MONDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2025
Also, who gets Medicaid coverage? Given the extent of The Crazy
afoot in the land, our major news orgs have largely stopped trying to
fact-check the basic policy claims which drive our political arguments.
Today, attention actually is being paid to President
Trump’s most recent bit of bizarre behavior—his posting on a 19-second
videotape which purports to show him dumping mountains of human waste on the
heads of those who oppose him.
That said, why would a person do something like that? That question is going unasked—but the president’s recent piece of bizarre behavior is being reported and reacted to, by such persons as Senator Bernie Sanders and Speaker Mike Johnson.
For example, Sanders has now said this:
Bernie Sanders Left at a Loss for Words...
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) was left fumbling for words on ABC’s The View Monday after he was asked about President Donald Trump’s AI-generated “poop bomb” video.
Trump posted the video to his Truth Social on Saturday during the “No Kings” protests that attracted a reported seven million Americans to approximately 2,600 rallies across the country.
Trump’s video portrayed him wearing a crown and flying a fighter jet with “King Trump” on the side, to the tune of “Danger Zone” from the “Top Gun” soundtrack. In the 19-second clip, the animation pulled out to show the plane “bombing” New York City with a payload full of excrement.
[…]
Before Sanders made it to the stage, Sunny Hostin and Whoopi Goldberg denounced the video, amazed that it was “coming from a president!”
When Sanders joined the co-hosts to discuss the shutdown, Alyssa Farah Griffin asked Sanders what he thought the end-game was for the impasse between Republicans and Democrats over healthcare that has led to the prolonged government shutdown.
“The end game is, look—Trump may be crazy and he may be a liar and he may do —you described—I mean—hard to imagine a president—I mean, I don’t know what world these guys are living in. President of the United States dropping feces on an American city,” Sanders finally managed in disgust.
He might be “crazy,” the senator said. We’ll assume that
was meant as a bit of colloquial language.
The bizarre behavior is being discussed. Also though, the
Washington Post has offered this analysis piece about a widely heard claim and
question:
Who pays when undocumented immigrants get health care in America?
Is it true? Is “the Democrat [sic] Party” insisting that illegal
residents should be allowed to retain access to health insurance under Medicaid? Do unauthorized residents actually
have access to such coverage?
As the dual headline on the piece says, the answer to those questions—and
the answers to other claims which are floating around—are perhaps bit more complex
than our discourse is built to address.
We expect to touch on this question as we discuss various things which were said on last Saturday evening’s three-hour version of
The Big Weekend Show. Given the way our discourse now works, there’s zero
chance that we the people will ever get clear on the welter of claims which get folded
into this ongoing pseudo-discussion.
The Post’s analysis takes us back to a simpler time—to a
time when the mainstream press corps would try to puzzle such matters out,
generally without success.
What are the Democrats really demanding as part of the ongoing government shutdown? We salute the Washington Post for trying to detail this matter.
That said, given the
way our imitation of discourse currently works, there is little chance that the
typical voter will ever have the slightest idea how this whole thing works.
What do Democrats actually want? More on this question will follow.
ReplyDeleteAre you, Bob, or anyone of your BlueAnon comrades denying that it was a joke, that video?
Now, what about the demented president's son selling, in influence-peddling exercise, "paintings" made of his own feces, for $800K each? Just a year ago.
We haven't seen a single one of you BlueAnons being "amazed" or "disgusted" by that one. Not a peep from you. It was all perfectly fine, wasn't it? But a joking video now -- horrors, horrors! Oh well.
What's the joke?
DeleteWhere the fuck do you get your information? Links from DiC????
Delete"Snopes
DeleteNo Evidence Hunter Biden Tried to Pay Rent in 'Art Made With His Own Feces'"
It's not easy being a trumptard. When you know nothing, you'll believe anything.
It wasn't a joke to Trump and whoever created the video. It was an expression of hostility coming from the man who is supposed to be president of the entire US citizenry. He hates us when he is supposed to be taking care of our well-being.
DeleteIt is very sad when we have more to fear from our own president and government than from previous enemies.
DeleteThere's real world out there, separate from comments and videos. @3:10 says, s/he hasn't seen a single BlueAnon being "amazed" or "disgusted" by the video. Well, I haven't seen nearly enough criticism of Hamas publicly murdering 100 Palestinians. Presumably their "crime" was disagreeing with Hamas atrocities.
DeleteAside from the horror of these murders, they show how difficult it will be to make peace with Hamas. If they continue to murder any reasonable Palestinians, then they will continue to be a bloodthirsty, out of control organization.
BTW would any liberal care to explain why there's less fuss about Hamas murdering Palestinians than about Israel accidentally killing Muslims during a war?
DeleteDavid: Why aren't Israel supporters making a fuss about illegal settlers robbing and beating Palestinians?
DeleteA 55-year-old Palestinian woman has been taken to hospital after being clubbed over the head by a masked Jewish settler as she was picking olives.
DeleteThe unprovoked attack, which took place on Sunday morning in the Palestinian village of Turmus Ayya in the occupied West Bank, was captured on video by US journalist Jasper Nathaniel.
Mr Nathaniel said the settler knocked the woman unconscious with the first strike of his stick, before hitting her again as she lay on the ground. She has been named locally as Umm Saleh Abu Alia.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx20p0qx50no
How the war in Gaza fuelled a wave of settler violence against West Bank Palestinians
DeleteIn the Christian village of Taybeh, armed settlers, protected by Israeli soldiers and cheered on by Bezalel Smotrich, attack and steal with impunity
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/how-war-gaza-fuelled-wave-settler-violence-against-west-bank-palestinians
The USA supports Israeli violence, so people who want better policy condemn Israeli violence. The USA does not support Hamas violence, so people who want better policy don’t need to condemn it.
DeleteOh, and the Palestinians killed by Hamas? Your man Trump says that's a good thing:
DeletePresident Trump on Tuesday appeared to acknowledge that Hamas was engaged in violence against Palestinian militia groups.
"They did take out a couple of gangs that were very bad gangs, very, very bad," Mr. Trump said of Hamas while speaking with reporters. "And that didn't bother me much, to be honest with you."
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/video-shows-hamas-fighters-executing-palestinians-accused-of-collaborating-with-israel/
"accidentally killing Muslims during a war"
DeleteYou know, if you take your car out on the freeway and drive it 180 mph, you might 'accidentally' kill someone.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has confirmed Israel is arming militias in southern Gaza that are opposed to Hamas.
DeleteNetanyahu admitted to the arrangement after Israeli politician Avigdor Lieberman, formerly the country's deputy prime minister and minister of defense, told the press about it on Thursday.
"What did Lieberman leak? That on the recommendation of security officials we launched groups that oppose Hamas?" Netanyahu said during a press availability. "What is wrong with this? It’s only good. it saves the lives of Israeli soldiers. But the publication of this is only good for Hamas."
https://abcnews.go.com/International/israel-arming-gaza-militias-fighting-hamas-netanyahu/story?id=122576019
The Netflix series Boots shows that Marine tattoos are gay.
DeleteIt wasn't anywhere near $800K dufus, and KSA UAE and Qatar dumped hundreds of billions into the Trump Crime Family. Also t0o, Hunter's big pecker is not President you twit.
ReplyDeleteTrump is the joke is on you.
ReplyDeleteTrump and Hegseth tried to kill Vance this weekend. Too bad they missed.
ReplyDeleteHegseth should be deported to a gulag for his gang tattoos.
DeleteHow to deal with fucking idiots? I missed the most stupider part.
ReplyDeleteAI Overview
In early 2025, an internet rumor surfaced claiming that Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden, had tried to pay a landlord with "art made with his own feces". Fact-checking sites like Snopes found no credible evidence to support the claim, noting that publicly available records contradict the central allegation. Prove me wrong douchebro cuckfuck.
Trump the big pussy. "Donald Trump urged Volodymyr Zelenskyy to accept Russia’s terms for ending its war in a volatile White House meeting on Friday, warning that Vladimir Putin had said he would “destroy” Ukraine if it did not agree.
ReplyDeleteThe meeting between the US and Ukrainian presidents descended many times into a “shouting match”, with Trump “cursing all the time”, people familiar with the matter said.
They added that the US president tossed aside maps of the frontline in Ukraine, insisted Zelenskyy surrender the entire Donbas region to Putin, and repeatedly echoed talking points the Russian leader had made in their call a day earlier.
Putzman.
Blue states must leave the union to form a new country. It would also be fun to watch the red states go broke.
ReplyDelete"a successful street agitator named Samuel Adams helped launch the first No Kings movement on this continent. He was quite clear about what he was doing. He wrote:
ReplyDelete“The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation—enlightened as it is—if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men.”"
"I mean, I don’t know what world these guys are living in. President of the United States dropping feces on an American city,” Sanders finally managed in disgust."
ReplyDeleteC'mon Bernie. 'Disgust' is an emotion for elitists. The people want poop and Trump's giving it to 'em.
I
Why are Republicans so fascinated by poop. When they wanted to insult Biden they referred to poopy drawers. Trump would say they are stuck in the anal-retentive stage, which would also explain their greed. It is only the second stage of development (not very evolved) and most children negotiate it at age 2-3 (when going through toilet training).
DeleteRepublicans think poop is hilarious because their humor relieves the anxieties they themselves have around excretion. The rest of us are embarrassed for them, when we aren't snickering over their lack of insight.
Freud would say… not Trump. He doesn’t know who Freud was.
Delete"What are the Democrats really demanding as part of the ongoing government shutdown?"
ReplyDeleteBoth parties are lying. Dems, when they say the shutdown is about health insurance payments. Reps, when they say the shutdown is about health coverage for illegal immigrants.
In reality, the Dem motive is simply to resist whatever Trump does. And, the Rep motive is to have the government open while they negotiate.
"the Dem motive is simply to resist whatever Trump does"
DeleteNot a bad rule of thumb.
Republicans are trying to remove the ACA subsidies that made health more affordable to poor and working class people (and many in the middle class). The Democrats are refusing to vote on a budget that removes those subsidies, causing people's health care premiums to increse by an average of two times and some as much as four times as expensive as last year. This is not rocket scienxe, as Somerby pretends. Dems want to keep healthcare affordable for most people. Republicans don't want to pay for that out of the govt budget.
DeleteThis is not about giving health care to illegals. There is a current law that REQUIRES hospitals to provide emergency care (to prevent loss of life and reduce pain) to anyone who walks into an emergency room. That doesn't just include illegals, it includes people visiting the US on tourist visas, uninsured people, homeless people, criminals, legal residents, citizens who have lost their employer paid health insurance, ANYONE AT ALL. Because it is our national policy and the law states that people cannot be denied service in emergency situations, letting them die.
Some of you may recall Bessie Smith, the famous blues singer (famous in her own lifetime) who was denied urgently needed emergency room care at a white hospital because she was black, and died in her car in the South due to racial prejudice. Today's Republicans would rather save the money because they wouldn't feel any embarrassment over such a death.
To clarify, illegals are not eligible to receive health care via ACA but they are eligible to receive emergency care, just as everyone else is, by virtue of being human beings in need. The law permitting that has nothing to do with the ACA subsidies.
DeleteThe problem, @6:03, is that we don't have infinite amounts of money. Money spent for emergency room health care for illegal immigrants takes money away from somewhere else. That "somewhere else" is apt to be hospital solvency. E.g. Glenn County’s only hospital is set to close its doors in October. Eating the cost of ER benefits for illegals may be one reason for their insolvency.
DeleteYes, it is a matter of priorities. Oddly, the American people think their needs should be a higher priority than bailing out Argentina, for example, or giving DHS a blank check to hunt people (incuding legal residents) while ignoring natural disaster victims. Billionaires have different priorities and Trump is letting them dictate, not the people who elected him (not even the Republican voters).
DeleteWhy can't America afford rural hospitals instead of fancy ballrooms and jets? Ask Trump.
"Money spent for emergency room health care for illegal immigrants takes money away from somewhere else."
DeleteI see. So if an undocumented person shows up in the emergency room, staff should first verify their immigration status before they receive care. And if it can't be verified? What then? Boot them out the door?
What if it's a citizen or legal resident who doesn't have proof on them? No healthcare for you!
Quaker - an illegal immigrant shouldn't show up at an ER, because s/he shouldn't be here in the first place.
DeleteUndocumented immigrants have the right to emergency medical treatment in the U.S. under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA), which requires hospitals with emergency departments that receive Medicare funding to screen and stabilize patients with an "emergency medical condition" regardless of their immigration status or ability to pay.
DeleteThat law was signed into law by none other than President Ronald Reagan in 1986.
This law will remain in effect today, tomorrow, next year. Because we're not fucking nazi animals like you, you fucking fascist freak. No hospital is going to kick out to the street a bleeding person in the ER, you fucking idiot. Immigrant workers pay a lot of money in taxes, fuckface.
The govt shutdown has jack shit to do with that law, Dickhead, you dumb sonofabitch.
"Glenn County’s only hospital is set to close its doors in October. Eating the cost of ER benefits for illegals may be one reason for their insolvency."
DeleteHold on. This came up in the context of the shutdown and Democratic demands. If the hospital is "eating the cost of ER benefits" for undocumented patients, then they're not being reimbursed by the feds and this is a fake issue raised by the GOP. On the other hand if the hospital has been reimbursed, then the ending of those subsidies is causing the closure of the hospital, not the cost of unreimbursed care.
"an illegal immigrant shouldn't show up at an ER, because s/he shouldn't be here in the first place."
DeleteAnd yet they do. Unfortunately, we don't live in your imaginary reality.
Also, the closing of the Glenn County hospital has nothing to do with so-called "illegals."
Delete"At the crux of the issue is a federal rule, newly reinterpreted, that requires critical access hospitals to be at least 35 miles from the next closest hospital when traveling by main roads. Officials at CMS now say that the next closest hospital, Colusa Medical Center, is only 32 miles away — 3 miles short of the required distance."
https://calmatters.org/health/2025/09/glenn-county-hospital-medicaid-lamalfa-oz-closure/
"Money spent for emergency room health care for illegal immigrants takes money away from somewhere else."
DeleteSounds like you think illegal immigrants should be turned away if they present themselves at an emergency room. In which case a lot of them would just bleed out.
Is that your recommendation?
Rural hospitals make a lot of their bank treating undocumented folks in their emergency rooms and charging Medicaid. R's want to defund these payments killing rural hospitals. Somebody has to pay for Trump bribing Argentina.
DeleteWe can't afford to help Amereican ciitizens struggling with healthcare costs, because Trump gave $40 Billion to Argentina, to bail out Scott Bessent's friend's hedge fund.
DeleteOnce the government stops subsidizing rural electricity, folks will move to cities where they belong.
Delete
DeleteSoros-monkey sez: "Sounds like you think illegal immigrants should be turned away if they present themselves at an emergency room."
illegal migrants need to be kept out of the country, Soros-monkey. And those of them discovered inside the country need to be immediately deported, Soros-monkey. Exactly as required by the Law of the Land, incidentally.
That's all. Problem solved.
David in Cal,
DeletePeople who don't insist the United States of America is a shit hole country, keep telling me we can easily afford to feed poor children.
What say you?
DeleteStop snorting coke, Democrat, get a job, and you will be able to feed your children yourself.
Snorting coke doesn't cost me a thing, because, as you know, the Republican voter who isn't a bigot gives away coke for free.
DeleteDavid in Cal,
DeleteDo you agree that raising taxes when you're running a deficit makes as much sense as getting a second job, when your children go to bed hungry?
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, yesterday:
ReplyDelete"You take out one boat full of fentanyl, you save hundreds of thousands of American lives."
Estimated # of people who died of drug overdose in US in 2024: 80,400.
Primary source countries for fentanyl reaching the US:
Mexico and China.
Country of origin of the boats the US has been blowing up:
Venezuela.
Truth value of Johnson's statement:
Less than zero.
same as
"there is little chance that the typical voter will ever have the slightest idea how this whole thing works"
ReplyDeleteSomerby doesn't think much of the "typical" voter and he doesn't think much of people in general either. Talk about elitism!
Somerby does absolutely nothing to enlighten or educate anyone reading his blog. What good is he and what gives him the right to be hyper-critical of dems while giving Fox and its followers a bye, day after day, just as he has always excused Trump (pity the child he says).
Good news for Oregonians
ReplyDelete“A federal appeals court ruled Monday that President Donald Trump can send troops to Portland, Oregon, while litigation over their deployment moves forward, overturning a lower court that blocked Trump from his latest effort to use the military in Democratic-leaning cities.”
How is this good news?
DeleteIt means Trump has "solved" another war.
DeleteIt means that Anifa thugs will on longer be allowed to interfere with ICE's legal work.
DeleteDo they interfere now with ICE thuggery? That is, assuming that Antifa exists and it's not just a figment of the paranoid right's imagination.
DeleteBut I still don't see how it's good news for Oregon.
Ilyaon
Delete1. Illegal immigrants are a burden on schools and on social services. Deporting them helps legal Portlandians
2. Some of the people deported are committing crimes in the US
3. With feds dealing with Antifa crime, that leaves more local police resources to deal with local crime. That should mean fewer violent crimes.
Ilya, not Ilyaon
Delete@7:18
Delete1. This is about the National Guard, not ICE, not CBP. It has nothing to do with deportations.
2. See 1), above.
3. See 1), above
Antifa is hampering federal officials from deporting illegal immigrants. That's why the National Guard is being sent there.
Delete"Illegal immigrants are a burden on schools and on social services."
DeleteWhat if they have jobs and are paying taxes?
"...feds dealing with Antifa crime"
I kind of think when you use a phrase like 'Antifa crime' you're committing 'commenting crime.'
Anon@7:18:
DeleteYou're changing the subject, which was: how is having soldiers in the streets of a densely populated metropolitan area a good thing.
1. All students are a "burden" on schools. Undocumented residents live in the community and pay taxes and provide useful services. Their kids are just entitled to education as anyone else's. See George HW Bush's response to this question in 1988.
2. If an undocumented immigrant is convicted of a crime -- a felony -- by all means, deport them.
3. Antifa is a myth. There's no Antifa there.
If ICE doesn't want people near their building, they need to find another location, not in a densely populated South Waterfront neighborhood; there are plenty of industrial sections.
Ilya - living in a democracy means we obey laws that were democratically enacted by our representatives. Even if we disagree with those laws. The law says illegal immigrants should be deported. Period. It's probably good policy to start with bad people, but that's not the law.
DeleteIt's OK with you to deport illegal immigrants who were convicted of crimes here. But, our law says they all should be deported.
"living in a democracy means we obey laws that were democratically enacted by our representatives. Even if we disagree with those laws"
DeleteCould someone please tell the president?
@Nonny Moose 7:54
DeleteAccording to Pete Hegseth, soldiers are supposed to fight wars for the Department of War with warfighting and a warrior ethos.
There's no war in Portland.
" living in a democracy means we obey laws that were democratically enacted by our representatives. Even if we disagree with those laws."
DeleteThe Supreme Court laughs at your childish naivete.
They've ruled the President, if Republican, can commit any crimes he wants.
Finally, in Capitalist America, anyone can be anything they want. I want to be President, hence no reason for me to worry about obeying silly little "laws".
There's no law that undocumented immigrants have to be searched out and deported. That's a public policy decision. It's costing us billions, while wreaking havoc on the communities.
Delete
DeleteUndocumented presence in the U.S. is illegal, Soros-monkey. And unauthorized crossing of the border is a criminal offense, Soros-monkey.
But you, Soros-monkey, assuming you're in the US legally, can marry one of them, and apply for resident status. Do it, Soros-monkey; put your money where your mouth is.
Ilya 11:43 - If you're right, I stand corrected. Can you provide evidence for your surprising comment?
DeleteTrumptard would like Ilya to prove a negative.
DeleteIllegal immigrants are harder workers, and more honest than American citizens.
DeleteDon't take a Soros-bot's word for it.
Ask any corporate hiring manager.
David, you still haven’t defended Trump’s poop video.
ReplyDeleteI found it crude and disgusting.
DeleteThat was me.
DeleteBut was it effective? That's the important question!
DeleteAnd me.
DeleteI found it effectively convinced me the President is a fucking moron.
Delete"What are the Democrats really demanding as part of the ongoing government shutdown? We salute the Washington Post for trying to detail this matter."
ReplyDeleteHere's a companion question: What, exactly, are Republicans claiming Dems are asking for? They keep saying Dems want "free healthcare for illegals," but they never offer up an atom of evidence this is so. No quotes from Dem Congressional leaders, no written proposals, no nothing.
Good explainer here:
Deletehttps://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/10/07/democrats-healthcare-illegal-immigrants-government-shutdown/86500635007/
As is always and without fail the case, republican lawmakers and their media outlets feed their base lies in order to gin up support for their agenda. From my state, Medicare fraudster Tim Scott announces that democrats want to use Obama subsidies to pay for abortions and medical care for undocumented immigrants, both of which are illegal. Reagan made it law that hospitals receiving Medicare dollars cannot refuse care to the uninsured; this has nothing to do with the subsidies. The fact that the MAGA base loves being fed this garbage is undercut in this case by the fact that many of them will feel pain if the republicans have their way here. Hence MTG's objections; she knows the math. Her colleagues' calculations put a trillion dollars in tax cuts for billionaires at the forefront.
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