“The Democrats refuse to vote for Voter I.D., or Citizenship. The reason is very simple—They want to continue to cheat in Elections. This was not what our Founders desired. I have searched the depths of Legal Arguments not yet articulated or vetted on this subject, and will be presenting an irrefutable one in the very near future. There will be Voter I.D. for the Midterm Elections, whether approved by Congress or not! Also, the People of our Country are insisting on Citizenship, and No Mail-In Ballots, with exceptions for Military, Disability, Illness, or Travel. Thank you for your attention to this matter! PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP”
They want to continue to cheat in Elections.
It is universally recognized that President Donald J. Trump is the most popular and accomplished president ever, in any country in history. This is confirmed by every objective poll and every honest white historian. If the Democrats are not allowed to flagrantly cheat, as they have been over and over in all the recent elections they “won” by “wide margins,” they will be wiped out in the midterms and certainly in 2028. This is beyond dispute, as is the President’s overwhelming, historic electoral mandate.
. . . the depths of Legal Arguments not yet articulated or vetted…will be presenting an irrefutable one in the very near future.
President Donald J. Trump will convene a legal team of John Eastman, Rudy Giuliani, Pam Bondi, Todd Blanche, Alina Habba, Alan Dershowitz, Jeffrey Clark, Stephen Miller, Jim Jordan, Lindsey Halligan, Lindsey Graham, Lyin’ Ted Cruz, Jeanine Pirro, Mike Johnson, Ginni Thomas and other top constitutional scholars to craft the concept of an irrefutable legal plan that will be fully articulated in time to implement a nationally supervised, no-cheating, no do-over election that the president’s candidates will all win in landslides, once the Democrats’ cheating has been eliminated by an Executive Order and all elected Democrats are in private detention facilities in Red States under a national security lockdown.
Rachel Maddow makes a good point here, why would the Republicans invite Jack Smith to testify publicly when all he would say is what he said?
Trump was the chief propagator of the big lie (stolen 2020 election), the fake electors, the coercion of state officials, the frivolous, evidence-free, court challenges, the plot to have Mike Pence announce Trump had won the election, the Green Bay Sweep, and the bloody riot at the Capitol with the gallows outside to hang Mike Pence. There was only one leader, one beneficiary, of this desperate many armed criminals octopus, Donald Trump.
Click the image above to read the moral vision the Commander-in-Cheat revealed to the Grey Lady during a recent two hour sit-down in the Epstein Oval Office.
We may not question that the greediest and most ruthless among us have every right to rule, since they are the fittest, the most motivated, the most special and the most entitled. If you only have $100,000,000 there is no reason you shouldn’t have every right to go for ten, a hundred or a million times that. It is only jealously on the part of losers that could account for a failure to realize that acquiring more money than you can spend in a hundred lifetimes is simply the highest expression of freedom. Ask the Free Market, consult the Invisible Hand, consider the Finger.
Your new doctor agreed you were right to want to rule out cancer before undergoing another operation on the same organ. You take an MRI. A few days later a bot will send you the MRI results, because — of course they will. If it’s bad news your doctor will call, and sure enough, the next Monday morning, his office calls to wake you with the news that your doctor needs to speak to you. He can talk by video in one week. You put it in your calendar and try not to worry until you get actual bad news. A few days later the office calls to tell you that the doctor will be doing surgery during your appointment and will have to reschedule. Of course. He can talk to you the following week, they tell you. You put it in your calendar and try not to consider it, though your sleep suddenly turns brittle and you wake exhausted each day.
You must get the idea of murderous corporate medicine out of your head. Doctors have to work for large medical corporations in a capitalist system in order to practice medicine — the equipment and facilities they use are fantastically expensive. If a doctor is too busy for two and a half weeks to give you bad news, whose fault is that? He is busy saving lives and earning his keep at the corporation by performing surgery. It is absolutely nothing personal, and you have to understand that. If you are a whiner who needs a doctor to hold your fucking hand, whose fault is that? That’s why the market created “concierge doctors”. Pay or quit whining.
This is simply the way the modern, end-stage capitalist world works. You can bang your head against it or shut up about it. Or you can write a meaningless blahg post that three or four people might read. It’s really up to you, in this exceptional land of the free and home of the brave.
Trump, after shaking down ABC for $16,000,000 with a frivolous lawsuit over an on-air comment that Trump had been found civilly liable for rape (the judge in that case said as much, it is only an idiosyncrasy of New York State law, he explained, that differentiates “sexual assault” — no penis in vagina proved — and “rape”) and CBS for the same amount for doing what every TV station does — editing an interview, has also sued the NY Times and, the other day, the BBC.
The faltering, insanely litigious president ridiculously claimed, through his army of low rent Roy Cohns, that the BBC unfairly and viciously edited segments of his infamous January 6th speech to a crowd that stormed the Capitol moments later to make it falsely look like he had urged them to storm the Capitol.
Here are the highlights of his long harangue to the rioters on January 6th. You be the judge if there is a way to edit this incendiary speech where he is not telling the crowd he’s riled up for over an hour, with detailed lies about a “stolen election” he knew he had lost, to hit the Capitol, he promised he was going down there with them, “and we fight like hell or we won’t have a country anymore.”
You have to love the generally spineless NY Times’ last line in its report on this Hitlerian move on the part of Putin’s pliable puppet, Donald J. Trump, now suing the British Broadcasting Corporation, an outfit almost as despicable in his squinty eyes as our own Public Broadcasting Service. Here’s the Times, at its best:
The president also has a defamation lawsuit pending against The New York Times, which accuses the news organization of trying to undercut his 2024 candidacy and disparage his reputation. The Times says the lawsuit has no merit.
Medicare, the health care partnership between private insurance companies, pharmaceutical manufacturers and the government to protect the health of people over 65 (or with certain disabilities) is promoted as the solution to health care coverage for Americans of all ages. At 69, and dealing with Medicare now for a few years, I find this idea appalling, especially since the only solution to protecting the health of the old and the sick is a single payer system that cuts out all the parasitic middle men who profit off disease and our legitimate fear of death.
Citizens of a democracy deserve decent health care as a right of citizenship, like in every other wealthy economy (and formerly Iraq, Libya and other third world “shitholes”). But, lest I forget, America is exceptional.
Every year, between October 15 and December 7 (a day that always lives in infamy now, thanks to Medicare) purchasers of Medicare insurance are urged to shop on the marketplace and find the best suited plans for themselves. You can compare prices and, in some cases, actual coverage. It is no fun navigating the website, shopping for the best “deal” that should be provided to you automatically as a lifelong tax payer. Each of us should get the best deal available from our government, the one we fund, the one that is supposed to watch out for our best interests.
The economic reality is that, in a consumer society, if you need a few pills, you will pay 50 cents each. If you buy a billion pills, the price is 3 cents each. This is simple capitalism, economy of scale. The more you buy, the less each one will cost you [1]. Medicare buys a trillion pills a year, but is prevented, by a right wing/corporate law signed by Dubya, from negotiating prices with pharmaceutical companies based on that economy of scale leverage.
And so old people are forced to enter this kind of virtual mall, after October 15th of each year, where you can search for the best deals before the annual December 7th final deadline comes crashing down and you can choose nothing until the following October 15th rolls around because, fair is fair and rules are rules.
Part D of the alphabet soup that is Medicare is the prescription drug plan and every Medicare recipient must choose a Part D plan (or get it included in the problematic, loophole-ridden, insurance company sponsored Medicare plans known as Medicare Advantage). Prices for Part D vary wildly. In 2024 I chose the cheapest drug plan available, Aetna Silverscript, for $31 a month. Then:
You see profit margins here that would make Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk insanely jealous. Over 100% price increase in 2025 and then, a tic below another 100% price increase the following year. All perfectly legal here in the land of the free and the home of the brave, as long as you get a letter from that corporation informing you that your premiums will double and you will get only slightly less coverage.
A billionaire named Mark Cuban set up a company called CostPlus that will mail you prescription drugs, at 15% above cost plus handling and mailing. You can calculate the approximate cost on their website. The four generic prescription drugs I take will cost under $100 every three months, less than $400 for the year. No deductible, no insurance, just the prescriptions. I signed up online. There is a form for my doctor to submit to them, and the drugs will be shipped to me every ninety days.
I called Aetna to cancel my Part D with them, after visiting the marketplace and seeing annual prices, under our American “freedom of choice”, from $1,000 to $3,000 for the identical drugs (cost of drug copays plus premiums). My once modest $31/month plan was now up there with some of the most expensive. The woman I spoke to at Aetna was lovely, but she was not a trained disenrollment specialist, she explained, and so couldn’t take my cancellation order. She gave me another number to call to speak to a “Medicare disenrollment specialist”, and after checking, at my request, confirmed it is a 24/7 number.
In the wee hours of the morning I decided to make the last aggravating December 7th related call of the year and get that particular pile of steaming scats off my plate. When I called the 800 number it came up like so:
Who the fuck is Valley Organized Physicians? Fuck if I know, but they answer the phone “Medicare”. The person I spoke to patched me through to a disenrollment specialist named Kevin. Kevin and I wound up talking for almost an hour. He somehow had instant access to every prescription drug I’d bought in the last three years. His job, apparently, was to sell me a Part D plan, as I learned when he read me the complete list, suggesting that some, if not many, would be hard to get without insurance.
Kevin warned me that unless I enrolled in a Part D program with creditable coverage that met the minimum standards of Medicare, I’d be subject to a potentially large lifetime monthly fine that would add several dollars, or even a hundred or more, to my monthly premium in perpetuity should I need Part D coverage in the future.
I told Kevin I had no idea what “creditable” meant in that context and he explained. If the prescription drug program you enroll in is not recognized by Medicare, it’s not creditable and you will pay a monthly fine for the rest of your life if you cancel a creditable plan at any time during your years on Medicare. Way to watch out for the old and vulnerable, you fucking corporate psychopaths, I thought. But since Kevin was being so nice, we continued to amiably bat the ball back and forth.
Kevin laid out the worst case scenario to make me understand the risk I was taking by going with a non-creditable plan. Say in five years you decide you need Part D, for some expensive medication, let’s say (which, admittedly, Part D might not cover, but exceptions can sometimes be made for medical necessity). Well, currently the penalty is 39 cents a month times twelve (since you can only fix this once a year). That penalty number keeps going up. So in five years time, Kevin told me, I could be looking at a penalty of maybe $50 a month, maybe $100.
I pointed out that if I realized it was a mistake to opt for CostPlus and bought a Part D plan at the next available date (October 15, 2026) I’d pay $4 a month penalty for the rest of my life. Meantime, Aetna had increased their premium price for their basic plan 100% one year and 100% the following year. I asked him how it was possible that an insurance company can double its rate year after year with no regulation by Medicare.
Kevin had an answer worthy of a Republican congressman speaking to a FOX audience, there are many factors, market forces, which are impossible to regulate, or predict, or even consider, he told me. In other words it’s hard to say and above our pay grades to understand or do anything about. I told him it was not hard to say that costs for Aetna had not increased 200% in two years.
I expressed dismay that Medicare imposed no regulations on what private insurance companies could charge. He agreed that it was not unreasonable for me to be dismayed, but that there was a reason, somehow, beyond our feeble human understanding, apparently, that corporations can’t be regulated but consumers must be charged lifetime penalties for not buying creditable plans from approved insurance companies providing benefits consistent with the minimum standards of Medicare Part D.
Kevin told me to look for a zero cost Part D plan, then checked and said there were none available in my area. He tried to sell me a $35 a month plan, from Healthspring Assurance, which, with the drugs, would cost me only about $720 a year. He agreed there was no guarantee that Healthspring wouldn’t double its premium next year, but that’s why there is a period to compare prices once a year and the requirement of a letter informing the customer that the price was about to double.
He was trying to help me out, he said, after explaining he could have disenrolled me as soon as I called, but he was warning me of the potentially dire consequences of uncreditable disenrollment. I said that in dollars and cents, the difference between $300-400 a year for generic prescriptions, and even the bargain price of $720, would seem to more than offset the penalty for a year or two.
Eventually, after a long chat, he told me he would disenroll me. There was no confirmation number, no proof we’d ever had a conversation of almost an hour (except on my phone, but again, who the hell is Valley Organized Physicians?), I’d get a letter from Aetna confirming I’d been disenrolled, he told me. We bid each other a polite goodnight.
We got off the phone, it was now 4 a.m., and my head immediately fucking exploded. Every narcissist I’ve ever known has told me I’m too sensitive. Maybe the despicable freaks are right about that. I was unable to tune down my outrage enough to get to sleep, the pill I took at 5:00 allowed me to finally drift off around 6:30 a.m. for a few hours of sleep. I’m too sensitive, goddamn it, and it’s messing with my health.
Dig the Nazi haircut on the first lying motherfucker.
And notice what power Stephen Colbert displays in dissecting Trump’s incoherence. It explains why his firing was key to Shari Redstone getting her 8 billion dollar deal signed off on by the Trump administration’s loyal FCC.
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