WEDNESDAY, JULY 9, 2025
...she focused on Cali's "illegals:" Discourse, don't fail us now!
In the face of such pleas, the Fox News Channel had ordered up a special edition of its "cable news" program, The Five.
The Five is the most-watched show in "cable news." For better or worse, its viewership dwarfs that of any show on MSNBC or on CNN.
On it best days, The Five acquires its frisson from the way its panel is constructed, with four (4) MAGA adherents arrayed against one (1) nominal Democrat. On most days, the Democratic slot is filled by Harold Ford, a former congressman, or by Jessica Tarlov, a substantially feistier "American political strategist."
Especially since last November, Ford has sometimes seemed to be more pro-Trump than his four supposed MAGA-friendly antagonists. The frisson arrives when Tarlov starts injecting a relevant point into some pseudo-discussion, triggering an array of interruptions from her four pro-Trump co-hosts.
In these latter days of what was once the American discourse, four against one is where the Fox News Channel's original dream of "fair and balanced" seems to have drifted. But as we noted in Monday's report, last Wednesday was a special day, with no Democrat present:
The Five: Wednesday, July 2, 2025
Emily Compagno: co-host, Outnumbered
Lawrence Jones: co-host, Fox & Friends
Johnny Joey Jones: Fox News contributor
Dana Perino: regular co-host, The Five
Greg Gutfeld: regular co-host, The Five
That's the way The Mudville Five ran out on the field that day.
On loan from God and from Fox & Friends, reliable blowhard Lawrence Jones was stationed in the "liberal" chair on this unusual day. When the gang began pretending to discuss the pending GOP megabill, their discussion of Medicaid coverage started off like this:
GUTFELD (7/2/25): [The Democrats] are the human version of hysterical tweets...They say, "Oh my God, you're cutting Medicaid! You're throwing, you're throwing the poor and needy"—
No, no, no! These are young, able-bodied people, and illegals. You know, this isn't a free buffet for people who could afford to pay for it. So enough with that.
[...]
PERINO: So on the health car front, Joey—every time a Democrat goes on TV, they add two to three million more to how many people are going to lose their health care. It's 7.8 million people that would be required to do these work requirements, and it's illegal immigrants.
Perino had started the pseudo-discussion with mocking remarks about the way the bill was being critiqued by Dems. It then came time for Gutfeld to swear that no one would lose their Medicaid coverage except for able-bodied fraudsters—and illegal immigrants.
In the type of embarrassment not unknown to this program, Johnny Joey Jones seemed to think that the group was discussing coverage under the Medicare program. That said, he too seemed to agree:
No one was going to lose his coverage under whatever program was being discussed unless the person in question was unable to prove that he or she deserved it.
Tarlov wasn't there to djspute this claim, triggering a bout of interruption and overtalking. Eventually, it came time for Emily Compagno to speak.
Compagno is the speed-talking co-host of the mid-day Outnumbered program. On The Five, Fox may be auditioning Compagno for the newly abandoned Judge Jeanine Pirro chair.
No one will ever fill Judge Jeanine's shoes, but Compagno now started to speak. After more happy talk from Perino, Compagno started like this:
PERINO: Once you havet this bill, and people have the confidence that their taxes aren't going to go up. maybe that fuels some economic growth.
COMPAGNO: And this goes to show that— Why can't Democrats celebrate a win? Why can't they join together to celebrate and propel a vehicle that really would lift all boats?
According to the puzzled Compagno, the megabill was a vehicle which would lift all boats! Except for what you see below, she seemed to have no idea why Dems might oppose such a bill:
COMPAGNO (continuing directly): And I hope that for all of them stunting for their re-election purposes, and clearly just to their echo chamber constituents, that they would remember what would happen if this didn't pass.
Why were Democrats opposing the bill? According to Compagno, they were just "stunting" their constituents off in the echo chamber.
She seemed to know of no other possible reason. On the merits, Compagno said the megabill was going to be a win for everyone!
So it goes on this program's pseudo-discussions each day at 5 p.m. Eventually, Compagno turned to the question of health care coverage, presumably under Medicaid.
She discussed her native California. We were struck by what she said:
COMPAGNO: Hearing Democrats on their TikTok and saying these sort of slogans, you know—Sandy Ocasio saying it's a betrayal of working families...or worthless Governor Gavin talking about the Americans that will lose health care—why don't you back up to the two million illegal immigrants on health care in your state, which everyone pays for, which is why they're fleeing?
[...]
I wish that there was thought behind it. I wish that they were actually human for a second, because they go— They show that anything that Trump eclipses any type of analysis that would actually help their constituents.
For the record, "Sandy" is the name they drop on Rep. Ocasio-Cortez as a means of diminishment. Then too, she spoke about "Governor Gavin."
In the larger sense, Compagno wished that Democrats were willing to be human. The bill would actually help their constituents, but they were refusing to get on board because the bill, which would lift all boats, had come from President Trump.
Compagno seemed to know of no possible serious reason for opposition to this bill. Upon what meat doth Red America feed? Whatever you think of the megabill, day after day after day after day, Red America feeds upon this type of messaging gruel!
That said, we were struck by what Compagno said about her native California. The panel had seemed to be discussing the bill's possible effect upon Medicaid coverage. Is it true, we wondered, that two million illegal immigrants are currently receiving Medicaid coverage in the Golden State?
Indeed, is it legal for any illegal / undocumented / unauthorized immigrant to receive Medicaid coverage? We'd tried to google that topic before, and we'd found it wasn't easy.
Fellow citizens, how about it? Can an "illegal immigrant" receive Medicaid coverage? Can several million such people be found in California alone?
As of last Wednesday, we still didn't know the answer to those questions. Tomorrow, as the discourse continues to die all around us, we'll show you what happened when we tried to find out.
"Illegals" will lose their Medicaid coverage, Gutfeld seemed to say. Everyone else seemed to agree—and Compagno delivered the final blow.
We've shown you what the savants said. Ladies and gentlemen, riddle us this:
Do you—indeed, does anyone else—know what's actually true?
Tomorrow: The complexification rules
I am a bot. Everything I say is a lie.
ReplyDeleteThere are no illegals. Migration is a fundamental human.
ReplyDeleteright.
DeleteFrom the United Nations Declaration of Universal Rights:
Deletehttps://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights
"Article 13
Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state.
Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.
Article 14
Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.
This right may not be invoked in the case of prosecutions genuinely arising from non-political crimes or from acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.
Article 15
Everyone has the right to a nationality.
No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the right to change his nationality."
Trump is also violating rights prohibiting arbitrary detention and exile and rights that are also in our own Constitution about freedom of speech, political activity etc.
Abridging the right to travel is another example of how the US is becoming an authoritarian state.
Migration may be a 'fundamental human' but there are immigration laws and if you violate those laws, you are doing something illegal.
DeleteJust like Jesus Christ taught; chain, torture, and ship them to foreign gulags. Amen.
DeleteI meant “fundamental human right.” I left off the word “right” and clumsily tried to add it.
DeleteMigration is a fundamental human right.
You violate human decency by making such laws.
Delete92% of those being deported by Trump have no criminal record.
DeleteTrump is not deporting criminals, he is deporting hard working people that contribute more to this country than most Republicans.
Republicans are lazy so they have gamed the system to live off blue states.
Republicans don’’t contribute. They’re a burden.
DeleteSomerby says it isn't easy to Google whether illegal immigrants are eligible for Medicaid. I put his exact query into Google and this is what I got back:
ReplyDelete"Therefore, while federal law generally restricts undocumented immigrants from receiving traditional Medicaid, they may be eligible for emergency care and, in some states, may access state-funded programs for specific health care needs like emergency care, or, in some states, prenatal care, or other benefits for children."
There was also an extended discussion of the special circumstances under which someone can receive aid.
So, why is this not easy for Somerby to do? Did he even try?
And the difference between undocumented and illegal is?
DeletePer Tom Head
Delete"Good Reasons to Avoid the Term 'Illegal Immigrant'
"Illegal" is uselessly vague. ("You're under arrest." "What's the charge?" "You did something illegal.")
"Illegal immigrant" is dehumanizing. It defines someone who doesn't have immigration paperwork as an illegal person. This should offend everyone on its own merits, but there's also a legal, constitutional problem with defining someone as an illegal person.
It's contrary to the 14th Amendment, which affirms that neither the federal government nor state governments may "deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." An undocumented immigrant has violated immigration requirements, but is still a legal person under the law, as is anyone under the jurisdiction of the law. The equal protection clause was written to prevent state governments from defining any human being as anything less than a legal person.
On the other hand, "undocumented immigrant" is a very useful phrase. Why? It skips the dehumanizing aspects of "illegal immigrant" and simply describes the situation at hand. An undocumented immigrant is someone who resides in a county without proper documentation."
So basically if you are a hateful SOB who does not understand how badly this country needs immigrant labor to prosper, no difference.
propaganda, illegal tries to put people without paperwork in the same category as criminals
DeleteSomerby never offers any credible or coherent evidence to support any of his murky theses.
DeleteI think I can help with your question, @9:32.
Delete"...they may be eligible for emergency care..."
Under what circumstances? In which states? Are some not eligible?
"...in some states, may access state-funded programs for specific health care needs like emergency care, or, ... prenatal care, or other benefits for children."
Which states? Do these "state-funded programs" have anything to do with Medicaid? Or are they entirely separate? Also, prenatal care or benefits for children, but only sometimes. Is *that* Medicaid money?
If one hopes to find whether Dems or the GOP is exaggerating about the impact of the so-called "OBBB," the passage you cite isn't much help.
Also, it's hard to tell whether these exceptions result in a migrant or children of migrants being "enrolled" in Medicaid, or whether the Medicaid program is just reimbursing healthcare providers for services that aren't covered by any other form of insurance or payment.
DeleteShorter: How many migrants have been receiving healthcare with the assistance of Medicaid funds? How many will lose that assistance now that the bill has passed?
Finding intelligible answers is hard, as Our Host says.
Another question pertains to those supposed layabouts who could or should be working but don’t and yet supposedly receive Medicaid. How does anyone know how many such people there really are? Since the gop line is that there aren’t really any reductions to Medicaid, does that mean its budget is unchanged? Are they speculating that every cent in savings will all come from some unknown number of shirkers (plus some unspecified number of illegal immigrants, of course),
DeleteHospitals are the ones who file for reimbursement of care for people who may be illegal. They know the specific rules in their state even when patients do not. Donald Trump just makes numbers up, but we have to be super accurate because we are Dems? Don't play that game.
DeleteThe hospital files a bill with Medicaid on behalf of the patient. If the patients pay the bill themselves, then they use a form to request reimbursement from Medicaid. Medicaid doesn't pay anyone to loaf around.
DeleteIf you ask Google how many undocumented immigrants live in California, this is the response:
ReplyDelete"California is estimated to be home to around 1.8 million undocumented immigrants. This number represents a significant portion of the state's population and the largest undocumented immigrant population in the United States. "
It then goes on to give the sources of this estimate and to explain that most immigrants are working and many have lived in California for more than a decade and contribute to the state's economy.
If I could find this out in seconds using Google, why can't Somerby?
"As of last Wednesday, we still didn't know the answer to those questions. Tomorrow, as the discourse continues to die all around us, we'll show you what happened when we tried to find out."
ReplyDeleteIt is indeed a problem if Somerby doesn't know how to use Google to answer his questions. But how is that anyone else's problem? Somerby seems to have a vested interest in maintaining that it is too hard to know the truth about anything. But it is especially hard if you aren't really trying to find out. What nit is Somerby trying to pick with this nonsense? I can hardly wait to find out.
Ignorance ain't gonna manufacture itself.
DeleteSomerby is the man for the job.
Undermining faith in the existence of knowledge is a major tenet of nihilism. Somerby's attempt to convince us that no one knows anything is ridiculous today. I am willing to believe that Somerby doesn't know anything, but that only undermines HIS discourse. The rest of us are willing to assume that yes, there are a lot of undocumented people in California, and then go on to discuss the pros and cons of funding Medicaid so that children and pregnant women can obtain health care regardless of their immigration status. Somerby is stuck at square one because, whatever Google is telling him, he doesn't want to believe it, not even for the sake of argument.
ReplyDeleteSomerthing is wrong with Somerby. Can anyone write a serious blog while refusing to believe anything at all? Is there anyone less suited to this task than Somerby? Or is this exactly the guy you want challening statements by Democrats who are critical of Dear Leader, someone who doesn't believe that words convey information and thus absolutely refuses to discuss anything meaningful, except to say "Anything is possible." Somerby has become a parody of himself, and not in a good way.
exactly.
DeleteI don’t know anything.
ReplyDeleteBrilliant.
DeleteWith the Power
DeleteOf Soul
Anything is
Possible
Of course Somerby and all other Republicans are focused on illegals. They don't want to focus on their own wrongdoing. Who does? Here is what Tiedrich says about our president and Jeffrey Epstein:
ReplyDelete"Fox: “the DOJ may be releasing the list of Jeffrey Epstein’s clients? will that really happen?”
Pam Bondi: “it’s sitting on my desk right now to review. that’s been a directive by President Trump. I’m reviewing that.”
“it’s sitting on my desk right now.” keep that line in your mind as you read on.
now, here’s a super-cool thing that President Donny once said about Jeffrey Epstein.
“I’ve known Jeff [Epstein] for 15 years. Terrific guy. He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.”
Jeffrey Epstein is, of course, the fuckface pedophile rapist who liked to host parties for his fuckface pedophile rapist friends, during which under-aged girls were — you guessed it — raped. Epstein would fly his fuckface pedophile rapist friends around in a private jet that was nicknamed the Lolita Express, because of course it was. everyone involved in this story fucking sucks.
Epstein got arrested in 2019 for being a fuckface pedophile rapist, and then, while in jail awaiting trial, either epsteined himself, or got epsteined by a person or persons unknown. we’ll never know exactly what happened, because the video camera that was trained on Epstein’s cell twenty-four hours a day magically stopped running for a minute, and when it started back up again, Epstein was on the wrong side of dead.
by the way, after Epstein got arrested, Donny changed his story. Epstein was no longer his great friend. the new fairy tale was that Donny barely knew the guy, and never liked him, and they hardly ever hung out — which is weird, because there are more photos of Donny and Epstein together than there are of Donny with his own son Barron."
A good friend of mine turned out to be a fuckface pedophile rapist. I never joined in his crimes, but I didn’t abandon him, either.
DeleteWe you on a list?
DeleteSuppressing that list is aiding and abetting criminals after the fact by helping them escape being charged with their crimes, if only in the court of public opinion.
DeleteWho in their right mind thinks it is admirable to show loyalty to a pedophile? Republicans I guess.
DeletePart of the problem with the Epstein list is that Republicans have been using it to claim that there are Democratic pedophiles in high places. The cultists have been accusing all kinds of prominent Democrats without evidence of any kind. Hillary, for example, Barbra Streisand. That is craziness. If the MAGAs were to release the actual list, it would exonerate all of those Democrats accused by MAGA cultists (especially Q-Anon), not just show the names of the Republican hypocrites and criminals.
In Trump's case, there are sworn depositions and his own statements (such as wishing Ghislaine good luck), all those pictures, flight logs and so on implicating Trump in Epstein's crimes.
Somerby would like to claim that we cannot accept any evidence of anything because there is no way of knowing what is ever true. That isn't how things like trials work and it definitely isn't the way people's minds work. It is the way a scummy blogger defends his pedophile heroes.
Epstein didn't commit his crimes all by himself. Somerby is about to tell us that there is no such thing as evidence, because he can't figure out how to use Google. That's on the same level as "There never was a list" coming from Trump's puppet, Bondi.
Try this for evidence:
Deletehttps://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU08/20250227/117951/HHRG-119-JU08-20250227-SD006-U6.pdf
These are transcripts of the tapes author Michael Wolff made of Donald Trump talking about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.
Trump and Epstein were best friends for many years, years in which Trump enjoyed carefree sex with unwilling partners, some of whom were minors.
DeleteTrump was joined by some like minded people, like Alan Dershowitz and Bill Gates and Steven Pinker and Prince Andrew and Ehud Barak and Jimmy Cayne and Les Wexner, etc.
2:20 You are a liar. Pinker is innocent.
DeletePinker is on the list, a witness testified to servicing him while he visited Epstein’s island, and Pinker contributed to defending Epstein in his trial.
DeletePinker is all up in the Epstein case.
Pinker is also a right wing neoliberal that dabbles in race realism and misogyny (rape realism).
Pinker should get his day in court, along with the rest of them.
DeleteHere’s a good discussion of Pinker:
Deletehttps://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/07/17/steven-pinkers-aid-jeffrey-epsteins-legal-defense-renews-criticism-increasingly
Pinker’s defense would be more believable if he hadn’t made snotty remarks about how women experience rape. He continued to associate with Epstein after his 2006 plea bargain so he can’t say he didn’t know. The plane’s name “Lolita Express” was a tip off. He is scum, just like Epstein.
DeletePinker seems from his remarks to consider rape laws manifestations of social attitudes, not a means of protecting young girls from predators.
DeleteDavid and Cecelia know a lot.
ReplyDeleteBut wait, there's more from Tiedrich:
ReplyDelete"anyhoo, it has long been rumored that Epstein kept a ‘client list’ of all the fuckface pedophile rapist friends who partied with him. that’s the list that Pam Bondi insisted was ‘on her desk’ last February.
one of Donny’s campaign promises was that he was going to release that list. that promise was red meat for the cultists, because supposedly the list was being suppressed by all the Democrats who were on it, and Donny was at long last going to expose them all.
it’s here that I must state that if there actually is a ‘client list,’ everyone on it — Democrat or Republican — should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
in March — a month after Pam Bondi assured us that the Epstein client list was ‘on her desk’ — a bunch of MAGA influencers were invited to the White House and were all given binders that were labeled “The Epstein Files, Part 1.”
it was a complete dog-and-pony show. there was nothing new in the binders, just a rehash of material that had already been made public. but don’t worry, the White House told the influencers, Part 2 is going to have all the good stuff in it. you’re going to finally see that client list that’s been on Pam Bondi’s desk.
all of this winding-up of the cultists is super fucking weird, considering that two days ago, the DOJ completely changed their tune and announced that there never was a client list, and Jeffrey Epstein epsteined himself.
and now, every cultist is all what the fucking fuck?
in fact, all of us are asking what the fucking fuck? because we all heard Pam Bondi say that the client list was ‘on her desk,’ and that she had a directive from Donny to ‘review it.’"
Imagine the lack of morals it takes to work for a child rapist (assuming all the evidence pointing that way is true). Weirdos.
DeleteImagine the lack of morals it takes to cover up the evidence that the president who you work for is a child rapist. Is anyone surprised that Bondi is a pure partisan hack?
DeleteAs AG of Florida she was more than happy to take a bribe from Trump. Why stop now?
DeleteAnd there's more:
ReplyDelete"even Fox News lapdog Peter Doocy wants to know what the fucking fuck?
Doocy: “so what happened to the Epstein client list that the attorney general said she had on her desk?”
Leavitt: “I think if you go back and look at what the attorney general said—”
Doocy: “I’ve got the quote. she said, ‘it’s sitting on my desk right now to review.’”
pro tip: if Peter Doocy is using you as a chew toy, you just might be shit at your job.
so, who told the DOJ to change its story, after months of stringing the cultists on? was it someone whose name rhymes with Ronald Blump?
did Ronald Blump suddenly remember that his name is on the list, and maybe it wasn’t a good idea to release it? we’ll never know. all we can do is speculate.
I’m not a conspiracy guy, but I do know when I’m being fed bullshit.
one thing is for certain — Ronald Blump sure seems interested in changing the subject.
reporter: “could you say why there’s a minute missing from the jailhouse tape?”
Pam Bondi: “sure. if I—”
Donny, cutting her off: “could I just interrupt for one second? are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein? this guy’s been talked about for years. you’re asking— we have Texas, we have this, we have all of the things— and, are people still talking about this guy?”
yes, Donny. people are still talking about ‘this guy’ — because as usual, none of your lies add up.
in the absence of facts, one thing we can do is mock all the dipshit cultists who just realized they got played."
This link is for Somerby who probably doesn't know how to find anything on Substack either:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/maga-melts-down-as-the-epstein-files
MAGA melts down as the Epstein Files get epsteined
you dumb-asses just got played — again
Jeff Tiedrich
Jul 09, 2025
Wouldn't it be funny if Somerby's name were on that list? Why isn't Somerby defending Trump on this one? After all, even grown men are innocent until proven guilty, right? Even if they brag about walking into the locker room of teen beauty pageants while the girls are dressing.
If Pam Blondie wanted to announce to the world what an effing tool she is, she could not have done so more succinctly. At this point if a list were produced, who would believe it?
DeleteI would.
Delete11:51 That would depend on who was on it.
DeleteSomebody needs to explain child rapist and funny in the same sentence. Sometimes if the stupid is all you got, don't bother.
DeleteYou are right. I should have said "Would it surprise anyone if Somerby's name were on the list?"
DeleteEpstein wouldn’t bother with Somerby.
Delete12:11 That means you wouldn’t believe the list. You believe your own ideas about who could have been a client.
ReplyDelete12:11. That was my response to 11:46. I have zero faith in anything pertaining to those files that comes from this administration at this point.
Delete1:15, you mean you would have zero faith in an administration that is led by a convicted felon, coward chickenshit, who stole classified documents and stored them in his golf resort bathroom, lied to the FBI about them, got indicted when the documents were recovered, then had his whore of a judge in FL throw the whole case out because she didn't like the Special Prosecutor, then appointed a couple of maggot clowns to run the FBI after this country insanely gave him power again, who promptly took the criminal evidence and gave it back to the felon in chief? I can't imagine why you don't trust him.
DeleteYes
DeleteThank you for prompting me to read the CMS rules for non-citizen eligibility page.
ReplyDelete"Can an "illegal immigrant" receive Medicaid coverage?
ReplyDeleteHe or she should be able to.
The border was, is, and always will be a hoax to distract from the real problem: perpetuation of shifting wealth upward to increase wealth disparity.
Hear! Hear!
DeleteThe border is a hoax.
DeleteTo the Trump supporters that died in the Texas climate disaster, and to their Trump supporting surviving families:
ReplyDeleteWOMP FUCKING WOMP
TOO BAD, SO SAD
Stop that.
DeleteI don't care which side you're on. Cheering the deaths of children is wrong.
Can't fix stupid.
DeleteHard to say whether 1:48 is really a lefty or just a troll pretending. Elsewhere on social media, a supposed leftist feminist writer made similar comments, prompting Elon Musk's AI chatbot to melt into a puddle of antisemitic rants.
DeleteNo one seems to actually know the writer under whose name the offending statements appeared. It's anyone's guess who the real author is.
I’m a troll.
DeleteConviction for joke overturned. Mackey was convicted in 2023 of election interference in the 2016 election because he shared a satirical meme -- a photo of what looked like a Hillary ad, but was actually a parody of a Hillary ad. The caption read: “Avoid the line. Vote from home. Text ‘Hillary’ to 59925. Vote for Hillary and be a part of history.” https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/07/09/meme-makers-conviction-thrown-out-in-free-speech-win-n4941580
ReplyDeleteThis is why everyone should save time and just tell Dickhead in Cal to go fuck himself.
DeleteFrom the article David linked:
Delete"Fortunately, God is good, as Mackey wrote, and justice has finally prevailed. Our right to free speech is no longer at the sole mercy of petty tyrants in the federal government and judiciary."
Let's ask Mahmoud Khalil about that.
It is so fucking funny in the wake of Donny J Chickenshit shaking down Parament/CBS for a perfectly fine 60 Minutes interview. When Donny J Chickenshit was too chickenshit to even sit down for the interview. No, Donny J Chickenshit only gets interviewed by people who will not ask any rude questions and like to polish his knob. Half of his fucking administration are Fox NOOZ rejects.
DeleteGo fuck yourself with a rusty chainsaw, Dickhead in Cal.
Cause repukes have not been shaving off voters in close elections for like forever dickhead. Just another form of poll tax. Jaggoffs gonna fuck with the blah vote, racist dickhead is cool with that. David is a filthy scum. No respect.
Delete...a satirical meme...
DeleteHe violated election laws. The last thing Dickhead is concerned about is free and fair elections. Anything goes, right Dickhead.
I encourage you, David, to make jokes in the airport security line about you having explosive underwear -- or some such thing.
DeleteAnyways, well, that alone makes Trump's presidency worthwhile.
Whenever people do cruel things disguised as humor, they say "What's the matter, can't you take a joke?" Women got tired of that and redefined the "humor" aimed at us as misogyny. I'm glad no judges were fooled by this lame excuse for what is just plain voter suppression.
DeleteBob has really slacked off on his research on this subject. It took one quick search on Google to get the information he claims is unknowable.
ReplyDeleteAs a resident of CA, I am fully aware that citizenship status is not a barrier to getting Medi-Cal (California’s Medicaid program). But all other eligibility requirements are still in effect.
The expansion has been funded by CA taxes, not Federal taxes. Governor Newsom has now proposed freezing eligibility.
Current undocumented coverage extends to an estimated 1.6 million.
https://www.dhcs.ca.gov/Get-Medi-Cal/Pages/coverage-for-all.aspx
https://calmatters.org/health/2025/05/newsom-freeze-medi-cal-undocumented-immigrants/
Given that CA exports agricultural products to the world and also the rest of the nation, taking care of our farmworkers is important to our economy. That means providing health care. If that includes some undocumented workers, it is worth it to us.
DeleteI can't answer for what Newsom does, especially now that he is running for president in 2028, but the previous policy made a lot of sense economically and in terms of basic humanity.
I agree
DeleteA certain kind of guy uses evolutionary psychology to justify whatever they want to do. That is an abuse of science. That’s why Pinker is controversial, not because his ideas are too brilliant to gain acceptance. The last solid work he did was in linguistics. The rest is bullshit and arrogance.
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