Day: November 5, 2025

The Fallacious World Of Oz

NO this is not some cheesy knock-off or the some bad TV movie that relates to the beloved classic ‘Wizard of Oz”…..it is a look at the world that that hack Dr. Oz brings to the country.

Oz-zie boy is throwing the well worn MAGA BS about the billions of dollars wasted on immigrants….

Oz’s release said that California had spent $1.3 billion in federal taxpayer dollars to provide Medicaid coverage to illegal immigrants. Washington, D.C., spent more than $2 million in federal money on its Medicaid for illegal immigrants, and Oregon spent $5.4 million.

Illinois, which spent more than $629 million from its state budget on illegal immigrant healthcare last year, used almost $30 million in federal taxpayer funds to provide the illegal immigrant population Medicaid.

CMS’s findings come as the issue of federal funding for illegal immigrant healthcare has taken center stage in the federal government shutdown that started Oct. 1.

Of course these figures were to be found in the Washington Examiner….

Now let’s look at some real figures and not the lies of the Donny group….

Emergency Medicaid expenditures accounted for only a fraction of overall Medicaid spending, a cross-sectional analysis showed.

Among 38 states and Washington, D.C., emergency Medicaid expenditures accounted for a mean of 0.4% of total Medicaid spending, at a mean cost of $9.63 per resident, with some variability across states, reported Patricia Mae Santos, MD, of the Winship Cancer Institute at Emory University in Atlanta, and colleagues.

States with larger undocumented populations spent more on emergency Medicaid, accounting for a mean of 0.9% of state Medicaid expenditures among states with the highest undocumented population share compared with 0.1% among states with the lowest undocumented population.

“The main takeaway is that emergency Medicaid is quite a microscopic percentage of the Medicaid budget. It’s not really a driver of Medicaid costs and Medicaid spending,” Leo Cuello, an attorney and research professor at the Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy’s Center for Children and Families in Washington, D.C., told MedPage Today.

For this analysis, the authors relied on financial management report data for fiscal year 2022 from the Medicaid Budget and Expenditure System. They also looked to other publicly available datasets to measure covariates by state, including Medicaid expansion status, the share of the population in each state that is undocumented, its census region, and political ideology index.

The study represents the “first and most contemporary analysis” of emergency Medicaid spending on both the national and state levels, Santos said.

https://www.medpagetoday.com/publichealthpolicy/medicaid/117899

I do not know why I point this out because the mental midgets that believe the lies do not want to see the truth……

But I do what I must.

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

The Takeaways

Votes have been counted and now it is time to take a quick look at what has been taken away from the vote.

Democrats scored sweeping victories across major states in Tuesday’s elections, signaling a sharp backlash to President Trump’s policies and offering their party new momentum ahead of the 2026 midterms. Voters turned out in “extraordinary” numbers for an off-year contest, per the New York Times, delivering wins for Democrats in high-profile races in Virginia, New Jersey, California, and Pennsylvania. The results—widely seen as a referendum on Trump—reinvigorated Democrats after a year largely spent out of power in Washington, with the party now eyeing redistricting fights and next year’s congressional races as opportunities to blunt the Trump agenda. More takeaways from Tuesday night, per the Times, CNN, NPR, and Politico:

  • Governorships: In Virginia, Democrat Abigail Spanberger won the governor’s race by spotlighting Trump-era federal worker cuts, becoming the state’s first woman governor—an honor her rival, Winsome Earle-Sears, also would’ve claimed. Meanwhile, New Jersey’s Mikie Sherrill rode criticism of Trump’s infrastructure policies to victory, beating Jack Ciattarelli, who CNN notes “had a strong statewide performance under his belt after his near-miss in the 2021 governor’s race,” as well as “a ‘Jersey guy’ appeal that he hoped would give him some separation from Trump,” who’d endorsed him.
  • New Big Apple leader: New York City elected Zohran Mamdani, a 34-year-old progressive and self-described democratic socialist, as mayor. Mamdani’s rapid rise and focus on cost-of-living issues have made him a new face for the left, though his appeal outside the city remains to be seen.
  • California: Golden State Gov. Gavin Newsom bolstered his national profile by championing a successful ballot measure to redraw congressional districts in Democrats’ favor, urging other blue states to follow suit. “Tonight, after poking the bear, this bear roared with an unprecedented turnout in a special election with an extraordinary result,” Newsom said Tuesday night.
  • Pennsylvania: Democratic justices on the state Supreme Court hung on to their majority for new 10-year terms, “in a perennial battleground state where legal challenges over voting rules are all but certain,” per CNN.
  • Economy: In both the two big gubernatorial races, as well as in New York City and in California, exit polls revealed that the economy was the most important issue or close to it, with the Dems claiming the win in most cases, per NPR.
  • Suburban shift: Residents on city outskirts especially came through in Virginia for Spanberger, who “ran up the score” in key suburban areas like Loudon and Prince William counties, where she received 64.3% and 66.7% of the vote, respectively, per Politico.
  • A 180 for people of color: Politico notes that minority groups seem to be shifting support away from MAGA camps, especially in New Jersey, where exit polls “showed Sherrill with large margins among Black, Hispanic, and Asian voters—demographics national Democrats spent millions of dollars to reengage during the campaign.”
  • More GOP vs. Dems: Republicans failed to capitalize on scandals dogging some Democratic candidates, such as Virginia’s Jay Jones, whose victory as his state’s attorney general despite controversy highlighted the depth of anti-GOP sentiment. The elections also reinforced a pattern: Democrats tend to outperform when Trump isn’t on the ballot, as seen in recent nonpresidential contests.

Some great news for the Dems but will it translate next year when the mid-terms come around?

A lot can happen between this vote and the next but hopefully the country is coming to their senses.

I Read, I Write, You KNow

“lego ergo scribo”

And The Winners

Yesterday was a small test of the political temp of the nation with a few elections for a gauge.

The big story was the NYC mayoral race…..

It’s Mamdani. Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani will be the next mayor of New York City after fending off Democrat-turned-independent Andrew Cuomo and Republican Curtis Sliwa. The AP called the race about 35 minutes after polls closed on Tuesday. The race had taken on national implications because President Trump repeatedly called out Mamdani as a “communist” and threatened to withhold federal money from the city should he win.

Trump endorsed another criminal Cuomo….a loser.

Next is the vote in California…..Prop 50….

California voters approved new congressional district boundaries Tuesday, delivering a victory for Democrats in the state-by-state redistricting battle that will help determine which party wins control of the US House in 2026 and, with it, the power to thwart or advance President Trump’s agenda, the AP reports. The approval of Proposition 50 gives Democrats a shot at winning as many as five additional seats, just enough to blunt Texas Republicans’ move to redraw their own maps to pick up five GOP seats at Trump’s urging. Texas’ move and California’s response have kicked off a flurry of redistricting efforts around the country, with Republican states appearing to have an edge. Deeply blue California is Democrats’ best opportunity to make up seats.

Another test on all this redistricting crap being pulled by the GOP.

Virginia gets it first woman, a Dem, as governor…..

The first big race on Tuesday’s ballot has been called: Democrat Abigail Spanberger won the governor’s race in Virginia and will become the first woman to hold the seat, reports the AP. The former congresswoman defeated Winsome Earle-Sears, the current GOP lieutenant governor, with the AP calling the race about an hour after polls closed at 7. Spanberger had a comfortable lead in the polls heading into Election Day following a campaign that put a focus on the Trump administration’s mass federal layoffs—a big issue in the state.

The next governors race was also a win for the Dems…..

New Jersey, where Rep. Mikie Sherrill defeated former GOP state lawmaker Jack Ciattarelli, reports the AP, which called the race about 90 minutes after polls closed at 8. Sherrill’s victory came after Abigail Spanberger won in Virginia. The New Jersey race had been closely watched because President Trump loomed large—the president endorsed Ciattarelli, and Sherrill depicted her opponent as someone who would do whatever the president ordered.

I see Vance’s half-brother went down in defeat….another win….

All in all so far the Dems were the big winner for the day…..is that good news?

Yes but it will not hold for long…..no time to rest and pat oneself on the back….there is plenty of work to be done before the upcoming mid-terms.

That Was The Day That Was.

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”