June 29, 2025
First off, I am nursing my wounds inflicted on me from the missus after my post on Friday in which I mentioned we were celebrating our 55th wedding anniversary. My bad. It was actually number 56. Now, I knew we were married in 1969, but in my senior brain I didn’t add correctly from 1969 to 2025. This was after going four days with no alcohol, which I will use as my excuse. I had drinks Friday and yesterday and can now do mathematical operations again, just like the “stable genius.” The missus didn’t do a full blown Pete Hegseth meltdown, but made sure I knew how many years I have had the pleasure of being her husband.
Now we go from Trump calling himself a “stable genius,” to basking in the attention he is receiving for being called “Daddy” by Nato’s secretary general, Mark Rutte, at the Nato summit last Wednesday. I’m sure this was just orchestrated groveling to make Don feel good and important as is always a top priority when dealing with the Trumpster. Can’t you just see that signature smirk as Don tells reporters, “I think he likes me. ‘Daddy, you’re my daddy. He did it very affectionately.” Not everyone was pleased with Rutte’s groveling, however. Some European officials grumbled that “people are embarrassed.” “Yes, the summit was a success on the whole. But the sucking up was pretty over the top.” Woo hoo! Who’s your daddy?
Back home, we see that the Supreme Court has kowtowed to Trump and made a ruling based on party rather than law in their ruling regarding birthright citizenship. They basically killed the authority of the district courts when they ruled that a single federal judge doesn’t have the authority to issue a universal injuction. Trump calls it a “monumental victory for the Constitution,” Justice Sotomayor calls it a “travesty,” and Justice Jackson warns of “an existential threat to the rule of law.” This Supreme Court is quickly destroying it’s own legitimacy and demonstrating its decisions are based on politics rather than the Constitution and rule of law.
And then we have that “Big, Beautiful Bill.” While you and I were sleeping Friday night, the Senate quietly pushed forward their tax and budget package that will gut healthcare, food and housing for millions of Americans and add 4 trillion dollars to the budget while telling us it costs nearly nothing. If the bill passes, it will drop 15 million Americans off Medicaid, slash SNAP benefits (food stamps), and cut housing assistance. This is a bill that will increase taxes on people earning less than $50,000 a year, while granting billionaires and large corporations permanent tax cuts. This is a bill designed to transfer wealth upward and increase inequality in America. If this bill passes, it will kick as many as fifteen million Americans off Medicaid, the federal health insurance program for low-income families and disabled people. It will slash SNAP benefits, ensuring more families will go hungry, and cut housing assistance, driving more people into homelessness. It will increase taxes on people earning less than fifty thousand dollars a year while granting billionaires and large corporations permanent, sweeping tax cuts. The few crumbs it offers working people, like no taxes on tips and overtime pay, are temporary and designed as distractions, set to expire while the cuts for the ultra-wealthy remain. Turkey neck Mitch McConnell spoke to his colleagues who were a bit nervous about the blowback this bill might have on them from their constituents, telling them “I know a lot of us are hearing from people back home about Medicaid, but they’ll get over it.” There you have it my friends, Jodi Ernst talking about the cuts to Medicaid, “We’re all going to die someday,” and Mitch McConnell tells his colleagues “They’ll get over it.”
Time for me to get over it and go outside and water the plants. Have a great rest of this weekend! Ziggyman.
Mountain Man Musings 