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Miselle's avatar

Well, good fellow readers, I was only able to make 3 (well, okay. One extra) call to Congress today.

I called Thune and MAGA Mike to tell them they have NO SHAME and they must abide by a different Bible than I am familiar with. I said they have sold their souls to Satan, and since they won't hear the message, I told the aides who will hear the vm to QUIT THEIR JOBS before they, too, are sucked into the abyss.

I then called Sen Bacon, since he announced he is retiring. I was screaming that HIS ONE VOTE COULD HAVE STOPPED THIS. What difference would it make, as Trump can't primary him?! I said HE went to Congress and got the best healthcare ever and a nice cushy amount of $$, but HIS ONE VOTE just ripped healthcare away from 16M people. HIS ONE VOTE is leaving his fellow Americans sick, hungry and homeless. HIS ONE VOTE, LIKE SENATOR MCCAIN, MIGHT HAVE PUT HIM ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF HISTORY. Coward, coward, coward.

I am SO praying for a blue Tsunami, and that the House, Senate and POTUS are Democratic, at which time they ban assault rifles, create universal healthcare, reverse the Citizens United ruling, and heck--add a couple of SCOTUS to the bench. And while we're at it, ban gerrymandering.

I know, I know. I'm losing it.

BTW, that 4th call was to Duckworth whose been fairly vocal of late, and I told her to make sure the Dems CONSTANTLY find a way to bring up the fact that the GOP OWNS THIS BILL.

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TCinLA's avatar

Bacon's in the House - his one vote can still kill it when it gets there for a vote tomorrow. Call back and apologize and ask him pretty please with sugar and honey on it.

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Miselle's avatar

My bad Tom. I am overwhelmed. Thanks for pointing that out to me.

I am absolutely INSENSED by this bill. There is no way on God's green earth that I am going to apologize or beg to any Trumper. Perhaps they think I am a stupid (insert a couple bad words) MAGA.

I cannot even believe this is our reality. What world is it where we celebrate people going out of their way to HURT other people?!?! I am a lapsed Catholic, but I absorbed enough of the good stuff to know this is NOT how we treat our fellow humans. Would we even treat our pets this way? OH WAIT....Noem. Nevermind.

One of my saddest memories of working was when a blood glucose test came through the lab--I don't recall the exact number, but I didn't think it was humanly possible. Every test had an area on the computer which had the diagnosis, or in the case of the ER, they would type EXACTLY what the patient said. This time, they said "couldn't afford medication."

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JDinTX's avatar

I lost it with you.

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Sharon Stearley's avatar

I'm losing it too!

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JOE P's avatar

Mamdani WILL be the next mayor of NYC. Screw Mango.

He’s popular, charismatic, young and not decrepit and NOT A FELON or a criminal, doesnt have a rap sheet and not afraid to admit he works for the people of NYC. Clearly he is the 180 degree opposite of republiCons.

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MarshaS's avatar

I want to see Lisa Murkowski and all the other GOP leaders at the Florida concentration camp ribbon cutting ceremony. 🤬👹

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JDinTX's avatar

With maybe a few gators nipping at their heels

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MarshaS's avatar

And a python or wrapped around their ankles.

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JDinTX's avatar

Just got an email selling Alligator Alcatraz tshirts. Think I’ll have one made saying Alligator Auschwitz

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Cheryl Towers's avatar

Yes, Tommy, they are!

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JDinTX's avatar

Tommy looks like he questions the sanity of all humans. I do too sometimes. I see more and more Nazi glee with these monsters, at least the ones who are aware of the extent of the brutality. Sadly, I watched a lot of the history channel when my husband was alive (and when the history channel actually focused on our history). I know well the horrors of war and the paths to such brutality. Bumpy road with sink holes ahead. Not enough warning signs for those driving blind…

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Karen RN's avatar

Tommy is very observant.

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TCinLA's avatar

Learned well from Momcat. :-)

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T L Mills's avatar

I read an excellent piece by Professor Robert Reich this morning laying out why we NEED compassion and empathy in a functioning society.

Musk and far too many other Republicans clearly think that "empathy" is for the weak and empathy is the fatal flaw in western Civilization. I don't know how Elon thinks he and he alone has figured out that empathy is the big, widening crack in the floorboards of the House of American Civilization. Elon doesn't really have a clue what empathy is and wouldn't know how to offer it if he did.

That is, unless HE'S the one asking for empathy. I guess he figures he deserves empathy because he's ultra, ultra rich...but if you haven't any money or net worth in the world, then you don't deserve any.

It seems we have an entire administration composed of people who not only feel no empathy, but hate it's very existence. They are certainly trying to prove their hate; the glee with which MAGAts on every level are celebrating the opening of that horrifying concentration camp, in the Everglades--and I'm calling it what it is: a CONCENTRATION CAMP...just like one of Hitler's--is unbelievably disgusting. That they are selling merchandise with the horrible name plastered all over the crap is nauseating.

I've given up trying convince myself that we can't get in the gutter to fight them as it "would make us as bad as them". We have to treat them with the savagery that they themselves display--at least on the members of this putrid administration. Honestly, I think it might be the only thing that would make it through their MAGAfied skulls. Trump, Vance, the corrupt members of the Supreme Court, Noem, Bondi, Miller, Leavitt, Homan, Hegseth...all of them. they are inhuman and deserve inhuman punishment.

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TCinLA's avatar

Interestingly, Elmo called himself out for a lack of empathy in a recent Xit on Xitter.

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T L Mills's avatar

Huh...I didn't catch that since I never did twit, anyway. And Elmo isn't in the news quite as much anymore. (well, not until recently when the feud between Musk and Trump heated up)...perhaps he is merely feeling regret for potentially losing all the pure profit from those EV credits he sells to other car companies.

However, if he has been diagnosed as having Autistic Spectrum Disorder, while he knows he may not be able to actually experience empathy or compassion, he is aware that it is something he lacks. If that is the case...props to him.

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JDinTX's avatar

His self-preservation had better kick in soon or he will be scheduled for a flight on the Prigozhin express. What happens when you make a deal with the devil. As to Autism, sometimes it’s just greedy power

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JDinTX's avatar

Wish I had said this, the glee with which they celebrate evil is beyond the pale. Cruelty truly is the point.

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JDinTX's avatar

They see Dems and any opposition as suckers and losers and NPCs (non-participating characters)

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Barryt's avatar

If you have netflix, they have a lot of good educational material, and searching for "nazi" or "hitler" will give you quite a few shows to watch.

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JDinTX's avatar

I was married for 57 years and my husband was obsessed with it. I know it well but will watch any new info, like the album found that shows the cushy lives of the worst perps. Sadly, so many don’t have a clue, even if they lost some family in the war. Today’s distractions distract…

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Victoria Brown's avatar

I have been struck

dumb.

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JDinTX's avatar

Retain the voice to scream

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Barryt's avatar
4dEdited

Murkowski just put herself in See You Next Tuesday territory with her vote. Selling out the rest of the country for some exceptions to decimating Medicaid in her state shows you how principled conservatives really are - not at all - even the so-called "moderates".

But hey, Susan Collins came through, so there's that... I guess she looked at her 8% approval rating and was concerned about it enough to do something. TACO's approval should be that low, if not for all the fawning coverage he gets from almost every mainstream media source.

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KATHERINE H. TERHUNE's avatar

Yes, Susan Collins voting no… So out of character but better late than never? Not so sure it’s a trend with her… spine? Um….

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Barryt's avatar

I'm not holding my breath, and really it's way too little, way too late. Like 8% late.

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KATHERINE H. TERHUNE's avatar

I know 🥺😩😭

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Sharon Stearley's avatar

She has no spine.....she just needs Dems to get elected in her area.

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Sharon Stearley's avatar

I heard that had Murkowski no then Susan Collins would have had to vote yes and that would have made her lose her next election....too bad for us. Susan is two faced...now we know Lisa is too.

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KATHERINE H. TERHUNE's avatar

Good grief- despicable! Of course this whole reconciliation bill is despicable and that word doesn’t even come close. Two-faced for sure, and that also does not come close.

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Judith Matlock's avatar

If I were working at the DOJ or DHSS now that they are going into people-purge mode, you can bet I would be using AI to come up with as many means of sabotage as I could. And they could involve releasing a bag of rats to join the ones already in the big offices. I'd have gift wrapped boxes of them for Noem and Homan, so they could come face to face with their ancestors. (Yes, it's another dark day in the Divided States of America.)

In the midst of decent people's concerns about the welfare of their fellow Americans and immigrants, why have the churches fallen so silent? A handful, including Rev. Barber and a some others, is not a good showing for those with that Sunday spray-on Christianity.

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Kelly Winsa's avatar

best line ever, "I wasn’t “all in” on XXXX before this, but I sure as hell am now."

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KATHERINE H. TERHUNE's avatar

Tommy is precious! Those knowing eyes! Hi, Karen! Really special acknowledgment about Cookie!

So much inhumanity and terribleness to report. I’m sorry… You do a great job… Keep those new paid subscribers coming!

July 3 cometh - significant, if I recall correctly.

Yesterday, Jessica Craven reassured her viewing audience - in her rapid fire delivery - that the house must pass the bill in the form it arrives on their doorstep from the Senate. If they can’t or won’t do that, the process starts over again, that they modify, rewrite and so forth and then send it back to the Senate.

I try to pay attention… Is this accurate? If so, it feels a hint reassuring because the monstrosity became so much worse when rewritten in the Senate, despite significant and adept strikes by the parliamentarian.

Staying tuned and looking for small moments of joy and uplift. The kitty photos always do contribute to that. Thank you.

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TCinLA's avatar

That is accurate Katherine.

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KATHERINE H. TERHUNE's avatar

Thank you! At times some reporting seems pretzel-like, because admittedly issues are complex, but some storylines are straightforward and it’s gratifying when they are reported as such. Again, thanks.

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Karen RN's avatar

Thank you Katherine! Tommy is precious. And so honored that Cookie determined I was okay.

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Paul Donahue's avatar

About that place in Florida that they like so much, I think a better name is Alligator Auschwitz. And even the Nazis didn't sell merch there.

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Susan Linehan's avatar

Good luck finding a jury in LA that believes any of the Bondimuck.

Can't WAIT to see what Bondimuck's arguments are the Perkins Appeal. "The government has every right to jerk security clearances from lawyers with no national security reasons because...national security. "

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Sharon Stearley's avatar

Thank you, TC. What is it going to take to stop this insanity? It had to be fake blood and fantastic acting...that Saturday evening.....last July. That bullet should have hit GPa instead of the poor ignorant SOB in the audience behind him.

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