We all know how much our dearly despisedabhorredreviled tolerated *preznit hates renewable energy because he can’t game the market and profit from it, and of all the alternative forms of power out there, I think wind is #1 on his hit list, as Desi Lydic pointed out yesterday. Well, with that in mind, I was recently visited by the muse, and I’d like to share the following:
Like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel
Or the grumbling in your stomach when you miss a Happy Meal
Affection for your children that you feel just now and then
Or delusions of Joe Biden when he used an Autopen
As Ivanka Trump lay buried underneath the fairway green
Or those rallies with “the faithful” where you always make a scene
Showing all the gaps they find in the windmills of your mind
Like the wormhole that you follow to delusions in your head
Where a cognitive exam should find some common sense instead
When the bronzer starts to melt, revealing layers of your tan
As you escalate pre-emptive war without end in Iran
As Xi detects our defense posture slowly start to crack
Knowing full well that this century belongs to Asia PAC
It’s a pity just to find only windmills of your mind
Like the growing voice of protest that you’ll never, ever quell
Or your Mar-a-Lago bathroom full of classified “intel”
Or all the ICE detainees fighting bravely to be free
Or musicians that are bailing on “250” in D.C.
Or those who hope our economic hardship does relent
Or Russell Vought’s conniving to protect the one percent
Our integrity's declined from the windmills of your mind
Like the pardons handed out when all the bribery was paid
Like the pain to poor and farmers from destroying US AID
Our infrastructure crumbles, while you act so unaware
As your FLOTUS flouts compassion, showing only a blank stare
Like the swirling lies behind the dark spaces we all find
In the windmills of your mind
With apologies to Michel Legrand, wherever he may be (a parody of a song in a movie about a crook, appropriately enough).
David Shuster of Rebel HQ brings us Robert of Cleveland, Ohio apologizing on C-SPAN for voting for #47...I suppose I should ridicule him for wasting his vote two years ago, and this man does deserve a measure of blame, but I’m sorry; I just can’t kick someone who’s trying to mend his ways...oh, but the Gropenfuhrer has yet another meltdown when he’s held to account over the Trumpstein files – how damn predictable...and yes, C-SPAN is indeed a treasure for reporting all of this madness with the deadpan accuracy it deserves...we also learn that the Trumpsters appear to be tiring of the antics of Crazy Eyes Ka$h Patel as FBI head, but don’t expect this regime to name someone who is actually competent if Patel is sacked (clip revisits Patel’s snorkeling excursion at Pearl Harbor, as well as some of the personal trips he took for himself and his girlfriend on a taxpayer-financed jet)...also, kudos to Michael Feinberg for cutting through all of this Patel nonsense...
...and Brittany Page lets us know that Trumpster Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins claimed recently that food stamp recipients can buy a “Lambo” – WHAAA??? Yep, looks like Rollins put her foot in it again, with hunger worse now than at the height of the pandemic...obviously, I trust absolutely nothing from our ruling regime, but as Page points out, if you have the means to own a vehicle like the ones Rollins describes, why the hell would you then go through the trouble of filling out all kinds of paperwork for SNAP benefits?...also as Page says, if our ruling gang of frauds and charlatans could actually find ONE PERSON guilty of this claim, wouldn’t they then parade this person all over wingnut media? I guarantee you, if they found someone, it would be on 150 right-wing web sites, blogs, substacks...whatever...in about 15 minutes...didn’t know about Cantaloupe Capone intervening for a $620 million deal for Uday Trump, Jr. – gee, where’s James Comer screeching about that the same way he did about the “Biden crime family”?...I’d forgotten that our *preznit cancelled the annual hunger survey, which figures; I mean, he can’t talk about hunger if he has no data on it, now can he?...about 363 million people around the world facing acute hunger because of the ruinous policies of our ghoulish federal overlords (slightly NSFW/H)...
...oh, and did you know that, according to Repug U.S. House Rep Randy Fine of FL-06, that "many Democrats hate America"? I realize that that’s wingnut boilerplate for the reddest of red districts, but yeah, I still think it needs to be called out (Fine is the numbskull responsible for this, among his other misdeeds...one response is to click here, and yes, I know the electoral odds are long, but there’s no percentage at all in doing nothing)...
...and Ali Velshi gives us a bit of a history lesson on how we celebrated the Bicentennial, contrasting that with the 250th anniversary...he includes a pretty spot-on accurate lesson of Philadelphia at a time when yours truly was growing up, with Frank Rizzo as perhaps the dominant, and most controversial, figure of that time; one of Velshi’s completely accurate points is that often a celebration like the Bicentennial back then is contrasted by protests of marginalized groups, which is part of our tradition also IMO...I give Velshi credit for saying that a lot of the political carnage going on right now goes back to the “unresolved sin” of slavery, and if anybody out there thinks that’s hyperbole, ask yourself if you SERIOUSLY BELIEVE that Our Ochre Abomination would have ascended politically without the animus generated by whites against our first black president...with Eddie Glaude, Jr...I knew about the VRA of ’65, but I’d forgotten about the Immigration and Nationality Act from that same year and its positive impact; good point by Glaude also that attacks on African American voting AND immigration are part and parcel of the same racist crap platformed and promoted by our ruling gaggle of miscreants and pretenders...”history may not repeat itself, but it damn sure rhymes” indeed...
...and Desi Lydic of The Daily Show gives her take on Pumpkin Pol Pot’s battle against windmills...and yes, they are indeed wind turbines, but since we live in the worst timeline, I guess they’re back to being windmills, or something...
I’m going to go meta again with some stuff...I’m going to try and open things up a little bit so not every post is full of “what ridiculous, idiotic and possibly illegal thing did our *preznit do over the last day or so” since even that stuff is part of his strategy to crowd out other more important IMO info in the news cycle (there is some Trump-related stuff in this post, but again, I’m trying to rein that in where I can)...also, posting isn’t going to be on a regular cycle, you might say, for a little while still.
And as part of “opening things up,” I give you Don Lemon discussing the Minnesota state GOP, which recently held a moment of silence for Derek Chauvin at their state convention in Duluth (yep, THAT Derek Chauvin)...but not to worry, because Baby Ben Shapiro jumped right into the fray to defend Chauvin (more than a bit of a “tell” that Shapiro says in essence that Chauvin’s conviction set back race relations due to the extent of property damage as a result of the protests against Chauvin, and I would SERIOUSLY doubt that dollar number anyway...this is a typical “law and order” wingnut argument, though, completely and utterly failing to recognize the human suffering of Floyd, his family and friends)...I honestly can’t think of a time when I’ve had an issue with Keith Ellison – he pretty much nails every issue he’s involved with as far as I’m concerned...also, I don’t know what it says about this country that some guttersnipe like Tony Hinchcliffe can be treated as an alleged comedian, but it can’t be anything good...NSFW/H...
...and keeping with legal stuff, Rachel Maddow informs us that the Gropenfuhrer is destroying the DOJ in court...we get an update on former border patrol officer Greg Bovino, who was relieved of his duties after he failed to deport a third of the population of this country, but not to worry again, because Bovino apparently is still able to jet to a white supremacist conference in Portugal...oh, and Bovino also apparently was trying to prosecute someone in Chicago who allegedly threatened him, but oopsie! – looks like we get still more legal nonsense from this regime, and the case collapsed...and apparently, the same thing happened to the case against the “Broadview Six” who protested at an Illinois ICE facility...nice work by the defense attorneys not just rolling along with the charges getting dropped and deciding to try and get to the bottom of this madness instead...not a good idea to try and hide prosecutorial misbehavior from a judge, you Trumpist legal nitwits...Maddow speaks with Chris Parente, a lawyer representing one of the Broadview Six defendants...
...and staying in that locality, Brian Tyler Cohen speaks with Dem nominee for the U.S. Senate from Illinois (and Lieutenant Governor) Juliana Stratton, who apparently would go after the SCOTUS (thank God!), to say nothing of trying to resurrect the John Lewis For The People Act...glad Cohen mentioned health care, since there has been roaring silence from the “D” team on that among other issues as nearly as I can tell (and of course, utterly forget about the “party of Lincoln”), and I have no doubt that Stratton would fight on that issue also – we definitely need to do battle once more for Medicare for All (I think she says a lot of good stuff here generally about a range of topics)...
...and Farron Cousins brings us the tale of HHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin trying to ban flights to sanctuary cities – this is still MORE illegality from this regime, since what Mullin is proposing is in direct violation of the Constitution as Cousins points out...also it would punish Dems, Repugs, businesses, individuals...and all just in time for the 250th and the World Cup...brilliant! (John Fetterman should feel really stoo-pid for voting to confirm this guy...also NSFW/H)...
...and I realize that The Onion News Network gets a little edgy at times, but given this, I think there’s a point to their humor here...
...and the weather is just too nice in these parts to not include a bit of an upbeat seasonal tune, so here goes.
OK, so House Repugs get a bill passed which basically is trying to “disappear” trans people by banning LGBTQ-plus clubs, as well as a knock-off of the “Don’t Say ‘Gay’” law in Flori-DUUUH!, and it also forces teachers to ‘out’ trans students to their parents, opening up this endangered group to possibly verbal and physical abuse (and kudos to Mike Figueredo for courageously telling his story)…”trans refugees” shouldn’t be a thing IMO, but it is in this country, to our shame…I’m sure you have an idea of where this is going, so I’ll just get there – EIGHT F*CKING U.S. HOUSE “DEMOCRATS” voted for this garbage bill along with every Republican – the 8 were Henry Cuellar, Donald Davis, Cleo Fields, Laura Gillen, Vicente Gonzales, Marcy Kaptur, Eugene Vindman (I’ll remember this the next time I get a text from his brother Alex), and the utterly wretched Marie Gluesenkamp Perez…oh, and Gluesenkamp Perez, Gillen and Vindman are members of the Congressional Equality Caucus (truly, you can’t make up this stuff)…fortunately, Dem Rep Mark Takano actually knows what’s going on with this issue…and yeah, I’d like to tell Gluesenkamp Perez what she can do with her “banana bill”; looks like somebody is trying REALLY HARD to appeal to moderates with something of ultimately no consequence while those unicorn “moderates” decide to vote for the Repugs anyway (and as Figueredo points out, Gluesenkamp Perez is even wrong on the state reg she’s criticizing…so many layers of “DUUUH!” here) – I know we’ll need all the “D” seats we can get this fall, but it would almost be worth it if she lost…good for Figueredo to put up that graphic at 10:52 with the phone numbers to call these 8 frauds and tell them to leave Team “D” and join the intolerant fascists who they seem to align with…really deflating to see how odious the influence of AIPAC is on our side with NOT NEARLY ENOUGH politicians opposing those bloodthirsty warmongers…I would add to Figueredo’s observation about purging these centrist Dem election pretenders by saying that progressives are largely the ones going out and doing the “nuts and bolts” stuff to try and win elections (phone banking, texting, canvassing, newspaper Op-Eds, putting up signage, getting folks to the polls), so we should be listened to for that reason if for no other…the lady in that TikTok video also made a lot of sense IMO (NSFW/H)...
...and Belle of the Ranch gives us more on the Gropenfuhrer abandoning promises to our vets...didn’t know about the E.O. on 5/9/25 designating a “center for warrior independence” on the west LA VA campus where homeless vets in that area and around the nation can received the care and benefits that they’re entitled to...so the VA Secretary was supposed to present an “action plan” to Dear Orange Leader within 120 days for a facility to house up to 6K homeless vets to be built by 1/1/28...but oopsie! – there’s exactly nada in the budget for that...oh, and everyone associated with this project had to sign NDAs, just like how an honest and above-board organization is supposed to operate (#joke)...I agree that housing 6K vets in one LA location isn’t such a good idea (should be spread out across the country to make it easier to provide care and assistance); makes it reek of nothing but a PR stunt even more...
...and Corrine Straight of Really American tells us about Deidre Henderson, who is the lieutenant governor of Utah standing up for election security and debunking the nonsense from Great Orange Satan and his flatulent biped followers...that state’s Repug legislature was able to get some “opt in” measure passed for mail-in ballot voting starting in ’29, which creates another obstacle (almost shocking to hear common sense from a Repug, but credit where it’s due, and kudos to Henderson for doing all of the hard work to find out that 27 people out of 2 million in her state were confirmed non-citizens registered to vote...more on these Restoration of America cretins is here)...
...and Jen Psaki gives us a bit of an overview of the shady deals from Cantaloupe Capone (are there any other kind with him?) just in time for the 250th anniversary, as reported by the NYT, including of course the now-$13 million scam at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool...one firm was involved in the 1/6 insurrection, and another has to do with that stinking ballroom...and oh yeah, there’s also the matter of promoting a video game company behind this beyond-ridiculous steel cage fight on the White House lawn on 6/14 (which is also Flag Day of course)...also, this “250 pardons” scheme from Pumpkin Pol Pot has BAD, TERRIBLE IDEA written all over it (and all to shake down still more suckers)...Psaki speaks with Norm Eisen of Democracy Defenders...and of course, it’s not surprising that this regime of guttural lowlifes (at least the DOJ in this case) are pursuing charges against E. Jean Carroll, who apparently is at fault for having the tremendous courage to fight back against Our Sexual Predator-In-Chief (removing my tongue from my cheek on that one)...
...and speaking of the “American State Fair,” or whatever that’s supposed to be, Mr. Newberger gives us a bit of a preview...
...and I liked this newer tune as a bit of a “mellow Monday” selection – no argument with the title whatsoever.
This New York Times report tells us how a SCOTUS ruling could separate this Haitian nurse and mother (Harlaine Dominique) from her son and her mother...the report lets us know that tens of thousands of Haitians work in health care, and while we rightly praised them during COVID, now they’re treated as persona non grata by way too damn many people, including our ruling regime...Dominique has temporary protected status, but our bought and paid for SCOTUS could bring the TPS program to an end at the urging of Combover Caligula and the fascists running our government including Baby Goebbels (and Dog Killer Noem for a time also)...and we also learn that the Trump regime restricted Medicare access to TPS holders, not allowing Dominique’s mother to potentially get the kidney transplant she needs; hard to catalogue all of the barbarities of the connivers and grifters in our executive branch, but that’s another one...
...and in this clip from The Damage Report, we find out more on redistricting efforts to remove African American representation and how those efforts are failing in the courts (for now, and hopefully for good) in Alabama and South Carolina...looks like some Repugs in “the palmetto state” came down with an attack of sanity and joined the Dems to oppose redistricting because they saw that their seats could be imperiled...Tennessee and Louisiana also eliminated black districts, with potentially Georgia and Mississippi trying to do that as well...on top of that, it looks like Flori-DUUUH will join in on this, even though they have a state law prohibiting gerrymandering (yeah, like Repugs care about laws and the will of the voters – too funny)...kudos to the Congressional Black Caucus for keeping up the fight...I think John Iadarola brings a lot to the table in this discussion, and I don’t mean to pick on Sharon Reed quite so much, but I don’t think she has much insight here...
...and Yasmin Khan discusses NJ Repug U.S. House rep Tom Kean Jr., who gets tracked down after having missed a bunch of votes...if Kean has a legitimate health issue and he needs treatment, I hope he gets it and I’m not trying to trivialize that (even though our congressional politicians get health care that WE ALL should be entitled to), but damn, to be missing for 75 DAYS???!! AND MISSING 88 VOTES??!!...oh, but he still could definitely “make bank” in stock trades despite his incommunicado status...and yeah, we know the Gropenfuhrer has been “having his way” in the Repug primaries, but I firmly believe the general election will be another matter, though we need to keep working for Team “D” to achieve the best possible outcome...
...and Tennessee Brando tells us about New York Giants quarterback Jaxson Dart getting heat for introducing Cantaloupe Capone at one of the latter’s rallies, so OF COURSE along comes someone named Will Cain of Fix Noise to say that only “the left” thinks they can make a political impact, or something, with Brando rightly reminding everyone about Colin Kaepernick and the fallout from him taking a knee during the national anthem to protest police brutality (yeah, I think Dart was wrong also, but most jocks are Republicans, so I’m not going to get worked up over it – yeah, they should see the error of their ways, but they’re not going to join “Team D” because I say so)...Brando also uses comedy as an example here, mentioning the utterly wretched and completely unfunny Tony Hinchcliffe and comparing him somewhat to Redd Foxx and Don Rickles...and oh, it’s the fault of “Washington elites” (according to that nematode Tim Burchett) that the economy is wrecked and our quality of life is lousy; these Repug knuckleheads ARE COMPLETELY IN CHARGE OF OUR DAMN GOVERNMENT!!!...I particularly like what Brando said at the end concerning the Dems; ”the establishment can’t keep taking credit when the progressives win” indeed (NSFW/H)...
...and speaking of sports, Jimmy Kimmel lets us know that, apparently, fans of the New York Knicks are whooping it up over the team’s postseason success, powered in a big way by Villanova alums Josh Hart, Jalen Brunson and Mikal Bridges (the latter was stoo-pidly traded away by the Sixers, who could run a clinic IMO on totally screwing up a franchise rebuild)...also, it looks like Uday Trump Jr. got married again without his father in attendance, who no doubt was hard at work coming up with some new grift at our expense...I hadn’t seen a pic before of that whatever it is (arena, I guess) that they’re constructing on the White House lawn (yet another desecration) in time for that UFC fight for the Gropenfuhrer’s 80th birthday...”Sir, many people don’t know that ‘dumb’ has a ‘b’ in it, or so I was told, and I was indeed the first person to discover that...thank you for your attention to this matter – now excuse me while I have my third annual physical this year”...oh, and HHS Secretary RFK Jr. spotted a pair of black snakes while he was hanging out with “Dr. Crudité,” apparently because neither of them have anything more important to do, so of course he handled them in such a way that he could easily get bitten (truly, what a rocket scientist)...also, it looks like the Trump mobile phone has a flaw that exposes personal security information – can’t imagine how dim a bulb you have to be to buy one of those things, but there are still marks out there waiting to get played I guess...
...and as previously noted, we observed the birthday of one octogenarian rock n’ roller this week with Bob Dylan, and Wednesday marked that of another one, Bruce Cockburn, and with that in mind I offer the following tune...trying to wrap up the week with a bit of a hopeful message (lyrics here - mildly NSFW/H also).
Ali Velshi brings us the important question, “To whom does this democracy actually belong?,” which is something I think all of us need to be asking, especially now...also, apparently Hawaii is fighting back against Citizens United; have to admit that I’m shocked to hear that a Repug state rep on the island, Kainani Sousa, is the one leading the charge in getting a bipartisan bill passed banning corporate spending in their state’s elections, and in the process, redefining what a corporation actually is (and kudos to Dem state senator Karl Rhoads also)...I think Tom Moore is a damn genius for coming up with a way for states to regulate corporations and pull an end-run pretty much around that tragic and despicable SCOTUS ruling...I know I touched on a similar effort in Montana previously, and kudos to those folks also...
...and keeping with domestic politics, Belle lets us know that the “party of Jim Crow 2.0” tag bothers the GOP – cue the world’s smallest violin...and why am I not the least bit surprised to find out that one of the individuals taking umbrage is the thoroughly vile Repug U.S. Senator Mike Lee of Utah?...oh, but there are 4 African American Repug U.S. House reps, so Hangin’ Judge JR is right when he says racism is dead I guess (SMDH)...Belle is right that four, against a 200-member caucus, is nothing to brag about, especially since none of those mentioned are running for re-election (those knuckleheads in Flori-DUUH will probably make Byron Donalds the next governor)...it would be freaking hilarious if the “party of Lincoln” ends up diluting the makeup of their previously “safe” districts with these gerrymanders to get rid of black representation to the point of putting MANY MORE seats in play than those that they expected...oh, and speaking of idiocy from the “daddy party” (give me a break!), John Cornyn could have walked right back to the Senate for another term, but with the thoroughly odious Ken Paxton as the nominee from the “all hat, no cattle” state, that puts that election somewhat in play for the “D” team...I mean, yeah, it’s Texas, and I have no illusions about how long the odds are (here), but it’s possible as of now (here)...
...and Farron Cousins brings us the latest on the wingnut consolidation of the media landscape...looks like James Murdoch (son of Rupert The Pirate) just spent $300 million to purchase Vox Media, which has truly been an important outlet as Cousins points out...and yes, as Cousins says, all of this consolidation is truly right out of the fascist playbook; not at all hard to see the direction this is going – for yours truly, the beginning of the end of this came when media organizations became more preoccupied with “balance” to keep wingnut goofballs happy than to report on verifiable truth and reality (and speaking of wingnut media idiocy, there is this – I’m sure Sharyn Alfonsi expected that for her courageous segment on CECOT, but it’s still a pretty damn putrid way to treat a skilled, seasoned employee)...NSFW/H...
...and turning to our regularly scheduled pre-emptive Middle East war, Lawrence O’Donnell tells us that Cantaloupe Capone apparently is too busy to explain to us what’s going on (yeah...like he actually knows)...I’ve had issues with Seth Moulton in the past, but he did a pretty damn good job of trying to untangle this mess (and why do I have a feeling that Cheetoh Hitler is going to pull the same tactic of “we have a cease fire, but bomb them anyway” over and over like our *preznit’s best bud “Bibi”?)...we revisit that great quote form John Kerry in his Senate testimony in 1971 about asking the last man to die in Vietnam for a mistake...commenting on military matters is above my pay grade a bit, but I would only suggest that though Admiral Cooper handled himself capably IMO in the hearing, it’s obvious that he was left holding the metaphorical bag by our regime of grifters and frauds, and I DEFINTELY don’t have a problem with Moulton’s incisive line of questioning; when all we get are lies, half-truth and evasions, EVERYONE from this regime should feel like they have massive targets on their backs, for political fallout I mean, and that goes for Admiral Cooper also...
...and as a bit of a follow-up to O’Donnell, Kyle Kulinski lets us know that even Fix Noise can’t defend the Gropenfuhrer and his Not-So-Excellent Adventure in Iran, saying that Our Sweaty Orange Bronzer Boy needs to open the Strait of Hormuz AND keep Iran from enriching uranium (and yeah, I know, we had a deal under Obama, blah blah blah)...not sure if that generic hairdo in this segment is Tomi Lahren or not...good point by Kyle that there WAS a deal for Iran not to enrich uranium before the U.S. and Israel decided to bomb them, including that girls’ school where over 100 people were killed...I have a feeling that Kyle is right when he says that the “price tag,” if you will, on this wretched war of choice has yet to arrive, but it’s coming for sure...NSFW/H also...
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...
