Oy

I showed a couple friends the proposed Trump coin and they thought it was a joke. "Uh, no, this is real." Strange times we live in, to be sure. Not sure it is legal to put a living person's likeness on a coin but as they say at the White House, "legal shmeagal."

I saw a great illustration last week where Trump didn't just put his face on Mt. Rushmore, every face was his. Wish I had kept a screenshot.

There has never been so partisan an administration. Yesterday the USDA refused to brief Democratic Congress people after they briefed the Republicans. "Far left losers" or something like that. I wonder if it ever occurred to the GOP that they might find themselves in the minority position one day and get a taste of this sort of thing themselves?

Just might happen but it is a shitty way to run a government. Warfare.

I have a lot of friends on the right who tell me that Dems want to give illegals free medical care. Now this has been thoroughly debunked, in fact it is illegal for a non citizen to receive Medicare or Medicaid but many people are convinced that it is happening. If it happens it is extremely rare. And they want to use the money for transgender surgeries. 

The CBO has previously said it can’t tell how much of the $19 billion in emergency Medicaid spending from 2017 through 2023 actually went to “illegal aliens,” but the overall sum amounts to 1% of Medicaid spending during that time period.

It is true that illegals game emergency rooms, which have an edict to serve everybody. I was sitting in one once where a man was trying to get help for his fatal pancreatic cancer, which can't be fixed in an emergency room. But that is an entirely different story.

Of course, these workers also pick your crops and there might be some small benefit to keeping them alive.

I have friends on both sides of the political equation and they have one thing in common, they are both getting seriously triggered.

Many start the day with a grocery list of the other side's sins. I don't think this is really healthy, to be permanently bent and angry. That is one of the reasons I dialed down the blog this year, didn't need to raise my blood pressure.

I know what is going on, will try to foster intelligent discourse when necessary, but don't need to be pissed off continually. Try to laugh at the absurdity.

Get a hobby, take a walk, or perhaps a new tranquilizer script? Whatever it takes.