John Hickenlooper Drops Out

And another one bites the dust!

Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper has dropped out! Also, in a very sly, quiet move, Rep. Tim Ryan also announced the "suspension" of his campaign in the middle of talking about the El Paso and Dayton shootings. 

Keep it going!

Now all we need is Michael Bennett, John Delaney, Corey Booker, Kamala Harris, Bill de Blasio, Pete Booty Judge, Kirsten Jello Brand, Bet on my Stork, Julian Castro and Joe Biden to drop out so we can have a primary with actual progressives battling real progressive ideas that will defeat the Tweeter in Chief. 

Gov. Hickenlooper stated “I did imagine a very different conclusion; I’ve heard from so many Coloradans who want me to run for the United States Senate...I intend to give that some serious thought.”

Don't think, just do. We need democrats in the Senate, and that's what I wish everyone I named in the above paragraph would drop out and run for Senate. Not only would that help accomplish some of the actual goals of the left because then we could actually fight back against the Senate Republicans, but then we have the chance for someone who will actually FIGHT for something. Bernie is going to fight for Medicare 4 All. Tulsi is going to fight to end the wars. Elizabeth Warren is gonna fight to regulate industry. All of them believe in the main progressive issues (Free College, Medicare 4 All, ending the wars, Green New Deal, $15 minimum wage, removing money from politics), however their focus may lie in different areas. That aside, at least we could have a real debate about the priorities of each goal and how we should tackle them. Right now, it's just a competition of who's the most "woke" and who can shit on Joe Biden the worst. Entertaining, but we have real shit to deal with guys. Let's focus our energy on the best 3 or 4 candidates and get it poppin.

Joe Biden Is a Right Winger

Back to business.

Handsy Uncle Joseph, also known as Vice President Joe Biden is  terrible candidate. He is the male version of Hillary Clinton, with a worse record on racial issues. However, i am not here to break down his long ass voting record. I'm just gonna post a bunch of quotes from Joe Biden from over the years to show you what the man thinks. 

"Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids." - 2019 (Self explanatory)

"There's less than one percent of Iowa that is African American. There is probably less than four or five percent that are minorities. So look, it goes back to what you start off with, what you're dealing with. When you have children coming from dysfunctional homes, when you have children coming from homes where there's no books, where the mother from the time they're born doesn't talk to them - as opposed to the mother in iowa who's sitting there and talks to them, the kid starts out with a 300 word larger vocabulary at age three Half this education gap exists before the kid steps foot in the classroom." - 2007 (In reference to why Iowa's education system is "better" than Washington's)

"The younger generation now tells me how tough things are—give me a break;  No, no, I have no empathy for it, give me a break." - 2018 (In reference to the current situation millenials find themselves in where we cannot participate in the economy by buying homes, cars, etc because of how much the previous generations ruined everything)

“We have predators on our streets that society has in fact, in part because of its neglect, created…they are beyond the pale many of those people, beyond the pale. And it's a sad commentary on society. We have no choice but to take them out of society….a cadre of young people, tens of thousands of them, born out of wedlock, without parents, without supervision, without any structure, without any conscience developing because they literally … because they literally have not been socialized, they literally have not had an opportunity….we should focus on them now….if we don't, they will, or a portion of them, will become the predators 15 years from now.” - 1993 (In reference to the Crime Bill, and african americans who would ultimately be the worst affected by this legislation)

“The consensus is A), we must take back the streets. It doesn't matter whether or not the person that is accosting your son or daughter or my son or daughter, my wife, your husband, my mother, your parents, it doesn't matter whether or not they were deprived as a youth. It doesn't matter whether or not they had no background that enabled them to become socialized into the fabric of society. It doesn't matter whether or not they're the victims of society. The end result is they're about to knock my mother on the head with a lead pipe, shoot my sister, beat up my wife, take on my sons.” - 1993 (In reference to the Crime Bill, and african americans who would ultimately be the worst affected by this legislation)

“I don't care why someone is a malefactor in society. I don't care why someone is antisocial. I don't care why they've become a sociopath. We have an obligation to cordon them off from the rest of society.” - 1993 (In reference to the Crime Bill, and african americans who would ultimately be the worst affected by this legislation)

“No issue has consumed more of my time and energies than the question of court-ordered busing of students to achieve integration in our public school system; The courts have taken it upon themselves to go beyond simply dismantling deliberate segregation as an illegal government policy. They have gone on to attempting to force integration by reassigning students to achieve particular racial balances.” - 1978 (In reference the busing desegregation)

“The new integration plans being offered are really just quota-systems to assure a certain number of blacks, Chicanos, or whatever in each school; That, to me, is the most racist concept you can come up with. What it says is, in order for your child with curly black hair, brown eyes, and dark skin to be able to learn anything, he needs to sit next to my blond-haired, blue-eyed son. That’s racist!” - 1975 (In reference to integrated schools)

“I was in a caucus with James O. Eastland; He never called me boy, he always called me son. A guy like Herman Talmadge, one of the meanest guys I ever knew, you go down the list of all these guys. Well guess what? At least there was some civility. We got things done. We didn’t agree on much of anything. We got things done. We got it finished. But today, you look at the other side and you’re the enemy. Not the opposition, the enemy. We don’t talk to each other anymore.” - 2019 (In reference to open segregationists who helped him with past legislation)

Any of this sound like a democrat? Yet, he's currently the front runner. If this is the guy who is going to represent "the left", get ready for Trump 2020. 

Top 50 Rappers of All Time

Alright guys, I'm taking a break from politics today to give you all my Top 50 Rappers of All Time list, since that's what's hot in the streets this week, and I love hip hop. So, without further a do......here goes....

My Top 50 Rappers of All Time

1. Jay Z

2. Rakim

3. Nas

4. Eminem

5. 2Pac

6. Ghostface 

7. Busta Rhymes

8. Raekwon

9. Ice Cube

10. Kool G Rap

11. Black Thought

12. The Game

13. Royce da 5'9

14. Talib Kweli

15. Snoop Dogg

16. T.I

17. Lil Wayne

18. Bun B

19. Jadakiss

20. DMX

21. Beanie Sigel

22. Ludacris

23. Kanye 

24. Biggie

25. Cam'Ron

26. Common

27. Big Pun

28. Method Man

29. Redman

30. Rick Ross

31. 50 Cent

32. Styles P

33. Kendrick Lamar 

34. Twista

35. Scarface

36. Fabolous

37. Nipsey Hussle 

38. Drake 

39. J Cole 

40. Mobb Deep 

41. Fat Joe

42. Slick Rick 

43. Crooked I

44. Mos Def

45. Danny Brown

46. Schoolboy Q

47. Xzibit

48. Jay Rock

49. Meek Mill

50. Big Sean

Democratic Debate in Detroit Night Two

Night One


Alright ladies, gentleman and non-binary folks....Night 2 of the Democratic Debates in Detroit! I look forward to Joe Biden receiving a mudhole stomping Stone Cold Steve Austin style. As I did before, I will do this blog bulletin style as the event goes on.

Joe Biden told Kamala Harris "Go easy on me kid!" when she got on stage lmaoooo. 

Let's see if anyone can top Marianne Williamson's answer on race/repartations from last night. I doubt it severely. 

I am not feeling this womans voice singing the anthem. 

Michael Bennett is taking a nap while he is giving his opening statement. He must be taking advantage of the fact he lives in Colorado, or he visted one of the fine Michigan dispensaries...

Jay Inslee is saying the right stuff on the issue of climate change. I like it!

Jello Brand is flexing her record, smart move to open up the debate, showing what she has done.

Tulsi got applause before even speaking, that's a good sign. Detroit knows whats up. 

Julian definitely took some cues from Bet on my Stork, with the whole "whisper certain words loudly so it gives dramatic effect" speech style.

Andrew Yang will not talk about anything other than UBI, which is important, but bro. C'mon. Give us SOMETHING else. 

Corey Booker got NO LOVE. LMFAOOOOOOOOO. And the crowd is now heckling him. This is an awesome start. 

Topic 1 is healthcare.

"Insurance companies have been jacking up the prices for too long"...so your solution is to keep the private companies running healthcare? Cool story Kamala. Joe Biden is ready to go toe-to-toe with Senator Harris, but he's failing already. She's about to eat him up, again. She talking to him like a professional e-mail at work.

Joe Biden is REALLY trying hard to defend the whole "But how do you pay for it?" argument. He is a REPUBLICAN. 

Bill de Blasio is about to come out being fake progressive and say all the correct things.  His rhetoric is pretty good, although again, I don't believe him. Joe Biden's trying to defend Obamacare, and says it's working (conveniently leaving out the fact that there are still 44 Million uninsured Americans) and insure "the vast majority of Americans are covered", rather than ALL AMERICANS. 

I'm glad the moderator called out Kamala Harris for saying her plan is Medicare for All even though it's not, due to the whole "private insurance still being a part of it" thing. Kirsten Jello Brand is correct in what she's saying about for profit companies not working for the average citizen. 

Cory Booker is on some BULLSHIT. Why are you bringing up Trump right now? The question was "How is your plan better than Medicare for All when Med4All will do everything you say 

you want to do?" Everything he said right there was a deflection from the question. "Can't we all jsut get along?" No Cory. No.

Tulsi nailed it. "We don't have healthcare, we have sick care." She also just called out Kamala for having one of the Healthcare Industry executives endorse her bill, and said nobody from these industries should be a part of the drafting process. Absolutely correct.

Michael Bennett, you just said you think it will be MORE DIFFICULT to beat Donald Trump if you push for Med 4 All? You are a clown, sir. You and all your corporate buddies need to stop lying about private insurance being "illegal". That is a lie. 

Julian, you can't have for profit private companies AND low drug costs at the same time. I don't know what's hard about this. 

Kamala, we want choice of doctor and hospital, we don't care who's paying for it. Stop with this "choice of coverage" argument. Everybody wants everything covered. Which Bernie's bill does. 

Jay Inslee brought up mental health in the discussion, which is the first time I've heard that subject brought up tonight.

Andrew Yang had a good answer, especially from a business owner perspective. Bill de Blasio followed up by basically pulling a Liz Warren from last night. "How are there democrats who aren't support universal coverage?" He then proceeded to call Michael Bennett a fear mongerer on the issue of healthcare. Yikes!

Joe Biden is really laying it on thick with the "Your taxes will go up!" stuff, (while ignoring the fact that deductibles, co-pays, and premiums go away)

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FINALLY, next topic...Immigration.

Julian Castro wants a pathway to citizenship, and wants to decriminalize illegal border crossings. Solid.

Kamala Harris is acting like locking people up isn't her thing. Remember when you were locking up parents for not taking their kids to school? Where do you think those kids ended up? You were separating families before Trump, maybe not in as harsh of a manner, but stop with the act.

Kirsten Jello Brand wants a civil infraction rather than a criminal offense. I can get with that. 

Joe Biden out here sounding like all the republicans, talking about "send them back." Somehow, all this is Trumps fault (even though Obama and Biden were locking people up in camps at the border too). Julian Castro just checked him quite nicely. 

Tulsi, I need details Sis. All of that sounded good, but you didn't say how you would do any of it. 

Andrew Yang brought up a good, but obvious point, that immigrants are being demonized and scapegoated. 

Cory Booker: "Trump is bad! Republicans are bad! Stop fighting guys! We. Are. Fam-i-ly!"

Jay Inslee called Trump a white nationalist. Nice. He's also giving his record on immigration, 

which is pretty damn good. 

Bill de Blasio is saying the progressive stuff, but just like Tulsi, I'm gonna need you to explain. Nice call out of Joe Biden though, I like that.

Tulsi doesn't agree with Bernie on providing tuition free college for undocumented immigrants. I don't know how I feel about that answer. I understand both arguments. 

Cory Booker is in favor of legalizing marijuana. He then called out Joe Biden on his criminal justice record. Joe Biden responded by calling or Cory Booker is May oriole record, and Cory Booker about it quite nicely.

Everyone jumped down Joe Biden’s back when it came to racial justice.

Tulsi is killing Kampala’s record as a prosecutor. Took it right to her, aggressively.

Andrew Yang is doing WAY better this time.

Everyone is talking about police reform. Nobody really said how they plan to tackle it.

On to climate change, Joe Biden is again, the worst. Everyone is on board with the Green New Deal, except him.

Bill de Blasio sounds pretty good on Flint, using his record to back it up. 

Cory Booker just blamed the Russians for voter suppression? WOW.

Bill de Blasio was the ONLY candidate to say “Hey impeachment’s cool and all, but let’s not forget about the real shit, like policy.” That’s crazy to me. Everyone else basically said one form or another of “We gotta get rid of this guy!” And that was it. 

All of their closing statements were basically just advertising to go to their websites and reiterating their opening statements mixed with anti-Trump rhetoric. Tulsi’s was decent because she let you know how real it can get with nuclear war. Bill de Blasio did the best I would say, not just in his closing statement but surprisingly, overall. I have de Blasio CLEARLY winning this debate. Kamala Harris has some punch liney type moments in her close that sounded cool. But there you have it. Night two.

Democratic Debate in Detroit Night One

Democratic Debates in Detroit! 

#WhuttupDoe

If you saw the last debate, you know this will basically be in bullet point style as I watch and listen. 

Opening statements, paraphrased:

Cloud Boot Jar: I have big bold ideas, but they're realistic.  Meaning, I'm gonna talk progressive but govern moderate.

Bet on My Stork: I like good things and good people, I don't like bad things or bad people.  Progressive talking points with no substance, I'm here for everybody.

BootyJudge: Trump got elected because what we were doing hasn't been working, so what I want to do is (insert Bet On My Stork's answer).

Elizabeth Warren: Trump sucks!!!

Bernie Sanders: 87 Million Americans are lacking Healthcare, 500,000 Americans are homeless, yet Amazon is not paying taxes. Half of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck, while 49% of all new wealth is going to the top percent of the country, we must transform our economy and government and defeat Trump!

Jake Tapper is already framing questions from a right wing perspective. 

Bernie just flat out told John Delaney that he's wrong about Medicare for All. Now he's hitting him with all the facts. John Delaney meanwhile is trying to rebuttal by defending private healthcare providers. Good strategy, dumb-ass. 

Elizabeth Warren is telling all the corporate democrats about themselves using right wing talking points against Medicare for All. I sort of hate when politicians do the antectdotal stories though. I feel bad for Eddie, but c'mon Liz. 

I like how she answered Tapp Jaker's question about raising taxes on the middle class. "Costs overall will go down for middle class families." That's the part people are concerned about, regardless if it's taxes or medical bills.

Kind of hilarious how Tapp Jaker is cutting off Booty Judge mid sentence. 

Beto, your plan sucks. Just shut up. You are strawmanning Bernie and Liz's position. Just be quiet Storkman. 

Cloud Boot Jar has a plan that's BETTER than Medicare for All? LMFAOOOOOOOO.

Oh she's using the "People can't wait for a perfect system, we need a realistic healthcare model" argument. Cool Story Amy.

Bernie just stepped in and put Tapp Jaker in his place, as well as Amy Cloud Boot Jar. It was pretty awesome. Detroit applauded him. He basically said "Bitch, you won't have premiums or co-pays, what don't you understand?"

John Delaney- "I don't think my colleagues understand how the business works."

Bernie Sanders- "Health is NOT a business!" (DJ Air Horns for Bernie)

HickenBickenBackBeinBoolooper spoke for 10 seconds before getting cut off lmao.

Marianne Williamson, flower child hippie mushroom queen, basically said she's scared of the right wing, even though she usually agrees with the lefty left.

Pete BootyJudge actually just said some real shit. "If we embrace a far left platform, Republicans will call us crazy socialists. If we embrace a right wing platform, they will call us crazy socialists." 

Tim Ryan (see Amy Cloud Boot Jar's answer.)

Bernie is straight up COOKING Tapp Jaker and the crowd is eating it up.

Bernie Sanders is eating everyone on stage alive, other than Elizabeth Warren who is basically him, light.

45 minutes in and we're moving to the SECOND topic. Immigration.

Mayor BootyJudge: It'll still be illegal to cross the border when I'm the Prez, but something something nice things, good things, something something not bad things or mean things. 

Storky McGhee (OK, I'm getting a little lax with these names, I know.): We're still locking those illegals up, but we'll be alot less racist when we do it. 

Elizabeth Warren: I would decriminalize crossing the border. Trump is racist, he's horrible, he's a bigot, he's breaking up families, he's a monster......

Cloud Boot Jar: Path to citizenship, immigrants are cool by me.

Bernie Sanders: (see Elizabeth Warrens answer, plus giving undocumented immgrants free healthcare and college, minus about half of the Trump rhetoric.)

I'm pretty sure John Delaney is Joe Biden's poorly created clone. 

Tim Ryan is still talking about PAYING FOR HEALTHCARE. Do not expect to see him at Debate 3. 

Topic 3. Gun Violence.

BootyJudge: Universal background checks, mental health checks, ban on assault weapons. Solid. 

HickenBackBeinBool: We passed background checks and limited magazine capacity in Colorado, what's y'alls problem?

Amy: We're taking on the NRA, it's there fault!

Bernie: See Amy's answer, but also bragging about his low grade from the NRA. Also, mixed with Booty Judge's answer, and getting money out of politics.

Wait....who the eff is Steve Bullock? I haven't heard him say anything this whole time...

Anyway, he basically said he ran the Koch Bros out of Montana and he'll do the same in Washington.

Marianne Williamson is calling out the corporate democrats who took money from big money industries. 

Holy shit, it's been an hour and 7 minutes so far. First commercial. 

Bernie is slaughtering Hickenlooper for calling his ideas radical, and becomes the angry old man we all know and love.

Moderators called out Elizabeth Warren for self describing as a capitalist, and asked her if she did that to seem like a “safe” alternative to Bernie. Ouch.

LMFAO Elizabeth Warren basically told John Delaney to stop being a pussy and drop out of the race. Amazing.

John Delaney just said the Green New Deal was unrealistic. He’s really proving to be a right wing democrat in a time where he should KNOW that’s not what we want. We basically only got good responses from Bernie and Warren on this front.

It’s insane how many times Bernie Sanders has had to explain how transition periods work with policy change. It’s ALMOST like the other candidates are being dense on purpose.

Around this time my phone died, so I wasn’t able to catch the rest, but if it went how the rest did, then this was a huge win for Sanders and Warren, and a terrible, god awful, horrendous showing from John Delaney. Holy shit he was bad.

I’ll be back for night 2 tomorrow.

How to Defeat Trump in 2020

How to defeat Donald Trump in 2020. There’s a few very important things we need to understand in order to accomplish this goal, while at the same time passing progressive legislation that will positively influence the country. Here’s my thoughts:

Run an anti-establishment candidate. That’s a big reason as to why Tonald Drump was elected in the first place. People wanted their jobs back. People wanted to leave the Middle East and re-invest the money in our homeland. Our infastructure is crumbling. And everypone knew that Hillary Clinton was the perfect representation of "more of the same". That's why progressives didn't vote for her, and people who aren't hateful still chose to vote for a bigot over her. If we run Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and realistically, even Elizabeth Warren, we are running ahuge risk for a repeat of 2016. People do not want the status quo, they want to blow the system up, which is another reason people were willing to risk voting for Tiny Hands. Giving people a real alternative to the status quo (which of COURSE if you were paying attention at all to of his history, you knew Drumpf would represent the establishment to the fullest), who will actually stand up against corporate greed, protect workers, and protect peoples jobs while fighting for a living wage. This is what people care about.

Use the current President's own rhetoric against him. This man has literally said EVERYTHING, and had EVERY position you can possibly have on EVERY issue. He wants to leave the Middle East, yet he wants to "bomb the sh*t" out of ISIS. He wants to "never forget the forgotten man and woman", yet he passed tx cut that the 80% of the benefits go to the top 1% of the wealthiest Americans. He told Ilhan Omar, AOC, Rashida Tlaib, and Ayanna Pressley if they don't love America, they should leave....despite the fact that he spent YEARS saying how America is a losing country, how he wants to make it great AGAIN (meaning it isn't great now), how we are the laughing stock of the world, and how we aren't respected because we are "so stupid as a country". You can remind the people that voted for him how big of a fraud he is, and I truly think it would work. Compare that to a record like Bernie Sanders, which has been consistent for 40+ years. 

Do not insult all of his voters. Yes, there are die hard racists out there who love all the anti-immigration stuff, die hard evangelical christians who love the anti-abortion stuff, and some who are just genuinely mis-lead because they don't watch good news sources. But insulting all of them will immediately turn them off, even if your message is one that will ultimately benefit them. If they feel as if our candidate has some moral superiority complex, it doesn't matter how much money Medicare for All will save their family compared to what they pay now for private health insurance. They won't vote for you.

Focus on the two time Obama voters. If you focus on who we can get, the voters who aren't unreasonable, the ones who just want there families to be safe and secure. We can get those voters by explaining to them how free college will benefit them, how Medicare for All will save them on healthcare costs, how re-investing the ridiculous military spending into infastructure projects and a Green New Deal, will not only help slow down climate change, but also will create new jobs all over the country. This is the message that will win over the ones we lost in 2016.

I think if we follow these basic steps, we can not only defeat the Orange Clown in Chief, but we can also pass progressive legislation that will not only help the average American, it may literally save all of us from a firey burning death.