The Democrat From Down in Georgia

The Problem with Kemp II The Saga Continues If there is one universal sign of wrong-ness, if there is one thing above all others that shows what you're doing is stupid, I personally think it's Trump saying that even he disagrees with you. If Donald Trump himself, the man behind such great decisions like Trump Steaks or Atlantic City or immigration ban over twitter, says what you're doing is wrong, you can take that to the bank. So let me spell it out for Kemp here: Your wrong. As of right now, Georgia has over 21,000 cases, a fatality rate over 4% (which is double the average), and the entire country is on lock down two weeks from when Trump thought everything was going to be fine, and you still think it's ok to open? Not only that, but you picked the worst business TO reopen in the middle of a pandemic. Why is it that while the state parks I was getting my exercise in before they got shut down is still closed, but nail and massage parlors are considered fine...

When Pigs Began to Fly or: How Republicans Learned to Love Government Bailouts The most animistic trait we still have as humans, one that has been carried on over from our ancestors for hundreds of years, is panicking. Panicking for us, just as it exists in animals, causes us such great anxiety and fear that it just overrides everything we’ve learned and been taught how to do, no matter how sound and logical it might be, a trait that has come out a lot recently during this pandemic. Instead of heeding the advice of experts like Dr. Fauci who told us this virus wasn’t going to just be like the flu, we laughed him off and went back to living our lives. And when it did turn out to be worse than the flu and everything seemed to be collapsing around us, instead of just going to the store and buying what we needed before calmly heading home to shelter and wait it out, we panicked. Story after story came out about people buying up literally dozens of toilet paper packages...

The Problem With Kemp I A Sheep in Wolves Clothing There are many ways you can describe Brian Kemp. You could call him slow, reactive, milquetoast, conservative, and many, many more titles, but the one that is never fitting is leader. Through and through, Brian Kemp is a man that simply follows. He is desperate to reach the big league of politics that he’s dreamed of playing in, and so he tries to mimic the people he sees in the positions he wants. There isn’t one aspect of him that is original or authentic, everything is simply a show so he can hold on to the power he wants, and the worst part is it’s so damn obvious. The first signs of his inability to think for himself was early in the 2018 gubernatorial race during the crowded Republican primary. It was commonly accepted at the time that the real race in heavily conservative Georgia was the Republican primary, because a win there combined with a guaranteed general election victory meant you were the next governor. With tha...

The Problem with Loeffler I: SALE: Senate Seat, Hardly Used There is really only one quality I think is important in a United States Senator, which is, for better or worse, they must represent their constituents. It doesn’t matter if their constituents back policies I think are stupid, or laws I think should be changed, if a senator is representing what his people want, than he’s ok in my book. It’s a really low bar, and honestly, if you don’t reach it, then you probably shouldn’t be a senator, and that, in a nutshell, is why I despise Kelly Loeffler. Everything about her tenure, from her appointment to her time in the Senate, is slandered in opportunism and greed, and her actions in the past few weeks have made her go from shady to outright corrupt. She absolutely represents no one in our state except for herself and her banker, and I think if she had a shred of dignity left she would be using it to resign. Now, I don’t believe it’s fair for a person to be considered guilty be...