John and Sharon Reed of The Damage Report let us know here that MAGA Mike Johnson recently lied on Bleat The Press that, “oh, we did try to send food to help those in Gaza in the midst of a humanitarian catastrophe, but Hamas stole all of it,” a claim that is such a bad joke that I’m not even going to try and research it...”Bibi” and Hamas should have been forced into negotiation by an international body led by this country LONG ago, which definitely will never happen with this bunch we have now...and somehow, I have a feeling that the death toll in that region is a hell of a lot more than the “official” total of 60,000...and boy, do I ever like John’s idea about banning U.S. military assistance to Israel by 1 month for every dead child in Gaza...and I know it’s occurred to John that EVERYTHING #47 thinks about is about him and no one else...
...and Rachel Maddow informs us that Our Ochre Abomination skimmed about $934 million from the money allocated to upgrade our nuclear safety to spiff up his Qatari jet...looks like our missile silos out west have fallen into disrepair since the ‘60s and we’ll need new ones (of course, we could also abolish a few, but good luck with that – kind of a relic from the “Dr. Strangelove” era that we still have as many of them as we do, so OF COURSE Combover Caligula is raiding those funds so his fancy schmancy jet will have gold inlay all over the place...and oh yeah, there’s also the matter of all of the air traffic personnel who got canned by King Elon at DOGE and the impact on air safety...and I’m sure Sean Duffy will fix everything...uh huh)...
Update: More here (I almost don't want to even mention this).
...and Thom Hartmann lets us know that even Big Pharma didn’t want #47 to slap a 15% tariff on drugs coming from the EU, affecting 60% of our total pharmaceuticals (and I think Thom means a tax increase on working people, probably of about $19 billion – definitely NOT a cut)...and that includes Ozempic from Denmark; good luck trying to get a scrip for something over-prescribed like THAT one...”policy as punishment” indeed, including wrecking the EPA under that toady Lee Zeldin (and yeah, I think, as Thom says, this tariff madness is mostly about trying to make leaders grovel at Cantaloupe Capone’s feet – how disgustingly pathetic)...
...well, for something more positive, I should point out that yesterday was the 60th anniversary of signing Medicare and Medicaid into law (here), under current-at-that-time Democratic President Lyndon Johnson, with one-time Democratic President Harry Truman in attendance along with VP Hubert Humphrey (and nary a Repug in sight as far as I could tell)...
...and leave it to Mr. Newberger to keep the topic of the day front and center...
...and Tom Lehrer gave us the following number from the era noted in the Medicare/Medicaid clip – I don’t know if this is his most recognized tune or not, but I would guess that it’s on the “short list.”
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