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Tuesday, November 26, 2024
Nothing would be safe. Even your Medicare and Social Security benefits could be in danger. I'm bracing for losing Medicaid. Must yet depressing read from Pro Publica.
Here's the link:
An excerpt:
“We can simply choke off the money,” Trump said in a 2023 campaign video.
“For 200 years under our system of government, it was undisputed that the president had the constitutional power to stop unnecessary spending.”
His plan, known as “impoundment,” threatens to provoke a major clash over the limits of the president’s control over the budget. The Constitution gives Congress the sole authority to appropriate the federal budget, while the role of the executive branch is to dole out the money effectively. But Trump and his advisers are asserting that a president can unilaterally ignore Congress’ spending decisions and “impound” funds if he opposes them or deems them wasteful.
Trump’s designs on the budget are part of his administration’s larger plan to consolidate as much power in the executive branch as possible. This month, he pressured the Senate to go into recess so he could appoint his cabinet without any oversight. (So far, Republicans who control the chamber have not agreed to do so.) His key advisers have spelled out plans to bring independent agencies, such as the Department of Justice, under political control.
If Trump were to assert a power to kill congressionally approved programs, it would almost certainly tee up a fight in the federal courts and Congress and, experts say, could fundamentally alter Congress’ bedrock power.
Old Star Trek review with some really nice art by J D Lendl. I really like his art.
One of the best episodes. Has some nice writing and acting moments. New Spock's best performance. Definitely a serious episode. I loved the fact that they brought that weird kid back from the original series. (He's been in other series. Maybe all of them.) I have to admit that this makes me think that a medical Star Trek show would be really interesting. Of course, so would a legal Star Trek show. Why does the Star Trek world even need great civil rights attorneys? That would be an interesting question to answer. Of course, the great thing about Star Trek is how you can do every other tv show within it. Also I'm very impressed with how they're developing M Benga. Klingon Sambo? That also utilizes Babs' grappling skills. Well done. Update with spoilers: I agree with Jim Levogiani that the killing didn't seem "Star Trek". Also with that sick bay how did he die. Just being an armchair doctor who watches lots of Star Trek he should have been immediately put into stasis. Surely they can keep brain function alive in Star Trek future. They mentioned that, in this episode, they have organ regenerators....No way that Klingon should have died. Would have been a better episode with M Benga repairing him too. "I can't go on diplomatic trips with you...but Nurse Chapel is open to the suggestions."
Friday, November 15, 2024
Something the Republicans do well and the GOP lite corporate Dems didn't respond well to.
Here's something that Republicans do pretty effectively. If they're in power America is Great and they have an overwhelming media advantage where it's guaranteed that message gets out. However, if they're out of power they'll tell you "America Sucks" and we're about to get into a nuclear conflict with Putin. And a non passable migrant tranny will stab you to death at night. Those were pretty much the Pro Trump ads that I got soaked with during the election and it looks like they worked. (Mainly because these ads weren't effectively countered but that's another short essay.)Average voters think America isn't great not just because of those somewhat silly things but the fact that you're being raped by the predatory companies in the illustration below. However, the now GOP lite Dems, thinking about Rahm as their next chairman which would mean they have learned nothing (Nothing. Really.) from losing all three branches, can't make the argument that this is the problem of living in the US. Harris insiders and Sen. Chris Murphy pretty much admitted this. The GOP solutions will make your life worse in pretty much all of these areas. Every one of them. And Dems can't point out that they have either better solutions or that they would actually crackdown on these problems.
Update: Now that I think of it it's not clear that the Dems would do much about these problems, either. And it's clear that voters felt that way as well. The Biden Way, as I've noticed on student debt and Cenk Uygur has noticed about everything else, involved Biden only solving about 5 percent of a problem and you'll get more in some second Biden term, which we now know is a fantasy. Why not completely forgive student debt as the 65 housing authority permits you to do? Helps 40 million voters. He didn't need GOP votes to pass that. I just shake my head at this. Biden wouldn't even support Medicaid/Medicare buy in. The Biden/Harris admin did forgive about 1 percent to 5 percent of student debt. Was that enough? Apparently not. I mean really. It wasn't enough. The Ernest Partridge theory of the Democratic Party as the Washington Generals seems to be true. It just didn't seem like they cared much if they lost. And, considering all the bribe money they took, maybe they were paid to lose.
Thursday, November 14, 2024
I'm happy that white women voted for pro choice ballot measures and as a majority against Trump in PA. Not happy that white women nationally voted for Trump as a majority and they sent Hawley and Scott back to congress to enact a nationwide abortion ban.
Look I'm happy that white women voted to pass pro choice ballot initiatives. I'm really happy that white women voted as a majority in PA against Donald Trump. I'm not happy that white women voted as a majority for Trump nationally. It's a failure of logic to vote against statewide abortion bans while sending Corporate Theocrats like Josh Hawley and Batboy Rick Scott back to congress, where they will probably pass a nationwide abortion ban. The filibuster only stops things that help working class ppl. It seems to disappear whenever the GOP really wants something or if it's a tax cut. We'll probably get a national abortion ban. The fantasy part of Alex Garland's "Civil War" isn't just the unlikely alliance of Texas and California. It's the idea that a coalition of states or the left could defeat a man who has selected the leaders of the Army, Navy and Air Force. BTW, looks like Trump has selected a scary Christian radical (Think Sons of Gilead.) with tats to run the Department of Defense. So if Trump wants to send in army troops to enforce Texas abortion bans in Illinois or Pennsylvania or some other sane blue state who exactly would stop him? The Supreme Court or what I call it: The Handmaid's Court. Or the show where you can hang an out lesbian several minutes after sentencing. You could have avoided all this simply by voting for Hillary and probably Harris, the one issue she ran on that I believed. This is an IQ test that white women have failed, twice.
Tuesday, November 12, 2024
No the Democrats didn't, generally, run woke campaigns. What John Oliver said.
What John Oliver said.
Friday, November 08, 2024
Tuesday, November 05, 2024
Twitter post where my reach was limited by the very impartial Twitter owner, seen dancing around on the stage with Trump like a bit of a Dip. Thank god Musk doesn't own Blogger, yet.
Post where the reach was limited on Twitter. On the day of the election. And the warning was completely false and had nothing to do with the post. There was no hate speech involved. I was clearly joking.
I was responding to this Twitter post.
Thursday, October 31, 2024
Has nothing to do with "Derangement". There are lots of good reasons not to like Trump and his openly fascist party.
Yeah it's not just because of losing my healthcare or the fact that I do not like convicted rapists and racists in general. I dislike the openly fascist (By every definition I've read.) GOP for many many reasons. It doesn't have anything to do with derangement. I like laws that protect my air and water. I don't think an anti vaccine guy like RFK Jr should be running the Dept of Health. Etcetera and So On. It's terrifying that the election is a coin toss.
Monday, October 28, 2024
Don't pay attention to the attack ads. Charlamagne tha God has endorsed Kamala Harris.
BTW if you're watching Charlamagne the God talk about Kamala's position on sex change operations (endlessly here in Pgh. Pa right now.), that attack ad omits the fact that tha God has endorsed Kamala Harris.
Tuesday, October 22, 2024
Kamala should sack her ad team because many of her ads don't emotionally resonate. She's either answering very weakly or not at all.
Free political advice for Harris. Taken in the spirit of: What have I got to lose and what have you got to lose? Not sure Trump will win but he's definitely gaining and the prospects of GOP house and senate candidates seem to be rising with him.
Adapted from Twitter:
These ads either are not being countered or countered in a very weak way by the badly done Harris Walz ads that I've seen, at least here in Pittsburgh. (The Harris ads do not resonate emotionally. When I watch a Trump ad I feel that Harris is personally helping some evil migrant kill some white person. All the Harris ads have no emotional life. They're not funny or interesting. Even though Harris has the support of Hollywood they seem poorly imagined and produced...It's unreal....) There's a reason Harris didn't do well in the Dem primary in 2020. I mean, even the Bob Casey ads are specific. They're to the point. Casey isn't exactly a ball of fire btw. Not sure he's going to win but his ads are specific. But the modern campaign is a television ad war that these center right neo lib dems just don't understand. Trump is winning the ad wars. If I was Harris, then I would sack my team and replace it with Casey's team.
Does Kamala Harris know that she's in danger if she loses this election? Because if you don't move on student debt or Israeli genocide, you're making me think she doesn't know.
https://x.com/mrpshropshire/status/1848687717078495370
Well she'll be fine, maybe. I mean, maybe she doesn't get a ticket to the detention camps as well. No wait she definitely goes, especially as the child of immigrants. She probably gets a ticket. How will you stop them? By filing suit in front of a Trump judge? That's the horror of a Trump presidency. You know Biden didn't step down because I thought that was a good idea. Or even because Cenk thought he should step down even though Cenk has a massive following and a tv show. It was because Pelosi and the Obamas thought the plug should have been pulled. Keep in mind that if Pelosi been home on that night when her big headed husband got bonked in the head we would be referring to her as the late Nancy Pelosi. I think the Obamas should be scared too. Why isn't Kamala scared? The rule of law is whatever the Trump judges say it is. If you're scared, btw, you forgive all student debt under the 65 act. You do something to stop the Israeli killing spree. You don't just throw up your hands and let Israel commit war crimes. I sometimes wonder if she's trying to win, or if Biden is sabotaging her or both. That would be the ultimate Washington Generals Sacrifice.
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