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

In Demonizing Blue-voting Americans and Their Communities, Drumpf Signals His Dictator Intentions

JfC... words truly and decisively fail.

I mean - this should put a resounding STFU! end to the mewling chuds who keep whining about dangerous "rhetoric" coming from those on the left, and by 'left,' I mean anyone to the left of MAGA:

 

Link:  Post by @atrupar.com — Bluesky

 

He is talking about American cities populated by American citizens of all manner of political affiliations, all manner of religious faiths, all types of economic and educational backgrounds,  and of course, all types of ethnic and cultural backgrounds, which is what Drumpf's real peeve is, huh?

And just because these American citizens who reside in these American "Blue cities" as Drumpf refers to them, often tend to vote for Democrats, King Drumpf has declared these cities to be "dirty" cities that are in need of federal cleansing.

The filthy old fascist's messaging is pretty clear here, not to mention sardonically ironic.

Blue (Democratic-run) cities and states are "dirty," as are the American citizens residing therein presumably, and the guy who is at the center of a massive, coordinated, ongoing effort to cover up an extensive pedophilia ring among some very wealthy, powerful VIP people in this country, and internationally as well (Prince Andrew for ie.), and the guy who has repeatedly stated he wants to be America's first 'dictator' wants to be the one to clean up all those "dirty" "Blue cities."

Can you imagine that? 

Fuck Donald Trump.  25th Amendment.  Impeachment.  Those are the two immediate, available solutions to ending this madness and putting a merciful stop to this America-hating, despot wannabe's desire to tear this country apart and pit American against American.  Short of that, we are stuck waiting for the arterial plaque buildup in a five-foot eleven inch 300 pound pig whose idea of fine dining is KFC, Big Macs and French Fries to finally catch up to him.

Seriously though - Fuck Donald Trump.

 

 

---TFG

I Wonder How The Decision to Re-elect a Mobster as POTUS in 2024 is Working Out?

Meanwhile, on the economic home front, you will never ever ever get DonOld's MAGA supporters to admit the obvious, namely that Drumpf has screwed them over economically much, much worse than Biden's policies and management of the economy, which was improving when he left office, could ever have done: 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And those numbers above are only going to get worse and DonOld's 'Big Iran Armageddon Adventure' spins further out of control and inflicting long-term damage on world energy markets, damage which will eventually make the above price differences feel comforting compared to what's coming if Drumpf's Iran boondoggle implodes.

 

 

 

---TFG

Donald and Todd Join Forces to "Derail" Discovery of the 'Epstein Files' Horrors That Implicate Donald

It will never ceasing being mind-boggling that in the year 2026, President Donald Trump and his personal criminal defense attorney, an individual whom the POTUS is cynically attempting to install as the country's highest law enforcement official, are eyeballs deep and actively involved in a coordinated effort to hide the truth about Trump's pedophilia problem from the American public:

 

Link:  Blanche-led DoJ likely to derail Epstein survivors’ pursuit of justice, experts say | Jeffrey Epstein | The Guardian

 

"As Donald Trump’s former defense lawyer Todd Blanche appears poised for confirmation as attorney general, numerous Jeffrey Epstein survivors have sounded the alarm that a US justice department helmed by him would derail their pursuit of justice.

In a letter urging Republican senators Thom Tillis and John Cornyn to reject his nomination, these survivors said that Blanche’s handling of the Epstein case as acting attorney general was characterized by misstep after misstep.

Legal veterans told the Guardian that a Blanche-led DoJ would likely derail survivors’ efforts for accountability. Several survivors’ advocates said that all hope was not lost, noting that roadblocks likely under Blanche did not portend a permanent impediment to justice."

 

Blanche and Drumpf haven been breaking the law by refusing to release the more than three million remaining documents from the 'Epstein Files' as they were MANDATED to do so by Congress's passing of the Epstein Files Transparency Act last November.

Drumpf and Blanche remain in violation of that law as this post is written.

It's just gob-smacking to me that the President of the United States is colluding with his personal criminal defense lawyer to essentially defy the law, and bury any and all investigations of likely child sex crimes committed by that POTUS and half the country seems to be ok with it.

But this is what Republican voters chose.  This is the kind of corruption Republicans voters have been consciously choosing for the past decade.

I mean, in 2024, Republican voters had a choice between a black woman who had an impeccable career in law enforcement and public service, or a twice-impeached convicted felon, adjudicated rapist, and a suspected child rapist. 

Republican voters opted for the twice-impeached convicted felon, adjudicated rapist, and suspected child rapist.  That is the whole story.  That is the whole 'moral values' ball game right there.

That vote alone, in that election, will always be the loud public confession by those who cast a vote for Donald Trump that their very own conservative world is devoid of values that could even remotely be considered 'moral,' and that they really only give a shit about themselves and their 'own kind.'

In other words, they are still the same shitty citizens, and same shitty human beings who voted for the guy who openly confessed to serially sexually assaulting women at random in 2016.

 

 

---TFG

Drumpf's Continued Presence In Washington Sickens Americans In More Ways Than One

When the manifestly unqualified POTUS DonOld Drumpf chose a manifestly unqualified, anti-vaccine nut job and former heroin and cocaine addict with a worm-eaten brain who has a fetish for collecting animal road-kill carcasses as the person to oversee and safeguard the public health of 330 million Americans, who on God's earth could have predicted that we would see a resurgence of the previously eliminated disease of Measles and tens of thousands of Americans sickened by food-borne illnesses across the country?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Link:  Salmonella outbreak tied to eggs sickens 98 | AP News 

 

"WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly 100 people in 17 states have been sickened in a salmonella outbreak tied to recalled eggs, federal health officials said Friday.

The 98 people had illnesses that started between Nov. 21 and June 30, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. No deaths have been reported, but 26 people have been hospitalized.

Investigators have determined that shell eggs recalled by Midwest Poultry Services are a likely source of the germ, but the Indiana-based company doesn’t account for all the illnesses.

Midwest Poultry previously recalled eggs produced and distributed from farms in Texas between June 6 and July 3. The eggs were sold under several brand names and have sell-by or best-by dates between July 20 and Aug. 17.

Among the stores that received the recalled eggs were Kroger stores in Texas and Louisiana and Brookshire Grocery stores in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico and Mississippi."

 

What is the glaringly obvious moral of the story here?

Don't hire a manifestly unqualified, anti-vaccine nut job and former heroin and cocaine addict with a worm-eaten brain who has a fetish for collecting animal road-kill carcasses as the person to oversee and safeguard the public health of 330 million Americans.

That sounds reasonable, doesn't it?

 

 

 

---TFG