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VIDEO OF THE DAY: Trump MOCKS Lindsey Graham at his funeral, then falls asleep
Donald Trump had a surprising moment of lucidity at the memorial for Sen. Lindsey Graham yesterday, going off-script and remarking that, actually, lots of people DIDN’T like the South Carolina warmonger.
He then promptly fell asleep the second the spotlight wasn’t on him and may or may not have soiled himself, depending on how you interpret the facial expressions of this Secret Service agent. Trump’s final humiliation of Graham is very fitting, as Lindsey went from being one of Trump’s most vocal critics to his most obsequious bootlicker, willing to throw his dignity right into the trash if it meant the bombs kept falling and Muslims kept dying. The world is a safer place without him.
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Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch flatly rejects Christian nationalism: “Demonstrably false”
Somewhere inside the Beltway a group of very angry, very pious, very right-wing white men is gathering to sort out just what to make of apostate Justice Neil Gorsuch, who had the temerity to state the obvious: America was not founded as an inherently or explicitly Christian nation.
In a recent interview that veered into a discussion on America’s religious roots, Gorsuch called out the disturbing premise of Christian nationalism advocated by JD Vance and other officials within the Trump administration, explaining: “We were founded — a lot of our colonies — for religious pluralism, right, and the opportunity to practice your own faith in your own way. And we were never supposed to be a nation that was about one race or one religion.”
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Paralympian Josh Turek gets race-changing endorsement from the last Democrat to win in Iowa
Josh Turek for Senate: Hey, we know that guy! President Obama has put his full-throated endorsement of Democratic Senate candidate Josh Turek, and as the last Democrat to win statewide in Iowa, he knows what he’s talking about. The most recent poll in the race – from Fox News, of all places! – had Josh Turek up FOUR points over Republican candidate Ashley Hinton. This is a race that we can win, and President Obama knows it. But it’s going to take a lot to defeat the tide of dark money pushing misinformation and smears. Will you chip in to help Turek win this seat and flip the Senate blue?
Trump is about to send seniors’ drug costs surging
As tens of millions of Americans continue to struggle with health insurance premiums that significantly outpace wage increases, and as the rising cost of everything from groceries to utility bills to gas further strains household budgets, the Trump regime has announced plans to throw even more water on the grease fire by scrapping billions in Medicare subsidies designed to keep prescription drug prices in check.
After 2026, the Trump administration will cease providing subsidies for Medicare Part D, a move that will almost certainly trigger prescription drug price increases for more than 25 million seniors. Medicare recipients can expect to learn their new premium rates later this fall, perhaps just in time for the midterms.
How many more ways will these clowns come up with to screw over the American public before we finally kick them to the curb for good?
Trump’s ICE leaves record number of American kids without parents
According to the Trump regime’s own detention statistics, ICE goons are on pace to arrest a record-shattering 33,000 parents of US-born children this year and deport more than 20,000 of them. Most of the time, their kids — American citizens, mind you — are left behind. The numbers far exceed the draconian family-separation operations conducted during Trump’s first term and hammer home one devastating truth about the wannabe dictator’s anti-immigrant crusade today: the cruelty IS the point.
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Sean Hannity describes an incredibly weird heaven in awkward Lindsey Graham speech
In one of the more cringe-inducing moments at Lindsey Graham’s funeral yesterday, Fox News blowhard Sean Hannity took to the podium and wondered aloud just what the afterlife might look like for the late, bloodthirsty warmonger from South Carolina.
Never not speaking to an audience of one, Hannity said, “Lindsey, Mr. President, I argue in my mind, probably has a heavenly version of Mar-a-Lago. It may even be a little bigger. He may have a little more gold in the Oval Office in his mansion in heaven. And I wouldn’t be surprised if he added one big beautiful ballroom and an arch somewhere on the property because he would want to obviously duplicate his dearest friend in life: You, Mr. President.”
Please take all the time you need to rinse the reflux from your mouth while we try to reach Dr. Freud on the other line.
Dr. Fauci kills off Rand Paul’s witch hunt of a hearing by pleading the 5th
Dr. Fauci won’t testify before Congress after all. Days after Sen. Rand Paul leaked the former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director’s personal diaries and causing a minor media firestorm, Fauci was set to appear before the Senate Homeland Security Committee, helmed by the Kentucky Republican.
Paul has been on a yearslong quest to take down the immunologist over his handling of the pandemic and his resistance to embrace the eye doctor’s preferred coronavirus lab-leak theory.
In his opening statement at this morning’s hearing, Fauci remarked that Paul — who issued the subpoena and has repeatedly called for Fauci’s arrest — has an “obvious obsession with calling for my prosecution.” He continued, “The only conclusion I can reach is that the sole reason he is calling me before this Committee is to prompt me to say something, anything, that could vindicate his repeated public pledges that I end up, in his words, ‘behind bars.'” Fauci then invoked the 5th Amendment on the advice of his attorney, depriving Paul of the memorable “gotcha” moment he was so clearly craving.
The ASPCA® just released the key to a healthy, humane diet
ASPCA: We’d all like to eat humanely raised sources of food, but with so many meaningless and misleading labels, it’s hard to know which animals are treated well. Thankfully, the ASPCA has just released a FREE new digital tool – ASPCA ShopKind™ – so that YOU know what you’re buying and what your family is eating! The ASPCA’s ShopKind tool connects you with with local and online sources of meat, eggs and dairy products from more humane, certified farms and lets you know when corporate products are hiding their shady practices behind misleading labels like “family farms”, “natural”, and “vegetarian-fed.” Click here to try it out!
MAGA ally Jay Clayton confirmed as Trump’s new spymaster in party-line vote
In a 51-47 party-line vote, Republicans in the Senate just confirmed Big Lie enthusiast and MAGA diehard Jay Clayton as Trump’s next director of national intelligence. Clayton’s “qualifications” include refusing to acknowledge Joe Biden’s presidential victory in 2020, signing off on bogus subpoenas for New York Times reporters that were ultimately abandoned, and heavily redacting millions of Epstein files to protect Trump’s fancy friends while serving as the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York.
Trump reaches “career low” job approval of 34%
Give it time. Just like Donald, it can always go lower.
Day 152: Moron Trump’s war in the Middle East
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