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By mismanaging the Covid-19 pandemic that led to over 1 million Americans dying 

“one important reason for this financial improvement (of Medicare) was grisly: Covid killed a substantial number of Medicare beneficiaries. And the victims were disproportionately seniors already suffering from severe — and expensive — health problems. “As a result, the surviving population had spending that was lower than average.”

Make America Great Again!

This is so pathetic. Trump is insecure and indulges in victimhood like a child. 

Poor Donald, he gets blamed for everything he does. The entire justice system in the United States became corrupt as soon as Trump became President.

Remember the judge in the Trump University fraud case also hated Trump. 

“Former president Donald Trump’s attorney Joe Tacopina said Sunday he doesn’t believe the judge who oversaw Trump’s indictment is biased, contradicting days of Trump’s attacks in which he declared that the judge “HATES ME.””

Trump was always quick to say lock them up. But he doesn’t think he should answer for his illegal conduct. Hypocrite!

Trump has advocated for the prosecutions of each of the last four Democratic presidential nominees — every single one since 2004. In two cases, he did it during the campaign, even suggesting they should be ineligible to run.

The vote was 5 to 4

The justices who voted in favor were 

Kennedy - appointed by Reagan

Roberts - George W Bush

Scalia - Reagan

Alito - George W Bush

Thomas - HW Bush

The court's ruling effectively freed corporations and unions to spend money both on "electioneering communications" and to directly advocate for the election or defeat of candidates (although not to contribute directly to candidates or political parties).

Chris Burchett (R-UT) As I’ve stated, in this country, we’re a sick nation. We are a sick nation. We need to repent and, honestly, we need a revival. It’s made a lot of people mad that I’ve said that, but it really is — there’s no other answer for it. I think, you know, they come back to me and say, ‘Burchett, you know, look at what your prayers have done for us.’ And the people doing the praying aren’t the ones doing the shooting, ma’am. And it’s it’s just a very unfortunate situation. And there’s no easy answers. I don’t know. Repenting of your sins and having some sort of reform in this country seems to me to be the way we’re going to have to turn this thing around because we have some very sick, evil people doing some very vile things. And revival seems to be the way to go for me. But I realize their hatred towards me and my beliefs. And that’s fine. It’s America, we’re allowed to do it. But I do believe revival is the answer, and I pray for it every day.

In the Senate, Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) is blocking more than 150 Defense Department nominations because he objects to the Pentagon’s abortion policy — and is prepared to block hundreds more. He is jeopardizing the leadership of crucial military commands and making the military “far less ready than we need to be,” Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin testified this week.

Reposted even though there was no interest in Gay Parrot’s original post.

Reposted per request of a Gay Parrot and a wyttle loser

Reposting at the request of a Gay Parrot and a wyttle loser

It’s time to withhold Federal money from any state that refuses to establish Red Flag laws.

So obviously we shouldn’t have any restrictions or laws with regard to explosives. 

Anyone should be able to go to Home Depot or Ace Hardware and buy all the dynamite, C4 and nitro they want. Because those explosives are relatively harmless on their own - it’s  only when people get involved they become a hazard. Freedom!

So, where to begin.

First, when will Americans finally concede that there is no good reason for citizens to own semiautomatic rifles with high capacity magazines?

Second, so much for private schools being a safe haven from liberal public schools run by the states.

Third, red states are no better at controlling gun violence than blue states and more guns are definitely not making people safer.

Lastly, the shooter was a Christian woman shooting up a Christian school. So forget the theory this country would be better off if we just had more Christian religion in our lives.

“In Education, Florida ranks among the worst in the Country and on crime statistics, Florida ranked Third Worst in Murder, Third Worst in Rape, and Third Worst in Aggravated Assault. For 2022, Jacksonville was ranked as one of the Top 25 Major Crime Cities in the Country, with Tampa and Orlando not doing much better“

Trump continues 

“On Education, Florida ranks #39 in Health & Safety in the Country, #50 in Affordability, and #30 in Education & Childcare, HARDLY GREATNESS THERE!”

In Kentucky, a 24 yo man committed suicide after years of bullying by peers and ignorant adults who refused to accept that a boy could be born in a girl’s body.

This is a sad story of the evil of ignorance. I dare you to read this article.

Lauren Boebert, a Republican member of Congress from Colorado, got pregnant as a teenager and dropped out of high school.

They must have taught the class on women’s suffrage after she dropped out.

The federal debt is causing “more suffrage for the American people,” said Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.), who presumably meant “suffering.”.

She’s a dummy who represents the dummies in Colorado 

Do Trump supporters ever grow tired of Trump’s ridiculous hyperbole?

Over the years Trump has made statements including 

“I’m the least racist person you could ever meet”

“It was a perfect phone call”

“I won in a landslide”

I’m the healthiest President in history 

I had the largest electoral win in history 

I had the greatest economy in history 

Our country is being destroyed 

and now, I’m 100% innocent 

Have a clue people. I know Trump supporters are dumb, but at least stay somewhat grounded in reality.

Lawyers for the former president had argued that the material being sought was protected by attorney-client privilege, which in most instances shields any communications between a lawyer and a client. Prosecutors responded — and U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell ultimately agreed — that the “crime-fraud exception” to attorney-client privilege applied in this case, people familiar with the matter said.
As part of Howell’s ruling, Corcoran was ordered to give the Justice Department notes, transcripts of recordings, and invoices in his possession, according to a person familiar with the matter, who said the judge has reviewed that material and concluded there was evidence suggesting Trump may have misled his own attorneys in the classified-documents matter. The details of Howell’s ruling were first reported by ABC News.

Imagine being one of the losers who supported and continues to support this guy. 

MAGA - Make Attorneys Get Attorneys! Lol

“Iowa already has the 10th-worst “brain drain” in the country, according to an analysis of federal data by economists at the University of North Carolina, the W.E. Upjohn Institute, the University of Michigan and the University of Chicago, which shows the percentage difference between the number of college graduates Iowa produces versus the number of college graduates living in the state at minus-34 points”

As Iowa wack jobs push back against equal rights and liberal policies, (the state legislature recently tried to ban same sex marriage) educated people and young people leave the state.

FOX executive VP and former Trump White House Spokesman concluded Trump was lying about election fraud while Trump himself committed actual election fraud. Texts between him and White House deputy communications director Josh Raffel provide evidence of what they concluded. The texts were made public as part of the Dominion lawsuit against FOX News.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) is dismissing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as a “territorial dispute” and says protecting the European nation is not a vital U.S. interest, firmly putting the potential presidential candidate on the side of Donald Trump and at odds with top congressional Republicans.

So much for the party of Ronald Regan

You can’t make this stuff up. The sordid lives of Republicans

Carlton Huffman’s reputation suffered a major blow earlier this year, when his past racist writings were exposed by an anonymous email account. Huffman had frequently glorified the Confederate flag, blamed Black people and illegal immigrants for violent crime, and called for “preserving the European American culture of the United States.” Huffman immediately resigned from his job with the North Carolina General Assembly in late January after the email with links to his commentary was circulated.

Eli Lilly Chief Executive David Ricks acknowledged the Inflation Reduction Act served as a “trigger for us” to lower prices.

American Airlines announced they were eliminating “family seating fees” after the President called for it in his State of the Union speech. Joe did that!

Also, thanks to a subsidy in the bipartisan infrastructure legislation, low income families can access broadband internet connections for free. Thanks Joe!

The Party of family values sure do have their fair share of bad marriages. Even though god hates divorce and Republicans claim to be the party of god.

Trump advisor and campaign manager Kelly Ann Conway announced her divorce today.

She joins Marjorie Taylor Greene, Sarah Palin, and Trump himself who is twice divorced.

“… as Schlapp rebuffs the allegation by a former staffer from Herschel Walker’s Senate campaign in Georgia, who says Schlapp groped him during an Atlanta trip last fall, dozens of current and former employees and board members interviewed by The Washington Post described a wider range of complaints about the longtime Republican power broker and CPAC’s culture under his leadership. A Post review of the Walker staffer’s claims also corroborated that he shared his story with friends and colleagues in the immediate aftermath”

“Rupert Murdoch, chairman of Fox News’s parent company, acknowledged in a deposition that “some of our commentators were endorsing” the baseless narrative that the 2020 presidential election was stolen — and that he wishes the network did more to challenge those conspiracy theories”

“Dominion’s filing shows Murdoch intimately involved in steering the network’s programming during the chaotic weeks after Election Day, as he tried to “straddle the issue” of election fraud in a way that would not anger viewers or the president”

So sad ILikePie

Is that because Republican voters typically don’t go to college?

“Canceling hundreds of billions of dollars in student loans — through a decree that extends to nearly all borrowers — is a breathtaking assertion of power,” Nebraska Attorney General Michael T. Hilgers (R) writes in a brief filed on behalf of his and five other GOP-led states

Now many people using it are from Red States

Trump had 2 Secretaries of State in his first 2 years - Rex Tillerson and Mike Pompeo. Tillerson, who was CEO of Exxon, had zero government experience and lasted just over a year. He famously called Trump a moron. Pompeo also had zero government experience when Trump first tagged him to be Director of the CIA and then as a replacement for Tillerson. Pompeo had been an Army Captain, a lawyer and a businessman before leading the CIA. 

Trump had 2 Secretaries of Defense in his first 2 years - General James Mattis who resigned after just under 2 years in office and Mark Esper who was eventually fired by tweet just 15 months later. After Trump lost the 2020 presidential election to Joe Biden, Trump launched a months-long effort to subvert the election outcome and remain in power, falsely claiming that the election had been "stolen" from him.[89] In his subsequent memoir, published in 2022, Esper wrote that Trump's effort "was a national embarrassment that undermined our democracy, our credibility, and our leadership on the world stage."

In an open letter published in September 2022, Esper and Jim Mattis,  as well as a bipartisan group of former top U.S. generals and former defense secretaries, said that the failure to commit to a peaceful transfer of power worsened "an extremely adverse environment" for the U.S. military.

On the other hand:

Biden has had Antony Blinken as his Secretary of State, a man who had decades of experience in the State Department and National Security positions.

Biden has had General Lloyd Austin as his Secretary of Defense.  He was confirmed by the Senate in a 93–2 vote on January 22, 2021.[56] Republican senators Josh Hawley and Mike Lee were the only "no" votes.

“The 30 percent of college-educated voters who had an unfavorable view of Trump was higher than any other demographic broken out in the poll, except GOP-leaning independents (33 percent)”

“…there is a compelling argument that Pence’s use of the speech and debate clause is inconsistent with the clause’s purpose, which is to insulate members of Congress from pressure from the executive. It might also be argued (as retired judge Michael Luttig has) that Pence’s role on Jan. 6 was purely ceremonial, not legislative, and thus the speech and debate clause does not apply. After all, Pence himself argued that day that he had no legislative authority to nullify the electoral votes”

“Other scholars are even less tolerant of Pence’s argument. Constitutional experts Laurence H. Tribe and Dennis Aftergut argue that because Pence’s own prosecution is not at issue, he has little basis for resisting the subpoena. “Unfortunately for Pence’s claim, the Supreme Court ruled in 1972 that the clause does not ‘immunize a Senator or aide from testifying at trials or grand jury proceedings involving third-party crimes where the questions do not require testimony about or impugn a legislative act,’” 

“Trump is viewed most favorably by evangelical Christians, rural voters, people with household incomes below $50,000 and White people without a college degree, according to an NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll this month”

“Among the biggest relevant regulatory rollbacks Trump has conveniently remained mum over is the 2018 scrapping of a 2015 Obama-era rule requiring advanced braking technology on trains transporting particularly hazardous materials. That rule would have required compliance by certain trains by 2021 and others by 2023, but as Fortune reported at the time, Trump’s Department of Transportation decided that “the cost of installing these more sophisticated brakes outweigh[ed] the benefit.” “

Trump the idiot decided trains don’t need to upgrade their brakes

“Former President Donald J. Trump’s daughter Ivanka and his son-in-law Jared Kushner have been subpoenaed by the special counsel to testify before a federal grand jury about Mr. Trump’s efforts to stay in power after he lost the 2020 election and his role in a pro-Trump mob’s attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, according to two people briefed on the matter”

“The decision by the special counsel, Jack Smith, to subpoena Ms. Trump and Mr. Kushner underscores how deeply into Mr. Trump’s inner circle Mr. Smith is reaching, and is the latest sign that no potential high-level witness is off limits”

Will she try to assert Father/Daughter privilege?

The former Republican Attorney General concealed evidence he found that showed there was no fraud.

“Investigators prepared a report in March 2022 stating that virtually all claims of error and malfeasance were unfounded, according to internal documents reviewed by The Washington Post. Brnovich, a Republican, kept it private”

But MAGA Republicans are liars, so nothing new here.

If Trump were still President he wouldn’t visit Ukraine, he would visit Moscow. With Biden, NATO has become stronger.

Let’s remember Trump tried to extort the President of Ukraine by withholding weapons in exchange for an announcement that Ukraine was investigating Biden.

Because the GOP only supports parental rights if they agree with the parents. 

And the GOP only wants small government when it doesn’t want intrusive government.

She wants the nation to match her own personal circumstances. Divorced, alone, and bitter.

The only trans woman in the GOP called for secession on Lincoln’s Birthday. The reason? Woke culture and immigration.

“Newly released messages show Fox executives fretting that month over an uncomfortable revelation: that if they told their audience the truth about the election, it could destroy their business model”

“Getting creamed by CNN!” Murdoch wrote to Scott on Nov. 8, a day after most news organizations declared that Biden had won. “Guess our viewers don’t want to watch it.”

Their “business model” is to tell stupid people what the want to hear.

It’s official, the GOP is no longer trying to cut or kill the two great Democratic entitlement programs. Biden the puppet master pulled the strings and had Republicans standing and applauding for the two entitlement programs created by FDR and LBJ on national television during his SOTU speech last week.

Now, Rick Scott (R) Florida revised his plan to exclude the two big expenditures from being defunded with all other federal spending. SS and Medicare account for 25% of annual spending. This is proof that Socialism is fine as long as it benefits white middle class people and not just poor people, especially poor people of color.

A judge authorized the release of some of the Grand Jury report for the case in Georgia regarding Trump’s illegal election meddling 

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“The grand jury heard extensive testimony on the subject of alleged election fraud from poll workers, investigators, technical experts, and State of Georgia employees and officials, as well as from persons still claiming that such fraud took place," the report reads. “We find by a unanimous vote that no widespread fraud took place in the Georgia 2020 presidential election that could result in overturning that election

“…the cost-of-thriving index (COTI), which starts from a simple premise: Americans must prioritize five sets of goods when providing for their family. That includes food, housing, health care, transportation and higher education. Those who can pay for those needs without worry can enjoy some luxuries without risking their children’s future”

“The news is sobering: In 1985, it took 39.7 weeks of work each year to pay for these things, giving families plenty of room to enjoy other consumer goods and luxuries. But today, it takes 62.1 weeks of work to cover the same expenses. In other words, about 40 years ago, the median American family could enjoy a middle-class life on one earner’s paycheck. Today, it takes two.“

Think of these things that didn’t exist for my parents when they were young parents- 

Cable TV and/or HULU, Cell phone service, high employment taxes for SS and Medicare, internet connection, 

“Haley made her announcement in a 3½-minute video released online, in which she declares, “It’s time for a new generation of leadership.” The video emphasizes Haley’s gender and her family’s immigrant roots”

Did she forget that Republicans don’t particularly care for women or immigrants?

In 1965, the year I was born, so not exactly ancient history, a football star on the Kansas City Chiefs could not find a house to buy in the suburbs of Kansas City. There were plenty of houses for sale, the player made good money, and there wasn’t anything wrong with his credit score.

The problem was he was black.

“Future Hall of Fame linebacker Bobby Bell says he looked at more than 200 houses for his family in the mid-1960s, getting denied by realtors and bankers who refused to underwrite his mortgage. Head coach Hank Stram, who was White and lived in a planned suburb in Prairie Village, Kan., made calls on Bell’s behalf to no avail. “You couldn’t do anything,” Bell said. “They didn’t want to take you.”

“players proposed building an integrated apartment complex that featured central air conditioning and a pool shaped like a football. The city council denied the plan over zoning issues”

“Bell eventually bought a house in Prairie Village in 1968, after a White man purchased it and rented to Bell until he could find a willing mortgage underwriter. Shortly after Bell moved in, a White neighbor showed up at his door with a flier organizing a protest against him”

-  When my father and in-laws die in the coming years I will inherit over a million dollars worth of real estate. Imagine the effect not being able to get a mortgage for a house has had on generations of black families. It’s a disgrace. And this is why reparations for black families should be explored.

The wack job Congressional hearings aren’t going so well for MAGA Republicans 

“The day after leaving the White House, Kushner created a company that he transformed months later into a private equity firm with $2 billion from a sovereign wealth fund chaired by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Kushner’s firm structured those funds in such a way that it did not have to disclose the source, according to previously unreported details of Securities and Exchange Commission forms reviewed by The Washington Post. His business used a commonly employed strategy that allows many equity firms to avoid transparency about funding sources, experts said”

Now isn’t this the exact kind of thing MAGA Republicans are saying Hunter Biden did?

“The Republican governor’s campaign wanted weapons banned from his victory celebration at the city-run Tampa Convention Center, a city official said in emails obtained by The Washington Post. And the campaign suggested that the city take responsibility for the firearms ban, the official said — not the governor, who has been a vocal supporter of gun rights.“

Looks like Trump will be attacking Ron for being a RINO

Why didn’t Trump do that?

This will fund the replacement of lead pipes in water systems for 10 million Americans. Why didn’t Trump do that?

But Republicans are investigating Hunter Biden’s laptop!

This will rebuild and strengthen the supply chain in America and create jobs.

As a result, Intel is building a factory in Columbus, Ohio. Thanks Joe!