Day: October 8, 2025

MTG Is At It Again

There have been some wild swings in the stands that MTG grapples with and they swing from batcrap crazy like chem trails to her newest thing….healthcare…..the later being a question for the rest of the GOP.

Republicans did not vote to extend the subsidies in July’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA). And if they are allowed to expire at the end of 2025, KFF estimates that the average recipient’s insurance premiums will more than double, from $888 to $1,906 per year, which will result in about 4 million people losing their insurance due to unaffordability, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

This is on top of the roughly 10 million expected to lose insurance coverage due to the GOP’s massive cuts to Medicaid and other ACA marketplace spending in the Republican budget law.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) have maintained that they would not negotiate on extending the subsidies unless Democrats vote to reopen the government, thereby sacrificing their main point of leverage.

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In a blistering post on X, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said that while she was “not a fan” of the ACA and blamed it for “skyrocketing premiums,” she was “going to go against everyone on this issue because when the tax credits expire this year my own adult children’s insurance premiums for 2026 are going to DOUBLE, along with all the wonderful families and hardworking people in my district.”

“No, I’m not [toeing] the party line on this, or playing loyalty games,” Greene continued. “I’m carving my own lane. And I’m absolutely disgusted that health insurance premiums will DOUBLE if the tax credits expire this year.”

Greene lamented that “not a single Republican in leadership talked to us about this or has given us a plan to help Americans deal with their health insurance premiums DOUBLING!!!”

She then turned her attention to the tens of billions of dollars worth of military aid sent to Israel and Ukraine in recent years: “All our country does is fund foreign countries and foreign wars, and never does anything to help the American people!!!”

https://www.commondreams.org/news/mtg-scolds-gop-over-healthcare

I agreed with her on the Israel stand she took and now I find myself thinking that she has learned a thing of two since joining Congress.

Yet deep down I feel that this is just a temporary thing for her that the batcrap crazy will return and return with a vengeance.

But if it actually starts a real conversation on the subject then I say bully for her.

What say you?

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

Sports As A Weapon

Recently it was announced that Bad Bunny will be the headline for the Super Bowl….and the Trump Admin went into over drive to use the announcement as a weapon against Hispanics. (Predictable knowing what Donny thinks of all Hispanics)

First came the news that ICE will be swarming all over the bowl site looking for those criminals that for the most part do not exist.

Federal immigration officers plan to be present at the 2026 Super Bowl in Santa Clara, California, where Puerto Rican artist Bad Bunny is slated to headline the halftime show, according to Corey Lewandowski, an adviser at the Department of Homeland Security. Speaking Wednesday on The Benny Show, Lewandowski warned, “There is nowhere that you can provide safe haven to people who are in this country illegally. Not the Super Bowl and nowhere else.” He emphasized that authorities will seek out and deport undocumented immigrants, asserting that this approach marks a shift from previous administrations.

The NFL confirmed over the weekend that Bad Bunny, a three-time Grammy winner, will lead the halftime performance next year. The singer responded in a statement, saying the honor is for his community, culture, and those who paved the way before him. However, Bad Bunny recently told i-D Magazine that concerns over ICE raids at events influenced his decision to not include US stops on his upcoming world tour.

“There was the issue of—like, f—ing ICE could be outside [my concert],” the rapper said in an interview published last month. “And it’s something that we were talking about and very concerned about.” Lewandowski, who previously managed Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, criticized the NFL for selecting Bad Bunny, claiming the league should choose entertainers who unite rather than divide. He described the selection as “shameful” and suggested it didn’t represent American values.

Then came the statement from that incompetent trollop, Noem, and her issuing a warning….

Kristi Noem, Donald Trump’s homeland security secretary, has said that only Americans should attend next year’s Super Bowl and warned that Ice agents “will be all over” the event.

Speaking to the rightwing podcaster Benny Johnson on Friday, Noem also said the NFL will “not be able to sleep at night” over its decision to choose Bad Bunny, the Puerto Rican rapper who has criticized the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration policies, as its half-time performer.

Asked whether “there will be Ice enforcement at the Super Bowl”, Noem said: “There will be, because the Department of Homeland Security is responsible for keeping it safe, so I have the responsibility for making sure everybody goes to the Super Bowl, has the opportunity to enjoy it and to leave, and that’s what America is about.”

She added: “So yeah, we’ll be all over that place … We’re going to enforce the law. So I think people should not be coming to the Super Bowl unless they’re law-abiding Americans who love this country.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/04/kristi-noem-super-bowl-ice

This idiot you elected cannot let anything be a thing without his stupidity stamped on it….

Is it because it is featuring a Hispanic that he got his panties in a twist?  Or is it because it is in California he wants to try and intimidate Newsom.

Why would this douchbag want to fu*k up the biggest Sunday of the year?

Or is he just impossibly stupid?

Speaking of ICE….I see Apple has caved to Donny and relented and removed the tracking app they had for ICE activities….

Apple has taken down an app that uses crowdsourcing to flag sightings of US immigration agents, apparently after being pressured by US authorities. ICEBlock, a free iPhone-only app that lets users anonymously report and monitor activity by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, was no longer available on Apple’s App Store as of Friday, the AP reports. “We just received a message from Apple’s App Review that #ICEBlock has been removed from the App Store due to ‘objectionable content,'” developer Joshua Aaron said in a social media post. “The only thing we can imagine is this is due to pressure from the Trump Admin. We have responded and we’ll fight this!

  • The developer said last month that it had more than 1 million users. Even though it has been removed from the app marketplace, those who have already downloaded the app should still be able to use it.
  • “We created the App Store to be a safe and trusted place to discover apps,” Apple said in a statement. “Based on information we’ve received from law enforcement about the safety risks associated with ICEBlock, we have removed it and similar apps from the App Store.”
  • Downloads of apps like ICEblock have surged as the Trump administration steps up immigration enforcement with surprise raids. The technology has come under fire from authorities after agents were targeted. Officials said last month that the gunman who opened fire on an ICE facility in Dallas had searched for apps that tracked the presence of agents.

“I am incredibly disappointed by Apple’s actions today. Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never the right move,” Aaron tells 404 Media. “ICEBlock is no different from crowd sourcing speed traps, which every notable mapping application, including Apple’s own Maps app, implements as part of its core services. This is protected speech under the First Amendment of the United States Constitution.”

Are the idiots in DC using the Super Bowl as bait?  Now I ask how many illegal aliens can afford a Super Bowl ticket?

So they will be profiling at this sporting event.

My only response is….COWARDS!

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

The Insurrection Normalization

The popular meme falling from the lips of Donny in his late night stupidity is the term ‘insurrection’ that he has been throwing around to justify his insane plan to use US troops in our cities…….sorry our ‘blue’ cities.

Donny keeps saying that our cities (Blue cities) are suffering from an insurrection (have you seen any evidence of that?).

President Donald Trump took a major step toward invoking some of the most extreme emergency powers available to a sitting president and claimed an “insurrection” is underway in Portland, Oregon.

During an interview with Newsmax host Greg Kelly, Trump said he would consider invoking the Insurrection Act as a way to “get around” a judge’s order blocking the administration from deploying National Guard troops to Portland.

“If you take a look at what’s been going on in Portland, it’s been going on for a long time, and that’s insurrection. I mean, that’s pure insurrection,” he said. “And then you’ll have a governor get up and say, ‘There’s absolutely nothing wrong.’ And you see these places are burning down.”

The only fires reported in Portland, Oregon, on Monday were smoke coming from the boiler room of a local high school and a mobile home engulfed in flames, according to Portland Fire & Rescue’s X account. No injuries were reported in either incident.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-now-claims-an-insurrection-is-underway-in-portland-in-dark-march-to-martial-law/

All that rhetoric is pure manure.

Because of all this fake chaos, which he alone is causing, he has stated that he may want to invoke the Insurrection Act.

Do you know what that means?

President Donald Trump said he would consider invoking the Insurrection Act to send the military into cities if courts block his deployment of National Guard troops.

“I’d do it if it was necessary. So far, it hasn’t been necessary. But we have an Insurrection Act for a reason. If I had to enact it, I’d do that,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Oct. 6.

With that said let’s look at the Act he keeps threatening to invoke…..

The Insurrection Act is a US federal law that gives the president the power to deploy the military or federalize national guard troops inside the US to quell domestic uprisings.

The law is commonly referred to as the Insurrection Act of 1807, the year Thomas Jefferson, the president, signed it into law. But the modern-day Insurrection Act is an amalgamation of statutes passed between 1792 and 1871 outlining the role of US military forces in domestic law enforcement.

Generally, federal military forces are not allowed to carry out civilian law enforcement duties against US citizens except in times of emergency.

The law enables troops to take part in domestic law enforcement activities such as making arrests and performing searches, functions they are generally otherwise prohibited from engaging in.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/07/trump-insurrection-act-explainer

If you are interested in what can be done and how this could happen then this link has some great information.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/06/politics/insurrection-act-trump-portland-chicago-explainer

The question is will Donny choose this course of action?

To that I say yes he most certainly will….he has to make a case with lies, misinformation and pure BS…..if he tries will the Supreme Courts back him up?

I think they will….but I have been mistaken before.

Thoughts?

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”