It’s a real-life ‘he said, Xi said.’ Felon 47 claimed on April 22, during an interview with Time magazine that Chinese leader Xi had called him to discuss The Felon’s trade war. As usual, he offers NO details or evidence. He just claimed it happened. I guess we’re supposed to just take his word for it. More, it looks like the Chinese are supposed to just take his word for it, too. It’s simply inexplicable, in his tiny mind, that they don’t.

Asked about the comments, Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said: “As far as I know, there has been no phone call between the two heads of state recently. China and the United States are not conducting consultations or negotiations on tariff issues.”

Meanwhile, I’m seeing news stories about idled truckers and empty shipping ports. That means store shelves are going to start emptying and prices will be on the rise. The bumbling buffoon has managed to artificially re-create the economic shut-down he brought about with his feckless handling of Covid-19.

This self-inflicted, totally avoidable economic upheaval was not caused by Joe Biden. It wasn’t caused by Barack Obama. It wasn’t Bill Clinton. It wasn’t Hillary Clinton. It sure as shootin’ wasn’t Bernie or AOC. It wasn’t Al Gore, Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff, Hakeem Jeffries, Elizabeth Warren, George Soros, or any of the other lefty boogie-men the right likes to blame for their own shortcomings. This was all, 100%, absolutely no one but the failing and flailing Donald J. Trump…

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You just wait. They’ll be saying she was in BOTH Tren de Aragua AND MS-13. They’ll claim she has the gang tats to prove it. She has a rap sheet as long as… some very long thing. She’s been a menace to society for years and years and years. She’s a legal nightmare and simply had to go. Of course, the fact that she’s only two years old is going to have to be downplayed.

Focus on the story, ‘She’s bad.’ Ignore her age. She’s two. Oh, I’ve got it. “We’ve ALL heard of the terrible two’s. THIS girl takes it to the extreme!” Say some scary words, as though they might apply to her. “Murder.” “Rape.” “Poopy-pants.” Oh, did I mention this two-year-old “terrorist” is a US citizen? That seems like it might have been relevant.

Well, she’s been deported now, so, I guess the Bizarro United States is safe. For now. One can never tell when that little sneak will toddle back across the border. Stay vigilant! Hey, at least she wasn’t sent to a maximum security prison!

In fact, Team Evil deported the child’s mother, who opted to take the child with her. Bear in mind, the child’s mother didn’t do anything wrong, either. She was arrested during what used to be a routine check-in meeting. It was just an opportunity to inflict a little cruelty on a brown person and these guys are NOT going to pass that up.

Even MAGA seems to be noticing how things aren’t going the way Donny promised. His approval ratings are plunging. He has poor ratings on the economy and on immigration, as he should. He sucks at both of those things. But, according to an article in ‘The Guardian,’ “a survey released on Saturday found that only 24% of Americans believe [the anti-American Trumpster] has focused on the right priorities as president.”

24%? That number cuts into MAGA. The Drumpfster maintains about 30% support on most issues and that 30% represents MAGA. (The rest of us understand what’s really happening in this once-great nation.) MAGA is normally steadfast. True believers. It’s a solid 30% and it often seems impossible to shake. 24% means some 6% of MAGA has noticed he’s hurting them, too.

Perhaps they’ve noticed he’s spending more time on retribution and golf than on the cost-of-living and he seems to be making America a laughingstock around the world. That’s hardly “great.” What’s more, if 6% are willing to confess their concerns for a poll, there are likely even more who have noticed, are not happy, but still trying to keep the faith.

So, what happens if MAGA were to find out that all he’s really done is harm tens of thousands of lives but the government, to date, has spent MORE, not less, than any other President in history? They might, they should, begin to question his actions. If it gets bad enough – and it will – they might even start saying so out loud.

24% is the kind of number I’ve been waiting for. Sooner or later, MAGA HAD to notice. His attacks on, well, everything, really, haven’t been limited to the “lib-tards” or the pretended “Deep State.” He’s doing real-life, actual harm to anyone and everyone not lucky enough to have been born into huge piles of money. That is, most of us. Even MAGA. But, hey, we’re safe from scary toddlers…

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Universal health care? I think it’s a better plan. Here’s one reason. I know a person who is 100% disabled. This particular individual receives health care through California’s Medi-cal program and has for quite some time. Now, she’s about to turn 65. As a result, she is being “shifted” over to Medicare.

Medicare comes with costs. Medi-cal does not. So, when she is shifted to Medicare, Medi-cal stays in the picture, to pick up the costs Medicare won’t. The shift serves, mostly, to add a layer of bureaucracy to the process. It got me thinking. How stupid is that? Wait, here’s another.

I recently had a bit of a health dust-up. A little cancer on my ear. I’m a Kaiser member, but I also have access to the VA. Even though I pay Kaiser premiums and have insurance, thanks to the glories of Capitalism, having Kaiser deal with the problem would have cost me thousands in co-pays and share-of-costs. That represents thousands I don’t have. So I used the VA.

Medicare. Medi-cal. Private insurance. VA. Four different systems. Actually, because “Private insurance” has so many different permutations, parameters, requirements, options, and obligations, it’s a LOT more than four. Each different track has to be managed. It’s just stupid. Oh, AND expensive.

Americans who have been conditioned to oppose universal health care always complain about how their taxes would, likely, go up to pay for it. So, instead, they’ll pay thousands MORE out of their own pocket – just to preserve that ‘freedumb.’ It’s an incredibly inefficient, absolutely stupid position – but absolute stupidity seems to be the standing order here in Bizarro America, these days, so I don’t foresee any corrections any time soon…