Well, crap. The Dems did it again. They were holding out against the Continuing Resolution in an effort to force the GOP to fund ACA subsidies – and they were winning. The holdout was causing pain, but most people understood the reason for the fight and we were behind them. A major telling factor would obviously have been an election in which Dems got their asses handed to them. Then they could know they had lost the support of the people and alter their course accordingly.

Well, we just had special elections. The Democrats swept the special elections. That should have told the Dems that people still support their efforts. The Dems were doing the right thing. They were. So, after the left swept the special elections, telling the Dems they still have the support of the majority of Americans, how did they respond? They collapsed. Capitulated. Quit. Bent the knee. Greased up and bent over.

Tim Kaine was the only real surprise. But it only took eight traitors – and they showed up for the Republican party. With friends like those, right? So, maybe SNAP recipients will get paid, but millions are going to lose their health insurance, because eight DINOS didn’t have spine enough to do the right thing, right?

The Democrats, as a whole, are pretending it was just these eight, out-of-control rogues breaking with the party. I’m not pretending with them. The surrender was managed. These eight were carefully chosen to “break ranks” because they’re not on the ballot in 2026. Then all the others can harrumph and finger-wag appropriately, acting like they think a bad thing happened. But what happened was, the plan was carried out.

So now, millions lose health care – perhaps spelling the end of Obamacare entirely. Remember, wide-ranging participation has always been a cornerstone of the program. Ejecting millions through outrageous price hikes works against that. Welcome back, preexisting condition denials and settling for catastrophic care coverage because it’s all you can afford.

People will still come out, I suspect, and vote blue to block. Yes, the Dems suck. Of course they do. They’re on the One Percent payroll, too, remember? But they still don’t suck as badly as Republicans. Not yet, anyway. Nobody will vote FOR them, but those voting AGAINST the GOP don’t have anywhere else to go so the Dems will “win,” uh, “not lose” again, as in “Hey, we didn’t lose for a change!”

Democrats took a dive but those premium increase letters are going out. The GOP can lie about it all they want to, the letters are concrete evidence and people – human beings – WILL react. Walk into a grocery store. Go ahead, I dare you. Bring your wallet. Bring your friend’s wallet. Bring your loan application if you want coffee. Listen on your iPhone with your iBuds in your iEars to Donny telling you how cheap everything is, then pay $300 dollars for a single bag of groceries. (Slight hyperbole alert.)

Donny and the Hoods can lie all they want, but they’re not going to be able to lie about realities pummeling people in the face all day, every day. You can TELL me I’m not bleeding, but all that blood is calling you a liar. So, I expect people will keep getting madder and madder at the GOP and they’ll keep voting blue, accordingly, but it isn’t because blue is a good choice. It’s because they’re the slightly-less-crappy-but-only alternative. The future is so dark, I’ll probably need a torch…

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Trump is clearly the face of the evil we’re all suffering in the US today, but he’s certainly NOT the architect. He’s not nearly smart enough for that. Instead, the architects are a bunch of self-serving millionaires and billionaires who simply can NOT understand why everyone wasn’t born into fabulous wealth. They work for a group called ‘The Heritage Foundation,’ a conservative stink tank.

BECAUSE they’re a bunch of self-serving millionaires and billionaires, they’re completely out of touch with the reality of day-to-day living in this country they’ve corrupted. That’s why it’s so easy for them to rip away safety nets from people who live in a country that requires safety nets to give people a decent chance. ‘The Greatest Country On Earth™?’ Maybe, but only if you’re rich enough.

That’s why it didn’t bother Donny to cut off food aid to millions of hungry people and immediately spend millions of taxpayer dollars throwing a ‘Great Gatsby’ themed party and spending who knows how many more millions turning the once-respected White House into the gaudy ‘Golden House of Trumpery.’ Donny says he’s “classin’ the joint up,” but from what I’ve seen, it’s pretty vulgar…

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This is just a random thought but, Donny is out there murdering people in boats claiming they’re drug runners bringing fentanyl. He has offered no proof and that area of the world is known for cocaine, not fentanyl. Still, that’s the claim and despite the Constitution, Donny has decided they must die, on his word alone, because the drugs he claims they bring kill lots of Americans (and probably MAGA, too.)

Purdue Pharma introduced a product called OxyContin, a powerful prescription pain killer that just happened to be incredibly, incredibly addicting. But Purdue lied, and lied, and lied and insisted OxyContin was not addictive. OxyContin shattered lives and killed more than 645,000 Americans (and probably MAGA, too.) So far. Purdue Pharma gets to negotiate a settlement.

I think Donny should show a little consistency for a change. Either let the people in the boats negotiate settlements, or, first choice, put the owners and executives of Purdue Pharma into a boat on the Caribbean and tell Donny they’ve got fentanyl…

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The US Mint in Philadelphia pressed the last American penny yesterday. Donny says it will save the treasury $56 million dollars a year. That’s not nothing, but I’ll bet that small change and small savings will cost Americans (and MAGA, too) a LOT more money in their day-to-day lives. What, you think businesses are going to round DOWN? SO… in one fell swoop and with a single stroke of a pen, Donny just made everybody’s life more expensive…