Brand news, Isaiah's THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS "Tim Walz: Circuit Rider Governor" went up a few minutes ago. I agree, Tim Walz looks like a hypocrite. He's going all around the country to speak to people who's reps aren't speaking to them. He needs to get his back in his own state and speak to his voters, serve those citizens. He's a hypocrite and a fool.
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News?
Picking up
from Ann's "Gretch The Wretch, the spineless Wretch," Gretch The Wretch is trying to dig herself out of her
self-created problem. If you missed it, while Democrats around the
country were staging demonstrations against Chump's tariffs, while US
senators were working overtime to stop them, Democratic governor of
Michigan, Gretchen Whitmer, was making nice and playing footsie with
Chump yesterday.
She looked like a fool because she is a fool. Ewan Palmer (Newsweek) reports that Gretch is insisting that she didn't know there would be a photo op:
In
a statement, Whitmer's office said the governor was brought into the
Oval Office in front of the press "without any notice" and emphasized
that her presence was not an "endorsement of the actions taken or
statements" made at that event.
Trump on
Wednesday signed executive orders targeting a law firm that represented
Dominion Voting Systems in its $787 million defamation lawsuit against
Fox News over false claims about the 2020 election. He also ordered the
Department of Justice to investigate two officials from his first
administration who later became vocal critics of the Republican.
Trump
offered rare praise for a Democrat at the Oval Office, telling
reporters that Whitmer is doing an "excellent job" as Michigan governor.
One unnamed Democratic operative told NBC News that Whitmer appearing alongside Trump was a "f****** disaster" politically.
She
is a disaster. She was too busy being a glory hog to stay on message.
She didn't give a damn abou the party or the country or the people in
it. Gretch The Wretch needs to go away. She is not a leader and she is
not a future leader. She's an incompetent buffoon at best.
That's
if you buy her claim that she didn't know it was going to be a photo
op. If she didn't know it, she looks even worse. She's a sitting
governor and she can't think on her feet about a photo op?
How stupid is she?
Back to the article:
Others also criticized Whitmer following her Oval Office appearance.
Richard
Yeselson, a labor strategist and contributing editor at the left-wing
magazine Dissent, said Whitmer displayed "utter carelessness" by
allowing herself to be "trolled" by Trump.
Whitmer
defended her efforts to work with Trump in order to protect the people
of Michigan. "If you're not at the table, you're on the menu," Whitmer
told reporters Wednesday.
Colorado Governor
Jared Polis, a fellow Democrat, criticized Whitmer's "Build, American
Build" speech delivered before her Oval Office appearance.
Whitmer
said she understood the "motivation" behind Trump's tariffs and agreed
with the president that "we need to make more stuff in America."
"I'm
not against tariffs outright, but it is a blunt tool. You can't just
pull out the tariff hammer to swing at every problem without a clearly
defined end goal," Whitmer said.
While sharing a
clip of her remarks on X, formerly Twitter, Polis commented, "A 'tariff
hammer' winds up hitting your own hand rather than the nail."
By the way, Ann's doing a joint post tonight -- with Wally, Cedric, Isaiah, Betty and C.I.. -- which is why I'm tackling Whitmer tonight. She was going to try two posts but I told her I'd grab the topic of Whitmer so she could just do the joint-post.
“Just
a f---ing disaster,” said one Democratic operative who admires Whitmer
and, like others interviewed for this article, was granted anonymity to
share candid thoughts about her day. “It feels like it removes some of
the momentum she had as a politically savvy swing-state Dem.”
[. . .]
“Whitmer
hurt her candidacy today,” a Democratic strategist said. “She looked
and sounded nervous in the Oval Office. That visual will stick. So will
the image of Trump praising her as he signed executive orders targeting
his critics.”
Thursday, April 10, 2025. Chump wants to waste millions on a military
parade for his birthday, this after refusing to greet the fallen at
Dover last week, in the face of massive opposition he semi-pauses his
tarrifs, one of his supporters turns out to be a liar and a fake
(shocking!) which leads to her arrest, and much more.
And he is right, Chump should have been there.
Last
week, Convicted
Felon Donald Chump was fled to Florida on Thursday to start his
'vacation' and to avoid Dover Air Base where four Americans who died on
an overseas mission were returning. He had no time for the fallen,
please understand, because the most important thing when you're
commander-in-chief is . . . golfing. As Ruth noted Friday:
There was a time in Donald
Chump's first term as president that I gave him the benefit of the doubt
regarding his alleged hatred of U.S. troops. He quickly made clear
that the rumors were indeed true. We saw that further in his 2024
campaign and, of course, we have seen it since he was sworn in.
SignalGate, for example, put our military pilots at risk as they set out
on a mission he ordered and then Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, DNI
Director Tulsi Gabbard, and the rest do a non-secure discussion of the
mission before it starts and as it is being carried out. To this day,
he has refused to fire any of these people despite the fact that their
actions could have resulted in the deaths of the military pilots. That,
by the way, is a point Senator Tammy Duckworth has made strongly and
repeatedly.
Because
he is never done s**ting on our troops, Mr. Chump's actions are not
surprising but they are shocking, outrageous, and offensive. Jeremiah Hassel (THE MIRROR) reports:
Donald
Trump was slammed for missing the dignified transfer for four U.S.
soldiers who were killed in Lithuania during a training accident as he
was seen playing golf at his Trump National Doral Miami golf course for a
LIV Golf event.
Lithuania's president held a
ceremony honoring the fallen soldiers who drowned in a peat bog after
their tactical vehicle went missing about a week ago. Lithuanian, Polish
and U.S. soldiers and rescue teams searched through forests and swamps
at the Gen. Silvestras Žukauskas training ground in Pabradė, which is
about 6 miles west of the country's border with Belarus.
[. . .]
President
Gitanas Nausėda and other dignitaries were among those who stood in
respect as the hearses carrying the bodies to Vilnius airport in the
nation's capital paraded past. They were flown to Dover Air Force Base
in Delaware and will be buried this week.
Several
of the onlookers were reportedly in tears during the procession.
Nausėda said the reaction of the population and the military to the
disappearance of the soldiers was rooted in the country's own difficult
history.
Lithuania's
president showed them respect; however, Convicted Felon Donald Chump
did not. The Convicted Felon could not stop his golf game to honor
Americans Pfc. Dante D. Taitano, Staff Sgt. Edvin F. Franco, Staff Sgt.
Jose Duenez Jr., and Staff Sgt. Troy S. Knutson-Collins. Dante was the
youngest at 21, Troy was the oldest at 28, and Jose and Edvin were both
only 25. They are passed and they passed while doing a mission that
they were tasked with but the nation's commander-in-chief was too busy
-- yet again -- to honor them.
The disrespect Chump has
shown the four fallen soldiers is appalling and it's one more reason
that he is a joke. And that's before the rumblings about his plan to
use the military as a prop for his birthday celebration.
On THE TONIGHT SHOW WITH JIMMY FALLON, Jimmy addressed the nonsense of a parade for Chump.
My favorite joke from Jimmy above? "Yeah, the
parade will be four miles long. The organizers asked Trump if he wanted
to walk in it and then everyone laughed and laughed."
WJLA reports on the potential cost for Chump's vanity trip.
The costs were also addressed on ABC's THE VIEW.
"Who
do you think is paying for this?" asks Joy and she's right. Over $90
million for that parade for himself? It's outrageous.
Some
veterans I've spoken to raise the issue that Chump's trying to stage a
military parade to celebrate himself when there has been no DC parade
for the veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars.
Let's note this from IAVA:
Today, following news of President
Trump’s proposal for a military parade, Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of
America (IAVA), the leading non-partisan veterans empowerment
organization representing the Post-9/11 generation of veterans, released
a poll of its members. The poll, conducted from February 7th to 8th
over a 24 hour period, shared how veterans view the proposal:
“It
is clear that our community has strong opinions on this issue. Their
voices are critical and must be heard. We hope leaders in the Pentagon
and White House will listen to our members—especially in these decisive
and overly-politicized times,” said Paul Rieckhoff, Founder and CEO of IAVA. “We,
as much as anyone, are committed to honoring and empowering our
military and veterans—and that starts by listening. Most of all, our
members believe America should honor and support our military and
veterans everyday, and in the ways and times we need it most. Guided by
our dynamic and diverse membership, IAVA has plenty of important
recommendations for how to do it in our annual Policy Agenda. We
encourage all lawmakers, members of the media, and our fellow citizens
to spend some time reading this playbook for how we believe our country
can support us most effectively, on the issues we care about the most.”
Here's the thing about the above, they issued that in Chump's first term. On February 8, 2018.
Chump
didn't throw them a parade, still hasn't, but is again having a public
tantrum because he wants a military parade at his birthday party. Now
he didn't like the military enough to serve. He lied to get out of
serving during Vietnam -- those nasty bone spurs remember -- that
apparently healed through magic and now he can golf every weekend with
no problem. And he doesn't care enough about veterans to protect them
from his DOGE program. But he wants to use them fo rhis birthday
because that's how selfish and stupid he truly is.
Next topic.
Another
one bites the Chump? Apparently another one's gone and another one's
gone, another one bites the Chump. Despite vowing full speed ahead on
his insane tariffs on Tuesday, yesterday saw Chump back off.
The
Trump Administration’s tariff policy, which was announced a week ago
today, has started to hit the presidency somewhere that he cares about:
His approval rating.
Enough, in fact, that Trump on Wednesday announced a drop to 10 percent on most of the non-China tariffs.
That’s according to a new The Economist/YouGov Poll, taken between April 5 and 8 — entirely after the tariffs were announced — and released on Wednesday Up
at the top, the poll finds that Trump has an approval rating of 43
percent, compared to 54 percent unfavorable, although if it’s any
consolation for the president, Vice President J.D. Vance’s approval
rating is just 38 percent, while Elon Musk comes in at 40 percent.
[. . .]
The
poll also finds that 54 percent of respondents see things in America as
“off on the wrong track,” while 35 percent say the nation is “Generally
headed in the right direction,” while 12 percent answered “not sure.”
That's
not a surprise. And even an idiot should have seen it coming. One
idiot didn't. As Ann points out Michigan Governor Gretch The Wretch
Whitmer spent yesterday making nice with Chump about tariffs:
Corrupt as can be and she makes my grifter beat for that and for this nonsense:
Michigan
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer delivered a speech emphasizing points of
agreement with President Donald Trump on economic policy, just hours
before their scheduled meeting — a reflection of the high-profile
Democrat’s more diplomatic approach toward the president as her party
ramps up its attacks on him.
Framed by Whitmer
as a “blueprint for success,” her lengthy “Build, America, Build”
address called for bipartisan cooperation to boost American
manufacturing. While she offered soft criticism of the president, she
also underscored shared priorities.
Does
the wretch not know how to work with her own party? She's a Democrat.
Does she not get how hard Maria Cantwell, Patty Murray, Elizabeth
Warren, Richard Blumenthal, Mark Warner and others are fighting against
these tariffs to help the American people?
And
the wretch wants to throw a wrench into all of that? She's not a
Democrat, she's Gretch-ite -- out for Gretch and only Gretch. She
really is hideous.
What
an idiot, what a backstabber. There are times -- and people don't
always get this -- when a politician may take a stand you disagree
with. If it's consistent with who they are, you should be able to
respect it.
Former
Senator Russ Feingold should have gone on to become a president of the
United States. He was a great politician and a number of us tried to
talk him into running for the 2016 nomination. Had he been in the Senate
this year, he would have made a lot of Democrats angry because he
would've voted for Chump's nominees. He felt, at least when he was in
the Senate (and when the nominees might be problematic but weren't as
ridiculous as Chump's nominees) that you voted to confirm the Cabinet
appointees to give the president the staff he wanted.
I disagreed with that but I understood where he was coming from and never held it against him.
But
Gretch The Wretch? She has no ethics and she has no party loyalty.
Ann's right, how dare she undermine the party with her nonsense kiss
assery.
President
Donald Trump's budget plan likely won't pass its House vote Wednesday
afternoon. That's because several GOP lawmakers will not be backing it,
including Congressman Eric Burlison (R-MO).
“I
can’t live with myself if I go back home and I added more debt and
deficits without any kind of correction whatsoever,” Burlison told the
New York Times. “I couldn’t live with myself.”
The
former state lawmaker successfully advocated for the Show-me State's
Legislature to seek an amendment to require a balanced budget.
Burlison
is not the only republican who has yet to come around and agree with
President Trump's budget plan within the halls of Congress.
Yes,
the mutiny was coming. And would expose just how weak Chump truly is.
(Some would argue by yet again waffling on his plan, Chump exposed
himself as a weakingly.) But while the hard work of We The People was
paying off, there's Gretch backstabbing our party, tossing him a life
line, embarrassing the country. That wretch does not belong on a
national ticket. She demonstrated that this week. When she feels the
need to make nice with the GOP, she can take that sentiment into the
bedroom with her Republican second husband.
Here's Rachel Maddow addressing the topic last night on MSNBC.
Here for Paul Krugman's take
on Chump's semi-reversal. On THE 11TH HOUR WITH STEPHANIE RUHLE, there
was a very strong discussion but MSNBC hasn't posted the video online.
At
any rate, Americans take to the street, US senators stand up -- even
some Republicans -- and Gretch The Wretch goes with appeasement? Not
only was that a betrayal it was damn stupid. If she'd waited a few
hours even she would have grasped what an idiot she was about to make of
herself with her cowardly acquiescence.
In
the latest twist of political theater, 'Forrest Trump' reminded the
world that "stupid is, as stupid does," as he paused his economically
reckless tariff crusade for 90 days.
In the
movies Tom Hank's famous character was shown to have far more business
acumen than the US leader. But Donald Trump has once again proven that
his self-proclaimed genius is little more than a hollow myth built on
bluster and bankruptcy.
And
now, in a humiliating climbdown, he has announced a 90-day pause on his
disastrous trade war - a desperate face-saving exercise cloaked as
strategy.
Americans
have taken to social media to share stories about their MAGA-supporting
neighbors removing their merchandise in recent weeks, with some even
flying an upside-down Trump flag, a symbol typically associated with
distress.
Reddit user GimmeSumCredit shared a
photo in r/pics of a red, upside-down Trump flag captured on the way to
work. Thousands of Redditors chimed in with similar instances of family,
friends and neighbors who have seemingly turned their back on President
Donald Trump by removing MAGA merchandise.
Again, everyone could read the writing on the wall, everyone but Gretch The Wretch. At BUSINESS INSIDER, Katherine Li charts the downfall market effects on some of Chump's biggest donors:
Since
Trump's April 2 "Liberation Day" announcement of a 10% blanket tariff
on all countries, on top of additional tariffs on certain countries, the
stock market has experienced heavy losses in a matter of days.
Here
is how much eight companies lost in share value since Trump's
inauguration day as of market close on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, according
to Yahoo Finance.
APPLE
Percentage of share decline since January 21: -23%
Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, personally donated $1 million to Trump's inaugural committee and attended the ceremony.
Trump took credit for Apple's plans to spend and invest more than $500 billion in the US over the next four years.
AMAZON
Percentage of share decline since January 21: -26%
Jeff
Bezos, the founder and executive chairman of Amazon and founder of Blue
Origin, praised Trump for an "extraordinary political comeback and
decisive victory" after Trump won the election.
Amazon donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration committee, and Bezos also attended the inauguration.
GOOGLE
Percentage of share decline since January 21: -27%
Google donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration fund.
In
addition to attending Trump's inauguration, Sundar Pichai, Google's
CEO, also congratulated Trump on his election win and said, "We are in a
golden age of American innovation."
Let's
move over to the topic of crime. Eva Royer. The devoted Donald Chump
supporter is in the news -- for all the wrong reasons. MD Mack (LATIN TIMES) explains:
A Republican political committee member in Texas was arrested for election fraud while wearing a shirt that read "Ban Democrat Chairs," following allegations she falsified residency documents.
Eva
Royer, a member of the Hood County Republican Party, filed to run for
Granbury City Council on August 19, 2024, according to an official Facebook post. However, Texas election law requires candidates to live within city limits for at least six months before filing.
Royer claimed nearly three years of residency, but evidence later
surfaced showing she had only recently changed her address in July—and
that the property she listed was being operated as an Airbnb.
Authorities
say Royer's listed address wasn't her primary residence, but rather a
short-term rental owned by her real estate brokerage, for which she had
paid hotel occupancy taxes.
Here's a longer report from FACEBOOK:
Hood County Breaking News!
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Eva
Royer withdraws her City Of Granbury City Council application due to
falsification of offical government documents and voter fraud
allegations.
### **List of Facts**
1.
**Residency Requirement Violation**: Eva Royer filed to run for city
council on August 19, 2024. State law and local charter regulations
mandate that candidates must have been residents for at least six months
prior to the filing date, meaning she would need to have been a
resident since February 19, 2024.
2.
**Falsification of Application**: On her official application, Eva Royer
claimed she had been a resident for 2 years and 9 months, which is
alleged to be falsification of a government document and potentially
election fraud—a felony offense. According to election offical
Stephanine Cooper via an open records request Eva Royer changed her
address July 12. In May of 2024 Councilman Vale announced he would not
seek reelection due to moving after his term was up in Novemeber.
3.
**Airbnb Property**: The address she listed is allegedly owned by her
brokerage as an Airbnb property, which has been actively rented out
based on customer reviews and listings. Additionally, she has been
paying hotel occupancy tax (HOT) to the city of Granbury for this
property.
4. **Previous Voting Behavior**: In
the March primary, she voted using an address where she presumably
lived with her significant other, Tim Bolton, on Ravenswood in Pecan
Plantation, which is outside the city limits. This action further
suggests potential voter fraud.
5.
**Withdrawal of Candidacy**: After a special city council meeting was
called to address the situation, Eva Royer withdrew her candidacy,
indicating awareness of the fraudulent nature of her actions.
6.
**Role in Hood County Republican Party**: Eva Royer is a member of the
Hood County Republican Party committee for events and fundraisers. Given
the seriousness of her alleged actions, you express concerns about her
trustworthiness in handling party funds.
7. **City Council Approval**: On July 23, 2024, Eva Royer received approval from the city council for her Airbnb property.
8.
**Concerns with Party Leadership**: You raise broader concerns about
the Hood County Republican Party's leadership, mentioning previous
endorsements of individuals with serious allegations, and now a
potential fraud.
### **Suggested Remedies**
1.
**Contact the Hood County Sheriff’s Office**: Report the alleged voter
fraud and election fraud for legal investigation and possible
prosecution. Correction might be GPD. Reporting to both not a bad
idea! I have sample.letters for all
2.
**Report to the Texas Real Estate Commission**: File a complaint against
Eva Royer for violating professional standards as a realtor.
3.
**Contact Greg Harrell, Hood County Republican Party Chairman**: Urge
the removal of Eva Royer from her position within the party due to her
involvement in the alleged fraud.
4.
**Remember at the Voting Booth**: When you vote this November, remember
that Tim Bolton, her significant other and a candidate for school board,
was undoubtedly aware of Eva Royer’s fraudulent actions.
### **Closing Statement**
This
is not about "cancel culture" but about maintaining integrity within
our democracy, which Eva Royer has allegedly disregarded. Election fraud
is a serious crime and should be treated as such.
If
you need the specific contact information for the Sheriff’s Office,
Real Estate Commission, or Greg Harrell, please let me know.
The
GOP keeps insisting they're trying to protect the vote and their
actions keep demonstrating that they're just trying to cheat.
Will
she be going to jail? Let's hope so. And if she does, it can be a
learning experience for her. Why, just a few weeks ago, she Tweeted:
EVA ROYER
@TheEvaRoyer
·
Mar 3
Prison can offer true change and second chances! @TDCJ
programs at the O’Daniel Unit with @GatewayPeople
Prison Ministries and @KCBI
are real trailblazers…by launching the Ladies of “The Tank” Radio Station inside.
BIG THANK YOU for joining us @DrindaRandall
our @TexasGOP
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Prison can offer true change, Eva, and let's hope you get a chance to find out.
Let's wind down with this from Senator Patty Murray's office:
ICYMI:
Senator Murray Statement on Trump Plans to Freeze Tens of Millions in
Title X Family Planning Funds for Planned Parenthood, Other
Organizations
Washington, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senators Patty Murray
(D-WA), a senior member and former chair of the Senate Health,
Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Tina Smith (D-MN), and
Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) reintroduced the Expanding Access to Family Planning Act,
a bill that would safeguard funding for Title X – the country’s only
federal program dedicated to providing family planning and preventive
health services, including birth control, cancer screenings, testing for
sexually transmitted infections (STIs), and reproductive health care –
following attacks on the program by the Trump Administration last week.
Title X clinics serve 4 million people annually,
and in 2023 alone, more than 1.5 million visits to Planned Parenthood
health centers were made possible by the program. The bill is co-led in
the House of Representatives by Representative Sharice Davids (D,
KS-03), Judy Chu (D, CA-28) and Dina Titus (D, NV-01).
“For more than 50 years, Title X funding has helped women
across the U.S. get cancer screenings, contraception, pregnancy tests,
STI treatment, and so many other services that are critical to helping
women—especially women with the tightest budgets—stay healthy and plan
their futures,” said Senator Murray. “I’m proud to co-lead the Expanding Access to Family Planning Act—this
legislation would give Title X reliable annual funding to provide
reproductive health care to more people, meeting a growing need for
these vital services. As the Trump administration does everything they
can to attack Title X and rip away women’s ability to receive basic
health care, Democrats will keep fighting back to protect a woman’s
right to make her own decisions about her body and her future.”
“We are at a time when Americans’ reproductive freedoms are
under attack from extremist Republicans – which makes the Title X Family
Planning Program more important than ever,” said Senator Smith. “Title
X funding provides American women with access to critical reproductive
health services. I invite my Republican colleagues who claim to champion
family planning services to join us in supporting this commonsense
legislation that will protect women’s access to life-saving services and
birth control, pregnancy counseling, infertility services, and more.”
“The Title X program saves lives by making sure people have
access to affordable cancer screenings, STI testing, birth control, and
pregnancy tests,” said Senator Warren. “While the Trump administration
puts women’s health at risk, Democrats are fighting back.”
The Expanding Access to Family Planning Act is even more crucial as the Trump Administration recently froze millions
of dollars in already-appropriated Title X funding, impacting 16
organizations across several states. Planned Parenthood affiliates have
lost access to as much as $3 million annually — resources they rely on
to serve tens of thousands of patients each year. According to the
Guttmacher Institute, the freeze could impact access
to care for up to 1.25 million people, many of whom are low-income,
people of color, or live in medically underserved communities.
“In Kansas and across the country, people are being turned
away from the only places they can afford to get basic, lifesaving
reproductive care — all because the Trump Administration is playing
politics with their health,” said Representative Davids. “This
bill protects trusted providers and ensures access to cancer
screenings, birth control, and STI testing, no matter your income, where
you live, or how you vote.”
“The Trump Administration is denying women across Nevada and
the U.S. the freedom to make decisions about their own bodies and their
families’ futures,” said Representative Titus. “By
fully funding family planning services, we can protect their rights to
access lifesaving preventive care, birth control, and other reproductive
health services at a time when these freedoms are under constant
attack.”
Specifically, The Expanding Access to Family Planning Act would:
Guarantee stable, annual funding for Title X
$512 million annually for 10 years, addressing the current funding shortfall and ensuring access to essential services.
$50 million in mandatory funding for clinic construction, renovations, and infrastructure improvements.
Protect providers like Planned Parenthoodfrom being excluded, as seen under the Trump Administration’s so-called “domestic gag rule.”
Reinstate regulations prohibiting discrimination against providers
who offer Title X services, ensuring continuity of care for patients.
Provide information related to prenatal care, delivery,
infant care, foster care, adoption, and pregnancy termination — unless a
patient opts out of receiving information on certain options.
Senator Murray has consistently fought to strengthen and preserve the Title X program, and was a vocal critic of
the first Trump Administration’s Title X gag rule and countless other
efforts to undermine reproductive health care. Early in 2019, Senator
Murray released a memo highlighting
some of the negative impacts of the rule and comments from patients,
providers, city and county officials, and religious organizations
submitted in opposition. Senator Murray is also a longtime leader in
the fight to protect and expand access to reproductive health care and
abortion rights, and she has led Congressional efforts to fight back
after the Supreme Court’s disastrous decision overturning Roe v. Wade. Murray has introducedmorethan a dozen pieces of legislation to protect reproductive rights from further attacks, protect providers, and help ensure women get the care they need; Murray has led efforts to push for passage of these bills on the floor multiple times. Murray also led her colleagues in
raising the alarm about the threat a second Trump administration poses
to reproductive rights and abortion access in every state, as outlined in Project 2025.
The full text of the Expanding Access to Family Planning Act is HERE.
Bobi e-mailed to announce she'd "finally managed a
frittata -- I know, I know, I'm about three decades behind. But it gave
me the courage to try a quiche. My aunt used to make those every Sunday
and take it to Grandma's and I always wanted to make one but when we
start talking crusts or too many ingredients, I get nervous. Budget
Bytes is one of the outlets you highlight so I went there and found the recipe for Easy Quiche Lorraine and it was easy for me and turned out perfect."
Ingredients
1 sheet puff pastry ($3.12)
4 strips bacon ($1.54)
1 yellow onion, diced ($0.70)
1 clove garlic, minced ($0.04)
4 oz cream cheese ($0.96)
1/4 cup heavy cream, plus more for brushing crust edges ($0.30)
1/4 cup milk ($0.05)
5 eggs, lightly beaten ($3.04)
2 cups shredded Swiss cheese ($4.43)
1/4 tsp ground nutmeg ($0.03)
1/2 tsp salt ($0.04)
1/4 tsp Freshly cracked black pepper ($0.04)
2 Tbsp chopped fresh Italian parsley for garnish (optional) ($0.10)
Instructions
Set
a rack in the middle of your oven and preheat it to 425°F. Next, roll
the puff pastry into an 11-inch square and transfer it to a 9-inch
diameter pie plate. Then puncture the bottom of the puff pastry a few
times with a fork and trim the edges.
Cover the puff pastry
with a sheet of parchment paper and add a pound of dry beans or pie
weights. Then, cover the edges of the pastry with a pie shield or ring
made of aluminum foil to prevent them from burning. Bake for fifteen
minutes.
While the puff pastry par-bakes set a heavy-bottomed
skillet over medium heat. Add the bacon strips and cook until crispy.
Next, chop the bacon into bits. Set aside the chopped bacon and reserve
the drippings.
Remove the puff pastry from the oven. Carefully
remove the pie shield. Then carefully remove the parchment paper with
the beans or pie weights.*
Cook the onion in the bacon
drippings until translucent (about 2 minutes). Next, add the garlic
clove and cook until fragrant (about 1 minute).
In a large bowl, beat the cream cheese, heavy cream, and milk until smooth.
Add
the beaten eggs, shredded Swiss cheese, cooked onions and garlic,
nutmeg, salt, and freshly ground pepper. Finally, set aside 2
tablespoons of chopped bacon for garnish and add the rest to the
filling. Stir well.
Pour the filling into the prebaked crust. Brush the crust with 1 teaspoon of heavy cream.
Cover
the edges of the quiche with a pie shield or aluminum foil ring. Bake
until the crust is golden brown and the filling sets, about 25 minutes.
Remove the pie shield and cool the quiche for 10 minutes before serving.
Finally, garnish with remaining bacon bits and chopped Italian parsley
And that's the great thing about cooking. You learn, you gain confidence, you increase the number of recipes you can master. Good job, Bobi.
President
Donald Trump's trade war is already impacting the American economy, and
one Democratic strategist expects part of his 2024 coalition of voters
to falter.
A Democratic and Republican strategist agreed on MSNBC that the Trump tariffs add costs to American livelihoods.
Speaking
on Wednesday, host Ana Cabrera said that she remembered speaking with a
lot of voters who were on the fence, but ultimately decided to vote for
Trump over the economy.
"Now
we have a new Reuters poll showing 73% of Americans expect a price surge
because of the tariffs, only 39% support them," Cabrera said. "Yes,
Trump supporters say they're willing to give the president time, but I
do wonder, you know, where is that threshold, where — what happens when
Americans start personally feeling the pain in their pocketbook?"
Democratic
analyst Tara Dowdell and Republican strategist Dusan Del Percio agreed
that there are two types of voters. There are the MAGA loyalists, who
treat Trump like a "televangelist." The others are those who supported
Democrats like Barack Obama or Joe Biden in the past, but flipped
because they bought into the GOP's economic message.
Wednesday, April 8, 2025. The economy's tanking, unemployment's
increasing, a big strong man needs 20 agents to protect him, Propaganda
Pig continues her attempts to obscure reality while Zac and Cody
re-enlist in their attacks on a Black woman..
Let's start with Madonna.
Little girl don't run away so fast
I think you forgot to kiss, kiss her goodbye
Will she see me cry when I stumble and fall
Does she hear my voice in the night when I call
Wipe away all your tears, it's gonna be all right
I fought to be so strong, I guess you knew
I was afraid you'd go away, too
Little girl you've got to forget the past
And learn to forgive me
I promise to try, but it feels like a lie
Don't let memory play games with your mind
She's a faded smile frozen in time
I'm still hanging on, but I'm doing it wrong
Can't kiss her goodbye, but I promise to try
-- "Promise To Try," written by Madonna and Patrick Leonard, first appears on Madonna's LIKE A PRAYER.
Little girl . . . That one goes out to the little sensitive cupcake in the Chump administration. And which one would that be?
The
MAGA podcaster who was tapped to be the FBI’s second in command has
chosen to be protected by as many as 20 agents—while his predecessors
have often had no security detail at all, NBC News reported.
Last
week, the agency put out a call for agents willing to sign up to
abandon their ordinary duties and protect Deputy Director Dan Bongino 24
hours a day for month-long stints, unnamed FBI officials told NBC.
Oh, look at the sweet princess who needs "as many as 20 agents" to feel safe. Back to the article:
While
it’s typical for FBI directors to have a security team made up of
agents, deputy directors have typically not had one. Former and current
officials told NBC that Bongino’s predecessor, Paul Abbate, was only
assigned one agent for protection. He carried a service weapon and only
had a full detail when he traveled overseas.
But Paul Abbate wasn't a weak sister the way little girl Dan is.
20 agents? He needs 20 agents protecting him in order to feel safe.
Promise to try, Dan, promise to try. You're still hanging on, but you're doing it wrong
Does he need the 20 agents to also check under the bed each night for monsters?
Republicans
are growing restless and frustrated over President Donald Trump's
escalating trade war — and some strategists are warning he's set to
trigger a dangerous backlash, Politico reported on Tuesday.
Trump's
"Liberation Day" tariffs, dubbed a "reciprocal" scheme even though the
tariffs are in most cases far higher than those imposed on U.S. products
by foreign countries, impose duties of 10 to 49 percent on virtually
all foreign goods. The list of tariffs even singles out remote,
uninhabited volcanic islands near Antarctica that have no trade with the
U.S.
The result has been a
panicked selloff in the stock market and forecasts of a likely imminent
recession — which, GOP officials say, are not what their voters wanted.
The
president "won in November because many voters saw him as an antidote
to their economic malaise; as a candidate, he frequently promised to
lower Americans’ everyday prices," noted Adam Cancryn and Myah Ward.
"But
as president, he has chosen instead to plunge the country into fresh
financial chaos, while insisting the market losses as a result of his
tariffs are 'medicine' Americans need to take."
Whit
Ayres, who polls for Republicans, said, “Trump was elected in part to
lower inflation and juice the economy. Higher prices and slower growth
are exactly the opposite of what Americans voted for.”
"The
economic turbulence unleashed by the White House’s blanket tariffs is
sending shudders through every level of the Republican Party. Alarmed
officials worry the administration is driving the U.S. toward recession
and dooming the GOP’s midterm chances — yet they have no idea what will
convince Trump to change course," noted the report.
Who's
fault is the tanking economy? We all know and so does Chump. But if
he's struggling to own his failure, let's help him out by noting this from Brad Reed (RAW STORY):
CNN's
Stephen Collinson believes that there is no easy way out for President
Donald Trump when it comes to his trade war — and that means the
American economy is headed for what he describes as an "ugly endgame."
In
his latest analysis, Collinson makes the case that Trump has backed
himself into a corner by refusing to budge from his trade wars with
nearly every nation on the planet, including a remote island that is
primarily populated by penguins.
"A president who
believes he enjoys almost absolute power and who has torn off the
constraints of his first term is not looking for an off-ramp," Collinson
warns. "And his zeal for confrontation and sense of mission may also
have implications beyond the economy and for other policy areas — such
as his expansionist designs on Greenland and Canada, his mass migrant
deportations and cultural warfare."
Collinson
thinks that it will be hard for America's trade partners to actually
negotiate with Trump give his beliefs about basic economic concepts such
as trade deficits, which Trump has insisted that other countries
eliminate as a precondition before he'll consider lowering his tariffs.
The tariffs have brought out the worst in the administration. Even Alien Musk and Peter Navarro are at each other's throats. John L. Dorman and Alice Tecotzky (BUSINESS INSIDER) report on Propaganda Pig Karoline Leavitt's role in the mud:
White
House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Tuesday seemingly brushed
aside any concerns regarding the public fight between Tesla CEO Elon
Musk and top Trump trade advisor Peter Navarro.
"These
are obviously two individuals who have very different views on trade
and on tariffs," she said during a briefing at the White House. "Boys
will be boys, and we will let their public sparring continue."
The
bimbo grows ever more stupid with each passing day. Peter Navarro is
75 years old. Alien Musk is 53 years old. Neither man is a boy. One
is an elderly man, the other is middle aged man. Propaganda Pig has
Daddy issues which is why she married someone 32 years older than she is
but those are issues for her to work through in much needed therapy not
in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room.
Last
night on THE 11TH HOUR WITH STEPHANIE RUHLE, Stephanie and her guests
discussed the tariffs and the claims and counter claims Chump and the
administration keep putting out there.
Small-business owners are already feeling the effects of Donald
Trump’s tariff scheme that he claims will boost American manufacturing
and bring jobs back to the United States.
Many have flocked to Reddit to share their struggles, desperately searching for advice amid fears of losing their livelihoods.
“Any
other small shops trying to figure out what to do? I’ve single handedly
created and ran my small business for almost three years. I sell bamboo
clothing and bedding, and now with this tariff I’ll likely have to
close,” one user posted on the r/smallbusiness board.
On “Liberation Day,”
Trump implemented tariffs ranging from 10 percent to 60 percent on
imports from about 90 countries, which he claims will eliminate the
trade deficit between the U.S. and other countries (economic experts
have scoffed
at the far-fetched assertion). China will see the worst of it all; the
country faces a new 34 percent reciprocal tariff, along with a
previously announced 20 percent tariff. On Monday, Trump threatened to increase the rate to 104 percent if China did not rescind its retaliatory tariffs.
One
Reddit user received an email from their Chinese distributor informing
them that it will no longer distribute their products in the United
States. “I planned for so many different things over the past few months
which should allow us to weather the storm for the next year or so, but
I didn’t expect our largest supplier to back out of the U.S. market
entirely,” the user wrote.
He
is wrecking the economy. He does not know what he's doing. He's
surrounded by con artists and idiots. Peter Navarro is an idiot. DOGE
has fired over 200,000 workers already. Now small businesses are
struggling to stay open and, if they can't, that's even more people
added to the unemployment rolls. Extremists -- right wing or left wing
-- only know how to tear apart, not how to build. (Ask poor Jeffrey
Bowman what it's like when DSA turns on you and works to get you kicked
out of Congress.) It's The Politics of Destruction and it's all they
know and it's all they do.
Senator Maria Cantwell's office issued the following:
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Maria
Cantwell (D-WA), senior member of the Senate Finance Committee and
ranking member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and
Transportation, pressed United States Trade Representative Jamieson
Greer on the administration’s slapdash implementation of sweeping
tariffs without sufficient input or accountability to Congress.
Prior to President Trump’s implementation of the tariffs, there was
no formal bipartisan briefing of Congress detailing how the tariff rates
were set, analyzing on how they might impact the American economy, or
even communicating what the White House was aiming to accomplish.
“What did the Trump administration do to prepare [Congress],
to communicate with us, to tell us about findings as it relates to these
emergency orders by the President?” Sen. Cantwell asked during a hearing today in the Senate Finance Committee.
“Our staff, the USTR staff, in the in the past two months
that we've been in office, have had over 200 formal engagements with
staff on the Hill,” Greer responded. “We also had the
President issue very publicly his America First trade policy memorandum,
which specifically said that he was going to look into the trade
deficit and the possibilities of tariffs.”
Cantwell responded: “So, we've wreaked havoc on the economy
by having one of the largest drops of the market. We have people's
401(k)s, in panic. We have retail organizations, like the retail
industry, National Retail Federation, American Apparel Industry, Outdoor
Association, Consumer Technology, Computer and Communications Industry,
Main Street Alliance, Small Business Majority, all anxious, asking us
to do something. And you're saying, ‘Well, some people have passed some
notes to staff.’”
She continued: “We should be building alliances as a way to
counter China, but the alliance building process now will become harder,
and people are going to wonder, well, is the United States going to
pull another fast one again and just wreak havoc?”
Greer said the United States has seen “many times in past decades
when we have had real robust trade disputes with our partners.”
Sen. Cantwell responded: “I'm for trade. I represent trade. I
represent a trade economy. I represent the success of what innovation
and trade gets you. But you're coming here this morning with this, not
only tanking of the market and 401(k)s, now you're coming here telling
me that tariff is the tool. And I'm telling you -- innovation is the
tool!”
In addition, a bipartisan group has introduced a companion version of
Sen. Cantwell’s legislation in the House of Representatives, also
cosponsored by equal numbers of Republicans and Democrats.
The bill restores Congress’ authority and responsibility over tariffs
as outlined in Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution by placing the
following limits on the president’s power to impose tariffs:
To enact a new tariff, the president must notify Congress of the imposition of (or increase in) the tariff within 48 hours.
The Congressional notification must include an explanation of the president’s reasoning for imposing or raising the tariff, and
Provide analysis of potential impact on American businesses and consumers.
Within 60 days, Congress must pass a joint resolution of approval on
the new tariff, otherwise all new tariffs on imports expire after that
deadline.
Under the bill, Congress has the ability to end tariffs at any time by passing a resolution of disapproval.
Anti-dumping and countervailing duties are excluded.
For the past three months, President Trump has been sowing economic
chaos across the country with unpredictable and ever-changing tariff
announcements. His back-and-forth announcements and actions, which have
whipsawed American businesses and consumers, as well as close neighbors
and allies, include:
On January 31 – citing punishment for failing to crack down on fentanyl trafficking -- the Trump administration announced plans to
impose a 25% tax on many goods imported into the U.S. from Canada and
Mexico and a 10% tax on goods imported from China, then abruptly
postponed those tariffs.
In February, he doubled down, announcing an additional 25% tax on all steel and aluminum imports.
At 12:01 a.m. ET on March 4, President Trump’s long-promised 25%
tariffs on goods from Mexico and Canada and 10% tariff increase on goods
from China took effect, causing stock prices in the United States to plummet.
Then, on March 5, he announced that automobiles from Canada and Mexico would be exempt from his tariffs for one month.
The morning of March 6, he announced that he would suspend the
tariffs for some products from Mexico. Then, later that same afternoon,
he announced he was suspending most new tariffs on products from both
Mexico and Canada until April 2.
On March 11, Trump threatened to double tariffs on Canadian steel
and aluminum – increasing them to 50% – before reversing himself later
the same day.
On March 13, he threatened 200% tariffs on alcoholic products from the European Union, including all wine and Champagne.
On March 27, he announced plans to impose a 25% tax on all imported
sedans, SUVs, crossovers, minivans, cargo vans, and light trucks, as
well as some auto parts, beginning on April 2.
On April 2, he announced a “National Economic Emergency,” and signed
an executive order declaring a 10% minimum baseline tariff on all
countries as well as additional tariffs on nearly 60 countries.
On April 7, he threatened to impose an additional 50% tariff on China.
Video of Sen. Cantwell’s Q&A with Greer today is available HERE; audio is HERE; and a transcript is HERE.
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Chump is wrecking the economy, he is wrecking democracy, he is wrecking people's lives.
Let's turn to the topic of immigration.
Lives are being destroyed.
Idiot
Tim Waltz is back, if you missed it. VANGUARD boys were lapping his
nuts like crazy yesterday because he's White and he's a Socialist and
he's a liar and he was attacking Kamala Harris.
If
you've forgotten, Tim's a damn loser. Almost immediately upon being
announced as Kamala's running mate, Tim told one lie after another and
got caught over and over and over.
No, you don't 'misspeak' when you say you were at Tiananmen Square when the massacre took place when you were not there
That's not slipping up, that's flat out lying
and he did it over and over. He also lost a debate to JD Vance. How
much of an idiot do you have to be to lose a debate to Miss Sassy? He
lost it. He was sweating like a pig, stumbling around with words and he
lost.
Now maybe you're confused because THE
'PROGRESSIVE' promoted him so heavily. While attacking Kamala over and
over, they promoted him. That was because he was Socialst approved. As
Mike noted earlier this week in "Tim Walz, STFU:"
Can someone tell Tim Walz to shut up? The
only people who ever liked him were Socialists -- he's probably a
Socialist himself. When Kamala announced he was her running mate, DSA
Tweeted that this was a victory for them (DSA). So he's probably a
Socialist. But what he mainly is? A failure. Alex Galbraith (SALON) reports:
Tim Walz isn't laughing.
The
former vice presidential candidate and current governor of Minnesota
stopped by CNN's "State of the Union" on Sunday, taking a moment to
criticize former running mate Kamala Harris over comments she made last
week.
Speaking at the Leading Women Defined
Summit in California on Thursday, Harris played the role of an
in-the-know adviser whose advice wasn't heeded.
“There
were many things that we knew would happen. I’m not here to say ‘I told
you so,‘” the former vice president said. “I swore I wasn’t going to
say that!”
Speaking to Jake Tapper, Walz let
loose on the former vice president. He noted that she was the face of
the Democratic Party's massive loss, saying she should own up to the
result.
“When I criticize, I’m criticizing
myself,” Walz said. “I own this. I’m part of the ticket, and somebody
has to come up with a strategy.”
When has that loser every criticized himself?
At this rate, Shapiro would have been a better choice.
Tim's announced and we're happy and think he's the real deal -- the DSA applause should have been a clue.
DSA
@DemSocialists
Harris
choosing Walz as a running mate has shown the world that DSA and our
allies on the left are a force that cannot be ignored. Through
collective action, DSA and the US left more broadly have made it clear
that change is needed. DSA members organized in our workplaces and
unions to realign the labor movement to support Palestinian liberation.
4:12 PM · Aug 6, 2024
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DSA
@DemSocialists
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Aug 6, 2024
The
Uncommitted movement, in which DSA members played crucial roles
nationally and in multiple states, pressured the Democratic
establishment into choosing a new candidate and backing down from a
potential VP with direct ties to the IDF and who would have ferociously
supported the ongoing genocide in Palestine.
DSA is a rat f**ker that rat f**ked our election.
And
they loved them so Tim Walz. You saw all the closet cases put it out
for Timmy Walz -- including that wretched COMMON DREAMS.
He's not the real deal.
He's a natural born liar. And one lie after another keeps coming from his stupid and uninformed mouth.
He
turned out to be the worst choice for a running mate and yet liars like
Zac and Cody of THE VANGUARD rush to pretend otherwise. On TABITHA
SPEAKS POLITICS yesterday, Tabitha noted these White liars.
She's
exactly right. And if Zac and Cody can't learn to shut their damn
mouths and stop attacking Kamala, they're going to see the crowd size
dwindle. There is no reason for those of us who are Black to take part
in these Hands Off rallies if we're going to be attacked. And that's
all that's happening. White fat ass Tim comes back to attack Kamala and
the White Socialists are all over it yet again.
They've
never apologized for their actions and their lies and working to defeat
Kamala Harris. They've never owned that they put us in the hell that
we are all currently living in.
But damned if they can't make time to yet again attack Kamala while pretending that they didn't do it all along.
Don Lemon brought some honesty yesterday.
It's
what all the White YOUTUBERS have ignored. The anger and the reason
for the anger. They pretend that they care about Black people but they
don't. Like Zac and Cody (I know it's Gavin but they're so immature
they should be Zac and Cody) pretend to care about trans rights but when
their hero Marianne Williamson is talking to Bill Maher? They praised
her for not defending trans rights. They felt that was a rabbit hole
and a distraction.
These are the same crap ass
idiots who think Senator Chuck Schumer should step down from
leadership. When are Zac and Cody going to step down?
But
wasn't it strange watching the boyz grovel over Mehdi? Didn't it
bother anyone that only months before, Zac and Gavin were pimping Jill
Stein. Just like Kyle had. Yeah, they came on board in a luke warm
manner for Kamala but only after they pimped everyone else. They were
for Cornel West. And then they were for Marianne Williamson. And then
they were for Jill Stein. In less than 18 months, that's what they
served up.
That's how
shallow Zac and Cody are. There is no thought deeper with those two
than one of them burping and the other, after sniffing the air, asking,
"Did you have Mexican?"
Food
and gossip, that's all they can really handle as they veer from one
half-thought to the next trying to recall the words to their bittersweet
nursery rhyme.
Grasp
that Richard Nixon had an enemies' list while Donald Chump works from
an enemies roll -- an enemies' ledger -- yet we've got THE VANGUARD
serving up the 'hot goss' like
they're E! buzz mavens.
The
far left is an embarrassment. They rush to and fro from position to
position with no ethics and a strong hope that you don't remember what
they said two months ago. They lie just like Chump because they are
extremists just like he is.
On February 7, Luz Zambrano gave
birth to her second child, Alana Samantha. She hadn’t expected to do so
without her husband, Julio Zambrano Perez, by her side. But Luz went
into labor only days after US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
detained Zambrano Perez, during a routine check-in appointment. Weeks
later, the Trump administration sent him, along with 237 other
Venezuelan men, to a mega-prison in El Salvador. Luz has been left lost
and confused.
“We don’t even know what to do,” Luz tells me. “We don’t understand
what they are going to do with him. Nobody answers. Not here, not in
Venezuela, not anywhere.”
Zambrano Perez’s family says ICE misidentified him as a gang member
because of two tattoos he has: one of a rose and another of a crown.
(ICE did not respond to a request for comment.) Now, his fate is
uncertain. In the aftermath of his disappearance to a foreign country,
the asylum-seeking family—who was building their lives in a suburb of
North Carolina—has been abruptly torn apart, perhaps indefinitely. As we
speak on the phone, I can hear her infant’s cries in the background.
Luz tells me she just went to the hospital. Her two-month-old baby has the flu.
In mid-March, President Donald Trump quietly signed a proclamation
invoking the wartime Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to detain and remove,
without due process, Venezuelans accused of being members of the Tren de
Aragua gang. The administration then swiftly flew three planes to El
Salvador, prompting a judicial clash with a federal judge who
temporarily halted the deportations over whether the White House
disobeyed a court order to return on-air flights to the United States.
(On Monday, the Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration can resume removals under the Act.)
As our reporting
revealed, many of the men dispatched to El Salvador without any notice
appear to have been plucked by the US government because of their
tattoos—despite the fact that they had no proven ties to the group. An
analysis by CBS News failed
to find criminal records for 179—or 75 percent—of the Venezuelans. One
man whose loved ones we spoke with, Neri Alvarado Borges, has an autism
awareness tattoo for his 15-year-old brother. Another is a makeup artist whose tattoos on his wrists depict a crown and the words “Mom” and “Dad’ in English.
The Trump White House has admitted
in court filings to have wrongfully sent another man, Kilmar Abrego
Garcia, to El Salvador even though he had been granted protection from
deportation to his native country by an immigration judge. Still, the
administration claims US courts can’t compel them to bring the Maryland
father of three back to the United States. During a district court
hearing last week, a Justice Department attorney, who has since been placed
on leave, acknowledged Abrego Garcia shouldn’t have been removed,
saying the government’s “absence of evidence speaks for itself.”
Some
of us were focused in the lead up to the election. Here we repeatedly
made the point that the deportations Chump was bragging he would do if
elected would (a) lead to profiling, (b) snap up US citizens by mistake
and (c) wrongfully deport immigrants who had committed no crimes. Zac
and Cody were clearly off somewhere getting stoned. Unable to do the
work, they refuse to do it now.
We need something for a smile and this photo Tabitha posted of the morbidly obese Donald Chump might do that.
We're going to wind down with this from THE BLACK COMMENTATOR:
