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Fake Republicans Are Blocking Trump's Minor, 0.2% Recission Package
Plus: Was the "One Big Beautiful Bill" Actually... Good?
A rescission package to trim a mere 0.2% from the nine trillion dollar budget is being blocked by the usual fake Republican saboteurs, and a couple of their new allies, writes Matt Vespa at Townhall.
And of course Lisa Murkowski and now her Alaskan colleague Dan Sullivan object -- which is likely a scheme to pressure Trump to give unnecessary billions in porkbarrel spending to Alaska. Boy, the "conservative" state of Alaska is turning out to be a lot more socialist and subsidy-dependent than I would have guessed. We passed a budget of nine trillion dollars but we can't cut just six billion. And we're also not tough enough to do what's right and primary these motherf***ers out of office. Chuck Schumer says he'll shut down the government before he allows 0.2% to be rescinded from the budget.
The House did their job and passed the rescission package, but currently, it's in jeopardy because the same group of troublemakers in the Senate; Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Susan Collins (R-ME) are holding up the measure over concerns about cutting programs that are a complete waste of taxpayer money. What's worse is that they've found new allies in Jerry Moran (R-KS) and Mike Rounds (R-SD) and Dan Sullivan (R-AK) . So, let's clear the air on some of the cuts that some of these senators find problematic. First, defunding the Corporation for Public Broadcasting ($1.1 billion) has been a conservative goal for a generation. It's biased, its CEO is aloof (and biased), and PBS has been overtly projecting Democrat propaganda for years. They don't need our money to stay afloat; they can sink or swim like the rest of us. The Democracy Fund--$83 million--bankrolled programs for "Yemen community resilience" and spent millions on LGBT nonsense in the Balkan States. The Economic Support Fund--$1.65 billion--produced Iraqi Sesame Street, pride parades in Lesotho, and millions to subsidize Palestinian media companies. Development Assistance was a $2.5 billion boondoggle that tried to get electric buses off the ground in Rwanda, a vegan food consumer base in Zambia, and civic engagement operations in authoritarian Zimbabwe. Folks, this is first-world, urban, liberal nonsense. For starters, eating 'vegan' is an elite privilege. Most people would die of starvation on that diet, and that goes double for the people of Africa. You need to eat meat to survive. Period. There's a reason why the late Anthony Bourdain compared vegans to Hezbollah, at least in the culinary arts. The Bush-era President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) isn't going to be crushed, which you know is going to be a liberal talking point. The package preserves the $10 billion program that's saved countless lives, but funding for programs about transgender sex in Nepal, LGBT advocacy in Uganda, and free training in pastry making for male prostitutes are in the trash bin. International peacekeeping, which has been rife with fraud, is taking a $1 billion haircut.
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer is signaling he could plunge the country into a partial government shutdown if Republicans move forward with rescinding just a fraction of a percent of government spending. The Senate is expected to vote on a request from the White House to claw back $1.1 billion in public broadcasting funding and $8.3 billion in foreign aid next week. Schumer has threatened that Democrats will reject a government funding deal for the upcoming fiscal year if Republicans pass President Donald Trump's $9.4 billion rescission package, which could trigger a partial government shutdown at the end of September. "Ask the Republicans why they are heading on this path," Schumer said at a Senate Democratic leadership press conference Wednesday in response to a question citing his previous warnings about the alleged harmful effects of letting government funding lapse. "We are doing everything we can to keep the bipartisan appropriations process going. And they're undermining it with rescissions, with pocket rescissions, with impoundment and every other way." Schumer's implicit shutdown threat is a noticeable departure from his decision to avert a lapse in government funding in March by supplying the votes to pass a Trump-backed stopgap spending bill. The Democratic leader's decision to avoid a government shutdown earlier in the year infuriated the party's base, leading Schumer to postpone a scheduled book tour. Elected Democrats across the country criticized his leadership. Senate Majority Leader John Thune criticized Schumer's recent remarks appearing to use the rescissions package as leverage in the anticipated government funding showdown later this year. Schumer wrote a "Dear Colleague" letter Tuesday warning of "consequences that will be felt far beyond the halls of power" if Republicans claw back funding for public broadcasting and foreign aid. "I was disappointed to see the Democrat leader ... implicitly threaten to shut down the government," Thune said on the Senate floor Wednesday. "But I'm hopeful that that is not the position of the Democrat Party, the Democrat conference here in the Senate, and that we can work together in the coming weeks to pass bipartisan appropriations bills." "Funding the government is our chief priority before October, but that won't stop us from considering additional measures," Thune said, in an implicit reference to the rescissions package.On to the OBBB ("One Big Beautiful Bill"): I know TJM has been praising it, but he also won't shut the f*** up about Prometheus, so... shrug. But other people who do not bang on about Prometheus think the bill is something:
Colonel Kurt Schilchter, who ran, as he called it, the "most heavily armed car-wash in the Balkans" during the Kosovo War, also praises the bill.
Bill Melugin
@BillMelugin_ If the OBBB passes, ICE will be supercharged on a massive scale: - $45 billion to more than double ICE detention capacity to roughly 100k beds. - $14 billion for transport & removal. - $8 billion to hire 10,000 additional ICE personnel, more than doubling current 5k deportation officers. - $1.3 billion for ICE OPLA (additional attorneys & support staff). - $858 million for signing & retention bonuses. - $787 for state/local participation in ICE/DHS efforts. - $700 million for technology enhancements. - $650 million for 287g/local ICE cooperation. - $600 million for recruitment, hiring, & onboarding. - $200 million for fleet modernization.
- $20 million to detain aliens with their children. Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons told me this funding would be a "game changer" for the agency. This would give one of President Trump's biggest agenda items - mass deportations - a massive shot in the arm.
Kurt's new book, American Apocalypse: The Second Civil War, comes out next week.
The Democrat crowing about how the Big Beautiful Bill is going to be the doom of the Republicans is about as convincing as Zohran Mamdami's college app claim that he's a black guy; in his defense, he is more Indian than Elizabeth Warren, in a manner of speaking. Though their social media doofuses and regime media toe-sucks are hooting about how Hakeem Jeffries set a record for running his fool mouth and how voters will totally be angry with the GOP for killing eleventy million people -- the BBB is even deadlier than net neutrality, climate change, and not allowing confused children mutilate themselves to conform to their delusions combined -- this is a huge and humiliating loss. It is also a rare exception to the usual GOP MO of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
Let's get the obvious out of the way -- this victory capped perhaps the most potent first six months of a presidency ever. Donald Trump came in kicking commie tush, and for the last half-year, he's been landing score after score while melting every temporary setback his detractors have dealt him. Just a month ago, Iran had a nuclear program. Now, it's a smoking ruin. Today, no innocent honor student undocumented migrant can walk home from reading to orphans without living in fear that ICE will disappear him into an alligator-guarded gulag. DEI is DOA, the stock market is setting records, and colleges are bending the knee to the hated King. Heck, he has even ended the Rwanda-Congo War and brought peace to Zohran Mamdami's people. But, without the BBB passing, it would have been all for naught. The Democrats knew it, and they went all out to stop it. When the sky doesn't fall and the Dow soars higher, they get to explain, "Sure, Trump's brought America a new Golden Age, but his tweets are still really mean!" ... It's so weird to be saying good things about GOP congressional leaders, but John Thune -- he sounds like an MCU villain who fights Iron Man -- made it happen without blowing up the filibuster or setting a bad precedent. ... Okay, Mike Johnson. Who the hell is this guy? Where did he come from? When he got voted Speaker, most of us thought he was an asterisk on a placeholder. Mitch would have to score him an eight-ball of his cocaine just to get the preternaturally serene southerner up to "mild-mannered." And yet, he did the impossible, again and again, somehow bringing together utterly incompatible factions to create that nearly invisible area of overlap in the Venn Diagram that was the BBB. He did the impossible. And you know what else they are saying is impossible? Expanding the House GOP majority in 2026.
... And the losers? I mean, besides the entire Democrat Party? The Lol-bertarian Twins Rand Paul and Thomas Massie believed their own hype of being stalwart, principled iconoclasts standing in the breach. The Freedom Caucus got something by being a pain; these two got zilch and succeeded in doing what many believed impossible -- making libertarians even more annoying. There's no universe where their ideological fantasies pass any House or Senate that might ever exist on Earth. Trump must crush Massie unmercifully as a cautionary example of those who don't get on the team. Paul still has a cycle to get his head right, but we're tired of smug talk. We want wins on the scoreboard, not some dork showboating for sophomoric incel fanboys by failing to accomplish anything except making sure no one else can accomplish anything, either. And if the passage of the BBB helps rid us of them, that's yet another reason to celebrate.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Moonbeam at July 11, 2025 01:13 PM (rbKZ6)
Posted by: GF at July 11, 2025 01:13 PM (Uyx8K)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 11, 2025 01:14 PM (ExV1e)
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Ouch, baby.
Very ouch.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 11, 2025 01:14 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Hawkpilot at July 11, 2025 01:14 PM (oYtl5)
Posted by: Gref at July 11, 2025 01:15 PM (aBgBM)
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 11, 2025 01:15 PM (bvNHo)
Posted by: Corona_Exile at July 11, 2025 01:15 PM (UqsCH)
Posted by: Pol Pot at July 11, 2025 01:16 PM (t0Rmr)
Very ouch.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 11, 2025 01:14 PM (GBKbO)
At least he calls you baby, ace.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 11, 2025 01:17 PM (Yamow)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 11, 2025 01:17 PM (ExV1e)
our government hasn't been anything near conservative since Reagan. At best the apparatus is centrist at the moment.
Posted by: kallisto at July 11, 2025 01:17 PM (dCxaZ)
Shut up and do it. And federal workers don't get paid until it reopens.
Posted by: Stu Podaso at July 11, 2025 01:18 PM (M0V4/)
Posted by: Pol Pot at July 11, 2025 01:16 PM (t0Rmr)
Rice bowls. You know all about that, Pol.
Posted by: Gref at July 11, 2025 01:18 PM (aBgBM)
And my favorite video to ever come out of Uganda: https://tinyurl.com/3un5ekzp
Posted by: 18-1 at July 11, 2025 01:18 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 11, 2025 01:18 PM (bvNHo)
The fact he is to the right of the GOP speaks to its decline.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 11, 2025 01:19 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at July 11, 2025 01:19 PM (BMHsU)
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 11, 2025 01:20 PM (iFTx/)
You're looking at this the wrong way. Alaska's Senators want to conserve spending at the current level.
Considering all the things we want to change about American governance, we really need to stop calling ourselves "conservative".
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 11, 2025 01:20 PM (ExV1e)
Well, he and his bestest gym bros have stayed under budget on poppers and baby oil so far 3 months out of 6 this year.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 11, 2025 01:20 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 11, 2025 01:20 PM (bvNHo)
Posted by: mrp at July 11, 2025 01:20 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Stu Podaso at July 11, 2025 01:18 PM (M0V4/)
And fire all workers deemed non-essential.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 11, 2025 01:20 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Going deep. Out. at July 11, 2025 01:21 PM (9X60i)
Well, beaver can definitely be good eating.
Posted by: Obligatory at July 11, 2025 01:21 PM (t0Rmr)
We would like nothing but truffles, but certain people have a need to keep the crap flowing.
However, without Trump, we would only get a pile of crap studded with razor blades and DCon rat poison, so I guess we get what we got.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 11, 2025 01:21 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: mrp at July 11, 2025 01:20 PM (rj6Yv)
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I think it was in the House version, but the Senate version didn't have any of it.
Still, there's the SAVE act that could get passed...at some point.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 11, 2025 01:21 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
1. Congress
2. Activist Federal Judges
3.
Posted by: Stu Podaso at July 11, 2025 01:22 PM (M0V4/)
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 11, 2025 01:20 PM (iFTx/)
Well, most real men will eat beaver if she asks.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 11, 2025 01:22 PM (ExV1e)
Grubby ice people.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 11, 2025 01:22 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 11, 2025 01:22 PM (bvNHo)
I know TJM has been praising it, but he also won't shut the f*** up about Prometheus, so... shrug.
*snort*
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 11, 2025 01:22 PM (y9nCu)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 11, 2025 01:23 PM (xT8gx)
Posted by: Eddie Baby at July 11, 2025 01:23 PM (s19xO)
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at July 11, 2025 01:23 PM (3sSZK)
DTS should just say 'challenge accepted' and shut it down. Only critical positions and departments are funded at his discretion and those don't include congress.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at July 11, 2025 01:23 PM (3Ope8)
Going back to a Whatever Podcast, I think the common complaint that men won't is from women with a lot of one night stands.
Chad and Tyrone ain't got no time for that...
Posted by: Obligatory at July 11, 2025 01:24 PM (t0Rmr)
Shut up and do it. And federal workers don't get paid until it reopens.
Posted by: Stu Podaso at July 11, 2025 01:18 PM (M0V4/)
If it re-opens. An no back pay for the time off either. It's an unpaid furlough.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 11, 2025 01:24 PM (S/Y4j)
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 11, 2025 01:24 PM (bvNHo)
Posted by: torabora at July 11, 2025 01:24 PM (KtOUo)
Posted by: Eromero at July 11, 2025 01:24 PM (jgmnb)
Posted by: TarzanTurk at July 11, 2025 01:24 PM (/c9Dk)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 11, 2025 01:24 PM (XZ5S6)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Living In a Beaver Cleaver World, at July 11, 2025 01:24 PM (L/fGl)
Shut down the gubmint and maybe Elon and Donald can kiss and make up.
Posted by: Auspex at July 11, 2025 01:24 PM (TUCTx)
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 11, 2025 01:20 PM (iFTx/)
Well, most real men will eat beaver if she asks.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 11, 2025 01:22 PM (ExV1e)
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"The Paolo, he ... how you say ... knows his way around the beaver"
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 11, 2025 01:24 PM (iFTx/)
Yeah I’m counting zero hands in the air.
Same old bullshit. Spending will never be cut. Get used to this idea.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 11, 2025 01:25 PM (ImXfC)
Posted by: Obligatory at July 11, 2025 01:24 PM (t0Rmr)
Chad and Tyrone don't need to keep their women happy because they've got a dozen more lined up to be used like a sock.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 11, 2025 01:25 PM (ExV1e)
It is beyond me why anybody thinks Alaska and Maine are conservative states. Both are 3rd world cesspools with great scenery. Their economies are based on corruption, welfare, more corruption, and meth cooking.
Posted by: Going deep. Out. at July 11, 2025 01:21 PM (9X60i)
Can't speak to Maine, but AK gets the conservative label because they have oil and guns. The oil funds the whole state, and the guns are necessary because there are ginormous bears that actually hunt men in the bush country.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 11, 2025 01:26 PM (y9nCu)
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Alaska, much like Hawaii, is an Indian Reservation run for the benefit of DoD and Big Oil. It just is. Neither should have become a state.
Posted by: pudinhead at July 11, 2025 01:26 PM (W3T6M)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at July 11, 2025 01:23 PM (3Ope
The President cannot withhold pay from either the legislature or the judiciary. Not the members. Not their staff.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 11, 2025 01:26 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Alan Thicke at July 11, 2025 01:27 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 11, 2025 01:27 PM (bvNHo)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at July 11, 2025 01:23 PM (3Ope
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With a budget passed and signed, shutdown theater is over until at least the start of fiscal year 26/27.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 11, 2025 01:27 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Darth Randall at July 11, 2025 01:27 PM (JBDl5)
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Is this proof that Ace reads the comments?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 11, 2025 01:27 PM (7fElN)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 11, 2025 01:27 PM (ImXfC)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 11, 2025 01:27 PM (uWKK8)
Drug and human trafficking wrapped into one big fatty with the child slave plantation scam.
REAL democrats are back, baby!
Posted by: Auspex at July 11, 2025 01:28 PM (TUCTx)
Whenever I go to Rwanda, I always ride the electric bus.
Posted by: wth at July 11, 2025 01:28 PM (v0R5T)
Hey America, don’t be surprised when the world boycotts your privilege of hosting the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
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Oh no! No metric football. Whatever shall we do?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Living In a Beaver Cleaver World, at July 11, 2025 01:28 PM (L/fGl)
Whenever I go to Rwanda, I always ride the electric bus.
Posted by: wth at July 11, 2025 01:28 PM (v0R5T)
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Do you sit in the machete or non-machete section?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 11, 2025 01:29 PM (XZ5S6)
Hey America, don’t be surprised when the world boycotts your privilege of hosting the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
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Oh no! No metric football. Whatever shall we do?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Living In a Beaver Cleaver World, at July 11, 2025 01:28 PM (L/fGl)
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Remember, FIFA being one of the most nakedly corrupt organizations on earth is not a problem, but America deporting illegal aliens is.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 11, 2025 01:29 PM (GBKbO)
Maine has wood. The tree kind. Miles, and miles and miles of it. You do not want to be in the way of a logging truck. And lots of guns. And bears.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 11, 2025 01:29 PM (viF8m)
The script sucks. That's the problem with the movie.
Put the same actors in the original Aliens and its a good movie.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 11, 2025 01:29 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 11, 2025 01:29 PM (ufFY8)
There is RCV elsewhere like NYC primaries for example. But ME/AK have it for everything, across the entire state. And not just primaries but general elections.
This is why the left wants RCV. Because it produces “Republicans” like this.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 11, 2025 01:29 PM (ImXfC)
LOL
Posted by: steevy at July 11, 2025 01:29 PM (YwEeS)
Hey America, don’t be surprised when the world boycotts your privilege of hosting the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
So... the US team goes undefeated?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 11, 2025 01:30 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 11, 2025 01:30 PM (bvNHo)
Unfortunately unaccountability and overruns are the point for Congressional donors: tinyurl.com/2tyej4e9
Probably were the point for Elon Musk also (in addition to the electric car subsidies).
Posted by: gKWVE at July 11, 2025 01:30 PM (K7yuL)
Seriously....show me.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at July 11, 2025 01:31 PM (3Ope8)
The rest of the country pays for California, Alaska, Hawaii, and the Northeast. Pure and simple.
Posted by: Doug Roberts at July 11, 2025 01:31 PM (aubiJ)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 11, 2025 01:31 PM (GBKbO)
Many do. The Maine coast has some very wealthy enclaves.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 11, 2025 01:31 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: wth at July 11, 2025 01:31 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 11, 2025 01:31 PM (bvNHo)
Going back to a Whatever Podcast, I think the common complaint that men won't is from women with a lot of one night stands.
Chad and Tyrone ain't got no time for that...
Posted by: Obligatory
That you serve as a watering hole for the fauna of the veldt contributes not a smidgen to their hesitancy, I'm sure.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at July 11, 2025 01:31 PM (Tv15w)
Posted by: Piper at July 11, 2025 01:32 PM (pZEOD)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea
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I sit with the chickens.
Posted by: wth at July 11, 2025 01:32 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: wth at July 11, 2025 01:31 PM (v0R5T)
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Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 11, 2025 01:32 PM (XZ5S6)
Hey America, don’t be surprised when the world boycotts your privilege of hosting the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
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Oh no! No metric football. Whatever shall we do?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Living In a Beaver Cleaver World, at July 11, 2025 01:28 PM (L/fGl)
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Remember, FIFA being one of the most nakedly corrupt organizations on earth is not a problem, but America deporting illegal aliens is.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 11, 2025 01:29 PM (GBKbO)
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Maybe we'll be lucky and they'll boycott the 2028 Lost Slangelous Slummer Olymdics too?
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 11, 2025 01:33 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 11, 2025 01:33 PM (AcTAo)
Marlene Robertson@marlene4719
Hey America, don’t be surprised when the world boycotts your privilege of hosting the 2026 FIFA World Cup.[-i]
Your proposal is acceptable.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at July 11, 2025 01:33 PM (Tv15w)
Because 90% of it will be spent in DC.
Losing USAID was bad enough for the DC economy.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 11, 2025 01:33 PM (xTIDn)
So, the rest of the world does not want to come to America?
Trump has so much dumb luck that it's amazing.
Posted by: old chick at July 11, 2025 01:34 PM (F3Dlr)
Now you see why I want all the Epstein shit released. I don't care if it burns this government to the ground.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 11, 2025 01:34 PM (8v2yu)
Sources confirm to me the blow up between Dan Bongino and Pam Bondi is very real. This has been brewing for four months and came to a head at the White House on Wednesday.
He has not been in the office since.
Most of the frustration at FBI relates to her handling of Epstein disclosures and disputes between FBI and Bondi about how to proceed.
Bongino appears ready to resign imminently if Bondi remains in office.
Posted by: Mister Ghost at July 11, 2025 01:34 PM (TGPs7)
The guy that plays the robot in that movie acts his heart out.
It should be a crime to use good actors so poorly...
Posted by: 18-1 at July 11, 2025 01:34 PM (t0Rmr)
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Alaska, much like Hawaii, is an Indian Reservation run for the benefit of DoD and Big Oil. It just is. Neither should have become a state.
Posted by: pudinhead at July 11, 2025 01:26 PM (W3T6M)
Pretty much. Outside of state and federal government employment, private-sector Alaskans dependent on "seasonal" work need Uncle Sam's glad hand to help them through the winter.
Posted by: mrp at July 11, 2025 01:34 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: wth at July 11, 2025 01:31 PM (v0R5T)
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Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 11, 2025 01:32 PM
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She gets flattened by the Alien ship in Prometheus.
Posted by: Darth Randall at July 11, 2025 01:35 PM (JBDl5)
Nobody ever gives a fuck about someone like me. But if you’re a 7th generation moocher, never having worked a day in your life, everyone trips over themselves to kiss your ass.
Fuck that noise.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 11, 2025 01:35 PM (ImXfC)
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Michael Fassbender. Excellent actor.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 11, 2025 01:35 PM (XZ5S6)
Posted by: the barrel at July 11, 2025 01:35 PM (K7yuL)
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This is pure poetry.
Posted by: pudinhead at July 11, 2025 01:35 PM (W3T6M)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at July 11, 2025 01:31 PM (3Ope
Think about it for a minute.
If a President could refuse to pay Congress or the courts, he could control them absolutely. At that point it's a dictatorship.
Congress has a spending bill for Congress. I don't know if it even goes to the President. I assume there's a separate spending bill for the Courts.
I don't know where, specifically, it states that he cannot withhold their money but you're a smart guy. I'm sure you can find it if you care.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 11, 2025 01:35 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 11, 2025 01:31 PM (GBKbO)
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"Just like our flavors of ice cream!"
-- Baskin-Robbins
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 11, 2025 01:36 PM (iFTx/)
In the example of two wolves and a sheep voting on what's for dinner you sir are the sheep.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 11, 2025 01:36 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Darth Randall at July 11, 2025 01:35 PM (JBDl5)
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Ah. I was so busy keeping the thread Prometheus-free that I hadn't realized she was in it.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 11, 2025 01:36 PM (XZ5S6)
I don't.
Posted by: Seems Legit at July 11, 2025 01:36 PM (PMtkd)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 11, 2025 01:36 PM (NXz8h)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 11, 2025 01:36 PM (JtH6i)
Posted by: Seems Legit at July 11, 2025 01:36 PM (PMtkd)
Also compare his magneto with Ian McKellan.
But Fassbender did get better scripts...
Posted by: 18-1 at July 11, 2025 01:37 PM (t0Rmr)
Democrats -- Proud Proponents of Slavery Since 1828!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at July 11, 2025 01:37 PM (Tv15w)
Hey guys. We've hit a rough patch with Dad's passing. His retirement benefits never removed our Mom as the beneficiary. So we will not be getting Ciampino's monthly pension like he had planned for us to help live off of. I am disabled and homebound, so we now only have my sister's meager check from her retail job.
We are highly stressed now because of bills and trying to take care of the cats. We cannot even afford to pay for his cremation right now. He has been cremated, we just can't bring him home until payment. His cremation was $3500
We also need emergency funding for our cat Purrcy. He is bleeding from his mouth. The vet consult will be $50 and if he needs a dental, it will be around $400.
If any feel they can help us out with Purrcy, here is our cat fund. https://t.co/iS8XTjbmSR
If you can help with Ciampino's cremation https://gofund.me/0b6581bd
Thanks
Posted by: Joyenz at July 10, 2025 10:28 PM (sPQoU)
Posted by: Oddbob at July 11, 2025 01:37 PM (/y8xj)
The reason to defund PBS and NPR is VERY simple: there is NO NEED for state-sponsored media of any kind! We are inundated by content from an infinite number of non-state media sources. There is NO vacuum to fill; NO shortage of supply.
Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 11, 2025 01:37 PM (TwZXH)
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 11, 2025 01:37 PM (bvNHo)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 11, 2025 01:33 PM (AcTAo)
Not statewide right? Some cities do.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 11, 2025 01:38 PM (ImXfC)
When Consumer confidence is raised, all positive aspects of the economy follow in the wake.
Posted by: Orson at July 11, 2025 01:38 PM (dIske)
One thing we learned from the USAID shutdown is that with incredibly rare exceptions, everyone who has been prominent in DC for a long time is dirty - they all have a spouse, a child, or a sibling on the government or government-funded "nonprofit" teat.
All of them - elected officials, judges, senior bureaucrats, etc.
All of them.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 11, 2025 01:38 PM (xTIDn)
Posted by: Oglebay at July 11, 2025 01:38 PM (2ap+5)
Posted by: Seems Legit at July 11, 2025 01:36 PM (PMtkd)
How fucking nuts is she? She laments that she can't attract male attention in her life. That nuts.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 11, 2025 01:38 PM (y+qgR)
so good
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at July 11, 2025 01:38 PM (3sSZK)
Eleven U.S. cities received the honor: Atlanta, Boston, Dallas, Houston, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Miami, New York/New Jersey, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Seattle.
Well ... bye
Posted by: mrp at July 11, 2025 01:38 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 11, 2025 01:38 PM (JtH6i)
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at July 11, 2025 01:38 PM (3sSZK)
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Mothers can be stupid.
Posted by: Seems Legit at July 11, 2025 01:39 PM (PMtkd)
Don’t Boo…Revolt!@BreeNewsome
“Africa” is a continent that is 12 million miles long, is the origin of human life, is one of the most culturally, ethnically & genetically diverse places on earth & has a history that predates Euro colonialism by thousands of years
We need perspective when speaking of “Africa”
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In fact, it goes all the way to the moon!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Living In a Beaver Cleaver World, at July 11, 2025 01:39 PM (L/fGl)
Nobody ever gives a fuck about someone like me. But if you’re a 7th generation moocher, never having worked a day in your life, everyone trips over themselves to kiss your ass.
Fuck that noise.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
Fist bump. Even when I needed help I didn't qualify because white, male & employed.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 11, 2025 01:39 PM (8v2yu)
Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 11, 2025 01:39 PM (TwZXH)
The moral of the story is, don't be crazy.
Posted by: gKWVE at July 11, 2025 01:40 PM (K7yuL)
*tee hee*
Posted by: Ranked Choice Voting at July 11, 2025 01:40 PM (ULPxl)
She attracts my attention but I will deny her my essence.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 11, 2025 01:40 PM (viF8m)
http://tiny.cc/fv5p001
Posted by: bonhomme at July 11, 2025 01:40 PM (lIio7)
Posted by: garrett at July 11, 2025 01:40 PM (Bi+MU)
How fucking nuts is she? She laments that she can't attract male attention in her life. That nuts.
In Atomic Blonde she tried to bring more life to her dying career by playing a female James Bond that beds a French female spy...the old "I'm stunning and brave by kissing another girl" ploy. But...being a nutty McNutter she French spy was played by a tranny.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 11, 2025 01:40 PM (t0Rmr)
*squints at Krebs*
Posted by: the barrel
My negligent ways with formatting tags ended with my signature.
Tough noogies.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at July 11, 2025 01:40 PM (Tv15w)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 11, 2025 01:40 PM (NXz8h)
It’s like words don’t even mean anything.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 11, 2025 01:40 PM (4mQ32)
What about the rural areas, where they can only get the NPR station?
Who will do the crop reports?
And we let William F. Buckley have a show twenty-five years ago!
Posted by: NPR and PBS! at July 11, 2025 01:41 PM (xTIDn)
Slavery. Share Cropping. Indentured Servitude. Immigrant Visa Workers. Company Towns and Stores.
Plenty of Owners, in all times of all political persuasions, that don't care for the free exchange of currency and labor.
Posted by: Doug Roberts at July 11, 2025 01:41 PM (aubiJ)
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sources = Bongino himself?
Posted by: runner at July 11, 2025 01:41 PM (g47mK)
First off it’s us, Canada and Mexico hosting not just US. They’re not going to fuck over Canada and Mexico. And neither of those two have enough stadiums available to make up.
Second it’s in 11 months. You do t just wave a magic wand and redo this. It takes years of planning.
But I do hope the fans boycott it. It’ll mean much cheaper tickets for games. So please world, by al means boycott. I’d rather pay $300 a ticket than $1000. Go ahead and “punish” me. 🤣
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 11, 2025 01:41 PM (ImXfC)
Posted by: runner at July 11, 2025 01:42 PM (g47mK)
I went to school with an heir to the IBM fortune. Kids dad died and left him an island off the coast of Maine. An entire frigging island.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 11, 2025 01:42 PM (viF8m)
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Evidence women should have never been given the vote.
Posted by: pudinhead at July 11, 2025 01:42 PM (W3T6M)
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 11, 2025 01:20 PM (bvNHo)
Prometheus brought fire to the people, big, beautiful fire so they could warm their homes and cook their meat and forge tools. They worked so hard to get their meat and their homes. And their tools But left-wing Zeus, powerful god, left-wing god, he didn't want people to heat their own homes and cook their own meat or make their own tools. He wanted them dependent on the gods of Olympus for everything. Terrible person, just terrible. And he punished Prometheus in a terrible way, sending a bird to eat his liver every day, causing him terrible pain, so sad. Very very sad.
Posted by: PDT gets his Greek myth on at July 11, 2025 01:42 PM (TbWk/)
How fucking nuts is she? She laments that she can't attract male attention in her life. That nuts.
In Atomic Blonde she tried to bring more life to her dying career by playing a female James Bond that beds a French female spy...the old "I'm stunning and brave by kissing another girl" ploy. But...being a nutty McNutter she French spy was played by a tranny.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 11, 2025 01:40 PM (t0Rmr)
I really enjoy that movie. It's grown on me, like antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 11, 2025 01:42 PM (y+qgR)
Posted by: garrett at July 11, 2025 01:42 PM (Bi+MU)
I don't care about the backstories. I don't care about the gay events like ribbon twirling. I wish I could just stream high quality video of the events I care about, like Judo.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 11, 2025 01:42 PM (lIio7)
I'm in the happy position of being old enough to draw from my retirement account if my job goes away, and I will feel like the bigger group brought the pain on themselves with the climate change and DEI BS if they/we get shut down.
But until the BBB passed our top management were thinking that congress might continue funding the agencies that fund us at their former levels, ignoring Trump's requested cuts and that did not happen, so there is that bit of good in the bill.
Posted by: PaleRider at July 11, 2025 01:42 PM (bP/i4)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 11, 2025 01:42 PM (ImXfC)
Posted by: PDT gets his Greek myth on at July 11, 2025 01:42 PM (TbWk/)
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I want this to be a regular thing now.
I need this to be a regular thing now.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 11, 2025 01:43 PM (GBKbO)
I thought we just had to be patient THIS TIME and pass the OBBB and then we'd get our cuts with rescission and appropriations bills?
"Simon says okay NOW it's okay to turn our ire away from the spending hawks and focus on the RINO's who keep bankrupting us?"
Posted by: Guvnah at July 11, 2025 01:43 PM (ycAHw)
I thought we just had to be patient THIS TIME and pass the OBBB and then we'd get our cuts with rescission and appropriations bills?
"Simon says okay NOW it's okay to turn our ire away from the spending hawks and focus on the RINO's who keep bankrupting us?"
Posted by: Guvnah at July 11, 2025 01:43 PM (ycAHw)
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Massie voted to raise the debt ceiling under Biden because of his principles.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 11, 2025 01:43 PM (GBKbO)
Is Prometheus 2012 a good movie?
Posted by: Boss Moss
No. It is repellant in every aspect of its being.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at July 11, 2025 01:44 PM (Tv15w)
Posted by: steevy at July 11, 2025 01:44 PM (YwEeS)
Posted by: Jack Squat.Bupkis at July 11, 2025 01:44 PM (jYRYu)
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 11, 2025 01:44 PM (bvNHo)
Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 11, 2025 01:44 PM (TwZXH)
Buddy of mine from college has the house closest to the Atlantic Wall in ALL of the US.
It is the single most amazing home and piece of real estate I have ever seen. The views from even the toilet in the Guest Bath are unbelievable.
Posted by: garrett at July 11, 2025 01:44 PM (Bi+MU)
Posted by: E. Jean Carroll at July 11, 2025 01:44 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Jack Squat.Bupkis at July 11, 2025 01:44 PM (jYRYu)
Posted by: Jack Squat.Bupkis at July 11, 2025 01:44 PM (jYRYu)
you can click on his nic and find out !
Posted by: runner at July 11, 2025 01:44 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 11, 2025 01:42 PM (ImXfC)
I dislike using summer as a verb. It sounds so snotty. Sorry.
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 11, 2025 01:45 PM (CueAq)
Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 11, 2025 01:45 PM (TwZXH)
Posted by: gKWVE at July 11, 2025 01:45 PM (K7yuL)
Most of the frustration at FBI relates to her handling of Epstein disclosures and disputes between FBI and Bondi about how to proceed.
Posted by: Mister Ghost
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That could mean x or -x.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 11, 2025 01:45 PM (UmB+t)
Who will do the crop reports?
And we let William F. Buckley have a show twenty-five years ago!
Posted by: NPR and PBS!
RFD TV.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 11, 2025 01:45 PM (8v2yu)
Posted by: Seems Legit at July 11, 2025 01:39 PM (PMtkd)
And evil and violent and destructive. The myth of inherent female goodness and the nurturing maternal instinct needs to be ended. People of both sexes can be quite shitty to their kids. And if you look at the outcomes of single mother households, they aren't up to the task on their own anyway.
Posted by: Speaking of liver-destroying myths at July 11, 2025 01:45 PM (TbWk/)
It would be fun to actually enforce the Foreign Agent Registration Act.
Give people in DC ninety days to register on behalf of their foreign paymasters before starting to enforce it.
The screaming would be epic.
Posted by: NPR and PBS! at July 11, 2025 01:45 PM (xTIDn)
Aforementioned Friends' Grandfather used to love having the Bush's bumped off their Tee Time so that his Grandson and I could be the first on the links.
Always hysterical to see 2-3 generations of Bush Family standing around and waiting for us to Tee Off.
Posted by: garrett at July 11, 2025 01:45 PM (Bi+MU)
Posted by: pudinhead at July 11, 2025 01:45 PM (W3T6M)
Bongino should go to Trump about Bondi...
Posted by: Kamala at July 11, 2025 01:45 PM (VE6XX)
I dislike using summer as a verb. It sounds so snotty. Sorry.
Posted by: CaliGirl
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It's a perfect descriptor for the snots who do it.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 11, 2025 01:46 PM (UmB+t)
I'm still not buying your book, Jean. Your erotica needs more catgirls and maybe should be set in space to be believable.
Posted by: gKWVE at July 11, 2025 01:46 PM (K7yuL)
a family member was good friends with an heir to the SKF fortune. Who also had an island off the coast of Maine.
Posted by: kallisto at July 11, 2025 01:46 PM (dCxaZ)
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Nancy Pelosi redux, just pass the stinky bill (it's really not that bad just hold your nose) and it'll all be fixed in rescission and you'll be happy, happy, happy, sign here. ☒_______
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 11, 2025 01:46 PM (Ri+6K)
Posted by: bonhomme at July 11, 2025 01:46 PM (lIio7)
It is the single most amazing home and piece of real estate I have ever seen. The views from even the toilet in the Guest Bath are unbelievable.
Posted by: garrett at July 11, 2025 01:44 PM (Bi+MU)
Now I want pictures for the cafe taken from the guest bath. Or it didn't happen.
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 11, 2025 01:47 PM (CueAq)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 11, 2025 01:42 PM (ImXfC)
I dislike using summer as a verb. It sounds so snotty. Sorry.
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 11, 2025 01:45 PM (CueAq)
That’s why I used it. 😉
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 11, 2025 01:47 PM (ImXfC)
I don't care about the backstories. I don't care about the gay events like ribbon twirling. I wish I could just stream high quality video of the events I care about, like Judo.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 11, 2025 01:42 PM (lIio7)
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I hate those stupid backstories that are supposed to draw us in and make us care. Sure for the weak-minded. Get on with the 400m race.
Remember back in the day ice skating was like politics, you couldn't win unless it was your turn? Russia (the whole Eastern bloc) would be forced to score a certain way? I loved the outrage (my own).
Posted by: Seems Legit at July 11, 2025 01:47 PM (PMtkd)
Gotta be better than Alien 3.
Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 11, 2025 01:45 PM (TwZXH)
My take: they both had the potential to be excellent movies. But neither of them really belong in the Alien universe. And if they had been written and made to be their own things, they's be better for it and well thought of.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 11, 2025 01:47 PM (y+qgR)
It'll be meaningless because it's just gonna pass in the end.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 11, 2025 01:47 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 11, 2025 01:47 PM (bvNHo)
If that really sticks it will be very useful. If the RINOs have to defend keeping useless BS in a new budget when the R's have a slim majority there is a greater chance of this or that BS actually going away.
Posted by: PaleRider at July 11, 2025 01:48 PM (bP/i4)
Posted by: Jack Squat.Bupkis at July 11, 2025 01:48 PM (jYRYu)
Pittsburgh Scanner
East Hills. Wilkinsburg Ave. If you’re a PA state constable, a caller found your armor, cuffs, radio, and pants.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 11, 2025 01:48 PM (GhIJO)
What about the rural areas, where they can only get the NPR station?
Who will do the crop reports?
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Go to the YouTube search bar and type "crop reports." Everything is available on social media now.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 11, 2025 01:48 PM (UmB+t)
Posted by: ... at July 11, 2025 01:48 PM (Qr870)
You will never get Congress to cut spending. You can't get them to balance the budget.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 11, 2025 01:49 PM (xcxpd)
An heir to the Dole fortune taught at my High School. Other than always driving the latest year's model of car, you wouldn't really have known.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 11, 2025 01:49 PM (lIio7)
If that really sticks it will be very useful. If the RINOs have to defend keeping useless BS in a new budget when the R's have a slim majority there is a greater chance of this or that BS actually going away.
Posted by: PaleRider at July 11, 2025 01:48 PM (bP/i4)
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CRs were done because Congress didn't do budgets. The budget process is finished for the 25/26 fiscal year, so no continuing resolutions will ben necessary. It could start again at the start of the 26/27 fiscal year, nothing preventing that.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 11, 2025 01:49 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Jack Squat.Bupkis at July 11, 2025 01:48 PM (jYRYu)
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Permanent.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 11, 2025 01:49 PM (GBKbO)
Who will do the crop reports?
NPR Stations out here are not the stations you get the Crop Reports from.
Posted by: garrett at July 11, 2025 01:49 PM (Bi+MU)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 11, 2025 01:50 PM (Ri+6K)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 11, 2025 01:50 PM (ImXfC)
Posted by: My hats are YUGE, classy and terrific, really terrific at July 11, 2025 01:50 PM (TbWk/)
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Was he/she fruity?
Posted by: pudinhead at July 11, 2025 01:50 PM (W3T6M)
did you antagonize them like the drunk dude who got his ass whooped by the NHL enforcer?
Posted by: kallisto at July 11, 2025 01:50 PM (dCxaZ)
C'mon, man.... YOU said the preznit can't refuse to pay congress OR their staff. I see that the congress gets paid out of the treasury as ascertained by law. Show me where it says the preznit has to pay them and their staff if there's no budget.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at July 11, 2025 01:50 PM (3Ope8)
Posted by: It's me donna at July 11, 2025 01:51 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 11, 2025 01:51 PM (Ri+6K)
Donald Trump raped me in the form of a swan!!!
Posted by: E. Jean Carroll at July 11, 2025 01:44 PM (t0Rmr)
Great Honk!!
Posted by: Tommy Djilas at July 11, 2025 01:51 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 11, 2025 01:51 PM (ImXfC)
He did the wrong thing once, so let's punish him for doing the right thing now?
"The important thing is to establish a political climate of opinion which will make it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing. Unless it is politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing, the right people will not do the right thing either, or it they try, they will shortly be out of office." -- Milton Friedman.
Every jackass (e.g., Ben Shapiro) who dumps on Massie and Paul and Roy and the other spending hawks (thereby making it politically UNprofitable to do the right thing) needs to take a long look in the mirror when they see Murkowski and the RINO's holding out. You're the ones who set the climate that empowers them.
Posted by: Guvnah at July 11, 2025 01:51 PM (wefsu)
Posted by: American Party at July 11, 2025 01:51 PM (/U5Yz)
Posted by: runner at July 11, 2025 01:51 PM (g47mK)
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I want this to be a regular thing now.
I need this to be a regular thing now.
It's no Zod Faulkner but yeah, it's good stuff. Kudos to (TbWk/).
Posted by: Oddbob at July 11, 2025 01:52 PM (/y8xj)
No. But we would show up last second, drive my VW Bus straight to the Tee Box for the first hole and get out like Cheech and Chong.
Posted by: garrett at July 11, 2025 01:52 PM (Bi+MU)
Posted by: E. Jean Carroll at July 11, 2025 01:44 PM (t0Rmr)
Great Honk!!
Posted by: Tommy Djilas at July 11, 2025 01:51 PM (rj6Yv)
YOU WATCH YOUR PHRASEOLOGY!
Posted by: Mayor Shinn at July 11, 2025 01:52 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Tommy Djilas at July 11, 2025 01:52 PM (rj6Yv)
This item bothers me. Why do we need 100k beds when the border is closed and a large majority of Americans want it to stay that way?
I think it can be interpreted two ways:
1. It future proofs the agency. No longer will they have an excuse to ship millions to the interior 5 star hotels. That cuts out a lot of NGOs and grift. So even if Dems open the borders again, they will have to explain why they are not using their new facilities? (Biden and Obama claimed they had no capacity to turn people around in weeks, so they had to cut them loose with court dates 5 years in future.)
2. It is a time bomb for the Dems who expect to open the borders and make 100K border busters "in process" the new normal. Or maybe even for Trump and the big slavers who maybe were promised a resumed flow of cheap labor and this is to facilitate that?
I just don't know. If there is resolve and this problem is behind us, then we don't need to hold anyone since they will be processed so quickly.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 11, 2025 01:52 PM (8LN1t)
Posted by: Skip at July 11, 2025 01:52 PM (+qU29)
This kid went the other way. The majority of his trust kicked in when he turned 25 but he still got a monthly check starting when he was 16. He made some poor life choices.
He lasted one semester but threw some great parties in that short time.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 11, 2025 01:52 PM (viF8m)
Pittsburgh Scanner
East Hills. Wilkinsburg Ave. If you’re a PA state constable, a caller found your armor, cuffs, radio, and pants.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 11, 2025 01:48 PM (GhIJO)
That's The Dino's schtick. I'll notify him!
Posted by: Doof at July 11, 2025 01:52 PM (5jU2p)
Changing their mentality is a long term project but there's no time like the present to start the job.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 11, 2025 01:52 PM (xjgYc)
Let him. I triple dog dare him to go to the nat on this.
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at July 11, 2025 01:52 PM (FxH7T)
You will never get Congress to cut spending. You can't get them to balance the budget.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 11, 2025 01:49 PM (xcxpd)
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The only analysis I've seen is from the CBO which treats tax cuts like spending and uses baseline budgeting.
The bill's only increases over previous spending were for border enforcement and some carveouts to Alaska. It was matched with the tax cuts extension (not new ones, so just a hole in projected budgeting, which is bs) and the first welfare reform in 20 years by cutting off illegals and adding a work requirement.
If we're matched with a stronger economy that brings in more tax receipts, I think we may actually see a decrease in the deficit over the next couple of years, and not a small one.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 11, 2025 01:52 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 11, 2025 01:52 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: E. Jean Carroll
Now that E. Jean Carroll has been mentioned, how about an hour of Kathy Griffin and E. Jean Carroll.
https://youtu.be/W0AoKDIC7g0
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 11, 2025 01:52 PM (NXz8h)
Posted by: Jack Squat.Bupkis at July 11, 2025 01:44 PM (jYRYu)
He has a website, you know. Talks about movies there. It's under his real name...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 11, 2025 01:53 PM (xcxpd)
Hey America, don’t be surprised when the world boycotts your privilege of hosting the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
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Oh no! No metric football. Whatever shall we do?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Living In a Beaver Cleaver World, at July 11, 2025 01:28 PM (L/fGl)
That would mean the US team wins. They would rather die than see that happen.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 11, 2025 01:53 PM (8avO+)
I don't know.
Can she redeem herself after the Epstein debacle?
Why the theater giving honest conservative influencers a binder full of nothing?
I hope at least a few of them told her to fuck off.
Posted by: Seems Legit at July 11, 2025 01:53 PM (PMtkd)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 11, 2025 01:53 PM (JtH6i)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 11, 2025 01:53 PM (ImXfC)
Posted by: mrp at July 11, 2025 01:53 PM (rj6Yv)
An heir to the Dole fortune taught at my High School. Other than always driving the latest year's model of car, you wouldn't really have known.
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Was he/she fruity?
Posted by: pudinhead
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He/she pined for an apple on their desk.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 11, 2025 01:53 PM (UmB+t)
lol
Posted by: kallisto at July 11, 2025 01:53 PM (dCxaZ)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 11, 2025 01:52 PM (GBKbO)
I want to believe....
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 11, 2025 01:53 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 11, 2025 01:54 PM (bvNHo)
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If it was found by someone like my mom, the pants would be washed, pressed and folded.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 11, 2025 01:54 PM (Dv3i1)
He did the wrong thing once, so let's punish him for doing the right thing now?
Posted by: Guvnah at July 11, 2025 01:51 PM (wefsu)
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No. It means he has no principles and sucks. He's a cheap date for Democrats when they ask him for anything, did nothing to make the OBBB better despite being on the Rules committee, and decided the best way to approach things was to lie about having 10 Republican votes to tank it.
He's a lying piece of shit who votes with Democrats and does nothing to improve legislation.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 11, 2025 01:54 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 11, 2025 01:47 PM (bvNHo)
Carrot Top. Wonder whatever happened to him.
Posted by: Reforger at July 11, 2025 01:54 PM (SJnNf)
Hey America, don’t be surprised when the world boycotts your privilege of hosting the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
Why ?
Posted by: It's me donna at July 11, 2025 01:54 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 11, 2025 01:52 PM (XV/Pl)1
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It was a separate bill that passed The House but Thune sat on in The Senate.
If we can't cut this little trial balloon of spending cuts, the nation is literally doomed.
Posted by: ShainS -- Three Days To 'FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! Day' at July 11, 2025 01:55 PM (N29CD)
Posted by: kallisto at July 11, 2025 01:55 PM (dCxaZ)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 11, 2025 01:52 PM (GBKbO)
I want to believe....
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 11, 2025 01:53 PM (xcxpd)
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All I know is that trusting the CBO on anything is a fool's errand.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 11, 2025 01:55 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: ... at July 11, 2025 01:55 PM (Qr870)
Why ?
Posted by: It's me donna
We're the only western country who is doing something about the invasion by illegals. Maybe.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 11, 2025 01:56 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: American Party
Get yer sh*t together on 2A and we can talk about it.
Posted by: Oddbob at July 11, 2025 01:56 PM (/y8xj)
Terrible industrial accident. Fell into a 5000L chili cooker at the Hormel plant.
Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 11, 2025 01:56 PM (TwZXH)
Posted by: runner at July 11, 2025 01:56 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 11, 2025 01:52 PM (GBKbO)
Except if the economy is booming there will be call to “spend on infrastructure” or some such. The argument is always we have all this tax revenue pouring in let’s spend it. And it’s easier to buy votes with freebies than with reducing the deficit.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 11, 2025 01:56 PM (ImXfC)
https://youtu.be/W0AoKDIC7g0
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 11, 2025 01:52 PM (NXz8h)
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It would be simpler and less time-consuming if I just drove knitting needles into my ears.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 11, 2025 01:56 PM (XZ5S6)
Congress has always done a "budget". It's even done some of the historically normal 12 (?) approps bills - that is, marked them up in committee. The CR "process" beginning in 2009 (2008?) has just generally meant little attention mark-ups, or none at all maybe, and then de minimis floor action, all crammed into a deadline-driven short period in the fall.
CRs are normal tools, historically used as very short-term placeholders (usually in December towards holiday break, or in election years October) while final details of appropriations are agreed on. The distinctive/disastrous part of the last decade+ has been using them as substitutes for the entire normal appropriations process, and then limiting debate or action on the floor of both houses.
Posted by: rhomboid at July 11, 2025 01:56 PM (1m82a)
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 11, 2025 01:56 PM (bvNHo)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 11, 2025 01:56 PM (ImXfC)
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Well, in that case, we should have passed nothing and just had more CRs.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 11, 2025 01:57 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 11, 2025 01:57 PM (TwZXH)
Posted by: Boss Moss
Carrot Top. Wonder whatever happened to him.
Posted by: Reforger
Danny Bonaduce.
Carrot Top is five head Kathy Griffin.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 11, 2025 01:57 PM (8v2yu)
Posted by: banana Dream at July 11, 2025 01:57 PM (cduTK)
According to Bessent, the US has already taken in over $100 billion in tarrif revenue this year and the full year is projected at $300 billion.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 11, 2025 01:57 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: banana Dream at July 11, 2025 01:57 PM (cduTK)
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I have covered this already.
Comment #4.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 11, 2025 01:57 PM (GBKbO)
>>Why the theater giving honest conservative influencers a binder full of nothing?
More than likely, the people who really run sh*t slipped her the envelope containing pictures of JFK's brain splattered head on a gurney, and an arched eyebrow, and she got the hint.
Or alternatively, they fed her the same tired sources and methods, operatives and assets will die if the truth came out.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 11, 2025 01:57 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 11, 2025 01:54 PM (GBKbO)
Sounds like a great guy.
- Mittens McCain
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 11, 2025 01:58 PM (ImXfC)
Posted by: banana Dream
......
He should have veered right.
Posted by: wth at July 11, 2025 01:58 PM (UjdFS)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 11, 2025 01:54 PM (GBKbO)
He's a politician from Kentucky, right?
Posted by: Tommy Djilas at July 11, 2025 01:58 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: American Party
Get yer sh*t together on 2A and we can talk about it.
Posted by: Oddbob
We are currently
Posted by: American Party at July 11, 2025 01:58 PM (/U5Yz)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 11, 2025 01:49 PM (GBKbO)
I don't think Shumer has all that much clout in this even now. The Dems are in disarray and the old line seems weak. The midterms should see more Trump guys (even Musk's forces, if he wins will be defacto Trump guys), and more depraved Lunatic Dems relative to the sensible criminal types.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 11, 2025 01:58 PM (8avO+)
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My guess is Bill Clinton dies and then the Epstein stuff gets released.
Posted by: pudinhead at July 11, 2025 01:59 PM (W3T6M)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 11, 2025 01:57 PM (GBKbO)
The money will be spent regardless.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 11, 2025 01:59 PM (ImXfC)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 11, 2025 01:54 PM (GBKbO)
He's a politician from Kentucky, right?
Posted by: Tommy Djilas at July 11, 2025 01:58 PM (rj6Yv)
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I don't mind Paul, but dude has serious blinders.
He could have gotten those Alaska carveouts removed from the Senate version if he had asked and pledged his vote in place of Murkowski's.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 11, 2025 01:59 PM (GBKbO)
NPR Stations out here are not the stations you get the Crop Reports from.
Posted by: garrett
It's where you get LGBTQ Reports and Florence Price music.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 11, 2025 01:59 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: CaliGirl
What are your thoughts on "winter," can we use that? It seems OK to me so summer has to be OK too for symmetry.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 11, 2025 01:59 PM (8LN1t)
He's got a residency show at the Luxor in Vegas. He still tours too.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 11, 2025 01:59 PM (lIio7)
Posted by: Reforger
He is working at the Luxor in Las Vegas. Remarkably not as a parking valet.
https://is.gd/wobEeI
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 11, 2025 02:00 PM (NXz8h)
Why would Trump protect Bubba? His wife tried to have him thrown out of office.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 11, 2025 02:00 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 11, 2025 01:49 PM (GBKbO)
Another reason why that bill is awesome.
Posted by: Jack Squat.Bupkis at July 11, 2025 02:00 PM (jYRYu)
If he had gotten 10 Republicans together to vote as a block on cutting a bunch of specific spending, I'd respect him a lot more.
Even with the vote for raising the debt ceiling under Biden.
But Massie did literally nothing but complain and vote against the first welfare reform in 20 years.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 11, 2025 02:01 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: pudinhead
It'll never get released. It would topple governments and CEOs.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 11, 2025 02:01 PM (8v2yu)
Posted by: pudinhead
It'll never get released. It would topple governments and CEOs.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 11, 2025 02:01 PM (8v2yu)
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Eh.
The Panama Papers got released and toppled almost no one.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 11, 2025 02:01 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 11, 2025 01:57 PM (TwZXH)
Also part of the part platform:
Identifying young rightish influence-thots to join the campaign head's growing harem.
Prodigious amounts of happy rave drugs.
Helping others level up in rpgs.
Posted by: banana Dream at July 11, 2025 02:02 PM (cduTK)
Posted by: CaliGirl
What are your thoughts on "winter," can we use that? It seems OK to me so summer has to be OK too for symmetry.
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Summering and Wintering seem to work but Falling and Springing not so much.
Posted by: pudinhead at July 11, 2025 02:02 PM (W3T6M)
Posted by: rhomboid at July 11, 2025 02:02 PM (1m82a)
He did the wrong thing once, so let's punish him for doing the right thing now?
Posted by: Guvnah at July 11, 2025 01:51 PM (wefsu)
When your big selling point is purity, its a big deal when you get gang banged.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 11, 2025 02:02 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 11, 2025 02:02 PM (TwZXH)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,
Trust? No one "trusts" them. They are a tool for propaganda purposes for the deep state and Keynesian bitter enders.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 11, 2025 02:02 PM (8LN1t)
Posted by: Seems Legit at July 11, 2025 02:03 PM (PMtkd)
>>Why would Trump protect Bubba? His wife tried to have him thrown out of office.
He's most definitely not protecting Bubba, but he is protecting the machine that runs the world.
Again, this Epstein situation is not going to go away and is only going to get worse the more they tell people to STFU and move one.
Everyone squawking about just get over it, should try that trick on their wife or husband and see how that goes.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 11, 2025 02:03 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Caiwyn at July 11, 2025 02:03 PM (OJfxv)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,
Trust? No one "trusts" them. They are a tool for propaganda purposes for the deep state and Keynesian bitter enders.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 11, 2025 02:02 PM (8LN1t)
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But every assertion that the OBBB raises spending is based on the CBO's analysis if people realize it or not.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 11, 2025 02:03 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: pudinhead at July 11, 2025 02:02 PM (W3T6M)
Winterizing
Posted by: banana Dream at July 11, 2025 02:03 PM (cduTK)
Posted by: mrp at July 11, 2025 02:03 PM (rj6Yv)
Snow White 2
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at July 11, 2025 02:03 PM (MDua2)
Posted by: runner at July 11, 2025 01:56 PM (g47mK)
Because thousands of underage victims of trafficking have zero justice and will suffer until their dying breath for it, and the people who victimized them will continue to do so to others without penalty?
Is this difficult for you to fathom? I don't give a fuck about Trump either way, I care about all these rapist assholes walking around free and likely making the rules for the rest of us.
Posted by: ... at July 11, 2025 02:04 PM (Qr870)
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 11, 2025 02:04 PM (bvNHo)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 11, 2025 02:04 PM (CWTWj)
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 11, 2025 02:05 PM (bvNHo)
They are to be picked up by helicopter from a certain spot but the chopper will wait only two minutes. So how do they arrange that? The chopper will come at night so they can't see shit! Who came up with that plan?
They go to the island by boat and bad spinosaurs and mosasaurs sink two real boats and eat people. When they finally escape the island, the row into the dino infected sea on an inflatable raft. But it's OK. I guess either inflatable rafts are immune to dinosaurs or else they just weren't hungry.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Living In a Beaver Cleaver World, at July 11, 2025 02:05 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: rhomboid
Yup.
Any attempt to tip the Alaskan welfare bowls over will be met with much resistance. The entire state is full of drunks, grifters and pretty much aholes. It's a horrible place.
Posted by: American Party at July 11, 2025 02:05 PM (/U5Yz)
Posted by: pudinhead at July 11, 2025 02:05 PM (W3T6M)
240 If the 'America' Party favors maintaining the H-1B program, that's a show-stopper.
Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird
But, but, but we just HAVE TO bring in low functioning lackwits from South Asia to do the jobs at reduced pay that Americans refuse to do for the Tech Overlords! And they excelled at Science clubs and embedded racial bigotry back in Uttar Pradesh!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at July 11, 2025 02:06 PM (Tv15w)
Kim wrote a blog post (including pictures) about the loss of his good friend who was even more than we knew him to be.
https://tinyurl.com/Jim-SND
Please spread this around as far and wide as you can here and elsewhere since it deserves as many eyeballs as we can give it and I don't want any of us who knew him from here to miss it.
He was quite a guy wasn't he???
Just broadcasting this as far and wide as I can
Posted by: MAxIE at July 11, 2025 02:06 PM (p0Y4o)
For some reason, my insomnia has returned.
In the middle of the night I was watching the end of the 1963 film "Jason And The Argonauts" -- thanks to the moron(s) who recommended it yesterday as I've never seen it (although the wifey had as a young'un).
Wow, Honor Blackman AND Nancy Kovack? They don't make babes like that anymore ...
Anywho, I just stumbled onto the scene where Jason (after Acastus) finally sees The Golden Fleece ... and it immediately reminded me of course of both Pulp Fiction and then Hitchcock's "MacGuffins" -- and of course Ace's famous & classic 2013 post about "The MacGuffinization of American Politics" and insight into "The Hero's Journey" a la The Holy Grail, Indiana Jones, Camelot, et. al. (I remember it being mentioned on air by both El Rushbo and Dennis Prager) -- to eventually be infamously & notoriously plagiarized by one Jonah Goldberg.
acecomments.mu.nu/?post=345514
Posted by: ShainS -- Two Days To 'FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! Day' at July 11, 2025 02:06 PM (N29CD)
Posted by: Hacked gp'
That is their main purpose.
- H1Bs.
- legal drugs
- illegal guns
- Carbon tax (Elon likes!)
- EV
- cozying up to china
- H1Bs
- replacement migration
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 11, 2025 02:06 PM (8LN1t)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 11, 2025 02:04 PM (CWTWj)
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Imagine who would have been appointed. It would have been worse than the twink who steals women's luggage, a fat ugly man pretending to be a woman running health, DEI dumbasses in every corner and generally faggotry being pushed.
Posted by: Seems Legit at July 11, 2025 02:07 PM (PMtkd)
Thats why the Epstein files will never be released. These people don’t care about tax policy or immigration. Trump can do what he wants there.
But on the important stuff, Trump takes orders.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 11, 2025 02:07 PM (ImXfC)
Thats why the Epstein files will never be released. These people don’t care about tax policy or immigration. Trump can do what he wants there.
But on the important stuff, Trump takes orders.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 11, 2025 02:07 PM (ImXfC)
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Well.
You've gone full stupid.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 11, 2025 02:07 PM (GBKbO)
An omnibus is just rolling all the approps bills into one, instead of having 12 separate ones.
None of these procedural options inherently are either bad or good. But the rush-job, lack of floor action approach of late fall omnibus CRs tend to be disastrous because they remove all possibility of "politics" on specific items, i.e. floor amendments and votes.
Posted by: rhomboid at July 11, 2025 02:08 PM (1m82a)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 11, 2025 02:08 PM (ImXfC)
Oh, I see! CNN, whose reporters never attended any of Trump rallies, showed up in Butler that day just to film a warning shot.
Posted by: kallisto at July 11, 2025 02:08 PM (dCxaZ)
You're a lot funnier than Carrot Top. Kudos.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 11, 2025 02:08 PM (lIio7)
Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 11, 2025 02:09 PM (TwZXH)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 11, 2025 02:09 PM (ImXfC)
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 11, 2025 02:10 PM (bvNHo)
Thats why the Epstein files will never be released. These people don’t care about tax policy or immigration. Trump can do what he wants there.
But on the important stuff, Trump takes orders.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 11, 2025 02:07 PM (ImXfC)
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Well.
You've gone full stupid.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 11, 2025 02:07 PM (GBKbO)
I'm pretty sure he's a troll
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 11, 2025 02:10 PM (xcxpd)
To be fair, he won’t STFU about most everything.
Posted by: one hour sober at July 11, 2025 02:10 PM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 11, 2025 02:10 PM (xcxpd)
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Montec, I've always assumed.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 11, 2025 02:10 PM (GBKbO)
He intentionally shot Trump in the ear and missed his brain?
Posted by: Jack Squat.Bupkis at July 11, 2025 02:10 PM (jYRYu)
Posted by: kallisto at July 11, 2025 02:08 PM (dCxaZ)
My conspiracy theory is cooler than yours.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 11, 2025 02:10 PM (ImXfC)
A warning shot that would have killed its subject if he hadn't happened to turn his head a few degrees a fraction of a second earlier, possibly even while the bullet was in flight. I don't think you quite grasp the concept of "warning."
Posted by: Oddbob at July 11, 2025 02:10 PM (/y8xj)
If Blondi is fired, I’m told @GovRonDeSantis has been considered/floated for the role of Attorney General by some over the last few months.
There’s also a private push behind the scenes by some GOP donors who want to see @KenPaxtonTX as AG, but he has US Senate aspirations.
However, discussions have been taking place for several months about who could be Blondi’s replacement if she ever was fired or resigned.
She has not done a good job as AG and everyone knows it.
Posted by: Mister Ghost at July 11, 2025 02:11 PM (TGPs7)
Rumors are that Disney is working on a sequel to Prometheus starring Rachel Zegler.
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Prometheus? Isn't there a Viking movie they could cast her in?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 11, 2025 02:11 PM (UmB+t)
Posted by: ... at July 11, 2025 02:11 PM (Qr870)
Posted by: bonhomme at July 11, 2025 02:08 PM (lIio7)
Saw a podcast about a year ago with Carrot Top and he's a likable dude.
One thing he talked about was not understanding the hate he got. He wasn't trying to do anything other than what was funny to him. Never stole anything or acted like he was better.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 11, 2025 02:11 PM (j/vBG)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 11, 2025 02:11 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: ... at July 11, 2025 02:04 PM (Qr870
Biden's open borders policy kicked the child trafficking rate upwards by an order of magnitude. Perhaps two orders of magnitude. That matters to me even more than the evil concocted by Epstein, his confederates, and his "guests". And the Dems are willing to use any means necessary to protect the child traffickers from DJT and the DHS.
Posted by: mrp at July 11, 2025 02:12 PM (rj6Yv)
If Blondi is fired, I’m told @GovRonDeSantis has been considered/floated for the role of Attorney General by some over the last few months.
Looney Loomer ? Grain of salt
Posted by: It's me donna at July 11, 2025 02:12 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 11, 2025 02:10 PM (ImXfC)
I defer to your obvious superior intellect and ability to qualify conspiracy theories
Posted by: kallisto at July 11, 2025 02:12 PM (dCxaZ)
He intentionally shot Trump in the ear and missed his brain?
Posted by: Jack Squat.Bupkis
He waited for the precise second Trump turned his head toward the teleprompter before he squeezed the trigger. Amazing.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 11, 2025 02:12 PM (/U5Yz)
And since reconciliation remains a mostly mysterious thing to me, still don't understand how DHS got, in effect, appropriations in it. Unless there was revenue raised/existing revenue redirected, somehow. But still, reconciliation was never intended to do appropriations, don't understand how it does now.
Posted by: rhomboid at July 11, 2025 02:13 PM (1m82a)
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 11, 2025 02:11 PM (j/vBG)
It’s like Nickelback. Nobody knows why they hate Nickelback they just know they have to.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 11, 2025 02:13 PM (ImXfC)
Posted by: banana Dream
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He should have veered right.
Posted by: wth at July 11, 2025 01:58 PM (UjdFS)
Just drop prone and roll right three times.
That will get you out of the way of a kilometer-sized space donut.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 11, 2025 02:13 PM (xcxpd)
If Blondi is fired, I’m told @GovRonDeSantis has been considered/floated for the role of Attorney General by some over the last few months.
Looney Loomer ? Grain of salt
Posted by: It's me donna at July 11, 2025 02:12 PM (VE6XX)
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OMG, Bondi isn't going anywhere. Sheeh.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 11, 2025 02:14 PM (iFTx/)
I guess this is showing my ignorance, but who is TJM?
Posted by: Ralph at July 11, 2025 02:14 PM (8WZD4)
Posted by: runner at July 11, 2025 01:56 PM (g47mK)
If Epstein was an Intel Op, then I want the trafficked girls to get a GS pension and VA benefits.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 11, 2025 02:14 PM (D7oie)
I guess this is showing my ignorance, but who is TJM?
Posted by: Ralph at July 11, 2025 02:14 PM (8WZD4)
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An illiterate asshole.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 11, 2025 02:14 PM (GBKbO)
If Blondi is fired, I’m told @GovRonDeSantis has been considered/floated for the role of Attorney General by some over the last few months.
I would take Barney Fife over this blonde nitwit. She's a terrible liar.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 11, 2025 02:14 PM (/U5Yz)
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 11, 2025 02:14 PM (bvNHo)
A warning shot that would have killed its subject if he hadn't happened to turn his head a few degrees a fraction of a second earlier, possibly even while the bullet was in flight. I don't think you quite grasp the concept of "warning."
Posted by: Oddbob at July 11, 2025 02:10 PM (/y8xj)
The assassin sure didn't care about "collateral damage", either. He murdered one innocent man and seriously wounded two others.
Posted by: mrp at July 11, 2025 02:14 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Clarence Beeks at July 11, 2025 02:14 PM (vbZ4Z)
Photograph is a great song about a small town boy reminiscing about the possibilities of life.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 11, 2025 02:15 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: rhomboid at July 11, 2025 02:15 PM (1m82a)
There are no spending cuts. They don’t exist. They’re a fugazi.
The sooner everyone understand this the better.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 11, 2025 02:15 PM (ImXfC)
One thing he talked about was not understanding the hate he got. He wasn't trying to do anything other than what was funny to him. Never stole anything or acted like he was better.
I meant no ill will to Carrot Top. I was just laughing at the retarded comment. I used him as a reference mainly because he'd been mentioned previously in the thread.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 11, 2025 02:15 PM (lIio7)
There are no spending cuts. They don’t exist. They’re a fugazi.
The sooner everyone understand this the better.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 11, 2025 02:15 PM (ImXfC)
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31 rescission sections in the OBBB. It's cutting. The welfare restrictions are cuts.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 11, 2025 02:15 PM (GBKbO)
youtube.com/watch?v=-rbBzbkvUBQ
Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 11, 2025 02:16 PM (TwZXH)
He had clean humor and seemed likable.
I think he had too many surgeries on his face and now looks like an alien or Cathy Griffin, one of those.
Posted by: Seems Legit at July 11, 2025 02:16 PM (PMtkd)
Posted by: ShainS -- Two Days To 'FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! Day' at July 11, 2025 02:06 PM (N29CD)
You have a really good memory.
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 11, 2025 02:16 PM (CueAq)
Posted by: mrp at July 11, 2025 02:14 PM (rj6Yv)
These people raped thousands of kids. You think they care about some dead campaign rally attendee?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 11, 2025 02:17 PM (ImXfC)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 11, 2025 02:17 PM (IEXd/)
Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 11, 2025 02:17 PM (TwZXH)
Posted by: ShainS -- Two Days To 'FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! Day' at July 11, 2025 02:06 PM (N29CD)
You have a really good memory.
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 11, 2025 02:16 PM (CueAq)
I remember.. It was the only Trump rally I ever watched...
Posted by: It's me donna at July 11, 2025 02:17 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 11, 2025 02:10 PM (xcxpd)
There have been a couple of trolls that I wonder if they were actually AI bots to cause fights. They are the ones you insult their moms and they come back with more rational reasons why their point of view is correct.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 11, 2025 02:17 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Mister Ghost at July 11, 2025 02:11 PM (TGPs7)
I don't know that. I think Pam Bondi is a competent, loyal team player and has proven that she's willing to take the heat that kind of loyalty requires.
Posted by: mrp at July 11, 2025 02:17 PM (rj6Yv)
I guess this is what microsoftdicks meant by "prepare for end of support".
Posted by: Reforger at July 11, 2025 02:17 PM (SJnNf)
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 11, 2025 02:11 PM (j/vBG)
It’s like Nickelback. Nobody knows why they hate Nickelback they just know they have to.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 11, 2025 02:13 PM (ImXfC)
And yet, we all kind of came to that same conclusion around that same time. Even if their music is pretty much on par with everything that everyone seems to like.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 11, 2025 02:18 PM (j/vBG)
Posted by: gKWVE at July 11, 2025 02:18 PM (gKWVE)
The shooter went to Epstein island? You should write a book about that. I'm sure you'd sell millions of copies to idiots who think contrails are full of mind control chemicals.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 11, 2025 02:18 PM (lIio7)
I think he had too many surgeries on his face and now looks like an alien or Cathy Griffin, one of those.
Posted by: Seems Legit at July 11, 2025 02:16 PM (PMtkd)
The plastic surgery makes me feel sorry for him. He must've felt some sort of way to undergo facial procedures? He also is all puffed up body builder style.
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 11, 2025 02:19 PM (CueAq)
Oh Lord, please, don't let me be misunderstood
Minnesota Star Tribune Labels Illegal Alien Child Predators as "Misunderstood," DHS Fires Back
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Living In a Beaver Cleaver World, at July 11, 2025 02:19 PM (L/fGl)
It'll be meaningless because it's just gonna pass in the end.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 11, 2025 01:47 PM (GBKbO)
It's a soundbite bill. Politicians love to give soundbites.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 11, 2025 02:19 PM (g8Ew8)
They've done everything they can think of to stop Trump. Doesn't appear to be the stoppable type, and honestly if he was that much of a danger, they just make the shot happen and get someone controllable in place. A warning would be totally superfluous.
Posted by: ... at July 11, 2025 02:19 PM (Qr870)
Fun fact: a cannibal won't eat carrot top Chili.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 11, 2025 02:20 PM (IEXd/)
I guess this is what microsoftdicks meant by "prepare for end of support".
Posted by: Reforger
I get that nag popup just about every day now. I'm holding off and will probably load a Unix emulator. F*ck MS.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 11, 2025 02:20 PM (/U5Yz)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 11, 2025 02:15 PM (GBKbO)
I’m really stupid and slow. But let me ask you a simple question that a simpleton like me can understand.
Will there be more spending by the govt next year vs this year or less?
The answer of course is more. So please explain to me (the stupid guy) how spending more next year means spending is cut.
Maybe I’m just too dumb to understand how this special math works.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 11, 2025 02:20 PM (ImXfC)
Posted by: mrp at July 11, 2025 02:17 PM (rj6Yv)
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I can't decide if she's a good soldier, doing as she is told or incompetent.
If you are not going to tell the truth for a good reason or bad, at least come up with something people can stomach. There may still be pushback, but it might be something they can swallow.
Posted by: Seems Legit at July 11, 2025 02:21 PM (PMtkd)
Posted by: Commissar
I would note that you misspelled Chile but since you mentioned carrots, Chili is the preferred spelling. Plus it makes obvious to the locals here in New Mexico who to mock.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 11, 2025 02:21 PM (NXz8h)
Not chemicals: bioweaponized fungi spores.
Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 11, 2025 02:21 PM (TwZXH)
tried to get electric buses off the ground in Rwanda,
With God as my witness I thought buses could fly.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 11, 2025 02:22 PM (IEXd/)
She fought to railroad Zimmerman along with her friend Ben Crump in a bs trial that helped split this country more than any event in the last 50 years. That should give your answer.
Posted by: ... at July 11, 2025 02:22 PM (Qr870)
If Blondi is fired, I’m told @GovRonDeSantis has been considered/floated for the role of Attorney General by some over the last few months.
Looney Loomer ? Grain of salt
Posted by: It's me donna at July 11, 2025 02:12 PM (VE6XX)
Isn't she a character in one of the Harry Potter series?
Posted by: Luna Lovegood at July 11, 2025 02:23 PM (TTAGa)
Well Mr new Mexico nazi, aren't you special.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 11, 2025 02:25 PM (IEXd/)
Posted by: garrett
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Local 5,000 watt AM station. Also, recipes and bake sale announcements.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 11, 2025 02:26 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 11, 2025 02:29 PM (IEXd/)
With God as my witness I thought buses could fly.
Posted by: Commissar
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City of Asheville to purchase zero-emission, electric transit buses
Posted on January 10, 2018
Multi-million-dollar loss for Asheville as flawed electric buses sit idle
January 18th 2024
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 11, 2025 02:29 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: whig's phone at July 11, 2025 02:36 PM (ySABm)
Because I don't get up in the morning saying "Well, if its good enough for Trump its good enough for me".
Posted by: Doug Roberts at July 11, 2025 02:40 PM (KE3ho)
Joe Biden was so good at international diplomacy and the rest of the world was glad to see him. Now what we got? this just gets worse every single day. Fuck Trump and his stupid DOGE agency!
Is the message here to Americans is don't travel? This is actually like an abusive relationship. Don’t talk to the neighbors! They’ll fill your head with LIES!
Tourism is way down here because no one knows what in the hell might happen to them here. I hate to sound paranoid but it’s like they are walking us in and everyone else out.
I guess that's why there's absolutely no diplomacy in this administration. Trump thinks diplomacy is for losers and winners just piss off everyone in the world apparently.
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