Who watched the Emmys last night? It sure wasn’t me. I have better things to do with my precious time than watch a bunch of narcissistic, overpaid actors pat each other’s back for three hours. I did look on Google to see what commercials ran during the show and I was shocked (and I am not easily shocked) to read that there was an actual category for best commercial 2021! I mean, are they serious??? I never did find out what commercials actually ran and how many there were.
The Emmys did get me to thinking though. Why not start a yearly award show focusing on our politicians? They seem to be pretty good actors. We can start with Pretty Boy Newsom. He was able to hold onto his governorship because his only real contender was a blow-hard conservative radio talk show host. Newsom is your typical rich guy who somehow smiles his way out of trouble, like when he got caught eating at the overpriced French Laundry restaurant when we were supposed to be taking this mask requirement seriously. I guess these rules do not apply to the wealthy. I do believe if he had walked his talk, we the taxpayers would not have had to pay an estimated $276 million for the recall. These career politicians do not care. They love spending our money. In my opinion, all of the ones running for Governor should split the entire bill. That money is needed and supposed to be used to help the citizens of California.
Miss Nancy recently did the same thing as Newsom at her fundraiser. Who saw the photos of her and her wealthy donors (who expect to be paid back in financial favors) sitting around without masks? I guess she thought no one would notice and when the photos became public she had a hissy fit. How many times are we going to allow these “actors” to run for office? When will term limits actually become law? Neither party will make it happen because both parties benefit. They like pretending to give other people from third parties a chance to win. It’s all an act and you and I are paying for their performance.
Grandpa Biden should definitely get an award. He acts like he cares about climate change and shows his concern by allowing drilling auctions to resume. He is just another typical politician and we Americans fall for their bullcrap every single time. We really do believe that this guy or woman will be different. We tell ourselves this one will work for We the People. We do not want to believe that they are all working for corporations. Who do you think got them into office anyway?
There have been presidents and politicians who took their oath of office seriously. Jimmy Carter comes to mind. He seemed to want to do the right thing and got slammed for being a decent human. I was a kid when JFK was president but from what I learned about him, he did not allow himself to be a puppet for the big corporations, and look what it got him. His brother Bobby didn’t do well either.
If there are people who sincerely want to make a difference, they usually belong to one of the fringe parties. The ones who never get a chance to get a seat at the table because the two parties, Republican and Democrat will not allow that to happen. Sure, they pretend (this is where the acting comes in) to want everyone to have an equal chance to become president or governor, but the system is rigged. You really have only two choices and when both of them suck like this past presidential election; our choices were between the loud-mouth psycho or the grandfatherly one who seems a little “confused.” There were plenty of others running, like Bernie Sanders but because he was not from the “approved” parties, he got very little attention.
We have been talking about getting money out of politics for a long time. When will it happen? Or will it ever happen? I believe as long as we allow money to rule everything we do, it never will.
*We love Inge….even though she is as Opinionated as any Political Operative in the County. it is good to have your blatant commentary in the hallowed halls of the OC Blogisphere!
Give Gavin a break Inge…..he happens to be a “Real Guy”, as opposed to the so-called “Pardon my Gender – Republicants!” If she picks on Joe, you do have to wonder. Everyone says he is old. Trump was the one that was old, old thinking, old macho racist nonsense! No Joe and Kamala are doing Yoeman work…..they have to be the busiest President and Vice President in US History.
Anyway, welcome home dear Inge! Feel the love…..you’ve got it – so keep on truckin away with your incisive commentary. We do think you could have called Larry the Elder, more like a Uncle Rufus instead of Uncle Remus!
I really can’t believe that you published this, I was shocked when you wanted to publish Inge’s vaccine comment as a stand alone post and even more shocked when you did it, but this is such juvenile crap … a new low.
What is Inge complaining about … life is unfair, politicians raise money and a politician didn’t do 100% of everything she wanted?
Start the revolution.
I guess this kind of ‘analysis’ is the natural progression of the lazy and silly ‘Newsom’s French Laundry dinner was responsible for the Covid spike in CA even though every state in the Union had a similar winter spike’ views expressed here.
I haven’t paid much attention to this blog for years, but I always assumed you had some standards … apparently not.
My experience with editing and publishing work from Inge is that she has her finger on the pulse of what Californians are thinking better than almost anyone I know. You think that that’s not useful to read? Then you have your head in the sand.
I’ve answered many of her concerns where this post first appeared, as a comment. I’ll insert those comments here as well to show how one can respond to these sorts of questions and objections productively — without censoring them.
On a personal note, please stop misrepresenting my statement of the impact of Newsom’s French Laundry debacle upon the Thanksgiving Covid surge. Let’s do this yet again:
First, NOT every state had the same surge and the same time as California did — and to the extent that they did it was because of the incidence of Thanksgiving, for which the nation was largely unprepared. But California had not been like other states — and was better positioned to remain so were it not for Newsom’s blatant and entitled hypocrisy undermining his public health orders.
Second, Newsom was NOT personally, or even primarily, responsible for the entire post-Thanksgiving spike. Trump and other Covid deniers bear the primary responsibility. But what Newsom did was to undercut the efforts to get around those deniers, as a time when gaining the public’s compliance with public health orders in the lead-up to the Thanksgiving holiday was most critical.
What proportion of responsibility did Newsom have for showing the public by his bad example that they too could ignore the masking, social distancing, and outdoor/ventilation prescriptions at their own gatherings — which, given that convincing people to take these steps with their relatives, was always going to be an uphill battle? Maybe 10%? Maybe 5%? Whatever Newsom’s share of responsibility was, more people died because they or those near them ignored those good instructions. The examples that leaders set matter — and no dinner honoring a lobbyist was worth that cost.
Inge, you have found a perfect home with the rest of the dellusional grifters here.
Why not start with who is the…
Smelliest Blogger
Drunken Blogger
Fattest associate
CRAZIEST
LAZIEST
Longest Unemployed
Fakes Blogger
You get the idea, six or eight losers who pretend to know more than everyone else.
Do you people work?
” … she has her finger on the pulse of what Californians are thinking better than almost anyone I know.”
Apparently not, as the recall based on the outrage over the French Laundry incident, Covid shut downs and vaccine/mask mandates went down in flames.
I’m sorry — that should have been “of what California swing voters are thinking…”
You’ll notice that she is not a Trumper. I don’t think that she voted for the recall. If she’s like many swing voters, she abstained.
This is the funniest critique about me that I have ever read. Calm down, Jeanette. If you hate what I wrote, you would really hate me if you got to know me. LOL And, Greg, how did you know that I did not vote in the recall? You know me too well. LOL
I don’t “hate” what you wrote, I just think it’s juvenile in tone and reveals a very naive and simplistic understanding of politics.
When Greg wrote that you represented “swing voters” … that’s probably true.
Swing voters IMO are the ‘ignorati’ … folks with absolutely no real political philosophy, a shallow perspective, myopic, uninformed and easily swayed by caca.
*Inge…..just keep the pot boiling and high heat……..we love it.
Jeanette: Our suggestion is to ask Alexa to play “Bad Girls” by Donna Summer and
go on from there!
You two always crack me up. LOL