Sometimes, they just reveal themselves. One of the biggest and meanest changes coming at you from the GOP’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ is a work requirement. In Arkansas, the state made a commercial that featured a welfare recipient named ‘Brad’ who just wants to play video games. The problem? Brad is white. WHAT?!? A white guy?!? On welfare?!? Are you insane?!?
Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders took a huge load of guff from people – ALL of whom know that no white people ever use welfare or SNAP benefits. They all just know it. I mean, come on, Ronald Reagan made clear the case for the welfare queen and she was most definitely black – and a woman. In the MAGA “mind,” they know that all welfare recipients are black women. A white kid simply doesn’t fit into their delusions.
As it happens, the only thing those MAGAs know is racism. It turns out, the largest group receiving SNAP benefits are white. More white people receive Medicaid than any other group, too. 61% compared to the next group, Hispanic, at 28%. In short, using a white guy to depict a welfare recipient was just accurate – but MAGA effing hates that. Don’t sweat it. They hate everything.
So, here’s a question: if the government is going to require people work at least 80 hours a month, doesn’t the government have an obligation to ensure there are jobs for people TO work?
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Don’t let the socialist corporations, the socialist rich people, and the socialist-for-them government convince you socialism is bad. They use it all the time. ALL. THE. TIME! They think socialism is bad for the working class, sure. It’s best to step on the working class neck and squeeze out every dollar under our vicious free-market capitalist system. But they rely on socialism all day, every day because it’s a better way for them. I just don’t see why it’s not a better way for us all…
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The war will take place in Congress and the House will be the battleground, right? Once the election is finished, we already know the GOP will start screaming and yelling about how unfair the process was. True, they’ll only call it unfair where they lose. Still, the screaming will be loud. Then the question comes down to one thing: will the cons seat the Dems that win?
It turns out, you don’t get to go be a Congressperson just because you won your election. You have to be sworn in first. If they don’t swear you in, you don’t get in. They can use all kinds of chicanery and lies to challenge an elected official and you just KNOW these cheatin’ mofos are going to do exactly that. And it sets up a huge, ugly fight in the House. We, the people, may well win the election but lose the process to a coup.
Don’t despair yet. There’s still one way the Dems can claim what is rightfully theirs. As it happens, on January 3rd, when the elections are certified, because of a peculiarity of the law and the facts on the ground, for a short, wonderful while the Dems will control the Senate, regardless of the outcome of the elections.
You see, in both chambers, when a term ends, it’s over. You’re out. There’s no special process one has to go through. You’re just out. That’s happening to every House Representative in this election but it’s NOT happening to every sitting Senator. If your term isn’t over, it carries on, also with no special process of any kind. Because of that, the seated Dems will outnumber the seated traitors 34-31. I’ve included independents Bernie Sanders and Angus King with the Dems, there.
This means that if the cons in the House try to refuse Dems, the Dems in the Senate can also refuse cons. The GOP would retain control of the House, but the Dems could retain control of the Senate. The whole thing could come down to a standoff between the two parties. That’s the good news. The bad news? Well, the Dems would have to show some spine. This would be an ugly fight. Dems are infamous for standing down unilaterally, losing (or surrendering) each time.
If they do that THIS time, the nation is lost. It really is that simple. The Dems need to fight the same way the GOP does and they tend to not do that. With 33 days to go before the election, the Dems had better develop a spine and get ready to seat new members only AFTER the House has seated theirs. But that ‘Dems had better develop a spine’ bit has me a bit nervous…
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Well, I guess such a political show should have been expected. Cons are in trouble in Congress so they’ve opened an “investigation” into Jack Smith. They really don’t like that Smith was prosecuting the Dumbass for all of his crimes and some of the investigation implicated some of them. The best bit, though, was when GOP idiot Eric Schmitt of Missouri tried to prove that Smith had gone to Georgia to consult with Fani Willis the day before she confessed she had been in a relationship with another person close to the case.
His evidence? Texts that seemed to indicate Smith had attended a basketball game. Schmitt flashed a poster board from the dais that showed the text messages while he issued the “gotcha.” “What would you say if I had a series of text messages from your team that said you were in Atlanta at a Warrior-Hawks game on Feb. 3, 2024, the day after Willis and Wade announced their affair?”
“I don’t think you know that we have this stuff so I’ll give you a second to process it so you don’t, you know, perjure yourself.” Ooh, gotcha. Then Schmitt allowed, “I think you’ve already perjured yourself.” Then Schmitt tried to move on quickly. Curious. His parting shot to Smith? “You will go down as a total dirtbag.” Except, oh rats. It wasn’t the Hawks/Warriors game. It was a Maryland/Iowa college game.
The University of Iowa team is the Hawkeyes. Senator Klobachar pointed out the error. Schmitt immediately knew he had made a fool of himself and got all resentful and defensive but his fraudulent attack on Smith had been smacked down. I’ll give him this: Schmitt is loyal. He’s an idiot, but he’s loyal. (In reality, the two go hand-in-glove these days…)
