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ReSister For Life Callyson's avatar

"Will this pass right now at this very moment? Probably not. But it’s a damn good idea to keep reminding people what they could have"

Again, again, and again, until they finally vote for it...

/FFS

Megan Macomber's avatar

Donald Trump. Linear Time. Two Great Tastes Th@ ^%*@#!)(*#4)#*)&$&$&+<?<?>...

"Sleepy Joe Biden...gave so much of the super high end away (FREE!) [and] didn't bother to replace it. Fortunately, I rebuilt the military in my first term...!!!"

Trump's actual Truth words.

ReSister For Life Callyson's avatar

1. High end WHAT?

2. He does know his first term was before Biden's, meaning he couldn't have "rebuilt" something that Biden did during his term in office, right? RIGHT?

3. What?

Zyxomma's avatar

Ta, Robyn. Everyone here knows I work in The Bronx at a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) where we must treat everyone, regardless of their ability to pay. I'm retiring this year, so I won't see the worst of what happens.

Bitter Scribe's avatar

This is a peripheral issue to the subject of this post, but I can't help it:

It makes me absolutely furious to see a piece of shit aged punk like Donald Trump be in a position to sneer at a courageous, virtuous, upright man like Zelenskyy.

God damn the stupid idiots who voted him in. Fucking morons.

clairence's avatar

"Now, that is the platonic ideal of a Republican plan: not merely far less effective and humane than the thing that would actually help would be, but also several times more expensive!"

>Republican plan also requires businesses collect as much tax money as possible.

clairence's avatar

He's challenging the world to war. He says we can kick your Dad's ass, and yours, and yours, and even yours! At the same time! With one hand tied behind our back!

TalentNotAutotune's avatar

I am sure that you, like me, focused on his use of the word "forever".

He's telling us how long he intends to fight wars.

Dudley Didwrong's avatar

The Orange Hemorrhoid likes wars because he wants to be a manly man--something he has never been and something that he has in common with Hegseth, Vance, and Bobby Brainworm, among others. So I expect that we will now be in a time of war as long as he is in office. It may also be his ticket to staying in office as the declaration of a national emergency will be easier to justify, at least in his tiny mind and those of his claque. Yes, we are screwed. Why do you even ask?

"M"'s avatar

"On Monday, Donald Trump excitedly announced on Truth Social that he has stockpiled enough weaponry to allow the United States to fight wars forever and ever and ever, just like all of us definitely want. “More forever wars!” people are always saying."

This is not a new sentiment -- but if Donald's lips are flapping he's usually lying

Also Rep Adam Smith, who IINM is the Ranking Member on House Armed Services, was already on with Lawrence last night saying armed forces' armories (or whatever they're calling them) are running out of supplies ALREADY

I don't think anybody who was paying attention would've thought it'd be any different under Pete "His Own Mama Said He's Trash" Hagueseth, though

PaulDietzel's avatar

I know I've bored you all with this before but I'm going to do it again. I do my doctorin' with the VA. Back in 2014 President Obama signed a law that gave us VA customers the opportunity to have some procedures - scans, ultrasounds, colonoscopies and stuff like that carried out at local community hospitals if a trip to a VA facility is too far away or if the VA facility is backed up or heck, even if the patient doesn't find it "convenient" to go to the VA. Nowadays it seems that the VA is even "assuming" you'd rather go to your local rather than to them and are almost automatically scheduling it that way. I take advantage of the "Community Care" option whenever I can just on the odd chance that my local hospital might be around longer if they get enough VA business. I love the care that I receive at the VA and I think the world of the Doctors, the CRNPs and everyone else that I deal with at the VA but I also know important a local hospital is to a small hometown.

Baconzgood's avatar

Not too hip on hospitals closing. But that's just me.

GH Swell's avatar

Point of clarification, apologies for actual comment but, Wonkette summarized the bill a bit too much I think. If you follow the link for the quote of the bill points, it sounds like the $3,000 happens the first year only, and the tax [and other programs] happen over a decade with the tax recurring and raising $4.4 trillion.

Which also implies that even this doesn’t actually make the billionaires cease to exist, presumably excessive wealth grows unless your name is Donald Trump or you sell pillows. Why not 10%?

Whale Chowder's avatar

You want to shear the sheep, not scalp them.

IOW, it's counterproductive to make them too mad and call up their pet senators to put a stop to it.

Yes of course they're going to put a stop to this, may as well make it 100% on wealth over a billion dollars, they'll never see this tax.

* sigh*

GH Swell's avatar

Eh, they’ll be fine. Even 10% x 10 years isn’t going to eliminate all billionaires. They’re not the sheep. A lot of that money was/is/will be made by scalping the rest of us. We’re definitely the sheep if we’re too afraid they might call up their pet senator.

Yeah I realize this is all hypothetical. A better long term solution to paying for people’s healthcare would involve single payer healthcare as well.

ShrillKitty's avatar

God: "What Great Question do you seek to explore in this life?"

Me, evidently: "I'd like to know what, objectively, is the most embarrassing time in the entire span of human history for a whole major world culture. Like, the biggest, longest, most cringe-inducing collective facepalm ever."

God: "You're ... um ... sure about that? Okay, well ... here goes ..."

Baconzgood's avatar

God makes mistakes. Baconzgood is proof of that

Ask ex-Mrs Baconz...or my kids..or my friends...or my....(etc)

marxalot's avatar

the money you earn with your labor is in the pockets of men who have never broken a sweat in their lives

Hooker P Tape skipping dipshit's avatar

Elon sweats like a pig when he's tripping on ketamine.

Sk8erChoi's avatar

Or when he's got another bout of the Ozempic shakes.

Hamilton & The Crew's avatar

I can just imagine the stench. {{{convulses}}}

Our_Man_In_Redneckistan's avatar

OT: Thom Tillis just celebrated his upcoming retirement by publicly slapping Corey’s dicklet out of Noem’s mouth during the ongoing oversight hearing. I haven’t seen a Senator humiliate a government witness that brutally since John DeFran almost made a Cuomo stooge cry.

Underdawg23's avatar

Just saw it. The look on her face was, well, the same stupid look she always has.

CzechJournalists's avatar

now i gotta go look. . .

SkeptiKC's avatar

At this point we take what we can get.

And that was DAMNED satisfying.

Dudley Didwrong's avatar

Yeah. He had to start with a blast at Biden, but then the fun began. If Noem had brought a shovel with her she'd have been digging furiously through the floor for cover. When Tillis and (see below) Comer jump on a R cabinet member with both feet you gotta know she's standout shit floating in the toilet.

Fifth Dentist's avatar

I read that Cornpone Comer accused her of lying and got into it with her.

Hamilton & The Crew's avatar

Damn! Who starched his dick?

Fifth Dentist's avatar

What I read was that Comer accused her of blaming Stephen Miller for her initial statement about Pretti being a terrorizing terrorist bent on mayhem.

Noem denied that she had done that and said it was the fake news media's unsubstantiated report.

Comer busted her by saying that she was "on the record" saying that everything she's done came from PAB and Miller.

GH Swell's avatar

Same person what ironed it?

Hamilton & The Crew's avatar

It's irresponsible not to speculate.

Baconzgood's avatar

So Barron Trump is 19. He hasn't enlisted? Maybe bone spurs and lacking genitals is genetic.

Fifth Dentist's avatar

Junior can't go. It would take a fleet of C-130s flying around the clock to keep him supplied with coke.

Hooker P Tape skipping dipshit's avatar

The White House is claiming Barron is too tall.

tek's avatar

That's called the Bovino Rule

HarryButtle, degenerate artist's avatar

You must be only this tall to be a WARFIGHTER.

Resource NW's avatar

No one taller than hic' steth. OK, no one taller than it when it is not falling down inebriated. Standing inebriated is OK for the dick measuring.

Baconzgood's avatar

I tried all armed forces..they wouldn't accept me (too my shame). Somthing about a heart murmur

Sk8erChoi's avatar

CNN is re-posting it, uncritically.

Sk8erChoi's avatar

And yet somehow MAGA parents (or at least aunts and uncles) who actually lost children who fought overseas will be like "being in the first family IS service!"

Snarfyguy's avatar

The military is for suckers and losers, haven't you heard?

Baconzgood's avatar

Im 4-H. I tried. But there is this thing about my heart. Even the airforce wouldn't let me in.

Thats a NAVY joke.

gallbladder's avatar

I mean, what the fuck ever became of "love of country" and all of that other patriotic bullshit?

Dudley Didwrong's avatar

The Orange Hemorrhoid loves his country so much that he sends the children of others to battle. And the MAGA cry "Amen!"

ShrillKitty's avatar

Trumpenchilde will love the country by not being a complete liability to any unit he would be assigned to

I Stedman's avatar

Bone spurs. Duh. Apparently they run in the family.

gallbladder's avatar

Congenital draft dodging.

aktlib101's avatar

It's us vs. them, and both cannot survive.

Louis D Brandeis, former SC Justice, said this almost a century ago:

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both"

Land Shark 🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar

And he has a university named after him. I don't think we'll EVER see Musk, Zuckerfuck, or Hegsbreath universities.

Fender Deluxe's avatar

They gotta go back and edit that line in “Star Trek: Discovery” where Tilly says that she attended “Elon Musk High School.”

Aquaman, Real Estate Investor.'s avatar

The hospital in SF is I'm sure double checking when they can take his name off the building.