Day 162 – Cuts Are Good

Monday, June 30, 2025

NOAA is cutting back on weather data from three satellites that help with hurricane forecasting, and I think that’s a good thing. Why? Because DOGE fired 600 meteorologists so I’m guessing no one is left to read the data. BTW They’ve extended the cutoff deadline by a month.

TACO Tuesday – The BBB (Big Beautiful Bill) is running into a few problems. Lawmakers are “concerned.” Dems say that the bill slashes all this Medicaid funding. Republicans say no. Well, turns out that the funding isn’t cut. What the bill does is to change deadlines, add paperwork, and add more requirements. It is estimated that many people won’t realize they’ve been screwed until it’s too late. Good work guys (and gals)! Two Republican Senators won’t vote for the bill: Rand Paul and Tom Tillis. Tillis is not running again under the threat of being primaried this upcoming election. Sorry, that’s not what he said. He wants to spend more time with his family. Aw – so cute. Murkowski and Collins are both worried (or is it concerned?) about the cuts to health care. That means they’ll vote for the stinkin’ bill but with much hand wringing. The rest of the pusillanimous pack? Oh maybe Hawley will vote no. Should we send him a copy of his book on manhood?

Apparently, Fox News barely mentions the Medicaid cuts. What they do talk about is Biden! Yeah Baby. So people in Red America don’t know how they are getting screwed and as Mitch McConnell predicts, “They’ll get over it.” Yeah. I mean either they’ll get over it or they’ll die so who cares? And by then Fox will be on to blaming someone or something else. 

Mike Johnsons says that there’s waste, fraud and abuse in the Medicaid system. Why, he says, there are 1.4 million illegal immigrants on Medicaid right now. You gotta wonder, how does he know? Especially, because illegal immigrants can’t use Medicaid. Now if he or Elon wanted to go after the WFA – a cool TLA I just made up (Waste Fraud Abuse – WFA, TLA – Three Letter Acronym). They could go after the organized crime syndicates that are stealing peoples’ identities to file false disaster relief claims. In fact there was a group tasked with doing that, just like we had Inspectors General to root out that kind of stuff. But they’ve all been discontinued. But Mike probably found that 1.4 million number when he looked at the states health care programs that cover workers. That’s 1.4 million. He probably just skimmed the report and misplaced who was where.

Tommy Tubberville and Steven Miller made racist nasty comments about the character and people in New York City after a Muslim won the Democratic Primary. Hey, I’ve got an idea – why doesn’t Alabama stand on its own two feet and stop getting all that Federal money that New York is putting into the Federal coffers? And that goes for you too Stevie. In fact, if you look at who puts money into the Federal coffers it’s California and New York. Who takes it out? Why Alabama, Mississippi, Kentucky and all the red states. I mean the Republicans in those states have been doing a bang up job running those states. What’s Alabama in reading scores? 47th and Mississippi is like 49th? I mean they’ve had years – decades to do better and they haven’t.

Oh BTW our stock market is down compared to the stock markets in the rest of the world. What happened? Under that old dottering man – what’s his name? – Biden! We had the strongest economy in the world. How did Trump manage to ruin it so quickly? But don’t worry – immigrants are the problem. So are children of immigrants. And Trump wants $8B more for ICE to ship people out of here. Where to? I ask. I mean if you are born here where are you going to send them?

I know. Ivanka and Jared have just signed a deal with Albania to build a luxury resort on an island in the Adriatic. It used to be a Russian military base. Ship them there. There is unexploded ordinance on the island. Let them immigrants wander around that island. Maybe, they’ll trip on one of them. I mean better them than us – am I right? Oh but wait, if they were born here they aren’t immigrants, just people we don’t want. Same difference – right? Maybe, Donnie will ship Nancy Pelosi there? Who knows.

I’m guessing that Jared and Ivanka are waiting for Dad and Bebe to open up that beach front in Gaza.

Oh sorry got off track. The BBB will give $8B to ICE. Where did they get that money? I think they took it from NIH and the National Cancer Research Center. They are scheduled to lose $7.2B. Hey so ground breaking work goes a little slower and a few people die. That’s the breaks. Shouldn’t have gotten cancer. Like that legislator who had voted against women’s health care and then needed an emergency something or other and they told her sorry, you aren’t dead enough yet.

And for eight billion I want to see puppy killer Kristi in a whole new fashion line of ICE wear. Maybe with Megan Thee Stallion? Think about that for a second. Oh wait, Ivanka, have you started up your jewelry line again? Or how about the DOGE spokesperson who was doing her side hustle in her office? Showing off clothes while they were firing people left and right. Is she available? I mean things have slowed down there now right?

And why is ICE going after people at construction sites and Home Depot? Aren’t you supposed to be finding people scamming Medicaid? Or why bring 7,000 troops into LA and not go into the place where the gangs are? Oh. Right. You might get shot. And out gunned. Hey, go fight forest fires. Oh wait. You might get shot.

In the latest twist of hypocrisy, it is being reported that Trump will try and withhold money from Harvard because they aren’t doing enough to curb anti-semitism. Hey, turn slightly in your chair at the newly refurbished Resolution Desk (after Elon’s kid put a buggar on it) and see that bald headed F*ck? That’s Stephen Miller. He not only anti-semitic, he’s anti-muslim, anti-black, anti-woman etc. etc. etc. (There are bigger words for some of these antis but Trump is reported to have a 5th grade reading level so I didn’t want to appear too intelligentsia.)

And let’s not forget Iran. We obliterated their Nuclear program. That’s done. Let’s move on. Too bad we didn’t have someone who could do the art of a deal with them? Oh wait, we did. Hillary and Barrack and the former Secretary of Energy, who btw is like a nuclear scientist. Maybe, he even is one? I mean a PhD in physics at least. Wow. We could have known exactly what the Iranians had been doing etc. all without firing a shot. Now? Well, they are pretty pissed off – I’m guessing, And they are probably going to go operation warp-speed to build a bomb. Good job Donnie!

So much winning.

Happy 4th!