madamesilverspurs
madamesilverspurs's JournalBack to her emails . . .
Meanwhile, over on C-span, a live hearing on the Clinton Email Investigation.
But Congress has no time to deal with what's happening on our southern border.
Ye gods.
Lazy moocher, reporting in.
At least, thats how Paul Ryan refers to people like me. Im kind of the stuff Republican nightmares are made of: senior citizen, iffy health, some disability, dependent on Social Security, Medicare, food and housing assistance. Mr. Ryan, along with Trump and the minions of his evil maladministration, would be pleased to know that their programs are working for them.
Case in point, I just had to move to a smaller apartment because the housing assistance would not cover any portion of the most recent rent increase. I didnt move far, just to another building in the same complex; my security deposit transferred, and I didnt have to rent a truck, so I was saved from having to borrow to meet those expenses. And its still within a few minutes of all my doctors. Its decent, but definitely not the Ritz. Even so, with rents being what they are, my new smaller place rents for more than the larger one I just vacated, and my portion of the rent went up 68%.
Things are going to be quite a bit tighter. It would be nice to be able to look forward to a meaningful COLA next year, but I aint holding my breath. At least my neck is loosening up a bit, probably from shaking my head at the realization that all this is what Ben Carson refers to as incentive. Now if only I could figure out how to incentivize myself to get younger and healthier...
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Do Democrats have "their" laws
while (presumably) Republicans have "their" laws?
Trump seems to think so.
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Thinking about tents...
Theyre putting up tents to house children forcibly separated from their parents. Theres a better alternative. First, stop separating those families.
Then, take all those tents to D.C., and use them to house everyone who needs to be willingly or otherwise separated from the misbegotten Trump maladministration. The list includes Trump, Pence, Sessions, Jared, Ivanka, Sarah, Steve, Kellyanne, Mulvaney, Pruitt, Mnuchin, Zinke, DeVos, Ross, Carson, Perry, Nielsen, Pai . . . you get the idea.
Complicit abettors also get tented, starting with McConnell and Ryan and pretty much every Republican member of the House and Senate who have either propped up this horrible mockery of a presidency or remained conspicuously silent about it. And there needs to be a special tent for those officers and agents who clearly enjoy ripping families apart, with a special space reserved for the one who grabbed a nursing infant.
Yeah, its just a dream. But damned if it isnt decidedly more palatable than our present reality. Theyre working hard to tear our country apart. We need to be working twice as hard to hold on to whats left in order to have a foundation for putting it back together. This country started as a dream of freedom. Its up to us to reclaim it from the nightmare.
And we dont have to wait until November.
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Katy Tur is not having it.
Jim Jordan is a walking bag of belligerent suck.
In case you were wondering.
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