Today is Monday, June 30, 2025, the last day in June. As I write this, the despicable Senate is debating the president’s “big, beautiful bill,” which really should be renamed the “murder bill” because it will result in many Americans dying because they will lose their health insurance. “It has been dubbed the cruelest bill ever seen in Congress,” by Lawrence O’Donnell from The Last Word tonight at 10. So far, the bill took a procedural step forward when, on Saturday, June 28, the U.S. Senate voted, 51-49, to advance it. We have to commend the “no” votes on the bill advancing to the Senate: all Senate Democrats, including Independent Bernie Sanders who voted no, plus two repugnicans, Kentucky’s Rand Paul and North Carolina’s Thom Tillis. Because of undue pressure exerted on him by this Orange Turd, Tillis has just announced that he won’t be seeking reelection in 2026, which will actually be fantastic for Democrats who can now run someone in his stead. So maybe this buffoon who finds himself president just fucked himself by pressuring Tillis to vote for the bill.

The reasons for these no votes is examined in an online AlterNet article by Alex Henderson entitled ‘Terrible, terrible, terrible’: CNN data guru exposes Trump plan’s ‘horrible’ unpopularity.” Paul opposes the bill because he’s a hardcore budget hawk who has warned that the bill will greatly increase the country’s federal deficit. Tillis’s reasons for opposing the bill are different from Paul’s in that he is warning fellow repugnicans that the megabill’s steep cuts to Medicaid will hurt their party in the 2026 midterms. This is so true! And Tillis is a hard-core realist; where are other repugncians who know this to be the truth and are still favoring it?

This fucking bill is faring badly in poll after poll, and CNN data analyst Harry Enten showed just how badly during an early morning June 30 presentation. Enten told his colleague Omar Jimenez, “If we’re talking about adjectives how about they think it’s awful, horrible and, to quote our colleague Charles Barkley, ‘terrible, terrible, terrible?'”

According to The Washington Post, Enten noted, the bill’s favorable rating is -19. And it’s -20 in a Pew Research poll. But Enten stressed that it’s even more unpopular in polls from Fox News (-21), Quinnipiac University (-26), and the Kaiser Family Foundation (-29). That’s terrible from all levels of polling. Never have we seen such a piece of legislation that is hated by such a swath of the American public. Enten stated, “The American public, at this particular point, hate hate hate the big, beautiful bill. As far as they’re concerned, it’s not a big, beautiful bill – it’s a big, bad bill.”

In response to Tillis bowing out of politics for the midterms, “Bitch” McConnell, the Grim Reaper himself, lamented about Tillis’s retirement, calling it a “big setback for the Senate and the Republican Conference.” For stating the truth, Tillis had his head bashed by fucking Dump on Truth Social when he excoriated the senator for voting against the bill; this liar in chief warned that Tillis was “Making a BIG MISTAKE for America.” The mistake is that we have Donald J. Chump as president!

A laughable replacement for Tillis, 64, is the president’s own daughter-in-law Lara Trump who is considering a run to replace Tillis in her home state of North Carolina. Thus repugnicans have a solid fear now that they will lose the Senate in 2026. There is no way that voters would favor a daughter-in-law – with no political experience – of this monumentally unpopular president. And Dump won’t have Muskrat to buy the election for him anymore.

Anyway, I hope this represents a glimmer of hope for 2026 with the bowing out of Thom Tillis from running in his home state in which he was considered a strong favorite to win the seat once more. Let Laura Dump run against a more experienced and competent Democrat, and let’s see who will win in November.

Tomorrow is my gay men’s reading club meeting, and I don’t think I will post my blog then since I might accompany some of the members to Julius’s after the meeting, at 8. I hope to have my friend “Harvey” with me tomorrow evening.

I just heard on O’Donnell’s show that an amendment to prevent families with kids under 12 from losing their food assistance as proposed by Democratic California Senator Adam Schiff was REJECTED by all repugnicans on the Senate floor. Don’t these fuckers have any decency? This is an outrage! Boy, have we become such an inferior country under these repugnicans in office.

Have a good Tuesday then.

And so it went!