Shaking Out The Notebook

The Schloss-Blog shook out the notebook and look what fell out. A lot of things I can't stand...like Republicans, COVID-postponed sporting events and vaccination appointments that don't exist.

For instance:

*I don't know about you, but I watch golf, I play golf, I've even got a little bit of game. But I watch in head-scratching wonder as all these pros line up putts, take 5-10 minutes to do so, and then miss them when they misread them anyway. When I play, I line up putts on a glance - OK, two glances - settle myself over it, and then hit it.

And miss it. But so do they.

*I lost a couple of bets on Tampa Bay beating Kansas City in the Super Bowl. Tampa Bay will not repeat. Wanna' bet on it?

*Will Serena Williams ever win that record-tying 24th major? Only if someone does her a favor and beats Naomi Osaka on the other side of the bracket.

*I'm watching as teams continue to experience canceled or postponed games, only to have some of them shoehorned into the tail end of their schedules for make-up as more games continue to get postponed or canceled because of COVID. What did pro leagues and college and high school conferences think was going to happen when they decided to play all these games outside of a bubble? And the high schools are making athletes wear masks while competing. Good luck with that.

*Republicans, the ones who don't care if you die, are opposed to the $1.9 trillion relief package for Americans struggling through the economic fallout of the COVID crisis. They're going to come after Social Security and Medicare next, just watch.

*Donald Trump, who will likely be on trial for something in 2024, if not already convicted, remains the de facto leader of the Republican Party. He maintains he won the 2020 election. He also maintains he never paid off or slept with Stormy Daniels or Karen McDougal.

Tell that to Melania, a woman who is very patiently waiting to play her hand and he hasn't slept with since conceiving Barron 15 years ago. Assuming he's the father, that is.

*Hundreds of thousands if not millions of Americans, including 140 Republican congressmen and many senators, believe or are touting the belief that Trump won the election. They should be denied vaccinations. More on them, much more, in next week's Schloss-Blog.

*Speaking of vaccinations, getting an appointment for one has practically become an Olympic competition. "Refresh, refresh, refresh." And pray. I will never understand why the government didn't start with the most vulnerable and work back, summoning people for their vaccinations in priority order instead of making them compete for slots.

*I cannot understand the Tide pods commercial with the typical suburban couple whose two kids get dirty before they even get out of bed. The final kids-versus-dirt encounter is the two youngsters rolling in a huge mud pit in the backyard. Who has wrestling mud pits like that in their backyards? Me and my cousins will be right over to use it.

*I subscribe to the "rightwing.org" newsletter because I want to see what the "other side" is saying and promoting. It's disgusting. It includes: Democrats are going to use some finagling with the Supreme Court to woo middle-class voters; How to fall asleep in 8 minutes, guaranteed (hint: watch CPAC speeches); Dr. Phil and Dr. Oz have hooked up with a lifesaving, life-invigorating product of some kind if you can stand to watch the 45-minute video to find out what it is that hasn't received FDA approval; and Democrats want to give all illegals citizenship.

You know, the ones Donald Trump said were murderers, rapists and MS-13 members.

*Josh Hawley, that paragon of insurrection, is insisting that his life, my life, your life is being threatened by those who are trying to restrict what we see in media, in movies, in print, at religious services and even in our thoughts.

Sounds like he just described the Republican Party agenda.

OK, that's it for today. Got to save my thumb power for "refresh, refresh, refresh."

Good night, Mrs. Calabash. Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?

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

    

 

Impeach This!

The Schloss-Blog, like you, has been watching the impeachment proceedings, and some other things in its wake.

We have a good number of Communist-leaning senators, like Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, Josh (The Riot) Hawley and Lindsey Graham.

(Seven Republicans voted to convict.)

The State of Georgia is petitioning to have its name changed to "Sedition." Except Arizona wants it too.

Those Communist-leaning senators, along with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, have their lips firmly pressed against Trump's ass.

(Seven!)

Radical militia like the Oath Keepers has admitted out loud that they were only awaiting Trump's cue to go attack the Capitol. Trump's cue was all it took.

All those Republican senators who will vote to acquit would likely have been killed just for being senators.

According to a Harvard report, some 461,000 Americans have died due to the Trump administration's lackadaisical health policies.

The Aunt Jemima brand is being changed to Pearl Milling. In related news, Blacks have been granted citizenship and the right to vote.

(Seven! That's a record in an impeachment trial.)

It is believed that Trump and Melania may have had the coronavirus at a more-serious level than we have been told, to the point of possibly needing a ventilator. Only overdose applications of dexamethasone likely saved Donald's life.

Was Bruce Springsteen really drunk when he was arrested on a DWI charge in November? Reports are that his blood-alcohol level was 0.02, far below the state of New Jersey's legal threshold. 

Biden is reversing Trump's "Remain in Mexico" policy while awaiting asylum hearings and Trump's restrictions on housing that discriminated against the LGBTQ community.

(Motherf-cker was guilty!)

And finally ... you heard Congressman Ted Lieu of the House Managers team express that he wasn't afraid of Trump running again - he was afraid Trump would run again and lose and we'd experience this all over again.

Ya' think?

Good night, Mrs. Calabash. To the moon, Mrs. Robinson.

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

Where We've Been and Where Are We Going?

The Schloss-Blog, in this first post of February, wants to stop a moment, catch its breath, see where we've been in January and where we might be going in February.

It's not pretty.

Just to get this out of the way, how come New England didn't make the playoffs but I still have to watch Brady play in the Super Bowl?

Anyway, legislatures in Arizona, Georgia and other "battleground" states, with legal maneuvers exhausted to overturn the election, are trying to pass legislation that would enable their respective legislatures to simply overturn certified vote results before their governors sign off on them or else limit the number of ballot boxes at which to drop off absentee ballots.

If you live in one of those states, it could impact you. It will definitely impact minority populations who rely on the faith of the legislatures to protect the integrity of their votes or on the numerous ballot box locations at which to drop off their votes.

In other words, these are attempts at racism.

I heard brilliant journalist Matthew Dowd profoundly state that it took 100 years after Lincoln declared freedom for the slaves in the United States to back it up with the Voting Rights Act and the Civil Rights Act, respectively.

One-hundred years! Crazy.

Yet, here we are today watching state legislatures coast to coast try to negate and/or deny those rights again, and again and again.

Earlier, I said Republicans had exhausted all "legal" avenues. But not all avenues. On Jan. 6, President Trump dispatched the minions he'd fired up for many months to invade and sack the Capitol while Congress was finishing the job of certifying the national electoral vote count.

If they'd found Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Nancy Pelosi and/or Mike Pence, they would've killed them, KILLED THEM, their declarations to do so captured on video. Trump spent months, not 20 minutes addressing them from behind a podium, to get them to go do this.

He needs to be locked up, not just convicted.

One-hundred years! Did I mention 100 years?

Meanwhile, in Palm Beach, Trump and family are now at odds with their neighbors, who insist there is a 1993 agreement to never use the Mar-a-Lago property as a residence. In other words, Donald, get the f-ck out of here, although for now, he's there to stay. For a while.

We saw 140 Republican congressmen and 5 Republican senators vote to overturn the election results anyway, despite the certified condition in which they were delivered to them from the states and despite the fact all their lives were at risk as they performed this task on Jan. 6. May they meet up in Hell with these Qanon and Proud Boy insurrectionists and answer to them there, in the eternal afterlife.

Guess what, there's more. We saw the emergence of Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Qanon believer, 9/11-, Sandy Hook- and Parkland-denier, as the face of the Republican Party. She even called JFK Jr's death a "Clinton" assassination and said wildfires on the West Coast were caused by lasers from space fired by Jews. Hey Marji, if Jews had that, you and Iran would be gone.

And her boss, Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, backed down to her because she had Trump's favor thanks to her calls for violence and even assassination of the Democratic politicians to whom she objected.

Yet, people in Georgia elected her to Congress to represent their district. Sick, sick racists.

Fortunately, the rest of the House, plus 11 dedicated Republicans, decided to take the racist bitch off of her committee assignments.

While Republicans embraced her, they moved to disavow Liz Cheney, the Wyoming congresswoman and No. 3 operative in the Republican caucus in the House, because she voted to impeach. She's also the former vice-president's daughter, in case you're wondering if her name sounds familiar.

(Quick comedic aside: I have a dear friend with whom, a couple years ago, I was having coffee at a local Starbucks in Arizona, which reminded her of the last time she was there. She spotted a gentleman who looked familiar, minding his own business, and approached him, inquiring if they'd ever been on a 'match.com' date. "No," he replied, "but I used to be your vice-president.")

Back to business, sorry. While all of the above rages on, so does the pandemic. Taking more and more lives (we'll be at a half-million soon) and sickening more and more people, leaving them with serious endurance, lung-capacity, heart and strength aftereffects. People I know who have had it have told me so. You ever feel like that? Maybe you had it already too.

However, now, thanks to the Trump administration, vaccine supply and distribution has reached the point that for most of us, receiving an injection is a competitive sport.

But Congress can't reach an agreement on how to help the American people survive the pandemic and its ravaging economic impact.

I'll tell them how: people's lives are at stake so you do whatever it takes rather than debate about it, you f-cking idiots.

The one thing I have realized through all this: Republicans, thanks to Trump and just like Trump, don't care if you die. As long as they're in charge.

In which case, we're dead already.

Good night, Mrs. Calabash. Here's to you, Mrs. Robinson.

More Sunday night on my Radio Free Phoenix show.