The White House Continues To Declare The Big Bill Protects Medicaid. So Dems, Where's The Proof??

Really, where is the actual rebuttal?? I certainly believe that this bill will be devastating to the health and welfare for may ordinary Americans. But...as the MAGAts continue to tout it, can someone on the left please SHOW America just exactly what is going to happen? Just sayin' it's bad ain't gonna get it done.

Once Again, All Of This Angst Around Medicaid Could Be Avoided If Only,,,

we had actual single payer health care in the United States like every other civilized industrial nation.

YES : Big Brother Is Truly Upon Us: Trump is building a national citizenship data system

 From a bit on NPR this morning: 

"DHS, in partnership with the White House's Department of Governmental Efficiency (DOGE) team, has recently rolled out a series of upgrades to a network of federal databases to allow state and county election officials to quickly check the citizenship status of their entire voter lists — both U.S.-born and naturalized citizens — using data from the Social Security Administration as well as immigration databases.

Such integration has never existed before, and experts call it a sea change that inches the U.S. closer to having a roster of citizens — something the country has never embraced. A centralized national database of Americans' personal information has long been considered a third rail — especially to privacy advocates as well as political conservatives, who have traditionally opposed mass data consolidation by the federal government."

There are many kinds of privacy concerns here. Particularly given that this was done without public input and apparently without Congressional approval or even knowledge. Haven't Republicans and others on the right been the staunchest supporters of personal privacy? And given that anything and everything touched by DOGE is suspect (dodgy), there is trouble a brewing for you and me here. 

A state election official who was not authorized to speak publicly about the development told NPR: "The question is, is the data usable? And [usable] in a way that I'm not going to jeopardize people who live in my jurisdiction?"

 

the court’s (SCOTUS) “decision to permit the Executive to violate the Constitution with respect to anyone who has not yet sued is an existential threat to the rule of law.”

 this apparently is the actual quote from Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson in her dissent on the SCOTUS ruling on Trump's Executive Order on Birthright Citizenship. I tried to look it up because the version running around the social media posts seemed too provocative for a Supreme Court Justice...even in these insane times. This version is what came up in news reports...the other version only on social media sites. I am not going to repost it if it isn't true.

As long as we are renaming things: Let's Rename The Ukraine War:

as the Russian War. Yes it is being fought in Ukraine but let's give credit where credit is due...Russia invaded Ukraine...so it is the Russian War...or even better yet, Putin's War~

Thank You, Reps Gwen Moore and Mark Pocan

Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) filed articles of impeachment against TACO Don for his violation of the War Powers Act.   Even though it wasn't going to go anywhere, it was nice to see someone taking a stand for once.

Sadly, 130 Democratic Congressmen and Congresswomen sold the nation out by refusing to take a stand.  The list of the standouts can be found here.

Fortunately, Wisconsin's own Gwen Moore and Mark Pocan are not on that list.  Thank you to both of them for standing up for Wisconsin and for the United States.

As for those 130 sellouts, they only prove that David Hogg was correct.

State Correction Officers Score Big Win In SCOWIS

Two Wisconsin correction officers filed a lawsuit against the state. The gist of the lawsuit was that correction officers should be paid for the time they go through security protocals when arriving at or leaving the worksite.  They filed this as a class action lawsuit on behalf of all of their fellow officers.

The state, naturally is fighting them on both the merits of the case and whether it should be a class action.  The officers lost the class action part in appellate court, but the supreme court corrected this injustice:

In a majority opinion written by Justice Janet Protasiewicz, the Court reversed the appeals court’s decision, stating that to certify a class action lawsuit a judge must determine if the group at issue has a common question without evaluating the answer to that question.

“There is a difference between identifying whether a common question exists and deciding its answer,” Protasiewicz wrote. “A court ‘must walk a balance between evaluating evidence to determine whether a common question exists and predominates, without weighing that evidence to determine whether the plaintiff class will ultimately prevail on the merits.’”

Protasiewicz’s opinion was joined by Justices Ann Walsh Bradley, Rebecca Dallet, Brian Hagedorn and Jill Karofsky. Chief Justice Annette Ziegler wrote a partial concurrence, which was joined by Justice Rebecca Bradley. 

Of course, all this delay and added expense to the taxpayers could have been avoided if Scott Walker and the Republicans had not passed Act 10 so long ago.  This case not only restores some rights for the state correction workers, but also points out the folly and illegality of Act 10 to begin with.

A Prize For TACO Don

 Poor old TACO Don is really have a bad time lately.

First he says he'll take a couple of  weeks to decide what to do about Iran, even though there was nothing to do.

Then he forgot he said he would take a couple of weeks, and to get on Benji Nutty-yahoo's good side, dropped some bombs on Iran's nuclear facilities.  TACO Don claimed he "obliterated" the facilities.

About this time, TACO Don starts caterwauling that he wants a Nobel Peace Prize because he bombed the Middle East into peaces, or something like that.

But then it turns out his bombing run had bombed out.  Two of the facilities had been closed long ago.  The third one had been vacated long before the TACO bombs dropped and even then, damage was minimal.

While this news was coming out, a few Democrats and even a Republican or two said that this crossed the line and that TACO Don needed to be impeached.

Per his nature, TACO Don lashed out at everyone, including the media sources reporting his failure and the politicians calling for him to be held accountable.

To bury all this bad news, TACO Don claimed he brokered a ceasefire between Iran and Israel.  The only thing is that neither Iran or Israel got the memo and kept on bombng the bejeezers out of each other.

TACO Don then displayed his tact, statesmanship, diplomacy and peaceful nature with this memorable scene (NSFW):

And where the hell was his freaking Nobel Peace Prize anyway.  

Well, sorry, TACO Don, but there will never be a Nobel Peace Prize in your future.  And before you get to it, your Truth Social posts are a good indication that you shouldn't hold your breath in hopes of a Pulitzer Prize either.

But because we don't want you to go away empty-handed as long as you just go away.  You can win the first and only official USA Booby Prize! Congratulations!  

Trump Wants Regime Change? Easy Peasy...Just Resign!

 and that will make America great again too!  that's the message.

Failing To Incite His Own Personal Reichstag Fire, Trump Is Now Fishing For A Gulf of Tonkin Incident

 By bringing first National Guard Troops and then Marines to Los Angeles to quell the 'riots', Donold Trump hoped to create a maelstrom of violence that would allow him to declare another more heinous national emergency and install Marshall (sic) Law ( yeah I know it's martial law but Marshall is how his cult spells it on the internet). Los Angeles wasn't riots. Yes some miscreants always find a way to seek cover under protests and vandalize, burn, and loot...but the protests in Los Angeles have essentially been peaceful. But Trump hoped that Los Angeles would burn and he could take it as his Reichstag moment and take dictatorial control in the US. Didn't happen.

 

So plan B appeared, actually weeks early. Piggybacking on Israel's attacks on Iranian nuclear enrichment sites and other military installations, Trump ordered US military strikes against three Iranian nuclear sites. At this point there have been no Iranian counter attacks but they are surely coming. If Iran attacks embassies abroad or middle eastern American military assets, certainly the war will expand. But what if they (as they are wont to do) unleash terrorist activity on US soil? Will Donold now have his Gulf of Tonkin moment and decide to start not only an expanded war but to take dictatorial control in the US? 

For those who don't remember or are too young to know: Gulf of Tonkin  and Reichstag Fire

Impeach Trump. Impeach Hegseth. Recall everyone who is opposed to the Impeachement, i.e, US has struck 3 Iranian nuclear sites, Trump says

There is absolutely no reason that US forces needed to get involved in Iran at this moment. The master of the 'art of the deal' has no idea how to negotiate a thing and let his chance to make a peace agreement slip away. 

Trump etal need to be impeached and voted out of office by the Senate and every single member of Congress who opposes that needs to censured and recalled and removed. 

Lest We Forget: In Memorium: Melissa Hortman

 

Apparently Los Angeles Isn't That Dangerous If JD Vance Feels Safe For A Visit

The White House has been broadcasting the story that Los Angeles is on the verge of burning to the ground because of the anti-ICE protests...requiring the federal government's deployment of National Guard units and 700 or so active duty Marines. 

Well apparently it isn't the hell hole we are being lead to believe if Vice President JD Vance feels comfortable making a visit.

From the LA Times:

"Vice President JD Vance arrived in Los Angeles on Friday as part of a surprise visit to a region hit by a series of federal immigration raids that have sparked protests and defiance from residents and local officials.

His office said in a statement that Vance would tour a multiagency Federal Joint Operations Center, a Federal Mobile Command Center, and meet with Marines who have been sent to the area, but additional information about his visit remains unclear."

I am pretty sure everything about JD Vance remains unclear.

Wisconsin's Own Clown, Rep. Derrick Van Orden, Needs To Resign

 Even after talking points around the accused murderer and attacker of Minnesota elected officials were discredited and rated Pants On Fire, Wisconsin's Rep. Derrick Van Orden had to repost the nonsense and double down on his lies and insensitivity.  From an article at JSOnline:

"Hours after an assassin killed a Democratic state lawmaker and wounded another in Minnesota this past weekend, Wisconsin Republican U.S. Rep. Derrick Van Orden's official social media accounts condemned the shootings.

"I am horrified by the attack on two Minnesota state lawmakers," read a post to Van Orden's official X account. "Political violence has no place in America. I fully condemn this attack, along with all forms of political violence and intimidation."

A day later, however, posts on Van Orden's personal accounts struck a different tone.

"Yesterday, a whole pack of election deniers got together and spewed hate," he wrote on X about nationwide protests on June 14 against the Trump administration. "One of them decided to murder and attempt to murder some politicians that were not far Left enough for them.""

 

 And then of course he couldn't help but parrot Donold Trump in:

"Van Orden, whose battleground 3rd Congressional District borders much of Minnesota, including the Minneapolis area where the shootings occurred, called Minnesota Democratic Gov. Tim Walz "stupid" and a "clown" in subsequent posts, noting the suspected killer, 57-year-old Vance Boelter, had been reappointed by Walz to a state economic workforce board years prior."

Van Orden needs to go...today...if you have any moral sense...resign.

Tragic Proof That The 'Good Guy' With A Gun Is A False Narrative

 A pall was cast over what should have been a triumphant weekend of national protests in the No Kings demonstrations when a participant in a Salt Lake City, Utah, was shot and killed. Most of you have probably already read a number of media articles about the incident. But here is a brief summation.

At the Salt Lake City protests, a man approached the gathering and assembled a rifle. When confronted, he ran toward the crowd and a civilian 'peace keeper', fired his own gun three times. One bullet injured the intended target but another bullet hit an innocent bystander who eventually died from his wound. 

One of the incessant positions from the sacrosanct 2nd Amendment crowd has been that the good guy with a gun can be a deterrent or the solution in an event where a gunman opens fire in a crowd situation. That is absurd on the face of it and tragically we see a direct result of that mislogic here. Sadly, the good guy with a gun isn't any kind of a solution. Only thoughtful and determined gun controls can work. Period.

Hopefully, the 2nd Amendment won't kill anymore Americans.