Gee, who besides every single credible and reputable healthcare expert on the planet could have predicted this was going to happen when you take away affordable healthcare access from millions of Americans?
Defunding the Affordable Care Act ACA (aka 'Obamacare') forcing tens of millions of Americans to lose their affordable ACA plans and be thrown to the healthcare insurance free-market wolves, means a lot of people being forced to choose between basic necessities needed just to survive in Drumpf's inflationary war economy, or going without health insurance.
And then when something goes wrong with these Americans who have been forced to go without health insurance, and they experience a serious medical issue, they show up at your local hospital emergency rooms and the cost of taking care of them without payment gets transferred to everyone else who has healthcare insurance, causing their premiums to rise and overall healthcare costs to increase for everyone as well.
It's just so colossally stupid how we do healthcare in this country and it's so damaging to our national honor and morality as well. Every other modern, industrialized nation on the planet provides free healthcare to their citizens. Only in America do you have to have money in order to not die because you cannot afford to see a doctor.
Nor does it help that one of the two major political parties in this country not only has no interest in addressing the slowly collapsing healthcare system in this country, but they also want to defund and eliminate other American societal safety net programs like Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security.
The whole house of healthcare cards will implode at some point, and who knows what becomes of American's ability to access affordable, quality health care going forward.
We dirty fucking liberal hippies really did try in good faith to warn you all about this guy, Donald Trump.
We knew and told you that he was a perverted pig, a lifelong con artist, and a mob-connected embezzler and fraudster.
But those warnings were ignored.
The scandals that engulf Donald Trump right now are of the magnitude that the term "high crimes and misdemeanors" was specifically crafted for and inserted into the language of our constitution as a warning to all despot wannabes that in America no one man was above the law, and that mechanisms will be in place to remove a chief executive who violates his oath of office and sullies the office of the American presidency via malfeasance and the commission of "high crimes and misdemeanors."
The Trump Organization sued Capital One in Florida on Friday for allegedly “unjustifiably” closing more than 300 of the company’s bank accounts on the heels of the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitolby a mob of President Donald Trump’s supporters.
The lawsuit said that the Trump Organization and related entities “have reason to believe that Capital One’s unilateral decision came about as a result of political and social motivations and Capital One’s unsubstantiated, ‘woke’ beliefs that it needed to distance itself from President Trump and his conservative political views.”
“In essence, Capital One ‘de-banked’ Plaintiffs’ Accounts because Capital One believed that the political tide at the moment favored doing so,” the Trump Organization claims in the civil case filed in the Eleventh Judicial Circuit Court in Miami-Dade County.
The suit’s named plaintiffs are the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust, DJT Holdings, DJT Holdings Managing Member, DTTM Operations, and Eric Trump, the president’s son, who with his brother, Donald Trump Jr., runs the Trump Organization.
The complaint says the plaintiffs and affiliated entities held hundreds of accounts at Capital One for decades before they were closed. Eric Trump said the amount of damages suffered by the companies is “millions of dollars.”
Alejandro Brito, a lawyer who is representing the Trump Organization in the suit, told CNBC the company “is contemplating other suits against financial organizations that engaged in similar conduct.”
Brito said Capital One’s actions “was an attack on free speech.”
Remember that story?
Big financial institute Capital One closed out 300+ Drumpf family "business" bank accounts in one fell swoop and DonOld screamed about it loudly and stamped his little orange feet, sued Capital One and called them a "woke," politicized company who was attacking his free speech rights by refusing to do any further business with him?
"Capital One Financial hit back on Friday against a lawsuit over its decision to close the Trump Organization’s bank accounts years ago, stating that it did so after a review by anti-money-laundering experts.
The disclosure marks the first time a bank has formally tied money-laundering concerns toDonald Trump’s family business.
Capital One is seeking to dismiss the case by casting doubt on claims of illegally debanking – or denying services on religious or political grounds – the Trump Organization."
Capital One, a legitimate, top-tier financial institute had Trump and his crime family as clients for several years. A few years back, Capital One "debanked" the Trumps and all of their businesses, closed all 300+ of their various banking accounts, and refusing to do further business with them.
Essentially here's how the phone call went down (may be embellished for effect):
CAPITAL ONE CEO: Yes, hello DonOld. How are you Sir?
DJT: Who the f*ck is this?
CAPITAL ONE CEO: This is your friendly neighborhood banking president at Capital One DonOld. We have a serious matter to discuss with you.
DJT: I got no friends who are bankers, because I got no friends at all, so get the f*ck out outta' here. Now who the f*ck are you what the f*ck do you want?
CAPITAL ONE CEO: I see. Well, in that case DonOld, all 300+ of your bank accounts with our institution have been closed permanently, we will wire your funds to your Deutschebank account in the Caymans, and we care not to see you or anyone from your crooked family in our offices again.
[CLICK!]
Capital One shut down Drumpf's family and business accounts because they were flagged by Capital One's own internal money laundering detection unit which every single large, legitimate financial institution has.
Capital One detected this activity to be an ongoing pattern from 2015 until 2020. After an investigation, the accounts were shut down the following year after Drumpf had assumed the presidency.
What year was Drumpf elected to the US presidency?
2016.
That means, if Capital One's court testimony in the lawsuit is true (it is), Donald Trump and his family were laundering money from the interior of the American people's White House for the entire four years of his first term in office.
Fucking - wow.
What more is needed?
Seriously? What in God's name more is needed to remove this habitual mobster and his criminally grifting family and all of the grifter parasites surrounding them from our government and our lives, and finally at long last put the Godfather of the crime outfit himself in the federal prison cell where he has long belonged?
I would love to hear a self-professed believer in Christ who still supports DonOld Drumpf coherently and morally justify Drumpf's edict to defund a program that helps keep American pre-schoolers above the poverty line in order to pay for his Iran war boondoggle, and to give more tax cuts and government contracts to crooked donor scumbags like Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg:
"TheTrumpadministration's threat to a program meant to pull kids out of poverty is alarming advocates, the New York Times reported.
According toreportingby The Times, the Trump administration is teeing up a "major rollback" of the federal requirements forHead Start, an early education and antipoverty program created in 1965. Advocates and experts told The Times that the rollback threatens to upend the 60-year-old program.
Ruth Friedman, a child care policy expert, told The Times that the proposed changes to Head Start are a "massive gutting." The Times noted that the program currently serves about 700,000 kids under the age of 6 and has served more than 30 million children since 1965."
They are going to gut Head Start, just like they intend to gut Medicaid, Medicare, and allow Social Security to fail.
Because you know, giving $1.5 Trillion of extra cash to the guys who ignored the advice of every single credible and reputable US military and Intl expert to NOT go to war with Iran, and who are now actively hiding the true cost of the war in both taxpayer money and American service members lives from the public to spend as they please is a really responsible thing to do, amiright?
Drumpf and his apparatchiks are also trying to push American kids back in to poverty while simultaneously attempting to establish a nearly $2 Billion slush fund to pay off Drumpf's convicted felon MAGA cronies who heeded his call to violently attack the US Capitol on January 6, 2021 in a failed bid to overthrow the legitimate results of a US presidential election and install and unelected, criminal usurper in office.
These 1600+ thugs were the ones who heeded Drumpf's insurrectionist call to storm the US Capitol, violently attacking law enforcement officers and storming their way into the Capitol building and trashing it. Every one of these guys was rightly charged and tried in American courtrooms, in front of American juries and judges. Most pled guilty to their crimes. The rest were found guilty after trials.
So yeah, Trillions and Billions for wars and criminal crony slush funds, but no money to keep American kids from falling into poverty.
If this is what Republican's concept of what their version of Jesus would do, then their version of Jesus is a version I would prefer not to be exposed to.
"Federal prosecutors on Friday asked a judge to dismiss an indictment charging former U.S. Olympic canoeist David Hearn with ripping up the bottom of theLincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, citing new information thatthe damage was causedby a "botched installation"by a contractor, notvandalism.
The U.S. Attorney's Office in D.C. hadcharged Hearnwith felony destruction of government property, accusing him of causing more than $1,000 in damage to the sealant that was recently installed at the bottom of the Reflecting Pool. The project to renovate the pool was championed by President Trump.
Attorneys for Hearn — who strongly denied the vandalism allegations — said in a statement the government "owes Mr. Hearn an apology."
"The Trump administration's case against Davey Hearn should have never been brought," attorneys Norm Eisen, Mary Dohrmann and Steve Levin said. "Its dismissal today does not erase the abuse of government power in arresting and charging a patriotic American who did nothing wrong. The government's approach was ready, fire, aim.""
As all sane Americans knew it to be - our fabulist-in-chief was just lying through his fake teeth about
stealth Antifa ninjas with box cutters making their way into the DC Reflecting
Pool in the dark of night wielding heavy duty box cutters which they
used to slice football field long "gashes" in the beautiful blue rubber liner
that Donny ordered installed because he wanted the water in the Reflecting Pool to look as blue
as the swimming pool at his Mar-a-Lardass Porn Resort and Shitty Golf
Motel in Florida.
All of the people responsible for this have one-way tickets headed straight to Hell punched on their lifetime scorecards when they pass from this earthly realm:
"A federal judge on Thursdaydenieda request by more than two dozen Democratic states to halt aTrump administrationpolicy announced last month that would requireMedicaidrecipients with terminal diseases to prove they are too sick to work in order to be exempt from new work requirements that go into effect this coming January.
Whileintroducingover $1 trillion intax cutsfor the wealthiest 1% of Americans, last year’s massiveGOPtax andbudgetbill also imposed new 80-hour-per-month work requirements that states must implement for Medicaid expansion recipients, who receive government-subsidized insurance coverage at or below 138% of thepovertyline.
Earlier this month, the Centers forMedicareand Medicaid Services (CMS) introduced anew rulestating that even if a person receives a terminal diagnosis for a disease like cancer, HIV/AIDS, or Parkinson’s, that is still not enough for them to be exempt from the work requirements."
Imagine being diagnosed with a terminal illness and told that you have months to live and your MAGA government tells you that in order to qualify for Medicare or Medicaid support to help you and your family cope financially in the last remaining months of your life, that you need to prove to them that going to work every day while you are in the process of dying is too much of a burden.
I mean . . .ffs. How do we claim to be a good country of good people when we do shit like this to our own citizenry?
I cannot fathom such malicious and mean thinking by authentically decent people. But then again, MAGA are not authentically decent people, are they?. They are cruel, selfish, ignorant, arrogant, and completely uncaring citizens, and I am utterly ashamed to call them my fellow Americans.
Think of it - trillion$ in free money for billionaires. For dying Americans - orders to get your ass back to work.
Yeah - it's way past time to reign in these bastards. America is headed for a guillotine revolution if shit like this is allowed to continue.
Please vote accordingly come November. Vote AGAINST every Republican on the ballot like your lives depend on it. Because in reality, many of your lives do indeed depend on throwing these malignant Republican shitheads out of power.
Tell us something we don't already know about the non-existent 'moral values' of the average MAGA cultist.
I mean... I am pretty used to all the lunacy from right-wing conservatives by now, but it's still stunning to read stuff like this which pretty much confirms just how morally bankrupt their movement truly is:
"More than half of MAGA voters say they would support a Republican candidate accused of sexual assault, according to a new poll.
In a recentPolitico poll, 66 percent of MAGA voters who cast their ballot forPresident Trumpin his last contest for the White House said they would back a GOP candidate even if “a former partner has accused the Republican candidate of sexual assault” rather than support the Democratic candidate in a hypothetical congressional race."
These would be the same voters incidentally who had no reservations whatsoever walking into a voting booth in 2016 to vote for a guy who it had been revealed months earlier had been caught on tape bragging about sexually assaulting women at random by grabbing their vaginas, and also claiming that he was allowed to commit these acts because he was a "star," a celebrity.
I mean, if Ma and Pa MAGA would vote for someone after having heard them confess to those kinds of sex crimes, they certainly have no moral qualms voting for any other Republican candidates who have been accused of sexual assault, or even rape.
What Drumpf did to E. Jean Carroll when he cornered her in a department store dressing room and shoved his pudgy little cheetoh fingers inside her vagina was a random, sexual assault, just like he bragged about doing to women in his recorded conversation with Billy Bush in that 'Access Hollywood' tape.
And his supporters never batted an eyelash when that ruling came down and Drumpf lost his case to Carroll. In fact the old mobster has lost two defamation cases to her now and still no fluttering MAGA eyelashes.
So yeah - of course these people have no problem putting sex offenders in positions of power in our government. This is who MAGA is and they aren't shy about incessantly demonstrating that to the country.
MAGA Republicans in Congress, apparently with nothing better to do with their taxpayer salaried time, spent the day and millions more in US taxpayer money dragging Dr. Anthony Fauci into a Congressional hearing in a lame and shameful political stunt for the sole purpose of slandering and smearing Fauci and to blame him for Donald Trump's bumbling, deadly mishandling of the Covid pandemic:
"Dr. Anthony Fauci, the face of America's COVID response, repeatedly invoked his Fifth Amendment right before a Senate committee on Wednesday. The hearing, chaired by Republican Sen. Rand Paul, was meant to probe the origins of COVID-19 and whether Fauci misled Congress and the public.
Fauci called Paul's pursuit of him an "unhinged obsession.""
I'm just going to come right out and say it. Thank God Dr. Fauci was in Drumpf's administration when Covid hit. Drumpf was listening to the crazies on the right who kept telling him to let the virus burn through the populace, infecting everyone in order to reach some mythical level of "herd immunity" that would magically end the pandemic.
Actual medical science experts who are worth listening to are in consensus that if Drumpf had allowed this insane idea of 'herd immunity' to drive his administration's response to the crisis, the death toll to Americans would have been in the 3-5 million range instead of the 1.2 million who died on Drumpf's watch.
But yeah, it's pretty humorous that the MAGA chuds are now screaming like banshees for Dr. Fauci's arrest and imprisonment for exercising his constitutional right to not answer questions from corrupt and tainted government accusers:
It gets even more humorous when you point out to these brain-dead chuds that their golden boy DonOld is the King of 5th Amendment invoking when he's under oath. In fact, here's video of DonOld not only taking the 5th amendment more than 400 times in just one of his lawsuits, but also encouraging others to do so when caught in similar circumstances:
Dr. Fauci was facing a hostile group of MAGA Republicans who were cynically and dishonestly trying to re-write history and hang the US tragedy of Covid around his neck and exonerate their incompetent buffoon party leader who was the person at the top making ALL of the Covid response decisions at the time.
So yeah, I am 1000% okay with Fauci telling Rand Paul and his Kangaroo court to go fuck themselves. And I hope these dumbass Republicans keep bringing the Covid stuff up before the election. More Americans than not are fully aware of which party and which chief executive is primarily to blame for 1.2 million dead Americans and a nation left traumatized from that pandemic.
That inebriated Fox "news" flunky posing as a leader of military men and women just asked Congress for $1.5 trillion more of your tax money so that he and DonOld can blow up some more shit in their Middle East sandbox and invade a few more countries they don't like.
And this is how they plan to have you pay for their war excesses:
"Americans' Social Security benefits will have to be cut by roughly a quarter in six years due to depleted funds, according to aJune 9 reportfrom the Social Security Board of Trustees. That's months sooner than the group had estimated in 2025.
For years, the trustees and experts have been warning about Social Security's unstable financial footing. An aging population, low birth rates and worsening income inequality have driven the program to pay out more in benefits than it takes in from taxes."
The Democratic party has offered up varying sensible solutions to fixing this looming SS fund insolvency crisis. The Republican party has fought all of those good faith efforts, every step of the way and have offered up no solutions of their own. And it is beyond clear at this stage that the reason they have not offered up any solutions of their own is because they want to see the Social Security and Medicare programs wither to dust and everyone gets thrown to the free-market wolves.
Once again people, and it cannot be urged strongly enough - vote accordingly when you walk in that voting booth this November.
Old George Carlin was right about the oligarchs coming for it all. I doubt he thought it would happen as quickly as it has though:
Carlin was prescient about a lot shit that has since come to pass in this country. He certainly nailed the, "they're coming for your Social Security next" prediction, didn't he?
"One of the least remarked-upon chapters in the Republicans’ ghastly Project 2025 documentdealt withtheir plantocut Social Security and Medicare, ostensibly to fix the impending trust fund shortfall and eliminate the national deficitall at once.The reason hardly anyone talked about it is that if there’s one thingwe know about Republicans, from the so-called moderates to the most extreme MAGA true believers, it’s that they want to do away with those commie pinko programs once and for all.
But there’s a problem: Nearly all Americans depend on those commie pinko programs to some extent, including many Republican voters. So the ideologues are always forced to couch their desire to slash federal spending to the bone in some version of “We have to kill the programs in order to save them.” Nobody buys it, and the world moves on."
I would strongly advise my fellow elders and those who love and care for their elders and anyone who depends on, or will depend on Social Security and Medicare to provide some modicum of dignified life in their retirement, to show up at the ballot box come Hell or high water in every election between now and November, and forever thereafter for that matter, and REFUSE to vote for any candidate with the letter (R) after their names. Write in your favorite cartoon character or pet's name if you can't stomach voting for a Democrat or an Independent, just don't vote for a Trumpublican.
That is the quickest route to fixing the mess that these buffoon Trumpublicans have gotten this country into.
Kick these inept, fascist bums out of office.
Hold them accountable for the high crimes and misdemeanors committed by this White House since the beginning of this execrable, corrupt term.
Put this nation back on the path to solvency, sanity, competency, and decency.
I am actually not in the least bit surprised that the Republicans in the US Senate are telling Drumpf to fuck off with the talk of pardoning convicted pedophile and child sex-trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.
I mean, think about it. If DonOld pardons Maxwell, that would be the proverbial kiss of political death for any Senate Republican supporting it, because pardoning Maxwell is essentially an open confession by Drumpf that he himself was deeply involved with Epstein and Maxwell's child sex ring and she has dirt on him, and what kind of politicians (aside from the MAGA ones) who aspire to higher office, and are in their right mind, wants to be associated with supporting child rapists, amiright?
It's been clear for awhile Maxwell has the goods on Drumpf. The fact that she hasn't died under 'mysterious circumstances' in a jail cell like Epstein and a few of his European sex-ring cohorts met their ends is a pretty telling sign of that observation, imho.
And that is how she went from doing hard time in a real prison in Florida alongside other vile sex criminals like herself, to cooling her heels in a 'soft', country-club prison in the thoroughly corrupt state of Texas (Greg Abbott/Ken Paxton) where she has a cushy dorm-style suite, was granted work-release privileges, and gets to snuggle with a puppy that Todd Blanche arranged for her to have after he spent two-days interviewing Maxwell in private.
"Every Senate Republican went on record against a presidential pardon for convicted sex traffickerGhislaine Maxwell, breaking with PresidentDonald Trump, who has refused to rule one out.
Sen.Jacky Rosen(D-NV) forced the vote Wednesday through a procedural move called unanimous consent, which passes automatically when no senator objects. No Republican objected,according to Axios.
That meant Republicans agreed Maxwell "should not" receive "a pardon, commutation, or any other form of executive clemency" — the language of Rosen'sresolution."
The Republicans are already seen as the party who have been aiding and abetting the efforts by Donald Trump, Blanche, and other right-wing conspirators in the regime to keep the remaining three million plus documents from the 'Epstein Files' from being released, unredacted in their entirety to the American public as they have been ordered to do so by the law since November of last year.
If these Republicans support Drumpf pardoning Maxwell, that is a deal-breaker for a whole lot of people in this country, including quite a few conservatives, and every one of these Republican senators knows it.
That also tells me that these guys know perfectly well just how toxic and dangerous the whole ongoing cover up is to keep the names of some very wealthy, powerful, and even famous American pedophiles from being revealed, as they rightly should be, to the world.
