Brian Tyler Cohen tells us about the recent failed town hall with Harriet Hagerman in Wyoming...I knew Hagerman was truly awful (the rep in the U.S. House voted in because Generalissimo Trump decided to sic his flying monkeys on Liz Cheney), but you’d have to go a looong way to find someone more entitled than she is, talking down to her constituents like she did (here), wondering why they cared about government so much or something...and as I watch AOC with her completely spot-on commentary, it reinforces once more what a fraud and utter coward @RepBrianFitz is for refusing to come out of his hidey hole and meet the people who (foolishly) put him in office (along with the fact that Bri-Fi was also too chicken to debate Ashley Ehasz in the campaign last year)...
...and what King Elon and Bronzer Beelzebub would do to Medicaid/Medicare/Social Security was front and center in the above clip of course, and with that in mind, Rachel Maddow tells us about “an effort to break the agency” administering Medicare/Social Security...looks like Elmo and Combover Caligula are trying to “reform” the claims process by trying to get claimants to verify their identity over the internet or (more likely) go to a claims processing office, which would create volumes more red tape and slow down the claims process, which is completely by design of course (75K to 85K in-person visitors per week, huh? And of course people working in these field offices are getting let go, making this even more of a clusterf*ck...yeah, this isn’t the wingnut “wet dream” of drowning this entitlement in the metaphorical bathtub, huh? Not much it isn’t...and Judd Legum, to his credit, is on this stuff)...
And by the way, with the prior clip in mind, I offer this...
...and returning to what’s going on in town halls, Sam and Emma of The Majority Report tell us that, apparently, there was a flare-up in Nebraska (and I get it that the Soros remark was tongue-in-cheek), with a lady talking about funding cuts to NIH to Repug rep Mike Flood, who of course is trying to tap dance as well as he can, though the crowd isn’t buying it...GREAT point by Sam that recessions follow on the heels of “balanced budgets” (and for this Flood guy to even utter the words “balanced budget” is an obscenity given that #47 and his minions want to extend those stinking 2017 tax cuts, which would add trillions to the debt...and one result of a search for “Kansas” and “Sam Brownback” is here)...
...and Ben Meiselas of the Meidas Touch Network informs us that it looks like “the land of the yellow rose” (and yeah, I think “laboratory of autocracy” fits, sadly) has had enough of #47 and President Elon, in particular when it comes to trying to gut the CHIPS Act...and it’s kind of telling to me also that our corporate media cousins aren’t giving all of this stuff the attention it deserves...I didn’t know that Texas delivered more wind energy than anyone else, but yeah, that’s even MORE of a reason to oppose this insanity from #47 (and of course, Cantaloupe Capone demonstrates that he doesn’t have the remotest idea of how wind energy really works, which shouldn’t be surprising)...and what a “godly” man this Robert Morris character is, another Trumpist lickspittle who’s been accused of child sex abuse (and to support Isaiah Martin, click here)...
...and Alec Opperman of More Perfect Union brings us the story of an auto dealer (allegedly) shutting off a vehicle when someone was driving because of a remote engine “kill switch” – a lady named Victoria Carter was driving with her kids in June of ‘21 when this took place...the clip profiles lawyer Lindsey Siegel, who was fired from the CFPB; Siegel was working on a case involving an outfit called USAuto Sales, which apparently is a loan servicer to low-income folks needing a vehicle to get to work and get their kids to and from school and for other needs; apparently, the vehicles were shut off using something called a starter interruption device when it appeared that loan repayment was due, and this appears to have happened while the vehicles were being driven on roads, highways, etc...well, the CFPB won a $32 million judgment against USAuto Sales, but because the CFPB was gutted by DOGE, it appears that the $$ may not get paid out...un-freaking believable (well, not really I guess, given this bunch in power now)...
...and Belle informs us of the hugely important Wisconsin Supreme Court contest coming up between Trumpist and Elon fanboy Brad Schimel and Susan Crawford (more here)...to help Crawford, click here...
...and maybe I’m a bit of a blue-eyed optimist I’ll admit to feature these tunes from Jesse Colin Young with all of the Trumpist insanity all about us, though maybe on the other hand, that may be the very reason why we need them now more than ever...I’ll conclude my tribute of sorts with these two selections.
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Excellent information, as usual, Dear Writer. When SS & medicare is cut, that's when his followers will rebel. Maybe? Take care ❤️Moe
I’m sure you read also that Bernie and AOC are going to red states and drawing big crowds; supposedly, the two of them are “too liberal,” but when they’re the only ones addressing the cuts to entitlements, it shouldn’t be surprising that they’re well-received...I think the “push-back” against #47 and King Elon is in earnest, but that needs to be translated into political change that lasts, and somehow that never seems to consistently happen...hopefully this will be different somehow, but it will be a big-time fight...thanks as always for checking in – best wishes also.
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