Would You Believe..

The Schloss-Blog is looking at 2022 and seeing ... well, stuff. Every political candidate on the planet has hit me up for a donation of $20.22. Get it? $20.22? How clever.

It's hard to start 2022 on a positive note when COVID is hitting daily record numbers, when inflation is still impacting everybody's pocketbooks and every football and basketball player whose name I recognize is not playing because they contracted COVID and/or lied about having it in the first place.

Ah, our American role models. Here are some more...

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Did you know that Ted Cruz is against vaccinations and vaccine mandates?

So how come he's vaccinated? And his kids!

Ted Cruz also doesn't want there to be mask mandates. At work. Or at school.

But he works someplace where masks are mandated and his kids go to a school where the same is mandated.

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Alex "The Mouth" Jones, who lost a huge defamation suit claiming Sandy Hook was a hoax, is now mad at his shadow president-in-waiting, Donald Trump, for getting vaccinated and prompting people to do the same.

If you think Trump is going to win in 2024, let alone run, just remember, right now, his own party's hardcore are turning on him, and he on them (see McConnell, Mitch and Kemp, Brian).

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Watched a lot of football this past week. A lot. Have to conclude that defensive coordinators are the most overpaid people in the game. It's at the point where the defensive backs do cartwheels when the other team throws an incompletion or when they accidentally break up a pass. 

That's their job!

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Matt Gaetz says don't get vaccinated - that the way to survive COVID is to get COVID.

I hope he does.

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My golf game is getting pretty good. I follow up most pars with two double-bogeys consecutively now instead of three.

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Speaking of Mitch McConnell, did you know on Jan. 6, on the Senate floor, he said, “The voters, the courts, and the states have all spoken.”

Really, he said that.

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If you are accused of sexual assault, and if you are charged with assault, burglary and battery, you can still pull down anywhere between a $9 million signing bonus and a $15 million salary.

Just ask Antonio Brown.

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The economy is going great. So good, in fact, that in Arizona, the minimum wage is going up to $12.80 per hour. Baristas at Starbucks in some states make more.  Yet, people are flocking to Arizona for economic opportunity.

If your definition of economic opportunity is $12.80 at hour, welcome to the desert.

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Cheugy is one of the most mispronounced words of 2021. So is the corporate name Shein.

Can't wait to see what the words are for 2022.

I'm thinking filibuster. Or insurrection.

Or build back better.

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Unofficially, the national debt, is more than $29 trillion.

That's $29,000,000,000,000.

If that were you or me, and we managed our household budgets with the kind of deficits that Congress and the administration manage our national budget, we'd be homeless.

On the street. Our houses repossessed.

But Congress? They keep spending our money, running up the debt (the interest on it is now more than the nation's GDP) and they go home and live like kings. And queens.

Just so you know, every tax dollar that comes in goes to Social Security and Medicare. Everything else in the budget is borrowed,

Everything.

This is why I keep contending that women should be running the country instead of the gray-haired bastards who could care less about spending someone else's money, protecting someone else's voting privileges or providing for someone else's healthcare needs.

Women already do a great job of managing household budgets, deciding what goods and services we bring into the home and how much we spend on them so that we still have some left over to stream a movie once a week.

And I know just the woman to bounce this off of - Kyrsten Sinema.

I'll bounce this off of Sen. Sinema at her next town hall.

Which would be her first.

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Good night, Mrs. Calabash. Here's to you, Senator Sinema.

More Sunday night on my Radio Free Phoenix  rock 'n' roll show.