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John W

@jcwill324.bsky.social

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-For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world -For imposing Taxes on us without Consent -For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences -He has kept among us standing Armies -He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us

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John W @jcwill324.bsky.social · 2m

Since a majority of those on Obamacare live in red states… 57% live in red in Republican Congressional districts.

The largest increase in enrollment has been in red states over the last five years.

Might be why Marge Greene did an about face on this…

John W @jcwill324.bsky.social · 1d

He was at the bottom, within 4 feet of another escalator that was still running. You could tell he was thinking "crap, now I got to follow her up all those stairs once she took off".

Probably the most stairs he has climbed in decades.

John W @jcwill324.bsky.social · 1d

So Marge’s plan is to round them up, and force them to work in slave labor chain gangs?

This enemy of my enemy is definitely not my friend.

John W @jcwill324.bsky.social · 1d

Well in 2018, a Qatar led fund made a sweetheart deal to bail out Kushner of a foreclosure to the tune of $1.8B.

And after Trump left office, they invested billions Kushner’s new fund… one he had zero experience managing. About $5B now.

So we all know when Trump decided they aren’t terrorists.

John W @jcwill324.bsky.social · 1d

But the actress was a Jew from Great Neck, Long Island.

And you say her accent is fake?

I think the exaggeration is part of the skit.

John W @jcwill324.bsky.social · 1d

Well the original antifa were the greatest generation. So that fits.

John W @jcwill324.bsky.social · 1d

He can take his entourage. But he has to climb to the top of the pyramids and back down on his own.

Climbing the stopped UN escalator to keep up with a fleeing Melania was an act of heroic physical activity for him.

John W @jcwill324.bsky.social · 1d

Just add this to the list of other foreign countries who Trump has admired and wishes we were more like:
1. NK
2. China
3. Russia
4. Turkey
5. Hungary
6. Philippines (when Duarte was President, how he is hailed in the Hague for crimes against humanity, the very actions Trump admired).

John W @jcwill324.bsky.social · 1d

The Middle East drone strikes were (nominally) authorized by Congress with the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force (which is an abomination).

These drone attacks are covered by no law in the United States.

John W @jcwill324.bsky.social · 2d

Cloudy with a high of 64F today, so not as bad as it could be.

John W @jcwill324.bsky.social · 2d

They were pulled array from their paying jobs to be deployed UNPAID to an area they didn’t want to go, where the people reviled and mocked them for obeying the unlawful orders of the CIC.

John W @jcwill324.bsky.social · 2d

Barrett: shadow docket “emergency orders” do not establish precedence.

Kavanaugh and Gorsuch: you are in defiance if you don’t follow emergency order precedence.

courtscast.com/judicial-tem...

Judicial Tempers Flare as Supreme Court’s “Shadow Docket” Tips the Scales for Trump

An unusual storm is brewing inside America’s judiciary. Lower court judges are openly baffled, even frustrated, by a steady stream of Supreme Court rulings that arrive without explanation yet routinel...

John W @jcwill324.bsky.social · 2d

Baby face Johnson: “to help restore that faith in Congress I sent the House on a month long paid vacation (against their will) while the rest of the country goes to hell. Legislation? Screw that. That is not what Congress is all about.

Protecting Trump from the Epstein Files? That is what we do.”

John W @jcwill324.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, Schumer called up RFKjr and told him to fire 1257 CDC scientists.

RFKjr thought it was on the “up and up” cause Trump had been blathering on and on about firing Democratic groups, and nothing is more Democratic than science.

Totally Schumer’s fault.

John W @jcwill324.bsky.social · 2d

I think at this point Trump barely knows who he is.

He is just blathering about whatever the last person he talked to told him.

Stephen Miller is making sure that it is always him.

John W @jcwill324.bsky.social · 2d

Unfortunately Congress passed a law a few years ago to cover this.

House Representatives are getting paid, despite currently being in their third week of vacation.

WTAF is in those Epstein Files? Baby face Johnson is desperate to stop their release.

John W @jcwill324.bsky.social · 2d

No different from paying them from revenue the IRS is currently collecting.

Still illegal. No congressional appropriation to authorize the payment.

The piggy bank is closed for business.

Apparently they figured out the FY24 $8B DOD R&D carryover would only pay 1/2 the troops for a month?

John W @jcwill324.bsky.social · 2d

Nobody ever said they were smart or logical.

Quite the opposite.

John W @jcwill324.bsky.social · 2d

MAGA wants white teenager to start having kids. It’s part of the white nationalist creed.

They blame birth control (of all kinds) for the diminishing white majority.

John W @jcwill324.bsky.social · 2d

My partner is a Sp.Ed instructor.

John W @jcwill324.bsky.social · 2d

MAGA thought they were getting "their" slaves back.

tonicrowewriter.medium.com/did-maga-far...

Did MAGA Farmers Believe They Were Getting Their Black Slaves Back?

Bro, Black people already got jobs, we’re not picking nothing

tonicrowewriter.medium.com

John W @jcwill324.bsky.social · 2d

My point is that this is (usually) bipartisan.

Only in the dystopian MAGA world we find ourselves in is caring for special needs children apparently a "democratic" thing that Trump is slashing to punish half the country.

thehill.com/homenews/adm...

John W @jcwill324.bsky.social · 2d

It just means that now disbursement of the funds allocated by Congress is threatened... since there is nobody left to direct the payments where they need to go so the kids continue to get the services they are legally entitled to.

Trump thinks only liberals want to take care of special needs kids.

John W @jcwill324.bsky.social · 2d

Not to mention that FY24 RDTE funds (two year money) become FY24 MILPERS funds (one year money) when transferred… which means you just forced the money to expire.

Which means only solution is babyface Johnson needs to get the House back in session to pass a troop pay bill.

Release Epstein files!

John W @jcwill324.bsky.social · 2d

There was only $99B in RDTE funds issued in 2024. Maybe $8B remaining (two year money).

Of that $8B “general transfer authority”, how much remains? It is cumulative…

The monthly military paycheck is $14B.

To pay all the troops requires Congress to authorize a higher limit via bill.