Hopefully Political Prince of Darkness Mitch McConnell is Wrong and The People Will Not Get Over MAGA Cuts to Medicaid and Food Stamps

In a closed door meeting among frantic Senate Republicans like Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, and Thom Tillis, who expressed worry about what Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans Big and Beautiful Economic bill would do to their electoral prospects when the people they suckered into voting for them realized by the decrease in the money going into their wallets that the proposed budget cuts in Medicaid, Food Stamps, and Education aid would impact them and not fictitious hordes of illegal immigrants or free loaders, Political Prince of Darkness-Grim Reaper of Democracy-Moscow Mitch McConnell stood up and made the below remarks:

Remember McConnell's comment came not even a month after Iowa Senator Joni Ernst's dismissive and cryptic comments to town hall attendees concerned about the Medicaid and food stamp cuts that "We're all going to die" anyway. 

MAGA and traditional supply side Republicans think so low of the people they represent that they are not even hiding their cruelty and lack of concern for the millions of people that depend on these programs to survive. 

Arizona's two Senators, Ruben Gallego and Mark Kelly, blasted McConnell for his remarks. 

Gallego, who has been spending a lot of time on social media pointing out how the Big and Beautiful MAGA monstrosity will hurt children who need free school breakfasts and lunch, mothers after delivering birth, rural hospitals, public lands, schools, Medicaid, and food stamps, said of McConnell's assertion:

“They’ll get over it”

“We are all going to die”

"Republicans don’t care if you die as long as they get their billionaire tax cuts."

Later he posted this cartoon. 

https://twitter.com/RubenGallego/status/1937960752372936817

Senator Kelly, who like Gallego, has consistently pointed out how Trump's Big and Beautiful Bill is only beautiful for billionaires because the measure robs from the poor and middle class to give the rich tax cuts and private school tuition free money they do not need while everyone else starves or can not afford to go the doctor, posted:

“Get over it.” That’s Republicans’ message to Americans worried about losing their health care because of Trump's big bill. Are people in rural communities supposed to get over hospitals closing? What about people whose kids or parents have to skip doctor visits because they can’t afford it? I won’t get over it and neither should you."

Arizona House Congressional District Seven Candidate Adelita Grijalva also condemned McConnell for his remarks, commenting to Blog for Arizona:

“The devastating cuts to Medicaid, ACA coverage, and other protections for low-income Americans that Mitch McConnell and MAGA Republicans support would result in at least 51,000 preventable deaths each year, yet he callously suggests people will “get over it”. This is typical of their cruel indifference to people's lives and yet another sad reminder that Republicans rather give tax cuts to billionaires than help our friends and neighbors in need.”

Third Way Communications Director Kate deGruyter also offered her organization's perspective on the Ernst and McConnell insensitive and outlandish statements, writing:

"First Joni Ernst and now Mitch McConnell are showing a cold, shameful indifference to the wellbeing of their neighbors and communities. They will do whatever MAGA demands, regardless of who it hurts. The massive Republican bill drives up costs, harms rural hospitals, and leaves millions of working families sicker and more vulnerable from massive Medicaid cuts. The only upside of these ugly comments is that it shows voters that these Republicans don't care at all about making life easier and more affordable for American families."

Grijalva, deGruyter, Gallego, and Kelly are all right and the people, after seeing the financial impact of Trump and MAGA's Big and Beautiful bill on their bank accounts and ways of live should prove McConnell wrong and not get over it by voting the elected representatives who supported this reverse Robin Hood fiscal plan out of office in 2026. 

The only reason to unfortunately think McConnell may be right is millions of people did get over how poorly Donald Trump did the last eight years with his constant lying (think Mexico paying for the border wall and health care better than Obamacare,) tax cuts for the wealthy, poor management of the Coronavirus, his two impeachments, his treasonous attempts to keep power on January 6, 2021, being found liable for sexual assault, and his 34 criminal convictions by believing his lies again about lowering prices and bringing an end to the war between Russia and Ukraine on day one and electing him again. 

Hopefully, the people have learned their lesson and they will prove McConnell wrong this time.

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Watch the Latest Lincoln Project and Progress Action Fund Videos Showing Trump's ICE Gestapo and the National Guard Kidnapping Innocent Americans

 he Lincoln Project and The Progress Action Fund have continued their mastery in political ad production.

This time, both organizations have released pieces depicting American Duce Wannabe Donald Trump's and Kapo-Judenrat Stephen Miller's quest to sick ICE Gestapo and the National Guard on innocent Americans and immigrants who are following the rules to stay in the country. 

The below Lincoln Project ad is called "LA" and depicts Trumps Fascist-Authoritarian move to send the National Guard, ICE Gestapo Secret Police, and the Marines into Los Angeles to capture and detain innocent people in his war against blue states and cities. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=566yTKLF-uk

The second ad called "Republican Kidnappers" shows an innocent woman being captured by masked ICE Gestapo Secret Police Thugs with her boyfriend protesting her innocence. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7SOc_8IhSY

Chilling stuff. 

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The Weak Minded Mad King is Being Manipulated into Repeating Bush's Errors on Iraq in Iran

Here we go again.

We have seen this movie before. 

Before it was 9/11, weapons of mass destruction, and Iraq

Now it is 10/7, a nuclear program, and Iran.

In 2001 and 2003, we had a weak minded and ill informed President, George W. Bush, manipulated by false intelligence narratives and eager nation building on the cheap Neo Conservatives and the Israelis right steering this nation into a war against Iraq, a country that reality showed in real time and afterward, had nothing to do with 9/11 and had no weapons of mass destruction

Today, some of those same players (Benjamin Nethanyahu, Republican Senators like Lindsey Graham,) are kissing Donald Trump's ass and singing his phrases, manipulating the weak minded Mad King into joining the Israelis operations against Iran.

And it appears to be working. 

Five days removed from Donald Trump and his D (d for disaster) team saying they had nothing to do with the Israelis bombing against Iran, the American Duce wannabe blowhard, sensing, like Bush incorrectly did, a quick victory in a Middle East War, has gone on his Truth Social false narrative propaganda machine, calling for Iran's unconditional surrender, acting as if America is at war with Iran, taunting that nations Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, telling him they know where he is, and telling the residents of Tehran to leave the city.

When reminded that his own handpicked National Director of Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard (admittingly not the most reliable person in the U.S. Government) said back in March that Iran did not have a nuclear weapon, Trump, on Air Force One, told a reporter, "I don't care what she says."

What the F--k?

Apparently, other people in the White House, Congress, and Israelis Government ( Nethanyahu and his American Messenger Boy Ron Dermer,) other than Elon Musk, are pulling the Mad King's puppet strings.

Look at how Kapo and Judenrat Stephen Miller was able to get Trump to renege on his promise to not go after immigrants on farms and hospitality sites. 

Unfortunately this is an old story from 2001-2003. 

Nethanayu manipulated American leadership in the build up to the war in Iraq. He also provided the narrative that enabled Trump to pull out of the five power Iran nuclear deal, an action that created this current mess in the first place.

Now he is continuing to pursue his goal of destroying Iran's nuclear capability by using the War in Iraq script to suck up to Donald Trump and get him to commit United States bunker busting bombs on Iran's underground nuclear facility.

Please view the CNN excerpt below that shows Nethanayu's obsession with attacking Iran. Note over the 30 year period, he says Iran is weeks away from having a nuclear weapons capability. 

https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1935282704704000220

Read Lindsey Grahams remarks to Fox News:

“Be all in, President Trump, in helping Israel eliminate the nuclear threat,” he said. “If we need to provide bombs to Israel, provide bombs. If we need to fly planes with Israel, do joint operations...But here’s the bigger question: Wouldn’t the world be better off if the ayatollahs went away and were replaced by something better? Wouldn’t Iran be better off?...It’s time to close the chapter on the ayatollah and his henchmen. Let’s close it soon and start a new chapter in the Mideast: one of tolerance, hope, and peace."

"Four presidents have promised to stop Iran from getting a nuclear bomb. Only Donald J. Trump will deliver on that promise."

On X, he posted:

https://twitter.com/LindseyGrahamSC/status/1934762968203579765

Remember, these are the people, in both the United States and Israel that ignored intelligence and reacted poorly to the attacks on 9/11/01 and 10/7/23.

These are the people that drove this country into a war in Iraq that was unnecessary and wasted some of our best servicemen and billions of the nation's treasure. 

These are the people that took the United States out of the Iran Nuclear Deal that led to the buildup to this war. 

Benjamin Nethanyahu and Donald Trump are lying fascist felons who manipulate events, including tragedies their negligence created, to secure power and advance their twisted alt reality world views that blowbacks on everyone but unfortunately them. 

They are not to be trusted. 

As written in the previous piece on the subject, Israel has a right to defend itself against threats to its existence and Iran, like their allies Hamas in Gaza, and its terrorist sponsoring reactionary leadership are not innocents here. They want Israel wiped off the map and have continually threatened it and carried out terrorist sponsored attacks against it. They have also led their people into repressive despair. 

But was Iran an imminent threat to Israel right now?

Unfortunately, no matter what the answer to that question is (probably not after Israel decimated Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian territories in 2024,) Nethanyahu and his government ministers are not the ones to defend Israel. 

Manipulative opportunist Nethanyahu is using this situation to accomplish his personal dream of regime change in Iran. He has Nethanyahu's and Revisionist Zionism's interests at heart, not Israel's.

Neo Conservative hawks like Graham, the man who backstabbed Joe Biden, who apparently did not learn the first time they played this game in Iraq, also can not be trusted. But like Nethanyahu, Graham does not care. He sees his world view as the right one no matter how many times his judgment has been botched. 

How many more innocent people have to die for their stupidity? 

How much in billions do we have to waste for their greed?

When are the people who continually vote for the macho men candidates that wind up screwing them over again and again finally learn and stop voting for these fascist strongmen who only care about themselves and their oligarchical cliques. 

When is enough and enough?

When will the people learn from history? 

They need to fast and contact their Congressmen and Senators or it will be 2003 all over again. 

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Mainstream Media Needs to Get the First Draft of History Right and Better Call Out Trump/MAGA Republican Big Lie Talking Points

 Before going to Fort Bragg yesterday to tell the cheering apparently historically illiterate servicemen that he was going to restore certain forts names after the Confederate Generals they had before, said that we would be speaking Japanese if the United States did not win World War One, and his usual litany of lying talking points about immigration, the 2020 elections, and other topics, Felon in Chief and American Duce wannabe Donald Trump responded to a reporters question in the Oval Office about talking with California Gavin Newsom about the mostly peaceful protests in Los Angeles that he had talked to him a day ago and there was a lot of death and potential death in California because of Newsom's, in Trump's opinion, poor response.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/aPAFALnmurc

Two problems with Trump's statement. 

First and foremost, no one has died as a result of the mostly peaceful California protests.

Second, he did not talk to Newsom on June 9. He spoke with him on June 7. 

From X

Why the reporter who asked Trump the question did not follow up with the obvious followup and calling him out on yet more lies from the Liar in Chief is depressingly astounding. 

Trump also said, again without proof, that paid insurrectionists were hammering out pieces of granite from curb sites and going to freeway bridges and dropping the pieces on passing cars, police officers, and soldiers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbU4bUPvmFk

Again, the reporter, at least in the clip shown, did not follow up and ask what proof Trump had for his accusation. 

At least Trump did not say, as others have pointed out, that the people of Los Angeles were eating the stray dogs or cats on the streets. 

To be fair, Trump would have been safe if he had pointed out the one isolated major act of violence in the protests when a few criminals, captured on film, burned some Waymos. As everyone, including Governor Newsom, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, have said, there is no place for any violent acts of vandalism or arson, ever. 

What was particularly galling is that not one reporter in this Oval Office Briefing asked about why Trump called out the National Guard on mostly peaceful protesters in Los Angeles and did not call out the Guard when domestic terrorist/insurrectionists stormed Congress in his name on January 6, 2021. 

How gutless is that? It would have been worth losing a White House press pass to ask that question. 

Watch former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi call Trump out on that at a briefing to reporters yesterday.

https://twitter.com/CalltoActivism/status/1932549062223385020

Reporters, who have moaned and groaned about Joe Biden's physical decline, see a current Chief Executive clearly not all there and are not pointing that out. 

And it is not just Trump. Mainstream media journalists, the people charged with writing the first draft of history, let Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune off the hook by not aggressively pursuing their initial line of questioning on comparing Trump's reaction to the violence on January 6, 2021 and the mostly peaceful protests in Los Angeles. 

Please watch the two clips below. 

https://twitter.com/BulwarkOnline/status/1932531311341941111

https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1932524430824976574

The reporters let these two Trump enablers ignore the question of comparing the two incidents and allowed them to parrot lying MAGA talking points about what is happening in Los Angeles. 

To his credit, California Governor Gavin Newsom, who sees his future home in 2029 at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is not taking this, lying down. 

In response to Speaker Johnson's suggestion that Newsom be tarred and feathered, the California Governor responded:

From X

He also delivered an almost ten minute nation wide rebuke to Trump's illegal actions of calling out the National Guard and Marines to Los Angeles, saying that "The rule of law is being replaced by the rule of Don."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFpjwwV06Wo

It is not just television journalists that are screwing this up. 

Nationally acclaimed columnists like David Ignatius of the Washington Post recently penned a piece blaming the Democrats and Joe Biden for not addressing border security sooner. 

In two words, excuse me. 

Commenting to Ignatius, I wrote a response to his historically inaccurate column:

"You forget that Republicans obstructed bipartisan comprehensive immigration reform in 2006 and 2014 all for political gain and one of the first legislative proposals from the Biden/Harris Administration was...wait for it...Bipartisan Immigration Reform. Republicans obstructed that too."

Republicans, at Trumps behest, also blocked a bipartisan border security bill because they wanted the issue in the 2024 elections. 

It should be pointed out, as CNN's Abby Phillips did last night when one Republican operative had the gall to lie and say Biden did nothing on immigration when he had the House and Senate, that Trump did nothing on comprehensive immigration reform too in his first term. 

Republicans have been AWOL on immigration reform for close to 20 years. Democrats have been trying to do something about this but Republican political operatives wanting the issue to appeal to their white nationalist and uninformed base, have obstructed again and again despite isolated efforts to move forward like that of the late Senator John McCain who was forced to abandon his own 2006 bipartisan plan he fashioned with Ted Kennedy when he ran for President in 2008. 

It is journalistic and political negligence that reporters and, yes, Democrats do not point this MAGA Republican Hypocrisy out every day. 

In an environment where Trump's 2024 election win resulted from his dominant performance with uninformed voters, it is essential that mainstream media and yes, Democrats in real time call out Trump/MAGA Big Lies about immigration, crime, and the economy because the people who have no time to get into the nitty gritty of reading the fact checking accounts hours after the event, are actually believing them and voting for the people who are responsible for all that is wrong with the country. 

It is time for reporters and journalists to get the first draft of history right.

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