"Then, the day after Christmas, a conservative YouTube 23 year old influencer (propagandist) named Nick Shirley posted a widely-seen video highlighting shuttered day care centers and Somali daycare workers refusing him entry." This right-wing hit job by grifter Shirley has been debunked. He was refused entry to daycare centers because workers present did so for safety reasons. Strangers generally aren't allowed in daycares with children present. Some were closed on certain days, not permanently.
Senator Rick Scott is just one example of the lack of accountability for fraud. In 1987 he founded and was CEO of Columbia/HCA (after a merger). In 1997 Columbia/HCA was convicted on 14 counts of defrauding Medicare and other federal health care programs, and paid $1.7 billion to settle the claims. See his Wikipedia entry.
Instead of being shamed and shunned he was elected governor of Florida, then to the Senate. His net worth is estimated at $550 million; he's the richest Senator.
But the corporations ripping off the government couldn't get away with it if congress wasn't being paid handsomely to look the other way! The biggest fraudsters in America are corporate lobbyists who patrol the halls of congress with pocketsful of fat checks made out to every member!
Sadly, the oligarchs and billionaire tech bros rule. Here's the email I sent to my invisible Republican Congressman who has been in the House since 1981 and never holds a Town Hall:
Dear Congressman Smith,
How much longer will you and your Republican colleagues tolerate the blatant lies and lunatic ravings of your failing President instead of releasing ALL of the Epstein files with only the victims names redacted as you and your colleagues demanded that his administration do by December 19, 2025? How about having DoJ investigate the officer who shot Renee Good instead of demanding investigations of everyone but the perp? Here are just a sampling of Trump’s Monday night rants on the misnamed Truth Social:
Trump had “a very good telephone call with Mark Rutte, the Secretary General of NATO, concerning Greenland. I agreed to a meeting of the various parties in Davos, Switzerland. As I expressed to everyone, very plainly, Greenland is imperative for National and World Security. There can be no going back—On that, everyone agrees!” Shortly after, the account posted an AI image of world leaders sitting in front of Trump’s desk in the Oval Office with a large picture of North America entirely covered with stars and stripes to indicate American ownership—including Canada, as well as Greenland. The flag also covers Venezuela. It then posted an image of Trump with Vice President J.D. Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio next to him as he stands on what looks to be an arctic landscape, holding a U.S. flag waving above a sign that reads: “GREENLAND—US TERRITORY EST. 2026.”
The account posted: “No single person, or President, has done more for NATO than President Donald J. Trump. If I didn’t come along there would be no NATO right now!!! It would have been in the ash heap of History. Sad, but TRUE!!! President DJT” Really?
It claimed that the people resisting ICE violence in Minnesota are “agitators and insurrectionists. These people are professionals! No person acts the way they act. They are highly trained to scream, rant, and rave, like lunatics, in a certain manner, just like they are doing. They are troublemakers who should be thrown in jail, or thrown out of the Country.” The first to go, he said, should be Democratic governor Tim Walz and Democratic representative Ilhan Omar, both of whom he called corrupt. Later, the account insisted that Democratic governor of California Gavin Newsom is also corrupt. Evidence? None
In his marathon press conference Tuesday, he insisted that agents from ICE are not arresting and detaining American citizens, even though they breaking into the home of U.S. citizen ChongLy “Scott” Thao without a warrant, holding him at gunpoint, marching him outside in subfreezing weather in just sandals and underwear, driving him around for an hour or two before dropping him back at his home, and then lying that members of his family are on the registered sex offender list. Did our eyes not see it?
As the longest serving member of the House, please demand an unbiased assessment of the President’s mental state.
"Then, the day after Christmas, a conservative YouTube 23 year old influencer (propagandist) named Nick Shirley posted a widely-seen video highlighting shuttered day care centers and Somali daycare workers refusing him entry." This right-wing hit job by grifter Shirley has been debunked. He was refused entry to daycare centers because workers present did so for safety reasons. Strangers generally aren't allowed in daycares with children present. Some were closed on certain days, not permanently.
https://19thnews.org/2026/01/child-care-fraud-minnesota-fact-check/
Senator Rick Scott is just one example of the lack of accountability for fraud. In 1987 he founded and was CEO of Columbia/HCA (after a merger). In 1997 Columbia/HCA was convicted on 14 counts of defrauding Medicare and other federal health care programs, and paid $1.7 billion to settle the claims. See his Wikipedia entry.
Instead of being shamed and shunned he was elected governor of Florida, then to the Senate. His net worth is estimated at $550 million; he's the richest Senator.
But the corporations ripping off the government couldn't get away with it if congress wasn't being paid handsomely to look the other way! The biggest fraudsters in America are corporate lobbyists who patrol the halls of congress with pocketsful of fat checks made out to every member!
Sadly, the oligarchs and billionaire tech bros rule. Here's the email I sent to my invisible Republican Congressman who has been in the House since 1981 and never holds a Town Hall:
Dear Congressman Smith,
How much longer will you and your Republican colleagues tolerate the blatant lies and lunatic ravings of your failing President instead of releasing ALL of the Epstein files with only the victims names redacted as you and your colleagues demanded that his administration do by December 19, 2025? How about having DoJ investigate the officer who shot Renee Good instead of demanding investigations of everyone but the perp? Here are just a sampling of Trump’s Monday night rants on the misnamed Truth Social:
Trump had “a very good telephone call with Mark Rutte, the Secretary General of NATO, concerning Greenland. I agreed to a meeting of the various parties in Davos, Switzerland. As I expressed to everyone, very plainly, Greenland is imperative for National and World Security. There can be no going back—On that, everyone agrees!” Shortly after, the account posted an AI image of world leaders sitting in front of Trump’s desk in the Oval Office with a large picture of North America entirely covered with stars and stripes to indicate American ownership—including Canada, as well as Greenland. The flag also covers Venezuela. It then posted an image of Trump with Vice President J.D. Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio next to him as he stands on what looks to be an arctic landscape, holding a U.S. flag waving above a sign that reads: “GREENLAND—US TERRITORY EST. 2026.”
The account posted: “No single person, or President, has done more for NATO than President Donald J. Trump. If I didn’t come along there would be no NATO right now!!! It would have been in the ash heap of History. Sad, but TRUE!!! President DJT” Really?
It claimed that the people resisting ICE violence in Minnesota are “agitators and insurrectionists. These people are professionals! No person acts the way they act. They are highly trained to scream, rant, and rave, like lunatics, in a certain manner, just like they are doing. They are troublemakers who should be thrown in jail, or thrown out of the Country.” The first to go, he said, should be Democratic governor Tim Walz and Democratic representative Ilhan Omar, both of whom he called corrupt. Later, the account insisted that Democratic governor of California Gavin Newsom is also corrupt. Evidence? None
In his marathon press conference Tuesday, he insisted that agents from ICE are not arresting and detaining American citizens, even though they breaking into the home of U.S. citizen ChongLy “Scott” Thao without a warrant, holding him at gunpoint, marching him outside in subfreezing weather in just sandals and underwear, driving him around for an hour or two before dropping him back at his home, and then lying that members of his family are on the registered sex offender list. Did our eyes not see it?
As the longest serving member of the House, please demand an unbiased assessment of the President’s mental state.
Sincerely,
John Dalton