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Rhiannon12866

(246,816 posts)
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 03:30 AM 21 hrs ago

SECRET Provision of Bill TO PAY MAGA Senators $500K?!? - Legal AF



Buried in the spending bill to reopen the government, a provision lets eight GOP senators sue the Donald Trump-controlled Justice Department for $500,000 apiece because prosecutors accessed their phone metadata during the Jan. 6th investigation.

Jack Smith was investigating Trump and Rudy Giuliani's outreach to Congress members as part of Trump's effort to subvert and defraud the 2020 presidential election. Adam Klasfeld of All Rise News breaks it down. - 11/11/2025.

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rampartd

(2,956 posts)
1. expect a lot of this
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 04:37 AM
20 hrs ago

bogus law suits that would never stand up in a fair court will be settled for big bucks by bondi.

rampartd

(2,956 posts)
3. taxpayers have spent trillions on health research
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 04:56 AM
20 hrs ago

that we now can never use.

the prices charged by "providers" is dependent on scales negotiated with insurance companies and with medicare. the prices charge to uninsured persons are considerably higher.

(unless, of course, granny can negotiate with the hospital for better rates.). i'll bet that will make her feel like a "real entrepreneur" as trump says.

"the french don't even have a word for entrepreneur" g w bush

Rhiannon12866

(246,816 posts)
4. And TFG is shutting down desperately needed health research as well
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 05:00 AM
20 hrs ago

Between his deportations and lack of health care, he really doesn't care if Americans die.

Rhiannon12866

(246,816 posts)
6. We already experienced that during Covid, yet idiots voted for him anyway
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 05:10 AM
20 hrs ago

Not to mention, with 34 felonies, he already belongs in jail.

rampartd

(2,956 posts)
7. having lived through the 2024 campaign, i still find it totally bonkers that this guy won.
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 05:25 AM
19 hrs ago

wasn't that a full tilt nazi rally at madison square garden?

currently trying to get microsoft to renew my "office 365" which they have already charged by card. have been on the phone for hours and still no human . the ai assist is too stupid to do this and i'm afraid to put good money after bad.

Rhiannon12866

(246,816 posts)
8. I used to hate the voice on the phone when I renewed prescriptions
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 05:28 AM
19 hrs ago

But now that "she" knows me, it hasn't been so bad. *sigh*

As for the felon-in-chief, he continues to set records every day, two impeachments (so far) and 34 felonies which should have prevented him from serving in any public office.

rampartd

(2,956 posts)
9. i hate to say it but
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 06:15 AM
18 hrs ago

repubs will never again accept the results of an election, and must be deposed kinetically.

the next chief executive will be a general, or preferably a junta.

all the authoritarianism but hopefully less of the kleptocracy?
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