Bad Eats

Trump met last night with 220 winners of the "Who Can Bribe Little Donald the Most" contest and then this morning he went back to his old market-tanking trick of announcing new tariffs.

Far be it from me to suggest (I'm suggesting it anyway) that his donors were advised to short the market this morning but where there's smoke there's a greedy orange arsonist.

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Press Secretary Karoline "Baghdad Bobbette" Leavitt just suggested that Trump held his bribe-a-thon last night on his "personal time", which means he's off the presidential clock and therefore his crimes are not anyone's damn business.

How does that work? Does he have a little punch-clock that stamps the word "Under Legal Scrutiny" plus a time code as he staggers into the Oval Office? And then, after a few minutes of babbling and signing executive orders that sound like Charles Manson wrote them, punches out to "Above The Law" and goes golfing?

Just wondering because this all sounds rather new to me.

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The Trump administration is going to make it more difficult for people to get the COVID vaccine.

One presumes they'll use the cost savings to purchase more refrigerated morgue trucks.

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If you're a member of Congress and your district does not have a billionaire voter in it then why would you lower taxes for billionaires?

And yet, every member of Congress has people in their district struggling to survive. The old, the sick, the poor, the mentally unstable, and the middle class. Why would House Republicans cut aid to these people with their new tax bill?

It's because Republican politicians only believe in keeping the money and the power for themselves and the .01 percent. Everyone else in this country have mattered less and less to the GOP every year since 1980. The current crop of Republican Congressmen are figuratively jet-skiing the Rubicon to an island of their rich masters and leaving salted earth in their wake.

This bill that passed the House this morning will cause people to die no less than if the Congressmen themselves roamed the streets seeking random victims to usher off this mortal coil with their own hands.

If you follow the news get ready for heartbreaking tales of the old, the sick, the poor and the mentally unstable dying in ways we previously thought impossible in the Greatest Country in the World. Higher education will be much more difficult to obtain and women of all ages will suffer from severely reduced access to reproductive health care.

We're now waiting to see what the Senate does. Voting for the bill as written would be political suicide and they know it. It all comes down to if our Senators honestly think that there will be free and fair elections in the coming years. If so, then there's a chance that cooler and more reasonable heads will prevail.

If not, see you in el Salvador. Or Hell, whichever comes first.

- Lefty