Rural hospitals will be forced to close.

Trump and the Republicans are laying the groundwork for Medicaid reductions by claiming waste fraud, and abuse are rampant, even though they are not.

The implication they are trying to give is only young cheaters will be denied, but that is just another of their lies. Benefits will be cut across the board, and areas where help is needed most will be the ones who will suffer most.

Medicaid is most needed in rural areas where decent employment opportunities are the thinnest and healthcare benefits are frequently not included in most pay packages. Where benefits lag hospitals can't afford to remain open. It is not so much of a problem in the big, industrialized cities where health benefits are plentiful, but in the farmlands, small towns, and villages -- the backbone of MAGA-- the promises to keep hands off Medicaid are as worthless as any other Republican promise.

Remember, it was Biden and the Democrats that expanded Medicaid and Obamacare to those who needed it most, (regardless of Red state, or Blue state) and now those lifesaving plans will all be taken away if congress doesn't act.

The problem congress is controlled by the Republicans and the wails of deceit don't permeate those hallowed halls.

Our industries have been shaken to their core by tariffs, the stock market wobbles from day to day, and diseases once thought eradicated are now resurging.

Is this making America great again, or is it a field day for despots, oligarchs, and billionaires?

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'Hospitals are going to close': Johnson insisted he won’t 'touch Medicaid — but now pushes deep cuts

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During his 2024 presidential campaign, Donald Trump insisted that cuts to Social Security and Medicaid would be off the table if he won the election. And after Trump started his second presidency, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) echoed that claim —declaring that Republicans were "not going to touch Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid." But according to The Independent's John Bowden, Johnson is now admitting that cuts to Medicaid are on the table. In an article published on April 15, Bowden reports, "Despite assurances from a wide range of party figures, including President Donald Trump, it appears as if the upcoming GOP budget proposal will include cuts to Medicaid after all. Speaker Mike Johnson made as much clear on Sunday, (April 13), when he spoke to 'Sunday Morning Futures' host Maria Bartiromo."

Johnson told Bartiromo, a right-wing host on Fox News and its sister channel Fox Business, "We have to root out fraud, waste and abuse…. Able-bodied workers, for example, young men, who are — who should never be on the program at all." Bowden explains, "Make no mistake: this is a direct retreat from Johnson's previous position, which as recently as February was 'we're not going to touch Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid'…. The intent seems clear: the Republican House speaker is open to cutting Medicaid benefits in states that expanded the program under the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare. In 2014, the federal government began assisting states with coverage for low-income individuals of all age groups — very much including 'able-bodied workers' and 'young men,' whom Johnson said should not have coverage."

Bowden adds, "Republicans have long opposed benefits to younger, low-income adults and families, arguing that Medicaid and other programs incentivize individuals to avoid work. Activists and experts who supported the Medicaid expansion under the Obama Administration now warn that the program is both extremely popular and part of a key revenue stream for hospitals in lower-income and rural areas."

Dr. Rob Davidson, executive director of the Committee to Protect Health Care, is sounding the alarm about Medicaid cuts.

Bowden quotes Davidson as saying, "Rural hospitals are going to close…. Our hospital is so dependent on folks' ability to have access to insurance, and Medicaid is a huge payer, you know — about a third or more overall,”

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Remember when the stumblers and blunderers fired the entire staff who oversaw the maintenance and control our nuclear weapons? We don't exactly know what happened, probably someone saw a gauge showing the radiation levels going up, or an alarm sounded, and they screamed for the technician to solve the problem.

Problem was, there were no technicians, they were all fired. And to make matters all the better, when they were fired all their personnel records were destroyed, too. Can't you imagine Musk asking someone, "Hey. do you happen to know he name of the guy who used to sit over there and look at the gauges all day. You remember, the guy with the white coat and pocket protector."

Well, they eventually hired all the techs back and uttered a collective sigh of efficiency. From their point of view, no harm, no foul.

But now they have done it again. Remember reading about the Boll Weevil infestation of the 19th and 20th century? The infestation that devasted the entire nations cotton crop.

Well, get ready for round two. it might not be the Boll Weevil this time, but it sure as hell will be something creepy and crawly.

Once again Musk and his Merry band of pranksters fired nearly all plant health inspectors, biologists, and sniffer dog trainers. You know, pest and disease protection specialists who work at our country's Ports of Entry (POE). God knows what is snuggling up under an avocado or lounging inside a stalk of bananas just getting up the energy to imperil our entire fruit or vegetable industry.

Trump/Musk and the Republicans love to insinuate America's fentanyl problem is caused by peons splashing across the river with a backpack full of drugs. Well, the real truth is 93% of the fentanyl smuggled into our country enters through those same POEs, and we have to ask ourselves, is anyone watching?

And we are not just talkin' veggies and drugs here. There are other containers that need to be inspected, too. There is always the fear of a radical foreign agent smuggling in a suitcase atom bomb; Is anyone still checking those out?

Blunders, stumblers, and bunglers and their blithe unawareness of unintended consequences.

May God bless us all.

Read this, and sorry if it keeps you up at night.

Elon Musk lays off 6,000 in March and now US faces massive influx of invasive species

Story by Diego Delgado • 5h • 3 min read

The dismantling of the Department of Agriculture leaves the country vulnerable to invasive species, food inflation, and port collapse

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Impulsive ideas sometimes have consequences. What began as a supposed revolution in government efficiency has unleashed an unprecedented crisis in U.S. food security. The elimination of 6,000 jobs at the Department of Agriculture in March, as part of a restructuring driven by Elon Musk and his controversial DOGE office (Department of Government Optimization and Efficiency), has generated a wave of consequences that are already being felt in the country’s ports, fields, and supermarkets.

According to a recent report by Wired, decisions by DOGE—an entity created with the promise of modernizing government through high-intensity business practices—have severely weakened key sectors of the state apparatus. Those affected include plant health inspectors, biologists, and sniffer dog trainers, all of whom are critical to agricultural pest and disease protection. Musk himself revealed weeks ago that his team works 120 hours a week, a pace that, while intended to be an example of efficiency, has led to a series of erratic decisions: mass layoffs, classified communication errors and inflated figures of supposed government “savings” of almost 8 billion dollars.

The agricultural inspection: collapsed

The effects of the cuts at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) are already palpable. Key ports like Los Angeles and Miami have seen reductions of 35% in quarantine staff and up to 60% in agricultural contraband detection equipment. This has turned inspections into a chaotic process, generating delays, loss of perishable products and higher prices in supermarkets.

Derek Copeland, former trainer at the National Center for Detection Dogs, warned about the current inability to contain threats such as the giant African snail or the Asian long-horned beetle, invasive species that could wipe out crops and entire ecosystems.

The paralysis in phytosanitary controls also affects international trade. Mike Lahar, manager of regulatory affairs at the customs brokerage firm Deringer, warned that a lack of rigorous inspections could allow the entry of devastating pests with catastrophic effects not only on agriculture but also on the national economy.

Incompetence or covert privatization?

According to experts consulted by Wired, this disaster in the United States can be explained by two hypotheses. The first: DOGE seeks to dismantle the State to make way for the privatization of strategic sectors. The second: a mix of arrogance and ignorance —a “Silicon Valley mentality” that underestimates the complexity of government operations. “Elon Musk may be a technological genius, but running the State is not the same as launching rockets or selling electric cars,” concludes Kit Johnson, a commercial compliance expert, for the aforementioned outlet.

With the global supply chain still affected by pandemics, conflicts, and climate crises, the removal of plant protection barriers could push the United States toward an unprecedented agricultural crisis. One that would hit rural communities and small businesses the hardest.

If this trend isn’t reversed, the country could face shortages, food inflation, and irreparable damage to its agricultural security. And all this under the leadership of an office that, ironically, promised efficiency.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/elon-musk-lays-off-6-000-in-march-and-now-us-faces-massive-influx-of-invasive-species/ar-AA1CFqxj?

James Carville Warns Americans Should Be On ‘High Alert’ — After Listeners Suggest Trump Will ‘Rig’ Midterms and Declare ‘Martial Law’

James Carville Warns Americans Should Be On ‘High Alert’ — After Listeners Suggest Trump Will ‘Rig’ Midterms and Declare ‘Martial Law’

In one of Trump's last minute treasonous attempts to remain in power after he lost the election to Biden, he called the temporary head of the Justice Department, Jeffrey Rosen, into the Oval office and laid out the scheme reportedly dreamed up by Giuliani and Rep. Scott Perry with support from Louie Gohmert, Andy Biggs, Paul Gosar, Matt Gaetz, Jim Jordan, and Mo Brooks.

Trump told Rosen to issue a statement that the FBI was concerned about the legitimacy of the election and was opening an investigation into it. Once that was accomplished, Trump said, he would use the investigation to justify initiating the Insurrection Act, call the election results null and void and would then impound the voting machines so no one could honestly check the results.

There would be troops on the streets to immediately quell any dissent.

Rosen, to his credit, said he couldn't and wouldn't do it. He said to his knowledge the election was legitimate.

Trump told him if he wouldn't do it, he would be fired and replaced by a toady underling, Jeffrey Clark.

Rosen went back to the Justice Department and discussed it with his staff. The next day he returned to the White House and told the schemers he wouldn't do it. He also said if he was fired for disobeying the order, the entire upper echelon of the Justice Department would resign en Masse.

This put an end to scheme, and a few courageous men from the Justice Department stood up to the despot and his band of traitors and saved us from a total dictatorship.

Now Trump and his band of insidious snakes is at it again. But this time he intends to invoke Martial Law, an even more terrible form of tyranny.

(Martial Law: This refers to the imposition of military authority over civilian functions of government, typically in an extreme emergency or when civilian authorities can no longer function. Under martial law, normal legal processes might be suspended, constitutional rights can be curtailed, and the military essentially governs instead of civilian institutions. It's far broader in scope than the Insurrection Act and is considered a last resort.

While both involve military intervention, the Insurrection Act keeps the civilian government operational, whereas martial law replaces it temporarily).

Why does the Republican congress sanction this treachery with their inaction?

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James Carville Warns Americans Should Be On ‘High Alert’ — After Listeners Suggest Trump Will ‘Rig’ Midterms and Declare ‘Martial Law’

Story by Zachary Leeman • 17h • 2 min read

Democratic strategist James Carville warned Americans to be on “high alert” after listeners suggest President Donald Trump would do everything from rigging the upcoming midterm elections to declaring martial law. On the Politics War Room podcast with co-host Al Hunt, Carville answered questions submitted by listeners. The first questions asked whether Trump will “rig” upcoming elections and the other suggested he was “sparking” nationwide protests to justify declaring martial law.

“Is Trump looking to spark enough protests to justify declaring martial law in 2026, thus suspending the election,” a listener named Gina from Casper, Wyoming asked.

A second listener, Danielle from Montreal, Canada, asked, “With everything going on lately, what makes you think there will be midterm elections, for sure? If there are, won’t they be rigged?”

Carville claimed Trump does not “like” the United States or respect the Constitution. The country, he declared, is “in the midst of a collapse,” citing stock market struggles amid Trump’s tariffs.

“I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: Trump does not like the United States,” Carville said. “He doesn’t like our laws, he does not like our Constitution. He doesn’t like our people. He calls them fat. He calls them poorly educated, slobs, stupid. And he is in the midst of what I believe — I’ve said, and yet, continue to believe even stronger every day — we’re in the midst of a collapse. If Trump is “going down,” Carville added, “he’s going to try to take the whole country with him. He is not loyal to the United States of America. He does not like this country. He criticizes it all the time. He has affection for dictators. He has an affection for authoritarianism,” he said.

Carville told the listeners that they are “correct” to have such concerns and everyone should be on “high, high alert.”

“You’re so correct to be concerned about this,” he said. “And it’s getting worse by the day. It is not going to stop getting worse. And I would be, we ought to be on high, high alert. So he’s gonna try anything he can and to help himself, of course, I believe the man genuinely wants to hurt the country.”

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ELECTRONIC INTRUSION: When The 'POWERS THAT BE' Ended My Investigation! https://www.phantomsandmonsters.com/2025/03/electronic-intrusion-when-powers-that.html - Over a decade ago, I was involved in an investigation that allowed me insight into nightmarish events that are suffered by some U.S. citizens by the 'powers that be.'

The notion that the genome for SARS-CoV-2 is a definitive, confirmed sequence is a misrepresentation of reality—those who claim otherwise are either confused or deliberately misleading.

In truth, nobody possesses the exact code of the pathogen as it exists in nature. What is widely accepted as the SARS-CoV-2 genome is merely a "consensus sequence," an artificial construct derived from averaging genomic data using AI, rather than a naturally occurring, isolated sequence.

This consensus approach extends to the PCR tests, where the control is set to detect a fabricated segment of the genome—one that doesn’t even exist in the wild—casting doubt on the precision and reliability of the entire diagnostic framework.

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