I feel like just Tom Homan being himself is a fucking insult

This fucking mumblethumb of a thuggish doofus on my tv, slurring his way through his fascist pronouncements about "collateral" arrests . . . and he can barely articulate what his "thoughts" are and cannot express himself in any coherent manner.

My apologies to stroke victims, it isn't your fault that you have trouble talking, but Homan makes you look glib and articulate.

Jesus, at least give us villains that think on their feet and have a silver tongue that can get them out of trouble. Having this (barely) articulate potato on my screen, who has no rationale for the lawbreaking and evil shit he is doing to innocent people, insults us all in addition to the evil.

At every turn, the GOP takes money with one hand and deals death with the other

Remember that old short story where you can get a small fortune, but to get it you have to activate a button that will cause a stranger to die? The GOP are hitting, slamming, that button 24-7. Everything they do is designed to reap $ from death.

Environmental regulations? Get rid of them, more $ for their donors, and more death
American healthcare? That is ALL about reaping $ from death
Attack social security? People will die in poverty, but more $ for the piggies
Huge military budget? $ in the feeding trough for the death merchants

they are a huge death cult.

it is so past beyond time that Americans take care of Americans and foster life, and care, and thriving. material and psychic health.

This crew will never let us have a free and fair election again. It's over

for democracy.

We need to think about solutions to this issue far beyond the ballot box and 2026/2028.

Whose responsibility was it to prevent the Russian Mafia from taking over our country?

Because I know I did my fucking part by voting against Putin and his disgusting orange puppet. I saw him clearly for what he was, and with a Russian-controlled Supreme Court who ruled him incapable of committing crimes in office (and a Russian-controlled GOP), I wanted no part of that.

Our media, though, how do I explain their dereliction of duty? Did they not know Trusk is a cat's paw for Putin? Because I figured it out and I'm just a dumb scientist with a full time job that isn't a political reporter/commentator.

Are the Democrats responsible for stopping this from happening? They seemed to be unaware of the urgency too. Campaigning with "good Republicans" and not really sounding the alarm that the end of our country was right around the corner.

And now, here we are. The full horror of what the citizenry has done to itself is only beginning to unfold. We'll see how Americans enjoy living under a completely corrupt kleptocracy with no hope of fair elections again.

fuck.

The way to stop Medicaid fraud is MORE INSPECTORS. Not de-funding it.

Medicaid is a relationship between the federal and state governments and healthcare providers. Healthcare providers often commit fraud with respect to Medicaid. If you found out that 10% of Medicaid payments were fraudulent, the solution is not to cut funding by 10%. That would just mean that you'd still have 10% fraud occurring in the now 90% of the remaining funds.

To get rid of the fraud (and punish the fraud healthcare providers) you'd INCREASE spending - getting more cops and inspectors on the beat, to find those clinical labs, ambulance companies, medical device companies, etc., that are submitting incorrect/improper reimbursements.

I wish everyone would stop falling for the dumb lie that cutting Medicaid reduces fraud. (I'm looking at you, corporate media) Because the GOP wants to kill it completely, and they will use this braindead excuse to do so.

My hope now lies in the uneducated

When the election was over in November, and I realized that Trump had the house and the senate and a supreme court that had already ruled that he _couldn't_ break any laws, and that Trump and his handlers Musk and Vance were already in the pocket of Putin and Russian oligarchs, I had enormous fears and anxiety about what was going to happen. What I feared was that they would do to America what America did to Russia - The Shock Doctrine. Austerity economics. Killing dissenters. Dismantling the government. Destroying the economy. Using surveillance and assassination to control opponents. Death camps. The police state.

And so, I made a list of all the things I feared, from bad to worst, and have been ticking them off as they occur. I'm not going to pre-obey this regime (as so many of our media companies, elected officials, and other corporations have done), but I'm also not surprised by the horrible things they are trying to do.

Enter the uneducated voters - who are surprised by all of this. Not only Republicans who hilariously thought that Trump would help them, but Independents and Democrats who are shocked that no one is stopping the rape of our country. I've been so pleasantly surprised by the real outrage and anger that citizens are expressing to their congresscritters, especially GOP reps who try the same old stale lies about "fraud".

Go get 'em, low-information voters.

Looks like the world is starting to learn to ignore the World's Cringiest Boer. Finally

Do the Democrats have a plan for leveraging the Continuing Resolution and the Debt Ceiling to bring Trusk to heel?

The GOP can't govern by itself, and it can't wrangle enough votes to pass these things on its own because of assholes inside of its caucus (surprise!).

Democrats could, if they were actual fighters/strategists/communicators/politicians that cared about the rule of law, leverage their votes to get some god damned law and order to apply.

Like, withhold their votes until Felon Muck is behind bars for breaking a million laws.

Felon Muck thinks he bought and now owns OUR federal government

I don't know about you guys, but my taxes going to the CDC means I OWN our government's world-class epidemiology and disease-fighting arm. We OWN the FAA and the Flight Safety. We OWN the agencies who keep our nuclear arms safe. We OWN the treasury and the safe data-keeping within. We OWN the Department of Education. We pay for it, Congress who we elect points the money to the right places, and in return we get a safe and relatively functioning society. We OWN that society. We OWN that safety.

Musk is like a guy who comes into your house and sells your car to someone else, sells your home security system, kills your pets, eats your food, and pockets your cash. He doesn't OWN our federal government, and it is far past time for him to get his fucking hands off of it. How DARE he steal our civilization from us? He isn't a vulture capitalist who bought and owns our government. He is a vulture capitalist who bought and owns a minority party.

For years, thousands of people begged our politicians to get money out of politics

As everything moved to give people with the most money the most power: Citizens United, failed election finance reform, failed efforts to address wealth inequality.

And the responses to those pleas were either GOP: "Corruption is good, actually. Rich people are smart and moral" or Democratic: "We can just be a Little Corrupt without being Monstrously Corrupt, so shut up".

And now, here we are at the logical conclusion of money= political power. A drug-addled manchild, who once wrote some code for a website that became popular and then used his money and lies to give himself more and more power, is now our King. He can do whatever he wants, and what he wants is to destroy our government that so many have fought and died for. To help out his Russian oligarch boss Putin.

THIS is the fruit of letting money = speech and power. It was always going to end this way.