Fortunately for these people (and I use the word in the widest possible sense), millions of low information Trump fan voters are still willing to riot for them, if the Leader exhorts them to. Jared Kushner, poster boy for undeserved, obscene entitlement, railed during Covid that the federal stockpiles of PPE “belong to the federal, they’re not for the states to use, they’re for the federal! [1]”. Here’s another completely unqualified Trump appointee, speaking, with equally compelling brilliance, to a private conference of some kind.
Thomas Frank at Politico received a recording of a speech Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator Cameron Hamilton gave today at a private conference in Little Rock, Arkansas, in which he said the Trump administration plans to shift responsibility for disaster management to the states.
Hamilton’s speech built on an internal memo from October 15, which Frank also covered, that said the administration seeks to turn disaster response over to local and state government, thereby “reducing federal dependency.” “Federal dollars should be building greater capability, not creating greater dependency,” Hamilton said today. source
Don’t forget how the federal government distributes federal tax dollars among the states. The wealthiest states, who pay the most in taxes, are predominantly “Blue” states. The states that pay the least into the federal fisc and receive the most in federal ssistance are the states of the former Confederacy (with the exceptions of donor states Texas, Georgia and Florida). Majorities in these impoverished states have all been voting solidly for MAGA, make America the way it was before the goddamned Civil Rights movement made the coloreds so goddamned uppity and entitled! And get your hands off our Medicare and Medicaid, Obama!
Back to the Orange Menace, brazenly violating another popular bipartisan bill he signed into law, the one named for the recently deceased, always loyal to a fault, Lindsey Graham. America’s Ally Betrayer-in-chief threw his support behind his idol and puppet master, the cartoonishly evil Vladimir Puto, with his usual transactional “logic”. Here is my attempt to capture that irrefutable logic (see Trump v. US decision)
The Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026 — I never knew Graham, he struck me as a very obsequious and, I know you’re not supposed to say this, but deeply closested gay. He didn’t have the inside information I have from my weekly one on one calls with Mr. Putin, and Mr. Musk, the world’s greatest genius, second only to me, has also been in very close contact with Mr. Puto, since 2022, they talk all the time. And Zelensky, that little prick, thinks he’s smarter than me and that he doesn’t have to grovel as low as I tell him to! And, besides, Mr. Putin is helping Iran in its war against us MUCH LESS than he could be, so I won that negotiation too, just like I won the war in Iran that Putin is only helping a little bit to help Iran try to fight, which I don’t resent at all, because Mr. Putin is a dear friend. Did you check out the ass on the Russian strongman? I know I shouldn’t say this, but maybe that’s why Lindsey whatever his name was was jealous enough to support those vicious, lying killers in Hunter Biden’s Ukraine… and those lying Iranian maniacs I may have to annihilate.
As for the so-called Epstein Files Transparency Act, fuck that and the fake near unanimous bipartisan support it had in Congress — my friends will get hurt if Todd releases those 3,000,000 documents as the law supposedly, ALLEGEDLY, requires — and Todd, you know, will do anything for me. Don’t get me started on those junior high school girls — they were NOT VICTIMS, they were all little whores, they knew exactly what they were doing and they were very well paid for girls with no experience in the field.
Back to objective reality: there’s some anger, among those who dislike the pungent smell of open corruption, that Trump lickspittle Alina Habba seems to have received a $50,000,000 job that seems to involve no work, from a Venezuelan billionaire who needed a pardon, in exchange for the presidential pardon that Trump scrawled his name on in Sharpie. Let us not forget what $50,000,000 amounts to for a billionaire, even those clinging to the lowest rung of the billionaire ladder.
Brother can you spare a nickel?
We just heard that Michael Bloomberg, the dictatorial little prick who changed the law, for himself only, a one shot deal, to become NYC mayor a third time, is giving $80,000,000 to corporate Democrats for the midterms. This generous donation is dwarfed by the $500,000,000 he spent on his own vanity campaign to win the 2020 Democratic presidential primary in American Samoa. When hitting the calculator to figure out the percentage of his fortune that is his generous $80,000,000 donation to American democracy, you need to multiply the hypothetical one billion by between 94.9 and 109.4. Meaning that his generous tax-deductible donation amounts to the smallest possible fraction of a penny to him.
Make sure you’re still registered to vote, and check that your polling place hasn’t been changed — vote.org. Vote early, and in person.
This doesn’t mean our homegrown Nazis and the beneficiaries of American fascism (unfettered capitalism taken to its logical end) won’t rain violence on us all to prevent their almost inevitable electoral defeat from translating into loss of power. Their zeal to kill us we can’t control, voting we can. Let’s make the margins too big to mess with, even if they manage to toss out half of our votes through extra-legal means. I am waiting now more than two weeks for papers from a NYC agency that were supposed to be mailed and received within a week. Vote in person, our far-right corporate friends have already decapitated the USPS.
[1] The idiot’s actual words were even better than my recollection: “the notion of federal stockpiles was it’s supposed to be our stockpile, it’s not supposed to be the states stockpiles that they then use.”
