Fond (?) recollections of the US House voting for the Big Bad Bonkers Budget Busting Billionaire Bailout Boondoggle.
Presented in celebration (?) of the announcement that the US debt has hit $40 trillion.
#VoteThemOut. Vote Them all out.
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Thursday, August 27, 2026
Friday, August 21, 2026
WILL there be two women at the top of the SC Senate ticket???
#SCsen #SCpol
For anyone watching the SC #GOP runoff between Darline Graham (Nordone) and Roger Norman, there are too many cringe-worthy moments to list. RantWoman does not apologize for neglecting all the reasons Roger Norman is terrible. He is. Read up. Perhaps President #StableGenius would not be thrilled that he endorsed Nikki Haley in 2024
During the only runoff debate, Darline mistakenly said there are 50 million people instead of 5 million in SC. RantWoman is tempted to quip, well President "StableGenius is going to wrack up votes one way or another." Was the mistake a teleprompter error or someone else's fault? Either way, cringeworthy.
When asked about why Taiwan matters for US foreign policy, Darline quite candidly said foreign policy is not her thing. Candor for a not a politician politician is ALWAYS to be praised even though one might also desperately wish for better debate prep. Also "I don't know but I can learn" would be exactly on point.
The other part of Darline's non-answer answer: "I support our military," with comments about service by both her brother and her dad. Perhaps it is a good thing that RantWoman was not on scene. RantWoman would have blurted out some version of "Support our military. Keep them out of STUPID wars, Get them adequate provisions. DO NOT FIRE all the competent senior officers. And worst of all, get rid of the lying clueless #SecDef.
To RantWoman, after watching a whole lot of candidates endorsed by President #StableGenius lose in their primaries, after watching the President sink and sink and sink in the polls, it must be hard to stay someone's friend and still try to chart a course that is good for the country and for one's state. It is also amusing to read comments on Twitter / X fighting over who is the better Republican and who is more loyal to the President.
Based on Darline's professional background, RantWoman has the strong sense that if Darline would just reality test what she knows of voters' real experiences against #GOP policies, she could nail LOTS of points that would speak to current realities.
Other than that, RantWoman will also continue to try to rehabilitate the term DEI.
Dedication Empathy Imagination
Diligence Energy Initiative....
Darline followed up her Taiwan oopsie at the debate during an interview with Sean Hannity: they both agreed that lots of people in the US, (probably including President #StableGenius?) also don't know where Taiwan is. And of course, with rhetoric firmly on voters' biggest problems, Darline is 100% against transgender women in women's sports.
Even if a Democratic candidate looks good, RantWoman also HATES a sense of being extorted: "Vote for the Democrats or else." RantWoman is still angling for a sense of a Congress willing to work on serious problems, not just get mad and go out of town whenever things get too hard. Plus, RantWoman does not care whether it sounds sexist to say that it would just be cool for once to have strong women candidates from both parties.
OK, RantWoman has a vivid imagination, and does not vote in SC and ...
As a bonus, welcome to the easily misspelled name club. RantWoman has seen SO many sloppy posts that refer to DarlENE rather than DarlINE.
Thursday, July 30, 2026
Lindsay Graham, known among other things for bringing home the bacon.
#LindsayGraham
Lindsey Graham Gets Eulogized, the DNC Gets Scammed & the War in Iran Gets Reheated | The Daily Show
Spoiler alert: get started wth Jordan Klepper.
"Lindsay never met a war he didn't like."
Chair of the Finance Committee with a big hand in the Big Bad Bonkers Budget Busting Billionaire Bailout Boondoggle
RantWoman is trying to locate a Lindsay Graham memorial clip talking about all the money the late Senator Graham was able to bring home to SC: Lord help us. The words come from PResident #StableGenius or at least one of his speechwriters.
Being in sync with local SC needs--and federal tax dollars--is probably one of Darline Graham's greatest strengths. Unfortunately, is this orientation going to get her tarred in a primary campaign that now features a total of SIXTEEN candidates all probably vying to prove how anti-tax and eager to cut spending they are?
WATCH LIVE: Lindsey Graham funeral service held in South Carolina
Please at least appreciate this for the cultural phenomenon of a Southern Megachurch.
Pretty rocked up rendition of Amazing Grace
FULL: Lindsey Graham funeral service at Washington National Cathedral
"Lindsay Graham never met a war he didn't like." ???
One-minute video parade of all TWELVE people in the SC #GOP primary. 3 appear to be women.
Monday, July 20, 2026
Darline Graham is IN, running for a full term!
#SCpol #DisabilityPrideMonth #SenatorGraham
RantWoman would LOVE to see an all-women Senate Race in SC.
But RantWoman, aren't you being sexist or WOKE or #DEI?
1. People decide all-men races are just fine all the time. It's women's turn. Plus, I dunno, maybe women's insight can help wring justice and accountability out of endless Epstein sludge. But first, get through the primary OF COURSE
2. Woke?
Yep. During the #DonSnoreleone administration, candidates who can stay awake are already ahead of the game.
3. #DEI?
Dignity Enthusiasm Integrity?
Dedication Excellence Influence?
Diligence Equality Investment?
Disability Eagerness Initiative.
What's not to like?
Judging by the interview here, newly appointed Senator Graham already sounds like an astute politician, so much so that RantWoman is going to have to work to contain her reflex desire for anyone endorsed by President #StableGenius to LOSE.
No, that also is not automatically an endorsement. RantWoman has resolved not to give money to partizan campaigns but will definitely be supporting projects to get people registered, fight vote suppression, and stay on top of any efforts to subvert the election process.
RantWoman will also be treading carefully about hopes for voices that undo many of the worst most inhuman policies of the current administration.
Watch the Darline Graham interview. Skip the Mitch McConnell death watch.
Sunday, July 19, 2026
Should Darline Graham run in the SC GOP primary?
#SCpol #GOP #Senate
from elsewhere on Planet RantWoman
Adventures of RantWoman: The President endorses Lindsay Graham's sister in the SC GOP Primary.
True confession: RantWoman is usually THRILLED when a candidate who President #StableGenius has endorsed goes down in flames. In this case RantWoman would be thrilled to see a #GOP woman face off against a Democratic woman. But RantWoman's BS detector kicked in hard once, though. Speaking plainly, a CLUELESS Democratic pol ran for Secretary of State against a #GOP candidate who not only ran elections impeccably but also was well informed about the Talking Book and Braille library, under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of State.
RantWoman has no opinion about what it would take for Senator Graham to win a primary or how to stay competitive in a general election, but yeah two women on the ballot would be COOL!
Saturday, July 18, 2026
Strategic points about the Iranian hits in Jordan
#Iran #Jordan #Kuwait #SaudiArabia #Desalinzation #MemorandumOfMisunderstanding #EnergyEconomy #WarCrimes
Congress DO SOMETHING. President #StableGenius is going to keep doing this get awar with as much as possible without having to go to Congress.
"Neither side wants total war but neither side is able to extract itself."
Thursday, July 16, 2026
Congratulations Sen. Darline Graham
The following bout of RantWoman Unfiltered (more unfiltered than usual) brought to you by ...
BLINDNESS. Literal physical blindness and low vision. Journalistic blindness when too many media voices are ready to skip journalistic norms and hop on the lattest horse running around
Adventures of RantWoman: Contacts Matter. So does competence
RantWoman's points:
Perhaps the late Senator Graham respected his sister's work and listened when she and a few dozen blindness advocate friends came knocking.
RantWoman can't decide whether even to care about half the male sex workers in the District of Columbia talking about "Lady G" and his thing for red undergarments. But then RantWoman is from Seattle and has been known to go to events involving blind people from many parts of the US and announce "I am (RantWoman) and I am going to tell you about my pronouns whether you think you want to know or not.
Will the newly appointed Senator Graham deviate from her brother's foreign policy fixations? Will having a bigger forum help keep the needs of #PWD in the public's eyes?
STAY TUNED.
Sunday, July 12, 2026
May Senator Lindsay Graham Rest in Peace
All day RantWoman has simply said "May God rest the soul of Lindsay Graham."
RantWoman wishes to congratulate herself for finding some words that seem more centered than dancing on someone's grave or hoping that their soul is dragged into hell.
But wait. Could it be a conspiracy? Senator Graham reportedly died of sudden cardiac arrest. RantWoman's febrile mind leapt to LOTS of Russian oligarch's falling out of windows and dying of "sudden cardiac arrest." Did this kind of death bug bite Senator Graham. What WILL the tox screen say?
But along comes this video: Faux Snooze has to interrupt their tribute to Sen. Graham to announce...more bombing in Iran.
Perfect. Just Perfect. More bombing to remember a glib warmonger. Just perfect.
PS
Yay young independent journalists.
Kids, kids, kids: tighter editing anyone?
PPS. Are we supposed to be grateful if Senator Graham's passing saves the country from both a horrible vote suppression bill and a terrible attorney general? Stay Tuned!
Thursday, July 9, 2026
Wishing Mitch McConnell a "speedy recovery?"
#Senate #KYpol #McConnell
Speedy recovery?
The whole internet is full of people with medical credentials saying various versions of "Not Bloody likely."
The norm in modern hospitals is to kick people out as quickly as possible for many many conditions. If the good Senator were a regular person, most likely he would already have been kicked out to Skilled Nursing or dumped into the lap of family ordered to find an appropriate placement. But no.
Instead, we have multiple voices asserting that they had 20-minute conversations? Was it REALLY the Senator and not AI? Was it 20 minutes of raise one finger for a yes vote and two fingers for a no vote.
Is it gauche just to say
"May God rest Mitch McConnell's soul and may he not be forced endlessly to suffer in the hospital"?
The internet of course is also full of various versions of "May he be dragged immediately to hell to burn forever."
But what if the #GOP, instead of demanding proof of life, just started singing his praises, lauding every outrageous thing that Mitch has pulled off. Play recordings about this in his hospital room daily. Convince him that he has done, cough, so much for the US already and there are others who can carry on the fight.
RantWoman is not proud that it would be fine with her if the good Senator remains on life support and cannot vote anymore BUT KY voters absolutely deserve full competent representation.
TYT interviews former CIA agent John Kiriakiou
#Israel #Counterintelligence #Spycraft
More on the theme of Israel is NOT a friend of the US and there is NO WAY the US should be merging military with a country with such a horrible human rights record.
Greatest hit conspiracy theories: 9/11 October 7 with details to back up the conspiracy themes.
RantWoman definitely remembers the atmosphere of 2001 as a civilian contractor at a certain large aircraft company. LOTS of people clearly knew something was up.
It would be nice if a certain Congressional campaign featured constructive discussion about the issues raised here.
Wednesday, July 8, 2026
Friday, June 26, 2026
Lawrence O'donell on Senators telling the President they are losing a war.
#Iran #WarPowersResolution #Senate #Decorum
RantWoman admires the respectful recounting here of historical decorum and peace achievements.
When it comes to a senile delusional national and global embarrassment of a president and a little "excursion," though RantWoman's mind is a little less on decorum and quite a bit more on #25thAmendment and genteel retirement to a lifetime full of as many naps as someone needs and as much golf as he can manage. Clearly a certain #StableGenius has already done more than enough for the world and he deserves to give himself a break, NOT the giant tax break he is trying to wangle for his family, but....
RantWoman digresses. Play the video again for thoughts of dignity and decorum and real peacemaking.
Wednesday, June 24, 2026
Grok + overriding / ignoring environmental regulations = bombing an Iranian girls' school???
#GROK #Iran #AI #MSpol #TNpol
Ai ai ai. The events described here are just GROSS on so many levels.
Let's see: the US government admits in a court filing in the NAACP case against a Musk data center in MS that the grok.gov ai model is absolutely necessary for national security including the drone swarm that, among other things, bombed the girls' school??
RantWoman is inclined to double check the court filing and other sources before absolutely pinning the bombing on AI alone, but the suggestion sounds really plausible.
And OF COURSE the people of MS are entitled to a clean environment.
So please help RantWoman out: HOW exactly is untrammeled dumping of pollutants in racially biased patterns #AmericaFirst?
In related news
Monday, June 22, 2026
#Iran #JCPOA #MoU #ObamaPresidentialCenter
RantWoman attempt at synopsis:
Brand new YouTube channel which means RantWoman still wants to know where this info comes from,
Buried among all the celebration and hope and respect for the US was a statement that echoes General Milley: the military serves the Constitution, not just any single leader.
For many months US forces have been deployed in the Middle East in a posture that might lead to further military action.
The June 2026 MoU could potentially change the mission entirely. Actually carrying out actions currently live in a space that is ambiguous, without the clear guidelines that previously existed.
The 60-day timeline is considerably more aggressive than the multi year process that yielded the MULTILATERAL #JCPOA.
Three key sets of questions:
verification, including technical details represented very poorly in RantWoman's view by the current negotiating team. Neither J D Vance, Marco Rubio, nor...are nuclear safety experts, voices critically needed if an agreement is reasonably going to be verifiable.
Israel has been left out of all phases of the negotiations so far.
The 60-day timeline.
Watch the whole video. Helpful for thinking past the breathless muddle of network news.
Sunday, June 21, 2026
Will taking away US aid to Israel make a difference, and better or worse?
#Iran #Israel #NuclearWeapons
"The US needs meaningfully to restrain Israel"
Does Israel want to drag the US back into conflict?
Saturday, June 20, 2026
Spit and Duct Tape, national pride, willingness to absorb pain without capitulating
#Iran #StraitOfHormuz #Oil #DiegoGarcia #ChagosIslands #Mauritius
RantWoman always finds Sen. Kennedy fascinating.
"No military means to open the Strait of Hormuz"
The Secretary of #WarCimes MAY have achieved bipartisan anger enough to limit DoD travel budget
#NDAA #WarCrimes #DoubleTap
Speaking of readiness and other basic concern for US troops
And in related alliance issues
Thursday, June 18, 2026
Tackling the Iran Peace Deal
#Iran #StraitOfHormuz #NuclearWeapons
Yes, of COURSE RantWoman could have launched her commentary with SERIOUS pieces. Instead RantWoman will be going off on what seem to be the main talking points raised about the beginning, HOPEFULLY, of a path to peace.
Just let the comics at the realities.
Trump Faces GOP Fury Over Iran Deal; Fox News Blames JD Vance; Iran Gets $300 Billion: A Closer Look
Trump’s Iran Memorandum of Understanding Released, Declares War Is Over and Strait of Hormuz to Open
"this is a bad deal for the Iranian people" because the government is emboldened and has billions more to spend on weapons.
And now from FRANCE24
As long as Israel continues bombing in Lebanon, Iran sees no reason to negotiate.
JD Vance tells Israel not to p*ss off the only superpower in the world who is an ally for Israel.
(RantWoman comment: Ummmm. Will Israel actually knock off the massive human rights violations or will they just get madder and crazier and go it alone?)
Sunday, June 14, 2026
Sal weighs in about US attacks on vessels near the #StraitOfHormuz
#Iran #GulfOfOman #StraitOfHormuz
Read the summary YouTube provided
Why is the US doing these strikes?"
If your are going to decide something is valuable, then dot i's and cross t's
"This is not a great environment to be in if you are a merchant mariner."
Why is oil not $100 / barrel. X post discussing Chine using theirs reserve
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