Republican terrorism about California fires

 Mike Johnson Vows to Hold Aid to California Hostage After Deadly Fires

Republican leadership continues to use one of the worst natural disasters in U.S. history as political leverage.

On Monday, House Speaker Mike Johnson told CNN’s Manu Raju that there should be “conditions” on the proposed federal aid to California in the wake of the deadly wildfires in Los Angeles County.

So...what they literally accused dems of doing to Florida, North Carolina, and Georgia.

It's a step ahead of that. They screech these lies to make their followers believe that it's justified when they plan on doing it. You see it when Right Wingers start saying things like, "We need to do this because the Dems already do it!"

Election theft. Impeachment. Criminal trials. Federal disaster aid. They cry foul every time and then do whatever they want because they justified it "when the Dems did it first"

So California will be getting more help, unconditionally, from Mexico and Canada than from our own government. 

California should withhold their tax draws until they are whole and see how the republican states like that. For all their ramblings they don't seem to mind taking and spending liberal money.

Every single American that supports this is a traitor to their nation in the purest sense.

Elon Musk Exposed Over Right-Wing Lie on L.A. Fires

Elon Musk was fact-checked on his own livestream after making false statements about the California wildfires, and Gavin Newsom was quick to call out the tech mogul on social media.

In a post on X Sunday night, the California governor posted an excerpt from the livestream, where Musk was receiving a briefing with the command team handling the Palisades fire in Los Angeles. Musk asked an emergency official twice about water to fight the fires being available in the Malibu area but not in the Palisades.

"Exposed". He has no soul. No effect on him... Or more sadly, those that consume his products. The number of Teslas in the Pacific Palisades fire area is large. Yet... voters don't vote with their wallets.

Elon Musk exploits the suffering of others in shameless attempts to manipulate popular opinion to his advantage.

Remember the 2018 Thai cave rescue of 12 boys and their football coach? In that instance, Musk falsely accused professional cave diver Vern Unsworth of being a pedophile after Unsworth accurately referred to Musk's offer to provide a "mini-sub" a public relations stunt. Unsworth, not Musk, proved essential in rescuing the trapped children and their coach.

In the essay The Truth About Musk, From His Biographer, Seth Abramson dispels the flattering, everchanging, myth Elon Musk carefully tends and shamelessly peddles on Twitter/X. Here's a relevant excerpt addressing Musk's inability to tell the truth:

This may be the right moment to note that, as a Musk biographer, I can’t find a single component of the man’s biography he hasn’t lied about. And not just lied about—lied ruthlessly about. Shamelessly. For decades. Without any integrity or fidelity to truth at all. And every lie has the same purpose: to hide what a deceitful, fundamentally bad person he is.

The Truth About Musk, From His Biographer

Legal Bribery

Trump Admin Gave Tariff Exemptions to Companies that Donated to Republicans: Study

US firms may be looking at a specific method by which they can avoid the impact of tariffs levied on major trade partners by the Trump administration: donating to the Republican Party.

With President-elect Donald Trump set to assume office this month, many local companies are preparing themselves for the impact of the 47th president's tariff plan, in which he has promised to levy 25% tariffs on all goods sold to the US from certain countries including Canada and China, and Mexico.

Pay to play. America is entering the next level of corruption.

And I’m sure those companies will still raise prices publicly to “offset the costs of the tariffs” they aren’t paying.

It's the goal. Raise prices to match others and make a profit; pure capitalism.

Need to lower prices? Knowing republicans we will see a push for more "prison labor" aka slaves.

How to get more prisoners? Gather the immigrants knowing they will need to be kept somewhere.

Republicans voted in a president who doesn't support the constitution , thinks a president is immune to the law, and is a sexual predator who props up other sexual predators. There is no low for these people. 

People overlook the rampant "prisoner leasing" occurring nationwide because they're criminals, and even minor crimes in America are enough that the public doesn't care how people are abused in prison & coerced to work with the state taking wages, imposing fees, and threatened with extended sentences for missing work. Alabama got 73% of it's revenue from convict leasing in the 1800s. In past five years, more than 500 businesses have leased incarcerated workers from Alabama, including Best Western, Bama Budweiser, and Burger King. The state has generated more than $250 million from this labor since 2000.

 If people are okay with the slavery forced on incarcerated Americans, they certainly won't have any problems ignoring enslavement of non-Americans in prison. Well, not unless wages were even more depressed by companies easy access to plentiful slaves.

This is Trump’s grift. He doesn’t have to offer anything good to get things in return. He just announces terrible plans, and then exempts people from the effects of those plans if they pay up.

First lady Trump complains about President Musk

Trump Privately Complains About Clingy Elon Musk:

“Trump does complain a bit to people about how Musk is around a lot,” New York Times journalist and “Trump whisperer” Maggie Haberman told tech reporter Kara Swisher during the latest episode of Swisher’s podcast, On.

The end of their friendship is going to be spectacular. 

You just know Elon is going to go scorched earth if their friendship ends.

Elon is pissing off governments around the world...

And Elon has a big fat juicy target for those countries... Tesla.

A 100 % tax on Tesla sales, springing up across the world everywhere, should tank Elon's wealth pretty quickly.

Not to mention how overinflated Tesla's stock is. Once it starts to drop it could drop like a rock. One car company isn't worth all the others combined. That is just ridiculous.

Not strong enough of a man to send him packing, though.

Act then, Donnie. You know, like a MAN. Fire that immigrant husband of yours. Show that you can't be manipulated by the likes of Elon. Bonus - it'll keep everyone else on their toes, and that's what you want too, right?

Only in America

 They're against it because it's not a question of math, or even cost, for most Americans. There's a strong current of, "I got mine; so you get yours" in American culture. We think universal healthcare means the government digs into the pockets of responsible (aka healthy) people so it can give a free ride to the sick and lazy.

People will read this post and say, "Why should I pay 2K when I'm not even sick? That money is just being wasted on people who are gaming the system! I'm not paying for someone's diabetes medication who eats McDonald's all day! At least I know the 8K would be taking care of me and my family."

And the savings for businesses. Why should an auto business have to dedicate money and staff to coordinate healthcare? Why should school taxes have to dedicate money and staff to coordinate healthcare? And back to someone's point about private healthcare - if private healthcare is so much better, why are they afraid of the competition?

People are so against it primarily due to the primary populous of America being allergic to anything remotely Communist. It just so happens that universal/public healthcare is a socialist idea.

They don't think farther than that.

Welcome to America-where Wendy’s had to discontinue the 1/3 lb burger because Americans thought it was smaller then a 1/4 lb burger.

Sir this is a Burger King.

Killing the wealthy is terrorism

Luigi Mangione indicted on murder charges for shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson

A New York grand jury indicted Luigi Mangione on charges of murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, the Manhattan District Attorney’s office said Tuesday.

Mangione, 26, is charged with one count of first-degree murder in furtherance of terrorism and two counts of second-degree murder, one of which is charged as killing as an act of terrorism.

They pulled that off faster than any insurance approval/denial I've had. Imagine. 

Killing the wealthy is terrorism, when they kill the poor it isn't even a crime.

UHC put a broken robot in charge of picking who lives and who dies and then left it in charge despite the knowledge it was wrong 90% of the time.

They let it kill people for money.

That's criminally negligent homicide AT A MINIMUM.

And if the CEO of UHC had been in prison serving 10 consecutive life sentences for all the pain, suffering, and death he caused, he would still be alive right now.

Just more evidence that it’s a class war. They kill hundreds of thousands of us, and they get paid handsomely for it. We kill one of them and get charged with terrorism.

What's crazy is that this guy is being charged as a terrorist and yet school shooters are not...

If the killing of UHC's CEO Brian Thompson underscores anything about our government and institutions it's that we in the US live in a stratified society of classes, where the top 1% get special treatment/benefits from the government, law enforcement, courts etc, while the rest of us rabble get squat.

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Class war rising

 Nearly 2 in 3 Americans Say Government Should Ensure Health Care Coverage

The US is the only wealthy country in the world without universal health care.

All first world countries have national health care systems except the United States. 33 of 34 first world countries solved the problem decades ago. As long as the political class continues to accept money from the insurance lobby nothing will change, money talks and good governance walks. 

The rich CEO’s & board of directors work with Congress to ensure profit over people… which means no universal healthcare.

The last serious attempt in this country to move to a Universal Healthcare Coverage model was spearheaded by Hilary Clinton during Bill's first term. It never went anywhere because the Republicans (at the time) were bought off by the Insurance lobby.

The next serious attempt was during Obama 1, and the Republicans and their Insurance Lobby friends stacked town halls with paid agitators who shouted "Death Panels! Socialized Medicine! Keep Government out of my body!" these kinds of things. Poor little Claire McCaskill was a Dem Senator from Missouri, and I think CNN broadcasted her Town Hall which was an embarrassing shit show.

We simply have too many dumb Republican voters in this country to ever get real change.

Find progressive politicans who will run for office and not be bought off by the Insurance Industry, and vote them in.

Too many dumbshit people in the country buy in to Trump's election sloganeering and insults and empty promise of "I'll make it all better" when all he's doing is stacking government with pals who will grift while they're in office, and then he'll fire them when the grifting gets too obnoxious, or when something bad happens on their watch -- that will trigger a Trump You're Fired phone call.

This is the America that the Republicans want, and even when tragedy and medical bankruptcy approaches, they still vote Republican come election time.

Rapist Convicted Felon DOE 174 Trump promised to lower the cost of grocery prices

 

They are so predictable, we knew this would be their response. They are literally incapable of criticizing him or holding him accountable to the shit he says he will do.

This is like the least surprising thing. How could you have experienced Trump, round 1 and not expected this?

That whole "show me where" from the "do your own research" people is pretty rich.

I got the "show me where he said anything racist" the same day he was talking about DEI reparations for white people. It's a tight bubble and it's getting smaller.

Trump lied about food prices. Now he says it's too 'hard' to bring down costs.

Donald Trump acts like he invented the word “groceries.” He credits talking about “groceries” for his win in the presidential election, and he managed to trick enough Americans into voting for him by telling them he would lower the cost of these mysterious things called groceries. (Rich people don’t need to understand groceries. They just push a button and someone brings them snacks and meals.)

Trump Backtracks On Campaign Pledge To Bring Down Grocery Prices

President-elect Donald Trump admitted in an interview with Time magazine that it will be difficult for him to reduce consumer prices, contrary to statements he made on the campaign trail this year.

Trump told Time in an hourlong interview for its “Person of the Year” feature that his presidency wouldn’t be a failure if he failed to bring the price of groceries down.

“I’d like to bring them down. It’s hard to bring things down once they’re up. You know, it’s very hard. But I think that they will,” Trump said, according to the transcript.

Trump

Never

Had

A

Plan

He just says things he thinks you want to hear.