Tuesday, July 01, 2025

Tuesday Stuff

(One more time, click here to contact your U.S. senator and tell them to vote NO on the "Big Beautiful Atrocity"...more here).

Richard Ojeda of Rebel HQ brings us more voter remorse over #47, including the woman laughing about the “Trump mobile” scam (ummm...I wouldn’t be laughing if I knew how hard I got utterly played, but that’s just me I guess)... I have to admit that I get a little fed up with how Joe Rogan is taken seriously as some kind of a political prognosticator, but I guess that’s just the reality...and Thomas Massie definitely isn’t a “profile in courage” by any means, but at least he can “read the room”...and yeah, the “four dipsh*ts of the apocalypse” are indeed saddling up (NSFW/H)...



...and Belle of the Ranch gives us more background on Combover Caligula’s Medicaid cuts, and she commendably blows up some of the rhetoric on BBB...the CBO has released their numbers, cutting Medicaid, Medicare and the ACA by $1.1, mostly out of Medicaid...also, 11.8 million people losing health insurance by 2034, all for massive tax cuts for the “pay no price, bear no burden” bunch...also, $325 million to create an additional bureaucracy and paperwork hurdles to require constant tracking of people receiving Medicaid, and possibly Medicare too to make sure they remain eligible...and yes, the Senate version is actually worse when it comes to work requirements and proof of attending school...and of course, the Repugs are saying this will only affect undocumented workers, which (and you’d better fetch the fainting couch when you hear this) is a BIG FAT LIE; “non-verified citizenship” only affects 1 in 10 of those who will be kicked off Medicaid...I have a feeling that passing this bill will truly be the reckoning for the utter stoo-pidity of anybody who voted for Cantaloupe Capone, as well as the rest of us who will pretty much be collateral damage...and oh yes, it’s time to dump on LGBTQ individuals again; for the umpteenth freaking time, KIDS AREN’T GETTING BOTTOM SURGERY! THEY’RE GETTING REVERSIBLE PUBERTY BLOCKERS, WHICH MOST OF THEM WANT BECAUSE THEY’RE SERIOUS ABOUT TRANSITIONING!!! And as Belle says, we’re only talking about 13K surgeries per year in a country with about 330 million people...and by the way, every freaking bit of this mess was completely predictable, and individuals like yours truly, filthy unkempt liberal blogger that I am, were yelling as loud as we could to warn everybody...



...and Tennessee Brando brings us Repug U.S. Senator form North Carolina Thom Tills going scorched earth on BBB...of course, Tillis is on his way out the door, but credit where it’s due I guess...and oh yeah, let’s pillory Obama again for saying “if you like your doctor, you can keep him,” which admittedly was a mistake, while also not counting the DAILY TORRENT OF LIES from the “party of Lincoln”...imperfect as the ACA was (and still is), it still covered millions who would have otherwise been left to fend for themselves...and with respect to Brando, work requirements in Medicaid would cause the largest increase in the number of people without health insurance; the Kaiser Family Foundation breaks that down here, so Tillis is wrong on that score...also with respect to Brando, Clinton, Obama and Dubya were right to ignore Our Treasonous Orange Egomaniac (NSFW/H also)...



Update 1: I suppose this was inevitable given the election results last year, but the fight was still worth it.

And by the way, don’t give “Fake Ophthalmologist” Rand Paul and “Disappointed” Collins any credit. Their opposition was political theater; the result was predetermined (and yeah, Lisa Murkowski sure reached for the "chicken switch" also...and even though he was a commendable No vote, now John Fetterman can begin his vacation down the shore).

Also, here’s a message for those clueless election losers at the @DNC...this is a golden opportunity to put into place your thus-far-nonexistent social media strategy. It shouldn’t be up to a British-sounding comedian to explain to this country how monumentally awful this legislative atrocity truly is.

Update 2: A LOT more like this (as far as I'm concerned, Warren should be the Dem Senate leader for real).

And now, for no particular reason, I’d like to step back and “go meta” a bit and discuss “how the sausage gets made” around here.

I happened to come across a couple of Rebel HQ clips in which they presented Marjorie Trailer Park Greene getting called out by Dem Rep Melanie Stansbury as well as another clip with another Repug numbskull named John McGuire getting the same commendable treatment from AOC. I actually tried to listen to Greene and her “Democrat colleague” this and “Democrat colleague” that, as well as this guy McGuire peddling his garbage in front of Dem governors J.B. Pritzker and Tim Walz. I actually stopped watching both clips after a few seconds, even though I’m sure Stansbury and AOC did indeed respond effectively. Here is why...Greene and McGuire proved that they are both stupendous liars, and even though I give Rebel HQ credit for putting up the clips with AOC and Stansbury, I refuse to give bandwidth to people who plainly are trying to cram as much disinformation as they can in a limited space (referring to Greene and McGuire of course). Given that they don’t know or don’t care about verifiable truth and reality, Greene and McGuire simply do not deserve to be taken seriously on any topic as far as I’m concerned (makes me recall this post).

(Of course, putting Greene in charge of ANYTHING, let alone a House subcommittee, is a great big middle-finger-raised-on-high from Not Your Father’s Republican Party aimed right at our democratic form of government, but that’s a whole other discussion I know.)

Now back to the videos...I suppose this item makes the following relevant again...



...and RIP Lalo Schifrin, who composed this memorable theme among many others...



...and this may be the longest “moving” song I’ve ever heard, but it’s kind of a badass tune IMO, notwithstanding “AI Melania” on guitar :-).

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