Category Archives: Politics

A category with my rants on politics.

You’re Still Too Stupid

A few minutes ago I listened to Mrs. Clinton give a press briefing about the “bombings” in New York and New Jersey that happened on Saturday.

In an earlier post I pointed out that the Clintons believe you are so very stupid. Click HERE to read that post.

In the earlier post I pointed out that she said to beware of “anyone who says, ‘I alone’…”. This morning right at the beginning of the press briefing she said essentially the same thing. In reference to fighting terrorism she just said, “I am the ONLY candidate…”.

There is no difference between what Mr. Trump said and what she just said.  What she believes is that you are too stupid to notice that both statements are equivalent BOASTING and nothing more.  She also assumes that you are so stupid that you will have forgotten what she said just a few weeks ago.

We’ll let the boasting go for now.  Here’s another interesting bunch of bovine excrement that erupted from her maw.  Hillybob answered a question on how she would deal with terrorist possibly entering our country through visas and immigration.  She stated, “I have long been an advocate of ‘tough’ vetting“.  What in the hot place, is “tough vetting“?

Hmmm, Mr. Trump has been saying for some time that he believes we need to have “EXTREME” vetting to weed out possible terrorists from entering our country through visas and immigration. Hillybob has never before mentioned any change in the vetting process before today.  Just what is “tough” vetting and how is that different than what Mr. Trump said?  Why don’t those stupid “reporters” ask these kinds of questions?

Sounds to me that she is taking a play out of the Trump playbook because her plan is flopping around on the deck like a fish about to go into the ice box.

I guess in her mind TOUGH vetting is an ‘oh so much awesomer plan’ than EXTREME vetting, because “she is the only candidate” who could come up with it.  Yeah right.

Let’s see if we can figure out just what “tough vetting” really means  She gave us some clues.  Later in her speech she implied that the “tools” are already in place to weed out terrorists.  Looks like “tough vetting” is a plan to just continue on with the current ‘floppy fish’ plan on vetting but to give it a more Trumpian name!

I’ll say it again, “How stupid does she think we are?”

Irony Of My First Post About The DNC

I had pointed out the ironic choice of The Wells Fargo Center as the venue for the DNC convention and Hillybob coronation ceremony only because it was humorous to me that the “most progressive” party would hold their convention at a place sponsored by big banking.  You can read my original post about the DNC’s choice of location here.

Wells Fargo, the sponsor of the venue was recently fined $185,000,000 for opening more than 2 MILLION fraudulent bank and credit card accounts without customers’ knowledge or consent.

My first post seems somewhat prescient, given all of the secrecy and deception that surrounds the DNC and their candidate, that Wells Fargo is just as sneaky.

I find it interesting that Wells Fargo fraud wasn’t caught by the Feds who have oversight of the banking industry.  A reporter brought it to the Feds’ attention after he received complaints from consumers and had done his own investigation.  Wells Fargo says that they have gotten rid of the bad apples by firing 5300  managers and employees.  The highest level employee affected was allowed to retire and keep $123,000,000 in stock and bonuses.  Not a bad parting gift, if you were to ask me.

The sad part about the piercing of the veil of secrecy surrounding the DNC is that it was only through the hacked emails published by Wikileaks that any of this came to see the light of day.

I wonder if President Hillybob will claim as did President Obama to have the most transparent administration ever.

Hmmm, maybe they use “transparent” to mean that you can see what’s beyond, but not necessarily what’s right in front of your eyes?

Who’s Paying For This?

President Obama and Vice President Biden are out on the campaign trail stumping for their stooge.

My question is, “Who is paying for this?”.

If The President travels to a speaking engagement he flies with the squadron of three VH-3D Sea King helicopters, Marine One from the White House to Joint Base Andrews in Maryland. He then will transition to a Boeing 747, Air Force One. “The Beast” his armored SUV is also flown via military transport to where he will be speaking. Along with him are US Marine security as well as his Secret Service detail. On the little jaunt will also be his staffers. I suspect there are at least 100 people, all government employees, involved in getting The President to a Hillybob stump party.

I’m going to make what we called in my industry a WAG or “wild ass guess” now. Let’s guess $200,000 per hour for flight time. NPR reports suggest that it’s much higher than $200,000.  Let’s look at a ONE hour jaunt by our President. For that one hour excursion we have three helos at 2 hours (back and forth 4 times to Quantico), a 747 at 2 hours (out and back), and a cargo transport at 2 hours (out and back), that’s 10 flight hours. That makes it $2,000,000 in tax payer money for each trip.  If we look at the salaries of 100 people with a fully loaded rate of $150 per hour that’s another $120,000 buckaroos for one wasted day.

To be fair, there is a reimbursement that the DNC pays for the flight time. But they only pay what the cost would have been to charter a commercial flight. Oddly the charted fare can be calculated using a much much smaller plane. It’s not clear if they pay for Marine One and transportation of “The Beast”.  For WAG purposes let’s say they reimburse half of the cost. That leaves the cost of that one hour flight at $1,000,000 plus $120,000 in salaries.

I suspect my estimates are low knowing the waste in government spending. But for expediency let’s round down and call it $1 million for The President to fly to a destination 1 hour away to deliver a Hillybob rah-rah.

The answer to the question is, “You pay for it, sucka!”

Every time you see President Obama blabbing how great Hillybob is, remember the reality is, you just paid $1,000,000 whether you will vote for her or not.

Numbers above are just my WAG, Your mileage may vary…