Up the ante, people. Protest more in greater numbers. Choke traffic at rush hour everywhere. A parade on June 14 cannot happen if the roads are choked. Lay down in the streets 2-3 deep and locking arms. Wave after wave of us. Spaces vacated by 2-3 officers hauling you off can be refilled with more protesters. Disrupt it. Shut it down. A parade celebration while Medicare, Medicaid, and SNAP are being butchered? While AIDS vaccine research is being shutdown? I don’t think so. We have done this before and you need to learn just what it took to turn the tide. https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/forking-roads?r=3m1bs
Joni Ernst has to be the poster girl for all Congressional Republicans.
AI During a recent town hall meeting in Parkersburg, Iowa, Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA) responded to a comment about potential Medicaid cuts by saying, "we all are going to die,"according to a CBS News report. The comment was made in response to a constituent who had stated that people would die due to the cuts, and Ernst's response, while capturing the universal truth of mortality, has been criticized for its perceived dismissiveness and lack of seriousness in addressing the concerns of those potentially affected by the policy changes. She was speaking about proposed Medicaid cuts in the Trump administration's domestic policy bill, and someone in the crowd shouted, "People will die," to which Ernst replied, "Well, we all are going to die".
Yesterday, dozens of activists mobilized in Davenport, IA to take Ernst and her House colleague Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks to task for their support of these deadly cuts.
Agriculture:
Cuts to programs like the Emergency Food Assistance Program threaten food security for low-income families and impact Iowa farmers and local producers.
Education:
Iowa faces potential loss of funds for Head Start, which provides early childhood education and support to families. K-12 education funding is also impacted, with districts facing potential losses of unspent funds.
Social Services:
Medicaid funding cuts could lead to a significant number of Iowans losing their coverage, and nonprofit agencies that serve refugees and the homeless may face disruptions due to funding freezes and cuts.
Culture and Arts:
Museums and libraries are bracing for the loss of federal funding, potentially leading to program cuts, staff layoffs, and even closure.
Infrastructure and Community Development:
Iowa is missing out on millions in federal funding for road projects, police department upgrades, and other community infrastructure programs due to congressional stopgap funding bills.
Causes of the Loss of Federal Aid:
Budget Cuts:
Federal budget cuts, particularly to Medicaid and SNAP, are impacting Iowa's funding.
Funding Freezes:
Federal funding freezes have disrupted funding for various programs, including those serving refugees and the homeless.
Congressional Action:
Congress's failure to pass a stopgap funding bill with earmark spending has resulted in the loss of millions for Iowa communities.
Consequences and Impacts:
Financial Burden:
Loss of federal funding places a financial burden on states and local governments, who may need to find alternative funding sources.
Program Disruptions:
Cuts to federal programs like Head Start and food assistance can disrupt services for vulnerable populations.
Job Losses:
Nonprofit organizations and agencies serving communities may face job losses due to funding cuts.
Reduced Access to Services:
Low-income families and individuals may face reduced access to essential services, including healthcare, food assistance, and educational programs.
"The Poster Girl," indeed. Because what is more emblematic of the success and superiority of "Western Civilization" than the civilized society demonstrating enhanced health and longevity? The bizarreness of her statement can't be overemphasized. She is "selling the farm" that Republicans are fine with Americans falling farther down the "Western Civilization" rankings in health and longevity. Republicans intend to make all Americans Sicker and Shorter-Lived than comparable relatively white populations?" That is what she is saying.
According to a Nasdaq report published on April 16, 2025, Ernst's Q1 FEC disclosure for 2025 revealed $980.4K in new fundraising, with 68.9% coming from individual donors. She also disclosed $278.2K in spending and $3.0M in cash on hand at the end of the filing period.
At the time her Hegseth vote came up, she was identified in Defense Departmebnt IG reports as having affairs -- maybe with DD contractors.
From Pro Publica: A spokesperson for Ernst would not address whether the senator had any relationships with military legislative liaisons but said the lawmaker maintained her independence: “The fake news media is clearly too busy gossiping to report the real news that Senator Ernst is focused on cutting waste at the Pentagon. Her votes and work in the Senate are guided by the voices of Iowans who elected her and her constitutional duty alone. Any insinuation otherwise by tabloid ‘journalism’ is a slanderous lie — full stop.”
I just watched Ali Velshi and his interview with the author Timothy Snyder, "On Freedom: and "On Tyranny".
The solution is resistance, disobedience, do not obey in advance, boycott, do what you can to throw a monkey wrench in the works.
There was an example in Missouri, where the state government set up a hot line to report on Trans. They were flooded with calls, including one that read pages of a book.
Well, Chris--I think we are doomed until there is a Democratic MAJORITY in BOTH chambers of Congress. The midterms are too late--and uncertain at best. I've written 12 repub house and Senators to change their party to change the majority, ( and the bonus would be to change the chairmanship of so many committees!) but so far, no one has had the courage to make the switch. Sigh. . .
Not just democrats, but progressive democrats, although not of the political purity and political correctness nature, that is why Trump is polluting the Oval Office.. Democrats need to learne to tread the culture war and not alarm the white Christian patriarchs.
Democratic majority will unfortunately will not heal the deep wounds that the democrats in the past have left. Of course it was never just their fault as the past 30 years the congress has been split. We need representation with backbone
*Money out of politics..period.
*A realistic taxation system . Must provide medicare for all, education thu college and or Trade School.
*Wages that are up to cost of living standards
*No lobbying Against any of the Commons, common good for all
* Capping Energy costs and reduction of energy generation that negatively impacts .* Senior citizens can age respectully whether they have the money or not
Not without the lackluster pushes Not strong enough that has come into the democratic party over years, I'm afraid that the Republicans were always given a little carrot from whom?
this is a new concept for me! Thanks! It instantly erases the fear of primary tyranny! Yet they can run on, you know I've always been conservative, I'm just not crazy! So now I'm your conservative Democrat. Not ideal, depending on the particular district's anti-abortion mania. But, yeah...
A big problem for countries, other than the U.S. is that if they buy F-35 or similar planes, they don't own spare parts, until installed & they don't own the software. In theory Trump could ground their planes. This is similar to John Deere's control of farm equipment. I read an article where Trump wants to sell Japan F-35s', but points out they will be "detuned" versions of what the U.S. deploys. I wonder if European planes have similar restrictions?
It is worse Boeing at DoD's insistence has installed kill switches in the F-35's, and I hear the F-16's and F-22's as well. The EU knows this and is not buying anymore of our fighters, the big beneficiary is SAAB
I saw two items in Saturday Report 5/31/24, and as they were so surprising, I'd like to have them verified by SCOPES, or links that seemed to be reliable.
1) Canada declares independence from the US military
2) Crazy Alert! Trump posts a meme saying he’s “on a mission from God”
Note: I thank you for your work and wanted to trace the source, see if there is a SCOPES-type fact checker, and gather more details, if available.
Some 800 of Elon's Punks are still active within government agencies continuing the Destruction of Government Efficiently. Do their mothers know what they are doing?
The Ketamine Kid has long run from trauma-based mood swings rather than enter the long-term analysis that would have healed him. Maintaining his manic and frenzied life style, he has killed off his mirror neurons, leaving him without empathic intelligence or a compassion-based moral compass…and leaving us as matters of digits and decimals in his production schemes. His Blade Runner world will unfold for quite some time—he’s been a perfect fit and a perfect catalyst for the malignant leadership cluster in power, and mirrors the soulless worshippers of the MAGA calf.
Apart from measles,I have not seen or heard any efforts to raise public awareness of the catastrophic public health risks the RFK pseudoscience approach poses. The latest assault is RFK's defunding moderna's development of a bird flu vaccine.This virus is just 1 or 2 mutations away from being transmissible among humans. Months ago I went to my Congressional reps's office and spoke with a staff member to urge action against this threat. I recently sent a letter asking to my reps to start raise hell and have shadow hearings about this looming crisis to educate the public. I want to share this letter with as many people as possible. How can I send this letter to Thom?
CDC removes language that says healthy kids and pregnant women should get COVID shots. The nation’s top public health agency has posted new recommendations that healthy children and pregnant women may — but no longer should — get COVID-19 vaccinations.
White House acknowledges problems in RFK Jr.'s ‘Make America Healthy Again’ report
Thanks for your reply. In my letter to my reps I did write about the risk of the RFK\Trump inspired CDC recommendations you mention. My original comment focused on the bird flue risk because it gets very attention in public discourse. Also because many people have some covid immunity from having had covid and\or covid vaccinations. It new recommendation is appalling especially as insurance companies won't cover vaccines without CDC recommendations so only the well off will be able to afford to pay for vaccines. Another problem is that RFK wants to ditch the rMRA technology for flu and other vaccines and to test vaccines against placebos which will delay production to scale possibly for years. I wish I could have put my entire letter in the comment but it is probably too large for that. I'd like to post it but at age 84 I'm not that tech savvy about social media.
Miller should stop to consider the animus held by Christian Nationalists toward people who are not fit to be Americans, AKA while and protestant. Jews have often been looked at as undesirables in this country and immigration denied. Perhaps the most horrific example was in 1939 when a boatload of 937 refugees from Europe on board the MS St Louis - known as the Ship of Fools - was denied entry because the majority were Jews. Eventually the ship had to return to Europe where many of the passengers ended up in the camps; subsequently 254 of them died in the Holocaust. In the process of what can only be thought of as ethnic cleansing, Miller fails to realize that after expelling the Hispanics, the Asians, the Africans, and whomever else is deemed undesirable there's no reason why the Jews wouldn't be next.
Letting a snake out of a box doesn't mean you yourself won't be bitten.
Re: "the destruction of the American government:" late news Friday is that 9th Circuit has affirmed stay on DOGE/Trump mass Federal employee firings without cause. So, how do "we" get them back? I would sure hold out for a nice bump in wages and benefits! Make Essential Government Services Higher Cost"
Unless the regime is forcibly removed there is no way that we'll be able to have a fair presidential election outcome when the term is up. So strap in for at east 6 more years with vance taking over sometime in the third Trump term. When is our stupid electorate going to realize that the present election was farce and the next election will also be.
I hope that the shadowy group Thom talks about has an army ready to seize power because it is now too late for any peaceable transition to occur. Trump seems bent on enlisting all his criminal buddies and white supremacists from all over the world into an army that will do anything for the king. After the battle he'll likely kill many of them as he can
How about men being sentenced to cut off their supply of sperm when they cause an unwanted pregnancy. And yes it can be done.
For the rest of the article White Supremancy never left the country and is again riding high and this Administration is full of it. From their banning of DEI to the present adoption of deimmigration. White Supremacy is the basis of the present Administration.
"You just can't make this crap up." Since 2017 I've posted things starting with: "You can't make this shi_ up and now you don't have to #1. You can imagine what number it's up to now. :-(
Up the ante, people. Protest more in greater numbers. Choke traffic at rush hour everywhere. A parade on June 14 cannot happen if the roads are choked. Lay down in the streets 2-3 deep and locking arms. Wave after wave of us. Spaces vacated by 2-3 officers hauling you off can be refilled with more protesters. Disrupt it. Shut it down. A parade celebration while Medicare, Medicaid, and SNAP are being butchered? While AIDS vaccine research is being shutdown? I don’t think so. We have done this before and you need to learn just what it took to turn the tide. https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/forking-roads?r=3m1bs
Vets on the mall June 6.
Joni Ernst has to be the poster girl for all Congressional Republicans.
AI During a recent town hall meeting in Parkersburg, Iowa, Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA) responded to a comment about potential Medicaid cuts by saying, "we all are going to die,"according to a CBS News report. The comment was made in response to a constituent who had stated that people would die due to the cuts, and Ernst's response, while capturing the universal truth of mortality, has been criticized for its perceived dismissiveness and lack of seriousness in addressing the concerns of those potentially affected by the policy changes. She was speaking about proposed Medicaid cuts in the Trump administration's domestic policy bill, and someone in the crowd shouted, "People will die," to which Ernst replied, "Well, we all are going to die".
The budget reconciliation process is a window of opportunity. We have to educate them. Picket. Sit ins. Pray in. Pressure their donors. https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/joni-ernst/summary?cid=N00035483
"..we're all going to die." Reminds me of "be the first one on your block to have your boy shipped home in a box."
You go first, Joni.
Ernst and Grassley have split with Trump on Ukraine. https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2024/02/13/chuck-grassley-joni-ernst-voted-to-approve-95-billion-foreign-aid-bill-ukraine-israel/72581965007/
Yesterday, dozens of activists mobilized in Davenport, IA to take Ernst and her House colleague Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks to task for their support of these deadly cuts.
Agriculture:
Cuts to programs like the Emergency Food Assistance Program threaten food security for low-income families and impact Iowa farmers and local producers.
Education:
Iowa faces potential loss of funds for Head Start, which provides early childhood education and support to families. K-12 education funding is also impacted, with districts facing potential losses of unspent funds.
Social Services:
Medicaid funding cuts could lead to a significant number of Iowans losing their coverage, and nonprofit agencies that serve refugees and the homeless may face disruptions due to funding freezes and cuts.
Culture and Arts:
Museums and libraries are bracing for the loss of federal funding, potentially leading to program cuts, staff layoffs, and even closure.
Infrastructure and Community Development:
Iowa is missing out on millions in federal funding for road projects, police department upgrades, and other community infrastructure programs due to congressional stopgap funding bills.
Causes of the Loss of Federal Aid:
Budget Cuts:
Federal budget cuts, particularly to Medicaid and SNAP, are impacting Iowa's funding.
Funding Freezes:
Federal funding freezes have disrupted funding for various programs, including those serving refugees and the homeless.
Congressional Action:
Congress's failure to pass a stopgap funding bill with earmark spending has resulted in the loss of millions for Iowa communities.
Consequences and Impacts:
Financial Burden:
Loss of federal funding places a financial burden on states and local governments, who may need to find alternative funding sources.
Program Disruptions:
Cuts to federal programs like Head Start and food assistance can disrupt services for vulnerable populations.
Job Losses:
Nonprofit organizations and agencies serving communities may face job losses due to funding cuts.
Reduced Access to Services:
Low-income families and individuals may face reduced access to essential services, including healthcare, food assistance, and educational programs.
"The Poster Girl," indeed. Because what is more emblematic of the success and superiority of "Western Civilization" than the civilized society demonstrating enhanced health and longevity? The bizarreness of her statement can't be overemphasized. She is "selling the farm" that Republicans are fine with Americans falling farther down the "Western Civilization" rankings in health and longevity. Republicans intend to make all Americans Sicker and Shorter-Lived than comparable relatively white populations?" That is what she is saying.
She's apologizing this morning.
I don't know this as a fact, but I bet that she and Grassley have personally lost "bigly" in the short time Trum/Musk have run amok.
In Grassley's case, his family owns farms that got huge subsidies.
She probably has some also. https://efdsearch.senate.gov/search/view/annual/512f89d1-aaa9-4850-bd2b-29622809776e/
Last Finacial Report.
According to a Nasdaq report published on April 16, 2025, Ernst's Q1 FEC disclosure for 2025 revealed $980.4K in new fundraising, with 68.9% coming from individual donors. She also disclosed $278.2K in spending and $3.0M in cash on hand at the end of the filing period.
At the time her Hegseth vote came up, she was identified in Defense Departmebnt IG reports as having affairs -- maybe with DD contractors.
From Pro Publica: A spokesperson for Ernst would not address whether the senator had any relationships with military legislative liaisons but said the lawmaker maintained her independence: “The fake news media is clearly too busy gossiping to report the real news that Senator Ernst is focused on cutting waste at the Pentagon. Her votes and work in the Senate are guided by the voices of Iowans who elected her and her constitutional duty alone. Any insinuation otherwise by tabloid ‘journalism’ is a slanderous lie — full stop.”
I just watched Ali Velshi and his interview with the author Timothy Snyder, "On Freedom: and "On Tyranny".
The solution is resistance, disobedience, do not obey in advance, boycott, do what you can to throw a monkey wrench in the works.
There was an example in Missouri, where the state government set up a hot line to report on Trans. They were flooded with calls, including one that read pages of a book.
That flushing sound- it's the US going down a golden toilet unless we crawl out of the bowl and take action on a massive scale.
Well, Chris--I think we are doomed until there is a Democratic MAJORITY in BOTH chambers of Congress. The midterms are too late--and uncertain at best. I've written 12 repub house and Senators to change their party to change the majority, ( and the bonus would be to change the chairmanship of so many committees!) but so far, no one has had the courage to make the switch. Sigh. . .
Not just democrats, but progressive democrats, although not of the political purity and political correctness nature, that is why Trump is polluting the Oval Office.. Democrats need to learne to tread the culture war and not alarm the white Christian patriarchs.
The doable is the enemy of.....
Would you turn down shared government?
Do you believe that at this time the Republicans would share government?
Been working on it...have to add pressure. https://jerryweiss.substack.com/
Jerry Weiss as identified Republicans who said they would talk months ago. It takes diplomacy. Only need 3 House members.
Define shared government.
3 Hour Republicans acquiesce. House flips.
Democratic majority will unfortunately will not heal the deep wounds that the democrats in the past have left. Of course it was never just their fault as the past 30 years the congress has been split. We need representation with backbone
*Money out of politics..period.
*A realistic taxation system . Must provide medicare for all, education thu college and or Trade School.
*Wages that are up to cost of living standards
*No lobbying Against any of the Commons, common good for all
* Capping Energy costs and reduction of energy generation that negatively impacts .* Senior citizens can age respectully whether they have the money or not
Jeeze. It's REPUBLICANS who did it.
Not without the lackluster pushes Not strong enough that has come into the democratic party over years, I'm afraid that the Republicans were always given a little carrot from whom?
So then we are doomed?
We can't wait until the mid-terms. June 14 is the next mass protest (No Kings Day) and it has to be huge.
If you have the ability to attend one in your area, recruit a friend or two and go! Huge numbers of people can't be ignored.
Even if you've never attended a protest before, show up, even for a hour.
this is a new concept for me! Thanks! It instantly erases the fear of primary tyranny! Yet they can run on, you know I've always been conservative, I'm just not crazy! So now I'm your conservative Democrat. Not ideal, depending on the particular district's anti-abortion mania. But, yeah...
Amen. See Carl Selfe.
The Cave Men need an ego boost so badly now. Poor babies. Brawn, no brains. What can we expexct?
A big problem for countries, other than the U.S. is that if they buy F-35 or similar planes, they don't own spare parts, until installed & they don't own the software. In theory Trump could ground their planes. This is similar to John Deere's control of farm equipment. I read an article where Trump wants to sell Japan F-35s', but points out they will be "detuned" versions of what the U.S. deploys. I wonder if European planes have similar restrictions?
They're already negotiating with European defense firms. Just because they have them doesn't mean they have to keep them.
It is worse Boeing at DoD's insistence has installed kill switches in the F-35's, and I hear the F-16's and F-22's as well. The EU knows this and is not buying anymore of our fighters, the big beneficiary is SAAB
That's more plausible rumor than fact.
It's enough to give a purchaser pause. And it is working.
However they do require periodic software updates.
I saw two items in Saturday Report 5/31/24, and as they were so surprising, I'd like to have them verified by SCOPES, or links that seemed to be reliable.
1) Canada declares independence from the US military
2) Crazy Alert! Trump posts a meme saying he’s “on a mission from God”
Note: I thank you for your work and wanted to trace the source, see if there is a SCOPES-type fact checker, and gather more details, if available.
Thanks.
Both are true. It is in the news. Canada is in fact not joining in the Golden Dome scheme and is buying military equipment from Europe.
Trump does believe he is on a mission from god, he said so himself.
Your computer must not have a search engine.
1. https://deanblundell.substack.com/p/breaking-mark-carney-just-declared
2. https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-posts-meme-saying-mission-173604233.html?guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAABx9ccjRKR8MN8vluAOnHK58DGpBuqCmeUtPHzD6dLbOMmNwTNMVPjUTXlyXZmZ6fJZtMh16NrjC8Y47s6fvvYf9btfLzC4VAly6uOx4WMwYmoyt3jTQGMWjFQO9Pa8WGrRAX4D0drWcF8dDRg2GmlFMhobaPqa9h3HQLWe6qYBP
Thanks.
Send a copy of this Substack to every single republican member of congress.
Some 800 of Elon's Punks are still active within government agencies continuing the Destruction of Government Efficiently. Do their mothers know what they are doing?
The Ketamine Kid has long run from trauma-based mood swings rather than enter the long-term analysis that would have healed him. Maintaining his manic and frenzied life style, he has killed off his mirror neurons, leaving him without empathic intelligence or a compassion-based moral compass…and leaving us as matters of digits and decimals in his production schemes. His Blade Runner world will unfold for quite some time—he’s been a perfect fit and a perfect catalyst for the malignant leadership cluster in power, and mirrors the soulless worshippers of the MAGA calf.
Apart from measles,I have not seen or heard any efforts to raise public awareness of the catastrophic public health risks the RFK pseudoscience approach poses. The latest assault is RFK's defunding moderna's development of a bird flu vaccine.This virus is just 1 or 2 mutations away from being transmissible among humans. Months ago I went to my Congressional reps's office and spoke with a staff member to urge action against this threat. I recently sent a letter asking to my reps to start raise hell and have shadow hearings about this looming crisis to educate the public. I want to share this letter with as many people as possible. How can I send this letter to Thom?
https://www.statnews.com/2025/05/07/rfk-jr-kennedy-hhs-secretary-bill-cassidy-measles-epidemic/
Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s report about children’s health used fake research, credited the wrong authors, and referenced OpenAI
https://au.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/rfk-jr-disastrous-maha-report-written-ai-77607/
AP
https://apnews.com/hub/robert-f-kennedy-jr
CDC removes language that says healthy kids and pregnant women should get COVID shots. The nation’s top public health agency has posted new recommendations that healthy children and pregnant women may — but no longer should — get COVID-19 vaccinations.
White House acknowledges problems in RFK Jr.'s ‘Make America Healthy Again’ report
May 29
Thanks for your reply. In my letter to my reps I did write about the risk of the RFK\Trump inspired CDC recommendations you mention. My original comment focused on the bird flue risk because it gets very attention in public discourse. Also because many people have some covid immunity from having had covid and\or covid vaccinations. It new recommendation is appalling especially as insurance companies won't cover vaccines without CDC recommendations so only the well off will be able to afford to pay for vaccines. Another problem is that RFK wants to ditch the rMRA technology for flu and other vaccines and to test vaccines against placebos which will delay production to scale possibly for years. I wish I could have put my entire letter in the comment but it is probably too large for that. I'd like to post it but at age 84 I'm not that tech savvy about social media.
And if they still won’t stop the killing, find new representatives.
That's the point. Convert or die.
Thom, you really can’t make this crap up is right. Thank, you.
Miller should stop to consider the animus held by Christian Nationalists toward people who are not fit to be Americans, AKA while and protestant. Jews have often been looked at as undesirables in this country and immigration denied. Perhaps the most horrific example was in 1939 when a boatload of 937 refugees from Europe on board the MS St Louis - known as the Ship of Fools - was denied entry because the majority were Jews. Eventually the ship had to return to Europe where many of the passengers ended up in the camps; subsequently 254 of them died in the Holocaust. In the process of what can only be thought of as ethnic cleansing, Miller fails to realize that after expelling the Hispanics, the Asians, the Africans, and whomever else is deemed undesirable there's no reason why the Jews wouldn't be next.
Letting a snake out of a box doesn't mean you yourself won't be bitten.
Re: "the destruction of the American government:" late news Friday is that 9th Circuit has affirmed stay on DOGE/Trump mass Federal employee firings without cause. So, how do "we" get them back? I would sure hold out for a nice bump in wages and benefits! Make Essential Government Services Higher Cost"
Unless the regime is forcibly removed there is no way that we'll be able to have a fair presidential election outcome when the term is up. So strap in for at east 6 more years with vance taking over sometime in the third Trump term. When is our stupid electorate going to realize that the present election was farce and the next election will also be.
I hope that the shadowy group Thom talks about has an army ready to seize power because it is now too late for any peaceable transition to occur. Trump seems bent on enlisting all his criminal buddies and white supremacists from all over the world into an army that will do anything for the king. After the battle he'll likely kill many of them as he can
How about men being sentenced to cut off their supply of sperm when they cause an unwanted pregnancy. And yes it can be done.
For the rest of the article White Supremancy never left the country and is again riding high and this Administration is full of it. From their banning of DEI to the present adoption of deimmigration. White Supremacy is the basis of the present Administration.
"You just can't make this crap up." Since 2017 I've posted things starting with: "You can't make this shi_ up and now you don't have to #1. You can imagine what number it's up to now. :-(