Sunday night, when I heard there were 8 democrats voting with republicans to re-open the government without ANYthing more than a “promise” for a vote on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) sometime in December (they meet for maybe 6 or 7 days in December, I too was outraged. That was, until I gave it a couple days and thought more about what appears to me to be the “big picture.’

First off, I realized this would require the House to end their nearly two month “vacation” on the orders of Speaker Johnson – clearly designed to stop any further Epstein disaster when it comes to Trump – so, Adelita Grijalva was going to be sworn in and, therefore, the so-called Epstein “discharge petition” would have the required 218th signature. Of course, that means in the near future the House is going to have to vote on requiring the “Epstein files” to be made public. And, apparently, it also allowed for the release of some of Epstein’s emails which suggest Trump to be complicit (to some degree) with Epstein’s evil bullshit. (I’ve been reading Victoria Giuffre’s memoir and both Epstein AND Maxwell are/were pure evil)

Secondly, I wasn’t fooling myself as to whether or not the republicans were going to give in any time soon on the ACA subsidies. I don’t question, for example, the concern about the SNAP benefits by some of these democrats and the issue of all the government employees fired (who got their jobs back) or working without paychecks – plus the condition of the airports and all the canceled flights. (I personally met a couple from Santa Barbara in California who were visiting my hometown, Vancouver, WA and had to rent a car in order to get home because their flight was canceled)

After thinking about it, and this seems a bit cold hearted on my part – in regard to the 6+% of Americans who are about to face HUGE increases in the cost of their health insurance – I came to the conclusion this might be the best case opportunity for these subsidies to be restored. Remember, they were taken away without a single democratic vote in the so-called BBB so it’s understandable democrats want to make their point. I believe they’ve made their point. In fact, should – as I expect – the December “vote” fail – I believe what takes place in January will be like a large weight around the necks of ALL the republicans who’ve refused to help the mostly lower income people who will be knocked off their health insurance by the payments which apparently will increase by 100 % or more. And, a significant number of these people will be Trump’s own voters. Plus, this reopening of the government only lasts until late January.

Naturally, it would be better to avoid this type of cruelly coming from our government to our own people (although with the military and ICE “goons” wearing masks in our streets it shouldn’t surprise anyone) but these increases could have “ripple” affects on the insurance costs of many others. OBTW – the $40 BILLION given to Argentina would have been enough to fund the subsidies for, I don’t know, a couple years or more. Just sayin…..

Back to my thoughts on Trump/Epstein the emails released today simply confirmed what people like me (paying attention to public information) didn’t question. (about Trump’s involvement) However, when emails from Epstein confirm Trump “knew about the girls” and had spent several hours in Epstein’s house with one of the girls (apparently Giuffre – based on at least a couple things I’ve seen) you can see why Trump is getting desperate. And why Maxwell SHOULD be getting nervous!

Without getting into the emails’ details here it appears to me the “dam” might be breaking. Trump was in the Situation Room (The Situation Room!!!) today attempting to get Lauren Boebert to pull her name off the discharge petition before Grijalva could sign it – once they had 218 that was it – no changes!)

Additionally, Ghislaine Maxwell should be sent back to the prison in Florida where she was removed after answering the “softball questions” from Trump’s lawyer Todd Blanche. Clearly, she was LYING! And, so far it’s worked. Because, as far as anyone in Trump’s DOJ being concerned with her LYING, well, “don’t hold your breath.” Also, one of the emails, as I read it, suggested Trump maybe was a (as he himself would call it) “rat” because Epstein didn’t understand why Trump’s name never came up in the investigation against him.

Final Thought: Do you think Trump might spill the beans on someone else to save his own skin? Well, it appears to me Epstein and Maxwell were thinking along those lines. There’s going to be thousands more emails and files coming out in the near future and, keep in mind (if you’re someone like me who believes Pam Bondi has been working overtime to “scrub” Trump’s name from any files in the possession of the DOJ) that the Epstein estate has MOST of these files – or, at least many of them. That’s where Trump’s “artistic” birthday card to Epstein (in 2002) referencing their “secrets” came from in addition to the emails released today by democrats from the House Oversight Committee. Apparently, there’s several thousand more – so get ready for tomorrow! Stay tuned……

Oh yes! Trump, tonight, signed the bill to reopen the government and, surprise, surprise – he took no questions. He just got up and left the room. Maybe you understand why – he always takes questions doesn’t he?

Is JD Vance preparing himself to take over? OMG – even more reason for Dems to control Congress in 2027 – to IMPEACH Vance who, to me, is even worse than Trump. Yikes! Three more years of this!