John and Jayar of The Damage Report let us know that it looks like Our Ochre Abomination is doing his best to cover up his doctor’s visits again (if Don The Con is supposed to be so damn healthy, then why does he have that horrible hand bruise in this pic?)...didn’t know the National Trust for Preservation sued to halt construction of that stinking ballroom; good for them...so OF COURSE #47’s consigliere Todd Blanche is all “oh, we have to have the stinking ballroom to protect my boss and all future presidents, but the National Trust wants to see all the presidents get shot, instead” or some such idiocy...oh, and we find out NOW that, in addition to that damn bunker, the Gropenfuhrer wants medical facilities under that damn ballroom too? He’s doing all he can to prevent EVER HAVING TO LEAVE THE WHITE HOUSE, PEOPLE!!!...good point by Jayar about the double standard of the Tangerine Toddler wanting all this secret stuff, but he apparently has no issue whatsoever with going to one of his damn golf courses in full public view...and how con-vee-nient that the damn ballroom is supposed to be built by September 2028...
...and Thom Hartmann echoes that quote from LBJ that “If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you,” and Thom lets us know about a study from Delaware that pretty much confirms that, with whites turning against the social safety net when they think it benefits non-whites...”white resentment beats white self-interest every time” – if you want just one example of that, look at Kentucky; they just voted out Thomas Massie, who, imperfect as he was, was nonetheless trying to hold Cantaloupe Capone to account, with the latter responsible for utterly decimating the bourbon industry in that state (mainly trading with Canada) because of those beyond ridiculous tariffs...oh, and ICE apparently is trying to build crematoriums inside their detention facilities; didn’t we fight a war against a nation that once tried to do that?...Thom interviews author George Koch about the latter’s book “Bullies, Parasites and Slaves: Replacing Exploitation with Mutual Care”...”Our hard work goes to subsidize their excess” indeed, referring to the “one percent” I’m sure, and that supermarket example is likely apt also...
...also, don’t be too shocked, but apparently we had a SCOTUS victory on continuing to allow Medicare to negotiate on drug prices, according to Peter Maybarduk of Public Citizen, despite the pharma industry litigating this and misleading the public for about 20 years and spending “tens of millions” trying to defeat it...and oh yeah, there was an $8 billion handout in the Big Beautiful Clusterf*ck to drug firms to try and gut price negotiations...if the national Democratic Party had any brains, they would be combing through that godawful legislation line by line (and also doing that concerning the terrible DOGE cuts from King Elon and Russell Vought) and crafting attack ads for EVERY DEM CANDIDATE based on that, but I’m definitely not getting overconfident on that one...
...and Dan Lieberman of More Perfect Union brings us the story of the “party of Lincoln” under Dear Orange Leader trying to find a new way to steal your Social Security...report is focused on Iowa, featuring a lady named Susan Ludeking, among others including former Decorah Mayor Lorraine Borowski...a big culprit in all of this mess is the aforementioned DOGE cuts last year that forced out thousands of employees from the Social Security Administration, as well as former SSA employee Jessica LaPointe...glad to see this report lay the blame squarely at the feet of The Sainted Ronnie R, who IMO is more responsible for the unraveling of this agency than anyone else, though successive Repug politicians have been after this vitally important agency ever since, and now it’s in the unsightly bruised hands of Combover Caligula...”grow some balls” to save Social Security indeed...
...and Mr. Newberger gives us the following on the “Trump Mobile Phone”...always a scam or grift by our ruling regime to bilk gullible rubes...
...and happy belated 85th birthday to Bob Dylan.
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