The past few days have been absolutely fucking nuts. Donald Trump promised to defund Social Security and Medicare if reelected, accelerated his work to destroy the U.S. Postal Service in advance of the 2020 election, and once again claimed wrongly that it was him, and not Barack Obama, who signed “Vetrans Choice” into law. Oh […]
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Trump promises to permanently eliminate the funding mechanism for Social Security and Medicare if reelected
Posted in Health, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged Affordable Care Act, bathtub, Ben Sasse, Bernie Sanders, Delivering Government Solutions in the 21st Century, Donald Trump, eviction, executive actions, executive orders, Grover Norquist, Joe Biden, masks, Medicare, Nancy Pelosi, New Deal, Obamacare, Paul Krugman, payroll tax, post office, preexisting conditions, small government, social security, taking credit for things you didn't do, tax cuts, tax policy, taxes, The Lord, United States Postal Service, Vetrans Choice, vote by mail 184 Comments
Unidentified federal officers are kidnapping protesters from the streets of Portland
Back in early June, as you may recall, we discussed the fact that William Barr’s Department of Justice had deployed federal agents with no name badges and no unit insignia to police the streets of Washington, DC. Well, it seems to be happening again. Oregon Public Broadcasting last night confirmed that U.S. military members in […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Uncategorized Also tagged ACLU, authoritarianism, badges, Jade Helm, kidnapping, Mark Pettibone, Oregon, police state, Portland, protests, we don't need no stinking badges 176 Comments
National Emergency
This afternoon, just short of the Friday deadline, the U.S. Senate overwhelmingly passed a bipartisan spending bill that would avoid another shutdown. The compromise bill, which passed with only 16 Senators voting against it, included $1.375 billion for the construction of a 55 mile long fence of steel slats, significantly less that the $5.7 billion […]
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged Ann Coulter, authoritarianism, border wall, call to action, constitutional crisis, Department of Justice, Donald Trump, executive actions, executive orders, executive overreach, government shutdown, illegal immigration, Laura Ingraham, Mitch McConnell, national emergency, open borders, racism, rule of law, slippery slope, Worldwide Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community 75 Comments