Bill's Focus

Followed by a cogent concise response

If last night you wisely skipped the embarrassingly boorish bombastic bullshit thing called a speech by a diabolical dupe of our nation’s greatest enemy – good for you. It was a torturous almost two hours. I think it broke a record for fabrications and falsehoods. It was fascism on full display. It was creative.

Did you know that there are people who are over 150 years old still on the books at the Social Security Administration? OMG! Wait, wait. Did anyone in the audience ask if they were receiving payments? No. Never mind that the Inspector General’s office said that errors in payments amounted to less than 1% of the Social Security payouts. And those were overpayments to people who are quite alive. I suspect we could fix that with further research by additional experts and a scalpel – instead of firing people who COULD fix it.

And so it went…for almost two hours. Fools cheered absolute nonsense and so many lies it is impossible to count them. If you couldn’t make it through the embarrassment, the shame, the hate, the bigotry, the racism, the misogyny, the arrogance, the ignorance, the disparagement of our friends and allies – and the pure evil of that speech, you are not alone.

But after all that despicable garbage was spewed, there was a moment worth waiting for. The “rebuttal” by Senator Elissa Slotkin was excellent. This is the type of politician who will lead us out of these new Dark Ages.