Donald Trump will need to start paying some of the hundreds of millions of dollars he’s racked up in penalties from his civil trials. Trump is reportedly struggling to come up with the money, revealing that he can’t pay the half-billion dollar judgment in his New York fraud case.
The Ballad of Crooked Don:
Yeah, my bills are all due and the baby needs shoes
But I’m busted
Cotton is down to a quarter a pound
But I’m busted right now
I got a cow that went dry and a hen that won’t lay
A big stack of bills that gets bigger each day
The county’s gonna haul my belongings away
‘Cause I’m busted right now
Oh, yes, I am
Well, I went to my brother to ask for a loan
‘Cause I was busted
I hate to beg like a dog without his bone
But I’m busted, I’ll tell ya
My brother said, “There ain’t a thing I can do
My wife and my kids are all down with the flu
And I was just thinking about calling on you
‘Cause I’m busted myself”
Well, that’s what he told me
Yeah, I am no thief, but a man can go wrong
When he, he’s busted
The food that we canned last summer is gone
And I’m busted right now
Well, the fields are all bare and the cotton won’t grow
Me and my family got to pack up and go
I’ll make a living, where I don’t know
‘Cause I’m busted today – Busted, Ray Charles
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Mansplaining at its worst.
Here’s a sampling of one particular graduate of the Kindergarten Konservative Academy:
One Republican’s response to questions Thursday about contraceptives highlights the challenges Hobbs and legislative Democrats face in guaranteeing the right to contraceptive access in Arizona while the GOP controls the legislative agenda.
Sen. Sonny Borrelli, the No. 2 Republican in the state Senate, responded to a question about whether he would oppose future efforts to restrict access to emergency contraceptives by saying that women wouldn’t need contraceptives if they weren’t so promiscuous.
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On a political party’s deal with the Devil:
“How come everything the Republican Party stands for involves other people dying?” – Thom Hartmann
It turns out that’s very much the case: these terrible outcomes are the direct result of policies promoting greed and racism that the GOP has been using for forty+ years to get access to billions of dollars and win elections.
- Spousal abuse
- Obesity
- Smoking
- Teen pregnancy
- Sexually transmitted diseases
- Abortion
- Bankruptcies and poverty
- Homicide and suicide
- Infant mortality
- Maternal mortality
- Forcible rape
- Robbery and aggravated assault
- Dropouts from high school
- Divorce
- Contaminated air and water
- Opiate addiction and deaths
- Unskilled workers
- Parasitic infections
- Income and wealth inequality
- Covid deaths and unvaccinated people
- Federal subsidies to states (“Red State Welfare”)
- People on welfare
- Child poverty
- Homelessness
- Spousal murder
- Unemployment
- Deaths from auto accidents
- People living on disability
The Saga of Crooked Donald 