stout and has always been less expensive. I just bought a sixpack at HEB, it was almost $9, yeesh. Used to buy it by the case at the brewers distribution plants in downtown Reynosa and Matamoros, Tamps, for less than $3 a CASE.
On the media or ‘press’: PBS has clearly caved to the Twitler Reich already.
On the Newshour this evening they had at least 10 solid minutes of ‘Wall of Sound and Fury’, Ms. KKKellyanne Goebbels, Ministress of Propaganda to Der Führer Twitler. Allowed to dominate the feckless, soft-balling Judy Woodruff’s pitiful mewling.
And THEN, the PBS ‘News’hour covered the Mexican kerfluffle-FU with two talkinghead ‘analysts, one from the effen ‘Murikkan Enterprise Institute, the other from the ‘Mein’ Heritage Foundation. Both orgs far-right propaganda sources, with NO corresponding balance from a left-leaning spokesperson, or even a neutral one. Ptui…
JFC, chitonashingle and mofo ’em all.
Willkommen im Vierten Reich!
21Sieg Heil, Heil Trümp! GOP Űber Alles!
So sad that even PBS has caved…
22Papa,
23You can probably watch today’s Newshour as a ‘rerun’ a couple of times tonight if you missed it, see if I got it right ;] .
My local PBS channel reruns the original daily Newshour broadcast several times, on more than one digital OTA subchannel (as they do with other programs).
I don’t think it will take a whole week.
I keep getting angrier and angrier about all this. Not at the Repubs. They’re just doing what they do and have done for decades–they’re sort of like the scorpion in Aesop’s fable. We knew what they are.
I’m mad at Dems and liberals and progressives because this didn’t have to happen. We had a perfectly good candidate. We had the voter numbers and the issues and her better character, but we lost to Donald Trump. To Donald Trump!
Currently there’s quite an orgy of laughing at how ignorant Repubs are. But at least Repubs know that winning elections is important.
Why is it that Dems are so good at politely and reasonably asking for what they want and so terrible at taking power and actually getting things done? The Repubs don’t have that problem. They have effectively established right-wing minority rule in many states and, too often, at the federal level.
In four years there will be a census and another round of redistricting. If Dems once again let Repubs sweep the states they will take gerrymandering and voter suppression to whole new levels. And the Trump Court will hold their coats and cheer them on.
Until now I thought the political pendulum would inevitably swing back to the left. Now I am afraid.
24All right!
First, the replacement of senior political appointees may be a normal part of transitions, but with the sturm und drang we see it for a change.
Second, it’s going to be a long 4 years, and sprinting won’t help. Time to plan for the long haul like finding out causes to get involved in!
Third, we love you! We really, really love you!
25“Another week and we’ll be in the dark ages.”
honey, that train left the station back in Nov.
26OK. Here it is. due to the fact that growers et al. in the southwest could not get sufficient immigrant labor via our own government, some of them actually bought land inMexico and started their south of the border annexes. They then sell their crops across the same border. So they are going to be stung by a 20% or more tax PLUS the buyers all over our country will be paying higher prices for tomatoes etc. The taxes on Mexican production will likely cause in cutback in sales in this country leading to more unemployment in Mexico and resulting in an uptick in illegal immigration. This is one of the best examples of a circular firing squad you may ever see. All courtesy of somebody in the Oval Office who isn’t even housebroken!
27maggie,
That practice of growers establishing huge farming and processing operations in Mexico began long ago, and not just because of a labor shortage in the US.
A prime example is a man named Othal Brand (now deceased, although his heirs continue), a very large landowner, grower, and former longtime mayor of McAllen, TX in the Rio Grande Valley (he made Mayor Daly look like a piker).
In addition to very large ag operations in the Valley, Brand established multiple Mexican and other ag ops over the years. He was also a big Texas Republican powerbroker.
I’d guess that all of y’all have eaten his veggies, citrus, cantaloupe, onions, watermelon, sugar, etc., many times. You ain’t seen nuthin’ till you’ve seen (and smelled) a couple thousand acres of cantaloupe along the Rio Grande.
http://www.othalbrand.com/experience.html
28http://www.bing.com/search?q=othal+brand
Except for local weather reports, i have given up on television news. I will read my library books and occasionally look out my window for the mushroom cloud over DC 20 miles away. which means we don’t have to listen to Trump anymore.Or maybe someone finally managed to sneak an armed drone into the capital. That would be good.
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