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Ric Steinberger
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Tahoe dweller, democracy defender, systems analyst, lifelong techie
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The Dirty, Dangerous Dozen: Trump, Vance, Vought, Miller, Hegseth, Gabbard, RFK Jr, Patel, Noem, Bondi, Homan, Rubio

Plus 77 million MAGA voters who put a convicted, hyper-corrupt criminal back in the White House because he promised to protect white male privilege
NO, NYT: Trump does not give a F*** about Americans' healthcare costs. All he cares about, all he has ever cared about, is himself. He's got the best doctors in the country looking after him so why would he care about anyone else?

He's a criminal narcissist.
As Shutdown Nears End, Trump Still Confronts Soaring Health Costs
www.nytimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Tired old deluded man is suffering from worsening dementia. Losing touch with reality
Trump Says ‘CALL IN THE TROOPS’ to Protect Non-existent Mall
The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to allow National Guard troops into Chicago after a lower court sided with the governor and blocked the deployment.
www.mediaite.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Next up: Hell on earth
What Climate Change Will Do to America by Mid-Century
Many places may become uninhabitable. Many people may be on their own.
www.theatlantic.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:42 PM
GOP Senators should be wearing convicted criminal uniforms
GOP senators hide potential kickback inside bill to end shutdown
Senate Republicans quietly added a provision to legislation passed to reopen the federal government that could lead to large payouts for several party members. If the legislation becomes law, the ...
www.dailykos.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:37 PM
It is undeniable: Democrats caved in and got nothing
Democrats collapsed in the shutdown fight
They have little to show for 40 days of fighting
www.economist.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:15 PM
MAGA is the party of crime, corruption and incompetence. They are asset stripping vandals
GOP Senators Give Themselves Chance For Payday Over Jan. 6 Phone Subpoenas
The legislation gives senators a chance to sue for $500,000 in damages if their phone records were obtained by the FBI.
www.huffpost.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:58 PM
If your goal is to get super rich through crime and planetary destruction, then everything is in bounds, especially if it could destroy a blue state
Trump Is Said to Propose Opening California Coast to Oil Drilling
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:33 PM
The wealthy are indeed different than you and me!
Wealthy Travelers Are Splurging on Luxury Hotels Like Never Before
Record-high luxury hotel rates did little to dull traveler demand for exclusive ocean resorts and grand hotels.
www.wsj.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:52 PM
This criminal mafia president cannot die too soon
‘A classic authoritarian tactic’: outrage over Trump’s pardons for friends and allies
Ex-prosecutors and legal scholars say US president ‘meting out pardons for blatantly corrupt and self-serving ends’
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Chuck Schumer led the Senate Democrats in snatching defeat out of the jaws of victory. SCHUMER NEEDS TO GO
Democrats face party backlash over US government shutdown deal
Rebel senators slammed for backing Trump’s deal to end longest government closure in history
www.ft.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Chuck Schumer NEEDS TO GO! Caving in to a bully president only means the bully will demand more next time.

8 Senate Democrats, including both NV Senators, totally caved - WHEN DEMS WERE WINNING!
After This Shutdown Surrender, Chuck Schumer Needs to Go
The Democratic leader’s cave-in makes it all too clear: It’s time to clean house in the Senate.
www.thenation.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Trump NEEDS TO DIE or the US needs to lose a major war for this shit to stop
Hegseth says six people killed in two new US attacks on alleged drug boats
US defense secretary says without providing evidence that dead from strikes in eastern Pacific were ‘narco-terrorists’
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Vichy Democrats totally cave to nation’s top bully

Senate Democrats defend breaking ranks to end shutdown as Mike Johnson signals speedy House return
Senate Democrats defend breaking ranks to end shutdown as Mike Johnson signals speedy House return - US politics live
Decision to advance bill that would reopen government has sparked furor from party and base; House speaker says he will call lawmakers back as soon as Senate holds final vote
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:58 PM
This is, in a nutshell, why the Dem base - tens of millions of voters - fucking despise these cowardly Vichy Democratic pols
Senate Reaches Deal To Reopen Government After Moderate Democrats Cave
Republicans found enough Democrats willing to drop their party's demand to extend soon-to-expire health care subsidies for millions of people.
www.huffpost.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Senate Moves to Vote as Democratic Defectors Relent on Shutdown

Vichy Dem Senators caved. And Dem pols wonder why their base voters are furious with them.
Trump Administration Live Updates: Senate Moves to Vote as Democratic Defectors Relent on Shutdown
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:51 AM
What the fucking hell kind of hellhole fascist state has the US become?

This is Trump. This is MAGA. This is today's criminal Republican Party, a party led by a criminal. A party that welcomes Nazis and pedophiles
USDA orders states to stop issuing full SNAP benefits and to ‘undo’ benefits sent for November | CNN Politics
The US Department of Agriculture ordered states to stop issuing full food stamp benefits for November and to “immediately undo” any issuance of the full allotments, after a Supreme Court justice on Fr...
edition.cnn.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Only a fascist state would allow this monstrosity

A Two-Headed Coin That Always Comes Up ‘Trump’
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:59 PM
He’s a struggling tired old man dealing with advancing dementia.

Yet the MAGA Congress will never remove him
'Oh my god': WaPo analysis shows Trump 'was sleeping for 20 minutes during a live event'
Donald Trump caught heat for closing his eyes through a press conference, and a new Washington Post analysis reveals the president spent nearly 20 minutes sleeping or battling sleep during the event.T...
www.rawstory.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
There should be NO FOOD for any Member of Congress, Trump, Trump's staff or any SCOTUS Justice until the poorest Americans get their food benefits back. Of course this will NEVER happen.

SCOTUS: YOU FUCKED THIS UP BADLY!
Families in Limbo After Supreme Court Order Interrupts Food Stamp Payments
www.nytimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Advancing dementia and delusion looks like this
Trump Dismisses Affordability Concerns, Insists Prices Are Coming Down
The president said the notion that the GOP performed poorly in the recent elections because of the cost of living is a Democratic “con job.”
www.wsj.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:32 PM
The very tiny bit of legitimacy the Supreme Court still had: it’s totally gone now
Families in Limbo After Supreme Court Order Interrupts Food Stamp Payments
www.nytimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:12 PM