HCR: MAGA and Pox Spews lies face reality

And reality is starting to win.  

Booker's speech on Blanche

Every single thing he said in it was verifiably true. Yet all the Repugs on the Committee, who know those irrefutable facts, voted to confirm the Presidunce's personal and corrupt lawyer anyway.

If only we could get both sides from a therapist

 

The real welfare queens

The real cause of our problems that we should continually focus on. It's what the progressives are doing and why they are winning primaries. From Occupy Democrats:

"Progressive superstar Jennifer Welch enrages MAGA by calling billionaire Elon Musk 'this country's biggest immigrant welfare queen' in an epic takedown. If the shoe fits Elon...

 

'When Apple needs money, they can just call up the Trump administration,' said Welch. 'When Elon Musk, this country's biggest immigrant welfare queen, the world's biggest welfare queen, when he needs a contract, he just calls up Trump. The same with Jeff Bezos.'

 

'They are the parasites. It's not the people way, way, way, way down on the food chain that are making $7.25 an hour. They are not parasitic,' she continued. 'It is the corporations that exploit their labor. It is the corporations that do not have to pay taxes. It is the corporations that pay off both parties.'

 

'That is why we have to be an opposition party and be solely focused on being an opposition party to these corporate handouts where wealth trickles down on the 1% from Trump to probably about 25 people,' added Welch. 'That's it. It's all taxpayer-funded welfare, and they're corrupt, every last one of them.'

 

It's so incredibly refreshing to hear a Democrat speak in such blunt terms. These oligarchs are sucking this country dry by funneling contributions to the Republican Party in return for massive sweetheart contracts, tax breaks, and pro-corporation legislation. Meanwhile, working class Americans are forced to squabble for scraps as their healthcare, rent, and grocery costs skyrocket.

 

Then these very same right-wingers have the nerve to turn around and call us "communists" for daring to suggest that the minimum wage should, at the very least, keep pace with inflation or that Americans shouldn't go bankrupt trying to pay their hospital bills.

 

It's important to recognize that Musk and the other plutocrats have no true sense of patriotism despite constantly draping themselves in the flag. They don't even believe in nation-states. They believe in the rights of the global elite to do as they please wherever they please, socking away money in offshore bank accounts and cavorting on Epstein island. These modern day robber-barons support Republican politicians because Republican politicians will eagerly do their bidding in return for a check.

 

It's that simple. A vote for Republicans is a vote for the oligarchs."

 

 

 

Hartmann on the missing DNC autopsy chapter

DNC autopsy left out key chapter

So said the author of the report, Paul Rivera. Chair Martin denies receiving it.  

In particular, it "suggested that top Democratic leadership was blind to the economic realities of everyday Americans. An emerging critique of Democratic decision-making is there are too many people who have become generationally wealthy off politics and drive too much of the decision-making within the ecosystem."

It's obvious why the Chair couldn't find it and what we voters know to be true. The establishment consultant class doesn't represent the working class and is more concerned with their own wealth through rich donor bribes. It is no surprise that progressive candidates are winning Democratic primaries by challenging selfish establishment gravy trains. 

Musk said 0 died from USAID cuts

The following fact check here tells are a different story. Their executive summary:

"Independent reporting and expert commentary attribute substantial increases in preventable deaths to the rapid dismantling of USAID by the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which Elon Musk helped lead, while Musk has repeatedly denied any deaths resulted; multiple outlets and experts estimate hundreds of thousands to hundreds of thousands-plus deaths linked to the cuts, though precise attribution and counting remain disputed. The straight answer: credible reporting and expert estimates say yes—people have died as a consequence of the USAID cuts connected to DOGE’s actions, but exact numbers and causal chains are contested and methodologically complex."