American Republicans Do Cruelty Just as Well as Any Foreign Dictatorship

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:

 

Link:  Court lets Trump admin force some terminally ill patients to work for health care - Raw Story

  

"A federal judge on Thursday denied a request by more than two dozen Democratic states to halt a Trump administration policy announced last month that would require Medicaid recipients 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.

While introducing over $1 trillion in tax cuts for the wealthiest 1% of Americans, last year’s massive GOP tax and budget bill 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 the poverty line.

Earlier this month, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) introduced a new rule stating 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.

 

 

 

---TFG

Would 2 in 3 MAGA Voters Also Support a GOP Candidate Accused of Child Sex Crimes? Been There, Done That.

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: 

 

Link:  Poll: 66% of MAGA voters would back Republican accused of sexual assault

 

"More than half of MAGA voters say they would support a Republican candidate accused of sexual assault, according to a new poll.

In a recent Politico poll, 66 percent of MAGA voters who cast their ballot for President Trump in 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 to put a finer point on it, the judge in that case said Drumpf's filthy act against Carroll met the statutory, technical definition of 'rape' and that is why Drumpf is technically and officially considered a court-adjudicated rapist.

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.

 

 

 

 

---TFG

The Hypocrisy of MAGA Republicans is a Sordid Sight to Behold

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:

Link:  Fauci invokes 5th Amendment right during GOP-led hearing on COVID origins | PBS News

 

"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.

Even Drumpf's then Covid 'czar', Dr. Deborah Birx said that if there had been competent leadership in the White House when the existence of Covid became known, the US would not have experienced nearly as many deaths as it did. 

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:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Link:  Josh Hawley Slams Fauci for Using Same Strategy as Trump 

 

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:

 

Link:  Post by @jonathanslater.bsky.social — Bluesky 

 

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.

 

 

---TFG

"They're Coming For Your Social Security" - Part Deux

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:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Link:  Your Social Security benefits could be cut by a quarter in 2032. Here's what to know | PBS News

 

"Americans' Social Security benefits will have to be cut by roughly a quarter in six years due to depleted funds, according to a June 9 report from 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.

 

 

---TFG

The Republican Party is Coming For Your Social Security and Medicare and Aren't Being Shy About It

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 document dealt with their plan to cut Social Security and Medicare, ostensibly to fix the impending trust fund shortfall and eliminate the national deficit all at once. The reason hardly anyone talked about it is that if there’s one thing we 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.

 

 

---TFG

Senate Republicans Tremble in Fear at Drumpf's Next Move to Cover Up His 'Epstein Files' Problem

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.

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Link:   Senate GOP unanimously abandons Trump after he opens door to Ghislaine Maxwell pardon - Raw Story

 

"Every Senate Republican went on record against a presidential pardon for convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, breaking with President Donald 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's resolution."

  

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.

 

 

 

---TFG

Suppressing News of Troop Casualties Is a Bad Omen for DonOld's 'Big Iran Armageddon Adventure'

It's been stated multiple times on the pages of this shitty little blog.

If they would seek to deceive us about life and death matters of this type, in this case - US troop casualties, then it stands to reason that they will lie to us about nearly anything and everything: 

 

Link:  Hidden Pentagon data reveals 70 US casualties in a single day of Trump's Iran war - Raw Story

 

"The Pentagon never told the public that 70 American troops were wounded in a single day during President Donald Trump's Iran war, according to newly obtained records.

The War Horse obtained the records through a Freedom of Information Act request — a demand for government documents — covering the first six weeks of the war, from Feb. 28 through April 8.

The data logged more than 400 casualties in that window and included details the Pentagon's public system has never provided — each service member's branch, rank, injury type, and the date they were wounded, the War Horse reported.

Head trauma was the most common injury by far, accounting for at least 170 cases, according to the War Horse. Troops also suffered shrapnel wounds, broken bones, and smoke inhalation.

Army soldiers made up most of the casualties — more than 270 troops, roughly one-third of them reservists — along with 64 officers, the War Horse reported.

The single largest casualty day in the data came on March 18, roughly 24 hours after a U.S.-Israeli airstrike killed Ali Larijani, a senior Iranian political figure, the War Horse reported.

Seventy casualties were recorded that day, according to the data. More than two dozen were classified as resulting from enemy attack. The Pentagon never announced the toll."

  

How do you keep a populace from finding out you are losing a war that you foolishly and recklessly started against the wiser advice of military and intel experts?

Well, hiding troop casualties would be one place to start.

 

 

---TFG

Drumpf's 'Psychophant' Treasury Secretary is a Shameless Bullshit Artist

Drumpf's cartoon villain character Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says Americans shouldn't bother to plan for retirement savings because Elon Musk and his AI products are going to guarantee an "abundance" of wealth that will magically trickle down equitably to all Americans providing all with comfortable living in our golden years:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Link:  Bessent says Americans won't need retirement savings: 'Elon's so far ahead of the curve' - Raw Story 

 

"Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Fox News host Sean Hannity on Monday night that he agrees with Elon Musk's prediction that artificial intelligence will produce so much abundance that Americans won't need to save for retirement.

The exchange, flagged online by journalist Aaron Rupar, came when Hannity asked Bessent whether he believed Musk's claim that AI-driven wealth would make traditional retirement savings unnecessary.

"I do, but I think I would change the timeline," Bessent said. "I've seen Elon speak for a long time and he is — look, his record speaks for itself in terms, as an inventor, as a venture capitalist, as a great American. He's normally early. He's just so far ahead of the curve. He sees things that no one else sees. But I do think we are building this incredible economy that we can't even imagine.""

  

These Trump administration guys are all such bullshit con artists.  And Scott Bessent has to be one of the slicker, smarmier ones of the execrable bunch.

I mean seriously - who but the MAGA dolts believe that the world's wealthy elites are going to use AI to create a near-future economic utopia where Americans will no longer have to worry about planning and saving money for their retirements?

This idea that Elon and his wealthy techbro friends are going to create this magical AI economic utopia for us all if only we will trust them and give them free, unregulated reign to use their AI products any way they wish across our society is as laughable and believable as MuskRat's claim there will be colonies of humans on Mars in the next 20 years.

And then people wonder why our nation is drowning in debt, is throwing millions of Americans off of healthcare, taking food away from poor kids, trying to eliminate Medicaid and Medicare, and refusing to do anything about strengthening the Social Security Trust Fund which will start running into the red and be forced to cut SS benefits within the next 5-6 years.

This is the end result of putting clowns, charlatans, and grifters like Scott Bessent into high-level positions with power and influence over the implementation of US economic policy in government.

You get a three-ring circus that protects and expands the already rapidly expanding wealth of the elites while gaslighting and preying on the non-elites.

And that is how we arrived at the point where the current US Secretary of the Treasury is pimping futuristic AI pablum to the dumb and gullible while the person who employs him rakes in billions from the safe and comfy interior confines of the American people's White House.

 

 

 

---TFG

A Plea to American's Sense of Duty and Patriotism From a Former Drumpf Lawyer

Drumpf's former White House Counsel calls for his immediate impeachment and removal from office for a multitude of "high crimes." 

 

 

Drumpf's accomplices in the MAGA-controlled Congress will never allow that to occur while they control the House of course.

And that is why Elmo is plowing gobs of his own billions into buying himself more Republican seats in Congress so that the corrupt GOP can maintain their majority and continue enabling the criminal-in-chief.

 

 

 

 

---TFG

Elmo Tries to Buy A Government to Keep Himself Off The Congressional Investigations Radar

Wash, rinse, repeat cycle.

 

Link:  Money usually wins elections. Billionaires have already poured $433 million into the 2026 midterms—and 80% of it is going to Republicans

 

"American billionaires have already poured more than $433 million into the 2026 midterms, and nearly 80 cents of every dollar is backing Republicans.

That’s according to an analysis released by the Americans for Tax Fairness (ATF), a progressive advocacy group, which examined Federal Election Commission data through March 1. The group found the 50 biggest-spending billionaire families had funneled $344.3 million, or about 79%, to Republican candidates and conservative organizations. 

The pro-Trump super PAC MAGA Inc. was the single largest beneficiary, pulling in $89 million, followed by America PAC ($45.3 million), Senate Leadership Fund ($36.3 million), and Congressional Leadership Fund ($30 million), all of which support Republican candidates. 

The biggest individual donor, unsurprisingly, is Elon Musk. The world’s richest person (and first trillionaire) had committed almost $71 million to Republican midterm efforts as of ATF’s count, followed by Wall Street financier Jeff Yass at more than $55 million."

 

It should not be surprising at this stage to hear that the same 'Epstein Files' alumni, immigrant billionaire who poured hundreds of millions of his ill-deserved wealth into the 2024 presidential campaign of a twice-impeached convicted felon, adjudicated rapist and confidant of Jeffrey Epstein, is now, along with other morally bankrupt billionaires, pouring hundreds of millions of his and their own cash once again in to this November's US midterms elections, with 80% of that cash going to the political party currently in power that has been actively aiding and abetting the cover up of the Epstein files pedophilia ring and DonOld Drumpf's involvement in it.

Do the math kids. 

A criminal Pedo ring among American elites + 💲💲💲💲+ CORRUPTION = COVERUP 

 

 

---TFG