Tuesday Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.

The Big Beautiful Bill passed the Senate to go on to a full vote by a 51-49 vote with VP JD Vance on hand in case he was needed to cast a deciding vote. Wisconsin's Ron Johnson switched his vote to YES at the last minute making Vance's vote unnecessary. You have to wonder if the threat of Vance breaking the deadlock was enough to change Johnson's vote since he didn't want to be on record opposing President Trump... Texas State agrees to join the PAC-12... According to a recent poll 87% of Americans say the government should make food safer. That puts RFK Jr. on the right side of a 90/10 issue - can you think another issue with such a ratio?... If LeBron James does decide to retire after this season - what are the chances he pulls a Tom Brady and decides later to return?... He has a point… The provision stripping 1.4 million illegal aliens from getting Medicaid was stripped from the BBB. This was because Republicans are too scared to do their job and hand Democrats a talking point that could appear in election commercials about R’s voting to reduce Medicaid. Turtles all the way down… What does Jerome Powell say to this?… Canada backed down and won't be applying their digital services tax on US companies. The Canadians were trying to milk us for billions yet they allowed the Chinese to pillage the IP of their biggest company Nortel. Can't figure out the Canadians... Wimbledon stared yesterday. Wonder if the tennis event was planned by England to offset 4th of July celebrations in the states (or as they say - former colonies)... Now Health and Human Services will be asked to strip the estimated 1.4 million illegals getting Medicaid payments meant for American citizens that need help. Look for the Democrats to fight this common sense measure too. Many of these illegals getting benefits are also illegally voting for Democrats and if they aren’t getting benefits they have little incentive to keep doing so… Hard to argue that tariffs aren’t working… Think it would be amusing to see a specific LLM AI based upon a single person's postings. Imaging getting to ask, "What does Kim Kardashian think about this?" I'd follow an account like that... Reminder that Lonzo Ball was picked 2nd overall in the 2017 draft by the Lakers. Jason Tatum went 3rd to the Celtics. Tatum may miss all of next season and he'll still have more career games played than Ball... Prediction: by the end of Trump's second term gas prices will be under $1.99 a gallon (prediction not valid in California)... AOC was never a “Bronx girl.” She’s a fraud… They say a conservative is a liberal that's been mugged. Well NYC is about to be mugged...

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