The LuLac Edition #5, 371, June 30th, 2025

 MONDAY MEMES 

The LuLac Edition #5, 370, June 29th, 2025

 

SUNDAY SNOWFLAKE

 

THUG

DEFENSE 

SECRETARY HEGSETH

 TELLS FOX NEWS 

PENTAGON REPORTER

 JENNIFER GRIFFIN

YOU'RE THE ABOUT THE WORST,

INTENTIONALLY MISREPRESENTING

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said FOX News Pentagon reporter Jennifer Griffin is "about the worst" when it comes to "misrepresenting, intentionally," what the administration says:
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said FOX News Pentagon reporter Jennifer Griffin is "about the worst" when it comes to "misrepresenting, intentionally," what the administration says. This 3 time divorced., woman hating drunk got his itty bitty feelings hurt and attacked a former co-worker of his at Fox for apparently no reason at all. She was simply asking a question that is currently being asked.

The thin-skinned nature of this administration tells you three things:

a.   They want to be admired but do nothing to earn it.

b.   Like third graders have no impulse control.

c.    Don’t mind making TOTAL ASSES out of themselves with the least provocation.

Take a look at this sexist pig who is masquerading as a Defense  Secretary.

REPORTER: [asking whether the U.S. can confirm destruction of Iran's] highly enriched Uranium?

DEFENSE SECRETARY PETE HEGSETH: There is nothing that I have seen that suggests that we didn't hit what we wanted to hit in those locations.

JENNIFER GRIFFIN, FOX NEWS: That is not the question, though; it is about highly enriched Uranium. Do you have certainty that all the highly enriched uranium was inside the Fordow mountain, or some of it? There were satellite photos showing a dozen trucks there, two days in advance. Are you certain none of that highly enriched Uranium was moved?

HEGSETH: Of course, we are watching every aspect. But, Jennifer, you have been about the worst --the one who misrepresents most, intentionally, what the president says.

GRIFFIN: I was the first to report about the ventilation shafts on Saturday night. I was the first to describe the B-2 bombers, the refueling, and the entire mission with great accuracy. So, I take issue with that.

HEGSETH: I appreciate you acknowledging that this was the most successful mission based on operational security this department has done since you've been here, and I appreciate that. We are looking at all aspects of intelligence and make sure we know what was where.

 

 

The LuLac Edition #5, 369, June 28th, 2025

 

TRUMP TAX CUTS

 MIGHT SHORTEN THE

LIFE OF SOCIAL SECURITY

The Social Security Board of Trustees said last week that the program’s combined trust funds will run out of money in 2034 — one year earlier than was projected in 2024. Without a fix, the trustees’ report said, the venerable program may have to reduce retirement benefits by almost one-fourth in less than a decade.

Though Social Security counts over 73 million people as beneficiaries, the news went largely unremarked in Washington. And to be fair, there’s been a lot going on. But soon enough, Social Security will face a funding crisis — and President Donald Trump’s approach will only make matters worse.

Trump has plunged ahead with policy proposals that risk moving the depletion date closer.

First, a bit of a background: Social Security is (primarily) a pay-as-you-go system — payroll taxes on today’s workers fund benefits for today’s retirees. From 1983 — the last time the program’s finances were overhauled — until 2021, Social Security took in more than it paid out. Beginning that year, thanks to demographic changes, benefits exceeded revenues, and Social Security began drawing down its two trust funds, one for disability benefits and a much larger one for retiree and survivor benefits. The trust fund for retirement benefits is projected to be depleted in 2033, and drawing on the disability trust fund (which requires congressional approval) buys Social Security only an extra year.

The immediate cause of the depletion date’s moving forward was the Social Security Fairness Act, which eliminated provisions that reduced benefits for teachers, firefighters, police officers and other public workers who receive pensions. That law, which passed Congress with bipartisan majorities in both chambers, brought the depletion date forward by about six months. But the new law is just a fraction of the total shortfall — an average of about $330 billion per year over the next 75 years.

If nothing is done, retirement benefits won’t disappear entirely, but only 77% of those benefits would be payable, according to the trustees’ report. Any interruption or significant reduction in benefits would be catastrophic for millions of people. As of 2015, Social Security provided at least half the income of roughly 40% of retirees (and at least 90% of the income for 1 in 7 retirees).

Right now the Trump tax cuts, the ballooning deficit needs to be watched closely.  It will be a damn miracle if I’m around in 2034 but most of us boomers are concerned about the future.  (MSNBC, LuLac)

 

THE NEW YORK

MAYORAL

CRAP SHOOT

The recent selection of  Mr. Zorhan as the leading contender for Mayor might be a short lived victory for the progressive Democratic wing of the party.  But it will not be good in the long run. The GOP lie machine will have a field day with his stances that will seem too extreme.

When the dust settles this race may return Eric Adams for another term or Curtis Sliwa as the first Republicans Mayor since   Mike Bloomberg.

My old boss Tom Joseph used to say “This is a middle of the road country”. So too with a city as diverse and big as New York.

 

The LuLac Edition #5, 368, June 27th, 2025

 

A SUPREME DISGRACE

OR MAKING 

THE U.S.A. 

RUSSIA LIGHT 

 

The Supreme Court sided with the Trump administration in curbing nationwide injunctions granted against his birthright citizenship order, in a 6-3 ruling with the court’s Republican-appointees in the majority and the Democratic appointees dissenting.

“These injunctions — known as ‘universal injunctions’ — likely exceed the equitable authority that Congress has granted to federal courts,” Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote in a decision that didn’t decide the underlying legality of President Donald Trump’s attempt to restrict birthright citizenship. Litigation will continue on the issue in the lower courts and individual plaintiffs can still bring additional challenges against the order. In her dissent for the court’s three Democratic appointees, Justice Sonia Sotomayor called out the court’s rewarding of the administration’s “gamesmanship.”

She noted that the administration didn’t ask the justices to fully block the lower court rulings against Trump’s policy. “Why? The answer is obvious: To get such relief, the Government would have to show that the Order is likely constitutional, an impossible task in light of the Constitution’s text, history, this Court’s precedents, federal law, and Executive Branch practice,” Sotomayor wrote.

 “So the Government instead tries its hand at a different game. It asks this Court to hold that, no matter how illegal a law or policy, courts can never simply tell the Executive to stop enforcing it against anyone. Instead, the Government says, it should be able to apply the Citizenship Order (whose legality it does not defend) to everyone except the plaintiffs who filed this lawsuit,” she continued, adding that the “gamesmanship in this request is apparent and the Government makes no attempt to hide it. Yet, shamefully, this Court plays along.”

In her own separate dissent, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said the court’s “decision to permit the Executive to violate the Constitution with respect to anyone who has not yet sued is an existential threat to the rule of law.”

The administration appealed to the justices after several lower court judges blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order attempting to restrict birthright citizenship. Those judges did not consider the legality of Trump’s order to be a close question; “blatantly unconstitutional” was what one of them called it. 

So the bottom line here is that this Supreme court is allowing the Executive branch to thumb their noses at the RULE OF LAW.

This Supreme Court has become a jester’s clown court that can be trusted to do ONLY ONE THING: KNEEL BEFORE THEIR god, TRUMP. This court is paving the way for America on the cusp of its 250th birthday, RUSSIA LIGHT! (MSNBC, LuLac)

 

THE NOT SO SUPREME COURTS SCREWS WITH HEALTH CARE

 

States can block the country’s biggest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood, from receiving Medicaid money for health services such as contraception and cancer screenings, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday.

These right wing zealots who are pro life now decide that other options for that child and mother after the journey through the birth canal can’t get basic health care. So cancer screenings go bye bye because of this court that is beholden to their lord and savior Donald Trump.

Can I blame them? Sure but in a political sense they are doing what political animals (and we are all that no matter whether we wear a robe or not) do to survive. I put the blame squarely on Democratic voters who “just didn’t care for Hillary” and put Trump in office. If I hear women whining and crying about this who picked Trump in ’16 or worse yet stayed home, you just reaped what you sowed.

The 6-3 opinion by Justice Neil Gorsuch and joined by the rest of the court’s conservatives was not directly about abortion, but it comes as Republicans back a wider push across the country to defund the organization. It closes off Planned Parenthood’s primary court path to keeping Medicaid funding in place: patient lawsuits.

The justices found that while Medicaid law allows people choose their own provider, that does not make it a right enforceable in court. The court split along ideological lines, with the three liberals dissenting in the case from South Carolina.

Public health care money generally cannot be used to pay for abortions, but Medicaid patients go to Planned Parenthood for other needs in part because it can be difficult to find a doctor who takes the publicly funded insurance, the organization has said. (AP, LuLac)