I wrote Monday that Pres. Donald J. Felon was once again going to ignore what the courts said and his administration was only going to send out about half of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program funds.
Well, it turns out that today — Tuesday — his highness is going to completely ignore the court’s order.
According to CBS News, Trump posted on social media that SNAP benefits “will be given only when the Radical Left Democrats open up government, which they can easily do, and not before!”
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Basically, the grifter-in-chief is punishing people who need help because he wants to give more money to the ultra rich who sure as hell don’t need it and he wants to kick people off of health care by making it much more expensive.
Want to get people off SNAP? Start with minimum wage. Had minimum wage kept up with inflation and productivity, it would be $26 an hour. That would remove 13 million workers from SNAP benefits overnight.#SNAP #FoodBanks #FoodAssistance #FoodInsecurity #hunger #poverty #WorkingPoor
The lawless administration of Pres. Donald J. Felon has made another move to ignore the judiciary.
Despite being ordered to makes payments to people who receive Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program funds, or SNAP, the administration said it will only make partial payments to the approximately 42 million Americans who receive food stamps, the New York Times reported.
The plan to ignore what a judge has ordered was revealed in a court filing Monday.
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In what can be best described as a “let them eat cake” strategy, the grifter-in-chief, only hours before the Nov. 1 deadline to send out SNAP benefits, sent photos Friday of his refurbished White House bathroom, complete with expensive marble and fixtures, to social media and then headed down to his Palm Beach country club to host a Great Gatsby-themed costume party, MSNBC said.
I’m sure everyone who is clamoring for Pres. Joe Biden to be investigated for not actually signing with his actual hand the pardons he issued before he left office in January — yes, AutopenGate — will be clamoring for the elderly Florida golfer to be investigated for not knowing who Changpeng Zhao is, but pardoning him anyway.
On “60 Minutes” Sunday, Trump said, “I don’t know who he is,” when asked by interviewer Nora O’Donnell about the billionaire founder of a cryptocurrency exchange who pleaded guilty to money laundering and whose company is involved with the Trump family’s crypto venture, the Times reported.
Speaking of “60 Minutes,” Speaker of the still-not-in-session House Mike Johnson was asked, since he was critical of Biden using the autopen, whether it was concerning that the adjudicated rapist said he didn’t know who Trump-pardoned Changpeng Zhao was.
Johnson gave the answer he seems to have about myriad happenings in America: “I don’t know anything about that.”
RAJU: Last week you were very critical of Biden's use of the autopen. But Trump admitted on 60 Minutes to not knowing he pardoned a crypto billionaire who pleaded guilty to money laundering. Does that also concern you?MIKE JOHNSON: I don't know anything about that. I didn't see it. I'm not sure.
He’s either the dumbest human being ever to hold the office of speaker of the House or a Christian who cannot for the love of his god tell the truth.
In any event, I sincerely hope who ever runs against him in the midterms puts together a campaign ad of Johnson saying “I don’t know anything about that” over and over and over.
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More bad numbers for the Makeup Man of Mar-a-Lago.
New ABC News poll: Majority disapproval of Trump on every issue tested, with particularly bad ratings on economics.
If the day of the week ends in “day,” then you can be sure that someone — if not everyone — in the administration of Pres. Donald J. Felon is lying.
On Thursday, that someone was television scammer/doctor Oz — that’s Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Dr. Mehmet Oz to you.
A reporter at a news conference asked Health Secretary Bobbie Brainworm Kennedy Jr. whether he believed Congress should extend the tax credit subsidies for the Affordable Care Act because without the extension the average plan will increase by around 115 percent.
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The brainworm whispered to Bobby that Oz should respond.
Oz asked the reporter where he got the 115 percent number and was told it was from the Kaiser Family Foundation, which independently tracks public policy and health information, including changes in the private insurance market under the ACA.
Oz replied that Kaiser retracted that number and “that data was run inappropriately.”
Q: Unless ACA subsidies are extended, the average plan will increase by somewhere around 115%DR OZ: Where'd you get that number?Q: Kaiser Family FoundationOZ: They retracted that. Here's the truth. The average American who's on ACA is gonna pay $13 more than this year. That's not a big issue
“Here’s the truth,” he continued. “The window shopping is already revealing that the average American is gonna pay, who’s on the ACA, between 100 and 400 percent of poverty level, is going to pay $50 total next year.”
Oz said that it’s going to be $13 more than it is this year, and a news release was sent out Tuesday that stated those less-than-accurate figures.
When anyone working for the grifter-in-chief says “here’s the truth,” you can bet that it’s not the truth.
Cox explained that health insurers, on average, are raising rates 26 percent for next year, but if the enhanced premium tax credits expire, as they are likely to do since the House Republican side of Congress is on paid leave with no end in sight, Kaiser estimates that enrollees will see their monthly premium payments “more than double, increasing by about 114%, on average.”
The problem is, people are getting information from their insurance providers now — it’s open enrollment time — and are being given figures that are jaw dropping.
Here’s one for a family in Arizona:
Arizona actual ACA coverage cost increases if Republicans gut the ACA.Thank you @gallego.senate.gov
Retired couple (teacher & union carpenter) on ACA premiums skyrocketing — from $443/month to $2,224/month: “It's like buying another house and trying to pay for two houses at the same time… without the subsidy we honestly don’t know what we’re gonna do.” #TrumpShutdown
There is no way to seriously spin this any more. This is the fault of the Republican Party and their willingness to let an adjudicated rapist tear the country down and hurt the very people who voted for them.
We’ll see if the administration will try to get another judge to stay the order because cruelty is a feature, not a bug to the felon and his sycophants.
One news item after another continues to come out that anyone with a bit of sense would arrive at the same conclusion:
President Donald J. Felon is not working for the average American. Neither is anyone else in his administration.
He singlehandedly decided that a portion of the White House building should be completely demolished and replaced with an enormous dancehall — the Epstein Ballroom, if you will.
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He listened to gravel-mouthed Bobbie “Brainworm” Kennedy Jr. about Tylenol causing autism — it doesn’t — and women all over the country are told just to tough it out if they have a fever or headache during pregnancy.
He wants and has allowed the Department of Education to be gutted.
He allowed his once-co-president Elon Musk to pilfer the financial data, including Social Security numbers, of taxpayers.
He has obliterated diversity measures throughout the federal government.
He has ordered GOPmaga-run states to redistrict mid-decade with the goal of giving him a larger Republican majority in Congress.
He has targeted colleges and universities, threatening Justice Department and IRS investigations.
He has threatened allies around the world with huge tariffs on imports, with the costs of those tariffs coming for the most part from American consumers and manufacturers.
He rolled back an executive order that lowered prescription drug costs for Medicare and Medicaid recipients.
He has allowed ICE thugs and Kristi “Dogkiller” Noem to run rampant, terrifying citizens and immigrants alike.
He signed a horrific budget bill that gave massive tax cuts to the ultra-wealthy and will drastically cut Medicaid and food assistance.
Earlier this year, a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rule from the Biden era that “prohibited the inclusion of medical debt on consumer credit reports” was vacated by a Trump-appointed Texas federal judge.
About 14 million people in the United States owe more that $1,000 in medical debt, with 20 percent of Americans having that debt on their credit reports, Common Dreams reported.
Fifteen states, including California, Colorado and New York, have moved to curb the reporting of medical debt, but “industry groups,” including the likes of debt reporting companies Equifax, Experian and TransUnion, want to block those state laws.
Keep in mind that millions of people are facing huge increases in healthcare premiums because the tax credits for the Affordable Care Act are expiring at the end of this year — unless Congress does something about it, which seems unlikely since House Speaker Mike Johnson has effectively closed up shop (ahem, Epstein files).
“Writing for MSNBC over the weekend, Century Foundation president Julie Margetta Morgan warned that ‘the spike in premiums won’t just blow an even bigger hold in families’ future budgets’,” Common Dreams wrote.
“It will pour gasoline on the already raging fire of medical debt in this country, and government leaders at all levels are not prepared for it,” Morgan said.
Again, what it is going to take for people to realize that this president has never and will never be a leader for all Americans — only those who can line his pocket or stroke his ego?
Man, it’s getting hard to decide what to be pissed about every day. There is so much to choose from.
Here are a few things that got my dander up.
It’s pretty clear that President Felon is hell bent on killing as many people as possible — since the Supreme Court made it clear that he can suffer no consequences for any action while he’s in office.
Trump: "I don't think we're necessarily going to ask for a declaration of war, I think we're just gonna kill people that are bringing drugs into our country. We're going to kill them. They're going to be, like dead."
These extrajudicial killings should be thought of as a trial run for turning the weapons of his private army — ICE — onto American citizens.
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There really can be no better illustration of what the grifter-in-chief is doing to this country than the destruction of the East Wing — all to erect a monstrosity of a ballroom in its place.
Seriously, does Speaker Mike Johnson plan on dissolving the House of Representatives?
Or will they just come back in session to vote on raising their salaries that they are still being paid while on extended vacation?
I find it amazing too that Republicans’ boycott of Washington isn’t the biggest story of them all. The shutdown can’t end if they refuse to show up for work.
President Donald J. Felon pardoned Moynihan, along with every other person charged or convicted with participating in the riot, on his first day back in office.
While the police did not name the member of Congress who was threatened, Jeffries issued a statement on the “credible death threat.”
Jeffries said he was grateful to state and federal law enforcement for apprehending Moynihan, “who made a credible death threat against me with every intention to carry it out.”
He said that, since the blanket pardon, “many of the criminals released have committed additional crimes throughout the country. Unfortunately, our brave men and women in law enforcement are being forced to spend their time keeping our communities safe from these violent individuals who should never have been pardoned.”
Court documents said Moynihan wrote in text messages he planned to kill Jeffries at a speaking event Monday in New York City, CBS News reported.
“According to a court filing by prosecutors in the New York state criminal case, Moynihan wrote, ‘Hakeem Jeffries makes a speech in a few days in NYC I cannot allow this terrorist to live.”
On Jan. 6, 2021, Moynihan “was among rioters who broke through the security perimeter on the east side of the Capitol Building. He joined rioters outside the Rotunda Door, and around 2:40 p.m., he entered the building, as did others,” according to my article on Mid-Hudson Valley Patch from Aug. 24, 2022.
Moynihan could be seen entering the Senate Chamber, walking down to the well and standing next to a elevated desk and platform. He also took photos of a notebook on top of a senator’s desk with his cell phone.
He was found guilty of obstruction of an official proceeding, a felony, and pleaded guilty to five related misdemeanor charges.
Of course, a death threat against a high-ranking member of Congress would be concerning, right? It would be something that other high-ranking members would speak out against, right?
Not so fast.
Speaker Mike “Says He’s Christian” Johnson was asked about the threat and said, while he didn’t know any of the details — really??? — blamed the violence on the left and George Soros. In others words, a normal Tuesday.
Q: Getting back to the Jeffries threat, this is one of a number of J6 pardons that's been rearrested. Did Trump make a mistake?JOHNSON: I don't know any of the details. I'll tell you the violence on the left is far more prevalent than on the right. The rhetoric that you saw Saturday plays into it
Editors at the Times later described the brown liquid as “resembling feces” being dropped on the heads of people gathered in a large city.
Thanks you, New York Times, for sparing our sensibilities, but there is really no other way to say it without downplaying what the president of the United States said in that video.
The president dumped shit all over Americans exercising the right to protest against him.
Projection indeed.
It seems that everything the grifter-in-chief has done since reclaiming office in January has been to shit on Americans — no matter whether Democrat or Republican. It’s just that many of the Republicans who aren’t wealthy don’t realize they’ve been shit on.
Look at the tariffs that he so loves. The elderly golfer keeps saying that other countries pay the tariffs when everyone knows that it’s coming out of the pockets of American companies and consumers.
A comment about doling out a 100 percent tariff on China and the stock market takes a massive dive. Say adios to your retirement savings.
The GOPmagas won’t talk to the Democrats — and neither will the current occupant of the Gilded Oval Office — and the government continues to be shut down.
Fallout from the shutdown means that the Republicans’ plan to let Obamacare enhanced premium tax credits expire because the president and the GOPmagas in Congress do not care about their constituents — red states as well as blue — being able to afford a 136 percent increase in premiums in 2026.
Then there are $1 trillion worth of cuts to Medicaid that are part of the budget passed by Congress. That will throw up to 15 million people off of healthcare, due to work requirements, increased paperwork requirements and higher out-of-pocket costs. Rural area emergency rooms will be severely impacted, too.
I could go on and on, listing the various executive orders he has proudly signed or the court orders he and his sycophants have proudly ignored.
“What in the name of all that is holy is going on here? How has America, since Trump was inaugurated in late January, sunk so deeply into the literal sewer that we’re having conversations about the Oval Office vulgarian posting hateful poop videos?
“Is this what you voted for, Trump supporters? Republicans, is this what you want? Is this gross, twisted, decidedly un-American imagery modeling the kind of behavior you want your kids to follow? Would you show this video in church on Sunday to inspire the congregation? Is this s— making America great?”
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson seems to be OK with the president’s social media antics.
When asked what is says that the president released a video of him “pooping” on the American people, Johnson said the president was a master of social media and that he was using satire to make a point.
Q: What does it say that president released a video of him pooping on the American people?MIKE JOHNSON: You can argue he's probably the most effective person who has ever used social media. He's using satire to make a point. He's not calling for the murder of his political opponents.
What is the point, Mr. Speaker? Is it satire, or is the president finally confirming what he thinks of us and of himself?
as far as just messaging goes that video is probably the most embarrassing thing any president has done on the world stage in my lifeand the fact that the sunday shows wont even describe it? total abdication of their responsibility
Of course it was expected that some prominent Republicans would denounce the thousands of offensive Telegram chats that were divulged by Politico.
But who would have thought the actual vice president would come out and defend them?
Well, a lot of us, because we have seen Shady Vance in action in the past.
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The 41-year-old vice president — yes, the age is important — said about the group chats, “The reality is that kids do stupid things especially young boys.”
The Wall Street Journal editorial board wasn’t feeling it however.
The board wrote that Vance’s defense was “deeply misguided.”
Aside from calling the chats “jokes,” WSJ said the veep was treating actual adults — the age range was mid-20s to mid-30s (not much younger than Vance himself) — as children and not professionals in the Republican Party.
JD Vance said today on the TPUSA podcast that these guys were “just a bunch of kids in a chat room.” bsky.app/profile/blue…
And more than one person on social media is pointing out that jobs were lost and visas revoked for not paying enough respect to Charlie Kirk after his murder, while Vance is saying it’s OK to joke about rape, gas chambers and “watermelon people.”
Because Vance can’t stop digging deeper the hole in which he’s standing, in a different social media post he wrote, “These promising young Republicans shouldn’t have their lives ruined over language that is frankly very tame compared to the banter you hear in the Oval Office every day.”
Wait… what???Daily Oval Office banter is *worse* than virulently racist, antisemitic, and misogynistic remarks?What???
That is a hell of a statement. Where is Richard Nixon’s taping system when you need it?
But it would again not be a surprise when the White House allows Karoline Leavitt to speak on Fox News and say, “The Democrat Party’s main constituency are made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens and violent criminals.”
Karoline Leavitt should resign.They try to make us hate each other to distract from the fact that they're robbing us all blind.It's sick.
Leavitt pissed of House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries who called her “sick” and “out of control.”
Jeffries: "You've got Leavitt, who's sick, she's out of control. I'm not sure if she's just demented, ignorant, a stone cold liar, or all of the above. But the notion that an official WH spokesperson would say that the D Party consists of 'terrorists, violent criminals & undocumented immigrants'…"
I’ve said it before. All of this denigrating talk from GOPmagas aimed at Democrats comes from the Mar-a-Lago orange fountainhead.
This is the atmosphere that the felon-in-chief encourages by his own actions.
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Historian here No Kings is the most American thing you could say and the people opposing it simply don’t believe in our republic or constitutional democracy.
The old saying “a fish rots from the head” perfectly describes the current Republican Party.
We have a president who shows no grace, no style, no courtesy and is completely uncouth. Ditto the vice president, who revels in others’ misfortune and is the epitome of snark.
So why it is news that, according to thousands of private chat messages, leaders of Young Republicans groups around the country are racists and love Hitler?
“The chat offers an unfiltered look at how a new generation of GOP activists talk when they think no one is listening,” wrote Jason Beeferman and Emily Ngo of Politico.
The leaders of the groups were actually worried what might happen if the messages were ever leaked, “but they kept typing anyway.”
only surprising thing about the racist young republican groupchat is that jd vance wasn't in there dropping crylaugh emoji reacts
Among the chats were comments about Black people being monkeys and “watermelon people.” The chatters even mused about getting rid of political opponents in gas chambers.
Racial and homophobic slurs were used, and the then-vice chairman of the New York State Young Republicans Bobby Walker even referred to rape as “epic.”
The 2,900 pages of chats were shared among millennial and Gen Z Republicans between January and mid-August, Politico reported, with many of the chat members working inside government or party politics. One of them, Samuel Douglass, is a state senator in Vermont.
“Together, the messages reveal a culture where racist, antisemitic and violent rhetoric circulate freely — and where the Trump-era loosening of political norms has made such talk feel less taboo among those positioning themselves as the party’s next leaders,” Beeferman and Ngo wrote.
Walker, who is now the head of the NYS Young Republicans, apologized, but said that he believes some of the messages were altered or taken out of context.
• Bobby Walker, New York • Peter Giunta, New York • Joe Maligno, New York • Alex Dwyer, Kansas • William Hendrix, Kansas • Annie Kaykaty, New York • Luke Mosiman, Arizona • Samuel Douglass, Vermont • Brianna Douglass, Vermont
A spokesperson for Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-NY, said Stefanik was “appalled” to learn about the comments, according to Newsweek, and, if Politico’s reporting is accurate, “calls for any NY Young Republicans responsible for these horrific comments in this chat to step down immediately.”
Rep. Mike Lawler, R-NY, wrote on Facebook that he was “disgusted by the hateful antisemitism and racism revealed in these messages. Anyone involved in this disgraceful behavior should immediately resign from any leadership position and reflect on how far they’ve strayed from basic decency and respect.”
New York State Senator Rob Rolison also posted on Facebook that the comments were “deeply offensive and completely unacceptable. There is no excuse for this kind of language, and no place for it in our lives.”
That’s all well and good to say now, but how many times have we heard the president call a Black congresswoman “low IQ” or a sitting senator “Pocahontas”?
During the campaign, the person who is now the vice president admitted he was willing to make up stories while defending racist rumors about Haitians stealing and eating pets in his home state.
Just two days ago, after Sen. Elizabeth Warren posted on social media that it was a “good day” because the surviving Israeli hostages were finally home, the vice president took the opportunity to troll her by posting “The president told me he did this on Indigenous Peoples Day in honor of you.”
The apple doesn’t fall very far from the tree, now does it?
This is what the Grand Old Party has turned into.
Just saying the chats are disgusting is barely a start.
Let’s see some real improvement. We’ll be waiting.
Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples?HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context … there's gotta be consequences … this bullshit has to stop.
The oft-times masked and unidentified thugs parading around under the umbrella of ICE have reached a new level in terror — and it isn’t even nine months since President Donald J. Felon was inaugurated for the second time.
In Chicago, ICE agents used a rarely enforced federal law to fine a legal resident $130 for not having his registration card on him.
Rubén Antonio Cruz, who is originally from El Salvador, was confronted Thursday by ICE agents while he was sitting with a friend, NBC Chicago reported.
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He said he was looking at his phone when agents got out of their vehicle and asked if he had his papers.
“I told them yes, but that they were at home … that I could show them if they wanted,” he told the news organization.
Cruz was placed in the agents’ car, driven around the neighborhood and questioned before they verified his identity.
“The agents eventually confirmed he is legally in the country but still gave him a $130 citation for not having his documents on him,” NBC reported.
ICE is terrorizing people in the United States of America. Why would you call it anything else? That's exactly what it is.
While federal law requires permanent residents to carry their registration with them at all times, legal experts said this rule is rarely enforced.
Illinois is a state that, unlike some others, does not have a “show me your papers” law which allows local police to demand proof of residency, RawStory said.
Ed Yohnka, communications director for the ACLU of Illinois, said that ticketing a lawful permanent resident, which forces them to appear in court and pay a fine for not carrying documentation, is unnecessary and cruel.
“America has never been a place where people need to ‘show one’s papers’,” he said.
Yohnka added that it doesn’t make communities safer or stronger.
“It is simply part of the Trump Administration’s attempt to make life uncomfortable for all immigrants,” he said. “It is just awful.”
Again, cruelty is a feature not a bug in the Stephen Miller administration.
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Props to the hoverboarding Shark in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces.This is truly terrifying.
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