BUT INSTEAD

 The Hidden Impact Of Trump's Public Health Cuts Is Starting To Appear — And Experts Say This Is Only The Beginning. From trust to communication, experts share what concerns them most about the current response to cyclospora and more. (HUFFPOST)

BUT INSTEAD of calling in “I eat roadkill Kennedy,” to answer for his and Trump’s blatant and intentional insidious actions against the health and welfare of American citizens, Rand Paul and his Republican hypocrites went on a revenge tour and decided to attack Dr. Fauci.

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) attempted to stick it to Dr. Anthony Fauci during Wednesday’s hearing on the origins of COVID-19. Hawley hoped to make an example of Fauci during his own questioning, only to have things fall apart when he posted a segment of the hearing on social media with this caption: “Hint for you: no honest person pleads the Fifth.” (HUFFPOST)

BUT INSTEAD, Senator Hawley, all full of himself and his 15 minutes of some kind of FOX News segment fame, was so busy trying to impress his low-IQ voters that he seemed to forget that Demented Donnie, Trump, invoked the Fifth more than 440 times during a 2022 deposition for the New York attorney general’s fraud investigation into his firm. 

Jim Jordan Melts Down On CNN When Confronted Over Support for Candidate Accused Of Abuse. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) got into a heated exchange with CNN’s Kasie Hunt on Thursday when confronted about his continued support for Rep. Max Miller (R-Ohio) even after being accused of abusing his wife and daughter. (HUFFPOST)

BUT INSTEAD, Gym Jordan, the Congressman from one of the most gerrymandered districts in the nation, so not having to worry about either passing any legislation or following any moral highway, of actually saying that this kind of behavior is not acceptable for a Congressional candidate, Gym Jordan used the old excuse that this bit of physical abuse was a family matter, and we should respect the family, and look the other way.

I am tired, so sick and tired of the Republican BUT INSTEAD. And this continuous respect for double standards by Republicans and disregard for facts is also very concerning, not just for the lack of morals and values, but it also highlights very clearly why and how the most heinous of hypocrites, Trump, manages to remain in power. 

Looking at the current crop of Republicans, except for those who are not going to run for office again, all we see is a tribe of cockroaches branching out from the crumbs Trump feeds them!

 

 

The Game of GOTCHA, again

 Senate Republicans try to smear Fauci over COVID, but he refuses to play their game. “There's a comic trope beloved by playwrights, novelists and screenwriters about the fighters all suited up for battle, only to discover that their adversary refuses to play.

Fauci, who was appearing before Paul's Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee under subpoena, took the weapon out of Paul's hands by simply refusing to answer a single question other than to state — 116 times by my count — "On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer based upon my rights under the 5th Amendment to the Constitution." (Los Angeles Times)

In the meantime, while the GOP Senators are trying their damnedest to rewrite the history of COVID during Trump’s first Reich, pretending that Heir Trump poohed-poohed the entirety of the dreaded virus. We have a current Director of HHS, Bobbie (I eat roadkill, and snort cocaine off of bathroom toilets) Kennedy doing his best to remove the word Health and Human from the services his department was established to defend! 

As a reminder, Rand and your self-absorbed GOP hypocrites: During the COVID-19 pandemic, Trump frequently downplayed the virus's severity, claiming it would "go away" and suggesting that the number of cases would soon be "close to zero," despite warnings from health officials about the expected spread of the virus. 

The GOP loves to play the game of gotcha when it comes to anyone who is not them and indeed who is not their Lord and Master, Trump. They refuse to look at the world around them, pretending that the measles virus has erupted like Mt. Vesuvius, that foodborne bacteria have gone wild, that too many people have no access to vaccinations, and that nutrition programs in the country and around the world are causing severe health hardships.

But, Rand Paul at heart is a Republican so the here and now never matter, because he and his MAGA-based hypocrites are too afraid to help the people who voted them into power because Trump hates those people

 

 

 

$153 billion, for what now?

Granted, it is a few dozen bungled policies ago, but remember when we were blowing up fishing boats in the Caribbean as part of the administration's Operation Dude Bro anti-drug strategy? “In a recent assessment reviewed by The Washington Post, DEA analysts found the strikes had failed to affect the supply or price of cocaine in the United States and had led traffickers to diversify beyond go-fast boats and to avoid international waters, opting instead for larger boats and hemming close to coastlines, where U.S. forces are less likely to open fire.” (Esquire)

It was called Operation Southern Spear. It was the beginning of the inept and testosterone-deprived Pistol Pete Hegseth’s desire to DUDE UP the Military, and pretend that Cuba and Venezuela were skinny kids on the beach, and testosterone-deprived Pistol Pete was some kind of muscled guy ready to kick sand in their faces. Trying his best to win the love of the Pedophile Rapist, Trump, the most unqualified person to be the Secretary of Defense, Hegseth, did a whole lot of show and tell, without much to show, and here is the telling part: 

The U.S. military campaign to destroy alleged drug-smuggling boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific has cost tens of billions of dollars, with the initial fleet alone costing over $40 billion to purchase and daily operating expenses exceeding $333,000 for the aircraft carrier involved. (PBS)

Why this matters to me is a myriad of reasons, from why the fuck did we do this,  to just how expensive this OPERATION SOUTHERN SPEAR cost me as a taxpayer. And then, as seems the case now regarding the Republican majority in Congress, the same insecure heterosexual dudes have pumped up and preened themselves with the Iran War, calling the first mistake, OPERATION FURY, and then the second blunder of insisting that the US Blockade of the Hormuz Strait was better than the Iran blockade, calling that PROJECT FREEDOM.

As of July 29, 2026, the estimated cost of the Iran war for U.S. taxpayers is over $113.3 billion, which includes approximately $11.3 billion for the first six days and ongoing costs of about $1 billion per day. (csis.org)

So far, we have spent $153.7 billion dollars. And that total does not include the money necessary to manufacture more of our depleted munitions, let alone rebuild our infrastructure across the Middle East. 

We have no idea what is happening in Venezuela, and we have no idea what will happen next with Iran…so please explain, Hegseth/Rubio/Trump, what or who was this actually for?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

HIS morality, come on!

 President Trump said his “own morality” guides his decisions on foreign intervention in an interview published Thursday, following weeks of scrutiny for U.S. strikes overseas.

“Yeah, there is one thing. My own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me,” Trump told The New York Times on Wednesday night when asked if there were any limits on his international power. (The Hill)

I read this interview and, as frightened as I have been, a very hardened chill fell directly all over my body. Here we have Trump proclaiming that it is HIS morality that is the defining factor in any and all decisions he makes. The convicted Rapist, the accused Pedophile, the guilty of fraud conman, the slum landlord, the purveyor of international war crimes, the grifter, the liar, the King of Presidential corruption has admitted publicly that he uses his MORALITY as a basis of action.

Trump then added that it is his own mind. The man who must take cognitive tests after another, the man who slurs his words or speaks jibberish, jumping from one inane topic to another, this aged man who each and every day seems more riddled with one health problem after another, states that it is his mind that makes him the Emperor of the World!

And then Trump admits that within the US and, for that matter, the world, there is no one to stop him. On this point, at least within the United States, there is no one to stop him. The Republican majority in Congress has readily acquiesced to any “checks and balances,” as has the Heritage Foundation Supreme Court. Perhaps worldwide, we witness Iran stopping him, and most likely the secret videotapes in Putin’s vault are a hindrance. 

A madman, a cruel, degenerate narcissistic sick and sad madman pretending that he has a moral compass, but the direction he is moving just leads to death and destruction!

Then and Now...why the same

 THEN: Many people living near concentration camps claimed they were unaware of the true nature of these facilities, often believing they were merely labor camps. However, evidence suggests that the German public had some understanding of the brutal conditions and the likelihood of fatality for those sent to these camps. Many witnesses reported seeing the mistreatment of inmates, which indicated the camps were not just educational institutions as some believed. (Wikipedia)

NOW: ‘Nightmarish’: Report exposes medical failures at California ICE detention center. The court-appointed medical review is the first-of-its-kind for an ICE detention center. It resulted from a November class action lawsuit filed by seven people detained at the Mojave Desert facility, who alleged inhumane conditions and medical neglect. (San Francisco Chronicle)

THEN: The Brownshirts, officially known as the Sturmabteilung (SA), were a paramilitary organization associated with the Nazi Party in Germany. They played a significant role in Adolf Hitler's rise to power by using violent intimidation against political opponents and protecting Nazi rallies from 1921 until the end of World War II in 1945. (Wikipedia)

NOW: ICE/ Immigration and Customs Enforcement. “Of course, the…criminal drug dealers, the rapists, the murderers, the individuals who have committed heinous acts on the interior of our country and who have terrorized law-abiding American citizens, absolutely, those should be the priority of ICE,” she said. “But that doesn’t mean that the other illegal criminals who entered our nation’s borders are off the table.” (Karoline Leavitt).

History is fact. The evidence is in plain sight, even when the Trump Reich, his state-sponsored propagandists like FOX, Newsmax, and the MAGA Podcasters, and the Republican Majority in Congress pretend otherwise.

The names may change from Concentration Camps to Detention Centers, from Brown Shirts to ICE, from Adolph Hitler to Donald Trump, from German Citizens looking the other way to American citizens looking the other way…BUT there is very little difference between THEN and NOW. Ya gotta wonder how the fuck!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The PROOF IS out there

 Proof is a logical explanation or argument that demonstrates the truth of a statement or proposition, often using evidence and reasoning to establish its validity.

In the American political world dominated by a vast majority of Republicans, PROOF seems to be the one and only thing they, as a group, refuse to accept, provide, or share. Imagine just providing PROOF, as in providing all of the hidden papers or tapes, providing person-to-person interaction, or providing facts, not fiction, to prove that what you say and do is real!

Today, Monday, July 27, 2026, there was a new photo of Mitch McConnell and his wife, Elaine Chao. “Senator Mitch McConnell has been absent from Congress for more than a month as he recovers from what he says was a fall. This week, the former Senate majority leader issued a rare new statement on his recovery and a second proof-of-life photo. But he gave no clear timeline for his return to Capitol Hill amid widespread speculation about the specifics of his condition.” (New York Magazine)…Is this Proof that Mitch is alive, or not brain dead, or already buried? If Mitch were just Mitch McConnell, mail delivery person, store clerk, a laborer, the photo shoot alone would not suffice to provide the PROOF that indeed, Mitch is living and functioning. But somehow, we, the people, and especially the people of Kentucky, must assume that Mitch is alive and doing so much better. Imagine inviting a few members of the Kentucky media to visit him in the hospital!

The war that wasn’t a war, until it was a war, and then suddenly became just a skirmish…the embargo of the Strait of Hormuz, which had been open, but now was closed, which was almost opened again, is still shut…the nonexistent fees to travel through the Strait are now in existence, the obliterated arsenal of weapons of war and nuclear abilities, are somehow not obliterated…PROOF is an inconvenient truth for Trump, Hegseth, Rubio, and Vance. What we see and hear is not PROOF of anything but of MAGA/Republican based propaganda of what it is that the Trump Reich prefers to “show and tell!”

Approximately 2.5 million pages of Epstein files have not been released, as the Department of Justice stated that they had fulfilled their legal obligations with the release of over 3.5 million pages, while estimates suggest the total could be around 6 million pages. (CBS News)…Innocence can be proven by providing PROOF. If no harm or no foul had been committed, then open up the remaining files associated with Epstein, look into the camera with a shit-eating “I told you so grin,” provide the American public with your middle finger, and here is the PROOF: I am not either a PEDOPHILE or a RAPIST. PROOF should be as easy as releasing ALL the remaining millions of files.

The TV show The X-Files used the tagline "The truth is out there." Seems to me McConnell and Trump, and Todd Blanche, and Pete Hegseth, and Marco Rubio, and Just Dance Vance could easily dispel any confusion by stating: “THE PROOF IS OUT THERE.”

 

 

Some kinda Golden Rule

 As Trump boosts nuclear power, regulators seek to eliminate a longstanding radiation safety rule. Currently, facilities such as nuclear plants, hospitals or academic institutions that use radioactive materials must ensure radiation exposures are kept “as low as reasonably achievable” — the ALARA principle. The NRC proposal would abandon that philosophy while keeping a separate standard on maximum radiation exposure. (AP News)

The same administration that decided the measles vaccine was just a socialist scheme to control the population… the same administration that decided cuts to food safety were not in favor of the large corporations’ bottom lines…the same administration that has decided wind mills either kill birds or stop the air from actually flowing, and that climate change is nothing but a Left Wing hoax… the same administration that is supported by a band of so called Pro-Life Christian Nationalists has DECIDED that money from the Nuclear Power Industry placed into their pockets is a priority over and above the health and welfare of the citizens of this nation.

No abortions, this administration insists, as do their hypocritical Republican enablers, but once the fetus is outside of the womb, then suddenly it is of no concern, cutting back health care, cutting back nutritional assistance, cutting back almost any governmental program that actually makes living livable!

Profit over people. The Trump Crime Family and his billionaire sycophants prefer to keep the peasantry hungry, homeless, and unhealthy. Public safety is now a form of communism or socialism. Public health is suddenly a very un-Christian machination.

The saying "do unto others as you would have them do unto you," commonly known as the Golden Rule, is found in the Bible in Matthew 7:12 and Luke 6:31.Nope, none of that Biblical storyline is of any consequence with this administration and their enablers; that too just sounds a little too much like Left Wing propaganda! The only Golden Rule Trump is concerned about is the amount of Gold he can own!