“Kick ‘em when they are up, Kick ‘em when they are down
Kick ‘em when they up, Kick ‘em all around” Lyrics from “Dirty Laundry” by Don Henly
That seems to be the motto of the Iowa MAGA movement, especially in the legislature. Getting Medicaid? – then goddammit get a job! You have a job but it doesn’t even cover food and rent? Get another job! Disabled? Get a job even if you can’t walk or are in constant pain!
And here we go again – MAGAs in Iowa doing all they can to exploit the myth of “undeserving” people getting handouts from “gummint.” Why not nationalize health care and let everybody have access and not waste time and money defining those who are “deserving.” As a human you should be by definition. Plus nationalized health coverage would save us big bundles of money.
Another humiliating week for Stinky Pants.
A) What network reported that Stinky Pants’ administration is leaking information on trade moves to Wall Street executives?
B) According to the Southern Poverty Law Center there are about how many Confederate symbols still active in the US?
C) Name in the news this week – Who is (or was) Jorge Mario Bergoglio?
D) Friends of Stinky Pants? What state’s MAGA leaders are pleading with the administration to give them disaster aid relief after the administration denied it this week?
E) After 44 years, what Senate Democratic leader announced his retirement after his term ends?
F) Oh, China! Just this week they turned back 12,000 metric tons of what commodity as the US trade war deepens?
G) The Pope is dead! And so we have all learned that the process the Catholic Church uses to pick a new pope is a what of Cardinals?
H) In a retrial after many years, did a federal jury deicide if Sarah Palin was libeled by The NY Times or not?
I) Officially now, California is the what largest economy in the world?
J) Tesla, Tesla, Tesla! Profits down how much over the just completed quarter?
K) Hey, Canada has a national election tomorrow! What nickname has Conservative candidate Pierre Poilievre (pronounced Polly-ev) been tagged with during the campaign?
L) What law enforcement adjacent cabinet secretary had her purse stolen as she ate dinner in a restaurant last weekend?
M) The death of this Pope caused me to wonder what ever happened to the last Pope? Remember we had two popes for a while.
N) Hottest ticket in town? Who are playing basketball at Carver-Hawkeye next Sunday?
O) Tennessee MAGA representative Diana Harshbarger created a firestorm of backlash when she called Texas Democrats representative what on a podcast last week?
P) Forest fires are seemingly everywhere in this era of climate change, including what eastern state?
Q) Could you be Pope? What are the requirements?
R) Who had a makeup room built behind the Pentagon’s press briefing room last week?
S) Which one of Iowa’s MAGA congressional contingent held an actual town hall last week?
T) In an interesting development concerning climate change what country has authorized experiments to dim sunlight getting to earth?
I did not think my opinion of Marco Rubio could go lower. But explicitly selling out Ukraine to Putin, when he knows better, is beyond vile. It is traitorous, cowardly, vicious and detestable. He has no moral core whatsoever. – Norm Ornstein
Answers:
A) Fox
B) over 2,000
C) Pope Francis who died last week – born in Argentina 1935
D) Arkansas. Governor Huckabee-Sanders and Senator Cotton are miffed by this application of new MAGA policy
E) Senator Durbin of Illinois (note Lt. Governor Stratton has already announced a run)
F) Pork – thank goodness that has nothing to do with Iowa – wait a minute
G) conclave
H) Not libeled. Sarah loses again
I) 4th behind US, China, Germany
J) 71% – must be Biden’s fault
K) “Maple MAGA”
L) DHS (department of Homeland Security) Secretary Kristi Noem
M) Pope Benedict resigned from the papacy Feb. 28, 2013. He died on New Year’s Eve 2022 – so for 9+ years we had 2 living popes.
N) The Indiana Fever featuring Caitlin Clark are playing an exhibition against the Brazilian National team
O) “Boy” – She also questioned green’s need for a cane. Later that same day she referred to LGBTQ as ‘fairies”
P) New Jersey
Q) Male and catholic are the only official requirements I have heard
R) Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth
S) Ashley Hinson in Mason City – she was roundly jeered
T) the UK. – Let us hope there are no unintended consequences
Trump offering 5k to have a baby is like your grandfather giving you $20 for books at college. – Jared Freid
And simply because I still like Ike – he did defeat fascism after all:
Topics covered include the reconciliation bill, Citizens United, Powell memo, corporate democrats, tariffs, due process, protests and more. Plus did you know Robert Reich went to law school with Bill and Hillary Clinton and Clarence Thomas? A couple of stories and an interesting glimpse into then and now.
Ashley Hinson’s town hall meeting started late and ended abruptly on time. Throughout, she seemed to be using a filibuster strategy, rambling on in a smooth, polished monotone and not directly answering questions except maybe once when she told a questioner she did not believe the Trump administration had plans to eliminate traditional Medicare in favor of only Advantage plans.
Defending the indefensible is no easy task even for cold-hearted Republicans. IA-01 Representative Mariannette Miller-Meeks escaped by taking off like a bat out of hell down the hall to the nearest exit. Enjoy!
Yesterday was Earth Day. Happy belated Earth Day, mother Earth!
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