The Dumbest Motherfuckers in Washington, D.C.

     Donald Trump had a phone conversation on July 25, 2019, with the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky.  Zelensky flatters Trump quite a bit.  Zelensky wants more "Javelins," a "man-portable" anti-tank missile resembling a barbell, manufactured by Raytheon and Lockheed Martin, costing $174,000 apiece.  It fires an eighteen and a half pound warhead to a distance of nearly three miles, using an infrared homing guidance system.  If this information gives you a hard-on or makes you wet, a job in cable news punditry might be the best career goal for you.
     Trump, before this phone call, ordered a hold on weapons deliveries to Ukraine, a nation wrapped up since 2014 in war with Russia.  Scolded on MSNBC by Joe Scarborough and other concerned pundits and opinion makers, Trump is supposedly playing his usual games, probably due to his "bromance" with Vladimir Putin, with Ukraine's ability to fight a predatory nation invading its sovereign territory.
     He's holding back weapons from a democracy fighting the evil Russia which interfered in our 2016 election!!!
     The proliferation of Neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine since the U.S.-backed overthrow of that nation's government five years ago is not mentioned by Scarborough and his friends, including, this morning,
human reptile Bill Kristol.  After two years and eight months of impeachment talk by Trump's ineffectual political enemies, the July 25 phone call, transcript released yesterday, serves House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi with the smoking cap gun she's been waiting for.
     The Washington Post yesterday published a story titled, "Pelosi, top Democrats favor quick, narrow Trump impeachment probe focused on Ukraine"
     While some may cry, "Yes!  Finally!" my response is "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!" a scream of anguish as I react to the utter stupidity of this harebrained move.  Its only logical purpose would be to distract American voters further from what their concerns really are: Medicare for All, clean water, environmental protections, a nationwide jobs program, ending foreign wars, abolishing student and medical debt, addressing climate catastrophe with real solutions acted upon within the next ten years, an end to spying on innocent people, the shining of light on the depredations of the intelligence community as they lie and lie and lie in the service of destructive and hidden agendas, to name just a few needs actual Americans have, rather than a useful interest in political theater played out by cretins who aren't doing shit for their constituents.
     Bill Clinton's impeachment proceedings in 1998 and 1999 led to his highest approval rating: 73%.
I just looked up this tidbit, it took me ten seconds--Nancy Pelosi and her colleagues could do the same and do the math.  It's likely that impeaching Trump will boost his popularity, and not just with his base.  Giving a showman like Trump a chance to play the victim is a huge mistake, like how the Russiagate fiasco, a two and a half year imbroglio based on lies concocted by intelligence professionals like John Brennan, also boosted the president's ratings.
     The idiocy displayed by these out of touch, selfish and greedy, inward-looking morons, the Democratic leadership, reaches an apex I failed to imagine until yesterday when I read the Post article written by Mike DeBonis and Rachel Bade, both of whom, using the typical neutral tone of journalese, neglect to mention that the Democratic politician subjects of their piece are essentially brain-dead circus freaks.
     Trump allegedly "pressed" Zelensky to work with Attorney General William Barr and Trump's attorney Rudy Giuliani "to investigate Joe Biden."
     This, in relation to Biden's son Hunter, who from 2014 to April 2019 received $50,000 per month (a total of about three million dollars in salary despite having no experience in the energy field) serving on the board of Ukrainian oil and natural gas company Burisma Holdings.  Vice President Biden and some Western European leaders got on the Ukrainian government's case to fire Viktor Shokin, that nation's chief prosecutor.  Shokin claims he was fired because of his investigation of Burisma Holdings.  Did Vice President Biden help gang up on Shokin because of his son Hunter's involvement with Ukraine's largest energy company?  Apparently, that's Trump's view, or theory.  Members of Obama's administration reportedly worried about Hunter Biden's employment by Burisma, fearing conflict of interest.
     Last July, Trump froze $391 million in military aid to Ukraine.  There followed the Zelensky phone call and an alleged quid pro quo ("You investigate the Bidens, I'll unfreeze your people-killers").
     A curious Hunter Biden connection: he was a member of the Chairman's Advisory Council for the National Democratic Institute, or NDI.  The Chairman of this Neoliberal outfit is Madeleine Albright, the former Secretary of State who said the mass murder of half a million Iraqi children by the Clinton administration (which she was a part of) "was worth it," it being the weakening of Saddam Hussein's authority through punishing sanctions.  Funded by such democracy-destroying entities as the National Endowment for Democracy, the Agency for International Development, and the State Department, NDI is just one more example of how Satan probably appears to be a handsome man.
     Pelosi called a meeting after the Zelensky-Trump phone call transcript was released, not redacted, by the White House.  Some Democrats attending the meeting spoke anonymously afterward, getting the word out about their new batshit crazy tactic on how Trump is finally going to be put in his place.      For committing mass murder on a daily basis in our numerous war theaters, seventy Afghan pine nut farmers drone-bombed just recently?  No.  For locking up Latin American children and denying them proper health care and hygiene maintenance?  Absolutely not.  For gutting environmental regulations, including clean water standards which will damage and kill Americans over time?
     No, it's that phone call!  Trump seemed to be getting Zelensky to do him a favor by digging up info on the Burisma thing with Hunter Biden and his dad for the sake of gaining leverage against a possible opponent in the 2020 presidential election.
     Quoting the Post article: "Democrats said the evidence was incriminating enough--and easy enough for voters to understand--to proceed with their impeachment inquiry, and soon.  'Strike while the iron's hot,' said one individual [a blacksmith in his spare time? sarcastic comment mine], summarizing the sentiment.  Democrats said they could move quickly on impeachment and act by the end of the year."
     Pelosi, according to these gossips, wants to move quickly, keep it out of the courts.  Other Trump-related investigations currently occupy those courts, moving with the sludgy slowness typical of inquiries into the criminal behavior patterns of the psychopaths running the world.
     The politicians in Pelosi's meeting decided that "narrowing the investigation...in terms of political messaging, made sense."
     Hey America!  Get excited about political messaging!
     House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (who, like Pelosi, is against Medicare for All, thus, the enemy of 99 percent of Americans) spoke to reporters, "held up the rough transcript of the Trump-Zelensky phone call and said that the House would focus on its contents in the coming days and weeks."
     Good thing they're not wasting taxpayers' money!
     He also said that "urging a foreign leader to intervene to influence an upcoming election...was simple for the public to understand."
     A simple subject for a simple people, who I guess don't care about their leaders screwing around with something that sounds like Russiagate 2.0.  There's enough in this to put many more millions of dollars in Rachel Maddow's bank account.  Once again, Trump, an obviously crooked man, will battle opponents in cable news and in the intelligence community (a "whistleblower" from that community of proven deceivers with their own agendas broke this story).  This story will, like the impeachment process, go on for a long time.  Even if it just lasts for a few months that's too long.  We don't need politicians of either party wasting their time on something not likely to pass in the Republican-controlled Senate.  We don't need President Pence!
     This is a gift to the intelligence community, the same crafty media-savvy dealers in mendacity trying to run the entire show.  It's a gift to mainstream news media and independent media not seeing it for what it is.  Russiagate was attempt number one to unseat Trump.  Ukrainegate is number two, done on behalf, it appears, of Joe Biden.  If Biden becomes president, the intelligence and militaristic forces running things will have a mentally foggy puppet to serve as the appearance of a world leader, brought out now and then to make announcements or pardon turkeys for Thanksgiving.
     Nancy Pelosi, when she made her announcement to the nation about the commencement of the impeachment process, looked like she's filled with embalming fluid.  Biden is losing his mind.  Mitch McConnell, old and evil as ever, is nevertheless sharp.  He won't allow anyone in his caucus to vote for impeachment without making them suffer grave political consequences.  The Democratic establishment, as in 2016, seeks actively, daily, to erase Bernie Sanders from American awareness, a hard thing to do, but CNN and MSNBC are clearly attempting this, manipulating poll numbers to make it seem the Vermont senator doesn't have the popularity of Biden or Elizabeth Warren.
     Congressman Adam Schiff, one of Russiagate's main propagandists--thus, a man who's boosted his career and public profile from that lie--says at the article's conclusion, "'This is how a mafia boss talks...the president didn't need to say, "That's a nice country you have.  It would be a shame if something happened to it."  'Because this was clear from the conversation.  There is no quid pro quo necessary to betray your country or your oath of office.'"
     It's not clear from the conversation, Schiff.  He calls Trump a traitor.  If he really is that, Schiff should be looking for a safe place to hide, but he isn't, since he knows he can speak that way, just as he did for the two years he helped inflict Russiagate on his fellow citizens.  Russiagate, and Schiff, along with Maddow and so many contemptible others in politics and the news media, wasted not only millions of dollars in taxpayers' money, but more importantly, they wasted our time.  The Democrats are about to do it again, likely producing another zero, benefitting conspiracy theorizers like Rachel Maddow and Adam Schiff, while feeding the president's bruised ego, fueling his 2020 campaign with numerous subjects to blast out of his mouth as he finds sympathy with his base, and with those fed up with the Democratic Party as represented by a Pelosi-guided leadership with the worst political instincts I've ever witnessed.
     Trump's enemies on the so-called Left have no problem with his sanctions against Venezuela and Iran, policies killing thousands of innocent people denied medicine.  As Scarborough complained, it's outrageous that Ukraine had a hold put on their weapons deliveries.  The MSNBC morning host and former Trump friend doesn't seem to care, or know, that Neo-Nazis will receive some of those weapons, as they comprise a significant part of the Ukrainian Army.  Thus, does Lockheed Martin fund the philosophical descendants of Hitler.
     The only Democratic politician running for president who has so far suggested the Zelensky-Trump phone call isn't worth an impeachment process, due partly to the divisiveness it will bring to the nation, is Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard.
     Tulsi 2020.

                                                                             Vic Neptune
   








  

     Rachel Maddow, Poisoner of Minds

     Last night on MSNBC, Russia hysteria peddler Rachel Maddow did a story about Ukraine, a country in focus now among anti-Trump news media overpaid professionals.  To any observant news consumer, the graphic behind Maddow's head, a stylized illustration of the White House backgrounded by the yellow and blue Ukrainian flag, should seem familiar as a propaganda method employed by one of the most deceitful sellout American journalists.
     From the shock of Trump's election in November 2016 until Special Counsel Mueller's July 2019 Congressional testimony not confirming Russiagate, Maddow and her on-camera MSNBC colleagues labored daily and nightly to convince their viewers of the president's supposed connections to Russian authorities meddling in the U.S. election process, a criminal activity done extensively, in actuality, by Republican and Democratic players behind the scenes for many decades.
     Congress in 2015 allowed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address that body with the goal of convincing American lawmakers to knock down President Obama's nuclear deal with Iran.  When it comes to allowing foreign leaders to directly influence U.S. policies in such a naked way, members of Congress have demonstrated they have no principles.  Obama got his way on Iran, fortunately, but Netanyahu had only to wait for Trump, the president who will soon send thousands of U.S. troops to "defend" Saudi Arabia after its oil infrastructure was attacked, allegedly, by Iran.
     Who has more influence on U.S. elections and foreign policy?  Vladimir Putin?  Or Netanyahu and the Likud Party?  A forbidden topic, as was easily seen when Congresswoman Omar (Democrat, Minnesota) tweeted that "It's the Benjamins, baby!" meaning the influence AIPAC buys, causing, among other things, apparently free-minded lawmakers to say the sentence, "Israel has the right to defend herself," over and over again, neglecting to mention that every country has that right, including Yemen, from where the attack on Saudi Arabia's oil production probably originated, using Iranian weaponry, just as Saudi warplanes come from the United States.
     Rachel Maddow, MSNBC's highest-rated propagandist (although with a significant dip in those numbers after Mueller failed to confirm her nutcase theories) seems to have switched her keen lying mind to UKRAINE.  President Trump in a phone call with that nation's leader asked about Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, who received thousands of dollars from a natural gas company while his father was vice president.  Joe Biden pressured the Ukrainian government to not look into his son's dealings with the company, threatening to withhold a U.S. aid package.
     Okay, Joe Biden is crooked.  That doesn't surprise me.  Mainstream news media ignores Biden's controversial policy positions and decisions, but focuses on Trump's attempt at casual opposition research, causing some on cable news to demand impeachment.  Trump's sending thousands of troops to Saudi Arabia (a prelude to war with Iran, possibly) doesn't bother these same out of touch idiots any more than when Obama drone-struck the innocent sixteen year old son of an AQAP propagandist, defending his homicidal act by blaming the son for his father's actions.  Murder is fine when you're a world leader, but trying to dig up dirt on a political opponent who may run against you next year is a violation of decorum, even though Hillary Clinton did opposition research about Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort's dealings with Ukraine.
     These shenanigans, so typical of high-level leaders on this planet, have nothing to do with the concerns of ordinary people.  The world is on a downward spiral regarding the rapidly changing climate.  Not even the Democrats and anti-Trump Neoconservatives, the pathetic so-called #Resistance, demonstrate any real concern about the world's likely fate, if something productive isn't done very soon.  Instead, "He shouldn't be discussing Joe Biden with a foreign leader on the phone," is supposed to make me mad.
     If, like Rachel Maddow, I made thirty thousand a day, would I get so used to swallowing my principles it becomes fun to put on a performance five nights a week, babbling conspiracy theories about Putin's skill as a puppet master, his dastardliness in meddling in Ukraine, never talking about how the Obama administration (including Biden) overthrew that nation's legitimately elected government in 2014, an act causing Russia's moves in Eastern Ukraine?
     "Earning" her thirty thousand per episode, Maddow now makes up shit about Ukraine and Trump, an image of the White House against a background of the yellow and blue Ukrainian flag, while ignoring that it would be more relevant to have a Saudi flag in its place, or an Israeli one.  Those two countries, though, are recipients of massive U.S. military aid.  Comcast, MSNBC's parent company, receives significant support from the military industrial complex.
     Trump's alleged threat to Ukraine to withhold a military aid package, supposedly because he's so friendly with Putin, strikes Democratic politicians and "liberal" pundits on MSNBC and CNN as yet another outrageous impeachable offense.
     Why?  Putin!  Putin!  But really, the money!  The money frothing from the arms industry benefitting the corporation paying Maddow's ridiculously huge salary.  Imagine getting paid 11 million dollars a year to lie to the American people five nights a week, as she did with Russiagate.
     Like those in the wretched journalistic class of contemporary mainstream news, Rachel Maddow will someday, in histories written about these times, be regarded with the same disgust as Senator Joseph McCarthy.

                                                                               Vic Neptune

     Donald Trump's Greatest Act As President

     Someone outside the White House shot video of a just fired national security advisor, John Bolton.      On the phone, he calls his wife to let her know he'll be home early; or maybe he's informing Benjamin Netanyahu it's time to take a definitive step towards war with Iran.  Sure enough, yesterday a big oil refinery in Saudi Arabia was struck by ordnance fired by drones reportedly from Yemen.  The Kingdom's oil production is down, gas prices may rise, Iran gets blamed by the State Department and its chief, Mike Pompeo.  No evidence for Iran's involvement has been presented, a sure sign U.S. authorities are telling the truth.  The Trump administration insists on Saudi Arabia's "right to defend herself," a nonsensical statement attributed in the past only to Israel.
     Every country has that right, though, including Yemen.
     When Trump spoke publicly of withdrawing U.S. troops and other personnel from Syria, false flag Sarin attacks attributed to the Assad government occurred miraculously, deepening American involvement in that nation's civil war.  Trump's rash words and actions regarding U.S. foreign policy tend to produce strange results.  Fire John Bolton, a man salivating over the prospect of war with Iran for many years, and a few days later Saudi Arabia gets hit hard where it hurts them the most.  Never mind that the types of drones used in the attack don't cost more than $20,000 apiece, are small and hard to stop--or even to detect--once entering enemy airspace, or that the Houthis have been using drones in their war, including as assassination weapons, long enough to have become skilled operators.  I'm reminded of the typically racist idea that the "less sophisticated" and poorer enemy is incapable of using effective means of fighting back.  Tell that to every brain-damaged U.S. military survivor of attacks in Iraq utilizing improvised explosive devices.
     Blaming the refinery attack on Iran--supporter of the Houthis--follows on a series of lame accusations this year by U.S. officials attempting to convince the public of what would amount to truly idiotic steps taken by the Iranian government, such as shooting a missile at a Japanese oil tanker in the Persian Gulf while Shinzō Abe, Japan's prime minister, was meeting with Iran's leaders.  That provocation, not by Iran, had to have been the work of another state actor desiring war with Iran, i.e. the United States and/or Israel.
     The Houthis have taken credit for the drone attack.  If they did it, as seems most likely to me, their strategy fits with a practice of asymmetric warfare.  Attack Saudi Arabia's economic juice machine using unmanned aerial vehicles capable of reaching their targets deep inside enemy territory.  Iranian officials, supporting the Houthis, may approve of this drone attack's success, but after sixty-six years of being fucked with by the U.S., they know too about the ricochet effects of such actions against American "interests."
     The Saudi war against Yemen, it should be obvious by now, is a failure for the former country.  Four years and five months of bombing, killing, looting, torturing, blockading, and causing widespread disease and malnutrition have yielded, for America's firm oil ally nothing but an opportunity to practice sadism with U.S. corporate-made weapons.  That we Americans have linked ourselves for so many decades to this shitshow called Saudi Arabia speaks loudly of our willingness to allow mass murder and plunder for the sake of maintaining a planet-killing addiction to fossil fuels.  If the pumps in Saudi Arabia were to yield no oil starting tomorrow, Trump and Pompeo wouldn't give half a fuck about the Kingdom.  Trump would participate in no more sword dances, would rather consider bombing Mecca to satisfy his Evangelical base.
     Hyperbole, I know, but the lack of actual concern and compassion by American leaders for the people of all classes in the Middle East is real.  The same goes for how they really regard Israel, a country just caught spying on the White House.  This shouldn't surprise anyone, though it's in the news these days.  When you see world leaders assembled just realize that all those motherfuckers are using each other.
     John Bolton will land on his feet.  He insists he resigned, that Trump did not fire him.  It doesn't matter, actually, but it's important to know that the general view among Democrats and MSNBC is Bolton-sympathetic.  A man who helped cause the Iraq War.  A man who said, before 9/11, that he'd like to see a plane fly into the U.N. building.  A man who actively, just this year, tried to overthrow the government of Venezuela.
     Bolton, from the standpoint of establishment Democrats, is the norm of American political thought.  This makes these Democrats, including their current leaders Pelosi and Schumer, right wing ideologues and apologists for aggressive warfare against countries, like Iran, that are no threat to the United States, even as Israel, an ally, spies on us.  I'm not being naive--I know that spy agencies of the world, generally, do their shenanigans like horny men at an orgy.  Still, how about some honesty on these subjects?  Democrats and the mainstream news media spent two and a half years hyping a threat from Russia, supposedly in league with Donald Trump to steal the 2016 election.  Last July, Robert Mueller finally debunked his own multi-million dollar investigation, finding no links between Trump's campaign and Russian operatives seeking to influence that election, turning Hillary Clinton into a martyr most people don't give a fuck about.
     Meanwhile, Israeli operatives spy on what goes on in the White House.  Even in the official version of what happened on 9/11, fifteen of the nineteen hijackers came from Saudi Arabia, and in any case, that nation's prominent Wahhabi sect has a lot of influence over supposed U.S. enemies like ISIS, a group fought against by Iranian forces and Assad's government in Syria.  Who the fuck is the enemy?
     According to Pelosi, Schumer, and "liberal" or "left" voices in the mainstream media, the enemy is not John Bolton, whose decisions and influence have helped cause the deaths, injuries, and displacements of hundreds of thousands of people.  Bolton's departure from Trump's side has, according to these concerned standard bearers of liberty, "caused chaos," for the president's lack of self-control prevents him from maintaining an all-important continuity in his cabinet.  Having even a vicious maniac like Bolton as national security advisor, a man who can't even perceive how stupid-looking his mustache looks, is regarded by MSNBC pundits as a sign of a steady hand, someone to counter Trump's childlike jumpiness.  I guess it was a show of wisdom that Hitler kept Heinrich Himmler around for so long.
     Finally, the typically bad news media coverage of the Saudi oil refinery attack covered the aggressive use of relatively cheap drones, but failed to mention the United States as it uses drone warfare on a far vaster and deadlier scale, with the construction even now of a huge base in Niger to cover Africa's spaces, a continent not even discussed by the same news people as a battleground.
     John Bolton will continue to make appearances, no doubt, on Fox News Channel, but I expect him to also appear on MSNBC with greater frequency than in the past.  He's part of the #Resistance now.  He's serious.  He was one of the "adults" in the White House.  An adult, like General Westmoreland in Vietnam, I guess--a goddamned fool in charge of a murder machine.

                                                                              Vic Neptune
   
     
     
   
















   
           

     For the Plus 70 Crowd

     Joseph "Joe" Biden, a semi-retired politician, wants a go at the presidency.  Once he got back into the news media spotlight this year by announcing his candidacy, he was aided by those in mainstream journalism who apparently breathed in relief at the prospect of a regular, familiar, all-American, trustworthy, up front smiling fellow who says cute words like "malarkey."
     I heard one Biden supporter, a man of about thirty, say that Biden's use of the word "malarkey" was a selling point for him.  I guess this voter wants a politician who will say that word and really mean it!
     Malarkey, of unknown origin but dating from the 1920s (the decade some of Biden's supporters were born in), means "nonsense," and "meaningless talk."  Malarkey can mean what comes from the mouths of politicians when they're campaigning, the policies they promise to enact but don't follow up on.
     Donald Trump, for instance, with all of his campaign talk about working on America's deteriorating and dangerous infrastructure--roads and bridges especially--used malarkey when boasting of his prowess in addressing this vital issue dealt with competently by Franklin Roosevelt's WPA program.  Infrastructure work requires government spending, Donald.  Government spending is made possible through taxes, Donald.  If the wealthy and mega-corporations aren't taxed sensibly, and much of the rest of available funds go to a military enormous enough to at least attempt to conquer the planet, where does infrastructure spending come from?
     "How are you gonna pay for that?" big government skeptics ask, whether it's about Medicare For All, free college, or infrastructure revitalization.
     The answer is, these programs would be paid for just as ordinary Americans have to pay to grow Jeff Bezos's treasure pile, as he, and his Amazon corporation, are chronically undertaxed or not taxed at all.  This insane arrangement is encouraged and supported by Republicans and establishment Democrats, all of them rich, all of them benefitting from Trump's tax cuts for billionaires and millionaires.  Curiously, among this group is Joe Biden, warrior of the status quo.
     Mainstream news media do not address these important issues; rather, they spend too much time practicing malarkey, including the malarkey that Biden could win the presidency in spite of his "gaffes," which are looking more like a rapidly advancing case of "senioritis."
     If you want to vote for someone because he reminds you of the old man who lives down the hallway in your nursing home, that's your business, but these times call for an alert, intelligent, and compassionate leader, not someone vainly checking a box on his bucket list.
     Biden, addressing a group somewhere, holding a microphone, hesitated when referring to Barack Obama, saying, "President...my boss."  Is it wrong of me to suggest he's suffering from age-related cognitive difficulties because of this, and other instances of verbal stumbling?  Do you have a boss?  If I ask you what your boss's name is, do you just tell me his or her name without thinking about it?  In this instance with Biden, the boss in question is also one of the most famous people on the planet over the last twelve or so years.  One shouldn't even have to work for Obama to know who the fuck he is.
     Sellout talk show host Stephen Colbert (who used to "stick it to the man" until CBS offered him a fuck-ton of money to stop being controversial) hosted Biden on his late night program.  The former vice president and pal of the late warmonger John McCain and racist Strom Thurmond, the man who just last year awarded the Liberty Medal to war criminal George W. Bush, told Colbert and his easy to please audience that "this is a great country."  He made reference to Donald Trump's unfitness for office, the president's trashing of NATO allies, lack of decorum, all the shit people with no actual problems obsess over when they contemplate the current Oval Office occupant.  Biden rides on the idea, supported by Democratic establishment-approved news media, that once Trump is beaten in next year's election, everything will go back to normal.  A restoration of decency, kindness, diplomacy, but the same coercion of less powerful nations, the same war (approaching its eighteenth birthday next week), and the same economy built to destroy the middle class and the poor so the rich can further prosper.
     Trump is a terrible president.  Biden would also be terrible in that job.  And senile.  That's just what we need, right?  Considering how much MSNBC pushes Biden as the best candidate to defeat Trump, one would think that network would have more to offer as proof if that truly is the case, rather than pushing the much more popular and sane Bernie Sanders, who gets bashed and misrepresented on their programs regularly.  Sanders shows no signs of suffering cognitive difficulties and, unlike Biden, he cares about ordinary people and their very real economic problems.
     Still, MSNBC host and millionaire Joe Scarborough, whose friendliness with Trump could be heard practically every weekday morning in 2015 and early 2016 when that billionaire candidate called Scarborough's show, filling segments with self-congratulatory bluster, now defends Biden's verbal fuck-ups even as he gripes about Trump's.
     For Scarborough and his network it's all about ratings.  They really don't give a shit about the American people.  How else to explain MSNBC's promotion these past several weeks of an out of touch career politician with the sucking chest wound appeal of Hillary Clinton?  Biden, the kind of candidate no one under the age of seventy will vote for, but rather will be used to vote against the incumbent, would bring about the loss of the White House to someone the Democratic establishment can then use to fundraise against and gripe about some more in a political-entertainment-news industry built on maintaining the stardom of cash cows like Donald Trump.
     I wish this post consisted of malarkey, but it doesn't.

                                                                               Vic Neptune