they also have given the GOP and Trump the all important "bipartisan agreement" cover that the David Brooks and Steve Inskeep "keep it civil" crowd can insert into the discussion each time a new travesty comes to light, and as people start to die in real time.

I do look forward to the day, likely next year, when a person from Philadelphia or York or Harrisburg whose treatment for depression, or whose PT after a stroke, has been ended because of the demise of the ACA, can ask Senator Fetterman to chip in to help them pay for help, maybe in a Town Hall setting live on CNN. As Senator Fetterman continues to get taxpayer funded medical care to help him with both afflictions -- the aftermath of stroke and depression -- it only seems fair.

It is a hell of a note, I must say, that we are at the point where we are told people must starve now, or best case, we can feed them for another year, but a lot of them will have no health care starting in January, BUT, you guys have to sign on for that best case to kick in.

And it worked ......

'Start'?

As if this is not already happening?

Like the weekly COVID death charts, or remember when the Evening News shows showed the little US, South Vietnamese and North Vietnamese flags with weekly body counts back in the day, it will be pretty easy to start a tally, starting from the end of ACA support, to document rising death tolls. More people are certainly going to be treated, for more and more serious conditions, in the Nation's ERs. And more people are going to start dying in these ERs as the results of delayed treatment, or no treatment at all, of health problems.

I think it is going to get really ugly, and even our limp dick media is going to be hard-pressed to ignore it.

I will say that my plan is to make sure to pass on the steps of whichever governmental building I can get to.

I refuse to let them dismiss these deaths because they are nowhere near any of it.

Take the fight (and the right to end) to them! Once the bodies start to pile up where they cannot ignore them, then we will see what they have to say.

we hand over $40 billion to Argentinian cattle barons, while they replace the East Wing with a $350 million dance party room, and while the deficit climbs $1 TRILLION in 71 days, fueled mostly by tax cuts to billionaires.

Both bills has been languishing in the Senate for months.

One of the bills fully funds the VA through the end of the fiscal year (September 30, 2026) and the other fully funds SNAP with INCREASED appropriations through the end of the fiscal year as well.

Democrats denied Trump his clean CR and forced him to sign Democratic bills that will remove hungry kids and veterans as potential bargaining chips when the January CR comes up.

As for Fetterman, there were voters concerned about him when he was running in his primary, but prominent boosters assured voters in PA that everything would be OK.

Some of the same folks have been amplifying Republican and anti-Democratic Party talking points on social media and in their beg-o-grams for days now. They should either stay on message (like Leader Jeffries) or take a seat.

one funding the VA, and one for increased funding for SNAP. Both Democratic bills guarantee funding for the remainder of the fiscal year ending September 30, 2026.

Senate Democrats have been trying to get those bills out of committee since June.

Today they’re law.

Take the victories and take the tactical retreat until the fight starts again with January’s CR.

Expect another shutdown in January.