Thursday, July 03, 2025

Thursday Stuff (updates)


(By the way, I know the House is inching closer to a final vote on the Big Beautiful Bullsh*t Bill , but I’m going to keep putting up videos attacking it for a little while longer.)

David Pakman gives us the clip of Repug Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska giving her “death stare” to reporter Ryan Nobles who had the affrontery (as far as Murkowski is concerned) to call her out over her sellout vote on Trump’s trash bill to reward his campaign contributors and stick the rest of us with the residue...I wonder if Murkowski will be so brave to Rand (Fake Ophthalmologist) Paul who said the words in the first place?...



Update 7/5/25: Speaking of Alaska, I think this pretty much says it.

...and AOC cuts right to the heart of the matter on the Big Beautiful Clusterf*ck...”you should be ashamed”...and yes, she’s right, but the other side has proved that they’re not capable of shame, so...and I knew the whole “no taxes on tips” thing was a joke, and as far as I’m concerned, the cap of $25 grand is more or less throwing money at you when the john calls the cab and tells you to get the hell out...



...and Kyle Kulinski goes down the whole laundry list of cuts from DOGE as well as everything that will be destroyed because of the “BBB,” including scientific and medical research...and oh yeah, as a result of Our Ochre Abomination’s immigration roundup of college students in particular, we will indeed suffer a “brain drain” in this country...of course, that doesn’t diminish the cruelty inflicted on other workers who pretty much make our economy run on a daily basis (NSFW/H)...



...and Farron Cousins informs us that Trump’s “Big Beautiful Giveaway To The Rich” will kill 51K people a year; health experts signed onto a letter earlier this year saying as much...with the focus on gutting Medicaid, it’s easy to look past all of the other myriad monstrous ways this disgusting bill could ruin our lives, such as heating and cooling assistance as Cousins points out...



...oh, and in the likely event that this horrible legislative monstrosity passes and gets signed into law, what is next on the checklist for Dementia Donnie? Why, rounding up and deporting U.S. citizens, which #47 says is his “next job”...more lies and BS from this delusional narcissist and clueless egomaniac (Jesse Dollemore tells us about it)...



...and I guess, for better or worse, I had this newer tune in mind when I read about this (there were, and are, worse evangelical characters than Swaggart IMO, but as far as I’m concerned, he was emblematic of the moral rot of that band of zealots all the same).



Update: To be fair, here is Bri-Fi’s statement in opposition to the “Big, Beautiful Generational Ripoff” (Thomas Massie was the other No vote on the "R" side...more here).

So Bri-Fi says he opposed Medicaid cuts in the Senate version of the bill, and that’s why he voted No on the final version. My question is this; how the hell else did he think making that beyond wretched 2017 giveaway permanent would be paid for (an earlier vote in favor is here)?

If Bri-Fi cared so much about Medicaid cuts, then why was he NOT one of the 12 U.S. House Reps who opposed them in this letter to House Speaker MAGA Mike Johnson? Oh, riiight...Bri-Fi can’t go against his leadership, or else MAGA will primary him – got it.

If Bri-Fi seriously thought that gutting the social safety net was NOT how this garbage bill would be paid for, then he truly is an idiot and/or a liar. I mean, the “Freedumb” Caucus is nuts of course, but at least they’re showing their craziness and deceit out in the open.

Oh, and by the way, the carnage has already begun.

Update 7/4/25: Rep. Robert Bresnahan (PA) should go to jail for insider trading for this.

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