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Recap of this week in the revolution: Mitch McConnell's pre-obituary. Trump withholds $1 billion in Medicaid payments and announces new round of illegal tariffs. Trump Media wants to charge for social media posts.
The good...
Senator Mitch McConnell.
Columnist Joseph Gerth wrote a "pre-obituary" for Senator Mitch McConnell for the Louisville Courier Journal, Kentucky's largest newspaper.
Gerth blasts McConnell for blocking the appointment of Obama's nomination of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court in March of 2016, arguing that because it was an election year, the nomination should fall to whoever won the November election and took office in 2017. But after the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg in 2020 (also an election year), McConnell pushed the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court so she could be quickly confirmed before the Joe Biden took office.
With McConnell allegedly on the mend, I figured I'd go ahead and tell you what I think about McConnell now, when no one can complain, 'How dare you write that about a dead guy?'
...His biggest failing may be his embrace of a president who he believes is stupid and who he believes led an attempt to overthrow the United States' government on Jan. 6, 2021.
Joseph Gerth, Louisville Courier Journal
Senator McConnell has not been seen publicly or performed his duties as a Senator since he was hospitalized on June 14. The lack of transparency about the senator's condition and prognosis has raised concerns. If McConnell is deceased or unable to carry out his duties, the state is required to hold an election to replace him in the Senate through the end of his current term (January, 2027). The general consensus is that the Republican Party is concealing McConnell's actual condition in hopes of avoiding triggering that special election. If the special election does not happen by August 3, 2026, there will be no special election and the seat will just remain empty until January.
According to Kentucky state law, the governor is not able to appoint a replacement for a vacant Senate seat, which is what happened when South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham died recently and Governor Henry McMaster appointed his sister, Darline Graham Nordone to replace him.
The bad...
The Trump regime is refusing to pay more than $1 billion in Medicaid payments to California and Minnesota as punishment for suspected fraud and noncompliance. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that it makes more sense to punish these states on the mere suspicion of wrongdoing rather than going through the tedious process of proving their guilt before they are sentenced.
The move is an attempt to fool Americans into believing that the regime is cracking down on fraud to save taxpayers' money. Meanwhile, Trump's unpopular and illegal war with Iran rages on unchecked at a cost to taxpayers of over $37 billion to date with no end in sight. As usual, the government hasn't provided any "data or explanation on how the deferral amount was calculated or what it was based on," according to John Connolly, Minnesota's state Medicaid director.
Trump's "Liberation Day" tariff chart, April 2, 2025.
Donny 2-Dolls is announcing a new wave of tariffs to be levied on imports from dozens of countries. The Supreme Court ruled that his last round of tariffs were illegal, but Trump has never been one to stop doing a thing just because it's against the law.
The new tariffs will affect around 99% of all U.S. imports. The first round of tariffs were issued under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), which gives the president power to respond to emergencies. Trump declared that it was an emergency that the United States imports more goods than it exports, and under that justification imposed tariffs on most of our trading partners around the world. The Supreme Court ruled that there was no emergency, and thus Trump's tariffs were illegal. In response, Trump imposed a temporary tariff of 10% on all global trade under the Trade Act of 1974. This Act is also intended to allow the president to respond to emergencies, and was also viewed as illegal. The temporary tariffs and will be expiring right as his third attempt at imposing global tariffs—estimated to cost Americans more than $100 billion a year— go into effect.
The ugly...
Donny 2-Dolls' media company is considering charging $100,000 a month to financial traders and firms who want to be the first to read his social media posts. But don't worry if that's too much for your budget, because they are also offering a discounted tier for the low, low price of $60,000 a month if you sign up for a three-year plan.
This proposal should be seen as confirmation that Trump is using his presidency to benefit himself and his supporters financially. The only reason anyone would pay for early access to the rantings of this decrepit old man is because his posts have a direct and measurable affect on the U.S. market. Trump routinely uses social media to announce his official policies, so early access to this information will allow investors to anticipate the stock market's reaction to such policies, or to place bets on prediction markets using insider information that is not yet publicly available.
He’s selling expedited, privileged access to information about what he is doing as president.
It’s yet more brazen corruption, an improper exploitation of government power to enrich himself.
Kathleen Clark, Washington University School of Law
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