CNN has renewed HAVE I GOT NEWS FOR YOU for a third season.
I did not watch the show or know of the show until two weeks ago when
C.I. noted it at THE COMMON ILLS and she also noted it last weekend as
well. I remember Roy Wood Jr. was supposed to be doing a humor show for
CNN after leaving THE DAILY SHOW. And that's it. They have not done a
good job promoting this. In fact, C.I. only noted it the last two
weekends because a friend with the show asked her to note it. She
wasn't aware of the program herself.
Here's a taste.
It airs on CNN each Saturday at 9:00 pm EST.
I
really like Roy Wood Jr. When they were trying to find the new host
after Trevor Noah, he was one of my top three picks. In order it was
Leslie Jones (first), Roy (second) and Chelsea Handler (third). They
were the ones who regularly as guest host were knocking it out of the
park. Any of the three would have been great. However, none of the
three was selected.
And I'm not a Chelsea fan. She'd really started to
get on my nerves and I'd forgotten how funny she could be until she
started guest hosting on THE DAILY SHOW.
Marjorie
Taylor Greene: I have people come up to me and say crazy things to me
out of the blue in public places that they believe because they read it
on the internet.
Chelsea
Handler: Well if that's not the pot calling the kettle QAnon. This
woman thought 9/11 was a hoax, that the Clintons killed JFK Jr. and that
Jews are in charge of space lasers. But please, don't come at her with
some crazy ideas -- she might believe them.
If you're looking for a show to sample, I'd urge you to give HAVE I GOT NEWS FOR YOU a try.
No, it wasn't. It will be back next year as WIKIPEDIA notes, " In March 2025, the series was renewed for an eighth and final season, which will air in the 2025–26 television season." Dumb Ass Jessica McBride needs to learn how to read and write.
The Neighborhood, After Midnight, The Summit, and Poppa's House were also cancelled, Glamour reported.Young Sheldon is being cancelled too, Rotten Tomatoes reported.
YOUNG SHELDON ended in May of 2024. What a stupid idiot.
And she doesn't note the seasons on THE NEIGHBORHOOD which you can compare to:
In addition, The Handmaid's Tale is ending "after a sixth, and final, season," Rotten Tomatoes reported. The site added that Life & Beth is also being cancelled.
[. . .]
They are Solar Opposites, which will end after Season 6, How to Die Alone,Wayne Brady: The Family Remix, and Extraordinary.
[. . .]
In addition, The Empress was renewed for a third season, but it will be the show's final one, according to Screen Geek.
[. . .]
Squid Game will end after Season 3, and Stranger Things will end after five seasons. You is also ending.
Rotten Tomatoes also reported that the Netflix shows Big Mouth and Kaos were cancelled and that Cobra Kai will end "after the sixth, and final, season." Outer Banks was cancelled after five seasons, Rotten Tomatoes reported,
None of the shows she names seassons for ran eight seasons like THE NEIGHBORHOOD. It's cute -- and telling how she opts to describe shows with Black casts (go to the link and read her stupid article) and with a cast with leads that are Black and White -- although the cast is all Black except for three characters when you bring in the supporting actors. Let's all pretend that the Karen's not a racist.
We already know she's an idiot. She also maintains, "La Brea is being cancelled "after a third, and final, season," according to Rotten Tomatoes." LA BREA went off the air in February 2024.
Thursday, May 15, 2025. So much to cover today, Chump continues his
Middle East whore, at home in efforts to gut Medicaid continue, Tulsi
Gabbard sends the wrong message to those in intelligence (one that puts
us all at risk), Bruce Springsteen speaks the truth that Chump fears,
racists from South Africa posing as victims begin arriving in the US,
and much more.
Everything had to be put on hold
yesterday to address a topic that was about deceptions, lies, racism and
sexism. So let's start this snapshot noting an award.
That's Katie Couric interviewing Ben, Brett and Jordan Meiselas and Marni Rose McFall (NEWSWEEK) reports on the brothers and the award they just won:
The MeidasTouch Podcast, a show critical of President Donald Trump, has won Podcast of the Year at the Webby Awards.
Ben Meiselas, co-founder of The MeidasTouch Podcast, said in an email shared with Newsweek:
"We're honored to receive the top award for all podcasts at the
Webbys—especially as an independent media network. It's a testament to
the incredible community that rallied behind us and helped share the
show with the world."
The left-leaning MeidasTouch
Podcast has been dominating the podcast charts since the beginning of
Trump's second term in office, after overtaking popular podcasts
including former No1 Joe Rogan. It has held firm as the country's most
downloaded podcast, indicating a shift in what the American people want
to hear.
The 29th Webby Awards were held in New York last night, hosted by actress Ilana Glazer.
Founded
in 2020 by three brothers Ben, Brett and Jordy Meiselas, who describe
the podcast as "a pro-democracy news network," the organization began by
creating viral videos and political ads opposing Trump and supporting
Democratic candidates.
So congratulations to them, they've more than earned it.
Now
let's dive in the cesspool that is Chump Land. We know who's ruining
the country but can someone figure out who's running it?
9/11
was an awful day. A tragedy. And it could happen again. That was the
whole point of the 9/11 commission and it was the point of various
reforms.
So when Chump
refuses to take part in intelligence briefings because he wants to watch
porn on his cellphone or when he appoints people to security posts who
are not qualified to those posts, he puts us all at risk. Pete Hegseth
is not qualified to be Secretary of Defense and his Singal chats have
demonstrated he does not grasp that classified information must be kept
secret. Tulsi Gabbard was put into the post of Director of
Intelligence. Not only is she unqualified but it's also true that this
post was created after 9/11 because it was felt that it was sorely
needed to prevent another 9/11.
As
NBC News reported last week, a declassified memo drafted by the
National Intelligence Council — the top entity for analyzing classified
intelligence and providing secret assessments to policymakers —
explained that Nicolás Maduro’s Venezuelan regime is not orchestrating
Tren de Aragua’s operations in the United States. (The document came to
light by way of a Freedom of Information Act request by the Freedom of
the Press Foundation, a nonprofit organization.)
A
week later, as The Washington Post reported, Trump’s highly
controversial and wildly unqualified national intelligence director
decided to fire the leaders of the National Intelligence Council — the
office that dared to tell the White House what it didn’t want to hear.
The
official line from Gabbard is that she’s combatting the
“politicization” of the intelligence community, a conspiratorial line
embraced by partisans who disapprove of the extent to which intelligence
agencies have presented evidence the president doesn’t like.
Indeed,
as the Post noted, Gabbard has actually “removed or sidelined officials
perceived to not support Trump’s political agenda.”
Or
put another way, if anyone is “politicizing” U.S. intelligence, it’s
Gabbard and her Team Trump colleagues. What’s more, the DNI’s latest
purge sends a dangerous signal to intelligence officials throughout the
government: Produce reports that make the president happy, regardless of
the facts, or you might be next.
National
Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard fired two senior officials at the
National Intelligence Council after it released a report concluding the
Venezuelan government is unlikely to be directing the activities of Tren
de Aragua, in sharp contrast to President Donald Trump’s countless
claims to the contrary.
Trump
has repeatedly asserted, while offering no evidence, that Venezuela is
somehow guiding the actions of the street gang. Trump also invoked Tren
de Aragua to justify invoking the Alien Enemies Act shortly after taking
office, leaning on the 1798 law to deport people without due process.
Michael
Collins, the acting chair of the National Intelligence Council, and
deputy Maria Langan-Riekhof were fired Tuesday, a source told CNN. It’s
unclear what role, if any, Collins and Langan-Riekhof played in
producing the analysis.
The firings come a week
after an intelligence assessment produced by the Office of the Director
of National Intelligence found Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s
government probably isn’t involved in Tren de Aragua’s operations in the
U.S.
Do you grasp what that unqualified stooge did?
She did not like the intelligence and the assessment so
she fired them. No, that is not how it's supposed to go. She has now
made clear to the people she pretends to supervise that if they want to
keep their jobs then they better tell her what she wants to hear.
That's no way for intel to be run. She was never qualified.
If
and when there's another attack, it needs to be noted that Chump let
our intel chain rot and did so knowingly and willingly.
And Trashy Garbage -- as Trina's
dubbed Tulsi -- was never qualified to head anything, let alone to be
over the nation's national security. Her latest move proves it. Intel
is not an area where you want yes-people who just tell you what you want
to hear. I cant imagine any area of work that would benefit from just
yes-people but intel is supposed to be following everything, analyzing
it all, offering possible outcomes, etc. You need various opinions
being expressed and someone at the top capable of taking it all in and
making the call regarding what's being offered, what's the most
pertinent and how do we need to proceed.
Tulsi has failed at her job.
She
better pray that there's not another 9/11 because if there is? Her head
and Chump's head are going to be the first the American people are
going to be calling for.
She is not up to the job. She never was. The United States is in danger while incompetents like her remain over intel.
We should all be alarmed.
Bruce Springsteen is in on tour. He made a public call to let freedom ring this week.
It
seems to have been going on much longer, but it has been only one month
since Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day,” when he did his big reset on the
world’s economy by raising tariffs on goods exported to this country to
10 percent, with higher “reciprocal” tariffs of up to 50 percent on 57
countries. The tariffs were supposed to take effect on April 9, but
Trump chose that day to suspend for 90 days all the reciprocal tariffs
except those on China, which he raised to 145 percent, because, he said
on Truth Social, China had been “ripping off the U.S.A.”
Fifty-seven
countries and the rest of the world had waited, and Trump caved, a
grand total of seven days after stock markets around the world crashed
and the dread “R” word, recession, began being uttered by cable news
hosts and hitting newspaper headlines.
It
took only 30 more days for Trump to cave on his China tariffs. On Monday
morning, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced that the U.S. and
China would be suspending the reciprocal tariffs of 125 percent the two
nations had imposed on one another. The original 10 percent U.S. tariff
would remain, with China maintaining its 10 percent tariff that had been
imposed in answer to Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariff. The U.S. is
maintaining some kind of 20 percent “fentanyl” tariff on China, but that
one is likely not long for this world,
What happened
in the intervening month? China just waited. Reports of empty shipping
berths at ports all along the West Coast began appearing. Talk of “empty
shelves” started to hit the airwaves. Trump, pressed on what kind of
Christmas American kids were going to have with all shipping from China
at a standstill, began babbling about girls having to settle for “two”
dolls rather than “thirty,” and “five” pencils instead of “250.” Where
the hell he came up with dolls and pencils and those specific numbers
was never explained.
Over in China,
in Xi Jinping’s office, no explanation was necessary. Trump was
panicking. So Xi and his trade representatives sat by the phone. Last
week, it rang. Who knows what Trump’s trade representative said, but it
had to be some version of “can we talk, please?”
Yes,
Chump created the mess -- and wrecked the economy -- and, yes, he did
not have 'victory.' He caved this week in a desperate attempt to save
face but his face is broke.
As
recently as Thursday, JD Vance appeared on Fox News, and while he
expressed concern about the intensifying conflict between India and
Pakistan, the vice president added that the violent escalation between the two countries was “fundamentally none of our business.”
It
was a difficult position to take seriously — when two nuclear-armed
countries are launching attacks on one another, potentially
destabilizing the region, the conflict is absolutely the business of global leaders — and Vance’s rhetoric soon looked even worse when Trump declared two days later that his administration had negotiated “a full and immediate ceasefire.”
But that proved problematic in part because, a day later, there was evidence the ceasefire was not holding, and also because India’s foreign minister downplayed the United States’ role in the negotiations.
Nevertheless,
while in Saudi Arabia, Trump was eager to boast about how effective his
strategy was with India and Pakistan. “I said, ‘Come on, we’re going to
do a lot of trade with you guys. Let’s stop it. Let’s stop it. If you
stop it, we’ll do a trade. If you don’t stop it, we’re not going to do
any trade,’” the Republican claimed. “And all of a sudden, they said, ‘I
think we’re going to stop.’”
According to India, Trump didn’t know what he was talking about. NBC News reported:
“The
issue of trade didn’t come up in any of these discussions,” Jaiswal
said, referring to the conversations with Trump administration
officials.
It
serves as a timely reminder: Trump sometimes takes credit for
accomplishments that don’t exist, and he sometimes takes credit for
accomplishments for which he’s not actually responsible.
Chump's
lies, like his greed, not going away. It's who he is. And the
American people are really seeing his corruption streak with the plane
bribe from Qatar. Lawrence O'Donnell addressed this last night on
MSNBC.
He is greedy. This is bribe and no one needs to pretend
otherwise. No one should. But there is also the issue of being the
president of the United States and disrespecting this country by wanting
a cast-off from a foreign government.
America, we are not his choice.
America, we are not good enough for him.
Chump's
Middle East visit this week has been all about corruption and about
embracing people the US government has labeled as tyrants and/or
terrorists. His actions and remarks will result in blowback to our
country for many, many years to come. Eric Martin (BLOOMBERG NEWS) points out:
President Donald Trump sent a message to the world in Saudi Arabia: make business deals and the US won’t meddle in your affairs.
Trump,
on the first overseas visit of his second term, praised the country’s
leadership for its modernization push and said Iran, Lebanon and Syria
all had the opportunity for a brighter future. The Middle East would be
“defined by commerce, not chaos,” he said.
Fulfilling the wishes of many of his MAGA base, Trump rejected notions
of nation-building and pressure on human rights that other US presidents
once championed. Of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Trump said, “I
like him a lot — I like him too much.”
While
Chump frolics in the Middle East and delivers one lap dance after
another, his plan to gut Medicaid continues in the Congress. The attack
on Medicaid is an attack on America and attack on millions of
Americans' healthcare. The attack on Medicaid and CHIP (Children's
Health Insurance Program) is about denying healthcare and putting
approximately 80 million Americans at risk.
Chump's
soaking up every foreign dollar a terrorist or tyrant can slip in his
g-string right now but he wants to rip the healthcare from those in
need, from children, from the challenged and disabled, etc, etc. Nikki McCann Ramirez and Andrew Perez (ROLLING STONE) report:
The
chief priority of congressional Republicans is to make permanent an
extension of Trump's first-term tax cuts. The version of the tax bill
currently being considered by Republicans on the House Ways and Means
Committee preserves much of the 2017 legislation while folding in some
of Trump's 2024 campaign promises, including no taxes on tips, no taxes
on overtime, and even less taxes for the wealthy.
However,
just like the 2017 cuts, this new tax bill would add trillions to the
deficit - and it would once again disproportionately benefit the rich.
The poorest Americans, meanwhile, could see a tax increase. In order to
pay for the legislation, Republican lawmakers won't look toward the
people who are hoarding the vast majority of the wealth in this nation,
but will instead take a hacksaw to social services and safety-net
programs that help the nation's poorest families survive, as well as
raise taxes on universities, charities, and nonprofits.
According
to the bipartisan Joint Committee on Taxation, the GOP's proposed tax
provisions would increase the national debt by $5.3 trillion. It's a
phenomenal cost that Republicans intend to offset, to some degree, by
forcing 10 million Americans off Medicaid, pushing millions off food
stamps, and increasing health care costs for many.
There
will likely be several weeks of debate and negotiations to finalize
what will surely be Trump's signature second-term legislation.
Here are 10 of the worst policy changes in the president's "big, beautiful" super bill.
Keeping taxes low on the rich
For
one brief moment, it seemed that the president was entertaining the
possibility of raising taxes on the highest incomes in the nation. It
took less than a week for him to discard the idea.
The
planned extension of Trump's 2017 cuts would make permanent the income
boons the president gave to Americans during his first term, which
heavily favored the highest income brackets in the country - giving the
rich big tax cuts while doing little to nothing for the nation's lowest
earners. This time around, the tax bill is expected to raise the average
tax rate, by roughly one percent, on Americans earning less than
$15,000 next year, according to the Joint Committee on Taxation.
Millionaires would see a three percent tax cut.
Meanwhile,
the legislation would also boost the wealthiest Americans' families
when they die, raising the estate tax exemption up to $15 million.
The
Congressional Budget Office — legislators’ official scorekeeper on the
effects of legislation — estimates the bill would cut federal spending
on healthcare by more than $700 billion over a decade, or what
Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon called Monday “the largest Medicaid
cut in history.”
[. . .]
The
financial pain could also extend to institutions that rely on Medicaid
dollars, including hospitals that treat large numbers of low-income
patients and insurance companies that run Medicaid health plans in
dozens of states.
Hospitals that serve poor and
rural areas in high-enrollment states receive extra funding to help
cover the gap between what Medicaid pays and what care actually costs.
These dollars often come through supplemental payments and provider tax
arrangements that allow states to draw more federal matching funds.
The
bill would sharply restrict both mechanisms by barring states from
paying Medicaid providers more than Medicare rates unless they can
justify the difference. It also tightens rules on provider taxes, or
fees paid by hospitals to fund the state’s share of Medicaid, which
would mean less federal money supporting healthcare providers.
Hospital
companies that could be impacted by these changes include HCA
Healthcare Inc. Tenet Healthcare Corp. and Universal Health Services
Inc.
Senator Patty Murray's office issued the following:
Washington, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senators Patty Murray
(D-WA), a senior member and former Chair of the Senate Health,
Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Maria Cantwell (D-WA),
and Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) joined Planned Parenthood Action Fund President
Alexis McGill Johnson and Planned Parenthood advocates in holding a
press conference on the Republicans’ partisan reconciliation bill that
includes provisions to “defund” Planned Parenthood and make the largest-ever cut to Medicaid in history.
Republicans’ reconciliation bill, which only requires a simple
majority to pass in each chamber of Congress, would result in at least 13.7 million
people losing health insurance by 2034, according to the nonpartisan
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)—this figure is a result of Republican
cuts to Medicaid combined with Republicans’ refusal to extend Affordable
Care Act tax credits and the Trump administration’s sabotage of the ACA
marketplace. CBO estimates that the provision in House Republicans’
legislation defunding Planned Parenthood would increase the deficit by $300 million.
“Republicans are gearing [up] to kick more
than 8.6 million people off their health insurance, and while they are
moving heaven and earth to extend tax cuts for the richest people on the
planet, they are not so much as lifting a finger to save the health
plan tax credits for working families—something that will push yet
another 4 million people off their insurance… Because the brutal reality
is that Republicans are not just taking away people’s health coverage,
they also want to shut the doors on one of the biggest health care
providers in the country. They want to defund Planned Parenthood,” said Senator Murray.“About
three in four people say they oppose defunding Planned Parenthood
health centers. But Republicans do not care—they need to appease their
far-right, anti-choice fringe. Now this is going to hurt their own
constituents, seeing as one in three women have been to a Planned
Parenthood health center for care. But Republicans don’t care—after all,
billionaire tax cuts won’t pay for themselves! Although the irony is,
in this case, defunding Planned Parenthood would actually cost our
country more money in the long term. CBO estimated yesterday that one provision
in House Republicans’ bill would actually increase the deficit by $300
million dollars! And, defunding Planned Parenthood will cut off millions
of patients from basic health care like cancer screenings, pap tests,
birth control. But Republicans just don’t care—whatever Donald Trump
wants, comes first for them. Well, I want everyone to know, Democrats do
care. And we are not going to let Republicans blow past all the warning
signs. Saving people’s access to basic health care—saving Planned
Parenthood—is just too important.”
One in three women have been to a Planned Parenthood health center
for care and for many people, Planned Parenthood health centers are
their only source of health care. Planned Parenthood is more popular
than any elected official or party, and nearly three-quarters of
voters, including more than half of Trump voters, oppose Congress taking
away funds from Planned Parenthood health centers for providing birth
control, wellness exams, and cancer screenings.
“Make no mistake: The House’s reconciliation
bill is targeting Planned Parenthood. By moving full steam ahead to
push a dangerously unpopular agenda, House Republicans have shown they
aren’t concerned about their constituents or cutting costs. This effort
to ‘defund’ Planned Parenthood will threaten Americans’ health and
futures, and leave a gap in care no other provider can fill. We cannot
allow these lawmakers to play politics with health care. Planned
Parenthood Action Fund is showing up every day with reproductive freedom
champions like Sen. Patty Murray until we defeat this outrageous
attack,” said Alexis McGill Johnson, President, Planned Parenthood Action Fund.
“In the State of Washington, Planned Parenthood serves about
100,000 patients annually. So that just tells you, where are those
100,000 people going to go if you don’t have Medicaid as a reimbursement
mechanism? About half of those patients rely on Medicaid,” Senator Cantwell said. “Small
communities like Pullman, Washington, and other parts of Eastern
Washington — where there are no other choices to deliver this kind of
care — you’re asking people then to either do without care that might
tell us something about a very pressing health care condition, or make
you have to give up job time, or drive miles and miles and miles and
miles, just to get the care you deserve.”
“Plain and simple: Republicans are putting health care
further out of reach for Americans, all because they need to give tax
handouts to their rich friends. Planned Parenthood is a health care
provider – they do cancer screenings, regular checkups, and so much
more, but Republicans refuse to accept that and would rather try to
score political points, so they are going to take that essential health
care away from American families. It’s wrong and we are going to fight
it,” said Senator Baldwin.
Senator Murray is a longtime leader in the fight to protect and expand access to reproductive health care and abortion rights and is widely credited with holdingthe line against any budget deal that would cut funding for Planned Parenthood in 2011 and leading the fight to uphold President Obama’s policy requiring insurers to cover birth control as part of the Affordable Care Act. Murray has led Congressional efforts to fight back after the Supreme Court’s disastrous decision overturning Roe v. Wade, introducingmorethan a dozen pieces of legislation to protect reproductive rights from further attacks, protect providers, and help ensure women get the care they
need; Murray has led efforts to push for passage of these bills on the
floor multiple times. Last year, on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, Murray led her colleagues in
hosting a “State of Abortion Rights” briefing with women who have
suffered firsthand from Republican abortion bans, and last June, she
chaired a HELP Committee hearing titled “The Assault on Women’s Freedoms: How Abortion Bans Have Created a Health Care Nightmare Across America.” Murray helped lead efforts to force Republicans on the record on votes to protect access to contraception and access to IVF (twice), and led her colleagues in
raising the alarm about the threat a second Trump administration poses
to reproductive rights and abortion access in every state, as outlined in Project 2025.
Senator Murray’s remarks, as delivered, are below and HERE:
“Well, thank you all so much for joining us. We are here to raise the
alarm as Republicans are now moving heaven and earth to gut health care
in this country.
“You know the saying ‘women and children first?’ Well for
Republicans, billionaires go first—and women and children go overboard.
“That’s essentially the principle they are writing into their reconciliation bill right now.
“Despite all the warnings from families across the country—despite
warnings from themselves, Republicans are gearing [up] to kick more than
8.6 million people off their health insurance.
“And while they are moving heaven and earth to extend tax cuts for
the richest people on the planet, they are not so much as lifting a
finger to save the health plan tax credits for working families,
something that will push yet another 4 million people off their
insurance.
“But it gets worse—much worse—and that’s what I want to remind everyone here today now.
“Because the brutal reality is that Republicans are not just taking
away people’s health coverage, they also want to shut the doors on one
of the biggest health care providers in our country.
“They want to defund Planned Parenthood.
“That is wildly unpopular—about three in four people say they oppose
defunding Planned Parenthood health centers. But Republicans do not
care—they need to appease their far-right, anti-choice fringe.
“Now this is going to hurt their own constituents, seeing as one in
three women have been to a Planned Parenthood health center for care.
But Republicans don’t care—after all, billionaire tax cuts won’t pay for
themselves!
“Although the irony is, in this case, defunding Planned Parenthood
would actually cost our country more money in the long term. CBO
estimated yesterday that one provision in House Republicans’ bill would
actually increase the deficit by $300 million dollars!
“And, defunding Planned Parenthood will cut off millions of patients
from basic health care like cancer screenings, pap tests, birth control.
But Republicans just don’t care—whatever Donald Trump wants, comes
first.
“Well I want everyone to know, Democrats do care. And we are
not going to let Republicans blow past all the warning signs. Saving
people’s access to basic health care—saving Planned Parenthood—is just
too important.
“We don’t have to guess at the stakes here—we already know from
experience. We have seen exactly what has happened when Republican
states have defunded Planned Parenthood: health care outcomes—worse,
fewer patients receive care.
“The fact of the matter is, if Republicans get their way—if they
succeed in shutting the doors of Planned Parenthood clinics across the
country—millions of women will have nowhere else to turn.
“After all, two-thirds of Planned Parenthood health centers are in
rural and medically underserved areas—places where there’s already a
shortage of clinics and health care professionals. And for a lot of
these patients, Planned Parenthood is literally the only provider in
reach and in budget. They literally can’t afford to lose this care.
“So, we are not going to stand by as Republicans try to cut off this
lifeline, just so they can cut a massive check to billionaires like
Trump and Elon Musk.
“We are here today to put a bright and burning spotlight on the full
extent of the destruction Republicans are planning. And to lift up the
voices Republicans are most afraid of—the patients who they are trying
to cut off from health care.”
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One of the worst crimes of
the 20th century -- there were many, the Holocaust being top of the list
-- took place in South Africa and was supported by the US and UK
governments among others. A White population ruled via apartheid which
denied Black people rights. The objection to this racist and illegal
system built slowly but it did build. As early as 1964, singer Dusty
Springfield was refusing to let the South African government make her
perform to segregated audiences. Dusty was a huge international star
and the spotlight she shined can't be denied. Many people first learned
of the heroic Nelson Mandela as a result of this spotlight. Others had
spoken out before and others would do so later on building the
opposition outside of South Africa to apartheid. It was a case of human
rights and Desmond Tutu and so many others were able to educate the
world on that. Finally apartheid fell.
White
racist Donald Chump was a supporter of apartheid. Now he wants to bring
White South Africans to the US. He's denying refugee claims of all
people with color but he relates to the self-presenting 'victims' of
South Africa. He lies with them and he lies for them. They have a lot
of money so of course he gets in bed with them.
South
Africa's president pushed back against U.S. President Donald Trump's
claims that white South Africans are facing a "genocide," following
their admittance as refugees.
"Those people who
are being enticed to go to the United States do not fit the definition
of a refugee," President Cyril Ramaphosa said during the Africa CEO
Forum's annual summit Monday. He emphasized that those in question are
not victims of persecution, but rather "a fringe grouping" who oppose
South Africa's post-apartheid reform.
"They
are leaving ostensibly because they don't want to embrace the changes
that are taking place in our country," Ramaphosa said, adding that those
individuals "would actually like to see South Africa go back to
apartheid."
Trump defended his administration's
resettlement plan during remarks at the White House on Monday, stating
that white farmers in South Africa are being "brutally killed" and their
land "confiscated." He called it "a genocide," and criticized reporters
for ignoring what he portrayed as a racially motivated crisis.
Trump,
influenced by another South African immigrant, Elon Musk, has joined
many on the right who have have accused that country’s government of
enacting anti-white legislation and policies that have fueled violence
against white landowners in the nation that for decades was ruled by a
white minority that subjugated the country’s majority Black population
until 1991.
The numbers suggest much has gone
unchanged since the end of apartheid. Whites still own three-quarters of
private land and have about 20 times the wealth of the Black majority,
according to international academic journal the Review of Political
Economy.
Less than 10 percent of white South Africans are out of work, compared with more than a third of their Black counterparts.
In
order to close those disparities, South Africa last month passed a new
law regulating property expropriation. Trump accused the ruling party,
without evidence, of illegally confiscating land from white farmers,
according to Agence France-Presse. That in turn gave new life to claims
about white farmers being murdered, though experts maintain all racial
groups have been targeted of the approximately 50 farmers killed
annually in South Africa, AFP reports.
[. . .]
White
South African journalist Simon Ateba went even further, saying the
refugees’ real fear is not violence, “but equality,” noting that 70
percent of the country’s resources are controlled by whites, who make up
just 7 percent of South Africa’s population. Adding, “That’s not
persecution that’s privilege on a guilt trip.”
Persecution complex? That's MAGA and that's Chump. And they're stamping their feet. Brett Samuels (THE HILL) notes, "The
White House has directed federal agencies to stop work with the
upcoming Group of 20 (G20) conference slated to be held later this year
in South Africa amid outcry from President Trump over the treatment of
white South African farmers." AFP reports that the White House has attacked the Episcopal Church:
On
Monday, the church had said it would wind up its refugee resettlement
grant agreements -- amounting to more than $50 million annually -- with
the US federal government rather than comply with Trump's orders.
In
a statement, the church's presiding bishop was scathing in his
criticism of the administration's decision to grant the white South
Africans refugee status.
"It has been painful
to watch one group of refugees, selected in a highly unusual manner,
receive preferential treatment over many others who have been waiting in
refugee camps or dangerous conditions for years," said Sean W. Rowe.
Under
eligibility guidelines published by the US embassy, applicants for US
resettlement must either be of Afrikaner ethnicity or belong to a racial
minority in South Africa.
The Episcopal Church
said that it could not comply with Trump's order "in light of our
church's steadfast commitment to racial justice and reconciliation."
The
Episcopal Church made the only ethical choice available. Chump can't
understand that because for him money is always supreme, it is his god.
Okay, winding down with e-mails. Stacey Abrams is popping up in
the e-mails because she's 'not going to run a third time.' Or she's
being told not to. Not a Stacey fan. Stacey will run if she wants to.
No one's going to talk her out of running if she wants to. She's a
strong person. Why am I not a fan? Stacey's personable and likeable.
But she's lousy when it comes to hiring campaign staff. She is a
natural candidate. She communicates with ease.
She
does not understand campaign strategy, however, and she hires useless
people who won't say, "Stacey, I hear what you're saying but that's not
going to help you and let me explain why." Instead, they defer to her
and, again, she is no good with campaign strategy. If she does run
again -- and that's her decision -- she needs to look for a campaign
manager who will challenge her, not someone who's going to go along with
whatever she wants. If you're candidate's Bill Clinton, sure, go along
with what they want. They know campaign strategy. Bill's also someone
who is a natural candidate when it comes to communicating and
interacting with people. Few are Bill Clinton. Most need help with one
or the other. If they need help with both, they really shouldn't be
running for office to start with.
On
e-mails, I'm not backing AOC for the Democratic Party's presidential
nominee in 2028. I'm not backing anyone at this time. It could be
AOC. And if it is, I will vote for her. In case it is, we need to be
having real, grown up conversations and having them right now. FOX
"NEWS" and the others will not just attack her as a Socialist (which she
is), they will twist that into Communist. Now is the time for the left
to have the needed conversations so we're on the same page or a similar
page and can address the attacks that will surely come.
I'll vote for whomever the nominee is. Some I'll vote more gladly for: JB, AOC, Andy, Elizabeth, Cory, Jasmine . . .
Others?
Gavin Newsom, to the courtesy phone, Bea Arthur's calling from the great beyond and she wants her hairstyle back.
He finally changes his hair -- as I've advocated for him to do for years and to his face -- and that's what he comes up with?
The
move to attack trans people and immigrants mean I won't campaign for
him in the primary and won't vote for him in the primary; however, if he
gets the nomination I would vote for him in the general. I don't see
how he would get the nomination. The right has made him the poster boy
of all that is wrong in the country. The homeless rate has soared.
He's done nothing to address that in the state and now he's penalizing
the homeless. The right will make a big deal about homelessness and
theft. Probably try to get Roseanne Barr to do some commercials (she
hates Gavin) where she mocks and makes fun of him and, sad thing is,
what are seen as his failures are so well known that they won't need to
do a lot of introductory work to set up Roseanne's jokes.
If
you're supporting AOC and you're a Socialist, the best thing you can do
is make sure those around you know you're a Socialist. Put a face on
the term. If you're supporting AOC and are not a Socialist, you should
be thinking in terms of "Why we need a Socialist in the White House at
this time in history." Come up with the answers to that question and
prepare to deploy them if she runs because she will be attacked in the
primaries. The GOP will make Socialism her crime. Her supporters need
to hit just as strongly on why it actually makes her the best candidate.
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