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Delmarva Peninsula's avatar

Ugh, a reminder that Rand Paul exists. And right before lunch.

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Viole Falusche's avatar

Every so often, a friend of mine quotes a thing which might conceivably be Monty Python, though I don't recognize it: "Sergeant-Major, take that man outside and shoot him, would you, please?"

Gosh, why does my memory surface that now?

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TexasDumb's avatar

Aha! A workaround for the Banhammer! Quote Monty Python! Brilliant!

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William Donnell's avatar

Paul McCartney.

I jest. Please don't send fanatical Lennonites to collect the bill.

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William Donnell's avatar

"Kickstand, you got loose, and I threw up."

- Soundgarden, SUPERUNKNOWN

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clairence's avatar

I hate that Republicans are eager to force people into having kids they can't afford, and then also eager to cut funding for food for those people and their kids. Sadistic is the only way I can interpret that.

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William Donnell's avatar

"In the beginning, man created God, and in his image created he Him..."

- Jethro Tull, AQUALUNG

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Hobbes's avatar

Reagan, Gingrich, Shrub, tfg: Forty+ years of angry, white, intellectualy challenged men shaping the course of history. YAY America.

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Hobbes's avatar

TFG's net worth is a negative number - He's over leveraged and has been for decades. If the Trump companies were forced to liquidate tomorrow there would be a lot creditors left standing with empty hands.

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Alpaca Suitcase's avatar

But what about his "brand"? That's worth billions right?

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Adny Patridge's avatar

Well, those creditors didn't have to lend to him. They bought the lies.

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Zyxomma's avatar

Ta, Dok. So sick of this shit.

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ManchuCandidate's avatar

For every shutdown the GOPers attempt take a year off their Congressional pension and wipe out their health benefits.

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Mike's avatar

If the Federal government shuts down when do the cockroaches in Congress stop getting checks? If the answer is immediately, then fuck it, shut it down. If the answer is never, then can I not file my taxes because the IRS is shut down? Is there any fucking silver lining to these people still breathing?

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AboveTheGrayFog's avatar

Oh is it that time of the year again (yeah I know it happens more than once a year, but man!)?

The FarQMAGA Party would not be the FarQMAGA party if they didn't try to shut down the government at least once or twice a year.

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clairence's avatar

It's their brand, their signature move

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Bagels of Doom's avatar

I will only be satisfied if a national monorail network is included in the budget.

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Wayne Allen's avatar

Monorail! Monorail! Monorail!

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Virgiebeach's avatar

WHAR Taco Trucks ??!!

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"M"'s avatar

I'm saying

I've been standing here waiting for lunch since 2016

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Owlftr13's avatar

Let them shut it down. I know it sounds cruel, but these fucktards need to feel some pain.

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Mart's avatar

The fucktards still get paid during a shutdown, and their voters never give a shit.

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SethTriggs's avatar

Americans, if they cared about feeding kids and good sense, wouldn't vote for Republicans. Look at what the extremists about them do.

And it's also why when Americans give these bomb-throwers a majority, shittiness happens and their Speakers have a short shelf-life.

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SethTriggs's avatar

100%. America is lookin' pretty stupid for sleeping on Hillary Clinton. She was right about everything but there were e-mails and other crap we seem to not care about anymore. Oh don't get me started on a roll here!

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You Should Ice That Burn's avatar

What a dumb country, voting in people committed to keeping their kids uneducated so they can stay in power gets you here.

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Oblio's Cap's avatar

They think they'll all he millionaires one day.

But they won't.

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clairence's avatar

maybe if we can get inflation high enough...

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Lefty Wright's avatar

Remember, just a few years ago gun nuts forced the government to allow people declared totally and permanently disabled under strict Social Security rules and not capable of handling their financial benefits to own guns. So doing the same with vets with severe PTSD or psychosis sounds like something the Republicans would push for. They put the nuts in gun nuts.

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Gout Machine's avatar

This is not a functioning country.

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Mike's avatar

What was your first clue mass shootings? MAGA? the Oscars?

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Oblio's Cap's avatar

The CMA Awards.

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Bitter Scribe's avatar

Best possible outcome: Johnson brings everything to the floor, and the Democrats shield him from being removed.

Of course, God would have to sign off on that.

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