Raining here this Saturday morning in California’s Central Valley — and once again feels like it’s raining all over the world, especially in Florida where the T-Rump sits his big ass blathering about nonsensical shit while the US burns.
While a way-seriously required COVID-19 relief bill is still unsigned, he golfs and acts like the chaotic-inducing shithead he is, one main topic for his zeal is why the fuck Melania hasn’t all the fashion magazine cover stories he feels she deserves.
What a Fucking baby pic.twitter.com/BNNsgM3ypa
— Molly Jong-Fast? (@MollyJongFast) December 26, 2020
Way-Worse — T-Rump performs as if in a TV show (CNN):
The legislation would extend two pandemic unemployment programs and provide the jobless with a $300 weekly federal boost through mid-March. It would send direct payments of up $600 per person. It would reopen the Paycheck Protection Program so that some of the hardest-hit small businesses can apply for a second loan.
The package, which would be the second-largest relief deal after the $2 trillion CARES Act that Congress approved in March, also would extend eviction protection and enhance food stamp benefits.
He just doesn’t give a shit. He is indeed ‘a fucking baby.’
If the turd keeps acting like a heartless turd, more than 12 million unemployed could lose benefits after this weekend, and with the delay, they’d even most-likely will suffer a break in payments of several weeks.
The bill also included an eviction moratorim, which left alone, about 9.2 million renters could be kicked out of their homes/apartments/wherever in a week.
And on and on…
An op/ed at The Washington Post last Wednesday by Helaine Olen really played the cards on the T-Rump:
If Trump doesn’t sign off on the existing bill, the new Congress will need to start from scratch after the first of the year.
And despite immediate appearances, implicitly threatening to veto the only federal help Americans are likely to receive for some time to come is not exactly helpful to citizens in need.
But the fact is, he was never actually trying to help you or me.
And we should expect nothing less from Trump, whose inability to think about anyone other than Trump is well-established.The Democratic-controlled House, lest you forget, passed a more than $3 trillion successor to the Cares Act in May.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) made sure it went nowhere, and did the same for all other efforts to offer increasingly desperate Americans a financial lifeline.
As I am forever pointing out, McConnell was so contemptuous of Democratic attempts to get money out that, during his reelection campaign, he laughed on a debate stage when confronted about it by Democratic challenger Amy McGrath.
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It’s quite possible — nay, make that all but certain — that Trump’s last minute sabotage is a way of punishing McConnell, who is now openly accepting the fact that President-elect Joe Biden will be sworn in in less than a month.
McConnell only signed off on a stimulus package when it became clear that the lack of another financial aid package for Americans would make it more difficult for Republicans to win the two Senate runoff races set for Jan. 5 in Georgia, costing the party control of the upper chamber.It’s a rich boy’s privilege to see the poor and downtrodden as pawns in a political game rather than as individual people in desperate need.
The idea that Donald Trump actually cares about the financial realities Americans face is ludicrous.
Now that he is on his way out, it’s increasingly obvious he’s only loyal to himself.
And here we’re stuck…
(Illustration by illustrator and portrait painter, Tim O’Brien, and can be found here).