One of the best cartoons so far this year

I wish I could send out a letter to the rest of the world somehow

And tell everyone in other countries that the majority of Americans are disgusted with this vile, racist asshole. He does not represent the vast majority of decent Americans.

The Party of Convicted Criminals

Republicans have Four Convicted Criminals running for Congress in 2018.

Remember when they used to call themselves the "Party of Law and Order"?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/republicans-have-four-convicted-criminals-running-for-congress-in-2018/ar-BBIdlWp?li=BBnbcA1&ocid=mailsignout

Medicaid Work Requirements

I'm so furious, I'm ready to spit tacks, so I hope this post makes sense.

This is about Seema Verma and Trump and their condescending attitudes towards Medicaid recipients who aren't working.

First of all, let me say that I believe that, if someone is scamming the system, then they absolutely should be kicked off Medicaid. That goes without saying.

But ......

I can think of two scenarios that are pretty common where an able-bodied person should be allowed to receive Medicaid.

1. A single mom with small children. If Republicans want to institute work requirements, they'd better be prepared to provide free quality daycare to single moms, and that isn't cheap.

2. A parent or spouse who is a caregiver to an ill spouse or to a special-needs child. Do Republicans want these selfless family members to go work at McDonald's "because it is good for them" and leave a special needs family member to languish at home or in the care of strangers (which would be costly as well, and, again, who would pay for that)?

Republicans are so goddam clueless as to what people in the real world have to go through! I despise them all! They are so goddam sanctimonious and judgmental when they look at a poor person.

And, when Verma was in charge of Medicaid in Indiana, get this .... Medicaid recipients were required to deposit a small monthly premium into a bank account, say $20. And if they missed a payment, as punishment they were booted off Medicaid for six months! How does this help anyone??? "They need to have skin in the game," was the reason, I've read. Well I know some families to whom an extra $20 a month is a hard thing to come by. And the paperwork involved to keep track of all these folks proved to be so costly, it actually cost the state MORE to institute this stupid program than it did to just give poor people the Medicaid.

Again, I'm so mad I'm seeing red, and I hope my post makes sense.

Buyers' Remorse among marijuana users

Trump fans are fuming over Sessions' crackdown on marijuana use.

https://www.apnews.com/1b6d1a65bf294f0c9e6df10e51d31440/Some-fans-of-Trump-and-pot-feel-allegiances-go-up-in-smoke

If any of you need a good laugh

Log onto Breitbart and look at the comments about DACA and the wall,. They're going full out bat shit crazy over there, even for them! It's hilarious!

President Trump is a Pig - Dana Milbank

Powerful words as Milbank parallels the Trump regime to George Orwell's "Animal Farm". This is spot on. And scary.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/president-trump-is-a-pig-in-the-best-sense-of-the-word/2018/01/08/eaacd31a-f4ba-11e7-b34a-b85626af34ef_story.html?utm_term=.04e13ea455a5

Donnie wants to sell you a war plane

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration is nearing completion of a new “Buy American” plan that calls for U.S. military attaches and diplomats to help drum up billions of dollars more in business overseas for the American weapons industry, going beyond the assistance they currently provide, U.S. officials said.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-weapons/exclusive-trump-to-call-on-pentagon-diplomats-to-play-bigger-role-on-arms-sales-idUSKBN1EX0WX

Trump decree: All Salvadorans must Leave

LOS ANGELES — Nearly 200,000 people from El Salvador who have been allowed to live in the United States for more than a decade must leave the country, government officials announced Monday. It is the Trump administration’s latest reversal of years of immigration policies and one of the most consequential to date.

Homeland security officials said that they were ending a humanitarian program, known as Temporary Protected Status, for Salvadorans who have been allowed to live and work legally in the United States since a pair of devastating earthquakes struck their country in 2001.

Salvadorans were by far the largest group of foreigners benefiting from temporary protected status, which shielded them from deportation if they had arrived in the United States illegally. The decision came just weeks after more than 45,000 Haitians, the second largest group, lost protections granted after Haiti’s 2010 earthquake, and it suggested that others in the program, namely Hondurans, may soon lose them as well. Nicaraguans lost their protections last year.

In the days leading up to the decision, immigrant advocates and the El Salvadoran government pleaded for the United States to extend the program, as it has several times since 2001, saying that conditions in El Salvador were still dire. A sense of dread gripped Salvadorans and their employers in California, Texas, Virginia and elsewhere.

“We had hope that if we worked hard, paid our taxes and didn’t get in trouble we would be allowed to stay,” said Veronica Lagunas, 39, a Salvadoran who works overnight cleaning offices in Los Angeles, has two children born in the United States and owns a mobile home.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/08/us/salvadorans-tps-end.html?&hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

My thoughts: I thought Donnie was only going to get rid of the "bad hombres", not law-abiding tax paying citizens with young children. Another one of his lies. He just wants to "Make America White Again."

Hope for tinnitus sufferers like me