If you are meat eater then you will be well aware of the high cost of meat, especially beef…..as Americans struggle to afford meat there is a USDA report that says US beef exports are high…..(for those not sure an export is a commodity, article, or service sold abroad.) So why we struggle and that idiot president is making billions the people here are screwed while the middle man makes profit.
With U.S. beef prices soaring and supplies tight, the U.S. Department of Agriculture surprised meat producers and traders on Thursday by reporting a spike in the nation’s export sales, fueling questions over the accuracy of the data.
The beef export sales, reported in weekly USDA data, included deals that may have taken place months ago, contributing to the sudden increase, the agency told Reuters. Traders said the totals still looked excessive.
U.S. beef exports have declined since 2022 due to high prices and scarce inventories, and an increase could further raise costs for domestic consumers already facing higher grocery bills during the summer grilling season.
Beef prices broke records this year due to strong demand and a persistent drought that drove U.S. ranchers to slash their cattle herds.
USDA said in its report that net export sales of U.S. beef for delivery in 2026 reached 126,062 metric tons in the week ended June 25, a marketing-year high that was up almost 500% from a week earlier. The figure may include several months of data, the agency later said in an email.
It is time for the moron in the White House to step up and do something for the people of this country….I realize we are not his favorite people but at least act like you are concerned for those that elected him.
I know I am dreaming mfor the arc of Trump is far more important than the hunger in this country.
+++I delayed posting on this story to see if there would be more information coming out+++
Yesterday I was awoken to the sounds of MAGA weeping profusely….one of Donny’s staunchest fans has passed into the great unknown.
Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina a long time cheer leader for Donny is gone.
Stunning news out of Washington, DC: Sen Lindsey Graham died Saturday night at age 71. The office of the South Carolina Republican said only that he “passed away from a brief and sudden illness,” reports Politico. The Washington Postreports that emergency responders were called to his Capitol Hill home to treat a man with chest pain about 8:30pm. Responders said after arriving that they were performing CPR and that the man was in cardiac arrest. In a Truth Social post, President Trump called Graham, one of his staunchest allies on Capitol Hill, “one of the greatest people and Senators I have ever known,” and labeled him “a true American Patriot.”
Graham, first elected to the House in 1994 and the Senate in 2002, became one of the GOP’s most visible figures on foreign policy and national security. He was in Kyiv on Friday meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as he pushed for new sanctions on Russia, and he was scheduled to appear on Meet the Press Sunday. Once a Trump critic who ran for the GOP nomination himself in 2016, Graham later emerged as a key defender of the president, opposing both impeachment efforts. He did break with Trump at times, notably with his vote to certify the 2020 election results and with his criticism of the mass pardon for Capitol rioters.
South Carolina’s Republican governor, Henry McMaster, will appoint someone to serve out Graham’s term, which runs through January. Graham fended off five challengers last month to win his primary in a bid for a fifth term, notes the New York Times. In the meantime, Graham’s death trims the GOP’s majority in the chamber to 52-47.
Guess what? The quickness of his death has the MAGA conspiracy machine working overtime….
Libertarian talk show host Clint Russell told his nearly 300,000 followers to “get your tinfoil ready” before he suggested, without evidence, that Russia was somehow to blame for Graham’s death in Washington, D.C.
Graham was in Ukraine as recently as Friday for talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, reports show.
“I’d say there is a decent chance that Russia blew up Lindsey Graham,” Russell wrote in a comment liked more than a thousand times.
Sen. Lindsey Graham’s death appears to have stemmed from a major heart complication, according to preliminary findings released by his office. The District of Columbia medical examiner identified the cause as an aortic dissection linked to arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease—an aortic dissection is a tear in the inner wall of the body’s main artery that can rapidly become fatal, Politico reports. The New York Times adds that the type of disease referred to involves weakening and hardening of the arteries over time, and the Washington Post notes that such tears typically occur in people with high blood pressure. The medical examiner’s office is still conducting toxicology and microscopic tests, and Graham’s death certificate will remain listed as pending until that work is complete and the manner of death is formally classified.
That bit of info will not silence the conspiracies.
Not to worry I am sure that the appointment will be another closed mind racist of the MAGA brand.
Speaking of closed minds…….Donny has a choice for a replacement…..(already)….
The race to replace the late Sen. Lindsey Graham on South Carolina’s primary ballot is about to move quickly, Politico reports. President Trump told NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday that he already has a preferred contender in mind but declined to name the person, saying it was “too soon.” State law calls for a special one-week filing window for GOP hopefuls starting July 21, followed by an Aug. 11 primary and, if no one tops 50%, an Aug. 25 runoff. The winner will then be on the general election ballot in November for a full six-year term beginning in January.
In the meantime, Gov. Henry McMaster will name a temporary replacement to serve out the year. There’s no legal deadline for his decision, but governors typically fill Senate vacancies rapidly. McMaster can either pick a short-term placeholder who agrees not to run for the office or hand the job to an active candidate—potentially giving that person an edge heading into the compressed primary fight. The Democratic nominee is Annie Andrews, a doctor who expressed her condolences in a statement after Graham’s death, per WYFF, saying he’d “proudly served our nation as a JAG Officer and Colonel in South Carolina’s Air National Guard.” The state’s other senator said on Meet the Press that he doesn’t have any clues about McMaster’s choice. It’s “hard to swallow that life moves so quickly, and the party doesn’t stop, ever,” GOP Sen. Tim Scott said.
Possibilities: Among the South Carolina Republicans thinking about running is Rep. Nancy Mace, per Politico. who challenged Graham in the 2014 Senate primary. She still has federal campaign cash on hand after an unsuccessful campaign this year for governor. Rep. Joe Wilson posted on X that he won’t be a candidate after speaking with Trump. NBC News was told Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette has received “dozens of phone calls and texts” encouraging her to run. She received a last-minute endorsement from Trump before the primary for governor, then lost a runoff to state Attorney General Alan Wilson. Mark Lynch, a businessman who lost the primary earlier this year to Graham, also said it’s too soon to say whether he’ll run. “While we had our political disagreements, today is not a day for politics,” he said.
Donny needs a ass kisser to replace Graham….he needs the Senate to keep his assault on Democracy.
It has been a week of Donny foibles (god I love that word)….this week was full of stories that involved Mitch McConnell and his proof of life, Iranian assassination plot (to be determined later), those stories have been covered ad nauseam……
Let’s look at some of the other tidbits of silliness…..and start with Donny response to the assassination drama…..
President Trump says if Iran ever manages to kill him, the response has already been scripted, and it’s an aggressive one. Speaking to the New York Post on Friday, the president said he has “left instructions” for the US to unleash bombing on Iran “at levels that they’ve never seen before” if an assassination plot against him succeeds. He described himself as Iran’s top target, saying he’s been “No. 1” on its list “for a long time,” and added, “I hope you’ll miss me.”
We all remember than stupidity with the pool algae…..well Donny had a theory….
President Donald Trump declared victory over “criminally made algae” as he distracted himself from other crises by immersing himself in his renovation projects.
The 80-year-old president launched into a 594-word rant about his botched Reflecting Pool renovations on Truth Social on Sunday, claiming the pool had suffered “great damage from Criminal, Radical Left Vandals,” and saying he would drain it again after July 4 to “treat the damage caused by these ‘animals.’”
Donny spins another yarn of bullshit…..
On July 8, a reporter on Air Force One asked Trump what lessons could be learned from a March working paper by Federal Reserve economists about the impacts of unauthorized immigration on U.S. labor and housing.
The president responded, “What’s happening is housing costs are going down because — and rental costs are going down — because we’re getting so many illegals out of the country. But Joe Biden raised the cost of housing by 40 and 50% — the cost of (a) rental — because they were housing illegal aliens in all of those empty units.”
But that’s not what the paper says. It attributed 4.3 percentage points of the 22.6% overall increase in rental housing prices to unauthorized immigration from 2021 to 2024, which was during Biden’s tenure.
Congress makes it okay for the government to control the means of production (what does that not sound like ‘socialism’?)
By taking equity stakes in more than a dozen private businesses, the Trump administration has stretched executive power to new heights—and now Congress is working to ensure that future presidents get the same opportunity.
The Senate’s version of the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act includes a provision to create a new slush fund within the U.S. Treasury for the purpose of buying stakes in more private businesses. The Pentagon would be able to tap the proposed Defense Equity Investment Account to make investments of up to $500 million in private companies involved in the production of “critical minerals, materials, and chemicals” or batteries.
The provision, which is buried within the 1,500-word bill drafted this week by the Senate Armed Services Committee, would allow the “direct or indirect purchase, acquisition, or commitment of funds by the Department of Defense in exchange for an ownership interest, convertible interest, warrant, revenue-sharing instrument, or other similar financial instrument in a non-Federal entity.”
And the morons in MAGA are worried about the DSA—-
Department of Transportation hates ‘bike lanes’…..
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced Tuesday that his department would redirect $1.73 billion in Biden-era grants away from establishing “DEI bike lanes” to build roads and bridges instead.
The Daily Wire pointed to former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s claim that a series of 2021 grants funding bike lanes would serve to “improve infrastructure, strengthen supply chains, make us safer, advance equity, and combat climate change.”
Upon hearing “equity,” President Donald Trump’s goons can’t help but get triggered into attacking any federal spending that won’t benefit them directly. In reality, those Biden-era grants directed funds to build a new transit center in North Carolina, replace bridges in New Mexico, extend streets in New Hampshire, install traffic lights and crosswalks in Missouri, and install bike lanes in Seattle, among other projects. Now the financial status of these projects is unclear.
The Republican gubernatorial candidate who claimed to have killed people as a child won his primary, according to the Denver Post.
Victor Marx, whom veteran journalist Kyle Clark once described as a “cross between Rambo and Billy Graham,” won the GOP primary for Colorado’s gubernatorial race after a close race against state Sen. Barbara Kirkmeyer, who was briefly in the lead.
During an interview with Clark, Marx claimed that his stepfather had him kill a man, that he called in an airstrike as a civilian that killed 70 ISIS fighters, and that he killed others as a “high-risk missionary,” as he’s described his role. When Clark pressed him to reveal how many people he had killed, Marx retorted, “Does it matter?” which was widely mocked.
President Donald Trump has arrived in Ankara for the NATO Leaders Summit, but one of the biggest talking points has nothing to do with diplomacy.
According to reports, every time Trump uses the bathroom during the trip, his waste will not be left behind in Turkey. Instead, it will reportedly be collected using his personal toilet system and transported back to the United States under Secret Service supervision. The claim has been widely reported by Turkish outlet Turkiye Today and has also been repeated by other outlets covering the visit.
While it might sound bizarre, the reported practice is said to be part of a long-standing presidential security protocol designed to stop foreign intelligence agencies from gaining access to the US president’s biological material.
The reported policy exists to prevent anyone from analyzing the president’s biological waste for intelligence purposes. Stool samples can potentially reveal details about a person’s health, which is why presidential security teams are said to treat them as sensitive material. According to reports, Trump’s waste will be collected and flown back to the US rather than entering a foreign sewage system.
Summer is in full swing and the news just keeps coming…..at least the days are getting shorter….
Local–A Watermelon Festival this weekend it should be good and hot, around 105, so ice cold melon will be a joy.
Personal–Not much happening….health is good, cancer is not expanding, insomnia is still my friend…..my washing machine died so now I need to get another…..I hate shopping.
Let’s go to the news for this Saturday…..
More vanishing scientist…..
A 78-year-old man, whose friend told law enforcement had been working at the Los Alamos National Laboratory on quantum physics experiments related to the question of “matter existing in two places simultaneously,” has mysteriously gone missing.
Countless netizens deployed their tinfoil hats after Anthony Chavez, a retired HVAC technician who was allegedly assisting a quantum physicist at the facility, was reported missing in May of last year, as NewsNation reports. According to law enforcement documentation obtained by Los Angeles Magazine, police had recovered his “car, wallet, cigarettes and handwritten journal at his home” after he vanished into thin air.
Investigative journalist Lauren Conlin told NewsNation that Chavez “specifically” worked on quantum physics that investigated “being in two places at once.”
For many years scientist have looked to explaining what happens when we die…other than we stop breathing….
Most people picture death as a moment – a heartbeat that stops, a breath that doesn’t come back. What actually follows that moment is something far stranger, and far more active, than most of us imagine. The body doesn’t simply switch off like a light. It embarks on a cascade of biological events that are timed, sequential, and in some cases, genuinely surprising to anyone who hasn’t spent time studying forensic pathology or anatomy.
Some of these body changes after death have been understood for centuries. Forensic investigators have used them to reconstruct timelines in criminal cases for decades. Others, like the brain’s final electrical surge, are only now being documented with modern EEG equipment in intensive care units. Taken together, they paint a picture of death that is less like a full stop and more like an elaborate, involuntary process that the body carries out on its own terms.
None of this is morbid for its own sake. Understanding what happens to our bodies gives us a clearer, more honest relationship with something we spend a remarkable amount of energy avoiding. And some of what science has found in the last few years is, against all odds, almost comforting.
I swear my late wife, Sue, and I were on the same frequency with our minds….is that even possible?
If you’ve ever been riding a wave of creativity that feels like your brain and someone else’s have been Bluetooth-synced and are now finishing each other’s sentences, both instinctively knowing where the song/screenplay/woodworking project or whatever you’re building should go, then you’ve experienced what scientists call brain synchrony.
As described by a team of researchers publishing their findings as a press release on Eureka Alert, originally published in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, it’s a real phenomenon that’s been observed in laboratories and real-world settings. Now, researchers say it isn’t just measurable, but it can actually be strengthened.
Researchers reviewed a decade of studies involving thousands of people, from regular everyday students to professional artists. Using portable EEG headsets, researchers found that when people are genuinely engaged with one another, their brainwave activity begins to align. Even more interesting, when participants received real-time feedback showing how synchronized they were, that alignment often became even stronger.
If the modern world feels like too much, like you’re constantly drowning in bad news, social media, workplace pressure, and a constant barrage of bad news, both global and personal, the problem may not be you. According to a new review published in the journal Behavioral Sciences, the human brain evolved to live in small communities, and it’s struggling to cope with life inside sprawling cities and an internet life that never stops being as dramatic.
Researchers say that the cause of your brain constantly feeling like it’s being stressed and on the verge of frying out stems from what they call an “evolutionary mismatch,” which means that our brains are still running on software designed for relatively small villages where everybody knows each other, and yet we live in a world where we are being constantly bombarded with billions of strangers and their problems, which may or may not directly relate to any one of the endless cycle of crises’ happening concurrently at any given time.
I see many people are wear those health trackers these days….but is it all that good?
Longevity-obsessed tech bro Bryan Johnson’s quest to avoid death hit a significant snag recently. Despite spending millions on an army of doctors and a host of controversial and sometimes creepy medical interventions, Johnson announced that he has been diagnosed with an incurable disease.
Autoimmune gastritis means that his “stomach is eating itself,” he explained on X. Conventional medical science can only manage the condition, but Johnson plans to fight the condition with yet more experimental therapies.
The news that a guy who has sacrificed so much money and joy in the pursuit of immortality is, in the end, just as mortal as the rest of us was greeted with predictable schadenfreude on social media. Some even suggested that Johnson’s obsessive fitness tracking might be to blame for his disease.
As our sister publication Fast Company pointed out, that’s unfair as well as unkind. Science is still unsure what causes autoimmune diseases like Johnson’s and unlucky genetics likely plays a role. But that doesn’t mean that there isn’t an ounce of truth to these comments.
Most people have experienced it at least once. A package arrives wrapped in bubble wrap, and instead of throwing it away immediately, many adults spend a few moments pressing each bubble until it pops. Some stop after a few pops. Others won’t quit until every single bubble has burst. At first glance, the habit seems playful or even a little odd.
Psychology suggests there’s more happening beneath the surface. Simple repetitive activities that combine touch, sound, and immediate feedback can activate psychological processes linked to relaxation, attention, and reward. The appeal isn’t necessarily about the bubble wrap itself. Instead, it reflects how the human brain responds to predictable sensory experiences and small moments of accomplishment.
A pair of Wisconsin divers recently discovered a puzzling mystery object that may be an ancient artifact. According to a local media report, Ed Bieber and his partner, Christie Barlament, have developed an online following by showcasing unusual items they pluck from various rivers and lakes throughout the Badger State. Late last month, the duo returned to the surface of the Menominee River with a weird item that Bieber marveled “may be one of our best finds.” The object in question (seen below) appears to be a rather ornate clay pendant sporting strange carvings and measuring approximately six inches long.
“It was just lying on top of the sand by the rocks, and I’ve never seen it before,” Bieber recalled, “I didn’t know what it was, but I thought it just looked neat.” Suspecting that the piece could be Native American, the pair connected with a representative from the nearby Menominee Nation, who echoed their hypothesis and graciously accepted their donation of the odd object. “While many people asked why we didn’t just sell it,” Barlament explained, “we chose to do the right thing and ensure it returned to its rightful home for everyone to enjoy.” The piece, currently being held by the Menominee Cultural Museum, has understandably sparked considerable speculation online with an array of suggestions being offered about what the recovered object might be.
Of course there has got to be some alien crap, right?
The Australian Space Agency has issued a warning to the Queensland authorities, after a six metal spheres appeared in the Forrest Beach area of Townsville.
On Friday afternoon, people in the area contacted the Queensland authorities to report unusual objects seemingly washed up on the beach. After a search that day, three metal orbs were found along the coast, before three more were found over the weekend, bringing the total up to six.
The police were initially concerned that the spheres may contain dangerous chemicals, sending emergency crews in hazmat suits and erecting 50‑meter (160 feet) exclusion zones around each of the objects.
While there is still a little doubt about the nature of the spheres – with one space junk expert suggesting it is possible that they may be of a marine origin – experts and the Australian Space Agency say that they are likely “space balls”.
To me it looks like floats off of a fishing net….whatcha think?
Now for the laughable….Bigfoot of course….
Does Bigfoot exist? Is there more than one? A Bigfoot hunter who previously claimed to have found one of the mythical creature’s corpses is now claiming he has scientific proof that Bigfoot is real. Charles Stuart, who goes by the pseudonym “Snake the Bigfoot Hunter,” claimed he’d found the corpse of a bigfoot back in 2024.
The ‘corpse’ was allegedly found in the Adirondack mountains in upstate New York. Charles claims the corpse was roughly 8 feet in length and weighed around 300 pounds. Now, according to Charles’ website, he has scientific proof that the creature he found was part Neanderthal and part human.
According to Charles, he enlisted the help of Cornell University to conduct DNA samples. When speaking with Local 4 Detroit, Charles shared that the findings showed the creature was 58.5% Neanderthal and 41.5% human.
In case you have no idea about 86 47…..Merriam-Webster says “86” is restaurant industry-derived slang which means “to throw out,” “to get rid of,” or “to refuse service to,” while noting that it has also recently been used to mean “to kill.” Meanwhile “47” may be used as a reference to Trump, the 47th U.S. President.
I bring this up because Israel is stringing Donny on and lying to get him to continue the attacks on Iran.
Israel has reportedly warned Washington that Iran is actively plotting to assassinate the US president, adding a new layer of tension to the already volatile conflict between the United States and Tehran. The Wall Street Journal reports that Israeli intelligence pointed to a fresh plan targeting President Trump, who ordered the 2020 killing of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani. Iran has long vowed revenge, though it hasn’t commented on the latest allegation; Israel also declined to discuss it publicly. Trump himself hinted at the threat while speaking to reporters in the Turkish city of Ankara on Wednesday.
“They want to take out the US leader—me,” he noted. “I’m on every single one of their lists. And so far, I guess I’ve been a little bit lucky, but that maybe doesn’t last very long.” He added that he speaks openly about the risks to his life “a lot, because the life of a president is very dangerous,” per USA Today. On his flight back to the US this week after attending a NATO summit in Turkey, which shares a border with Iran, reporters asked Trump why they were told to keep the shades drawn on the first leg of their flight to the UK, to which Trump replied it was probably due to the “sleazebags over here,” an apparent reference to Iran, per the AP.
The revelation comes as Trump’s relationship with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shows strain, per the Journal. Netanyahu has pushed for sustained military pressure on Iran, while Trump has advocated dialing back the conflict, warning of economic fallout and backing a shaky ceasefire reached last month. The two leaders spoke on Thursday and pledged continued coordination, according to Netanyahu’s office. The news comes as public chants in Iran—most recently at the funeral of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, where a banner read “We Will Kill Trump”—underscore the risk of further escalation.
Will Donny be taken in by Israeli lies….when they need something from the US they make up a story to help their cause.
I say crap on them the lying bastards and stop worrying about the made up problems.
You might come to the correct conclusion that I support M4A…..and now the new progressives are bringing this up again…
Simply put….M4A is health care for everyone not just those that can afford it….
A Single Health Program
Everyone will be covered by one health insurance program, administered by the federal government, and have equal access to all medical services and treatments.
Comprehensive Coverage
All services requiring a medical professional will be fully covered. You go to the doctor of your choice. Dental, vision, mental health, and pharmaceuticals are all included.
Free at the point of service
All healthcare costs will be financed through tax contributions based on ability to pay: no copays, no fees, no deductibles and no premiums. Ever.
Universal Coverage
Coverage for all United States residents — non-citizens included.
Jobs
A jobs initiative and severance for those affected by the transition to government-run healthcare.
The Dems have nothing to offer the voter at this time other than to replace some MAGA twats…
What will that accomplish for the next two years?
No seriously….what will that accomplish?
Even as Democratic party leaders retreat into caution, empty rhetoric and procedural theater amid the rise of fascism in the United States, many ordinary Americans have stopped waiting for them. Across the country, including in my Chicago neighborhood, people have begun organizing among themselves to protect our immigrant neighbors and friends from state violence enacted by ICE, with measures including rapid-response phone trees, volunteers monitoring ICE and vulnerable neighborhood areas, mutual aid funds for detained neighbors, and community groups sharing legal resources and safe shelter.
These efforts are emerging not because the Democratic party has suddenly discovered courage and principle, but precisely because it has not. People are stepping in where their political representatives have cowered, choosing to defend their neighbors directly rather than waiting for permission from institutions that have proven unwilling to act. These acts are small, improvised and often invisible outside the communities within which they occur, but they reveal something essential: democracy does not begin with politicians and institutions that promise to save us. It begins when people decide they will not abandon one another. Following that instinct – to build the care and protection we need ourselves rather than defer to a thoroughly corrupted two-party system – is essential for broader democratic renewal. If that spreads, if Americans insist that good government grows from the bottom up rather than the top down and refuse to let grassroots movements be co-opted for politicians’ careers that put party loyalties over care for people in need, then the possibility of a real democracy may yet live.
It is no secret that I have not found anything the Dems have done in the last few decades as good for the people they claim to represent…..yes there was ACA but Obama let the industry write that act so who do you think it would benefit the most?
There is the problem….special interests have the final say on most legislation….we are not the major concern just to keep them happy and the loot pouring in.
We need a change….PERIOD!
Change is NOT coming just more of the same hollow promises and the same corruption that infest DC.
The Dems problems are bigger than the local stories in the news these days….
It will be tempting for Democrats to blame the Graham Platner mess on the inept vetting of a single candidate. But the editorial board of the New York Times argues that the fiasco illustrates a larger problem for the party, and not just in Maine. Democrats keep pouring their hopes into compelling personalities instead of a clear governing agenda, the editors write. “The next charismatic outsider will struggle to succeed if there is nothing solid beneath the charisma,” they warn. “Personality is not a platform.” The editorial points to a pattern: a self-described “big tent” party with remarkably little open debate over what it actually wants to do on major issues.
On immigration, for example, Democrats oppose President Trump’s aggressive tactics, but what do they propose beyond that in terms of who should be allowed in, and how? The same lack of clarity is found on housing costs, public education, the coming disruption from artificial intelligence, and more. Voters, including many Democrats, see a party they describe as weak or ineffective, a notion reinforced by a vague post-2024 “autopsy” that dodged specifics. The Democratic Party, in short, needs a message more than a messenger. “It is a party still hoping a contender will spare it the harder work of deciding what it stands for.”
Your establishment Dems have a new plan for the party, Promise To America, and it is the same spineless crap they have been feeding the population for decades….
Centrist Democratic politicians, upset by the wins of Democratic Socialists in the recent primaries, have issued a statement of their convictions. Called “The Promise to America,” it sounds good, responding to many of the problems we face. But they are empty promises, even if well-meant.
How can I say that? First, Democrats have been saying similar things for years. Yet despite the rhetoric, the people are hurting. Why? It’s not just because of Trump and the Republicans; it’s because the government—Democrats as well as Republicans—have lost sight of the meaning and implications of our founding principles. It is to those principles that Democrats must dedicate themselves. See my article, “People are Hurting – The U.S. Must Return to Our Founding Principles.”
It is a yawn! Do Not fall for the promise that is nothing more than an appeasement to try and counter the progressive trend.
But there is a glimmer of hope….
Progressive candidates have swept to victory against establishment opponents in Democratic primary races across the US, including on Tuesday, as voters turn out in support of working-class champions who have spurned corporate money and vowed to pursue transformative change at the national, state, and local levels.
The Working Families Party (WFP) celebrated a five-for-five sweep for the US House candidates it backed in California primaries, as Mai Vang, Connie Chan, Aisha Wahab, Randy Villegas, and Angela Gonzales-Torres each advanced to the November general election. As Common Dreams reported, Villegas—who is running to unseat incumbent Rep. David Valadao (R-Calif.)—advanced despite the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s intervention in support of his opponent Jasmeet Bains, a corporate Democrat.
There has been a fake story for decades now of voter fraud…..dead people voting, immigrants voting, voting more than once and the mail-in vote….and then there is a crap about gerrymandering (but that is another post)…..
You know there is voter fraud and most of the time it is some GOPer trying to game the system…although ‘liberals’ are said to to be the culprits.
If Republicans are really looking for election fraud, they might want to check on their own party members.
In Massachusetts, the State Ballot Law Commission ruled last week to disqualify Republican candidates for lieutenant governor and attorney general from the state’s primary election after they submitted allegedly forged signatures to get their names on the ballot.
Adam Roof, executive director of the Massachusetts Democratic Party, had filed objections to the veracity of the signatures collected by the campaigns of Anne Manning Martin, who is running for lieutenant governor, and Michael Walsh, who is running for attorney general.
Candidates needed to gather 10,000 signatures to appear on the primary ballot. The commission invalidated 1,279 of Martin’s 10,692 signatures and 1,021 of Walsh’s 10,677 signatures.
In Martin’s case, signature gatherer Joe Bronske allegedly used a list of registered Republican voters to forge hundreds of signatures. The allegedly forged signatures were first noticed by another Republican candidate for lieutenant governor, who had also hired Bronske and found he’d collected signatures from deceased voters. When deposed by an attorney for Shawn Oliver, one of Martin’s opponents, Bronske repeatedly pleaded the Fifth Amendment, suggesting he had “something to hide,” according to the ruling.
These con artist will do whatever they can to rig the vote…..saying lost ballots, rigged voting machines, lousy count, etc…..and so far these ‘guardians of democracy’ (that is above sarcasm) have found very little voter fraud other than the morons in their own party.
There is NO wide spread voter fraud…..only small pockets of conservs trying to rig the vote in favor of conserv candidates…..but yet we must hear the same lies uttered every election trying to convince the people of wrong doing in the voting process but the only wrong doing is by those that accuse.
I find it all too humorous that whatever the Repubs say the Dems are doing is exactly what the GOP is doing….anyone else noticed this?
The GOP is a laughable collection of idiots….to prove my assertion….
The letters also asked the state officials to explain how they intend to comply with federal law and ensure noncitizens do not cast ballots. Each state was given five days to respond.
“Any election officer, including the chief election officer of the state, who knowingly retains noncitizens on the state’s [state voter registration list] or facilitates noncitizens in receiving and casting ballots could be subject to criminal liability,” Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon wrote in identical letters sent to officials in Arizona, Michigan and Maine that were reviewed by CBS News. She added that it is also a crime for two or more people to conspire to deprive people of their constitutional rights.
“We encourage you to contact us to discuss what steps your state should take to maintain clean voter lists as required by law,” she wrote.
President Trump has claimed for months that people who are not U.S. citizens frequently vote in federal elections, even though instances of noncitizen voting areextremelyrare.
FYI there is NO proof that any of this has happened on a scale that would make a difference…..but yet the GOP and Donny keeps scratching hoping for a scab.
Here is a question that ought to light up the social media goons.
A poll was recently taken and the question was asked….is it Attila, Genghis, Hitler, who?
One in 34 Americans – across the full political spectrum – now names a sitting president as the worst American in history. Not a serial killer, not a war criminal, not a figure safely buried in the past. The person currently holding the most powerful office on earth.
YouGov conducted its poll ahead of the 250th anniversary of the United States – a moment when Americans were being asked to step back and take the broadest possible view of their national story. Founding fathers, abolitionists, civil rights leaders, and accused predators were all on the table. And a sitting president landed at the top of the worst list anyway.
The question YouGov put to Americans wasn’t framed around partisan scores or job performance. It asked something bigger: looking back across 250 years of American life, who is the worst person this country has produced? The answer, from more than a third of respondents, was Donald Trump. The poll appeared on both a “greatest” and “worst” Americans list, a sign of how Trump remains one of the most polarizing figures in the country. No previous president in the poll’s history had managed that particular distinction – except one.
