Back to the Dark Ages

 “The Heritage Foundation, an influential rightwing thinktank currently mired in controversy over its president’s apparent apology for extremism, has appointed as a director the founder of a secretive all-male network of Christian nationalist fraternal lodges.”

“Scott Yenor, appointed as Heritage’s new director of the B Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies, has also recently offered ultra-conservative opinions on women, marriage and LGBTQ+ rights in recent podcast appearances and speaking engagements. They have included that there is an association between homosexuality and pedophilia; that adultery, homosexuality, no-fault divorce, and abortion should be outlawed under a regime of “soft patriarchy”; and that elements of the US Civil Rights Act, including its prohibitions against workplace sex discrimination, should be wound back. (The Guardian)

Perhaps, you might say, so what, who cares about this far-right-wing Christian Nationalist group, and you might just say, they are a bunch of loony toons. But then you might be living in a cave, and have no earthly idea that, in fact, almost to the word, the Trump Administration has followed, religiously, the direction of Project 2025, which was written and approved by The Heritage Foundation. So, YES, this latest bit of hateful news emitting from the bowels of The Heritage Foundation should send shivers up and down your spine.

Scott Yenor who must be suffering from male insecurity syndrome, a guy who probably is so unsure of his own value as a man, and fears he is somehow not masculine enough, now wants to send America back into the Dark Ages. We all might not give a shit, but remember that Trump, his army of Nazi’s and the spineless Republicans in the majority only function by the rules and regulations handed down by their Right Wing Puppet Masters, and those orders actually trickle down from The Heritage Foundation. Once again we are being warned, as we were when Project 2025 was announced!

 

 

 

she AIN'T gone

 The nasty, mean spirited, transphobe, bigot, racist, antisemite has not left the Halls of Congress yet. The asshole known as Margie-Putin-Greene who pretends to be apologetic about almost each and every evil, act and intention she has infected the people of America is still around cashing in her taxpayer, paycheck making certain to give one more stab in the freedoms of parents, care givers, and their children. 

 

“The House today will vote on a bill that would end gender transition care for minors nationwide, legislation Greene (R-Georgia) first introduced in August 2022. It will be the first time a national trans youth care ban has reached the House floor.”

 

“Greene’s bill, dubbed the Protect Children’s Innocence Act, would charge health care providers with up to 10 years in prison if they treat young people under the age of 18 with puberty blockers, hormones and surgeries. The legislation would also punish anyone — including parents — who consents to or transports a minor to the care. (The Washington Post)

 

So like Brain Worm Kennedy, Margie-Putin-Greene is playing doctor and psychologist, no education necessary for either of them, just a bunch of unintelligent hate, and dredged up bull shit from the creators of sick sad conspiracy theorists! Margie declares there are only two genders, how does she know this…well because she just does, and because she just does is all that matters!

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the boomerang racism

 Kash Patel fires far-right FBI agent who unleashed racist attack on him. The FBI director recently fired one of his former far-right allies, Stephen Friend, after Friend appeared to accuse Patel of a cover-up in the D.C. pipe bomb probe. (MS NOW)

Okay, I do find a bit of delight when racists inside Trump’s Circus of Fools end up on the racist rants and suffer the same slings and arrows that they so proudly bestow upon everyone and everyone who is not them.

Seems the unqualified Patel, whose claim to FBI fame was his constant conspiracy theories against the Biden Administration, and who had zero experience with any department of any justice, has been fucking up things at the Trump FBI. Consider how awful you are at your job, to actually fuck up an already fucked up environment. But Patel has not been disappointed, and has proven just how depraved and deprived are those who work for Trump.

Now, one of Patel’s agents has decided he loathes his boss of Hindu religious background and has come out full throttle as a Hindu Racist. Remember for Patel, anti-immigrant hatred, especially those whose skin color is a different shade of brown than Patel’s is A-OKAY, but when his agents go after Patel, things become too personal and icky!

“You better pray to Gaia, Vishnu or whatever your maker is that RealSteveFriend is never in a position to be an instrument of God’s wrath, because I will be merciful. I’ll allow you to breathe every breath that your body will have for the rest of its natural life inside of a box, and then when it ultimately fades to black, that’s when the real wrath begins.” This was the post that broke the Racist back of Racist Kash Patel.

they go on vacation

 Mike Johnson wrote a health care bill even Republicans don’t like. The hastily assembled bill does little to unify the House GOP on health care — and even less for lessening the pain of expiring health insurance subsidies. The bill as drafted neither addresses the expiring subsidies nor offers an alternative to prevent the rapidly approaching spike in costs. (MS NOW)

Screw you Americans, and bah humbug during the holidays, the Republican majority in Congress has not even a whole lump of coal to deliver, but in their selfish serving and arrogant manner, they only have half a lump of coal. But remember that the Republicans shut down the government from October 1, 2025, to November 12, 2025, amid promises that they, the Republicans, could and would come up with a fair health care package…but of course they are Republicans and of course as Republicans they lie.

And yet, without any resolution, regarding the health care crisis, the Congress is scheduled to take a winter break starting on December 22, 2025, and will return on January 3, 2026, making the break approximately 12 days long. 

So, let us get this straight, America, and yeah, you Fascist MAGAs also, we hired Congress to work for the people, but Congress has failed in working for the people. And to reward themselves for not doing a damned thing regarding the health care for the people, they are taking a vacation…you know, to be with their families!

How can this behavior remain legal?

 

 

 

 

How and Why

 Lawmakers in both chambers return Monday for their final legislative week of the year, and House Republicans are preparing their first attempt to address the looming deadline. It’s likely to fail. Sometime this week, the House will vote on a GOP-crafted health care package that — notably but unsurprisingly — doesn’t include any extension of the enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies. (MS NOW)

I am not being my usual snarky self, but I am writing this BLOG in earnest. Why is it, and how come it is that Congress can take its vacation, while leaving the rest of America in a lurch, having not completed their responsibilities in finalizing laws that significantly impact the health and welfare of Americans. 

The boys and girls of the Congress think that We The People are just saps, idiots who are only a pain in the ass, as they act as royalty, and seem to have little time to do their jobs. I thought that Congress was supposed to be the one working for the People, but it always seems that Congress is the owner of the People!

It is ridiculous that Congress somehow expects that they should take a vacation, while millions and millions of Americans suffer the consequences of their political inaction!

 

 

 

 

"Get Used To It"

 VA eyeing 35,000 health care job cuts, drawing rebuke from veterans’ group. Trump's VA secretary said months ago, “We’ll be making major changes, so get used to it.” We're now getting a sense of what that means in practical terms. (MS NOW)

Get used to it, says the guy living in a palace, on a hill above the poverty line. Get used to it says the guy appointed by the Trump Administration, shut the fuck up, who cares if you gambled your life, for the freedoms and liberty of this nation.

As health care consumers confront brutal choices, Trump expresses indifference. “Don’t make it sound so bad,” the president said when asked about the tens of millions of Americans facing a dramatic spike in health care costs. (MS NOW)

Don’t make it sound so bad, you peasants, you are not me, and since you are not me, who the fuck cares? It is your fault for wanting the things I have, and my billionaire friends can afford; no one told you to be poor.

Douglas A. Collins was sworn in as the 12th Secretary of Veterans Affairs on Feb. 5, 2025, and he has no shits to give for the men and women who served this country, and who fought for our freedoms. He, like his boss, Trump, seems to think that Americans are a bunch of selfish individuals who deserve much less than both of them. What they both wanted to say, probably, is “just fuck off.”

Please, ANYONE, explain how the Hell you even considered Trump a worthwhile human, and a great guy to become President!

 

 

 

 

 

His GIMMICK, once again

 “‘Mentally unstable’: Trump put on blast after hurling ‘treasonous’ accusation at major news orgs.”

““Despite all of this, the time and work involved, The New York Times, and some others, like to pretend that I am “slowing up,” am maybe not as sharp as I once was, or am in poor physical health, knowing that it is not true, and knowing that I work very hard, probably harder than I have ever worked before. I will know when I am “slowing up,” but it’s not now! After all of the work I have done with Medical Exams, Cognitive Exams, and everything else, I actually believe it’s seditious, perhaps even treasonous, for The New York Times, and others, to consistently do FAKE reports in order to libel and demean ‘THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.’ They are true Enemies of the People, and we should do something about it."” (MASS Live)

You can pull all the stops out. Till they call the cops out; Grind your behind till you're banned. But you gotta get a gimmick. If you wanna get a hand. (‘You Gotta Get A Gimmick, from the play Gypsy, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim)

“Can we talk?” as Joan Rivers used to say when she was about to dish dirt on the bull shit and hypocrisy right in front of our eyes. Gimmicks, schtick, projections, loud denials, that is all we ever hear from Trump, when in fact he is faced with a truth. He lies and assumes the rest of America, other than the MAGA and the Bigots, and the Racists, is so eager to buy his lies, as they have in the most part purchased his Bibles, his University, his Gold Watches, and his Gold iPhones. Trump believes he can be a bully, and all of the facts will hide in the shadows, as the Republicans in Congress have.

And then his inner Dictator oozes out of his orange dyed pores, and he, of course, throws around words like seditious behavior, and treasonous behavior, once again, as I see it, projecting his own illicit, seditious, and treasonous actions from the past and currently!

Trump uses every possible GIMMICK, from “look over there,” to defamation, to playing the victim, and always to incite fear and loathing. Come on, America, have we not grown sick and tired of this?