As Richard Pryor once said, “It’s the politics, Baby…”
Blake Masters
I had to go to Phoenix last week and I saw a sign on the side of the road that said, “Blake Masters will prosecute Fauci in the Senate.”
Yeah, and he will also have Popeyes Chicken coupons fly out of his butt. You have to wonder just how stupid somebody would have to be to believe that. Actually, it would be the intersection of Stupid and Ignorant on the MAGA Venn Diagram.
Every American should know that the U.S. Senate has zero power to prosecute anyone. Even during impeachments, it is the House of Representatives that brings the charges. During the trial before the Senate, it is House members who do the “prosecuting.” The Senate merely acts as jury.
I read that Masters’ kids are all being homeschooled. That’s probably for the best. That way, the limited information that flows the kids’ way can be strictly controlled. They may never learn about the poisonous nonsense that their dad and his handlers are pushing.
Plus, being homeschooled, they’ll never have to meet any actual African Americans. Because, you know, their dad identified the source of gun violence in the United States as being “Frankly, Black people.”
Roe v. Wade
After Roe v. Wade was struck down by the Gilead Supreme Court, some politicians have been taking unearned victory laps. Even some members of the House of Representatives are trying to share in the credit, even though the House has zero to do with the confirmation of judges and justices.
Most disgusting of all is Florida maggot Matt Gaetz, who has been spouting off about how he thinks that the women who show up at pro-choice rallies won’t ever need access to an abortion. No one will impregnate them because they’re all “overweight and disgusting.”
Yeah, well, maybe the females who Gaetz has been dating might someday want to have authority over their own reproductive rights…you know, after they’ve gone through puberty.
Crazy state
Ever since the primary election, my out-of-state friends are asking, “How can you live in a crazy state like Arizona?”
My response is, “Oh, you mean Arizona; the state that has two Democratic senators, where five of the nine members of the House of Representatives are Democrats, and the state in which Joe Biden won the 2020 election, the recount, and the audit?”
Most Arizonans — of all affiliations — are decent, normal people. It’s just that our fringe people are fringe-ier than Howard Keel’s jacket in “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.” (That’s an obscure reference, but you can take a few seconds to Google it and you’ll see what I mean.)
The general election is still weeks away and we Arizonans have a chance to show the MAGA crowd and the rest of the country that we don’t buy into that racist, sexist, undemocratic nonsense. After the election, we should round up Finchem and Lake and the rest and invite them to stay in a rehab facility where they can learn what being an American is really about. We can put them all in one building and call it the Kelli Ward.
Welfare for the rich
It is absolutely infuriating when politicians ask the people what they want and when the people make it crystal clear what they want, the politicians turn around and do the opposite, claiming that they know better. Such was the case a few years ago when Republicans in the Arizona Legislature, holding a slim majority, passed the Welfare for the Rich voucher program despite knowing that it was vastly unpopular.
A measure was drawn up and put on the next year’s ballot. By a whopping 2-1 margin, Arizona’s voters smacked down the voucher scam. That should have been that.
But just four years later, this time with the absolute slimmest of margins (31-29 in the House and 16-14 in the Senate), the screw-you Republicans in the state Legislature pushed through an even-bigger Free Money for the Already Wealthy voucher program.
It’s vile and craven, and reaction has been swift. Word is that petitioners have been gathering signatures at a much-faster rate than they did for the 2018 ballot measure. (We need to have some of those mass petition gatherings here in Tucson.)
If enough signatures are gathered and verified, the measure won’t go on the ballot until the 2024 election and the vulgar voucher program won’t be allowed to be implemented until after that vote. That means it won’t be allowed to be implemented.
Now comes word out of Phoenix that a shadow group that goes by Decline to Sign is stalking petitioners and trying to interrupt the petition process, even surrounding would-be signers and telling them not to sign.
I really hope they try to do that to me when it comes time for me to sign. They’re all going to have to go home and use the Urban Dictionary to look up the new words they just learned.
Doug Ducey
Doug Ducey waited until the last possible moment to sign the bill in a clumsy effort to limit the number of days that the petitioners have to gather the necessary signatures.
At a fake signing ceremony, some guy got up and compared voucher whore Ducey to (wait for it) Abraham Lincoln. At first I scoffed, but then I saw it. At this point in time, both Doug Ducey and Abraham Lincoln have the exact same amount of measurable brain activity.
This article appears in Sep 8-14, 2022.
For a guy who spouts off in a print publication on a regular basis, you would think that Tommy would have access to a dictionary, where he could see that one definition of prosecute is: “To initiate or conduct legal proceedings”
18 U.S. Code § 1001
(a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, whoever, in any matter within the jurisdiction of the executive, legislative, or judicial branch of the Government of the United States, knowingly and willfully—
(1) falsifies, conceals, or covers up by any trick, scheme, or device a material fact;
(2) makes any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or representation;
Fauci lied to the Senate about gain-of-function. In other words he violated the quoted law. Senator Rand Paul sent a criminal referral to Biden’s DOJ, that of course didn’t nothing. Masters is essentially saying the same thing as Paul. Both of these actions constitute “initiating legal proceedings.”
Consider yourself home schooled, Tommy.
“Oh, you mean Arizona; the state that has two Democratic senators, where five of the nine members of the House of Representatives are Democrats, and the state in which Joe Biden won the 2020 election”
That’s crazy alright. BTW Tommy, aren’t you the guy that wanted to throw out one of those dim senators? https://www.tucsonweekly.com/tucson/danehy…
If Tom views himself as a man who is not a racist, then he cannot be considering voting for the racist Katie Hobbs, correct?
Reminder: Katie Hobbs was successful sued by a woman of color for discrimination in the workplace
Over 2 years ago I left Tucson to move to FL and retire with the ocean fun. I however kept my online subscription to the Weekly just to read the liberal vomit you write and laugh. I was so happy to not see an article from you for quite a while, finally thought the paper came to their senses, unfortunately here you are again. BTW, we live in a republic, not a democracy, a democracy is what the constitution and it’s founders were against. Read the constitution you bafoon..
It’s pretty rich that Trumpers would accuse Hobbs of racism.
Tom D. is spot on. As always.
Sinema has been disappointing…but far better than a MAGA wacko.
Vote blue to save democracy and womens rights.
You ought to visit the city you supposedly write about Tom: Tucson. Visit the Catholic elementary schools, Saint Johns, Santa Cruz, Saint Ambrose, San Miguel.
You support spending $12,000 a year to send rich white atheists to Catalina Foothills schools while opposing the $6,500 to send a poor Hispanic Catholic to one of these schools.
You are a bigot. The discrimination is based solely on religion. As it was from the beginning. Catholic schools were denied funding in the early 1800s because they wouldn’t used the protestant bible. Pure religious bigotry.
These schools were never public schools, they were always district schools. Districts were created to keep Blacks out of white schools. Now they are also used to trap minorities in schools that don’t work for them.
Every day a minority spends in Tucson Unified, they fall further behind whites.
Karl Marx famously said that all of history is the struggle between the oppressed and the oppressor. You are one of the oppressors defending one of the last bastions of white supremacy, the district school.
Your diatribe is getting weaker and weaker and more disgusting every day.
Jormo on 09/08/2022 at 12:02 PM says:
“It’s pretty rich that Trumpers would accuse Hobbs of racism.”
It’s even better that she was found to be a racist in a court of law by a jury, presumably composed of unbiased people. Try to keep up.
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hey heywood…a republic is a form of democracy.
You musta been high in civics class the day they explained that.
Look it up.
Learn something.
Hey wes….hobbs was never found “racist” by any court. Show me where in the judgement it says that…
And…didn’t your love of life lake endorse and anti-semite and a white racist. Yep…she sure did.
I’m hesitant to get into a discussion with a logically and grammatically-challenged individual so I’ll just let Katie Hobbs damn herself with her own words.
I don’t want to get into the details of the termination and the case. Looking back there are probably a lot of things that I would have done differently. I know that in proceeding in her termination, I participated in furthering systemic racism.”
Blake Masters is going to lose. Lose, lose, lose, just one big loser. That’s what the magats love, losers!
Perhaps some of the posters here are mad because Kari Lake won’t date them.
Now we see that Katie Hobbs refuses to debate Kari Lake, apparently because she thinks that Kari will not be ‘civilized’ or something. So, would it not be better for Hobbs to go to the debate and show the people of AZ what kind of rabid ‘mean person’ Kari truly is?
No – Katie has nothing to run on and she is scared. She would rather give Kari Lake the opportunity to have a free 30-minute infomercial.
Good democrat candidate for governor? I think not.