It says a LOT to me that Thomas Massie became a focus for Lying Donny’s wrath for the “crime” of doing the right thing. In this case, “doing the right thing” always meant standing against Lying Donny. Here’s a puzzle for you, MAGA: if Massie did the right thing and was against Lying Donny on those issues, who was NOT doing the right thing? Take your time.

Meanwhile, Massie earned Lying Donny’s wrath by standing against his budget-busting tax cuts. He was instrumental in forcing Lying Donny’s corrupt DOJ to release the Trump/Epstein files. He also supports the Constitution in demanding Congressional oversight of Lying Donny’s stupid foreign wars of choice. Massie thinks the government should get a warrant before spying on Americans. Again, standing against Team Evil.

Massie’s actual “crime” is that he supported the Constitution of the United States over the whims of a self-indulgent madman…

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As of Tuesday, Lying Donny’s approval rating fell to roughly 37%. That’s ’cause he sucks. The 37% approval kind of surprises me. A THIRD of this once-great nation still approves? Of what?!? No, they’re just MAGA. They don’t even KNOW what he’s doing and they certainly aren’t going to hold him responsible. The thing that shocks me the most about this entire movement is the number of Americans who completely lack discernment, critical thinking skills, and morality…

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It’s not just Massie getting bumped for doing the right thing. MAGA is having quite a good time, tossing out decent people in favor of other MAGA Lying Donny likes better. It seems a little scary until one remembers MAGA, alone, isn’t enough to carry a general election, and most of the trump supporters who are NOT MAGA have fallen away by now. MAGA gets their extremist trump-loving bootlickers, but is that person going to carry the general election? I’m not so sure.

What looks like something of a banner day for trump endorsed candidates in these primaries might well prove to be weakening the GOP’s chances in the general. Fingers crossed…

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MAGA insists, stubbornly, that Lying Donny isn’t racist. I say actions speak louder than words. He’s actively working to remove or keep out any people who appear slightly darker in their skin color. Sometimes it seems like a good tan might get you deported. Somehow, he can tell they’re “bad” just by looking at them. Meanwhile, he’s bringing in white Afrikaners from South Africa – and he’s spending $100 million dollars to do it.

Somehow – and it seems to be the same magical power – he seems able to see the white guys are all a-okay – just by looking at them! Lying Donny has made up stories about why the white guys need the help. He pretends they’re under attack. In fact, he commonly refers to a “white genocide,” a long-standing fringe conspiracy theory that has been debunked over and over.

South Africa IS an unstable country with a high crime rate. It’s just that there’s no special focus on white people. But it wouldn’t matter if there was. Many of the brown people he’s exiling also come from countries in upheaval. Many are here because they fled from there. He doesn’t give two figs about that. The really, really important part seems to be white versus not-so-white. That’s racist, whether you acknowledge it or not…

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It’s looking more and more like billionaire Tom Steyer is going to do well in the California governor’s race. A populist billionaire. Uh-huh. Wasn’t Lying Donny a populist billionaire? It’s easy to say the right thing on the campaign trail and once you’re in office, there’s precious little the population can do to remove you. That is to say, all they’ve got to do is get in. THEN you find out about the real agenda, which, magically, seems to be helping billionaires.

ALL of the candidates promise to “address” (not solve) the housing crisis. California is becoming unlivable for most median income earners and nearly ALL of it is caused by the housing crisis. And the housing crisis is caused by Wall Street (and other investors) buying up single family homes. The fix is easy and obvious: stop Wall Street (and other investors) buying up single family homes and force them to divest their current holdings. (More on that in a moment.)

Ro Khanna has called for that but he’s not running for governor. I haven’t heard any of the candidates call for that. It would not be painless. Everybody who owns a house has benefited from artificial equity, caused by the relentless buying from endlessly deep pockets. If the buying spree is stopped and reversed, the artificial equity disappears. That is to say, people see their home values drop. They don’t want that.

But there are only two choices: a careful reduction or a hard crash. And because we, apparently, will not engage the careful reduction, we should brace for a hard crash…

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I don’t think Lying Donny’s lawsuit “settlement” will hold up. I desperately hope Lying Donny’s lawsuit “settlement” doesn’t hold up. Not only does it create a slush fund Lying Donny can… whatever, say, give to J6 insurrectionists, give to other criminals, pocket himself, it protects him from any investigations of his and his families taxes – ever.

The Sackler family tried that over intentionally addicting so many people Oxycontin. Judges struck down that provision. Apparently, one cannot use a settlement to indemnify themselves from any and all related and unrelated crimes. But our world is upside down, these days. 47 shouldn’t get such a break, but somehow (the devil takes care of his own) he gets things he shouldn’t all the time.

It’s a bit startling, how quickly he has decimated this once-great nation…

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Okay, back to the housing crisis. It IS a start. I guess. Or is it? The Senate has passed a law limiting Wall Street investors buying single family homes! That approaches what they actually need to do: stopping Wall Street investors from buying single family homes altogether and divesting their current holdings. The way this bill is written (for clarity, I read an article about it, not the bill) corporate investors can still buy up to 350 houses. Then, once a corporation owns that many, they can’t buy more. Oh, shoot, NOW what are they gonna do?

How about if the parent corporation sets up a subsidiary that owns it’s OWN 350 houses? Would that work? Landlord Corporation owns Our Houses, Inc 1, which owns 350 houses. They also own Our Houses, Inc 2, which also owns 350 houses. Our Houses, Inc 3 only owns about 227 houses, to date, but they’re still buying. Meanwhile, Landlord Corporation is setting up Our Houses, Inc 4, in anticipation of OH3 filling it’s quota by month’s end.

I’m pretty sure no corporation would or could ever think of that. Hell, it took ME seconds and seconds to come up with it. Fortunately, the rest of the bill deregulates the house-building process so houses can go up faster for Wall Street to buy, slot into the correct subsidiary, and own forever. Hmm. Not much of a start after all…