Matt Gaetz made to look a fool again!

General Mark Milley, the Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, lambasted Republican Congressmen Matt Gaetz after the Florida Congressmen tried to corner one of Milley's colleagues during a recent House hearing.

Gaetz, who is currently being investigated for possible sex trafficking of a minor among other crimes, was trying to advance the right's culture war grievance when he hinted at the fact that the U.S. military was too "woke" as Gaetz called it, and suggested that the military was advancing "critical race theory."

Initially Gaetz reclaimed his time which prevented Milley from offering his thoughts, but then Milley was given an opening by a Democratic member of the House. Milley proceeded to deride Gaetz without mentioning him by name. You can see the whole interaction in the video below. 

This is what the Republican Party has been reduced to. The GOP, with limited exceptions, does not do the work of the American people and rarely offers suggestions for legislation to improve the lives of everyday citizens, but instead spends the bulk of its time complaining about NONSENSE.

One of the newer grievances of the GOP is this aforementioned critical race theory, which amounts to teaching children in school about slavery and the history of race in America. The big beef seems to be that it makes the everybody-gets-a-trophy crowd feel bad about being white. That's insane! 

The fact is that this country did have slaves, both North and South, and was one of the last countries on earth to abolish slavery, and it took a war that led to the deaths of 600,000 Americans to finally end this grotesque institution. If that makes white people feel bad? Oh well.

If the story ended there in 1865, one could say, maybe, it was a long time ago. However, that is not the case. Even after slaves and their descendants were free from shackles, they were OPPRESSED. FACT.

In the South they were second class citizens well into the 1960s and 1970s with segregation and living in terror of organizations like the KKK, but in the so-called "enlightened" North, people still made sure that blacks could not buy homes in the same neighborhoods as whites, get the same access to higher education, or banking opportunities to start business to name just a few. 

Blacks who excelled despite these institutional roadblocks, were in some cases attacked - see the Tulsa Race Riot. Not to mention the treatment of blacks at the hands of the police over the last fill-in-the blank years. 

Excuse me if Gaetz, a trust-fund baby, gets upset when someone tells the truth. He claims that by teaching the real history of race in America, that it is teaching our children to hate America. Again, Nonsense. Two things can be true at once. I love this imperfect country because of the principles that it was founded on that all men are created equal. And although, America has never quite lived up to that principle, we keep trying to get there. But I can also be disgusted by 100s of blacks being indiscriminately killed in Tulsa, or lynched in the South for no good reason, or for Bull Connor unleashing the firehoses and dogs on peaceful children in Birmingham, or four little girls being blown up at the 16th Street Baptist Church or for Emmett Till's senseless murder, among countless others.

Emmett Till's open casket

I can be proud of America for defeating Fascism and destroying the oppressive and murderous Nazi regime, but at the same time be disgusted that American citizens of Japanese ancestry had their property taken from them by the government indiscriminately and put in internment camps. 

I can be proud of the founders and the truly enlightened documents they wrote, and the lasting impact of said writings, but still be disappointed and angered by their relative disregard for the native peoples of America and their forced march to reservations all over the western United States, and the broken treaties that led to this inglorious history.

This is called being a student of our history. Not just the highlights, but all of our history. This is the point Milley was making when he says we need to be well read, and attempt, as best we can, to understand how our Asian American friends feel, or how our Latino American friends feel, or how our black and brown friends feel. That gives a better insight into the world we live in.

Milley explained that reading Mao Zedong's writing does not make him a communist, nor does reading Mein Kampf, make someone a Nazi. In fact, our failure to be well read and students of our own history as well as world history is what created an environment that made 1/3 of the country susceptible to a con artist like Donald Trump and his brown-shirt collaborators like Gaetz, Jim Jordan, Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, Tom Cotton and Marjorie Taylor Idiot. In fact, the right counts on the fact that you will not learn about it or look it up on your own or do some critical thinking, because you would find out what Stuart Stevens discovered in the last 4 years, that it was "All A Lie."

So don't believe me. Don't take my word as gospel. Do the research yourself, and you too will find the truth. I know one thing for certain, you can not find the truth in a GOP congressional speech or anywhere on FOX News. Happy investigating!   

GOP an extension of Russian mob!!!!

If you needed any more evidence that a large element of the Republican Party has completely lost its collective mind, here is Republican Congressional candidate in Florida's 13th district threatening the life of another GOP candidate, Anna Paulina Luna, running in the same race to replace Democrat Charlie Crist, who plans to run for Governor. 

I must warn you that the language used by this so-called candidate and self-identified "Patriot", William Braddock, is graphic. He calls his opponent, a member of the same fascist party, a "c---, a piece of s---," among other horrible names.

Braddock, clearly a new Trump-emboldened member of the American Fascist Party (formerly GOP), says that the political threat Luna, in his mind poses, warrants having her killed by his Russian and Ukrainian friends. He says that they will make her disappear and that he will be sent visual evidence of this crime.

I must be clear here. As much as Luna is a victim here of a sociopath running against her, she is not a better option for this seat. Luna is supported by disgraced former President Trump and future registered sex offender U.S. Representative Matt Gaetz.    

Braddock also threatens Erin Olszewski, the other person on the call, saying "please do not be associated with this candidate (Luna)" because it will put Olszewski in danger as well and going so far as to say "you have kids." Then he tells her not to say anything to anyone because they will both be in danger.      

Braddock who is the epitome of Trump's GOP, claims that the tape was doctored but as you can see in the video, the phone call is running on speaker phone and the time of the call never gets interrupted as it pertains to the relevant parts related to the threats. 

This is what I mean when I say that we need to do everything in our power as voters to make sure that people like this never see the inside of the halls of Congress. It was not enough to vote out Trump, but we need to eliminate electorally those people who share his views but come in a much more presentable package like this Braddock fellow. 

On the surface, Braddock seems like the type of person who might make a good candidate for Congress. He describes himself as a lawyer, entrepreneur, and former member of the USMC (Marine Corps). They don't all look like Trump and Marjorie Taylor Greene, but there mentality is the same. If you live in Florida's 13th District, make sure this douche never sniffs Congress. 

But it is not only in this district or the ever-increasing disturbing state of Florida, but all around the country that candidates like this are popping up. If you want to be a true PATRIOT, do you civic duty and vote these goons out. The only viable option in America right now is the Democratic Party - even if that means voting for a Progressive because at least they are not storming the U.S. Capitol, plotting to kidnap duly elected governors, or threatening to kill their political opponents with mob hits. There is a sentence I never thought I would have to write related to politics.

For more details on this story read the articles posted below:

Washington Post story

NY Magazine article   

Second Amendment insanity

A U.S. District Court judge yesterday in California ruled that the state's 32-year-old assault weapon's ban was unconstitutional, calling the 1989 ban "a failed experiment" that violates people's constitutional right to bear arms.

Judge Roger Benitez of San Diego, a staunch gun advocate and a GOP activist judge, claimed that "like the Swiss Army knife, the popular AR-15 rifle is a perfect combination of home defense and homeland defense equipment. Good for both home and battle."

That is NONSENSE.

What happened to the right's bullshit arguments about state's rights? They claim state's rights when it comes to writing new abortion law. They claim state's rights when it comes to writing election law. They claim state's right when it comes to writing transgender law, but here California wrote a law that helped save lives, and this George W. Bush-appointed hack, no longer is a proponent of state's rights. SURPRISE, SURPRISE! 

This is just another prime example of how the GOP and the right in this country is completely full of crap. 

Benitez, who is clearly a card-carrying member of the NRA, went on with his braindead argument. "This case is not about extraordinary weapons lying on the outer limits of Second Amendment protection. The banned 'assault weapons' are not bazookas, howitzers or machine guns. Those arms are dangerous and solely useful for military purposes. Instead, the firearms deemed 'assault weapons' are fairly ordinary, popular, modern."

This is also an insane argument. If you ask any doctor, AR-15's are designed to kill people in mass, and they destroy people's bodies and that's why many victims of mass shootings can not be saved.  

I have had thousands of arguments with gun advocates, and they claim that laws will not save anyone, but they have no answers to help save the lives that are needlessly taken every year in this country before their time so that some moron who wants to play G.I. Joe on the weekends, needs to have these weapons of mass murder.

NO gun that has ever been manufactured in this country has been sold out the back door of the factory illegally, and no federally-licensed dealer sells guns illegally to criminals because they risk losing their licenses and livelihoods. So where are these guns being sold to criminals? They are being sold to criminals at gun shows, and then being sold to criminals. 

Any person who sets up at a gun show and is not a federally licensed dealer, does not have to abide by federal background checks. 

In fact, Texas this year is moving a law that would no longer require gun owners to get a license, would no longer require a background check and no longer require safety classes. That sounds incredibly sensible (SARCASM)!

This is why every election is so important. You can't simply vote when there are dopes on the ballot like Donald Trump. Assume every member of the GOP is a culture-war idiot like Trump. They are extremely dangerous, and with your vote you must insure that they can never appoint these hack Federalist Society justices to the Federal Courts around the country.         

Chicago Tribune article on ruling