Nothing says we Republicans LOVE our military than cancelling SNAP benefits for veterans without a 20 hour per week documented work requirement!!!! And kicking HOMELESS people off of SNAP??? They are HOMELESS!! How in the ??? are they supposed to "work" 20 hours per week and document it, if they are homeless??? I let homeless people live at my farm when I had it. They were INCAPABLE of meeting the 20hr/week requirement. That is WHY they were HOMELESS. What is wrong with you Republicans?? What do you Senators and Representatives believe will happen when these SNAP benefits are cut? These people won't just go away and die. They will get food one way or another. Maybe they will come knocking on your front doors for food like people did during the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl.
Good lord. These are some evil people. We were THAT CLOSE to Kamala and normalcy. Instead there's destruction of healthcare, and Icestapo agents running wild, kidnapping anybody brown. Maybe people will realize how fragile democracy is, and stop assuming there'll be a blue tsunami midterm.
I grew up in the rust belt where there was a relative paucity of public land, so the issue probably wouldn't have resonated with me had I stayed in Ohio. I currently live in Idaho, where about 1/3 of the state that is public land. Idahoans may be regressive conservatives, generally speaking, but they love their public land. Selling off public lands would go over like a lead balloon around here.
I have this funny feeling that "Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth McDounough" (yes, I cut and pasted that) is very soon going to be ruled out of order - or yeeted out and replaced.
"Remember, the “Byrd Rule” for reconciliation bills limits them to measures involving taxing and spending"
What, exactly, will make the RINOs pay any attention to a rule that will limit their immense asshattery? Laws haven't stopped them, the Constitution hasn't stopped them, nor has the Judiciary. A surprising large number of judges have tried to make MAGAdroids obey the law, decisions the RINOs have flat out ignored, twisted decisions to claim victory (the Supremes voted 9-0 on a decision to force the gubmint to bring Mr Abrego Garcia back to the US, which the RINOs claimed was 9-0 in their favor), or running to SCOTUS every time they don't like a judge's opinion (and with the exception of Abrego Garcia and a few other cases the Roberts' Court has found in favor of the illegal, extralegal, and unconstitutional actions the current regime is trying to implement via Executive Diktat). When push comes to shove I expect the RINOs to ignore the Congressional Parliamentarian and approve the reconciliation bill (and I doubt we'll see any justice from the SCOTUS justices who will vote 6-3 or 5-4 in favor of the Fulvous Fuckwad because... fear).
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"the brainchild of Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) who says he wants to give it another try, this time just auctioning off BLM land near cities and towns"
But only of lands around cities and towns with a blue government, lands around red towns and cities will remain sacrosanct since we can't deny the residents of these cities access to federal lands that provide them some R&R. Lee (R-ShitForBrains) knows who [read: MAGA voluntarily and the rest of us via extortion] is going to pay the gubmint bills for the creation of general chaos targeting the libs and every other demographic the RINOs oppose.
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"It’s really kind of impressive how many “extraneous” environmental measures Republicans put into the bill"
To the RINOs, these provisions aren't extraneous; they know, deep down, that stand-alone fucking of the environment will piss off enough voters that the asshats might not get reelected. IMO, a majority of people would prefer to be able to drink relatively clean water, breathe relatively clean air, and vacation in locales that don't resemble the Yellowstone Sulfur Pools.
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"But the bill can and does eliminate funding for new EV delivery trucks, forcing USPS to buy gas guzzlers instead as it modernizes its vehicle fleet."
There is one key factor that the cost equation seems to ignore. USPS regulations require that delivery vehicles must be turned off each and every time a delivery person steps out, no matter for how long. While I can't find a number, this policy must cause a constant burnout of starters -- which aren't really cheap;
All MAGA world will hear is cheaper deadly weapons and tax cuts. They will absolutely not read the fine print that what’s in the bill disproportionately takes food and money away from the poorest to pay for the tax cuts which actually don’t lower their taxes at all. That their cost of living will increase far outpacing inflation just so those poor billionaires can buy another vacation home in Fiji. Did I mention that the poorest people that rely on those programs they want to cut live in ruby red states?
They arealdy bought the White House. And most of the congressional republicans. Even though musk is the only one talked about because of the outrageous amount he spent to buy himself a president that would give him all the contracts he wants with zero transparency. The NRA, big oil, and tech billionaires are already running the government from the inside. !7 billionaires in the administration proves it.
He was a fearless voice and a key creator of the Peace Corps, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the Great Society legislation. Not all of his work for LBJ was exemplary and eventually they parted ways.
His independent media work and documentaries for the Bill Moyer Journal, Frontline and NOW stand the test of time.
While Morgan told the outlet she did not vote in the previous presidential election, her family has supported Trump in the past and now feels betrayed.
“Everyone feels like a fool and regrets the decision. I personally didn’t vote in the last election, and neither did my parents. At this point, I believe there are bad people on the left and the right,” Gardner said.
Fuck Off. Betrayed? Blame both sides? Fuck you. How do you think the people kidnapped and sent to CECOT in El Salvador feel?
>>“Everyone feels like a fool and regrets the decision. I personally didn’t vote in the last election, and neither did my parents. At this point, I believe there are bad people on the left and the right,” Gardner said.
Can't criticize the Trump regime without getting some bothsiderism in.
What can I say? This was all on the ballot but there wasn't the clout to be had in listening to the Harris/Walz ticket and *everyone* on down, including AOC and Bernie who implored everyone to not throw away the transformational progressive legislation.
Now we just have to hope and pray that the incompetence of all the different factions of the unreconstructed Republican Party won't allow them to come to an agreement. Or somehow (as what happens sometimes) the pricktator torpedoes his own bill by running his mouth. Then again the accountability would only go to Democrats anyway.
Of course a lot of Americans are all for this. Knowing that many people will suffer feels great because many of those people will be of the vulnerable minorities they hate. And sticking it to universities makes sure that there are fewer havens for the women with "danger hair" who won't fuck chuds, of course. Or safe havens for trans people.
And yes it's hurting them too. Yes, it's destroying the "seed corn," but in the end as long as Black, queer, any minority they hate is dying face down in a ditch it's all worth it.
My liberal friends and family in Kentucky are screaming to their neighbors that 35 hospitals are likely to close in this Bullshit Billionaire Benefit Bill passes. And not just dinky rural hospitals. Long established facilities in towns of 30-50K population.
“The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of whom will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn’t even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it.”
They’re actually a (little) useful if your nutjob neighbors constantly "go a shootin out back”. They cut back the sound (to “only” 120-130db) but definitely don’t sound like in the movies where it makes them whisper quiet.
Because the HOA bans loud noises after 9pm and it allows righteous 2A self defence freaks to practice their shooting to protect the neighborhood from nonwhite people.
I am sure that firing the Parliamentarian will be the next EO to come out of the polygraph machine.
Nothing says we Republicans LOVE our military than cancelling SNAP benefits for veterans without a 20 hour per week documented work requirement!!!! And kicking HOMELESS people off of SNAP??? They are HOMELESS!! How in the ??? are they supposed to "work" 20 hours per week and document it, if they are homeless??? I let homeless people live at my farm when I had it. They were INCAPABLE of meeting the 20hr/week requirement. That is WHY they were HOMELESS. What is wrong with you Republicans?? What do you Senators and Representatives believe will happen when these SNAP benefits are cut? These people won't just go away and die. They will get food one way or another. Maybe they will come knocking on your front doors for food like people did during the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl.
Ta, Dok. May it never pass.
Good lord. These are some evil people. We were THAT CLOSE to Kamala and normalcy. Instead there's destruction of healthcare, and Icestapo agents running wild, kidnapping anybody brown. Maybe people will realize how fragile democracy is, and stop assuming there'll be a blue tsunami midterm.
Their eagerness to destroy the Pacific Coast with oil rigs is especially disgusting.
I grew up in the rust belt where there was a relative paucity of public land, so the issue probably wouldn't have resonated with me had I stayed in Ohio. I currently live in Idaho, where about 1/3 of the state that is public land. Idahoans may be regressive conservatives, generally speaking, but they love their public land. Selling off public lands would go over like a lead balloon around here.
I have this funny feeling that "Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth McDounough" (yes, I cut and pasted that) is very soon going to be ruled out of order - or yeeted out and replaced.
The fights among Republicans lawmakers make me nostalgic for the days when Democrats and Republicans would hammer out compromise bills.
"Remember, the “Byrd Rule” for reconciliation bills limits them to measures involving taxing and spending"
What, exactly, will make the RINOs pay any attention to a rule that will limit their immense asshattery? Laws haven't stopped them, the Constitution hasn't stopped them, nor has the Judiciary. A surprising large number of judges have tried to make MAGAdroids obey the law, decisions the RINOs have flat out ignored, twisted decisions to claim victory (the Supremes voted 9-0 on a decision to force the gubmint to bring Mr Abrego Garcia back to the US, which the RINOs claimed was 9-0 in their favor), or running to SCOTUS every time they don't like a judge's opinion (and with the exception of Abrego Garcia and a few other cases the Roberts' Court has found in favor of the illegal, extralegal, and unconstitutional actions the current regime is trying to implement via Executive Diktat). When push comes to shove I expect the RINOs to ignore the Congressional Parliamentarian and approve the reconciliation bill (and I doubt we'll see any justice from the SCOTUS justices who will vote 6-3 or 5-4 in favor of the Fulvous Fuckwad because... fear).
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"the brainchild of Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) who says he wants to give it another try, this time just auctioning off BLM land near cities and towns"
But only of lands around cities and towns with a blue government, lands around red towns and cities will remain sacrosanct since we can't deny the residents of these cities access to federal lands that provide them some R&R. Lee (R-ShitForBrains) knows who [read: MAGA voluntarily and the rest of us via extortion] is going to pay the gubmint bills for the creation of general chaos targeting the libs and every other demographic the RINOs oppose.
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"It’s really kind of impressive how many “extraneous” environmental measures Republicans put into the bill"
To the RINOs, these provisions aren't extraneous; they know, deep down, that stand-alone fucking of the environment will piss off enough voters that the asshats might not get reelected. IMO, a majority of people would prefer to be able to drink relatively clean water, breathe relatively clean air, and vacation in locales that don't resemble the Yellowstone Sulfur Pools.
-----
"But the bill can and does eliminate funding for new EV delivery trucks, forcing USPS to buy gas guzzlers instead as it modernizes its vehicle fleet."
There is one key factor that the cost equation seems to ignore. USPS regulations require that delivery vehicles must be turned off each and every time a delivery person steps out, no matter for how long. While I can't find a number, this policy must cause a constant burnout of starters -- which aren't really cheap;
> "A brand-new starter can range from $80 to over $350. For a qualified mechanic to replace or rebuild your starter, you can expect to pay between $150 and over $1,100." https://www.autozone.com/diy/starter/starter-replacement-cost
--or--
> "◾ Aftermarket starter: $100 – $250+
◾ OEM starter: $150 – $400+
◾ Labor costs: $100 – $600+
◾ Most common cost ranges: between $250 – $1,000+" https://www.lastchanceautorepairs.com/how-much-does-starter-replacement-cost/ [a local auto repair company in IL]
fnord
The French found guillotines to be particularly effective.
And if my thought-dreams could be seen
They’d probably put my head in a guillotine….
All MAGA world will hear is cheaper deadly weapons and tax cuts. They will absolutely not read the fine print that what’s in the bill disproportionately takes food and money away from the poorest to pay for the tax cuts which actually don’t lower their taxes at all. That their cost of living will increase far outpacing inflation just so those poor billionaires can buy another vacation home in Fiji. Did I mention that the poorest people that rely on those programs they want to cut live in ruby red states?
They arealdy bought the White House. And most of the congressional republicans. Even though musk is the only one talked about because of the outrageous amount he spent to buy himself a president that would give him all the contracts he wants with zero transparency. The NRA, big oil, and tech billionaires are already running the government from the inside. !7 billionaires in the administration proves it.
I wouldn’t mind if it was another vacation home in Fiji. They want to buy another Senator.
Did Fukui make it back yet?
Was he gone?
with the shit on *his* phone??
Hopefully he had the good sense to ditch his phone in the plane’s head.
smoking lamp
is
liiiiiiiii
The blaze flickers forth.
...and all is right with the world for a brief moment ;]
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Hee!
it was inadvertent
but then I liked it
so I kept it:]
Bill Moyers died. Probably of disgust.
He was a fearless voice and a key creator of the Peace Corps, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the Great Society legislation. Not all of his work for LBJ was exemplary and eventually they parted ways.
His independent media work and documentaries for the Bill Moyer Journal, Frontline and NOW stand the test of time.
RIP. Here's hoping he never got stuck watching one of Reichstag Rita's pressers.
Who could blame him?
Republicans. For everything.
RIP
He's hurting the wrong people again. Sad.
𝗪𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗦𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗦𝗵𝗲 𝗪𝗮𝘀 ‘𝗕𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗱𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗱’ 𝗔𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗜𝗖𝗘 𝗗𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝗛𝗲𝗿 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽-𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗛𝘂𝘀𝗯𝗮𝗻𝗱
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/morgan-ribvar-karimi-iran-ice-detained_n_685d69b2e4b0bd0253107774
No favoritism at least.
A stunning side-swipe and swift kick.
This is just fucking WRONG, dammit.
Awww. Poor things. FAFO.
She's unequivocally vile, but this "system" that's chewed up and spit out her spouse is a few steps worse.
This is just twisted.
I will shut up now.
While Morgan told the outlet she did not vote in the previous presidential election, her family has supported Trump in the past and now feels betrayed.
“Everyone feels like a fool and regrets the decision. I personally didn’t vote in the last election, and neither did my parents. At this point, I believe there are bad people on the left and the right,” Gardner said.
Fuck Off. Betrayed? Blame both sides? Fuck you. How do you think the people kidnapped and sent to CECOT in El Salvador feel?
GMTA
From the wife
>>“Everyone feels like a fool and regrets the decision. I personally didn’t vote in the last election, and neither did my parents. At this point, I believe there are bad people on the left and the right,” Gardner said.
Can't criticize the Trump regime without getting some bothsiderism in.
Of. fucking. course.
There is no limit to the hunger and palate of fascism. None.
The party of family values straight up stealing a husband from his pregnant wife.
This is a really sad story.
Unintended results... Who knew?
What can I say? This was all on the ballot but there wasn't the clout to be had in listening to the Harris/Walz ticket and *everyone* on down, including AOC and Bernie who implored everyone to not throw away the transformational progressive legislation.
Now we just have to hope and pray that the incompetence of all the different factions of the unreconstructed Republican Party won't allow them to come to an agreement. Or somehow (as what happens sometimes) the pricktator torpedoes his own bill by running his mouth. Then again the accountability would only go to Democrats anyway.
Of course a lot of Americans are all for this. Knowing that many people will suffer feels great because many of those people will be of the vulnerable minorities they hate. And sticking it to universities makes sure that there are fewer havens for the women with "danger hair" who won't fuck chuds, of course. Or safe havens for trans people.
And yes it's hurting them too. Yes, it's destroying the "seed corn," but in the end as long as Black, queer, any minority they hate is dying face down in a ditch it's all worth it.
My liberal friends and family in Kentucky are screaming to their neighbors that 35 hospitals are likely to close in this Bullshit Billionaire Benefit Bill passes. And not just dinky rural hospitals. Long established facilities in towns of 30-50K population.
“The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of whom will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn’t even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it.”
Excuse me, but could someone explain:
Why exactly would someone need a gun silencer?
So I don’t hurt my ears during target practice in my suburban back yard.
Because they stopped selling the kind of lawnmower muffler that did the job at 1/10 the price.
Tacticool. YouTube is full of that macho nonsense.
What if they're in a library?
Shh!
Clandestine murder.
Some people have noisy neighbors.
to shoot a mime
I never liked Marcel Marceau.
"He died as he lived, trapped in an invisible box."
They’re actually a (little) useful if your nutjob neighbors constantly "go a shootin out back”. They cut back the sound (to “only” 120-130db) but definitely don’t sound like in the movies where it makes them whisper quiet.
Because the HOA bans loud noises after 9pm and it allows righteous 2A self defence freaks to practice their shooting to protect the neighborhood from nonwhite people.
/S
To make mob and cartel hits tax deductable.
Yeah, same reason my mom gave me a mute for me to use when I practiced my viola in middle school.
Are mutes OK with being given away to middle school students?
Well, they didn't say anything, so...
"Shhh! Be vewy vewy quiet. We're hunting wabbits."