No Kings Day. I like it. I hope it catches on. Long after Evil Donny is dead (and…please, God, what are you waiting for?), I hope America celebrates No Kings Day, year after year. It should always be THIS date, too. You know, the anniversary of the founding of the army – just so we can remember the evil we managed to shuffle off in the end.

Now all we have to do is shuffle off the evil. I’ll see you there…

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Every decent economist in the world, people who deal in facts and numbers, say that 47’s Barfy Bill is going to add somewhere between $2.4 trillion and $5 TRILLION dollars to the national debt. SO, the White House, people who deal in wishes and delusions, have come out with an estimate of their own. THEY say it will drop the national debt by $8 trillion dollars because of course they do. That’s an $11 trillion dollar difference.

I know these guys are incompetent, but to miss by $11 trillion dollars? That seems like a bigger error than simply forgetting to carry the one, you know? They pretend, just like the cons have always pretended, that the tax cuts for the wealthy will stimulate such major economic expansion, they will pay for themselves AND reduce the deficit. They can say so with such confidence because of all of the other tax cuts cons have forced through that have never done any of that. “Hey, it’s never worked before, why wouldn’t it work now?”

In this moment, I’m trying to think of something these clowns have NOT lied about. It’s like, every word that came out of Donny’s mouth during the campaign was the exact opposite of what he intended. MAGA continues to lap it up, though. MAGA media puts Donny’s lies on a loop and pretends they’re honest statements that make sense if you look at them correctly, and MAGA just gets conditioned. They hear it so often, they just accept that it must be true and the fact that not one of his statements turns out to be true never sways their faith.

I can’t decide if that would be comforting or confusing. But MAGA seems to be awfully confused…

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Well, by now we’ve all seen the Alex Padilla video, yes? If not, here’s what happened. Senator Alex Padilla (D, Ca) went to a Press Conference held by incompetent Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. He wanted to ask her a question. As he began asking, he was seized by cops. He quite clearly says, “I’m Senator Alex Padilla. I have a question for the Secretary.” He’s then forced out of the room and into the hall, where he’s placed, face down on the floor, and handcuffed! Is now a good time to mention, a sitting Senator? Apparently, he wasn’t arrested or even detained for more than a few minutes.

But this was a presser intended to spew a misleading narrative about how badly the ICE agents running around the country violating people’s rights are being treated by the citizens they run into who still believe in the Constitution. It was NOT intended as an honest give-and-take. Noem didn’t WANT to answer an honest question and, let’s get real, she couldn’t if she had to. In a statement, Padilla insists “We will hold this administration accountable.” No word on how he plans to do that.

The cruelest regime’s response? Oh, he didn’t identify himself. He wasn’t wearing his Congressional pin. They’re pretending Padilla rushed Noem in a threatening way. He DID, after all, enter the room. Scary stuff.

If you watch the video, he clearly DOES identify himself, so THAT lie dies an instant death. Instead of seeing Padilla rush Noem, I see agents pushing Padilla backwards, so, another clear lie? I could NOT see his Congressional pin so that part may have been true, but are we now required to have a Congressional pin to ask a question of our government?

Incompetent MAGA Mike the Johnson described it as “wildly inappropriate” – but, ever the loyalist toady, he was talking about Padilla because, of course he was. Johnson added that he thinks Padilla’s behavior “merits immediate attention” by Congress and “at a minimum, it rises to the level of a censure” by the Senate.

OG America had a thing called the First Amendment. It allowed for freedom of speech. It was a good thing, FAR better than this crap…

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MAGA is still, mostly, happily on board with everything 47 is doing because they think it’s the pain before the gain. Think of it like chemotherapy. Chemotherapy sucks – but it beats the alternative. Going through the trials of chemotherapy might be miserable, but if it gets rid of the cancer? Well, it was probably worth it, right?

But chemotherapy is about trying to kill the cancer before you kill the patient. It’s a delicate balancing act and, sometimes, one loses their balance. Sometimes, the chemo kills the patient before the cancer gets the chance. Chemotherapy isn’t something to play around with. It isn’t something you do unless you have no other good options.

And, the thing is, OG America didn’t HAVE cancer. I know, MAGA was told some stories. 47 said it was cancer. But it wasn’t cancer. Do I argue that OG America was perfect in every measurable way? No, of course not, but cancer? No. So NOW the patient – that is, America – is going through chemotherapy for no reason.

I find myself wondering if MAGA will EVER figure out that they’re being lied to. I wonder how they might react if they find out they’ve been suffering chemotherapy without having cancer? All pain, no gain. Well, for them, anyway. The prescribing doctor – 47 in this metaphor – is making BANK, along with those who own the process. For them, administering the “treatment” is very, very profitable. I find myself wondering if MAGA will EVER figure that out…