Starting tomorrow there are 13 days left in the 90
day pause.

Trump again is threatening news outlets with lawsuits for reporting the news without his permission etc.

It is time for some humongous class action lawsuits against Trump for lies and misleading statements and threats and insults.

Why not??

They are trying so hard to preserve disorder.
To be totalitarian and to be worshiped.
The hateful are the favored ones.

The law is the law. But they are trying so hard to crush human rights here and to prevent the righteous from giving life saving food to the needy in other countries.
America first means I am ashamed to help others on the planet. Let them die. Not my problem.

To be a white MAGA evangelical Christian in this country is to say, look at my MAGA hat and my AR7 and America First means no pennies for humans dying and America First means nobody else in the world is even second. And the very wealthy first in America and no other Americans second. Suckers and losers are they.

I have been sickened by self righteous people who cheer on the hatefulness of MAGA and who have so much in common with “satanic “ values and so little to do with “Jesus “ while they want to shove their so called beliefs down others throats.

The real Americans who say people first and decency first and gun safety first before anything goes and know that science is true revelation. Those good and decent Americans must keep the faith.

Posted by Lennybruce26 on 2/20/2025 2:12:00 PM (view original):
It is too depressing to talk about what the criminal in chief is doing to Ukraine, Europe and NATO. But he is in a vendetta against them and he is becoming a Siamese twin of Putin. Birds of a feather. There is a high risk of traveling into the realm of catastrophic history.

Onto the federal workforce.
There probably is some interest in slimming down the government but it is not the overriding reason. These are the true reasons :

1. The reconciliation package. To reiterate the gargantuan tax cut for the very wealthy cannot be approved by the parliamentarian unless there are proven ways that it will somehow produce revenues that are calculable and real AND the direct loss of tax revenue can be offset by budget cuts.

2. BUT the budget cuts so far are not nearly enough so we are seeing lies about how much is saved. Lies by multiples of 10. They lie to lay the foundation of a false amount of budget reduction.

And because the cuts will not cut it they are now going into the pentagon budget and it is inevitable that Medicaid funding to the states will be severely slashed and something will be done to Medicare and Sicial Security.

Elementary then and now. If you follow the budget stuff you can see all the back and forth with the parliamentarian and reconciliation.

Posted by Lennybruce26 on 12/24/2024 10:06:00 AM (view original):
Beware of the second coming of Trump reconciliation. I forget who it is, I think the parliamentarian; a designated non senator individual must sign off on it and cannot unless it is budget related and economy related; not ideological or policy related. And there has to be proof that it can be paid for. That is the system.

So what happens if the parliamentarian says no to welfare assistance to billionaires and millionaires. What if he says it cannot be paid for i.e. it will not pay for itself or other stuff is pure policy. Will Trump and Musk and Vance abide. Will the 3 dudes abide ? Will they stomp on the rule and do it anyway?

The path to reconciliation is going to be interesting. They will have to try to make gigantic cuts and that means entitlements. It has been said many times but the billionaire welfare will have to be gifted by poor people who will reduce their safety net and food and shelter and medical care and job producing programs and their very life expectancy as a noble sacrifice to their betters.

Thank the gods that we have such strong Judeo Christian values in our country. Maybe it is all about the going to hell wing which is a great deal of bullying fun and not very much at all about the help your neighbor wing.

From 12/24/24.
The parliamentarian and the reconciliation process is still in the weeds for most people.
Will Trump disregard the process and have his people pass a bill over the parliamentarian.

It would be foreseeable.

Premeditated

Over 100 million kids and new mothers are dying in a calendar year because the USA with Rubio at the helm got out of the food and medicine aid business. Inexpensive but life saving food is rotting in factories because the USA is keeping it there.

Does anyone fail to see what is happening. Trump is reducing young African populations by in an amount that could be a half billion black people over a 4 year term unless other countries step up with a delivery system of special food and medicine.

And millions of poor people in the USA will suffer and or will die from Medicaid cuts if his bill can pass.
And then he will say that the American people are celebrating.

Let them eat cake is for pikers.

Mostly in southern states school districts want to keep certain books with diverse sexuality out of the classroom and school library. I get it for elementary school.

But at the same time they want to post the Ten Commandments in classrooms and other places in public schools and in one state they are trying to make it a criminal offense to not have the old and new bibles - maybe just the old - in CLASSROOMS. And they want to teach it - and not in a comparative religion course.

I guarantee that those people have no concept of right from wrong on a whole lot of subjects.

They are part of the reason that we have an extremely dumb country.

Imagine a cruise where the ship might sink from weight so they first throw overboard all
of the poor people’s luggage but that isn’t enough. So then supplies and foods and medicines of the poor people are thrown overboard too.
And then the pets of the poor people but still not enough.
So some of the poor people are thrown overboard. At some point the sacrifice of the poor ones allows the ship to be safe again and the ship
sails on.

In the end the captain asks the remaining poor on the ship to celebrate their good luck in being able to save the rich people.

Some of the medicaid catastrophes might not show up until after 2028.

Do I think we live in a dumb country. You know I do but what do you think that the republicans in congress think of the people who vote for them.
I think that is pretty clear. Not only do they use the Maga base but do you think that they really care if those people live or die?

hey lenny, you ever get tired of talking to yourself?

There are only 8 days left for trade agreements before the trump pause on reciprocal tariffs ends. Trump promised 90 deals in 90 days. Around the world in 90 days.
What is it going to be for Murkowski and Collins. Extinction or service?

One of Two is Bad

Murkowski ended up voting for the evil bill.
Why - she had said it would hurt Medicaid ( recipients)? Because they threw in some subsidies for Alaska.

After she voted she was irate ( but she voted for it )
and engaged in a stare down with a reporter who asked her about Rand Paul’s comments about the subsidies she put over her objections.

So to sum up she voted yes because of subsidies bribery ( how much could they really be worth and for how many people ) for a Pygmy state of 749,000.
That’s right. She consciously put one of the smallest populations ahead of an entire country and particularly some 12 million poor people many of whom WILL die if that bill gets passed. And millions of more lives and families will be destroyed.

Nice. But she is angry. Because the devil made her do it.

True colors. Republicans MAGA what’s the difference??

This Trump Bill for the billionaire class is truly an endeavor based on evil intention of biblical proportions. The Trump fans cannot handle truth ( of most things ) and certainly not that.

The most evil aspect is that they have timed it out so that some of the most dangerous losses to poor people kick in after the 2028 elections.

I am happy that a bunch of people read my stuff. Maybe I am the resident Howard Beal but so what.

There has never been such danger to our way of life.
If we had a smart and moral country we would not be in such a mess. And most of the poor people I stand up for, support the attacks on their welfare. ( dumb country)

I remember so many people offended early on when I started to use the word evil and spoke about MAGA pols and leaders and groups like ICE ( the ones with the masks etc ) as sociopaths.
Was I really so wrong or was I just so honest and clear eyed.

Do you think it is over????? if this bill gets passed????

And don’t stop looking at Ukraine. Russia tried to decimate Ukraine but Ukraine countered them with defensive weapons. Next day Trump blocks shipment of more defensive weapons. We are living in a time of great evil of biblical proportions in both domestic and foreign policy with dimensions so far reaching it cannot be comprehended.

Imagine a bill - nobody loses Medicaid and all the tax breaks were for households making 50k to 300 k per year.

Before The Flood

I didn’t do a post about the death and horror that would come from the evil dismantling of weather forecasting ( not to mention climate change data ) to get a few more dollars in the pockets of billionaires ( who have blood on their hands ). Texas today. More to follow.

Why no post - Too depressing and too obvious about what was going to happen. It will happen some more. Hurricanes and tornadoes and more.

Of course it is evil. People should be in jail and charged with negligent homicide. It is what it is in a 50/50 country.

Kudos to Brian Fitzpatrick. A few months ago I recommended that my sister contact him for help. I told her he was not MAGA. He was one of the last republicans and he was a decent man; moral and rational and not a sociopath i.e. not a MAGA bum who uses power to help themselves while knowingly creating the risk of death for others.

Guess what? He successfully helped her. No politics ever mentioned. My sister used to be a Republican before Trump. Maybe she will now vote for Fitzpatrick. I would not dissuade her.
I mention him because only he and Massie in the House voted NO on the anti poor people budget bill.

Nobody can accuse me of unfair bias. I simply tell the truth. Some hate that and can’t handle the truth. Especially in admitting the existence of evil and sociopaths in American politics. Could any of you sleep at night knowing you would kick 12 million sad poor people off of Medicaid while enriching billionaires? Would be too lacking in credibility for a Hollywood script but real in our godforsaken country.

I do not apologize for being blunt and truthful and accurate. Call it a character flaw if it will help.

Trump extended the tariff deadline AGAIN. Nobody is worried. This time to August 1. Is that August 1 2025 or 2026???

He is a caveman.

Every time he caves countries increase trade with each other while reducing import and export trade with The United Trump of America. They do not need us.