what the hell, Senate Democrats?
you got played. how do you not see this?
ugh. just ugh.
late last night, seven Senate Democrats (and one Independent) shit the bed royally, and then rolled around in the mess. they voted with Republicans to advance a bill to reopen the government.
here’s what they got in return for their acquiescence: jack shit. nothing. bupkis.
we’re going to get to that story, I promise. but first, we have a whole day’s worth of donnyfuckery to wade through.
let’s start with the biggest atrocity.
this is just pure evil. look at the lengths our convicted felon president will go to just to ensure that the needy can’t afford to buy food.
A memo from the Agriculture Department’s Food and Nutrition Service issued late Saturday night orders states to “immediately undo any steps taken to issue” full payments to recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, often called food stamps.
it’s cruelty for cruelty’s sake. there’s no other reason to be this petty. when a Rhode Island judge ruled on Thursday that SNAP benefits had to be paid in full, some states went ahead and did just that.
Some states, like Wisconsin and Maryland, had begun disbursing benefits Friday, following the Rhode Island ruling, leaving them scrambling to respond over the weekend.
In Wisconsin — where nearly 700,000 residents received their SNAP payments Friday — Gov. Tony Evers (D) said his state had “legally loaded benefits to cards.”
that was before the Supreme Court put a temporary hold on the Rhode Island ruling — and now Donny is all ‘give that money back.’ why? because fuck you, that’s why. because cruelty is the point.
The USDA memo warns states that if they do not comply with the order, they will face consequences.
oh boy, if there’s one thing America’s Mad King loves, it’s doling out consequences. may I make a suggestion? how about drawing and quartering? there’s no more perfect punishment for wanting to feed hungry people.
now let’s move from cruel and inhuman to dumb as fuck.
I probably need to apologize for posting this next thing, because you might actually get stupider from reading it.
“I am recommending to Senate Republicans that the Hundreds of Billions of Dollars currently being sent to money sucking Insurance Companies in order to save the bad Healthcare provided by ObamaCare, BE SENT DIRECTLY TO THE PEOPLE SO THAT THEY CAN PURCHASE THEIR OWN, MUCH BETTER, HEALTHCARE, and have money left over. In other words, take from the BIG, BAD Insurance Companies, give it to the people, and terminate, per Dollar spent, the worst Healthcare anywhere in the World, ObamaCare. Unrelated, we must still terminate the Filibuster!”
oh. my. god. he is so monumentally, bone-crushingly stupid.
apparently, Preznit Fuckwit imagines that there’s an insurance company named Obamacare Inc., and the government is funding it, and this Obamacare Inc is somehow proving bad healthcare.
nothing could be further from the truth.
The ACA — what you call Obamacare — is NOT an insurance policy. It is a law that requires insurance companies to allow people with preexisting conditions to have coverage; it currently requires the government to make sure that no person or family is paying more than 9% of their household income. It also requires insurance companies to provide preventative care at no cost as well as other amenities.
the level of stupid required for an elected official to misunderstand the difference between a law and an insurance provider doesn’t just burn, it immolates.
ok, one more slice of dumbfuck pie and then it’s on to yelling at the Democrats.
“People that are against Tariffs are FOOLS! We are now the Richest, Most Respected Country In the World, With Almost No Inflation, and A Record Stock Market Price. 401k’s are Highest EVER. We are taking in Trillions of Dollars and will soon begin paying down our ENORMOUS DEBT, $37 Trillion. Record Investment in the USA, plants and factories going up all over the place. A dividend of at least $2000 a person (not including high income people!) will be paid to everyone”
yeah, no. this is a big ball of never gonna happen. Donny’s just farting out whatever random numbers pop into his big dumb pumpkin head, based on zero analysis.
we know this, because we’ve been down this road before. remember those $5,000 DOGE stimulus checks that showed up in all of our mailboxes last April? me neither.
last April, Donny hallucinated some fever-swampy fairy tale about how the Space Nazi’s merry band of pimply DOGE incels had saved the government $55 billion — no, wait, $150 billion — by cutting imaginary fraud and waste. out of those savings, Donny was going to send us all five large, because he’s such an awesome fucking humanitarian and all.
of course, it never happened — because DOGE didn’t ‘save’ a penny, and because Donny is a liar who shits things out of both sides of his mouth, without the slightest intention of following through, just so he can enjoy a day’s worth of adulation from the cultists and fawning headlines from the lapdog press.
by Wednesday, Drooling Donny won’t even remember he ever made any promise of $2,000 ‘tariff’ checks.
now let’s get down to the main event.
last night, seven Senate Democrats (and one Independent) decided that what the situation absolutely required right now was a really futile and stupid gesture.
what these seven Democrats agreed to was a resolution to reopen the government.
did these Dems hold the Republicans’ feet to the fire, and get those Obamacare credits restored, as had been their demand for the previous 39 days?
no. what they got was a pinky-swear promise that this time, Republicans were really going to hold that football in place, and the Democrats were going to kick it a fucking mile.
what these turncoat Dems agreed to was a resolution that after the government reopens, Democrats will be given the opportunity to write their own legislation to restore the Obamacare credits. the vote on such a bill would come, and I quote, “sometime in December.”
oh frabjous day!
Uncle Bernie, can you please explain to your colleagues exactly how they’re being taken for a ride?
“now I know as part of this resolution, that the Majority Leader is gonna say ‘well, Democrats can create, put together their own bill, and it will come to the floor in the Senate for a vote.’ as everybody here knows, it’s a totally meaningless gesture. you can get a hundred votes here in the Senate. it won’t mean anything, because the House is not going to take it up, and the President of the United States certainly will not sign it.”
duh. fucking duh. how do you seven Senate Democrats not see this coming?
you got rolled. played for fools. taken to the cleaners. choose your favorite metaphor, they all fucking apply.
you gave up all your leverage when you agreed to reopen the government without first restoring those Obamacare credits.
you’re dealing with Republicans. you know them, you work with them. they’re shitweasels. they can’t be trusted. they’re going to say you’ll get a vote in December, and when the time comes, nada. zero. zilch.
we know this, because Republicans pulled this shit last March, the previous time the government faced a shutdown.
remember that? you were supposed to have learned your lesson, and not let that shit happen again. what the fuck?
Democrats had all the momentum, and these quislings threw it away. six days after an election where Donny and the Republican got their asses handed to them, these seven Democrats were all ‘hey that was a fun week. now let’s shoot ourselves in both feet.’
they’ve taken all the good will they’d established with their base and flushed it right down the fucking toilet.
for what?
the only thing you accomplished was to prove to Republicans that holding benefits payments hostage is an effective strategy. now watch them do it again.
now, I know what you going to ask: ‘Uncle Jeff, was that fuckface Fetterman one of those seven Democrats?’
of course he was. you know the old saying, ‘when God closes a Joe Manchin, he opens a John Fetterman.’
here’s the complete list of turncoat cowards: Catherine Cortez Masto (NV), Dick Durbin (IL), John Fetterman (PA), Maggie Hassan (NH), Tim Kaine (VA), Jacky Rosen (NV) and Jeanne Shaheen (NH).
the Independent was Angus King (ME).
none of these fucksticks are up for reelection in 2026 — and some of them are even retiring. how convenient.
ugh. just ugh.
we definitely need a palate cleanser after all that. here, enjoy Donny getting mercilessly booed at yesterday’s Washington Commanders game.
look at what you did, you nasty Commanders fans. you made Fox News cry.
what backlash? is booing a fascist fuckface against the law now? is it drawing and quartering time again?
let’s contrast that with what happens when a real president shows up at a sporting event.
that’s more like it.
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this is going to be my closing message for the foreseeable future:
practice self-care. do what you need to do to keep sane. if that means you need to disengage with my daily posts for a while, I get it. this community of ours will still be here when you return.
to all the people who have signed on in the days since the election, welcome aboard. settle in as we all try to deal with the shitfuckery that’s ahead of us.
we are all in this together, and we are all here for each other.
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here's some good news that came in too late for inclusion in this post. the Supreme Court told that priggish busybody Kim Davis to go fuck herself.
"Supreme Court denies Kim Davis' petition to overturn same-sex marriage ruling"
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/supreme-court-denies-kim-davis-petition-overturn-same/story?id=127375530&cid=social_twitter_abcn
I expected the opposite to happen.
oh look, I -can- get mad at Democrats, when it's warranted