Donald Trump and MAGA Republican extremists sold Americans health care away to billionaires- irresponsible tax cuts are "blood money"

A big Trump bill, but ‘beautiful’ it is not❗- Echo opinion letter published in The Boston Globe: 

Benefactors of Donald Trump’s largesse are receiving blood money.

As Republicans twist themselves into unnatural positions to support Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful 🤢 Bill,” they must think about how many people, including children, will die* as a result. Rural hospitals will close, children will starve, and millions will lose their health insurance, all to pay for the tax cuts for the president’s billionaire friends. Do those receiving the lion’s share of Trump’s largesse not understand that it is blood money?

From Bruce Zabinsky in Waban, Massachusetts

Reported by BBC *'We are all going to die' - Senator's healthcare comment sparks a bruhaha row.  During a political town hall meeting in Iowa, Senator Joni Ernst addressed an audience member's concerns about reduced spending on Medicaid in Donald Trump's Big Beautiful 🤢 Bill Act by saying: "We are all going to die."💀❗

The Iowa Republican senator went on to post a tongue-in-cheek video from a cemetery saying she made an incorrect assumption that everyone in the auditorium "understood that, yes, we are all going to perish from this Earth".

The bill would require able-bodied recipients to work, participate in job training programs or volunteer for 80 hours a month in order to be eligible for Medicaid, a healthcare program for low-income Americans.

The measure will lower the number of people with healthcare by at least 7.6 million from the Medicaid changes, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.

Donald Trump campaign leaves red hats stranded in the Omaha Nebraska cold- WWTT?

MaineWriter- Clearly, the Trump campaign wasted time trying to make a political impression on Nebraska's CD2 (Second District)!  IMO, Trump would have done much better had he stayed home and just sent in a TV media ad.

Trumpziism's Red Hat Cult Supporters Left Stranded At Freezing Omaha, Nebraska Airport.

Donald Trump left several thousand of his supporters stranded at Eppley Airfield after his event in Omaha Tuesday night.

After the Trump boarded Air Force One and departed the state, many of the attendees, some of whom waited more than four hours to listen to him speak, stood in the freezing temperatures on a private road in the middle of the airport.

CNN’s Jeff Zeleny reported “thousands” of people were stuck in the cold more than an hour after Trump took off from the airport.

According to a Twitter account named “Omaha Scanner,” police officers located two groups of elderly Trump supporters shortly after the event ended who were struggling in the cold. One group was reportedly frozen in the cold and unable to move.

Another complaint included a call for a medic to assist a 68 year-old man who complained of hypothermia and possibly had an altered mental status.

The event itself seemed poorly planned from the beginning.

Trump’s campaign told his rally-goers to arrive at the Eppley airport at 4:30 p.m. By then, cars were lined up for miles trying to get into the airport, and the security team was directing people in circles.

At one point, security said the South Economy parking lot where the cars were being directed to was full, and pointed people toward the north lot. Security at the north lot then directed the cars of people, who had already waited in line once, back to the South Economy lot.

The security team then told people who started parking in a cell phone lot across the street from the South Economy lot that they may be towed.

Most ignored the warning and proceeded into the South Economy lot, where they found thousands of people standing in four separate lines to get onto charter buses.

A group of people in the cell phone lot gave up their place in the long line to go offer to move their cars somewhere else so they wouldn’t be towed, but the security team then said their cars wouldn’t be towed out of the nearby lot.

People were directed to stand in the long lines to get on charter buses that would drive them to the event. It took well over two hours to get through the line.

While thousands of people stood in the lines, the flow of buses was not at all constant.

At about 6:45 p.m. (the Trump event was scheduled to begin at 7:30 p.m.) YouTubers Camille & Haley showed up to sing songs like “Back the Blue” and “Vote Trump 2020” for the people still the lines in the South Economy lot.

Once on the buses, people were transported more than 3.5 miles down a private road to another part of the airport. It took more than half-an-hour for the buses to get from the South Economy lot to the place where they could be unloaded.

Once at the event, people walked a few blocks toward tents where volunteers took everyone’s temperatures.

Attendees were led through another one- to two-hour long queue to get inside the event.

Trump landed at the airport and began speaking while thousands of people were still waiting in the queue to get in the event.

Some started shouting for the line to move faster, and some began saying they needed to use the restroom and threatened to relieve themselves while waiting in line.

While Trump left the event quickly in Air Force One, attendees were stuck for hours outside in freezing cold temperatures in the dark.

Trump was visiting Nebraska to secure his standing in the state’s 2nd congressional district (largely Omaha-based), which could flip to Joe Biden next week as Nebraska awards some of its electoral votes per congressional districts.

Some Iowa politicians were on hand for the rally, which was right over the Iowa border. Senator Joni Ernst, however, did not get a chance to speak to the crowd despite being locked in a very tight reelection race. By Paige Godden published in the Iowa Starting Line news.

South Korea might finally defeat unqualified Donald Trump

GOP Senators Forced To Soothe South Korea: 

"We'll Stop Trump"

Awww, dontcha just feel bad for Republicans who must defend their endorsement of Trump while counteracting his offensive foreign policy declarations? 

Crooks and Liars blog reports:

It just tears at your heartstrings to watch Republicans have to deal with the consequences of nominating a pathological liar and petulant toddler as their presidential candidate. 

From Politico:

How does Senator Joni Ernst explain Donald Trump's stupid North Korean policy to our allies in South Korea?

Just as pressure is mounting on Republican elected officials to fall in line behind Trump, Sens. Joni Ernst of Iowa, Cory Gardner of Colorado and Dan Sullivan of Alaska are in South Korea undercutting Trump's bluster with assurances that the U.S. is not about to renege on trade agreements or demand its allies pay more to support American forces on Korean soil.

These three Tea Party Senators are not up for re-election in November, so they can devote time to damage control for the GOP. (Ernst and Sullivan have already endorsed Trump, Gardner hasn't.) These would-be ambassadors wound up devoting the entirety of their four-nation Asian trip to allaying fears about a possible Trump Presidency.

Ernst and Sullivan also apparently voiced disagreement with Trump's assertion that South Korea doesn't pay enough to keep 28,500 U.S. troops on its soil and asserted that Trump's position on the matter is ill-informed and unlikely to be folded into the official Republican Party platform next month at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland.

Trio of right wing T-party Senators Senator Cory Gardner, Senator Dan Sullivan and Senator Joni Ernst try to explain the unqualified Donald Trump position about North Korea to the US allies in South Korea

"Already the Republic of Korea bears the large brunt of what goes on in the Korean Peninsula," Ernst said, according to the Yonhap report. "As we look at Europe and NATO, there are countries there that, yes, need to do more. They have not stepped up to that challenge yet. However, when you take a look at the Korean Peninsula, it's a very different situation."

It's gotta be embarrassing (ya' think?) to point out to diplomats and the press in a foreign country that the candidate you (stupid GOP) endorsed is wrong about foreign policy, and to promise that you'll keep him under control. 

Joni Ernst is going to castrate that hog? Really?

(Maybe,  South Korea can change right wing Republicans' minds about unifying the GOP, regardless of the political and international consequences! #neverTrump)