For years the business, Corruption, Cruelty, Lies, and Conspiracy--also known as CCLC--was a local enterprise limited to the New York and New Jersey areas. It slowly expanded up and down the east coast and even expanded in a small way to the UK. It went nationwide sometime in 2015 and quickly became all the rage among Americans of all colors and stripes. (We are after all a nation of fads. (Remember the run on CB car radios in the 1970's?)
Tragically, we are also a nation of hysterics who are driven into extended spasms of alarm, fear, and borderline panic. Think back to the rumors about the catastrophic melt down that New Years Day, 2000 was supposed to trigger tech disaster, or the whole , end of the Mayan calendar thing. Given these uniquely American, let's say, quirks it really isn't surprising the folks at CCLC have been able to run amok like they have been.
This weekend we saw a few prime examples. A few days ago, Iowa republican Senator, Joni Ernst held a town hall meeting in her state. During the get together she tried to explain to her mostly rural constituents--the people she is supposed to represent--why she is in favor of cutting hundreds of millions of dollars of medical assistance which a lot of them depend on. Ernst decided to lie. She claimed none of them would have their Medicaid and Medicare funding cut. The cuts, she said, were only being made to weed out the fraud committed by millions of illegal immigrants who were unlawfully collecting taxpayer funded medical benefits.
Few in the audience were buying it. She was met with boos and angry voices. In anguished frustration a 33 year old Iowa woman, India May shouted, "People will die." Ernst's instant response was, "People will not." Instantly realizing that bit prima facie bull shit wasn't going to fly either, she quickly added, "Well, we are all going to die. For heaven's sake folks." While it is not clear what the Senator expected after making the statement it obviously wasn't the one she got.
After it was all over with, Ernst took to social media to tell the voters of Iowa, at least the ones in the Town Hall what that she really thought of them. In part it read, "And I made the incorrect assumption that everyone in the auditorium understood we are all going to perish from this earth. So, I apologize and I'm really, really glad that I didn't have to bring up the subject of the Tooth Fairy as well..." She ended the sentence by saying eternal life can only be achieved by embracing her, "Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ."
That's the style, Joni. Cut off their medical care while promising them eternal salvation if they believe exactly the way you do.
Speaking of illegal immigrants. The Milford, MA high school Scarlet Hawks boys' volleyball team is currently short a member. Marcelo Gomes da Silva and a few of his teammates were on their way to practice Saturday morning. Marcel is an 18 year old senior to be who, besides being on the volleyball team plays in the school band. His grades are reportedly good to excellent, and he doesn't have a criminal record of any kind. His family moved him to Milford when he was six years old. At the time his father was on a student visa which has since lapsed.
We all know where this is going, right?
You got it. Marcelo Gomes da Silva was pulled over and arrested by ICE agents on his way to a school sponsored and supervised activity. He is currently being held at an ICE facility in Burlington, MA. When the news hit the school's volleyball coach, administrators, students, townspeople, the mayor, and the Governor of the Commonwealth were outraged. Acting ICE Field Directing Field Director, Patricia Hyde responded by saying, "When we go into the community and find others who are unlawfully here we are going to arrest them. We've been completely transparent with that. (Except for agents wearing ski masks of course.) He is 18 years old and he's unlawfully in this country."
The agents claim they were actually after the kid's father, Joao Paulo Gomes-Pereira. It turned out Marcelo was driving his old man's car simply by chance, so instead of the agents looking elsewhere, he instantly became one of the, "others" Hyde was talking about. Hyde attempted to make a big deal about the father not turning himself in after the arrest, but who can blame him? There is no evidence that if he does ICE will release his son, they'll just have another head to count.
And lately that's what counts. Last week Stephen Miller along with Kristi Noem told ICE and other agencies in no uncertain terms that when the Boss said he was going after the gangs, the worst of the worst he really meant he wanted to deport every immigrant in the country, except possibly the white ones. Miller let those département head know, if they didn't meet the 3,000 arrests per day quota they would find themselves unemployed.
Finally, over the weekend the founder and CEO of CCLC, Donald Trump, reposted this on social media: There is no #Joe Biden--executed in 2020--#Biden clones, doubles & robotic engineered soulless mindless entities are what you see. >#Democrats don't know the difference. #Steel #ussteel #MAGA #MAHA...
It's unclear if the White House has officially commented on the post. Most of MAGA, but certainly not all consider it just another example of Trump's droll sense of humor, although MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell considers it another overt sign the guy is bat shit crazy. While that probably isn't the case here--other signs abound--it can be argued the President of the United States, no matter what time of day, should probably be thinking about things other than poking jokes at a dying old man who served as his predecessor.
But hey, humor is in the eye of the beholder.
Yes, CCLC had a hell of a few days. And just think, I didn't even touch on Elon Musk's drug addled last appearance in the Oval Office.
sic vita est
6-4-25
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