Here We Go Again, Unfortunately

It happened again. 

Another school shooting by a gunman, loaded with automatic weaponry and killing at least 18 school children at an elementary school along with a teacher. This time it was in the state of Texas.

 

From US National News . . . 

 

 

 

At least 14 children and one teacher are dead after an active shooter incident on Tuesday sent a Texas elementary school into lock down, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott confirmed. The suspect in the shooting is dead, according to Abbott. Following the incident at Robb Elementary, children were taken to the emergency room at Uvalde Memorial Hospital, per a statement from the hospital.

(Note- the update since this initial report now stands at 19 children dead, 21 total dead.)

 

How sad and sickening is this? 

There are so many instances when this occurs, it really is disgusting. Just ten days ago, the lunatic in Buffalo, New York shot dead at least ten people in a grocery store. Several years ago, the shooting at the high school in Parkland, Florida. And of course, nearly ten years ago was the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. 

The governor of Texas today put forward the usual rhetoric following this latest shooting tragedy and then the republican party is already starting their grandstanding, including Mitch McConnell (republican U.S. Senator from Kentucky) who is wholly owned by the NRA and they have dumped plenty of money into his campaign coiffures throughout the years.

Hey Abbott and McConnell and (Texas republican U.S. Senator) Ted Cruz . . . Just shut up already and do something. 

This country of ours is a mess when it comes to gun reform. 

I am not holding my breath over anything being done about it, especially not in Texas. Abbott and his carelessness cost many people their lives last year when a winter deep freeze hit that state and their horse shit power grid failed and people froze to death. But no repercussions for Abbott and company. 

Don't expect them to budge at all on this one either.

 They will offer up their "thoughts and prayers" like they always do and it follows the old adage of rinse, lather, repeat. The next gun shooting/murder incident that occurs (and it will happen) they will do the same thing while making excuses as to why we cannot have sensible gun reform. 

In the meantime, just go about your business and pay no mind to what happened and just be thankful it wasn't you or your children or loved ones this happened to. 

That lax attitude has to change . . . for God's sake, it must change. 

I'm out. 

Hey America, Wake Up

 

Wake up America!

Those who want to blame President Joe Biden for all the inflation in this country  need look no further than the Trump policies that were put in place and are still having a big impact on the United States. In fact, Trump and his insanity (especially during the pandemic in 2020) were fully backed by the Republican party, especially when they held power in both the U.S. House and Senate. 

 

 

Trump and the republicans were the proponents of Saudi Arabia and all their affiliates cutting back oil production drastically and that impact is the chief reason for the rising gas prices in the last year (including price gouging by the major oil companies) since Joe Biden took office. It is a calculated effort to dupe the American people into getting so pissed off at the Democratic party in charge now because of the rising prices of gasoline and groceries, etc. Not to mention Trump's master Vladimir Putin and the Russian invasion of Ukraine contributing to rising oil prices as well. 

It is a concerted effort by the Trump cronies to get back into power. Plain and simple.

 

Think about it . . . how have these stupid "I Did That"(with Joe Biden pointing at the prices on the gas pumps) stickers all of a sudden show up just in time for the inflation we have been seeing?

My fellow Americans, you can be smarter than that. 

 

Not to mention the compromised U.S. Supreme Court (with three Trump appointees on the bench) and the dark money shadow groups backing extreme right wing candidates that do the bidding of billionaires and corporations, the rest of us all be damned. The corporate controlled news media doesn't help either as they constantly still beat the drums for the conservatives in this country. Big money controls that message. Again, thanks to the SCOTUS and that asinine Citizens United case a decade ago.

A big problem is most people have very (VERY) short attention spans and are struggling to just make ends meet so they cannot get involved in the political scene. The republicans thrive on this and when they held the power when Trump was in office, they helped to create a huge deficit with the TAX CUTS FOR THE RICH AND CORPORATIONS four years ago. 

Remember that people? 

Put your brains to work and get that memory bank tuned in and remember that the REPUBLICANS caused the current national debt we have. Not to mention the January 6th coup attempt (no, it was not just a riot in Washington, D.C.) the republicans are still trying to cover up. The commission investigating the whole thing has been moving at a deliberate pace and it's hopeful the heat gets turned up fill tilt before the November elections. 

In fact, the republicans embrace fascism and the MAGA Trump extremism that is a cancer on this country. They are using the same blue print that Hitler and his minions did in Germany nearly a century ago. 

Be careful what you wish for Joe Biden detractors. You will not like the final outcome if your wishes do come true. 

Point is too many people blame the wrong people for the problems in this country and the republicans in Congress (see Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy) do all they can to stall and squash any chances for real solutions the Democrats attempt to get going to give us some relief. Well, don't hold your breath on any of that changing as McConnell (Moscow Mitch as he is also known) keeps bloviating about how President Biden is responsible for the inflation. However, INFLATION IS AND HAS BEEN A WORLD WIDE PROBLEM since the pandemic two years ago. 

We bitch and moan about gas being over five bucks a gallon when it's nearly double that price in Europe and all other parts of the world. 

If republicans gain control of the House and/or Senate this election cycle, things will most definitely get way worse for we, the 99 percent of the country's population. 

Count on it. 

So get out there and VOTE . . . Vote the Republican bums out!

Don't say you weren't warned.