There seem to be enough republicans who are smart enough to know that passing that bill will probably hurt them as much, or more than, it hurts the Dems, and hopefully that piece of trash is really and truly dead.
When the 50 plus year history of your political party is a dedication to performance over substance, the idea that voting for a bill equals something that you want to achieve seems quaint.
When there seems no other option, they think, there's always the meaningless gesture. It has the bonus of wasting time, which is paid for by the American taxpayer.
None of these Republicans really care. If they did, they wouldn't be criticizing "paid influencers" unleashed by Trump. They would be criticizing the man who unleashed the paid influencers.
They deserve to suffer what little they suffer. They chose to elect Trump and then to keep him in charge of them and elect him again.
While I don't mind either way, I'm hoping that this individual plant is going to have deep red flowers. They sometimes are more orange-red, which also looks very nice against the silver foliage.
The first year, the larger Sinningia species look like any other weed. It takes about 2-3 growth seasons until their habit changes to this short stem with two pairs of leaves and flowers.
They're really easy to grow from seed, and it bugs me that it's often very hard to find these plants. S. leucotricha is fairly easy to find but other species are almost impossible.
I'm *so* going to join the Gesneriad Society again to get access to their seed bank, which is fantastic.
This, increasingly, seems to be a case of, "You haven't trapped me in here with you. You've trapped yourself in here with me. Good luck."
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Iranian official tells the world to get ready for oil prices to rise to $200 a barrel
A spokesman for Iran’s military warned that oil prices could more than double in the near future if the U.S. and Israel continue their attacks on the country.
Oil prices have been on a roller coaster in the 12 days since the war started, at one point rising to nearly $120 a barrel before settling at $90 a barrel, which is still well above where prices stood before the conflict.
“Get ready for oil to be $200 a barrel, because the oil price depends on regional security, which you have destabilized,” Iranian spokesperson Ebrahim Zolfaqari said on Wednesday in comments directed at the United States.
Somehow, I think Iran is going to hurt trump worse than either the Epstein files or ICE murdering people, including US citizens. If this weren't going to kill so many people, I would get the popcorn and just watch.
China is happy to sell them more shit and I refuse to believe Iran has lost all AA ability...may be waiting for invasion to bring out the reverse engineered Stingers...good against Chinooks...
I hate to continue bitching about this, but fuck me sideways with Obama's time machine...had Biden ever spouted a millionth of the unfettered senile horseshit that comes out of Grandpa Bigot McRapes in a single day, the entire press community would be demanding that he resigns immediately.
There's actually a WSJ editorial today blaming Biden for too much draw down on the strategic oil reserve. I only read enough to get the gist, I was too annoyed to finish it.
The Fourth Circuit ruled that trans adults can be denied gender affirming care, and the state can force them to “appreciate their sex.” Skermetti applies to kids, but, shocker, it wasn’t about child safety.
Threats to stop all other legislation until voter suppression is passed, whether by the House not considering it or Trump not signing it, are empty ones.
Stop WHAT other legislation? No useful or meaningful legislation ever gets passed now at it is. Everything Trump does, he does through "executive orders."
Memo to Congress: You can't stop working if you never started.
Congress cannot take action because Mike Johnson has not heard about the things yet. It's news to him, what people are talking about, because these are not the things he has been hearing, but he encourages others to look into it.
"I don't know about that. I didn't see that. I didn't read that. I didn't hear that. I am completely insensible outside this chamber, wherein I am delivered to my office every day bundled in bubble wrap, blindfolded and with noise-canceling headphones."
What else could it possibly take to just impeach the dumb mother fucker?
What it always does: a majority vote in the House, trial in the Senate, and a 2/3 vote of senators to convict.
That's to impeach and remove from office.
I know what you mean, but the high bar set by our constitution protects saints as it does dumb motherfuckers.
Why is nobody pointing out that a president failing to sign bills is no threat at all.
If a president does not sign a bill passed by both houses of Congress within 10 days, it automatically becomes a law.
There seem to be enough republicans who are smart enough to know that passing that bill will probably hurt them as much, or more than, it hurts the Dems, and hopefully that piece of trash is really and truly dead.
When the 50 plus year history of your political party is a dedication to performance over substance, the idea that voting for a bill equals something that you want to achieve seems quaint.
When there seems no other option, they think, there's always the meaningless gesture. It has the bonus of wasting time, which is paid for by the American taxpayer.
None of these Republicans really care. If they did, they wouldn't be criticizing "paid influencers" unleashed by Trump. They would be criticizing the man who unleashed the paid influencers.
They deserve to suffer what little they suffer. They chose to elect Trump and then to keep him in charge of them and elect him again.
The paid far-right commenters that were originally spawned by the GOP.
New post up
Two Blonde Women read Trump and his cronies for Filth :
https://youtu.be/JZnQbdF7Hts?si=Q-Bx_V8gQtE4OsO8
She calls them "Tweedle Dim Fuck...." ahhahhhahaah
BREAKING: SAVE America has made Mike Johnson to cause Covenant Eyes to crash!
"Podiums. 17-old year old podiums. The best!"
Trump should know about gender affirming cosmetic mutilization since he had that scalp surgery. You don’t hear him complaining about it, though.
Gender affirming care is only ever acceptable if it appeals to straight men. Face lifts and boob jobs? Yes!
Do you think he paid for Ivanka and Melanie’s “kidneys” aka gender affirming care?
Ahem....I believe that is more accurately filed under gender REfirming care.
Particularly after a kid or two.
Fun potatoes > mutilization
Bagels found a Sinningia leucotricha tuber. https://bsky.app/profile/bagelsofdoom.bsky.social/post/3mgsjdqfvbk2a
The fully grown plant: https://www.burwur.net/sinns/4lucMain.htm
Someone finally crossed a cat with a flower?
Ha! This isn't the hairiest plant by a *very* longshot, though.
Beautiful!
They call it "Queen of the Abyss", which I always found super cool.
Suffice to say that the name enormously appeals to this goth/punk matron with a skull collection.
100%!
While I don't mind either way, I'm hoping that this individual plant is going to have deep red flowers. They sometimes are more orange-red, which also looks very nice against the silver foliage.
That's gorgeous!
Saves me starting it from seed and waiting about 2-3 years. :D
OMG, that long?!?!?
The first year, the larger Sinningia species look like any other weed. It takes about 2-3 growth seasons until their habit changes to this short stem with two pairs of leaves and flowers.
They're really easy to grow from seed, and it bugs me that it's often very hard to find these plants. S. leucotricha is fairly easy to find but other species are almost impossible.
I'm *so* going to join the Gesneriad Society again to get access to their seed bank, which is fantastic.
Trump wants out.
Iran does not seem to be inclined to allow it.
It's also striking Tel-Aviv on the daily, too.
This, increasingly, seems to be a case of, "You haven't trapped me in here with you. You've trapped yourself in here with me. Good luck."
***
Iranian official tells the world to get ready for oil prices to rise to $200 a barrel
A spokesman for Iran’s military warned that oil prices could more than double in the near future if the U.S. and Israel continue their attacks on the country.
Oil prices have been on a roller coaster in the 12 days since the war started, at one point rising to nearly $120 a barrel before settling at $90 a barrel, which is still well above where prices stood before the conflict.
“Get ready for oil to be $200 a barrel, because the oil price depends on regional security, which you have destabilized,” Iranian spokesperson Ebrahim Zolfaqari said on Wednesday in comments directed at the United States.
Somehow, I think Iran is going to hurt trump worse than either the Epstein files or ICE murdering people, including US citizens. If this weren't going to kill so many people, I would get the popcorn and just watch.
China is happy to sell them more shit and I refuse to believe Iran has lost all AA ability...may be waiting for invasion to bring out the reverse engineered Stingers...good against Chinooks...
Iran and Russia are going to milk this for all it’s worth; neither care all that much about their citizens.
Who could have guessed that this fucking moron would start shit that he couldn’t finish?
It’s almost as if he didn’t understand that this was gonna get over his head.
He knows more than his generals.
Why would he? Venezuela was easy.
Therefore, every nation will be like Venezuela.
--"Logic for Idiots"
Trump has always thought, "Biggest military in the world" was always going to be enough.
It's like he never heard of the war that he faked bone spurs to dodge.
The Big CI on the background....
Cognitively Impaired
Complete Idiot
Compromised Imbecile
Etc, etc
Clearly Incompetent
Correlated Implosion. Corrected Imbecile. okay, I'll stop
I hate to continue bitching about this, but fuck me sideways with Obama's time machine...had Biden ever spouted a millionth of the unfettered senile horseshit that comes out of Grandpa Bigot McRapes in a single day, the entire press community would be demanding that he resigns immediately.
There's actually a WSJ editorial today blaming Biden for too much draw down on the strategic oil reserve. I only read enough to get the gist, I was too annoyed to finish it.
Imagine how appalled George Clooney would be.
It's amazing how silent Clooney has become. Almost like he's giving trump a free pass.
Shit, our own party would’ve impeached him.
Yes, but he wasn’t a Republican, was he?
Worse: he was a centrist.
Things would be much worse under a Corporate Democrat like Picket-Line Joe and his most left policies since LBJ.
But wasn't he OLD?
The Fourth Circuit ruled that trans adults can be denied gender affirming care, and the state can force them to “appreciate their sex.” Skermetti applies to kids, but, shocker, it wasn’t about child safety.
What if they don't appreciate it?
Threats to stop all other legislation until voter suppression is passed, whether by the House not considering it or Trump not signing it, are empty ones.
Stop WHAT other legislation? No useful or meaningful legislation ever gets passed now at it is. Everything Trump does, he does through "executive orders."
Memo to Congress: You can't stop working if you never started.
Congress cannot take action because Mike Johnson has not heard about the things yet. It's news to him, what people are talking about, because these are not the things he has been hearing, but he encourages others to look into it.
"I don't know about that. I didn't see that. I didn't read that. I didn't hear that. I am completely insensible outside this chamber, wherein I am delivered to my office every day bundled in bubble wrap, blindfolded and with noise-canceling headphones."
Those post offices won’t name themselves.
They can't all be Charlie Kirk Memorial Post Office. Oh wait, they CAN.
I go to Kirk West...which one do you use...Kirk South or Southeast?
I go to the one on the corner of Kirk St. and Charlie Ave., just off the Erika REAL-TEARS parkway.
That’s next to the Kirk ICE facility?
Yep...opens on to TPUSA Way....
I've been pronouncing that "thee-pussay"
Next to the Starbucks, across the street from the other Starbucks.
That's by the Donald J Trump, Board of Peace or the DJT Office of Silly Walks isn't it?
What are you talking about? Not much work or decision-making to do there, because they'll all get named after Trump.