Emmer in on board the "who 'dat" bandwagon. Two sides of a glossy mailer. Trump unmentioned. Toxicity has no better evidence than Emmer distancing.

 And the fucker is not bashing a single Somali, nor the Somali people generically.

Just a nothing burger thing, no opinon about Iran, tariffs, but "Delivering for Minnesota Families."

Believe that or do not. You'd think the nation consumed no fossil fuels, just - springing to mind

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Emmer. Yes. That guy. The days were longer and warmer back in the end of June: remember when:

CBS News

https://www.cbsnews.com › minnesota › news › rep-tom-emmer-says-somalis-who-dont-assimilate-should-go-the-hell-back-to-where-they-came-from

Rep. Tom Emmer says Somalis who "don't assimilate" should "go the hell ...

Jun 25, 2026U.S. House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, at a Wednesday evening Capitol Hill event, said that Somali immigrants who don't assimilate "should go the hell back to where they came from" — remarks that ...

Him. With a tortured smile, and an aura. And you know what? Back at the end of April, there was a featured different delivery man. And Emmer was praising that man, and not patting himself on the back. IInstead, the author of a empassioned paaen to his perception then of excellence: remember when:

If your delivery man fucks the moose, the tune is okay, just name yourself. It's not like abandoning a sinking ship.

 

It's finger to the wind time for your trusted Republicans. That's all. Just explain to me how a waffle can hold a finger anywhere.

 And, okay, he's a politician, a man, and not a waffle. The term hypocrite fits better.

 

Republicans and truth.

  Early in the item

Demuth, alongside nearly every other Minnesota Republican, voted against capping the price of co-pays for prescription drugs that treat chronic illnesses, such as diabetes, at $25 per month in 2023. This was one of the many pieces of legislation the Democratic-Farmer-Labor trifecta passed without the help of GOP lawmakers. In 2019, Demuth also voted against cost-sharing limits on insulin that would have reduced the price for consumers.

Demuth did vote in favor of an insulin pricing law in 2020 that allows people to acquire a one-time, 30-day supply of insulin for $35 on an emergency basis.

It’s unclear whether Demuth’s claim of voting to cap insulin prices in questionnaires from WCCO and AARP Minnesota is related to her 2020 vote regarding emergency insulin. Demuth’s campaign did not respond to the Reformer’s request for comment.

The 2020 law was called the Alec Smith Insulin Affordability Act after a 26-year-old man who was unable to afford the $1,300 monthly cost of insulin and supplies died in 2017. Smith aged out of his parents’ health insurance, and he rationed his insulin because of the cost. His family lobbied the Minnesota Legislature to support the bill.

When the 2020 law was first proposed, it included a cap on insulin co-pays, said Rep. Mike Howard, DFL-Richfield, who was the chief author of the legislation.

Republicans controlled the Minnesota Senate and Democrats controlled the House, and Howard said Republicans in 2020 did not want to pass the bill with the cap on insulin, so lawmakers had to compromise.

A cap only passed when Democrats took full control of state government.

Howard said it’s misleading for Demuth to claim she voted for an insulin cap, even if she voted in favor of one for emergency supplies. He said that’s not what an average person thinks when they read of a cap on insulin prices.

 

 

RawStory - red flags.

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-economy-2678093618/ 

In part -

Trump officials looked the other way as the president's allies apparently cashed in at everyday Americans' expense, an economic analyst warned.

Economics columnist Catherine Rampell laid out the case in a Thursday piece for The Bulwark, arguing that what she called "beet-red flags" around a string of suspiciously well-timed trades this spring were waved away by Trump appointees.

In March, roughly 15 minutes before Trump announced he was backing off threats against Iran, traders placed billions of dollars' worth of contracts betting oil prices would drop and the stock market would climb. They were right. Federal commodities regulators opened a preliminary review, but Bloomberg reported this week that a senior adviser to the Trump-appointed chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission ordered staff to pull back a referral that could have triggered a full investigation.

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Rampell stressed that the stakes reach far beyond Wall Street. If the trades were driven by inside knowledge, she wrote, "it would not be a victimless crime." Someone took the losing side of every winning bet, and she described those people as "the chumps whom the insiders got to steal money from."

"Sure, some of those chumps might have been rich, unsympathetic Wall Street traders," Rampell wrote, "but some of them might have been your pension fund."

She argued the episode is no one-off, calling such apparent wrongdoing "one of the defining characteristics of the Trump era." She pointed to Trump Media's push to sell Wall Street firms early access to the president's Truth Social posts, a Wall Street Journal report that a White House aide championing a stablecoin bill was collecting millions from the industry's biggest player through a company he co-owns, and a leaked list, published by the Washington Post, of donors who together gave some $330 million toward Trump's ballroom.

 

Readers are urged to try search = trump diesel merz

 Interestingly, the lead three hits, with images, were all Yahoo, here, here and here.

 https://www.dw.com/en/germany-news-merz-says-trumps-russia-diesel-deal-out-of-question-for-europe/live-79636427

 

Heather Cox Richardson.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehn-DsZkyaQ

 Trump going softer and softer on Russia, in its incursive aggression against Ukraine. Western Europe has a stake in things and Trump seems a problem to their interests into keeping Ukranian borders intact. Plus more.

The issues as she has described them should have an Internet presence readers can easily track down.

For now, this link is all that Crabgrass is posting on HCR's linked discussions.

This post is a 100% endorsement of the video. Watch it please. 

UPDATE: William Kristol is not a left leaning pundit. Sarah Longwell got a shout-out from HCR.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r25bQ0MfhKs Stylistically different from HCR, but parallels can be found.

FURTHER: search = ukraine russia russian money trump energy truce

Try that, and see if you see Trump putting a thumb on the scale against Ukraine - Europe. Yes/no? 

FURTHER: Try search = Medicare for All as an issue today 2026 election impact

Do you wonder why Michelle Toyfoya seems to recently have backslid on her Trump train ride? Cause and effect? Versus her ultimate likelihoods if she ever gets near to a U.S. Senate seat. Do you trust her Trump turn-away? One of conscience or convenience?

I do not credit that recent distancing very much. It is a subjective thing and opinions can range wide.

Superficial things and people do not impress me. I have Medicare and Social Security, they are not superficial, and I want to keep them. That factors into my voting. Not that anyone is directly pointing at me and saying "His Medicare and Social Security cost too much, so strip him." But feeling are feelings.

 

  

After listening to the MPR session with Peggy Flanagan, and Michelle Tafoya, there is the believability test that moves me more than much else.

 Tafoya says she will not be a rubberstatmp for Trump. I don't believe that. She says it, I doubt it.

What I do know - in my heart - Peggy Flanagan will not be a rubberstamp for Trump.

What else?

Is there anything else? Besides Medicare for All. Which Flanagan supports, Tafoya opposes.

Which opposition looks a lot like a rubberstamp for Trump's opposing widespread healthcare in the nation.

And I have already voted. For Flanagan. I trust Peggy. End of story.

 

EmptyWheel has a new post about litigation involving Kash Patel and the sealed Jack Smith Report II over Trump's taking classified records to Mar-a-Lago and storing them wrongly.

 I am still reading through Marcy Wheeler's post. It requires sharp attention to detail, so it is a slow read.

However, there is the appearance that this matter will grow legs. Should the blue wave happen, Congressional hearings may overelap matters Wheeler analyzes.

This is a shout out that while a complicated read, it is a ground floor possibility to understand things a Democratic majority Congress might investigate.

With Judge Cannon having embarged the Smith II item as secret, some detail might nonetheless emerge from this employment related litigation (wrongful FBI firings).

Bottom Line: It might avoid confusion later if interested readers check out:

 https://emptywheel.net/2026/10/16/the-kash-patel-impeachment-referral-inside-the-employment-lawsuit/

The Crabgrass guess is the situation will grow post-election legs. How big the legs? We wait to see.