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Biden, worst president in history.
9 of the top 10 states with the highest percentage of US households that experience food insecurity are the Republican-led states of West Virginia, Mississippi, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Alabama, Kentucky, Texas, Arkansas and Tennessee.
Vote blue i want all women to have right to choose thier body thier choice.
The Anti-American Democrats control White House, Senate and the House.
U.S. is in rapid decline.
High inflation, crime, border illegal immigrants, Afhganistan, high gas price, recession…..
Something to think about when cast ballots in midterm.
BTW
Candace Owens exposed the dems supported BLM scam – IRS documents and form 990 document expose BLM scam. donations for BLM used for Buying Luxury Mansions (BLM) in all white neighborhoods, Virtually zero $ spent to improve block lives. Progressive "social justice" ? just a scam to use block people to advance Marxist agenda to dicide American people. Woke / CRT indoctrinations in schools – dividing iinto "oppressed vs oppressors" based on children's skin color. Even demented puppet Joe plays the block's master – you don't vote for me you ain't block. or Dr. Jill Biden Latino "breakfast tacos". Democratic party – a party masters in using people of color to maintain power.
BTW
Tulsi Gabbard, Democratic presidential candidate, her recent statement about the democratic party is really inspiring. Got to check it out.
BTW
My SON HUNTER – free streaming movie based on the cocaine Hunter's laptop exposes the Biden crime family's tie to China /CCP /corrupt Ukraine. Now you know why the orchestration to cover it up calling it "Russsian Disinformation" to lie to American people. The laptop proven, entered into congressional records 3/29/2022.
BTW
2000 Mules – a documentary movie exposes 2020 election. Now you know what installed vs elected differences.
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Can you name the most popular president who had out of proportion of votes above all presidents in the entire U.S. history?
If you have trouble naming the most popular president, you know what Jan 6 was about. Then you know why the orchestrated anti-American syndicate are trying to lie to American peoiple.
Did any running candidate ask the most popular, historically highest voted president for his endorsements ? Why not? Political suicide ? Everyone knows. Even the party's own candidates know fraud when they see one.
You get censored if you say it out loud. "Insurrection" now you are on to something.
every time oz opens his mouth all i hear is a duck…… quack quack quack
no investigation https://youtu.be/xTIzGzu5Lv8
This country is f*°ked if these idiots (like Walker) get elected. 🙄
Oi……….
walker admits he suffers mental health issues plus he is a narcissistic pathological liar, yup, he would fit right in to a GOP senate
I can’t stand Chuck… I have tried.. really tried.
If republicans win we are all done in America! Vote blue! Help save America, democracy and country, and all of our rights!
Be sure to Vote 🗳 Blue !
He's right, some people will say or do anything, like him.
Mandela Barnes is another dangerous anti-American and far-leftist radical who supports criminals and wants to defund the police!
Republicans for America 🇺🇸. TRUMP2024
Social Security is an enormously popular program. It’s also hugely effective. Minus their monthly check, a large number of seniors would live in financially straitened circumstances.
So, of course, the Republicans are once again taking aim at it and are, in the process, handing Democrats an issue almost as politically potent as abortion rights as they fight to hold on to their slim majorities in the November elections.
The most recent to join the fray is Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.). He announced earlier this week that he believes Social Security should be up for a congressional reauthorization vote every single year. “If you qualify for an entitlement, you get it no matter what the cost,” he huffed on a podcast.
The nerve of those entitled seniors. They paid faithfully into a program and expect a check. Imagine that!
This ups the ante from Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), who opened the Social Security floodgates earlier this year when he proposed putting all government programs — including Social Security and Medicare — up for renewal every five years. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) immediately declared it dead on arrival, but that hasn’t stopped some Republicans such as Johnson from expressing their approval.
And then there is Arizona, where Blake Masters, Sen. Mark Kelly’s Republican challenger in November, has declared himself privatization-curious when it comes to Social Security.
“We need fresh and innovative thinking, maybe we should privatize Social Security,” he said in June. “Get the government out of it.” After enormous pushback, he backtracked, saying “I shouldn’t have said ‘privatize.’ I don’t think we should … mess with Social Security.”
Definitely spoken like a man you can rely on when it’s crunch time for Social Security.
The Social Security trust fund is set to run out of money by 2035. In a worst case scenario, when that happens, benefits would be cut — likely by 20 percent. But even that doesn’t need to happen. There is nothing stopping Congress from simply voting to allow Social Security benefits to be paid for out of general revenue.
The Republicans mouthing off claim to want to save Social Security from itself and that they aren’t attacking the program. Johnson says a yearly renewal would allow Washington pols to “fix problems or fix programs that are broken, that are going to be bankrupt.” As for Masters, he parrots the common but false belief that the program won’t be able to pay anyone benefits in the future.
Democrats, on the other hand, actually have systemic plans to address these woes. As I noted last week, there are two bills in Congress that would shore up the program while expanding benefits. One, sponsored by Rep. John B. Larson (D-Conn.), would extend solvency for several years. Another, championed by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) would solidify it through the end of the century.
Both bills would raise taxes on higher earners. Perhaps not coincidentally, neither has a single Republican co-sponsor.
In fact, polls show voters want, per Sanders and Larson, a more generous and stable Social Security program, not a smaller, riskier and precarious one. This isn’t a surprise. As the pension system has increasingly given way to defined contribution schemes such as 401(k) plans, more and more Americans are at risk of running short of money in their golden years.
This is particularly true for Latinos, a group Republicans are making gains with, who possess a mere fraction of the wealth of White households, and are less likely to use individual retirement savings options.
So it was no surprise, when progressive polling group Data for Progress asked likely voters last month whether they supported Scott’s plan to end federal programs such as Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid if Congress didn’t vote to reauthorize them, the proposal received a resounding thumbs down, with three-fourths of those surveyed expressing their dismay.
When President George W. Bush and his fellow Republicans tried to push through Social Security privatization in 2005, it quite possibly contributed to the party losing control of the House in 2006.
Conversely, it’s quite possible that Donald Trump triumphed in 2016, in part, because as other Republican candidates seemingly competed to see who could toss grandma from the train hardest and fastest, he declared he would “save” Social Security. Yet, by 2020, he, too, was making noises about “entitlement” reform.
Since the program began, there have been Republicans who have attempted to cut back on or get the government out of Social Security. All of this trash talk is just the latest line of attack, taking advantage of a combination of deficit scare-mongering, fears for the program’s future, and a pervasive and widely shared sense that the U.S. government no longer works and can’t accomplish much for anyone — something I’ve dubbed the “can’t do” society — to make progress toward a long-sought goal.
It’s almost as though these Republicans can’t stop themselves from acting on the hope that when it comes to Social Security, the majority of voters won’t take them seriously, even as the GOP base laps their message up. But, in an age when increasing numbers of Americans are going to need a Social Security check to get by in retirement, that seems like a risky bet.
League of Conservation Voters: Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson “called climate change ‘bull—-’ during a record heatwave” and “raked in over $700k in fossil fuel cash.”
PolitiFact's ruling: True
Here's why: With passage by Democrats of a new measure aimed squarely at tackling climate change, the issue is taking on a new urgency in the fall election.
Those who opposed the measure, including U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., are being targeted by environmental groups and others
FACT: Sen. Ron Johnson has repeatedly voted against funding and resources for law enforcement and supported the violent insurrection that injured 140 officers.
Ron Johnson in his own words: “Have I voted against [police] spending? Yeah.”
Johnson voted against nearly $14 million in law enforcement funding that created 58 police officer positions in Wisconsin and to withhold law enforcement funding from states that released gun ownership data.y
ohnson wants to put Social Security and Medicare on the Chopping Block: “Social Security and Medicare, if you qualify, you just get it no matter what the cost… We ought to turn everything into discretionary spending so it’s all evaluated.”
Johnson Wants to Gamble with Social Security and Medicare Funding by Putting it in the Stock Market: “Weeks after saying Social Security and Medicare should be subjected to annual budget talks — a stance that caused political blow back from his foes — Johnson once again weighed into America’s signature social insurance program. During a Wednesday campaign stop in Rice Lake, Johnson said Social Security “was set up improperly” and that the system’s funds would have been better off invested in the stock market…“Critics have claimed investing in stocks would raise uncertainty given the inevitable dips in the market, plus they contend the government might wield too much influence overseeing such a large amount of money invested in stocks.”
Johnson Wants Wisconsin Retirees to Rejoin the Workforce: “As U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson campaigns for a potential third term, he’s proposing a fix for Wisconsin’s labor shortage: Encourage seniors to rejoin the workforce
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vote blue to save
our Children
Women rights
Voting rights
Women health care
Social Security
Our Vets
Medicare
Unions
Save our country from greedy and corrupted corporations
Save our country from greedy and corrupted Republican billionaires
Save our country from 🐀Putin and OPEC trying to destroy our democracy/elections
Save us from the repulsive GQP/MAGA domestic terrorists!
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Sen. Ron Johnson is wrong to claim Jan. 6 was not an armed insurrection
Within a week, a dozen guns and thousands of rounds of ammunition had been found on people arrested before and after the Capitol riot
Assaulting the Truth, Ron Johnson Helps Erode Confidence in Government
Pushing false theories on the virus, the vaccine and the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, Mr. Johnson, the Republican senator from Wisconsin, has absorbed his party’s transformation under Donald Trump
There is no calculator powerful enough to tote up all the lies that Ron Johnson has told during the course of a political career that, from its very beginning, has sought to deceive the voters of Wisconsin into electing and reelecting a self-serving millionaire whose only real purpose in the U.S. Senate has been to enrich himself and his campaign donors
These "gray situations" will have "black and white" effects on patients, Wisconsin physicians said in a press call. After Texas passed its six-week abortion ban, research by Parkland Health and UT Southwestern Medical Center found that, compared to patients in states allowing immediate abortions, delayed treatment nearly doubled the incidence of serious health complicationsconsiders the statute outdated, vague — and severe.
Outdated because Wisconsin's law predates even foundational tenets of modern medicine such as germ theory. Vague because unlike Texas, Wisconsin does not spell out exceptions for ectopic pregnancies or removal of a fetus that has already died. Severe because unlike Alabama, Wisconsin does not allow intervention to "prevent a serious health risk" — only to save a pregnant person's life.
Molaska said this leaves doctors "between a rock and a hard place." She asked, "Where's the line that I let her get sick enough so that her life is in danger?" Or, she wonders, would a physician be barred from removing a deceased fetus if the body does not pass it?
examples belong to just a handful of clear-cut situations a physician can predict.
If a person's water breaks before the fetus is viable, or if the patient is hemorrhaging but the fetus still has some detectable cardiac activity, the approach is less clear.
"Now we're getting into the very nuanced, individualized situations where there may be situations that are life-saving indications and there may not be," Barroilhet said. "And you really have to look at the patient in front of you, and all the specifics of that situation to make the best decision and, of course, the patient's wishes factoring heavily into that."
Mere days after the Dobbs ruling, Goetz, the Marshfield doctor, received a call from a doctor at a satellite center. The patient had her water break at 17 weeks; normal gestation is 40 weeks, and viability is considered to begin at 24. The doctor was "a little at a loss" of what he could offer her, Goetz said.
She recalled telling her colleague that she believed the law prevented them from offering to induce labor.
Later, the patient went into labor naturally, delivering the pre-viable fetus on her own.
"But that's one of the types of cases that we're most concerned about as a group," Goetz said.
Bought and paid for by Big Pharma”: Ron Johnson complains that lowering drug prices hurts profits
Johnson worried that bill allowing Medicare to negotiate costs is "punishing the pharmaceutical industry"
Johnson told the Fox News host that "when you start punishing the pharmaceutical industry, you're gonna have less innovation; you're gonna have fewer lifesaving drugs. That's not a good thing.
Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) is advocating that Social Security and Medicare be subject to annual discretionary funding. Ignoring for a moment that Social Security is not presently part of the federal budget, this would subject both programs to Congressional votes every year. Yikes! With it taking 60 votes to get nearly anything through the Senate because of the anti-democratic filibuster, this would put grandma’s livelihood and healthcare in jeopardy every year
Johnson, though, the priority is to shovel public money to his mega-donors (with a helping for himself), while siding with special interests instead of the public on everything from prescription drug prices (he likes them high) to outsourcing (he’s in favor) to Social Security (he wants to put it on the chopping block).
That record, and that platform, are indefensible. So what is he trying to do? Flood the airways with lies about Mandela Barnes. Calling him “different,” and “dangerous.” Darkening the color of his skin in the photos in their mailers.
Social Security is an enormously popular program. It’s also hugely effective. Minus their monthly check, a large number of seniors would live in financially straitened circumstances.
So, of course, the Republicans are once again taking aim at it and are, in the process, handing Democrats an issue almost as politically potent as abortion rights as they fight to hold on to their slim majorities in the November elections.
The most recent to join the fray is Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.). He announced earlier this week that he believes Social Security should be up for a congressional reauthorization vote every single year. “If you qualify for an entitlement, you get it no matter what the cost,” he huffed on a podcast.
The nerve of those entitled seniors. They paid faithfully into a program and expect a check. Imagine that!
This ups the ante from Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), who opened the Social Security floodgates earlier this year when he proposed putting all government programs — including Social Security and Medicare — up for renewal every five years. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) immediately declared it dead on arrival, but that hasn’t stopped some Republicans such as Johnson from expressing their approval.
And then there is Arizona, where Blake Masters, Sen. Mark Kelly’s Republican challenger in November, has declared himself privatization-curious when it comes to Social Security.
“We need fresh and innovative thinking, maybe we should privatize Social Security,” he said in June. “Get the government out of it.” After enormous pushback, he backtracked, saying “I shouldn’t have said ‘privatize.’ I don’t think we should … mess with Social Security.”
Definitely spoken like a man you can rely on when it’s crunch time for Social Security.
The Social Security trust fund is set to run out of money by 2035. In a worst case scenario, when that happens, benefits would be cut — likely by 20 percent. But even that doesn’t need to happen. There is nothing stopping Congress from simply voting to allow Social Security benefits to be paid for out of general revenue.
The Republicans mouthing off claim to want to save Social Security from itself and that they aren’t attacking the program. Johnson says a yearly renewal would allow Washington pols to “fix problems or fix programs that are broken, that are going to be bankrupt.” As for Masters, he parrots the common but false belief that the program won’t be able to pay anyone benefits in the future.
Democrats, on the other hand, actually have systemic plans to address these woes. As I noted last week, there are two bills in Congress that would shore up the program while expanding benefits. One, sponsored by Rep. John B. Larson (D-Conn.), would extend solvency for several years. Another, championed by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) would solidify it through the end of the century.
Both bills would raise taxes on higher earners. Perhaps not coincidentally, neither has a single Republican co-sponsor.
In fact, polls show voters want, per Sanders and Larson, a more generous and stable Social Security program, not a smaller, riskier and precarious one. This isn’t a surprise. As the pension system has increasingly given way to defined contribution schemes such as 401(k) plans, more and more Americans are at risk of running short of money in their golden years.
This is particularly true for Latinos, a group Republicans are making gains with, who possess a mere fraction of the wealth of White households, and are less likely to use individual retirement savings options.
So it was no surprise, when progressive polling group Data for Progress asked likely voters last month whether they supported Scott’s plan to end federal programs such as Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid if Congress didn’t vote to reauthorize them, the proposal received a resounding thumbs down, with three-fourths of those surveyed expressing their dismay.
When President George W. Bush and his fellow Republicans tried to push through Social Security privatization in 2005, it quite possibly contributed to the party losing control of the House in 2006.
Conversely, it’s quite possible that Donald Trump triumphed in 2016, in part, because as other Republican candidates seemingly competed to see who could toss grandma from the train hardest and fastest, he declared he would “save” Social Security. Yet, by 2020, he, too, was making noises about “entitlement” reform.
Since the program began, there have been Republicans who have attempted to cut back on or get the government out of Social Security. All of this trash talk is just the latest line of attack, taking advantage of a combination of deficit scare-mongering, fears for the program’s future, and a pervasive and widely shared sense that the U.S. government no longer works and can’t accomplish much for anyone — something I’ve dubbed the “can’t do” society — to make progress toward a long-sought goal.
It’s almost as though these Republicans can’t stop themselves from acting on the hope that when it comes to Social Security, the majority of voters won’t take them seriously, even as the GOP base laps their message up. But, in an age when increasing numbers of Americans are going to need a Social Security check to get by in retirement, that seems like a risky bet.ohnson wants to put Social Security and Medicare on the Chopping Block: “Social Security and Medicare, if you qualify, you just get it no matter what the cost… We ought to turn everything into discretionary spending so it’s all evaluated.”
Johnson Wants to Gamble with Social Security and Medicare Funding by Putting it in the Stock Market: “Weeks after saying Social Security and Medicare should be subjected to annual budget talks — a stance that caused political blow back from his foes — Johnson once again weighed into America’s signature social insurance program. During a Wednesday campaign stop in Rice Lake, Johnson said Social Security “was set up improperly” and that the system’s funds would have been better off invested in the stock market…“Critics have claimed investing in stocks would raise uncertainty given the inevitable dips in the market, plus they contend the government might wield too much influence overseeing such a large amount of money invested in stocks.”
Johnson Wants Wisconsin Retirees to Rejoin the Workforce: “As U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson campaigns for a potential third term, he’s proposing a fix for Wisconsin’s labor shortage: Encourage seniors to rejoin the workforce
Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) is advocating that Social Security and Medicare be subject to annual discretionary funding. Ignoring for a moment that Social Security is not presently part of the federal budget, this would subject both programs to Congressional votes every year. Yikes! With it taking 60 votes to get nearly anything through the Senate because of the anti-democratic filibuster, this would put grandma’s livelihood and healthcare in jeopardy every year
MILWAUKEE — Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., acknowledged Tuesday that he exchanged text messages with one of Donald Trump’s attorneys before and after Johnson’s staff tried to deliver a package to then-Vice President Mike Pence on Jan. 6, 2021.
He added that the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack "smeared" him because it didn't publicize all the text messages between his and Pence's aides
Since Russia annexed Crimea and interfered with the 2016 U.S. elections, U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson has walked a fine line between Republican leaders’ praise of Russia and what he has considered his long support for Ukraine.
His record on Ukraine also includes accusations and warnings that he was disseminating misinformation potentially picked up from Russian-linked Ukrainians.
Shut up bothsideism
Shout out to George Floyd on 874 days of sobriety. It took some tough love but he did it. Say his name liberals! Where’s Jackie?
The republicans are going to sweep. We’ve seen how it’s gone with the dems in control
Putin the butcher reminds me of Saddam Hussein the dictator