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James Varney: "Biden" Authorized $42 Billion In Graft to His Political "Environmental" Allies in Just the Last Two Working Days of His Potemkin Presidency
Bumped. I took the post down when the BBB vote came in.
$42 billion in two days. $42 billion in 48 hours. Less when you consider they were only working, at most, 10 or 12 hour days.In two days, they pushed more graft to their leftwing political allies than they did, in total, over the course of ten years.
In its last two working days, the Biden administration's Energy Department signed off on nearly $42 billion for green energy projects -- a sum that exceeded the total amount its Loan Programs Office (LPO) had put out in the past decade.
The Biden Crime Family specializes in conflicts of interest.
The frenzied activity on Jan. 16 and 17, 2025, capped a spending binge that saw the LPO approve at least $93 billion in current and future disbursements after Vice President Kamala Harris lost the 2024 election in November, according to documents provided by the department to RealClearInvestigations. It appears that Biden officials were rushing to deploy billions in approved funding in anticipation that the incoming Trump administration would seek to redirect uncommitted money away from clean energy projects.
The agreements were made despite a warning from the department's inspector general, urging the loan office to suspend operations in December over concerns that post-election loans could present conflicts of interest.
Note that this is in addition to the $20 billion graft bonanza you already know about.
In just a few months, some of the deals have already become dicey, leading to fears that the Biden administration has created multiple Solyndras, the green energy company that went bankrupt after the Obama administration gave it $570 million. These deals include: Sunnova, a rooftop solar outfit that thus far had $382 million of its $3.3 billion loan guaranteed, filed for bankruptcy this month. The company did not respond to a request for comment. Li-Cycle, a battery recycling facility, had a $445 million loan approved in November, but since then, the company was put up for sale and has filed for bankruptcy. The Energy Department said no money has been disbursed on that deal. Li-Cycle did not respond to a request for comment. A $705 million loan was approved on Jan. 17 for Zum Energy, an electric school bus company in California, and its "Project Marigold." At $350,000 and more, electric school buses currently cost more than twice as much as their diesel counterparts. So far, Zum has received $21.7 million from the government, according to usaspending.gov. The company did not respond to a request for comment. A $9.63 billion Blue Oval SK loan on Jan. 16 was the second largest post-election deal, topped only by a $15 billion loan the next day to Pacific Gas & Electric, with most of that for renewables. The Blue Oval project in Kentucky -- a joint venture between Ford Motor Co. and a South Korean entity -- has been dealing with numerous workplace complaints, and construction of a second EV battery manufacturing plant there has been delayed. More than $7 billion has been obligated on that deal, according to the Energy Department. Blue Oval did not respond to a request for comment. The money and the hasty way in which it was earmarked have drawn the attention of the Trump administration. "It is extremely concerning how many dozens of billions of dollars were rushed out the door without proper due diligence in the final days of the Biden administration," Energy Secretary Chris Wright said in a statement to RCI. "DOE is undertaking a thorough review of financial assistance that identifies waste of taxpayer dollars." The enormous sums came from the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act, which injected $400 billion into the LPO, a previously sleepy Energy Department branch originally intended to spur nuclear energy projects. That total represented more than 10 times the amount the LPO had ever committed in any fiscal year of its existence. Prior to the post-election blowout, the office's biggest fiscal year was 2024, when it committed $34.8 billion, records show. Even with the rush to push billions out the door in its last months, close to $300 billion of the Inflation Reduction Act money remains uncommitted by the LPO. Trump administration officials have already nixed some smaller deals. Secretary Wright recently urged Congress to keep the money in place as the LPO now aims to use it to further the Trump administration's energy policy, particularly with nuclear projects.
Yeah I'll bet. Read the whole thing. Update on BBB: I think Hakeem Jeffries ended his stupid inarticulate ramblings after breaking the (meaningless, trifling) record. I think the vote will happen soon.
That unprecedented gusher of cash from the LPO echoes the efforts of the Biden administration's Environmental Protection Agency to push $20 billion out the door before it left office. As RCI has previously reported, the EPA -- which had never been a consequential grant-making operation -- was tasked with awarding $27 billion in Inflation Reduction Act funding through the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund and Solar For All programs. It did so in less than six months in 2024, including an unorthodox arrangement in which Biden officials parked some $20 billion outside the Treasury's control. That money was earmarked for a handful of nonprofits, some of which had skimpy assets and were linked with politically connected directors.
JD Vance
@JDVance GOP Congressman just texted me: "I was undecided on the bill but then I watched Hakeem Jeffries performance and now I'm a firm yes."
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: toby928 at July 03, 2025 02:25 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 03, 2025 02:26 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 03, 2025 02:26 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 03, 2025 02:26 PM (iFTx/)
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Pretty much the second he hit post on a post he wrote hours ago!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 03, 2025 02:26 PM (GBKbO)
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That's the entire yearly budget for USAID.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 03, 2025 02:26 PM (GBKbO)
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What's a USAID?
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 03, 2025 02:26 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: bonhomme at July 03, 2025 02:26 PM (lIio7)
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That's the entire yearly budget for USAID.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 03, 2025 02:26 PM (GBKbO)
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What's a USAID?
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 03, 2025 02:26 PM (iFTx/)
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A giant grift, designed to enrich connected cronies in DC.
But that's not important right now. We need to know if you can fly this plane.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 03, 2025 02:27 PM (GBKbO)
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Objection, assumes facts not in evidence!
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 03, 2025 02:27 PM (tT6L1)
After his administration was already repudiated by the voters.
Posted by: toby928 at July 03, 2025 02:27 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Black Orchid at July 03, 2025 02:27 PM (Pv3Rg)
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 03, 2025 02:26 PM (iFTx/)
Yeah, might want to save this post for later.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 03, 2025 02:27 PM (i24o9)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 03, 2025 02:27 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 03, 2025 02:27 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 03, 2025 02:27 PM (ExV1e)
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We can split words on the actual charges that should apply to this (but won't), but at its core this was a betrayal.
Posted by: Crusader at July 03, 2025 02:27 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 03, 2025 02:27 PM (i24o9)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 03, 2025 02:27 PM (nwGCR)
Posted by: Drunken Yoda at July 03, 2025 02:28 PM (LQv8o)
Posted by: ... at July 03, 2025 02:28 PM (VPwHp)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 03, 2025 02:28 PM (mlg/3)
We're all gonna get laid!
Posted by: JackStraw at July 03, 2025 02:27 PM (viF8m)
______
Or die
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 03, 2025 02:28 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Dr. T at July 03, 2025 02:28 PM (jGGMD)
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That's the entire yearly budget for USAID.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 03, 2025 02:26 PM (GBKbO)
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What's a USAID?
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$20, same as in town.
Posted by: Crusader at July 03, 2025 02:28 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 03, 2025 02:27 PM (i24o9)
Way ahead of you.
Posted by: The Paolo at July 03, 2025 02:28 PM (VPwHp)
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at July 03, 2025 02:29 PM (pI9a0)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 03, 2025 02:28 PM (mlg/3)
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It's the people who come up to him and say, "Knowwhutahmean, Vern?"
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 03, 2025 02:29 PM (XZ5S6)
We're all gonna get laid!
Posted by: JackStraw at July 03, 2025 02:27 PM (viF8m)
Well we did get fucked.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 03, 2025 02:29 PM (nwGCR)
We're all gonna get laid!
Posted by: JackStraw at July 03, 2025 02:27 PM (viF8m)
______
Or die
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 03, 2025 02:28 PM (iFTx/)
Cheetolini is going to send all of us to "Alligator Alcatraz"!
REEEEEEE!!!!!
Posted by: DUmmies at July 03, 2025 02:29 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: Lincolntf at July 03, 2025 02:29 PM (2cS/G)
nor can he rant about this OTHER waste of taxpayer dollars
sad
Posted by: Black Orchid at July 03, 2025 02:30 PM (Pv3Rg)
I wish cotton was a monkey.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 03, 2025 02:30 PM (kf346)
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 03, 2025 02:30 PM (Iv8wu)
Posted by: Paco at July 03, 2025 02:30 PM (mADJX)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 03, 2025 02:30 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: BruceWayne at July 03, 2025 02:30 PM (MGB5H)
They just write it off.
Posted by: Kramer at July 03, 2025 02:30 PM (WeCH6)
Should be amusing to see them trot out the "millionaires and billionaires" dodge and get hammered for saying that.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 03, 2025 02:30 PM (tT6L1)
And this is why no none-emergency business should be permitted to occur betwixt election day and the seating of the new Congress / President.
I'd be willing to extend that moratorium to the time between primaries and the seating of the new Congress / President but you'd probably need to have a shorter primary window for that to work.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 03, 2025 02:31 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: huerfano at July 03, 2025 02:31 PM (n2swS)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 03, 2025 02:30 PM (viF8m)
Including congress.
Posted by: ... at July 03, 2025 02:31 PM (VPwHp)
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All of the recipients of this money need to be brought in for questioning and auditing... TODAY
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at July 03, 2025 02:31 PM (pI9a0)
Posted by: Black Orchid at July 03, 2025 02:31 PM (Pv3Rg)
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That's the entire yearly budget for USAID.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 03, 2025 02:26 PM (GBKbO)
Brewster's Billions
Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 03, 2025 02:31 PM (0CU3H)
or she still hitchhiking?
Posted by: Black Orchid at July 03, 2025 02:31 PM (Pv3Rg)
Narrow that down...?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 03, 2025 02:31 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 03, 2025 02:30 PM (viF8m)
Including congress.
Posted by: ...
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With AI, I suspect that you can find out if you want. I'd start with Grok model.
Posted by: whig at July 03, 2025 02:31 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 03, 2025 02:30 PM (viF8m)
We had to pass the bill to not know what's in it.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 03, 2025 02:32 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Black Orchid at July 03, 2025 02:32 PM (Pv3Rg)
Posted by: Lincolntf at July 03, 2025 02:32 PM (2cS/G)
We're all gonna get laid!
Posted by: JackStraw at July 03, 2025 02:27 PM (viF8m)
______
Or die
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 03, 2025 02:28 PM (iFTx/)
Or both!
Posted by: David Carradine at July 03, 2025 02:32 PM (0CU3H)
And everyone here who keeps saying this is the worst thing that's ever happened.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 03, 2025 02:32 PM (viF8m)
or she still hitchhiking?
Posted by: Black Orchid at July 03, 2025 02:31 PM (Pv3Rg)
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She's currently working on the selfie "trail of tears" video.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 03, 2025 02:32 PM (tT6L1)
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at July 03, 2025 02:32 PM (oSeBJ)
Disney?
Posted by: Accomack at July 03, 2025 02:32 PM (Bbhox)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 03, 2025 02:32 PM (e5NfL)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 03, 2025 02:32 PM (sAmhv)
Posted by: Black Orchid at July 03, 2025 02:32 PM (Pv3Rg)
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 03, 2025 02:32 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 03, 2025 02:33 PM (i24o9)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 03, 2025 02:26 PM (GBKbO)
Events sometimes overtake even the greatest of Ewoks.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 03, 2025 02:33 PM (ExV1e)
We're all gonna get laid!
Posted by: JackStraw at July 03, 2025 02:27 PM (viF8m)
______
Or die
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 03, 2025 02:28 PM (iFTx/)
Or both!!
Posted by: Nelson Rockefeller at July 03, 2025 02:33 PM (0CU3H)
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 03, 2025 02:33 PM (Iv8wu)
Posted by: Hunh at July 03, 2025 02:33 PM (WeCH6)
money printers go brrrrrrr
Posted by: Jerome Powell at July 03, 2025 02:33 PM (Pv3Rg)
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Listen fat, we were going loot the treasury on the way out no matter who won. True story!
Posted by: Joe Biden at July 03, 2025 02:33 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 03, 2025 02:32 PM (wVcYX)
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I seem to remember that the Trump administration did start clawing back a lot of it in the first few weeks of February.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 03, 2025 02:33 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: toby928 at July 03, 2025 02:34 PM (jc0TO)
We're all gonna get laid!
Posted by: JackStraw at July 03, 2025 02:27 PM (viF8m)
______
Or die
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 03, 2025 02:28 PM (iFTx/)
Or both!
Posted by: David Carradine at July 03, 2025 02:32 PM (0CU3H)
It's the only way to go, lemme tell ya, fellas.
Posted by: Nelson Rockefeller at July 03, 2025 02:34 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Skip at July 03, 2025 02:34 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 03, 2025 02:27 PM
Let's get pissed!
- Stuart MacKenzie
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 03, 2025 02:34 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 03, 2025 02:34 PM (Iv8wu)
Posted by: Dr. T
That judge is likely to get a Hawaiian punch from higher courts after the last Scotus ruling. The immediate stupidity of that judge claiming the whole world as a class to enjoin closing the border is likely to cause that to be stopped up too.
To misquote Churchill, "The Battle of the Judges is over; the Battle over Spending has just begun. "
Posted by: whig at July 03, 2025 02:34 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: toby928 at July 03, 2025 02:34 PM (jc0TO)
I'm pretty sure it did.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 03, 2025 02:34 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 03, 2025 02:33 PM (GBKbO)
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And got sued and told they needed to shovel the money out, even though it was obviously fraudulent. I guess the courts didn't mind ordering someone to do something illegal.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 03, 2025 02:34 PM (tT6L1)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 03, 2025 02:35 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: toby928 at July 03, 2025 02:34 PM (jc0TO)
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Yes.
Section 70201.
pdf:
https://is.gd/kq41go
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 03, 2025 02:35 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: BruceWayne at July 03, 2025 02:35 PM (MGB5H)
NOW we can draft rescission bills, which aren't permitted under CRs.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at July 03, 2025 02:35 PM (oSeBJ)
Normal budgetary process requires 60%.
They got what the could.
Also, realize this is the end of CR's.
There's a whole lot to like about this process, sausage making though it is.
Gotta hand it to Johnson so far. Now let's see if he knows how to go the the mattresses.
Posted by: MkY at July 03, 2025 02:35 PM (cPGH3)
They just write it off.
Posted by: Kramer at July 03, 2025 02:30 PM (WeCH6)
Never not funny.
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 03, 2025 02:35 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: illiniwek at July 03, 2025 02:36 PM (vbXSk)
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I asked a similar question when the New York governor announced she was providing $50 million to cover legal services for illegals--that's a lot of money to have sitting in a sock drawer. How do government "leaders" have the seemingly instant ability to spend vast amounts of money without seeking anyone's approval?
Posted by: Crusader at July 03, 2025 02:36 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Orson at July 03, 2025 02:36 PM (dIske)
And everyone here who keeps saying this is the worst thing that's ever happened.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 03, 2025 02:32 PM (viF8m)
The press couldn't help touting Biden's ability to get legislation through in Congress. He doesn't hold a candle to Trump.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 03, 2025 02:36 PM (0CU3H)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 03, 2025 02:36 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
They have. It will be tied up in courts for awhile though including where most of those cases should have originated in the first place, the Federal Court of Claims which has jurisdiction over them (not federal district judges).
Posted by: whig at July 03, 2025 02:36 PM (ctrM5)
And everyone here who keeps saying this is the worst thing that's ever happened.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 03, 2025 02:32 PM (viF8m)
I've been too busy to research the bill much, so I don't have a strong opinion on it either way. My take: any bill that doesn't repeal the 16th and 17th Amendments is a waste of time anyway.
Posted by: Dr. T at July 03, 2025 02:36 PM (jGGMD)
I'm pretty sure Green Energy Expert Stacey Abrams is supposed get most of that.
Posted by: Ripley at July 03, 2025 02:36 PM (GUOwU)
Posted by: Lying dickheads! at July 03, 2025 02:36 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 03, 2025 02:36 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: David Carradine at July 03, 2025 02:32 PM (0CU3H)
It's the only way to go, lemme tell ya, fellas.
Posted by: Nelson Rockefeller
My lips are sealed.
Posted by: Megan Marshack at July 03, 2025 02:37 PM (OXFtY)
"I was undecided on the bill but then I watched Hakeem Jeffries performance and now I'm a firm yes
LOL Open mouth , insert foot, leg, entire torso and brain.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 03, 2025 02:37 PM (2GCMq)
good, now deportations can go on steroids.
Posted by: illiniwek at July 03, 2025 02:36 PM (vbXSk)
Vamos. ¡Ándale!
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 03, 2025 02:37 PM (i24o9)
Posted by: toby928 at July 03, 2025 02:37 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: whig at July 03, 2025 02:34 PM (ctrM5)
*glares*
Posted by: Gandalf at July 03, 2025 02:37 PM (jGGMD)
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 03, 2025 02:37 PM (Iv8wu)
Everyone loves a winner, and everyone hates a pack of whiny losers.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 03, 2025 02:38 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 03, 2025 02:32 PM (viF8m)
That's probably like nine people at most and one went a little loopy this morning.
It's a bill. It's a piece of shit. Trump will get some wins for us out of it. He had to pay to get those wins, but it's not the first time he had to pay a whore.
They're going to continue to spend us into oblivion, but that's happening no matter what. I'm grateful the tax "cut" stays. That will matter.
Posted by: ... at July 03, 2025 02:38 PM (VPwHp)
Posted by: toby928 at July 03, 2025 02:37 PM (jc0TO)
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Use this link for the pdf:
https://is.gd/kq41go
Ask grok or ChatGPT or CoPilot or whatever questions.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 03, 2025 02:38 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: ... at July 03, 2025 02:31 PM (VPwHp)
Congress never knows what's in the shit they vote on. They should just send boxes of Alpha-Bits to the WH and explain that the Administration will find something in it.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 03, 2025 02:38 PM (ExV1e)
Running down America?
Making pride in America, being an American ... shameful?
And Trump is bringing that back.
Bigly.
Like in the 80s, we felt like we could do anything. But the Dems have convinced so many we must settle for--and fight over!--scraps doled out by them.
I don't think we understand just how much that was crushing America.
Or just how much bringing it back will crush Democrats.
USA! USA! USA!
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 03, 2025 02:38 PM (1KSDN)
Posted by: toby928
The BBB really implies Bend Over Here It Comes Again (BOHICA)
Posted by: AI at July 03, 2025 02:39 PM (/U5Yz)
Posted by: whig at July 03, 2025 02:36 PM (ctrM5)
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I think that $20 Billion that Zeldin put a hold on is still sitting over at Chase Bank. It's hard to tell since the media won't cover the story at all.
Posted by: Orson at July 03, 2025 02:39 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 03, 2025 02:39 PM (NtVYv)
Posted by: Cray Cray at July 03, 2025 02:40 PM (J+Ktj)
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I asked a similar question when the New York governor announced she was providing $50 million to cover legal services for illegals--that's a lot of money to have sitting in a sock drawer. How do government "leaders" have the seemingly instant ability to spend vast amounts of money without seeking anyone's approval?
Posted by: Crusader
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That is the sin on continuing resolutions and a lot of funny our looter leader class made bank on vague spending requirements of Covid relief that CRs kept in. The BBB ends that grift along with even spending justified under the 2010 economic emergency passed by Obama and his crony Congress.
The BBB means that the old continuing resolutions on spending no longer apply and BBB restores the US back to the omnibus spending bill for the rest of this fiscal year. That makes the change to regular order easier for next fiscal year starting in October plus there is another reconciliation bill that can be passed for that year's budget dealing with entitlement spending.
Posted by: whig at July 03, 2025 02:40 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 03, 2025 02:30 PM (viF8m)
Including congress.
Posted by: ... at July 03, 2025 02:31 PM (VPwHp)
It's over a thousand pages long. No one person has a single fucking clue as to the entirely of its contents, and at best read a 12-page summary put together by a team of staffers. As is the case with any major piece of legislation. Which is a big problem.
Posted by: No man's property is safe when Congress is in session at July 03, 2025 02:40 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: AthensMike at July 03, 2025 02:40 PM (BJ0eV)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 03, 2025 02:27 PM (viF8m)
I'm married.
Life is short. Have an affair.
Posted by: Ashley Madison at July 03, 2025 02:42 PM (MZ+PY)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 03, 2025 02:42 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 03, 2025 02:43 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: toby928 at July 03, 2025 02:43 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Nazdar at July 03, 2025 02:45 PM (NcvvS)
Now comes the hard work of implementing the entirety of US Trump's agenda and its potential to be the most generationally consequential administration since LBJ's failed Great Society mess. Getting to a balanced budget and real reductions to the national debt will be critical. But for today, and tomorrow, celebrate the wins and the nation's birthday.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 03, 2025 02:50 PM (NXz8h)
Posted by: javems at July 03, 2025 02:54 PM (8I4hW)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 03, 2025 03:39 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 03, 2025 03:41 PM (CWTWj)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 03, 2025 03:41 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 03, 2025 03:41 PM (dfIr7)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 03, 2025 03:42 PM (ULPxl)
Hakeem Jeffries has a sad that pride month is over.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 03, 2025 03:42 PM (Dlpj7)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 03, 2025 03:43 PM (bss/y)
The BBB means that the old continuing resolutions on spending no longer apply and BBB restores the US back to the omnibus spending bill for the rest of this fiscal year. That makes the change to regular order easier for next fiscal year starting in October plus there is another reconciliation bill that can be passed for that year's budget dealing with entitlement spending.
Posted by: whig at July 03, 2025 02:40 PM (ctrM5)
And rescission bills can now be done through Sept 30 on this budget.
Posted by: Nova Local at July 03, 2025 03:43 PM (tOcjL)
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And closer to 2030 than 2020
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 03, 2025 03:37 PM (iFTx/)
And closer to 6051 than 2001 BC.
Posted by: ... at July 03, 2025 03:43 PM (VPwHp)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 03, 2025 03:41 PM (dfIr7)
Interestingly, it's this last minute stuff that Trump can now spend 4 years investigating and seeing if criminal charges can stick...he has the time, and they don't have the preemptive pardons. His 1st response should be if anyone wants to preemptively give the money back as a get out of jail free card.
Posted by: Nova Local at July 03, 2025 03:44 PM (tOcjL)
Posted by: toby928 at July 03, 2025 03:41 PM
Posted by: toby928 repeats himself at July 03, 2025 03:44 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 03, 2025 03:45 PM (CWTWj)
Posted by: Washington Nearsider
Besides Massie, who else voted no?
Posted by: Leupold at July 03, 2025 03:45 PM (4pwAx)
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 03, 2025 03:45 PM (Iv8wu)
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Heh...there's still $300 Billion in the pot. I'm guessing the Environmental nut cases who accumulated that misbegotten cash via a false "Inflation Reduction Act" are going to be really pissed when Nuclear Power Plants start popping up using those funds.
Posted by: Orson at July 03, 2025 03:45 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 03, 2025 03:45 PM (iFTx/)
... for a third time.
Posted by: ShainS -- Designate The Democrat Party A Domestic Terrorist Organization at July 03, 2025 03:46 PM (D9BsV)
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 03, 2025 03:46 PM (Iv8wu)
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 03, 2025 03:45 PM (iFTx/)
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If we didn't need more evidence of living in a simulation, this really seals the deal for me.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 03, 2025 03:46 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 03, 2025 03:46 PM (CWTWj)
Posted by: Washington Nearsider
Besides Massie, who else voted no?
Posted by: Leupold at July 03, 2025 03:45 PM (4pwAx)
A known moderate from PA, Fitzpatrick, who said he'd promised his constituents he wouldn't support significant cuts to Medicaid...
Posted by: Nova Local at July 03, 2025 03:46 PM (tOcjL)
Posted by: ... at July 03, 2025 03:46 PM (VPwHp)
There's a whole lot to like about this process, sausage making though it is.
Gotta hand it to Johnson so far. Now let's see if he knows how to go the the mattresses.
Posted by: MkY at July 03, 2025 02:35 PM (cPGH3)
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Wow, the end of CRs is actually very big, and the return of regular orders is honestly earth-shattering. Much more transparency, Trump can now veto single bills and not shut the government down, just individual departments.
I know people hate on the GOP, but this is a substantive change.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 03, 2025 03:46 PM (ZOv7s)
I thought there was some Veritas video where a young gay EPA guy was saying it was like tossing gold ingots off the Titanic.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 03, 2025 03:47 PM (/HVsR)
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 03, 2025 03:45 PM (Iv8wu)
You know who else looked familiar?
Posted by: Charlie Chaplin at July 03, 2025 03:47 PM (VPwHp)
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 03, 2025 03:45 PM (iFTx/)
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Speak for your self, I was killed by the hole in the ozone layer. Or was it acid rain? I forget. Anyway, I'm ded.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 03, 2025 03:48 PM (2UnvF)
I know people hate on the GOP, but this is a substantive change.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 03, 2025 03:46 PM (ZOv7s)
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Budget bills by department isn't regular order. Regular order is budget followed by appropriations.
It's still omnibus now. Designed to bypass Senate reconciliation rules.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 03, 2025 03:48 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 03, 2025 03:48 PM (NtVYv)
Posted by: Nova Local
So Massie is on the side of everyone who wanted more Medicaid, totally a hill to die on for committed, libertarian small government types like Massie
Posted by: Leupold at July 03, 2025 03:48 PM (4pwAx)
Posted by: ShainS -- Designate The Democrat Party A Domestic Terrorist Organization at July 03, 2025 03:48 PM (D9BsV)
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 03, 2025 03:48 PM (Iv8wu)
Posted by: Jupiter no rings mofo at July 03, 2025 03:48 PM (W+TLY)
It's still omnibus now. Designed to bypass Senate reconciliation rules.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 03, 2025 03:48 PM (GBKbO)
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Damn you for crushing my dreams.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 03, 2025 03:48 PM (ZOv7s)
It's still omnibus now. Designed to bypass Senate reconciliation rules.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 03, 2025 03:48 PM (GBKbO)
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Damn you for crushing my dreams.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 03, 2025 03:48 PM (ZOv7s)
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I'd prefer the individual department approach, but Congress just won't do it. And Trump didn't want it.
No one in DC wants it, so it's not gonna happen.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 03, 2025 03:49 PM (GBKbO)
Did Bride of Chucky sneak the cheese on raw unflippable burgers provision in?
Posted by: ...
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Bride of Chucky has so much losing looming over him. Trump from the right, AOC and Zohran Mad-manny from the left. He's probably suffering a bit right now.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 03, 2025 03:49 PM (Rrsaq)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 03, 2025 03:48 PM (ZOv7s)
And now you know why people hate on the GOP
Posted by: ... at July 03, 2025 03:50 PM (VPwHp)
If the Founding Fathers wanted a 60 seat threshold to pass any "real" laws, they would have put that in our Constitution.
Posted by: Leupold at July 03, 2025 03:50 PM (4pwAx)
Posted by: toby928 at July 03, 2025 03:41 PM
Posted by: toby928 repeats himself at July 03, 2025 03:44 PM (jc0TO)
You are correct. Trump’s baby bonus. Sucks to have an eight year old age cutoff, though.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 03, 2025 03:50 PM (i24o9)
as to what will determine things - A) the economy, growing or shrinking? and B) quality candidate selection and support
Admittedly, the GOP has screwed up with its candidate selection many times in the past, so here's hoping that Trump can have some influence and do a much better job this time around.
This is also why I don't mind Powell holding interest rates high for a while. That's just delayed growth, and while far from optimal, his term runs out in a few months, and undoing that may provide an economic stimulus just in time for the midterms.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 03, 2025 03:50 PM (uWKK8)
This is an AI thing.
Cruise as Iron Man. Good.
Pitt as Cap is not.
Hulk is horrifying.
Phoebe Cates as Black Widow. I'm listening.
https://tinyurl.com/y3wmxb9y
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 03, 2025 03:50 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 03, 2025 03:50 PM (Q4IgG)
If the Founding Fathers wanted a 60 seat threshold to pass any "real" laws, they would have put that in our Constitution.
Posted by: Leupold at July 03, 2025 03:50 PM (4pwAx)
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They put in that the Senate can create its own rules.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 03, 2025 03:51 PM (GBKbO)
This is about half of California's annual amount they're always bragging about.
Posted by: Boron Quidquid - the US is a matriarchy, women hold veto with no duty at July 03, 2025 03:51 PM (we2ML)
@JDVance
GOP Congressman just texted me:
"I was undecided on the bill but then I watched Hakeem Jeffries performance and now I'm a firm yes."
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Future Califzuela Governor Kommie-la Emhoff is looking for a Campaign Manager who will finally position her ass for success!
Posted by: ShainS -- Designate The Democrat Party A Domestic Terrorist Organization at July 03, 2025 03:51 PM (D9BsV)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 03, 2025 03:48 PM (2UnvF)
____________________
Could be worse. I choked on a pinecone.
Posted by: Euell Gibbons at July 03, 2025 03:51 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Leupold at July 03, 2025 03:48 PM (4pwAx)
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He's a shitty legislator, but a gifted grifter. Has (or had) a whole bunch of people who thought he was Mr. Smith goes to Washington, but he tangled with Trump, and showed his ass.
It's all well and good to be "Mr. No," but when voting margins are narrow, and you repeatedly, overtly, stupidly piss yours away, people eventually notice.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 03, 2025 03:51 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 03, 2025 03:52 PM (L5Ij1)
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 03, 2025 03:52 PM (Iv8wu)
This is also why I don't mind Powell holding interest rates high for a while. That's just delayed growth, and while far from optimal, his term runs out in a few months, and undoing that may provide an economic stimulus just in time for the midterms.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 03, 2025 03:50 PM (uWKK
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I'm still waiting to see how a massive decrease in fed grants to Democrat Party apparatchiks and cronies, like from USAID, affects the ability of the Party to vote harvest.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 03, 2025 03:52 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 03, 2025 03:50 PM (bss/y)
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I haven't looked, but at some point you'll be able to cast a movie however you want for your own viewing.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 03, 2025 03:52 PM (Rrsaq)
Posted by: Oglebay at July 03, 2025 03:52 PM (MMp6W)
Posted by: Citizen Cake at July 03, 2025 03:53 PM (CwhoI)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 03, 2025 03:53 PM (dfIr7)
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 03, 2025 03:53 PM (Iv8wu)
It's still omnibus now. Designed to bypass Senate reconciliation rules.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 03, 2025 03:48 PM (GBKbO)
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Damn you for crushing my dreams.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 03, 2025 03:48 PM (ZOv7s)
He's such a glowie.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 03, 2025 03:54 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: Leupold at July 03, 2025 03:48 PM (4pwAx)
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He's a shitty legislator, but a gifted grifter. Has (or had) a whole bunch of people who thought he was Mr. Smith goes to Washington, but he tangled with Trump, and showed his ass.
It's all well and good to be "Mr. No," but when voting margins are narrow, and you repeatedly, overtly, stupidly piss yours away, people eventually notice.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 03, 2025 03:51 PM (ZOv7s)
And that is the difference between Massie and Paul, both from KY. Paul knows the Senate and knows when he can make a vote point on his one issue - the budget...Massie just hates Trump and wants him to fail at all times, thereby failing us with every one of his votes in the Trump era...he's never a yes on anything important.
Posted by: Nova Local at July 03, 2025 03:54 PM (tOcjL)
For perspective, you know how California always crows about "we send so much money to the federal government and the federal government couldn't function without us?"
This is about half of California's annual amount they're always bragging about.
Posted by: Boron Quidquid
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What is "This" in the second sentence?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 03, 2025 03:54 PM (Rrsaq)
They put in that the Senate can create its own rules.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer
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With the expectation that it would not be an elected office.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 03, 2025 03:54 PM (L5Ij1)
This is the best part, decades ago she worked for USAID. She admitted there was huge fraud and abuse while she was there. But is still beyond enraged that it's being fixed.
Posted by: Leupold at July 03, 2025 03:55 PM (4pwAx)
If the Founding Fathers wanted a 60 seat threshold to pass any "real" laws, they would have put that in our Constitution.
Posted by: Leupold at July 03, 2025 03:50 PM (4pwAx)
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I like the filibuster. I think it's quite useful to present bills from being rammed through without full consideration.
What I don't like is the "virtual filibusher" where no one has to actually stand there and talk, it's just presumed the Mitch McConnell or Diane Feinstein could have held the floor for weeks rather than 35 minutes before tipping over.
Note that Senator Spartacus' filibuster was just a stunt - stopped nothing, achieved nothing, but hey, he gets a participation trophy. Heroically did nothing.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 03, 2025 03:55 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Citizen Cake at July 03, 2025 03:55 PM (CwhoI)
Let's continue to show what ungrateful colonists we still are. LOL
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at July 03, 2025 03:55 PM (qoLdL)
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when its not your money....
Posted by: Lemmiwinks
......
It's theirs now.
Posted by: wth at July 03, 2025 03:55 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 03, 2025 03:50 PM (Q4IgG)
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"Have we fired the Foreign Iranians and Domestic Spooks who failed to assassinate Trump yet?"
Posted by: ShainS -- Designate The Democrat Party A Domestic Terrorist Organization at July 03, 2025 03:55 PM (AEPtv)
What is "This" in the second sentence?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 03, 2025 03:54 PM (Rrsaq)
That depends on what the meaning of "is" is.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 03, 2025 03:55 PM (uWKK8)
This is about half of California's annual amount they're always bragging about.
Posted by: Boron Quidquid
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What is "This" in the second sentence?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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The amount mentioned ace's post :
"James Varney: "Biden" Authorized $42 Billion In Graft to His Political "Environmental" Allies in Just the Last Two Working Days of His Potemkin Presidency"
Posted by: Boron Quidquid - the US is a matriarchy, women hold veto with no duty at July 03, 2025 03:56 PM (we2ML)
I'm still waiting to see how a massive decrease in fed grants to Democrat Party apparatchiks and cronies, like from USAID, affects the ability of the Party to vote harvest.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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This. I want to see the domestic difference of a non-funded left. (We already know that orphans in Africa are dying thanks to us.)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 03, 2025 03:57 PM (Rrsaq)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 03, 2025 03:54 PM (ULPxl)
And just like that a meme is born
Posted by: ... at July 03, 2025 03:57 PM (VPwHp)
Posted by: toby928 at July 03, 2025 03:57 PM (jc0TO)
The amount mentioned ace's post :
"James Varney: "Biden" Authorized $42 Billion In Graft to His Political "Environmental" Allies in Just the Last Two Working Days of His Potemkin Presidency"
Posted by: Boron Quidquid
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Ah, thanks.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 03, 2025 03:57 PM (Rrsaq)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 03, 2025 03:54 PM (ULPxl)
And just like that a meme is born
Posted by: ... at July 03, 2025 03:57 PM (VPwHp)
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BurtTC started it.
In earnest.
I'm bought, you see.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 03, 2025 03:57 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: ShainS -- Designate The Democrat Party A Domestic Terrorist Organization at July 03, 2025 03:55 PM (AEPtv)
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I saw Foreign Iranians and Domestic Spooks open for Ministry at a local club in 1989. Great show.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 03, 2025 03:57 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: toby928 at July 03, 2025 03:58 PM (jc0TO)
What I don't like is the "virtual filibusher" where no one has to actually stand there and talk, it's just presumed the Mitch McConnell or Diane Feinstein could have held the floor for weeks rather than 35 minutes before tipping over.
Note that Senator Spartacus' filibuster was just a stunt - stopped nothing, achieved nothing, but hey, he gets a participation trophy. Heroically did nothing.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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The problem is Republicans will likely never get 60+ votes in the Senate.
But GOP should have a natural, long term majority in Senate as there's way more red states.
Posted by: Leupold at July 03, 2025 03:58 PM (4pwAx)
Posted by: ShainS -- Designate The Democrat Party A Domestic Terrorist Organization at July 03, 2025 03:55 PM (AEPtv)
"Wait we can't fire ourselves can we??"
Posted by: ... at July 03, 2025 03:58 PM (VPwHp)
Posted by: Accomack at July 03, 2025 03:58 PM (YVT+g)
Posted by: ... at July 03, 2025 03:59 PM (VPwHp)
This is also why I don't mind Powell holding interest rates high for a while. That's just delayed growth, and while far from optimal, his term runs out in a few months, and undoing that may provide an economic stimulus just in time for the midterms.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 03, 2025 03:50 PM (uWKK
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I'm still waiting to see how a massive decrease in fed grants to Democrat Party apparatchiks and cronies, like from USAID, affects the ability of the Party to vote harvest.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 03, 2025 03:52 PM (GBKbO)
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The death of USAID and similar rancid offal will definitely hurt, perhaps critically. There is private leftwing money to make that up, but only if the usual scumbag billionaires open their own wallets. That's a big "if." I think they're especially unlikely to put their own dicks in the game if they think it's a lost cause or even an uphill battle.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 03, 2025 03:59 PM (iFTx/)
But GOP should have a natural, long term majority in Senate as there's way more red states.
Posted by: Leupold at July 03, 2025 03:58 PM (4pwAx)
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We need to see a few cycles of Senate campaigns not run by McConnell before we assume that a 60 vote GOP is completely impossible.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 03, 2025 03:59 PM (GBKbO)
But GOP should have a natural, long term majority in Senate as there's way more red states.
Posted by: Leupold at July 03, 2025 03:58 PM (4pwAx)
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That's why it has to be old school. It was never intended to be a vote margin, just a speed bump.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 03, 2025 03:59 PM (ZOv7s)
Pedant: the Ford logo is an ellipse, not an oval.
Hawktuah Jeffries sure has been noisy lately. I reckon he's running for Prez in 2028.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 03, 2025 03:59 PM (qpyNK)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 03, 2025 03:59 PM
Yep. We should be +2 from Georgia alone.
Posted by: toby928 at July 03, 2025 04:00 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 03, 2025 03:59 PM (iFTx/)
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90% of USAID was scammed.
90% of $40 billion is $36 billion.
No private entity, who already donates to the Democrat Party, is making that up.
And that's not the only source of grants ended.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 03, 2025 04:00 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: PaleRider at July 03, 2025 04:00 PM (CKOCg)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 03, 2025 03:54 PM (ULPxl)
And just like that a meme is born
Posted by: ... at July 03, 2025 03:57 PM (VPwHp)
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BurtTC started it.
In earnest.
I'm bought, you see.
It's criminal. I've waited for a bauxite membership for 20 years, and they're just being handed out like candy.
Posted by: Manuel Labor at July 03, 2025 04:00 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
Let's not forget ACTBlue
Posted by: MkY at July 03, 2025 04:00 PM (cPGH3)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 03, 2025 04:01 PM (Vfq+S)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 03, 2025 04:01 PM (dfIr7)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 03, 2025 03:54 PM (ULPxl)
And just like that a meme is born
Posted by: ... at July 03, 2025 03:57 PM (VPwHp)
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BurtTC started it.
In earnest.
I'm bought, you see.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 03, 2025 03:57 PM (GBKbO)
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TJM is a hot Icelandic singer?
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 03, 2025 04:01 PM (iFTx/)
@matt_vanswol 6m
🚨#BREAKING: Two South Carolina Highway Patrol troopers have saved a pig from being hit by incoming traffic the middle of the state’s busiest highway, I-26.
The pig was rescued without injury and then adopted by a family member of the state trooper who rescued him!
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 03, 2025 04:01 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
Let's not forget ACTBlue
Posted by: MkY at July 03, 2025 04:00 PM (cPGH3)
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I want to see DOJ arresting people over ActBlue before I start assuming it's limited in any way.
Congressional hearings don't count. Those are just noise.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 03, 2025 04:01 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 03, 2025 03:55 PM (uWKK
After all, I'm not a grammarian.
(a tactic later stolen by a Supreme Court nominee)
Posted by: Billy Jeff at July 03, 2025 04:01 PM (qpyNK)
@MoronDoctor_
The far right in Congress believes we should deport illegals & kick them off welfare.
The far left in Congress wants to trans kids and eliminate the combustion engine. These 2 centers of gravity are not equidistant from the center of the spectrum
Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 03, 2025 04:01 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 03, 2025 03:59 PM (iFTx/)
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The private money was obtained by shell NGOs getting grants.
Also, the 1st gen leftists are long in the tooth and their idiot progeny can't even tie their shoelaces without assistance. Does anyone think Alex Soros has the raw, ruthless reptillian cunning to break the Bank of England? He's going to piss through that wealth faster than Hunter Biden on a weekend bender in Macau.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 03, 2025 04:01 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: ... at July 03, 2025 03:59 PM (VPwHp)
Precisely what a glowing would have you believe.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 03, 2025 04:02 PM (i24o9)
I must have missed that verse of "Do the Hokey-Pokey".
Posted by: Archimedes at July 03, 2025 04:02 PM (Riz8t)
The problem with siting semi fabs in the USA. Between the time they are planned and the time they're finally built, they're obsolete.
Posted by: It Puts The gp In The Basket at July 03, 2025 04:02 PM (xYXPm)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 03, 2025 04:01 PM
Adopted. The has a nice spot in the smoke house for him.
Posted by: toby928 at July 03, 2025 04:02 PM (jc0TO)
When I came back I got a graphite membership. Can be erased really easily.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 03, 2025 04:02 PM (dfIr7)
None of the reports on the passing of the OBBB take pains to note that the opposition was "bipartisan."
LOL, suck it lefties.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 03, 2025 04:02 PM (1KSDN)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 03, 2025 03:57 PM
There'll be an extra sardine tin in your paybox this week.
Posted by: Big Penguin at July 03, 2025 04:02 PM (NlwkK)
There is private leftwing money to make that up, but only if the usual scumbag billionaires open their own wallets. That's a big "if."
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Nobody is stingier or tightfisted with his own money than a leftist.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 03, 2025 04:02 PM (/HVsR)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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We weren't able to do pre-McConnell even when we had people like Reagan or Nixon winning 49 states.
Just very, very unlikely. Democrats are also just way better at running Democrats in enemy territory that somehow pull off wins.
I just dont see real reform happening with that barrier. We're just moving money around until then.
Posted by: Leupold at July 03, 2025 04:02 PM (4pwAx)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 03, 2025 03:57 PM
There'll be an extra sardine tin in your paybox this week.
Posted by: Big Penguin at July 03, 2025 04:02 PM (NlwkK)
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Anything for Big Penguin!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 03, 2025 04:02 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 03, 2025 04:01 PM (mlg/3)
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When are they eating the pig? You don't let an animal like that go to waste.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 03, 2025 04:02 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 03, 2025 03:57 PM (GBKbO)
Believe it or not, it was not the worst thing he posted, or kept posting.
Posted by: runner at July 03, 2025 04:03 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 03, 2025 04:03 PM (2UnvF)
Posted by: ShainS -- Designate The Democrat Party A Domestic Terrorist Organization at July 03, 2025 04:03 PM (aS4AU)
Yeah I appreciate the gesture, but that's all it is.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 03, 2025 04:04 PM (dfIr7)
The far right in Congress believes we should deport illegals & kick them off welfare.
......
Shoulda never got it or been here in the first place.
Posted by: wth at July 03, 2025 04:04 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 03, 2025 03:59 PM (iFTx/)
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90% of USAID was scammed.
90% of $40 billion is $36 billion.
No private entity, who already donates to the Democrat Party, is making that up.
And that's not the only source of grants ended.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 03, 2025 04:00 PM (GBKbO)
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That assumes the 90% that was scammed all ended up being used for Democrap campaign, GOtV, and similar "direct" election uses. I don't think that's a good assumption.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 03, 2025 04:04 PM (iFTx/)
He has become troll-adjacent, and is usually best ignored.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 03, 2025 04:04 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 03, 2025 04:04 PM (wBaIH)
Posted by: runner at July 03, 2025 04:04 PM (g47mK)
@matt_vanswol 6m
🚨#BREAKING: Two South Carolina Highway Patrol troopers have saved a pig from being hit by incoming traffic the middle of the state’s busiest highway, I-26.
The pig was rescued without injury and then adopted by a family member of the state trooper who rescued him!
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 03, 2025 04:01 PM (mlg/3)
We do not joke on such matters.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 03, 2025 04:04 PM (i24o9)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 03, 2025 04:04 PM (/HVsR)
They all got fired.
Posted by: Billy Jeff at July 03, 2025 04:05 PM (qpyNK)
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 03, 2025 04:04 PM (iFTx/)
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I assume it helped create the general ecosystem of progressive politics in America.
It's like losing 5 Hollywoods.
This will be felt.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 03, 2025 04:05 PM (GBKbO)
@matt_vanswol 6m
🚨#BREAKING: Two South Carolina Highway Patrol troopers have saved a pig from being hit by incoming traffic the middle of the state’s busiest highway, I-26.
The pig was rescued without injury and then adopted by a family member of the state trooper who rescued him!
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 03, 2025 04:01 PM (mlg/3)
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I'm so glad that now Kamala is with a loving family!
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 03, 2025 04:05 PM (iFTx/)
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he will be ignored, since CBD banned him. unfortunately for only a week.
Posted by: runner at July 03, 2025 04:05 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Tom Servo
I mind. Biden and Yellen went to very short term Treasury notes to finance their large deficits to make their books look better. Powell's inaction on decreasing those rates as REQUIRED by Humphrey Hawking law means that the US is paying billions more in interest to finance preexisting debt that is maturing making the deficit worse.
His noxious tariff testimony as to why he was holding back interest rate cuts despite low inflation rates show the man has an empty head filled with nonsense and/or an animus against the President costing the US billions.
F*ck Powell and I hope the Board of Governors tells Powell to stuff it at the next Fed meeting on interest rates.
Posted by: whig at July 03, 2025 04:05 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 03, 2025 04:05 PM (i24o9)
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Temu Obama, standing in his office with a bat and batting .000 for 8 hours.
Awesome meme that should be made if it hasn't already.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 03, 2025 04:05 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Leupold at July 03, 2025 04:02 PM (4pwAx)
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Ah, but Scoop Jackson and the Southern Democrats were still a thing. A lot of Dems were actually more conservative than New England Republicans.
The Dems are so far to the left that - absent ballot box stuffing and primary rigging - they should be in a tiny minority. For whatever reason, red states are cursed with very liberal senators. Also purple states "seem" to like radical leftists. Most curious.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 03, 2025 04:05 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Archimedes at July 03, 2025 04:04 PM (Riz8t)
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It's unfortunate, but he's been heading in that direction for a while.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 03, 2025 04:06 PM (2UnvF)
Jeb Boasberg has ordered Trump to veto the OBBB.
Posted by: Duke Lowell
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In fact, he declared every Democrat to be eligible for a class action suit against Trump.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 03, 2025 04:06 PM (Rrsaq)
He has become troll-adjacent, and is usually best ignored.
Posted by: Archimedes
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Hey, I am right here you know.
Posted by: whig at July 03, 2025 04:06 PM (ctrM5)
The far right in Congress believes we should deport illegals & kick them off welfare.
That's the nicest and the least we should do.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 03, 2025 04:06 PM (Bs2bL)
>>And that's not the only source of grants ended.
As noted, 1/3 of any federal, state or local budget is straight graft and corruption.
As long as any governments funded NGO or other scheme exists, there will be beak dipping and plenty of walking around money.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 03, 2025 04:06 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Elric The
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To me it was more of a patronage scam. Here's your no-show job if you're basically a full time campaign volunteer for Democrat candiates.
I'm sure it made its way into campaign ad buys, but it wasn't literally all being spent in campaigns.
Posted by: Leupold at July 03, 2025 04:07 PM (4pwAx)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 03, 2025 03:53 PM (dfIr7)
He was 67. Must have been some hard years in there.
Posted by: javems at July 03, 2025 04:07 PM (8I4hW)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 03, 2025 03:52 PM (GBKbO)
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I think you might already be seeing it. I seems more and more likely that a large portion of the "major fundraisers" that the DNC is dependent upon might not have been using their own money. They were just signed onto the process to add legitimacy. Now that the spigot has slowed, the given story is that they are disgruntled with the DNC's path. I think it's more likely they are disgruntled with the lack of tax dollars coming their way so as to pretend to be a generous donor on someone else's dime.
The absolute vitriol being spouted by Democrat politicians and their unfaltering obstacles thrown up before DOGE seems to add credence to this.
Posted by: Orson at July 03, 2025 04:07 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Elric
A fraction of that kind of money paid for riots in the Summer of Love, and got libtard prosecutors elected all over blue city America.
1% is what?
Posted by: MkY at July 03, 2025 04:07 PM (cPGH3)
As long as any governments funded NGO or other scheme exists, there will be beak dipping and plenty of walking around money.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 03, 2025 04:06 PM (XV/Pl)
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Of course.
But acting like cutting off tens of billions is meaningless and won't have an effect seems like a curious assumption.
There's a difference between paying Lockheed Martin hundreds of billions too much for weapons and USAID straight graft.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 03, 2025 04:07 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: ... at July 03, 2025 02:28 PM (VPwHp)
I adore "Kiss Of The Spider Woman"!
Posted by: Lindsey Graham, Closeted Homosexual at July 03, 2025 04:08 PM (R/m4+)
90% of $40 billion is $36 billion.
No private entity, who already donates to the Democrat Party, is making that up.
And that's not the only source of grants ended.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 03, 2025 04:00 PM (GBKbO)
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That's what I was thinking. If USAID was really a huge grift/kickback scam, there's no way the "private sector" could make that up.
Posted by: WisRich at July 03, 2025 04:08 PM (G0vdT)
The far right in Congress believes we should deport illegals & kick them off welfare.
That's the nicest and the least we should do.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 03, 2025 04:06 PM (Bs2bL)
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Huh, imagine that, many legal immigrants and roughly 60% of the elecorate is now far right.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 03, 2025 04:08 PM (tT6L1)
Posted by: Duke Lowell
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Unhappy people (I think he has had some acknowledged tragedies in his life) can become bitter.
Posted by: whig at July 03, 2025 04:09 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 03, 2025 04:04 PM (iFTx/)
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I assume it helped create the general ecosystem of progressive politics in America.
It's like losing 5 Hollywoods.
This will be felt.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 03, 2025 04:05 PM (GBKbO)
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Ummm ... I said it would be felt. It already is being felt in the form of woefully under-attended leftwing rallies and riots, and a general malaise over the entire leftwing apparatus.
The only issue for me is whether in terms of actual political campaigns it can be made up by private sources. For me, things like GOtV -- basically FOtV or "Fraud Out the Vote" -- and similar scams are a MAJOR reason why Dumocraps "win" elections. Zuckerberg's election "fortification" and all.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 03, 2025 04:09 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Captain Fantastic at July 03, 2025 04:09 PM (DwKKA)
Posted by: javems at July 03, 2025 04:07 PM (8I4hW)
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Madsen was an addict. Spielberg almost tossed him off the "Saving Private Ryan" set according to interviews.
Posted by: Orson at July 03, 2025 04:09 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much at July 03, 2025 04:09 PM (kTd/k)
The far right in Congress believes we should deport illegals & kick them off welfare.
.......
Good thing we just got a brand new Deportation Machine.
Posted by: wth at July 03, 2025 04:09 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: runner at July 03, 2025 04:09 PM (g47mK)
Go to paper ballots, and Real ID for voting.
No amount of money can overcome reality.
Posted by: MkY at July 03, 2025 04:09 PM (cPGH3)
Posted by: WisRich at July 03, 2025 04:08 PM (G0vdT)
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Even if it was just straight salary to connected cronies, suddenly, those connected cronies cannot contribute to campaigns because they're not being paid.
Probably the most loyal source of funds in the modern Democrat Party suddenly jobless.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 03, 2025 04:09 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: javems at July 03, 2025 04:07 PM (8I4hW)
His sister Virginia was still a 1 the last time I saw her, and she's only a few years younger, I believe, so whatever the trauma was it apparently didn't affect her.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 03, 2025 04:09 PM (qpyNK)
They all got fired.
Posted by: Billy Jeff at July 03, 2025 04:05 PM (qpyNK)
How odd for it to be a scandal and the AC staff to be fired. Unless they were weirdo's eating live chickens, those food critters WERE euthanized, just not with a chemical that poisons the meat. But I'm sure the FNM painted however they were killed before butchering as barbaric and the poison shot as oh so humane.
Posted by: PaleRider at July 03, 2025 04:10 PM (CKOCg)
Sizemore got a pass?
Posted by: It Puts The gp In The Basket at July 03, 2025 04:10 PM (xYXPm)
Rockies need one game to tie the Cleveland Spiders' final season (1899, 20-134)
Posted by: gKWVE at July 03, 2025 04:10 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Bob Crane at July 03, 2025 04:11 PM (OERWa)
Posted by: tubal at July 03, 2025 04:11 PM (PCK5/)
Posted by: steevy at July 03, 2025 04:11 PM (YwEeS)
Posted by: Orson at July 03, 2025 04:09 PM (dIske)
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That was Tom Sizemore.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 03, 2025 04:11 PM (2UnvF)
From what I remember, it seemed lefty billionaires were buying enormous influence for a few million dollars worth of seed money.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 03, 2025 04:11 PM (tT6L1)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 03, 2025 04:11 PM (e5NfL)
Sizemore got a pass?
Posted by: It Puts The gp In The Basket at July 03, 2025 04:10 PM (xYXPm)
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That story is about Sizemore, not Madsen. Madsen's not in Saving Private Ryan.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 03, 2025 04:11 PM (GBKbO)
I thought about depression which often effects men in sometimes making them angry and as you noted he has mentioned some really hard things in his life over the past couple of years.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 03, 2025 04:12 PM (2GCMq)
What is "This" in the second sentence?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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Sometimes the writer forgets that what's in his mind is not printed.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 03, 2025 04:12 PM (L5Ij1)
... and most certainly already is.
Just everyone is afraid to mention it.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 03, 2025 04:12 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: whig at July 03, 2025 04:05 PM (ctrM5)
The bank of England and the ECB are suffering now because they also got those short term bills from Yellen too, and they have to finance them again. Starmer is looking at yet another crisis and the ECB is looking at forcing capital controls and forcing all savings to be backed in EU bonds that will be defaulted or devalued leaving the savers and pensioners to bear the pain.
I think Powell wants to firm up the status of the federal reserve banks and the US Dollar. If the Euro and the Pound start to waver, all the safe money goes to dollars, gold and Yuan
Prediction from last month was 50 basis points (half a percent) by the middle of July
Posted by: Kindltot at July 03, 2025 04:12 PM (D7oie)
>>But acting like cutting off tens of billions is meaningless and won't have an effect seems like a curious assumption.
To be sure, cutting off any funding mechanisms is going to hurt the left.
But let's be real, they still control enough voting apparatuses in enough locales to fortify enough elections to stay competitive.
I bet they steal a couple of more house seats in Cali and NY in 26.
Will this be enough to offset potential losses elsewhere?
Perhaps, but I think the US has largely self sorted over the last 5 years and we're pretty much in the stasis period for a while until the next political paradigm shift.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 03, 2025 04:12 PM (XV/Pl)
Good to know. I've had more than a few run-ins with him myself. I'll try to factor that in.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 03, 2025 04:12 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: PaleRider at July 03, 2025 04:10 PM (CKOCg)
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Really depends on where it was.
I live in a pretty liberal area, but when the deer began to devour everything in sight, the city council requested Forest Service hunters to cull the herd, with the meat being donated to soup kitchens. Everyone that it made perfect sense.
As for Animal Control dining on Fluffy Bunny, that seems a stretch, but a policy of donating the meat of approved gamve/livestock animals to feed the poor makes sense.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 03, 2025 04:13 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Captain Fantastic at July 03, 2025 04:13 PM (DwKKA)
He has become troll-adjacent, and is usually best ignored.
Posted by: Archimedes
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Hey, I am right here you know.
Posted by: whig at July 03, 2025 04:06 PM (ctrM5)
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BurtTC? Was he the dude who went off the rails over Israel-Iran and any USA involvement?
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 03, 2025 04:13 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 03, 2025 04:09 PM (iFTx/)
But the word coming out of "private sources" is that they are still pissed as hell about tossing one or two billion of their money last year into a dumpster and setting it all on fire. Not going to be nearly so easy to get as much out of them this time, especially when a lot of them will be thinking it'll be more profitable to switch sides. (especially the tech oligarchs)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 03, 2025 04:13 PM (uWKK8)
Unhappy people (I think he has had some acknowledged tragedies in his life) can become bitter.
Posted by: whig at July 03, 2025 04:09 PM (ctrM5)
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I wasn't the target, so I'd like to be charitable. We're all of us screw-ups, not monsters. Whatever set this off, I hope he resolves it.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 03, 2025 04:13 PM (/HVsR)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 03, 2025 04:02 PM (i24o9)
Well yeah why do you think I'm always pimping Karen Gillan in that drama club policewoman outfit. It was never about Karen Gillan but rather my suspicious adoration for Law Enforcement. Particularly in black leggings.
Posted by: ... at July 03, 2025 04:14 PM (VPwHp)
Posted by: Manuel Labor at July 03, 2025 04:00 PM (Riz8t)
Eh...Bauxite is crap. The real players have the coveted Pot Metal Membership!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 03, 2025 04:14 PM (L5An7)
But let's be real, they still control enough voting apparatuses in enough locales to fortify enough elections to stay competitive.
I bet they steal a couple of more house seats in Cali and NY in 26.
Will this be enough to offset potential losses elsewhere?
Perhaps, but I think the US has largely self sorted over the last 5 years and we're pretty much in the stasis period for a while until the next political paradigm shift.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 03, 2025 04:12 PM (XV/Pl)
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Well, they control those apparatuses because they pay voters for their ballots in many instances. Cuts will affect that.
I also think we're at the pinnacle of how far cheating can take them with the current map. Never mind that the RNC, which saw progress on fighting back cheating in 2024, will have a smaller map to focus on.
And if the SAVE act can get through the Senate, that affects things even mroe.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 03, 2025 04:14 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: steevy at July 03, 2025 04:11 PM (YwEeS)
I admire the passion, but Michael Madsen wasn't really all that important.
Posted by: far cry at July 03, 2025 04:14 PM (Uxybj)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 03, 2025 04:14 PM (2GCMq)
Posted by: Manuel Labor at July 03, 2025 04:00 PM (Riz8t)
Eh...Bauxite is crap. The real players have the coveted Pot Metal Membership!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 03, 2025 04:14 PM (L5An7)
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I'm just hoping to upgrade my bucket of piss membership eventually.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 03, 2025 04:15 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Thomas Bender
My contention is that the Left hasn't nearly the support the Machines in the Blue Cities make it seem.
Honest elections, and the Dems go the way of the Whigs.
Posted by: MkY at July 03, 2025 04:15 PM (cPGH3)
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 03, 2025 04:09 PM (iFTx/)
But the word coming out of "private sources" is that they are still pissed as hell about tossing one or two billion of their money last year into a dumpster and setting it all on fire. Not going to be nearly so easy to get as much out of them this time, especially when a lot of them will be thinking it'll be more profitable to switch sides. (especially the tech oligarchs)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 03, 2025 04:13 PM (uWKK
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Yes, I made that point in my original comment. I'm not taking victory laps yet, or blowing my load in the sheet before the girl makes it out of the bathroom. 2026 and especially 2028 are a long ways away. Anything can happen. Evil never rests. It finds a way.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 03, 2025 04:15 PM (iFTx/)
Yeah its all part of a machine. If the money stops flowing, people stop heling and caring. They aren't big time democrat fans and activists to all these causes because they are True Believers.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 03, 2025 04:15 PM (dfIr7)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 03, 2025 04:12 PM (XV/Pl)
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The Wild Card is federal election oversight. The mere presence of investigators raises the potential risk factor exponentially. Requirements that ballots be retained for federal review also reduces the ability for close elections to *always* go to the Dems.
If nothing else, the stigma on calling it out is gone.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 03, 2025 04:15 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: GOP Rep at July 03, 2025 04:15 PM (/U5Yz)
Posted by: Case at July 03, 2025 04:16 PM (ilX37)
Blatant malfeasance!
Rip the guts out of every company involved involved and try every person involved.
This is pure bullshit.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 03, 2025 04:16 PM (1bdKO)
>>That story is about Sizemore, not Madsen. Madsen's not in Saving Private Ryan.
Madsen like Biehn, should of had a bigger career.
Whatever that extra thing that separates big actors for could have been big actors, they didn't have.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 03, 2025 04:16 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: It Puts The gp In The Basket at July 03, 2025 04:10 PM (xYXPm)
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Eh...all you white guys look alike
Posted by: Orson at July 03, 2025 04:16 PM (dIske)
Whatever that extra thing that separates big actors for could have been big actors, they didn't have.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 03, 2025 04:16 PM (XV/Pl)
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I watched The Abyss for the first time in forever. Biehn's good.
His role is shit, but he's good.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 03, 2025 04:16 PM (GBKbO)
Rip the guts out of every company involved involved and try every person involved.
They'll just do an Acorn: dissolve themselves and reconstitute under a different name.
The real solution is to jail the people who gave them the money.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 03, 2025 04:17 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 03, 2025 04:17 PM (Q4IgG)
YOu look at their IMDB pages, they both had constant work, multiple jobs a year. Just no huge breakout leading roles which as an actor I think I'd prefer.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 03, 2025 04:18 PM (dfIr7)
Posted by: Ordinary American at July 03, 2025 04:18 PM (WHfpM)
Posted by: PaleRider at July 03, 2025 04:10 PM (CKOCg)
It all depends on the actual circumstances. I have a vision of some auditor going out to the field facility, coming in and finding a couple of black animal control officers holding knives and forks, grinning with feathers stuck all over their faces.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 03, 2025 04:18 PM (uWKK8)
It seems Pam Bondi was a lobbyist with Suzie Wiles. Wiles used to work for Pfizer.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 03, 2025 04:18 PM (/U5Yz)
Deport the illegal you don’t have to teach him to fish.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 03, 2025 04:18 PM (nwGCR)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
I can handle this.
Posted by: Count DeMoney at July 03, 2025 04:18 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: wth at July 03, 2025 04:19 PM (v0R5T)
Deport the illegal you don’t have to teach him to fish.
But you do have to deal with the raw sewage making its way up the coast.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 03, 2025 04:19 PM (Riz8t)
Whatever that extra thing that separates big actors for could have been big actors, they didn't have.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 03, 2025 04:16 PM (XV/Pl)
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I watched The Abyss for the first time in forever. Biehn's good.
His role is shit, but he's good.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 03, 2025 04:16 PM (GBKbO)
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Tough for even A-Listers to keep it going. There's usually a lull, or a flop or even string of flops. For many if not most, that's basically the end of the line. The bets guys -- the luckiest? -- are able to bounce back or even reinvent themselves. Tom Cruise seems the most obvious example of this.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 03, 2025 04:19 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Manuel Labor at July 03, 2025 04:00 PM (Riz8t)
Eh...Bauxite is crap. The real players have the coveted Pot Metal Membership!
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I'm just hoping that one day I get the membership level that lets me post from home!
Posted by: Crusader at July 03, 2025 04:20 PM (TN0g+)
I just want to say the passing of Trumps bill
gave me a BBB..
heh heh
Posted by: Captain Fantastic at July 03, 2025 04:20 PM (DwKKA)
Posted by: AutoPen Juggalo at July 03, 2025 04:20 PM (FhXTo)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 03, 2025 04:16 PM (XV/Pl)
You see, if you want those really big roles and the stardom that comes with it, you have to be wiling to go the extra mile. Like in that movie, "Deliverance".
Posted by: The Casting Couch at July 03, 2025 04:20 PM (R/m4+)
Posted by: Crusader at July 03, 2025 04:20 PM (TN0g+)
Send me your IP address at home. I'll poke around and see if it can be fixed.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 03, 2025 04:21 PM (L5An7)
Honest elections, and the Dems go the way of the Whigs.
Posted by: MkY at July 03, 2025 04:15 PM (cPGH3)
After 2030 census, current speculation is that 14 House seats will switch from blue states to red.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 03, 2025 04:21 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Manuel Labor at July 03, 2025 04:00 PM (Riz8t)
Eh...Bauxite is crap. The real players have the coveted Pot Metal Membership!
I have the hemp membership.
Posted by: Tom Massie at July 03, 2025 04:21 PM (/U5Yz)
Posted by: Ordinary American at July 03, 2025 04:18 PM (WHfpM)
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I feel with every fiber of my being that those who ruled us the last 4 years were actively seeking to destroy this nation.
Posted by: Crusader at July 03, 2025 04:21 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Martini Farmer
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Who knows? Certainly not the critters who voted on it.
Posted by: wth at July 03, 2025 04:22 PM (v0R5T)
>>I watched The Abyss for the first time in forever. Biehn's good.
I would classify Biehn's acting as, regular joe acting.
He never seemed to be putting on something or doing something.
Like Nicholson, was doing something, putting something on.
If you watch a Nicholson flick in certain mood, they all become comedies.
The Shining is a straight up comedy now.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 03, 2025 04:22 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 03, 2025 04:18 PM (uWKK
More likely pot-bellied pigs or fainting goats.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 03, 2025 04:22 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 03, 2025 04:21 PM (L5An7)
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Thank you Sir, I'll do it! I'll be home this weekend.
Posted by: Crusader at July 03, 2025 04:22 PM (TN0g+)
>Politico, 6/30/25, Senators slam Lloyd Austin over new consulting firm
Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Rick Scott say the former Defense secretary is violating the public trust by going into the influence business.
>Federal News Network, July 3, 2025, in part
"A bipartisan group of lawmakers is demanding answers from former Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin about his decision to launch a new strategic advisory firm. In a letter, the senators want clarity on Austin’s new role, whether he will register as a lobbyist and if any clients hold contracts with the DoD.
They also want to know if Austin will recuse himself from matters involving companies he worked with during his tenure and whether his clients could benefit from his security clearance."
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 03, 2025 04:22 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 03, 2025 04:23 PM (GBKbO)
>Politico, 6/30/25, Senators slam Lloyd Austin over new consulting firm
Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Rick Scott say the former Defense secretary is violating the public trust by going into the influence business.
>Federal News Network, July 3, 2025, in part
"A bipartisan group of lawmakers is demanding answers from former Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin about his decision to launch a new strategic advisory firm. In a letter, the senators want clarity on Austin’s new role, whether he will register as a lobbyist and if any clients hold contracts with the DoD.
They also want to know if Austin will recuse himself from matters involving companies he worked with during his tenure and whether his clients could benefit from his security clearance."
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I'd also inquire whether his new role would involve his wearing that really, really stupid uniform?
Posted by: Crusader at July 03, 2025 04:25 PM (TN0g+)
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The revelations are controversial at a time when the Fed is struggling with mounting losses, which stand at a total of $233 billion from the past three years.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 03, 2025 04:25 PM (L5Ij1)
Wasn't Austin on his deathbed with a cancerous prostate the size of a watermelon just last year?
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 03, 2025 04:26 PM (/U5Yz)
"The BBB Bill includes several provisions related to Social Security and seniors. One notable provision raises the standard deduction for people over age 65 to $6,000, which could provide a $600 annual benefit to most seniors, who either pay no income tax or are in the 10 percent tax bracket.
This increase in the standard deduction is designed to indirectly shield more Social Security income from federal taxes for lower- and middle-income retirees, although it phases out for individuals earning more than $75,000 and married couples earning above $150,000."
I think this will apply to your 2025 taxes due.
Posted by: whig at July 03, 2025 04:26 PM (ctrM5)
No Tax on Social Security is a Reality in the One Big Beautiful Bill, The White House, July 1, 2025
Under the One Big Beautiful Bill, the vast majority of senior citizens — 88% of all seniors who receive Social Security — will pay NO TAX on their Social Security benefits, according to a brand new analysis from the Council of Economic Advisers.
Charts follow.
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Look at the charts in the 'brand new analysis.'
I don't see anything retroactive.
Aren't many SS recipients already due to get retroactive SS offset/WP money back through this year?
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(Wish I got SS.)
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 03, 2025 04:31 PM (NFX2v)
Honest elections, and the Dems go the way of the Whigs.
Posted by: MkY
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I'll have to change my nic to Ghost of Whig by that reasoning.
Posted by: whig at July 03, 2025 04:31 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Maj. Healey
Maybe. 🤷♀️
It was always difficult to tell if/when they were being honest.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 03, 2025 04:35 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Willie B. at July 03, 2025 04:54 PM (PQclV)
Deport the illegal you don’t have to teach him to fish.
Send him to Alligator Alcatraz and he just might feed the fish.
Posted by: comradearthur at July 03, 2025 05:14 PM (OdNzD)
Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at July 03, 2025 06:02 PM (wGqjj)
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