Let’s talk about what a Texas representative and what he said about abortion:

“But, man, I struggled with the rape and incest because, you know, I think if it was my daughter…”

Now the good part…

“I don’t have any daughters, but if I had a daughter… ‘No, we’re going to have the baby.’ ”

Um… what “we”? Did you suddenly grow a uterus? Did she become your slave? When did you become the owner of this fictional daughter?

#politics #RepublicanCluelessness

https://www.expressnews.com/columnist/elaine-ayala/article/john-lujan-abortion-rape-ayala-19807351.php

Medicare fraud. Republicans would
Have you believe its patients. It’s not. It’s businesses that are defrauding the government.

Surprise.

“Earlier this year, for example, federal prosecutors charged a Phoenix couple who owned wound-care businesses and two nurse practitioners with conspiring to defraud Medicare out of $900 million by targeting elderly patients — many of them terminally ill.”

It’s so rampant the DOJ can’t keep up.

#Corruption

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article292727689.html

Pharmacist overrules a doctor because politics.

“‘It wasn’t like there was any error on anyone’s part, it’s just that the pharmacist who was there that evening prior, I suppose, took it upon himself to refuse the medication’ Ahmed said. “It was the right dosage, it was for the right (reason)… think that unfortunately pregnancy has become very politicized and people are having opinions and making decisions on the care of women when they don’t have a right’”

https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article293140334.html

Put gibberish trough Suno.com and got some interesting results. Partner found it irritating because they kept trying to assign lexical items to the “words” — finally asking, “WHAT LANGUAGE IS THIS???”

😺

I think it was funny.

Texas is in play.

Cruz knows it. He’s scared to death.

“Senator Ted Cruz is facing a growing rebellion within his party as a wave of Texas Republicans rally behind his opponent, Representative Colin Allred.”

Just a reminder that Cruz likes Cancun more than he likes Texas.

Remember Cruz TRIED to get a bill passed that would have made it more difficult for photos like this to make it to the papers.

https://www.rawstory.com/ted-cruz-mocked-hurricane-beryl/

Trump’s Spokesperson doesn’t understand how the US works:

“It's time to undo Kamala Harris' DEI [diversity, equity, and inclusion], wokification of our military which disrespects the men and women of the armed forces”

Fort Liberty was known as Fort Bragg. The name change was done by Congress, not Harris or Biden.

This fundamental lack of knowledge of HOW THINGS WORK shows basic misunderstanding of government.

Elect Harris. She KNOWS how things work.

#politics

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-attacked-confederacy-pledge-fort-bragg-1964297

Puerto Rico is overwhelming Democratic (approximately 2 to 1). After Hurricane Maria:

“The administration of former President Donald Trump obstructed an investigation looking into why officials withheld about $20 billion in hurricane relief for Puerto Rico”

Shipping contain of relief supplies were off the coast of Puerto Rico but Trump held them up. Why?

Because Puerto Rico is overwhelmingly Democratic.

#politics #TrumpOnlyLikesRepublicans

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/new-probe-confirms-trump-officials-blocked-puerto-rico-receiving-hurri-rcna749

Fix?

“Officially, women cannot become Masons; nor can atheists. To become a Mason of a recognized, “regular” lodge, you need to be a man of legal age who has a belief in “the Great Architect of the Universe.” A nondenominational belief, that is—Jews, Muslims, Christians, deists and agnostics alike can join, although for a Catholic, joining risks excommunication.”

So a club of sexism will “fix” men? Ugh.

#OneCreepyTrick…

https://madeforfreemasons.com/blogs/news/what-if-the-solution-to-men-s-loneliness-is-freemasonry

“ A tower of salty water that appears to be laced with oil is shooting roughly 100 feet into the sky just West of Toyah in Reeves County, an area of West Texas plagued by a recent rash of earthquakes linked to wastewater injection.”

I’m guessing it’s wastewater.

Fracking should be illegal.

#Environment

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/mysterious-100-foot-geyser-of-salty-water-erupts-in-west-texas-oilfield-hit-by-recent-earthquakes/ar-AA1rCbu3#:~:text=A%20tower%20of%20salty%20water%20that%20appears%20to,unclear%20where%20the%20water%20was%20coming%20from%20Wednesday.

Republican wears black face and says:

In a statement to the Times, Lawler did not deny the photos' authenticity and said the costume was worn to be the "truly the sincerest form of flattery, a genuine homage to my musical hero since I was a little kid trying to moonwalk through my mom's kitchen."

He was in college. He went on to say:

“I am a student of history and for anyone who takes offense to the photo, I am sorry”

As a student of history he fails.

#politics

https://dailyvoice.com/new-york/somers/westchester-rep-lawler-admits-donning-blackface-as-hero-michael-jackson-in-nyt-expose/

I call it #RepublicanFail

It’s AI and Republicans are falling for it. Some are doubling down saying it is “emblematic” (despite it not being true — I guess a crayon drawing is also emblematic?)

I know some people think he is brilliant, but do we REALLY want someone who doesn’t know (or seem to care) that posts appear on HIS account on HIS social network and he seems to not give two fucks?

Who or what ELSE does he not care about?

We went to the Honda dealer to get the trusty vehicle fixed. No charge for the plastic on the wheel well and $285 for the serpentine belt. Not too shabby for our almost ten year old vehicle.

Hopefully it will last until the cheap EVs come out.

Got in some writing. Deleted a lot of para’s that did nothing but waste space. Stuck a note where something was actually (now) important in the ending — not intentional, totes accident but that is how it works. Happy accidents.

Trump: “I don’t know anything about it… Somebody put (the post saying Jamie Dimon endorsed Trump) up—no, I don’t know.”

Also Trump:

When I saw this I became curious how much energy was in a hurricane. It’s insane. Nukes are literally firecrackers.

One hurricane generates more energy than half of all electricity produced by people: on the planet.

The largest nuke is a fraction of a fraction of 1% of a hurricane’s energy.

The idea ANYONE can control that is laughable.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/mtg-implies-dems-created-hurricane-145252996.html

Trump talking privately to billionaires:

“So they’re going to get millions of dollars but the woman, the wife, this beautiful woman, I handed her the check—we handed her the check—and she said, ‘This is so nice, and I appreciate it, but I’d much rather have my husband.’ Now I know some of the women in this room wouldn’t say the same,” Trump reportedly said. “At least four couples here would have been thrilled, actually.”

Charmer.

#YouVotingForThis???

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-made-crass-jokes-death-161131641.html

“A judge excoriated a Colorado county clerk for her crimes and lies before sentencing her Thursday to nine years behind bars for a data-breach scheme spawned from the rampant false claims about voting machine fraud in the 2020 presidential race.”

Moral of the story?

Break the law on voting, go to prison.

Trump will not save you. In fact, he’s pardoned no one for voting fraud. He pardoned no one for Jan 6th.

Break the law for Trump, you go to prison.

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2024/10/03/tina-peters-sentenced/

If you want strong growth, strong hiring and a future of a job, vote Harris.

Trump promises a lot, but all those promises evaporate. He promised a middle class tax cut. Who got a tax cut? The rich.

He promised a better healthcare plan. “In two weeks” — after HUNDREDS OF WEEKS he only has a “concept of a plan.”

His infrastructure week happened under Biden.

The fact is, Democrats get shit done.

Republicans promise.

Democrats deliver.