Originally published at: In Shutdown Spin, Republicans Are Pretending They Care About Mothers on WIC Now
House Republican leadership held a pretty maddening press conference Thursday morning trying to place the blame for the shutdown on Democrats. Their spin du jour involved accusing Democrats of taking the government hostage, trying to appease the “radical left” corners of their party, and claiming that Democrats are attempting to take money from rural hospitals…
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Donald Trump is a self-righteous, unrepentant, stupid, sociopathic criminal. The Repub MAGAts as sycophants are, in many ways, worse.
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About that reassignment:
The administration had pointed to the comments of Simon’s wife, a Democratic representative whose seat includes parts of Portland, opposing the deployment. The case, as Trump’s luck will have it, was then randomly reassigned to a judge he appointed.
The case has been reassigned to Judge Karen Immergut. Although Judge Immergut was appointed by Trump in his first term, she also had the backing of both Oregon Democratic senators at the time. She is not MAGA. In my view, and having tried and been in front of her on multiple cases, this is not necessarily good for Trump. She is actually an excellent Judge. She’s smart and works hard to follow the law.
As an example, she upheld as constitutional an Oregon ballot measure that banned large capacity magazines, and requiring a permit to purchase guns, in 2023.
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They are lying fks. Fake Christian Mike is on every media site spinning and twisting and ‘I didn’t hear THAT’! The GOP sent out talking points to blame Dems for the shutdown even tho they own all of government but SOMEHOW it’s somebody else’s fault. Oh and the media is out there madly crowing ‘both sides …’ bs.
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“So, I ask Democrats, are you okay with this? Are you okay with mothers unable to get milk for their children? Answer that questions, Democrats,” Chairwoman of the House Republican Conference Lisa McClain (R-MI) said. “Because with your ‘no’ vote, you are voting for mothers on WIC not to be able to feed their children.”
Yeah, nice try, but voters aren’t buying it.
After spending 9 months claiming Trump and Republicans are the big boys in charge now, few voters outside of the MAGA base are going to believe that Democrats are now powerful enough to cause a shutdown if Republicans didn’t also want it.
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FUN FACT
The governing Republican Party lies to the Christian community while claiming to embody “American Values”.
In fact, Republicans want to eliminate services, especially for young mothers. Yet, they’ll keep the money they taxed us to pay for the services. It’s called vaporware.
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All Republicans lie straight faced all the time. They think the rest of us are as stupid as their drooling MAGA voters.
Guess what? We are NOT
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The judge overseeing the challenge to the occupation in Portland, who is an Obama appointee, recused himself from the case at the Trump administration’s behest. Judge Michael Simon wrote that while he “does not believe that recusal is required under either federal law or the Code of Conduct for United States Judges,” focus must remain on the questions presented by the case. The administration had pointed to the comments of Simon’s wife, a Democratic representative whose seat includes parts of Portland, opposing the deployment. The case, as Trump’s luck will have it, was then randomly reassigned to a judge he appointed.
Alito:
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When the “Oh, the poor starving moms and their beautiful children dependent on WIC!!” schtick doesn’t work, tomorrow it will be some other dishonest and nakedly emotional appeal. Like maybe “The families of our Brave Soldiers are starving because the Democrats won’t allow them to be PAID!!”
Oh, sorry. They did that one yesterday. Moms, soldiers … what’s next on the Heartstrings list? Bring on the schmaltz!
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Errr, simple - “How are we going to be able to send $20 billion to Argentina if those evil DemonRats won’t let the government function!?!” 
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I just noticed that Bari Weiss is going to be in charge of CBS news. That’s odd. I thought she canceled herself!
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Except they made an exception to that money. his buddy needs that money - along with that hedge fund guy who is making oodles of of it.
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Senator Chris Murphy just sent out this report from the Senate Floor: He specifies what each American can do, pronto. He says we do not have the luxury of waiting until mid-terms or 2 years at the rate the dismantling and deletions of our programs have taken place. Thanks also to Liz Warren!

“Last night in the Senate, something really important happened. Republicans forced us to debate their billionaire bailout budget framework. We started voting at 6 PM because they knew doing it in the dark of night would minimize media coverage. And they do not want the American people to see how blatant their handover of our government to the billionaire class is.So I want to explain what happened last night and what we did to fight back. The apex of Republicans’ plan to turn over our government to their wealthy cronies is a giant tax cut for billionaires and corporations. And they plan to pay for it with cuts to programs that working people rely on. Popular and necessary programs like Medicaid, Medicare, and SNAP, are all being targeted. In order to pass the tax cut, Republicans have to go through a series of procedural steps. Last night, they took the first step which requires them to pass an outline of their plan, but with it, any senator can offer as many amendments as we want. So my Democratic colleagues and I did just that.
Now, we knew that Republicans would largely unanimously oppose them, but we had two objectives here. One, Republicans were forced to put their opinion on record — many for the first time — on the most corrupt parts of Trump and Musk’s agenda. Two, as I’ve been saying, I am going to make every process and procedure as slow and painful as possible for as long as my colleagues choose to ignore the constitutional crisis happening before our eyes.
So what did we propose? We proposed no tax cuts for anyone who makes a billion dollars a year. We made them vote on whether or not Elon Musk and DOGE should have limitless access to Americans’ personal data. We made them vote on whether to protect IVF and require insurers to cover it. Every single amendment Democrats proposed was shot down. On almost every single amendment, Republicans universally opposed it. Every Republican voted against our proposal to prevent more tax cuts for billionaires. The corruption and theft is happening in the open here.
The whole game for Republicans is taking your money and giving it to the wealthiest corporations and billionaires — even if it means kicking your parents out of a nursing home or turning off Medicaid for the poorest children. They know what they are doing is deeply unpopular. They are offering a tax cut to the most wealthy that is 850 times larger than what they are offering working people. Oh and by the way, any tax cuts for working people are going to be washed out by higher costs for basic necessities, like health care and food. It’s a fundamental injustice.
Thanks to your pressure and support, many of my Democratic colleagues have joined my effort to do everything we can to make sure they cannot destroy democracy and steal your money in the dark of the night. We are being loud about what is happening.
I’m going to continue to grind the gears of Congress down as much as possible to make it that much harder and slower to get away with this corruption. That’s why the votes lasted until nearly 5 AM.
DO NOT PRESS SHARE. JUST COPY THE ENTIRE POST AND PASTE IT ON YOUR OWN WALL.
This is a five-alarm fire. I don’t think we have two years to plan and fight back. I think we have months. It’s still in our power to stop the destruction of our democracy with mass mobilization and effective opposition from elected officials. So we can’t miss any opportunity to take advantage of opportunities to put Republicans on the record and shine a light on what is happening.
And you have a role to play in this as well. I need you to amplify what’s happening, support the leaders who are fighting for you to make sure they can continue speaking truth to power against Musk and Trump’s billionaire cronies, and show up at rallies and town halls. Use every tool at your disposal to send a message loud and clear about how you expect my colleagues to lead and fight in this moment.”
Every best wish,
US Senator Chris Patrick Murphy
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As it has always been, in perpetuity.
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OMG! How did the Trumpies not know this.
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Well why not complain about WIC - after all, these are the same people that frog marched us into forever wars, poked their finger in our chest about supporting the troops (which they never did), and then proceeded to foist a fascist on us whom they supported who railed against (wait for it) . . . forever wars.
These people really are fuckers.
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That’s “the families of our Brave Soldiers” whom we are working hard to disenfranchise, please! (Why do the Republicans hate our military?)
https://www.npr.org/2025/10/01/nx-s1-5542344/overseas-active-duty-military-voting-uocava
And of course the FUCKING board can’t generate a proper preview for that, so here:
A GOP push to restrict voting by overseas U.S. citizens continues before 2026 midterms
For many American citizens living abroad, making sure their ballots are returned correctly and on time hundreds or thousands of miles away, back in the United States, can be tough.
But with the 2026 midterm election approaching, U.S. expatriates and their advocates say voting faces more uncertainty than usual, as Republican officials continue a push for more restrictions on overseas voters, including U.S. military members stationed abroad.
(The error in this case was “Sorry, we were unable to generate a preview for this web page, because the following oEmbed / OpenGraph tags could not be found: image, title”. I’m pretty sure that I remember a day when the board was able to handle obscure websites like NPR. Try harder, discobot.)
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All true, but Sen. Murphy’s letter is from February or some time early in the year.
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