Back in the days when this scam first made it to the airwaves I started doing some research into it…..since I am an old fart and of course I was worried about my health once I retired I wanted to know why this was asking retirees for more money.
I have made my thoughts known about this amazing con job after my research….
Now I have a follow up and hopefully anyone that has given these companies their cash will be forewarned….
Two of the largest Medicare Advantage insurers in the US, UnitedHealthcare and Humana, have signaled in recent days that they plan to exit certain “underperforming” markets and curb benefits in an effort to boost their bottom lines, a strategy that’s expected to kick more than a million seniors from their coverage.
On Thursday, Axios cited an analyst note published earlier this week indicating that UnitedHealthcare “has dropped around 13% of plans offered across 18 states.” Healthcare Dive reported that the company “expects to end 2026 with up to 1.1 million fewer MA members than it had last year.”
“UnitedHealthcare—the largest MA insurer in the US—offered plans in one fewer state and 109 fewer counties this year, cut allowances for certain over-the-counter health and wellness items, and prioritized plan designs with more limited provider networks,” Healthcare Dive noted. “The company also shifted commissions to brokers to incentivize enrollment in more profitable plans.”
As for Humana, the company’s chief financial officer said during an earnings call in late July that its exit from certain markets and dropping of specific plans would “impact approximately 600,000 members” as the firm implements “the changes necessary to drive the intended margin expansion.”
Seniors who lose their MA plans in response to the insurance giants’ moves will have to either find a new plan during open enrollment, which begins next month, or switch to traditional Medicare. MA plans currently cover more than half of all eligible Medicare beneficiaries.
I regret to inform anyone that fell for this con your money was paid in vain for you will lose all that you contributed.
We could avoid this type of rip-off with Medicare For All (M4A)….but of course because of their corruption this will be a hard fought battle….even within the Democratic Party.
Even recently the House minority leader, Jeffries came out against the plan…why would a leader of the Dems who say they want to protect the elderly come out against this?
Medicare for All has been touted as an idea that might improve access to healthcare and help seniors save money in retirement, but House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries has spoken out and said that he doesn’t support the current Medicare for All legislation. His comments highlight the growing divide between Democrats, underscoring the fact that the party hasn’t united on a way to address the healthcare challenges that are so important to voters.
As health care costs climb and Americans face higher premiums and growing medical debt, the conversation around health care is more important than ever. Here’s what to know about where the Democrats currently stand.
During an appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Jeffries explained that while he did support previous versions of Medicare for All legislation, he doesn’t support the current legislation being promoted.
“I haven’t co-sponsored the Medicare for All legislation that has been introduced over the last several years,” Jeffries said. “I do think we need to figure out how to fix our broken health care system and then build something better once we repair the damage that has been done.”
This illustrates how his corruption is deeply ingrained….and this could be the next Speaker of the House….what a tragedy that would be.
About 7 years ago the first inklings of a new program was introduced and of course it was the brain child of progressives and not the spineless centrists….the idea is good, not perfect but good, but for it to move forward we need more progressives in the House and then the fight will move onto the Senate and we know how damn corrupt that group of pigs are now don’t we?
Mercifully the clown show that they billed as a Mid-term Convention turn ugly?
Well according to reports it did just that.
The Republicans’ midterm convention in Dallas took a violent turn on Thursday as members of the crowd could be heard clearly calling for several prominent Democrats to be shot.
Senator Ted Cruz was delivering a speech during which he talked about New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Democratic Senate nominees Abdul El-Sayed of Michigan and James Talarico of Texas. As he did so, shouts of “he should be shot,” could be heard coming from the crowd.
Cruz did not appear to react to the calls for violence. “When Mamdani says he wants to seize the means of production,” Cruz began saying.
“He should be shot,” a member of the crowd can be heard shouting as the senator paused his sentence. “He means it, Cruz finished.
“When Abdul El-Sayed says he has an obligation to comply with Sharia Law,” he continued. Cruz paused again, this time more members of the crowd appeared to join in as they shouted, “He should be shot.”
“He means it,” Cruz continued. “And when James Talarico says he wants to dismantle capitalism,” the senator went on.
He was once more interrupted by shouts of, “He should be shot.” “He means it,” Cruz said again. The incident came shortly after Cruz had claimed that hate contributed to the assassination attempts on Donald Trump and the killing of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk last year.
It’s unclear whether Cruz heard the shouts, though they were clearly captured in footage of the speech. Reacting to the incident, El-Sayed said that anyone who heard the calls for violence should condemn them.
The old saying holds true….”same shit, different week”….Donny doing what Donny always does….speaks through his ass….and his minions are no better.
Donny held his lame mid-term convention last week….it was basically a pep rally for Donny but the most disturbing thing was the pastor….
A pastor lead off a recent campaign stop for Michael Whatley, the North Carolina Republican nominee for Senate, with a prayer that asked God to bestow “integrity and honesty” upon the event and to right wrongs “hammered down on the conservative movement.” The prayer was hardly unusual by North Carolina political standards. What was surprising was the man who delivered it: Pastor Daimon L. King is a registered sex offender, twice sentenced to prison for convictions involving children, according to state and court records, the AP reports.
That should illustrate just what sort of people are in this MAGA movement….deviates and morons.
Our Fearless Leader is at it again….he has been on a roll renaming stuff and now he has it in for one of our states….
President Donald Trump — whose approval ratings continue lagging — posted a social media image suggesting renaming the state of New Mexico as “New America.”
The White House reposted Trump’s “New America” image depicting a map of New Mexico with an “X” over “Mexico” and replaced by “America” on Sunday, Sept. 6, during the Labor Day holiday weekend.
President Trump shared an image on Truth Social on Sunday that crossed out “Mexico” in New Mexico and swapped in “America.” The image came after a bogus claim on social media that Trump had signed an executive order to rename the state—a claim Snopes traced back to a satirical account and labeled false, per the Hill. The official White House account on X later reposted Trump’s map, though neither Trump nor the White House explained the reason behind the post.
The president doesn’t have the authority to rename states, per CNN, and New Mexico Democrats quickly pushed back. “Three things I will always call by their actual names… The Gulf of Mexico. Lake Ontario. New Mexico,” Sen. Martin Heinrich wrote on X. Rep. Melanie Stansbury questioned why the president was suggesting changing a name that “has been here since long before the United States was even an idea,” while Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham accused Trump of “coloring on maps” to “distract Americans from his disastrous war in Iran.” One Republican appeared to back “New America,” however, with Sen. Mike Lee of Utah calling it “kind of catchy.”
And it does not stop there….
Iceland just put Washington on diplomatic notice over a map. Reykjavik summoned the US ambassador on Monday after President Trump shared an image on Truth Social that depicted the island nation as part of America, reports Reuters. In fact, the image also showed Canada, Greenland, Mexico, Central America, and islands in the Caribbean as blanketed in the American flag and labeled as the “United States of America,” notes the Hill. But Iceland took official exception.
The foreign ministry told local broadcaster RUV it made clear to ambassador Billy Long that the post was “completely inappropriate.” US diplomatic missions in the region and Iceland’s foreign ministry did not immediately comment. The flap lands amid long-running friction over Trump’s past push for the US also to acquire Greenland, and just hours after the European Commission pledged $230 million in investment there.
His ignorance just keeps growing.
You would think that it is enough but not from this moron….now it is the Moon….
President Donald Trump claimed Sunday that the U.S. owns the moon amid a head-scratching Truth Social posting frenzy aimed at renaming and owning land masses.
On Sunday afternoon, Trump posted a photo of the moon with large text emblazoned across the photo reading: “The Moon is Ours.”
His audacity just creeps into everything.
Now for the first time a golf course will be known as the “Southern White House”….
“I do this for our Country, not myself,” Trump wrote.
“I’ve made Hundreds of Billions of Dollars on Stocks, and many other type Holdings, for the U.S.A., not myself, and all I do is get criticized by the Radical Left Dumocrats. Very unfair, but what can you do! President DONALD J. TRUMP,” he added.
Does anyone believe he would not make money for himself….regardless?
We all know how much his admin hates gay and trans people and now it has publish a BS study….
The Department of Health and Human Services has embraced an unfinished report from a Princeton think tank that it claims shows a link between support for “gender ideology,” political violence, and left-wing authoritarianism.
It appears officials at the federal agency jumped the gun on publishing the study from the Network Contagion Research Institute based in Princeton, NJ, before it was finished, Colin Wright, an author of the report and a fellow at the conservative think tank Manhattan Institute, told the Guardian.
The study measured support for so-called “gender ideology” with an online survey of 1,208 participants with statements like, “People should be supported in expressing their transgender identity,” and “Parents should support their children’s transgender exploration.”
Researchers extrapolated a link from there, correlating support for “gender ideology” with support for political violence through a matrix of what the authors call “minority stress theory,” which identifies “oppressors,” “certified victims,” and “an institutionally mandated response” to fight discrimination.
The report concludes: “These findings suggest that gender ideology is associated with LWA [left-wing authoritarianism] and willingness to justify political violence.” Wright disputed that there was a predetermined effort to make the link.
The report is full of dubious methodology, according to experts in the field, including a sorting technique that uses political ideology to identify an oversampled group of Democrats. “I don’t think anyone would think this is a good measure of authoritarianism,” said Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz, an epidemiologist from the University of Sydney.
(lgbtqnation.com)
I just love the way these turds keep pushing the political violence thing to include anything they do not agree with on any level.
Vance finally made the news….he gives a dire prediction….
In a recent interview with a Christian podcast, Vice President J.D. Vance mused about what might have happened if the 2024 assassination attempt on Donald Trump had been successful. He predicted the country would have faced “real civil strife” from which it might never have recovered and said he would have suspected a conspiracy had Trump been killed.
“I would have assumed very dark forces had taken out [Trump],” Vance said. “There would have just been an illegitimacy to our entire political system.”
A US appellate court has decided that the federal constitution does not guarantee a right to clean water.
That legal opinion came in the form of a decision on Friday from the fifth circuit court of appeals to uphold a lower court’s dismissal of a 2022 lawsuit from several Jackson, Mississippi, residents claiming that tainted drinking water violated their constitutional rights.
Those residents of Mississippi’s capital city contended that their local drinking water was unsafe to drink because of high lead levels and other contaminants.
The New Orleans-based fifth circuit’s majority opinion held that the residents wanted “recognition of two new constitutional rights lacking any foundation in the history and tradition of our nation” – those being “the right to be free from exposure to contaminated water and the right to accurate information from public officials”.
While giving remarks at the National Medal of Honor Museum in Texas Thursday, President Trump complained to a room full of medal recipients that he can’t have one.
“The thing I really want is I want for myself a Congressional Medal of Honor, and I’ve studied it and I will give it to myself. I have no problem, but I’m not allowed to. Can you believe it? The one thing I’m not allowed to do,” Trump said to laughter from the audience, which included 15 of the 65 living recipients of the honor. “I would give myself, so it would make it instead of 15, we’d have 16.”
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It’s a crass statement to make to recipients of the highest honor in the U.S. military, given to troops “who distinguish themselves through conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of life above and beyond the call of duty.” Trump has never served in the military, dodging the Vietnam draft with a mysterious medical exemption for bone spurs. He later remarked that avoiding sexually transmitted diseases while dating around was like “being in Vietnam.”
This draft dodger has NO idea what it is like in combat and believe me it is nothing like this twat thinks it is….
And now for the douche bag of the week….and of course it would be a MAGA pastor….
MAGA pastor and self-proclaimed “prophet” Hank Kunneman of One Voice Ministries recently said that uncircumcised people are trying to steal the nation. His comment was part of a bizarre transphobic and Islamophobic statement on the midterm elections.
“I am not going to let uncircumcised, uncovenanted people try to steal this nation that was dedicated to Jesus Christ, the God of my covenant!” Kunneman said in a broadcast recently shared by Right Wing Watch.
“That’s why you need to get out at the midterms and you need to vote. Show up in force! Say we’re tired of these people walking into our bathrooms dressed as a woman but you’re a dude!” he continued. “Men, get out of women’s sports, you uncircumcised philistines! Islam, this nation belongs to the God that we’re in covenant with!”
We are about half way through September and approaching Autumn….a time for reflection on the world around us.
Sit back and enjoy….
Local–Still hot but we did a bit of rain….cooled off for about an hour….then it turn to hot steam….it is a joy….
The oyster reefs will open after 5 years….after the last spillway opening killed most of not all of the oysters and it has taken this long for them to recover.
Personal–More doctors visit and more changes in my lifestyle….I am really getting sick of this….the first of the next year I shall be making a decision on all this treatment stuff.
Plus a little depression is creeping in for soon it will be two years since my wife Sue died and I miss her terribly….she was my rock and an all around saint.
I will begin this week with health news….
Let’s start with cancer treatment….
Chemo can take a toll on one’s body….
A psychedelic best known for inspiring visions might one day be used to spare cancer patients from a painful chemo side effect. A new mouse study in Science suggests that psilocybin, the active ingredient in “magic mushrooms,” helped prevent chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy—nerve damage that can cause burning, tingling, or numbness and sometimes forces doctors to dial back or even stop the cancer treatment, per Live Science.
Researchers at Texas’ MD Anderson Cancer Center gave mice two doses of psilocybin before starting them on cisplatin, a chemo drug notorious for nerve injury. The mice didn’t develop the usual heightened sensitivity to touch and cold, and their nerve endings stayed intact. Lab work points to how psilocybin appeared to keep mitochondria—the cell’s energy suppliers—moving along nerve fibers, preserving energy where it’s needed.
The effect relied on a serotonin receptor tied to psilocybin’s psychedelic properties, though a non-hallucinogenic compound targeting the same receptor also showed protection in mice. Experts stress this is early-stage research; it’s unknown if the approach works, or is safe, in humans. A clinical trial is being planned, but for now, psilocybin remains in the lab, not as a chemo companion.
AS one in the know I say get this on the market NOW!
The fad of taking these GLP-1 drugs to shed some punds may lead to something that will not be to the liking of many men….
Those popular weight-loss shots may also be affecting men’s hairlines. A genetic study out of NYU Langone Health suggests that GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Zepbound could nudge some men toward permanent male-pattern baldness, not just short-term shedding tied to rapid weight loss, NBC News reports. Researchers found that men with higher activity in a gene called GLP1R—whose receptors these drugs target—had about a 7% greater chance of baldness if they used GLP-1 medications, per a release.
he study published in the Journal of Investigative Dermatology doesn’t prove that the medications cause hair loss, and it only looked at men, but it hints that some users may be biologically more vulnerable. Dermatologists say most drug-related shedding of hair resolves within months. For hair-loss prevention, they point to options like low-dose oral minoxidil, platelet-rich plasma, adequate protein, and testing for nutrient deficiencies. Another recentstudy has similar findings regarding GLP-1 drugs and hair loss.
Oh great more bald guys roaming the streets.
But on the other side of the coin….GLP-1 could slow aging….
OZEMPIC AND OTHER GLP-1 medications are intended for people who want to lose weight and manage diabetes. But as research mounts, doctors are discovering that this class of medication may have other health benefits. Those benefits range from heart health to curbing addiction to cancer treatment. But the latest findings sound like something out of a science fiction novel.
Scientists recently found the first evidence of GLP-1s actually slowing down biological aging. This is aging at a cellular level and a better representation of health than your chronological age. In the study, semaglutide, the main ingredient of GLP-1s, helped slow the buildup of DNA markers tied to inflammation and accelerated aging in major organs.
In a world where sleep, diet, and exercise are considered the most important pillars of “healthspan,” are GLP-1s the hidden fourth factor?
This is for all my readers that use a smartwatch for their health….
The glowing number at the end of a workout — let’s say 427 calories — looks precise enough to plan dinner around. But if you think your smartwatch’s calorie counter is remotely accurate, think again.
Researchers at Florida International University (FIU) compared four popular smartwatches with a clinical metabolic analyzer in 58 adults. The Apple Watch Series 8 performed best overall (which should be read as ‘the least badly’). Meanwhile, the Garmin Forerunner 955 and Samsung Galaxy Watch 5 systematically overestimated calories burned. Fitbit Sense 2 readings proved absolutely erratic. To make things worse, the errors grew as participants’ body-fat percentage increased. So, if you’re overweight or even obese and have been relying on these smartwatches to count your calorie expenditure, you’ve essentially been living a lie.
“You can’t treat the calories burned number it gives you as an accurate number, because it’s not,” said Jason Kostrna, an associate professor at FIU and the study’s lead author.
Something to think about before you drop good money on one of these things.
Here we go again…lab grown steak….
Scientists at EMBL Barcelona have developed a new approach that allows bovine embryonic stem cells to form multiple tissue types at once, marking a notable step in efforts to produce cultivated meat. The work focuses on creating structures that include muscle, nerve, and blood vessel components without the need for separate assembly steps. This development addresses one of the core difficulties in scaling lab-grown meat beyond simple cell cultures.
Traditional methods for cultivated meat often rely on adult stem cells taken from living animals. These cells have a restricted ability to divide and are already directed toward specific tissue types, which limits their usefulness for building complex products like steak. Embryonic stem cells offer greater flexibility because they can multiply extensively while remaining capable of turning into different cell kinds.
The practical consequence is a potential reduction in the number of animals needed for cell sourcing. Stakeholders in the cultivated meat sector, including startups and research institutions, have long sought ways to improve efficiency and reduce costs. This proof-of-concept work shows how self-organization might simplify production processes over time.
Researchers have engineered lettuce and tobacco chloroplasts to stably produce myoglobin, the iron-binding protein that helps give meat its red colour, distinctive flavour and nutritional iron. They used lettuce and tobacco becase these plants have some of the most well-studied genomes. But don’t expect meaty lettuce anytime soon.
Myoglobin is an iron- and oxygen-binding protein found in the heart and skeletal muscle tissues.
The small protein sits inside vertebrate muscle and binds heme, an iron-containing molecule. Oxygen attaching to that heme helps determine meat colour, while myoglobin also contributes to the metallic and umami notes associated with meat. Heme iron is generally more readily absorbed by the human body than the non-heme iron that dominates plant foods.
The high beef prices are soaring this may be our only option.
The hunt for unknown species…..
The globe is full of unknown species. But is it really possible to find a completely new animal species in the middle of the largest city in the United States?
“People like to imagine that undiscovered species are only found in remote rainforests or the great ocean depths, but they can be found everywhere. Even in areas that are well studied, we continue to discover species that are new to science,” says Emily Hartop.
Hartop is an entomologist at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology’s natural history museum in Trondheim, the NTNU University Museum.
Just a little something to think about the next time to go to the toilet….
Most bathroom hygiene advice focuses on the things your hands touch. You’re supposed to wash your hands and avoid germs on flush handles, taps, toilet seats, and door handles. But flushing a toilet can create another, less obvious route for contamination: the air around you.
As water rushes through the bowl, it creates turbulence that throws microscopic droplets upward. Some of these particles can carry bacteria, viruses or other biological material from the bowl water. Researchers have detected them more than five feet above the floor, within the breathing zone of many adults, and found that some remain airborne for at least 20 seconds after a flush.
The findings are the result of a systematic review carried by researchers at Flinders University, who analyzed 22 previously published studies of aerosols released during flushing.
“Toilet flushing creates turbulence that can release aerosols into the surrounding air. Some studies detected these aerosols at adult breathing height, indicating a potential pathway for inhalation exposure,” said lead author Lira Adiyani, a Ph.D. student at Flinders University.
Most of us agree that Washington is teeming with corruption that most of our elected officials are on the take in one form or another….if we know this is the case why is it never a political issue at election time?
This corruption has been going on for many years….we cannot lay the cause at the feet of Donny although it seems to be more out in the open since he has got his filthy hands on the reins of government.
The Journal described the president’s fervent interest in fundraising and how he checks almost nightly with his top fundraiser, Meredith O’Rourke, to find out “which companies and donors have cut checks and which haven’t, and for how much.” The story highlighted the way she channels his interest into making her pitch.
“’This is very important to the president. He’s asked me to call you and ask you for this donation…. The boss wants this money.’”
Nothing subtle there.
Then there is the way the administration has used tariffs as a lever to extract money and other things from businesses seeking relief or exemption from the tariff. For example, on July 31, MS Now reported that the Antwerp World Diamond Center in Belgium had presented the president with a large ring, which he dubbed the Freedom 250 ring, and that they subsequently received favorable treatment in Trump’s tariff regime.
That was no ordinary ring. It is made of eighteen-karat gold and is the size of a wristwatch. It has a hand-carved presidential seal on top, encrusted with 321 diamonds, 56 sapphires, 18 emeralds, and 6 rubies. And it has an engraved inscription to Donald John Trump. A few weeks after the gift was made, the report continues, “Europe’s diamond industry was exempted from Trump’s latest round of tariffs.”
The New York Times is right to caution that “There is no evidence that the gift of the ring directly affected the president’s thinking on the tariff exclusion for the diamond industry. But the new list of exemptions has renewed questions about which industries should be exempt from tariffs, and why.”
Donny and his DC Gang of Idiots are known to be as corrupt as they come….sadly we cannot eliminate the Dems from that assertion either…..and now Donny’s SEC (not the football conference) is trying to make it even easier.
The Trump administration is moving to strip a rule barring private equity officials from engaging in “pay-to-play” schemes with government officials.
The Securities and Exchange Commission is planning to revoke Rule 206(4)-5 under the Investment Advisers Act, arguing that it chills employees’ political speech. The regulation, known as the “Pay-to-Play” Rule, bars investment advisers from getting paid to advise government clients for two years after making a political contribution to certain officials and candidates.
In the 16 years since the rule was implemented, it has only resulted in a handful of penalties. The proposed change comes after private equity spending increased in 2024, and flipped toward Republicans.
SEC Commissioner Mark T. Uyeda released a statement last week arguing that the “blanket ban” had functionally undermined advisers’ constitutional rights. “Many investment advisers found it easier to simply prohibit all political contributions by their employees, thereby chilling speech and conduct otherwise protected by the First Amendment,” Uyeda said.
But the rule was intentionally written to be broad in order to address the difficulties state and local prosecutors had in proving quid pro quo deals, Axios reported Tuesday.
SEC Chairman Paul Atkins also released a statement last week supporting the proposal, claiming that the rule “discourages full participation in the electoral process through contributions to candidates.
“People should not have to choose between their political-speech rights and a job in a particular industry,” he said.
If approved, the change will unleash a flood of bribes to public officials, and even invite private equity to pay tithes to President Trump himself.
(newrepublic.com)
Oh great….just what we need to make it even easier from politicians to line their pockets while fucking up the system completely.
I guess the old saying is wildly correct….”The US, the best government money can buy”.
At what point does anyone tackle this corruption?
I do not see the Dems coming even close to a solution for they are just as addicted to corruption as the GOP.
Will we hear anything about corruption in the next general election?
AS the GOP mid term convention (laughable theatrics) continued our Dear Leader made a second appearance (he just could not stand not being the center of attention) but I admit that is was not as full of manure as the night before….
Let me breakdown the night….Vance was allowed out into public by Donny….
President Trump returned to the stage on the second and final night of the Republicans’ midterm convention in Dallas on Thursday, imploring the crowd to “go out and vote” to save his party’s majorities in Congress, the AP reports. Trump praised his own Vice President JD Vance, who delivered a keynote speech that was closely watched as potentially teeing up a post-Trump future. Although Vance has not said whether he will run for the White House and Trump has yet to name an heir apparent, the crowd roared “JD! JD!” when he stepped to the microphone.
The president organized the convention in hopes of energizing supporters who often turn out for Trump but not for other candidates. “You got to do me the biggest favor you’ve ever done,” Trump told the crowd. “You’ve got to do this for me.” At one point he led the crowd in a repeat-after-me pledge to vote on Nov. 3. The second night of the convention showcased some of the most electorally endangered Republicans in Congress and those challenging Democrats in tough races, as well as another potential presidential hopeful: Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, who railed against liberal Democrats.
Vance also delivered searing criticism of Democrats, calling them “the party of hatred.” And even though Republicans have faced their own rifts over Trump’s war in Iran and other issues, he urged them to remain united for the midterms. “Don’t give the country over to a bunch of crazy people because you happen to disagree with us on a policy issue here or there,” he said. When a protester with a Mexican flag interrupted his speech, Vance won an extended uproar of approval with his response. “Well, my friend, if you love Mexico so much, get your a— over there. I’ll buy you a plane ticket,” he said. “We got to send a message this November,” Vance said. “This country was handed down to us by our parents and their parents before them. We received this national birthright, and we are going to fight for it by electing Republicans this November.
Vance was strutting like he had something to say….but he was just parroting what Donny told him to say and playing to a crowd of morons…..he appeared a clown without his make-up.
Like I said meaningless theatrics….mostly laughable and expensive….a colossal waste of time and money.
In short it made a great sleep aid.
Be thankful you had much better things to do…..like watch paint dry.
Donny’s grand plan (yet another debacle waiting to happen) for the solution to the Gaza situation is a Board of Peace.
I am sure that few Americans are watching this issue….but let me fill in the gaps….
Establishment: Proposed by U.S. President Donald Trump in September 2025, it was endorsed by the UN Security Council via Resolution 2803 and formally launched in January 2026 at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
Leadership: President Donald Trump serves as the inaugural chairman. Its founding Executive Board features figures such as U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, special envoy Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner, and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Core Mandate: Overseeing the post-ceasefire transition in Gaza, managing reconstruction funding, working to disarm Hamas, and helping deploy an international stabilization force.
Membership Structure: Countries are given a standard three-year term, but permanent membership requires a $1 billion financial contribution to fund the organization’s activities.
Criticism: The initiative has faced scrutiny and skepticism from several Western and international nations regarding its financial transparency, governance oversight, and how it interacts with traditional United Nations frameworks.
Let me go on record….this is the biggest farce imaginable. To allow Donny the leadership for he is the problem not the cure along with his butt buddy BiBi.
Donny let one of his billionaire asshole help out….
Marc Rowan has a vision for Gaza. “The potential here is tremendous,” he said at a February gathering of President Donald Trump’s so-called Board of Peace, where Rowan described land devastated by Israeli bombing with a developer’s zeal. “This is not a problem of money or collateral. This is a problem with peace.”
In the U.S., Rowan is simultaneously helping ensure a pro-Israel political project has no problem with money. Since the start of this year, according to Federal Election Commission filings, the billionaire CEO of Apollo Global Management has donated $1.5 million to the United Democracy Project, a super PAC for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, spending a fraction of his vast wealth to preserve a foreign policy defined by support for Israel’s genocide and the flow of U.S. weapons to Israel.
Look at the leadership of this farce….all pro-Israel therefore pro genocide members….yeah it will lead to peace and justice for Palestinians.
Does anyone here think Israel will allow any resolution?
Israel’s plan is to annex Gaza and as soon as possible….
Let’s not forget that the West Bank is always under siege by Israel as well….just trying to annex yet another portion of the Levant under the blood boot of Israel.
While much of the media is treating reports emerging from the area as simply another episode of “settler violence,” it is not. Qusra represents something far more consequential: a glimpse into the new Plan Dalet that Israel has in store for Palestinians.
Plan Dalet was the military blueprint through which Zionist forces conquered much of historic Palestine, village by village, during the Nakba.
The plan did not suddenly emerge in 1948. It built on military schemes dating back to 1945, developing into a strategy for conquering Palestinian towns and villages, destroying communities and expelling their inhabitants.
The significance of this history today is not merely symbolic. The Nakba was a process, implemented in stages. So, too, is the annexation of the West Bank
If that was not bad enough here is the plan by Israeli National Security minister, Gvir (or something like that)….
Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir on Thursday unveiled a plan for the ethnic cleansing of Gaza’s Palestinian population, which he and other Israeli ministers refer to as “voluntary migration,” a day after Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said the removal of Palestinians was the only “real solution” for Gaza.
Ben Gvir dubbed his plan “Disengagement 710” and said that it would involve removing 250,000 Palestinians from Gaza in the first year, 1.11 million within three years, and finally, 1.86 million over seven years. He said that his Jewish Power party would demand the establishment of an “emigration ministry” in the next Israeli government following the upcoming October elections.
(antiwar.com)
This twat is just another Israeli douche bag (there seems to be a lot of them these days)….
There is so much happening that the MSM refuses to cover instead they want to give me updates on Taylor Swift’s marriage….I could give a rat’s ass about anything Taylor Swift.
Turning a blind eye to what is happening is being culpable to genocide.
About now someone is thinking/calling me an antisemite….right?
Well that is bullshit….I personally do not give a shit what a person worships for that is their business but when it goes beyond that then I will say something…
The charge that alleged antisemites represent the opposition to the current genocide in Gaza illustrates the turnabout that history has wrought. The charge that this opposition reflects a hatred of Jews is a non sequitur. Was opposition to the Holocaust also the product of hatred of Jews? No? Then opposition to genocide bears no necessary relation to hatred of Jews. Only by 1) defining antisemitism as opposition to the policies of the nation-state of Israel and 2) defining the interests of Israel as the interests of all Jews, does this formulation have logic. Neither of these is true.
For those who missed it, the effective legal definition of antisemitism that is now being deployed across the West is opposition to the policies of the nation-state of Israel. This is more likely than not the result of actual antisemites being hard to find amongst Western opponents of the US – Israeli genocide. Nevertheless, the leaderships of both parties in the US are taking a hard line against the Americans opposed to genocide. The sense now being put forward that there is disagreement amongst the party leaderships over it is misplaced. They both support genocide and ethnic cleansing.
That is what the fake GOP convention for the mid terms is being called…..
This past Wednesday was the mid-term convention (why was this political bullshit needed?) and the key note speaker will be Uncle Donny and his humorless babbling speech.
First of all what and why is the ‘convention’ a necessity?
Come on….you know why….Donny cannot pass up a chance to be the center of attention and a canvas for his bullshit.
So why hold one in the first place? Trump has said he wants to recreate some of the spectacle of a presidential convention and, more importantly, get his supporters to turn out even though his name isn’t on the ballot. “Pretend, please, that I’m on the ballot,” he recently told supporters. “Just come and vote.”
Now that we settled that….let’s move on to the theater of the absurd, the convention….
And he did not disappoint me in the least…..after a wealth of BS from MAGA-ites and even one Dem, Fetterman, Donny took the stage to speaking with his adoring minions….as usual it was choked full of manure, promises and out right lies….
President Trump wants Republican voters to picture his name on their November ballots, even though it won’t be there. Speaking in Dallas at the start of a two-day RNC midterm convention, the president urged GOP voters to treat the elections as a direct referendum on him, the Wall Street Journal reports. “I’m asking you to pretend that I’m on the ballot,” he said. “Just one more time, because if we lose, you’re going to lose your border. You’re going to lose your tax cuts. You’re going to lose your safety and security. You’re going to lose your wealth.”
Trump is pushing to keep both the House and Senate in GOP hands for the last two years of his term, and he has sounded the “pretend I’m on the ballot” theme on the campaign trail in recent weeks. That strategy comes despite his approval rating hovering in the low-to-mid 30s and warnings from some Republicans that tying the midterms so tightly to him could backfire. The concern: Candidates already strained by high gas prices, the ongoing Iran war, and affordability worries may struggle if voter frustration spills over onto the party brand. Trump, for his part, has insisted that voters are angry at Republicans generally, but not at him personally.
More notable lines from his speech:
“If the Republicans win the Senate and House, because of our tremendous strength and success economically, I will issue a dividend to every adult citizen in the United States of America for $5,000. It will be called the Trump Dividend,” he said. The AP calls the plan, which would cost more than $1 trillion and would require congressional approval, “dubious” and said Trump offered no details of how it would work. Trump also said the money would need to be spent in the US, but similarly offered no details of how that would be enforced.
Trump also painted Democrats as extremists, the AP reports. “If we hand America’s future to the radical-left Democrats, our nation will spend the next decade just getting back on its feet,” he said. “Vote Republican and we will leave the world in our dust for generations to come.”
On the subject of the Iran war, he appeared to acknowledge it has hurt the economy, noting that before the US attacked, he told economists, “I hate to do this to you.” He claimed Iran was “two, maybe three weeks away from having a nuclear weapon” before the attack.
$5000 now there is a lie that will garner votes from idiots.
Now for the Dem that braved the stage (on video) at a MAGA rally….and make no mistake it was a rally nothing else….
Sen. John Fetterman delivered a moment at the Republican midterm convention in Dallas on Wednesday that neither party was expecting. The Pennsylvania Democrat appeared via video on opening night, calling himself a “common-sense Democrat” who rejects “extremes and socialism.” Standing outside a Pennsylvania steel mill, Fetterman promised to work with President Trump and GOP Sen. David McCormick, his Pennsylvania colleague, to “defend the steel way of life,” the New York Times reports. Fetterman already had fallen out with Democrats in his state, the AP notes; he polls better with Republicans. After a Wall Street Journal investigation on his conduct in office ran last week, per Axios, Pennsylvania Rep. Brendan Boyle, a Democrat, posted on X that, “John Fetterman is a disgrace.”
Fetterman is a gutless piece of ….
All in all the night did not disappoint for I was expecting nothing more than Donny thumping his chest like a sex crazed primate and a bunch of adoring yes men that graveled at his feet….and that is just what I got.
To Donny it is not a big deal that we have lost so few soldiers in this war with Iran…..and as usual the admin is dissing those families of fallen soldiers.
Since the Iran war began more than six months ago, 18 US service members have been killed and 780 wounded.
“My husband lost his life because we’re in a war – and then I was told that because it’s not technically a war, we lose out on something,” Ms Klinner told the Associated Press. “It all comes down to principle.”
After she expressed her frustration in an online post that went viral, the US air force clarified that his final pay cheque included hazard pay and combat-related tax breaks.
US officials also acknowledged that they had initially provided inaccurate information, and that her husband’s last pay cheque had included – but incorrectly itemised – “combat pay”, which amounts to $225 a month, and was not conditioned on a formal war declaration.
