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My blood sugar has been uncontrolled all day causing me to have periods of extreme tired.  As my sugar soars and then the insulin fights to bring it down and then soars again I am seesawing  between feeling OK and not able to keep my eyes open.  I have been back to bed four times so far today.  I feel I have not gotten anything done. 

I found out that my part D insurance company wont pay for the insulin my doctor prescribed.  Now I have to find what insulin they will cover and see if the doctor thinks that will work for me.  It is not about what works best and what the doctor thinks will be the best choice for my medical condition, it is what the insurance company will pay at least part of.   I sure could have used that lower drug prices and $15 insulin in the Build Back Better bill that wealthy yacht living Maserati driving Manchin says I don’t need.

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If only the #NYT were this concerned about the debt when #TFG was ramming through tax cuts for corporations and rich people.

What about interest on the W Bush tax cuts and his two endless wars?

They said ‘don’t politicize the bench, no judicial activism’. They lied. It’s what conservatives do.

Most of the braindead Right have no idea of the mission of the Federalist Society. They can’t connect the dots between their grievances with life and a corporate fascist judiciary/SCOTUS.

How do you work for Putin without saying you work for Putin. Hawley is a Russian rat.

The media are underplaying Trump crimes.

Misogyny is MAGA gospel.

The media’s gender bias is obvious.

Women are punished. Men get ‘locker room’ BS.

Always a different set of rules for [mediocre white] men.

Would like to see this broken into Red State and Blue State deaths per capita to compare policies.

NYT avoids telling why the US has such a high death rate: right wing disinformation & Putin

The idea is to walk softly but carry a big stick.  I agree with Ukraine on this.  Russia would love it if Ukraine’s economy crashed and their businesses closed.  That actually could be used by Russia to invade. So world, be ready to act but don’t scream about it world wide. 

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Nope, not even close.  What was requested is he stop promoting lies about a health crisis and getting people killed.  Even he admitted he had to try harder to give the correct information. 

No Biden did not base his pick just on skin color, skin color is just one of the qualifications he requires of the nominee.    Those who keep complaining of this see only that he is picking a black woman as if it was a random person he seen on the street.  The complainers are not even worth arguing because they are doing it in bad faith, wanting to find some fault with Biden, and fault at all.  

What’s that have to do with car crash?  he prison system in the US always fails. The reality is that it doesn’t rehabilitate. It teaches people to be better criminals.   We have more people in the jail and prison than any other country. Yes, the system has certainly failed.

The right is up in arms because ICE is moving families to new locations.  They act as if ICE has never moved people around the country and in the night at that.  Well I posted on the many flights they did to hide kids taken from their families in the middle of the night.  Companies started to refuse ICE to fly these scared kids who were under orders not to talk and who no one was allowed to talk to.  This was the real abuse.   These kids were taken from their families and taken across the country to be given to adoption agencies (usually christian adoption agencies)to place in families for money.  That is called child trafficking. 

So the cartoonist admits the average person in the US can not afford necessities which is increasing petty crimes of theft. I think it is time to tax the wealthy and large corporations the way they were taxed in the best economic times of the US such as the 1950’s so the government can take care of the needs of the people. The government can create programs to insure people have the things they need and are not so deep in poverty that they need to steal to stay warm and clothed.

I remember night flights when ICE took children who had been taken from their parents at the Southern border and taken across the US to mostly Christian adoption agencies to be placed with US families for a price. The frighted kids were not allowed to speak to anyone and ICE agents wouldn’t let anyone talk to the children. This is child trafficking. It was done under the tRump administration and it was because of the tRump separation policy that they had children they had to move around the country.

Complete lie. It is stupid to even promote that idea. Remember the US is a country of laws and the DA and Gov. of Texas along with other states have go to court to block every attempt that Biden has made to change rules at the border. The only one rule change that was made was that families seeking asylum are not detained but verified given ways to track them and sent to family or NGO’s in other parts of the country. There are cities and towns in the US that are welcoming as many immigrant families as they can get. Reality is the US has places dying because of lack of people living there. Immigrants bring life back to these places. But that is the only rule change. The borders are not open, apprehensions are up. Facts matter

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My first brand new home cost less than my 2018 car.   Then I could afford a new home, two vehicles, two motorcycles, and other luxuries on one working persons wages.   Not now. 

Profit is king and workers are only livestock to make the profit for the wealthy.

‘Not qualified’ is a Republican bona fide.

Anti-blackness is GOP oxygen.

White people in this picture would say THEY are the victims of racism.

Its racist white people want racist white legislators to prioritize their racism.

Media, can you do your job?

Republican fascism is here. FOX broadcasts the propaganda. Both thought they would restore past glory by scapegoating and violence.

Half the GOP in Congress will be in prison and they will still chant ‘lock her up’ because the brainless have no objective intelligence, just slogans and grievances.

Rand Paul, flunkie reject, libertarian hero.

Because of the red states forcing in person schooling with no attempt at all to use precautions or mitigate the spread of Covid, so many teachers are out sick with the virus that there is no one left to watch the kids as the parents work.   Think about the sign, it is not about educating the kids, it is about having a place to park them so the parents can make profit for their employers.  If it was about teaching kids than the money would have been put into making the kids and adults safe. 

Just what we need, a country that can not afford to take care of nuclear weapons and did not have the expertise needed to control them having them.   But they are right they should have gotten much better security promises and treaties for giving them up.

Not quite that bad.   There has been some hesitation as to how far to go with sanctions on the part of Germany because they get a large part of their natural gas for heating their homes from Russia.  In the middle of winter I can see their issue, but I also want to note they have agreed to go along with the sanctions. 

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Yes they do hate to be called out for what they are.  Most racist say they are not racists.  The fringe people want or need to think they are the majority and the ones with the truth. 

Notice the cartoonist name.  This same deep right wing person who fawns over tRump and rants against anything the Democrats want to do while promoting Covid misinformation is supporting the Canadian anti-maskers / anti-vaccine truckers.  Do you wonder if there is dark money fueling all these people ranting against governments attempt to slow down and eradicate the virus? 

This normally far right cartoonist is sort of correct above.  But what it points out is not that Biden has fallen but that there is not one Republican willing to do the right thing for their country.  It shows that the right is party first rather than the good of the country.   They would see the country destroyed to make Biden fail, regardless of the cost to the nation.

How immature. The US government requires money to operate and provide services. The IRS exists to ensure that those who owe taxes pay the correct amount owed. The problem is that the Republicans have managed to shift the tax burden on to the lower incomes and poor and away from the wealthy. The Republicans have starved the agency so they can no longer go after wealthy people actively avoiding paying the taxes they owe. The wealthy want as much bad press and to demonize the IRS as much as possible so the people will try to do away with the agency in charge of making the wealthy pay their taxes. This is the right wing media doing the bidding of the wealthy to sway public opinion. Don’t fall for it. Don’t give the wealthy a pass from paying their taxes.

I noticed Goodwin never pointed out the injustice of appointing white people over qualified black women.  Remember that Reagan promised to put a woman on the Supreme Court if he were elected—and he did. Was that pandering? Trump promised to put anti-abortionists on the Court, and he did. Was that pandering?   Conserves are scared of a more balanced court. That’s why they stacked the Supreme Court with single minded simpletons who pander to the ultra right wing evangelicals.

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Some have a lot and others have very little

Respect labor. Respect women. Invest in education. Increase school resources.

Or longer.

All the gun control legislation up north does no good whatsoever when a quick trip down south can re-stock your arsenal!  For 110 years there has been a flow of illegal guns into NYC and other cities like Boston or DC from States with lax or no gun laws. Prior to 1968 there were almost zero federal laws regarding handguns allowing bulk smuggling of cheap throw down “Saturday Night Special” pistols. Today the story is things like $500 Glock in a Free State goes for $3,000 on the street in NYC.  Guns be cheap and available down south, then can be sold up north. Profitable!

Hey, hey, my, my, hope other artists leave Spotify.

One person can start the conversation that brings change

Just goes to show cops don’t follow rules. They think they are beyond reproach. They never atone.

These idiots, full of bad judgment and racist confirmation bias, eschew all training, and act out white supremacist ‘judge and jury’ violence and ‘I was so scared’ cowardice script.

Impartial? The opposite.

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Yes there are some really whacked out ideas like the flat earth movement or the anti-vaxx people.   But the thing to understand is most ideas that become mainstream started as fringe ideas.  

Benson is very annoyed that Breyer chose to give Biden the opportunity to replace him before the midterms. Be sure that McConnell, Manchin, et al will do everything they can to delay it until after the newly elected Senators are seated.  

Lisa and the other Trump Disciples were deliriously happy when Ruth Bader Ginsberg died. They had her replacement nominated before she was even buried.   They celebrated the opportunity to put a perjurer who was also credibly accused of sexual assault, on the court.

Fear, be very afraid. That is the message the misleading right wing wants to sent to their followers. Keeping them fearful and outraged so they wont notice that the Republicans have no polices to make the public lives better. The only polices the Republicans have is to empower themselves and to divide the country while denying rights to diverse segments of the population.

As stated often enough despite the right wing talking points wanting to make it so the withdrawal from Afghanistan was not a disaster. Biden’s actions on the Ukraine issue seems to be working well, Putin has hesitated and not invaded as of this time. I have not figured out the right on this. Do they want Biden to insert troops into Ukraine to start a war even the Ukrainians don’t intend to fight in an army to army way? That wouldn’t be smart at all. Does the right want the US to step aside and let Putin have the entire country of Ukraine like Tucker Carlson is pushing for? What is it the right wants here?

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