Senate Passes Rescission Bill, But Only After Addind Spending Back In That May Make the House Balk

It moves forward, but the House still needs to vote for the Senate's new spending, because the Senate refused to pass the rescissions as the House voted on.

The rescission bill slashes nearly $8 billion from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and over $1 billion from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), which funds NPR and PBS.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune credited Trump's Department of Government Efficiency for identifying "wasteful spending" and called the bill "a small but important step toward fiscal sanity."
Just two Republicans--Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine--joined all Democrats in voting against the measure, which is slightly smaller than the House version after a carveout preserved funding for global HIV/AIDS programs.

These "conservative Republicans" sure like spending taxpayer money on pet projects.

Vance had to take a tiebreaking vote on a procedural hurdle when Mitch McConnell joined Collins and Murkowski to block the package. (McConnell voted to pass the final bill, however.) During the lengthy debate, Senate Republicans had to rewrite portions of the bill to curry votes from their own caucus, restoring some funding to PEPFAR (a good choice), shifting climate-change funds to Native American radio stations in the Dakotas (a better use, anyway), and some ag supports related to aid programs but more for the benefit of farmers (YMMV). Those and other marginal changes were enough to get the bill to the 51-48 finale.
However, that means that the bill has to go back to the lower chamber now for passage on a short time schedule. The House barely passed its own version of this bill a month ago, 214/212. Four Republicans voted against the bill at that time, a margin that Mike Johnson can't afford this time around.

House members complained about the Senate changing the bill and adding spending back in. They said they had broken arms to get the thing passed by the slightest of margins, and that there was no guarantee at all that it would pass again when interfered with by big-spending liberal Senate Republicans.

The bill has to be passed by the House by midnight tonight according to the rules, or it fails. Then I guess we'd have to go through the whole process again.

Posted by: Ace at 12:18 PM

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Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 17, 2025 12:19 PM (i24o9)

2 ST.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 17, 2025 12:20 PM (i58WI)

3 Spill check.

Posted by: Michael the Texan at July 17, 2025 12:20 PM (ReTq+)

4
Sorry to interrupt, horde, but I want to get this out of the way.

Last night, CBD posted a link to a Jay Guevara memorial page hosted by his friends and family. But it needed a password to get in.

I contacted the owner of the page to get the password, and it's not for Jay Guevara! It's for someone else entirely. So don't bother with https://toastourfriend.com/coop

See you in the next thread, with the same friendly PSA!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 17, 2025 12:21 PM (HL/Ld)

5 SPONGE!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 17, 2025 12:21 PM (xcxpd)

6 House members complained about the Senate changing the bill and adding spending back in. They said they had broken arms to get the thing passed by the slightest of margins, and that there was no guarantee at all that it would pass again when interfered with by big-spending liberal Senate Republicans.

The bill has to be passed by the House by midnight tonight according to the rules, or it fails. Then I guess we'd have to go through the whole process again.

Posted by: Ace at 12:18 PM

One AIDS add back? House will pass this...100%. Now, any future rescission bills are unlikely to pass the Senate this year, so might as well let them go on a judge approval spree...since they are only on #2 today...

Posted by: Nova Local at July 17, 2025 12:21 PM (tOcjL)

7 McConnell has clearly decided to go out with his freak flag held high. EABOD, you quisling.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2025 12:21 PM (Riz8t)

8 "I'm just a bill, yes I'm only a Big Beautiful Bill..."

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 17, 2025 12:21 PM (xcxpd)

9 So the Senate wants to defund Elmo but not Bert and Ernie?

Posted by: Oddbob at July 17, 2025 12:21 PM (/y8xj)

10 The bill has to be passed by the House by midnight tonight according to the rules, or it fails. Then I guess we'd have to go through the whole process again.

Love how the Republicans all stand together.... pretty sure I don't need the sarc/ tag

Posted by: It's me donna at July 17, 2025 12:21 PM (VE6XX)

11 Take the deal. We get two more rescission whacks this budget, right?

Posted by: toby928 at July 17, 2025 12:22 PM (jc0TO)

12 It would be nice if 50%+ of congresscritters were there to represent the American people.

Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at July 17, 2025 12:22 PM (rF2iL)

13 8 "I'm just a bill, yes I'm only a Big Beautiful Bill..."
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 17, 2025 12:21 PM (xcxpd)

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*nods sagaciously*
-Sir Mix-a-Lot

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 17, 2025 12:22 PM (eDVuN)

14 >>>The House barely passed its own version of this bill a month ago, 214/212. Four Republicans voted against the bill at that time, a margin that Mike Johnson can't afford this time around.

Yeah, failure theater!

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 17, 2025 12:22 PM (i24o9)

15 But of course they added spending back in. Corrupt bastages.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 17, 2025 12:22 PM (WIBSw)

16 Senate passive-aggressively sabotaging the bill, maybe? Adding in this stuff knowing the House won't pass it...?

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 17, 2025 12:22 PM (vt7xw)

17 I see the game the Senate is playing. They don't want to cut anything, so, they added the carve out, which is just in your face graft, figuring, with good reason, the House will not accept the bill.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 17, 2025 12:22 PM (tT6L1)

18 > These "conservative Republicans" sure like spending taxpayer money on ~~pet projects~~.
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Themselves, Ace.

Themselves.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 17, 2025 12:23 PM (Q4IgG)

19 14 >>>The House barely passed its own version of this bill a month ago, 214/212. Four Republicans voted against the bill at that time, a margin that Mike Johnson can't afford this time around.

Yeah, failure theater!
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 17, 2025 12:22 PM (i24o9)

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It'll pass.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 17, 2025 12:23 PM (eDVuN)

20 Shame they still get paid for this. Take away their salary until we have a balanced budget and watch the magic happen.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 17, 2025 12:23 PM (BpO1e)

21 Remember the cries of how the Senate had completely ruined the House budget bill?

How it was doom for the House passing the Senate version?

Remember how the House...passed the Senate version in one vote?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 17, 2025 12:23 PM (eDVuN)

22 Susan Collins has the AIDS maybe?

Posted by: toby928 at July 17, 2025 12:23 PM (jc0TO)

23 I thought USAID was dead. Why is its funding being merely "reduced?"

Posted by: Frasier Crane at July 17, 2025 12:23 PM (bNf8H)

24 Afternoon Ace. This will definitely be an unpopular position, but by keeping AIDS sufferers alive you're continuing the epidemic as the sufferers will continue to engage in risky sexual behavior. Lot of $ in continuing an epidemic

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 17, 2025 12:24 PM (egMwa)

25 Broke, bankrupt and stupid is no way to go through life Congress!

Posted by: Dean Wormer at July 17, 2025 12:24 PM (rfMRc)

26 shifting climate-change funds to Native American radio stations in the Dakotas (a better use, anyway)

Make Ernie Scar great again!

Posted by: Bulg at July 17, 2025 12:25 PM (77rzZ)

27
And now I've read the content. Fabulous. The Senate is the failure point. Sorry about those broken arms, kidz, but you've gotta understand, we're not disposable like you. Ta!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 17, 2025 12:25 PM (HL/Ld)

28 “A republic, if you can keep it.” - Benjamin Franklin

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 17, 2025 12:25 PM (Ti0Hb)

29 Speaking of healthcare . . .

Gavin Newsom Can’t Decide Whether Eight Is Too Young To “Transition” Genders

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That's a head scratcher alright.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at July 17, 2025 12:25 PM (GgdB9)

30 The only thing we should be spending money on is the military. Everything else is not needed and better left to the states. End all entitlement programs now.

Posted by: Diabeetus at July 17, 2025 12:25 PM (fq8Zx)

31 I thought USAID was dead. Why is its funding being merely "reduced?"
Posted by: Frasier Crane at July 17, 2025 12:23 PM

I think that it has some minimal statutory functions that can't be eliminated without Congress. Forms and reporting and such.

Posted by: toby928 at July 17, 2025 12:25 PM (jc0TO)

32 Here's how you know it will pass the House.

If they vote it down, the one add back AND ALL THE OTHER GRIFT stay in.

Tillis and Mitch were known to need graft - they took $400M. They could have voted no and taken $9.4B. So, Trump will tell Mike to take the deal, and try again in the next recission (which will not pass, but that will be late in the year, when everyone is prepping Christmas).

This gives DOGE a win. And while Elon got $200M from DoD, Trump does want to reward the rank and file DOGE with their own win.

Posted by: Nova Local at July 17, 2025 12:25 PM (tOcjL)

33 It'll pass.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 17, 2025 12:23 PM (eDVuN)

But of course they added spending back in. Corrupt bastages.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 17, 2025 12:22 PM (WIBSw)

That's the other side of the coin of failure theater, hollowed-out victories. But I'll take what I can get with GOPe, I guess.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 17, 2025 12:26 PM (i24o9)

34 I thought USAID was dead. Why is its funding being merely "reduced?"
Posted by: Frasier Crane at July 17, 2025 12:23 PM (bNf8H)
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Something like 90% of staff were let go and remaining staff operates under the State Department, I believe.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 17, 2025 12:26 PM (tT6L1)

35 Take the deal. Then go back for more. Lather, rinse, repeat.

We don't have a a functioning GOP. We have a few solid guys. But the rest are a sordid skein of slapcock losers, cocksuckers, surrender monkeys, diseased remoras, and perverts who suck farts out of subway seats. They aren't good enough to wipe your ass with.

I wish the deal were much better, but we have to make due with what we have. Take the deal. Then go back for more.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 17, 2025 12:26 PM (iFTx/)

36 We have the worst ruling class in the history of our country.

Cowardly, ineffectual, selfish, short-sighted, weasels.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 17, 2025 12:26 PM (N1DT3)

37 When I said "cut spending," I din't mean my spending!
-your representative in Congress

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 17, 2025 12:26 PM (JvZF+)

38
a carveout preserved funding for global HIV/AIDS programs.

Condoms for Eswatini.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 17, 2025 12:26 PM (63Dwl)

39 Afternoon Ace. This will definitely be an unpopular position, but by keeping AIDS sufferers alive you're continuing the epidemic as the sufferers will continue to engage in risky sexual behavior. Lot of $ in continuing an epidemic
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 17, 2025 12:24 PM (egMwa)

Big Pharma makes a lot of money by "managing" AIDS.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 17, 2025 12:27 PM (FzuHv)

40 23 I thought USAID was dead. Why is its funding being merely "reduced?"
Posted by: Frasier Crane at July 17, 2025 12:23 PM (bNf8H)

Our neighborhood Episcopal church is sure acting like it's dead. Maybe they just took down their bilingual "free food" sign and closed their community garden because they were throwing a snit.

Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at July 17, 2025 12:27 PM (rF2iL)

41 33 It'll pass.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 17, 2025 12:23 PM (eDVuN)

But of course they added spending back in. Corrupt bastages.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 17, 2025 12:22 PM (WIBSw)

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Eh.

Finally ending NPR and PP funding is kind of...big.

If some GOPer needs some minimal graft to get it through, then it's probably worth it.

I remember when people were saying that no rescission packages would even be voted on.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 17, 2025 12:27 PM (eDVuN)

42 But the rest are a sordid skein of slapcock losers, cocksuckers, surrender monkeys, diseased remoras, and perverts who suck farts out of subway seats.

Horde poetry.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 17, 2025 12:27 PM (RsSPG)

43 But the rest are a sordid skein of slapcock losers, cocksuckers, surrender monkeys, diseased remoras, and perverts who suck farts out of subway seats.

and ... Methodists!

Posted by: toby928 is this a trope? at July 17, 2025 12:28 PM (jc0TO)

44 39 Afternoon Ace. This will definitely be an unpopular position, but by keeping AIDS sufferers alive you're continuing the epidemic as the sufferers will continue to engage in risky sexual behavior. Lot of $ in continuing an epidemic
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 17, 2025 12:24 PM (egMwa)

Big Pharma makes a lot of money by "managing" AIDS.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 17, 2025 12:27 PM (FzuHv)

You've pinged on the Mitch/Tillis grift...it was a big pharma carveout b/c they just lost transing minors (aka, that lifelong Pharma perk) this month...so they can't lose another lifelong grift...

Posted by: Nova Local at July 17, 2025 12:28 PM (tOcjL)

45

Is that all there is?
Is that all there is?
If that's all there is my friends, then let's keep dancing
Let's break out the booze and have a ball
If that's all there is

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 17, 2025 12:28 PM (63Dwl)

46 Why do we care about AIDs and HIV? WTF? Don't fuck crazy, people.

Posted by: pudinhead at July 17, 2025 12:28 PM (W3T6M)

47 35 Take the deal. Then go back for more. Lather, rinse, repeat.

We don't have a a functioning GOP. We have a few solid guys. But the rest are a sordid skein of slapcock losers, cocksuckers, surrender monkeys, diseased remoras, and perverts who suck farts out of subway seats. They aren't good enough to wipe your ass with.

I wish the deal were much better, but we have to make due with what we have. Take the deal. Then go back for more.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 17, 2025 12:26 PM (iFTx/)

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Johnson has said that there will be more. Just noises, but he's earned some trust on these kinds of noises.

He and Thune have also made note of the Senate's ability to pass two reconciliation packages in a fiscal year, with explicit mention of how they'll go back to the well to cut more there without the need to "pay for" the lost revenue of the tax cut extension.

Noises, but their noises have paid off so far to some degree.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 17, 2025 12:29 PM (eDVuN)

48 But the rest are a sordid skein of slapcock losers, cocksuckers, surrender monkeys, diseased remoras, and perverts who suck farts out of subway seats.

Horde poetry.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats

Victor Davis Hanson swoons.

Posted by: Bulg at July 17, 2025 12:29 PM (77rzZ)

49 From the last thread...but I think this is an interesting topic

What would make sense ? Solitary. Where you are stuck with yourself ... for eternity. A world surrounded by the entire world you think you wanted.

I remember seeing an argument, perhaps from CS Lewis, that hell wasn't so much an explicit place of punishment, but a place without God. The people CHOOSE to exist without God in any way. And existence without God is hell.

Solitary? Perhaps. Or maybe with others. But either way without a perfect limitless caring God.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2025 12:29 PM (t0Rmr)

50 Baby wins are still wins.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at July 17, 2025 12:29 PM (oSeBJ)

51 Our neighborhood Episcopal church is sure acting like it's dead. Maybe they just took down their bilingual "free food" sign and closed their community garden because they were throwing a snit.

Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at July 17, 2025 12:27 PM (rF2iL)

Do they not have volunteers? My kid would run a community garden free if she got 1st pick of produce - heck, she does it at her university now...

Posted by: Nova Local at July 17, 2025 12:29 PM (tOcjL)

52 I thought USAID was dead. Why is its funding being merely "reduced?"
Posted by: Frasier Crane

OMG! Zombie USAID!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at July 17, 2025 12:30 PM (GgdB9)

53 If ever I’m tempted to feel discouraged I remember how bad it could be now if Trump doesn’t turn his head a fraction of an inch at just the right time on a field in Butler a year ago

I see a glass half full

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 17, 2025 12:30 PM (5MZNC)

54 So the injuns still listen to the radio I guess.

Posted by: Oglebay at July 17, 2025 12:30 PM (2ap+5)

55 Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 17, 2025 12:30 PM (5MZNC)

I rate this as true.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at July 17, 2025 12:31 PM (lUhzf)

56 He and Thune have also made note of the Senate's ability to pass two reconciliation packages in a fiscal year, with explicit mention of how they'll go back to the well to cut more there without the need to "pay for" the lost revenue of the tax cut extension.

Noises, but their noises have paid off so far to some degree.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 17, 2025 12:29 PM (eDVuN)
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You make a fair point stuff about stuff getting passed and funding actually being cut. Not much, but, holy cow, and actual cuts rather than a cut in the rate of growth? Inconceivable!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 17, 2025 12:31 PM (tT6L1)

57 For those of you, like me, who think that the Epstein story should NOT be buried, Charlie Kirk offers some simple clear-cut suggestions to Bondi:

https://tinyurl.com/yc8wv8h4

He's right, ya know.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 17, 2025 12:32 PM (Ti0Hb)

58 So the injuns still listen to the radio I guess.
Posted by: Oglebay

They gotta hear the weather report so they know whether the rain dance is still on.

"Rain dance tonight, weather permitting."

Posted by: Bulg at July 17, 2025 12:32 PM (77rzZ)

59 You make a fair point stuff about stuff getting passed and funding actually being cut. Not much, but, holy cow, and actual cuts rather than a cut in the rate of growth? Inconceivable!
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 17, 2025 12:31 PM

and the cuts, small as they are, come right out of the hides of our enemies.

Posted by: toby928 at July 17, 2025 12:32 PM (jc0TO)

60
I thought USAID was dead. Why is its funding being merely "reduced?"
Posted by: Frasier Crane

OMG! Zombie USAID!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at July 17, 2025 12:30 PM (GgdB9)

Send.... More.... Grant money....

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 17, 2025 12:33 PM (y9nCu)

61 Good afternoon Ace and everyone

Posted by: Skip at July 17, 2025 12:33 PM (5clMv)

62 Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 17, 2025 12:32 PM (Ti0Hb)

Gee, thanks.

Posted by: Bulg at July 17, 2025 12:33 PM (77rzZ)

63 It'll pass.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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That's my guess. Because the bill has to go through by midnight Friday, Freedom Caucus types are unlikely to vote against it.

GOP voting against the bill in the House, the first go around were Malliotakis, NY, Turner, OH, Fitzpatrick, PA, and Amodei, NV. Several GOP members did not vote.

Posted by: whig at July 17, 2025 12:33 PM (ctrM5)

64 61 Good afternoon Ace and everyone

Posted by: Skip at July 17, 2025 12:33 PM (5clMv)

What the hell is that supposed to mean?!

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 17, 2025 12:33 PM (KbCG3)

65 @23. Why is it's funding being merely "reduced?"

Somebody has not finished their pork feast.

Posted by: Case at July 17, 2025 12:33 PM (ilX37)

66 Why do we care about AIDs and HIV? WTF? Don't fuck crazy, people.
__________________
There's a not-insignificant subculture among the alphabet people that fetishizes AIDS and HIV.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 17, 2025 12:33 PM (eZNV1)

67 We have a few solid guys. But the rest are a sordid skein of slapcock losers, cocksuckers, surrender monkeys, diseased remoras, and perverts who suck farts out of subway seats. They aren't good enough to wipe your ass with.

We’ll just put you down as “Undecided”.

Posted by: RNC POLLING at July 17, 2025 12:33 PM (kWfhJ)

68 Is that all there is?
Is that all there is?
If that's all there is my friends, then let's keep dancing
Let's break out the booze and have a ball
If that's all there is
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

Universality Unitarian Church hymn?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at July 17, 2025 12:34 PM (GgdB9)

69 63 It'll pass.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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That's my guess. Because the bill has to go through by midnight Friday, Freedom Caucus types are unlikely to vote against it.

GOP voting against the bill in the House, the first go around were Malliotakis, NY, Turner, OH, Fitzpatrick, PA, and Amodei, NV. Several GOP members did not vote.
Posted by: whig at July 17, 2025 12:33 PM (ctrM5)

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They're allowed their theatrical displays when the House leadership either doesn't want it to pass, doesn't need them to pass it, or have time to work them over until passage.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 17, 2025 12:34 PM (eDVuN)

70 Holy shit

The progtards I work with have made it their goal to “make me admit” Trump is a fraud and a slimeball and was totally in on the Epstein Island crap. They are circling like vultures. The energy is like hyenas preparing to rip an antelope to shreds.

Yikes. Today would be a good day for a fire in the building.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 17, 2025 12:34 PM (4Uhmp)

71 Epstein didn't kill himself.

https://tinyurl.com/3wvdw8m5

We're being bamboozled and the child predation by elites is being whitewashed.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 17, 2025 12:35 PM (/U5Yz)

72 How much did it cost to get $9 Billion in cuts?

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 17, 2025 12:35 PM (i58WI)

73 But the rest are a sordid skein of slapcock losers, cocksuckers, surrender monkeys, diseased remoras, and perverts who suck farts out of subway seats.

Horde poetry.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats

[Sordid Skein]:
+slapcock losers
+cocksuckers
+surrender monkeys
+diseased remoras
+perverts who suck farts out of subway seats

Requested additions to set, Sordid Skein:
-Cultural Jews who put cheese on raw hamburger
-Lindsey Graham

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 17, 2025 12:35 PM (bss/y)

74 Democracy is the political system where the individual gets to choose between suck and crazy.

And your choice is almost wholly disconnected from what you get.

Yay democracy!

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 17, 2025 12:35 PM (Vh9CX)

75 70 Holy shit

The progtards I work with have made it their goal to “make me admit” Trump is a fraud and a slimeball and was totally in on the Epstein Island crap. They are circling like vultures. The energy is like hyenas preparing to rip an antelope to shreds.

Yikes. Today would be a good day for a fire in the building.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 17, 2025 12:34 PM (4Uhmp)

=======

"I know that Joe Biden has all of this information and just isn't sharing it with the world. Kamala, too. I have no idea why they're not doing it, though. Do you know why?"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 17, 2025 12:35 PM (eDVuN)

76 You know Thune is a fcking RINO weasel doing much of the lead sabotage in the background.

Posted by: Red Rider at July 17, 2025 12:35 PM (Z0LyE)

77 Somebody has not finished their pork feast.
Posted by: Case

So when the Muzzies take over, will we still be allowed to call it "pork?" Or will have to change the term for wasteful spending to simply "haram?"

Posted by: Bulg at July 17, 2025 12:35 PM (77rzZ)

78 Its funny, I remember when the left was running around demanding every piece of information around Nat Sec operations during the cold war be released. It didn't matter if it got agents killed, it didn't matter if it ruined real foreign policy objectives. The people have a right to know!

And they did the same thing during the WoT.

Then Epstein happened. And they just stuck their heads in the sand and pretended it was a hoax. "There are no pedophilies working with and for our elites you conspiracy theorists!"

And of course now Trump and co have botched this to the point those *same* people are arguing that Trump was an Epstein client.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2025 12:36 PM (t0Rmr)

79 Bug chasers are worse than furries...and there is overlap there.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 17, 2025 12:36 PM (xcxpd)

80 76 You know Thune is a fcking RINO weasel doing much of the lead sabotage in the background.
Posted by: Red Rider at July 17, 2025 12:35 PM (Z0LyE)

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Thune snuck 90% of what the parliamentarian demanded be cut out of the OBBB by just slipping it into the final amendment in the vote-a-rama.

He's much, much better than Mitch.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 17, 2025 12:36 PM (eDVuN)

81 Funny, I don't remember you decrying Defund the Police at the time.

NY Times Editorial Board Claims Defunding NPR, PBS Is Like Defunding Police.

We are reminded of the excesses of the ‘defund the police’ and ‘abolish ICE’ movements on the other side of the ideological spectrum. They adopted a fatalistic view of vital government services, suggesting that their imperfections justified their elimination. They were wrong, and so are the conservatives who want to defund public media.

https://is.gd/VuqMYQ

Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2025 12:36 PM (Riz8t)

82 They gotta hear the weather report so they know whether the rain dance is still on.

"Rain dance tonight, weather permitting."
Posted by: Bulg at July 17, 2025 12:32 PM (77rzZ)

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They check the old cars rusting around the trailer to find one where the battery is not quite dead and gather around for the driveway moments.

Posted by: Oglebay at July 17, 2025 12:36 PM (2ap+5)

83 I saw Sordid Skein of Slapcocks open for The Butthole Surfers at the Gorge in '99.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 17, 2025 12:37 PM (XZ5S6)

84 "I know that Joe Biden has all of this information and just isn't sharing it with the world. Kamala, too. I have no idea why they're not doing it, though. Do you know why?"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 17, 2025 12:35 PM (eDVuN)

"Don't forget Merrick Garland - he was so respected he was going to be a Supreme Court justice til Mitch McConnell tanked his chances. If Garland thought something was there, he'd have released it. He was always so fair and balanced to all sides, and such a moderate."

Posted by: Nova Local at July 17, 2025 12:37 PM (tOcjL)

85 The progtards I work with have made it their goal to “make me admit” Trump is a fraud and a slimeball and was totally in on the Epstein Island crap. They are circling like vultures. The energy is like hyenas preparing to rip an antelope to shreds.

Yikes. Today would be a good day for a fire in the building.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 17, 2025 12:34 PM (4Uhmp)
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How many times have they had this type of thing blow up in their faces? Just wait, this will turn into something which doesn't matter, according to leftists, because Democrats are significantly impacted.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 17, 2025 12:37 PM (tT6L1)

86 Good thing Elon freaked out on Trump cause he's obviously the spending problem and not the assclowns in the Sentate.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2025 12:37 PM (viF8m)

87 The bill has to be passed by the House by midnight tonight according to the rules, or it fails. Then I guess we'd have to go through the whole process again.

Posted by: Ace at 12:18 PM
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No doubt that's *EXACTLY* what the GOPe in Congress wants to happen.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 17, 2025 12:37 PM (7fElN)

88 I thought USAID was dead. Why is its funding being merely "reduced?"
Posted by: Frasier Crane

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To eliminate it formally in implementing Trump's Executive Order. The rescission bill relates to the CR passed in March which had titular funding for AID programs. Trump has cancelled awarding the grants right now but that is being challenged. Congress passing the rescission bill essentially kills those court challenges.

From what I understand, rescission bills will be used to enact DOGE and personnel cuts which right now rest on the basis of Trump's cancellation of grants and RIF. Always better to have Congressional approval for the cuts as it tremendously strengthens Trump in court battles.

Tom Jefferson used the strategy for the Louisiana purchase. Buy it now and then ask for Congress to approve it later. So did Lincoln in the ACW. Nto much critics could do at that point.

Posted by: whig at July 17, 2025 12:37 PM (ctrM5)

89 Insty:
Minorities really want the police very well-funded: “White Progressives Shocked To Learn Black And Latino Voters Don’t Share Their Radical ‘Defund The Police’ Views,” Ashe Schow wrote at the Daily Wire in 2021. In contrast, as Uri Berliner wrote in his Free Press cri de coeur last year about how NPR went off the rails:

Despite all the resources we’d devoted to building up our news audience among blacks and Hispanics, the numbers have barely budged. In 2023, according to our demographic research, 6 percent of our news audience was black, far short of the overall U.S. adult population, which is 14.4 percent black. And Hispanics were only 7 percent, compared to the overall Hispanic adult population, around 19 percent. Our news audience doesn’t come close to reflecting America. It’s overwhelmingly white and progressive, and clustered around coastal cities and college towns.

How odd. NPR honchos assured me that it was vital to the safety of small Texas towns during weather emergencies.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2025 12:37 PM (Riz8t)

90 38 in a 30 mph speed zone gets licensed susspended for 6 months? Emma Watson.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 17, 2025 12:38 PM (i58WI)

91 Finally ending NPR and PP funding is kind of...big.

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The Donks last week: public TV and radio funding is minimal, trivial really.

Donks this week: millions will die!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at July 17, 2025 12:38 PM (GgdB9)

92 Greg Price
@greg_price11

Lmfao this is incredible. Democrats just stormed out of the Senate Judiciary Committee and Cory Booker spends 5 minutes whining as Republicans ignore him and vote to advance the nomination of Emil Bove to the Court of Appeals.

https://tinyurl.com/yc3rndjp

Posted by: redridinghood at July 17, 2025 12:38 PM (NpAcC)

93 By preventing Pacific Palisades owners from using their property, (even though they all have mortgages due to lenders for the whole property house included), Newsome is going to wait out the owners until they are forced to capitulate (all but a few). Then they'll be lucky to get pennies on the dollar.
Better to have low income housing built where there is no public transportation. In about 50 years, new high income residents will have moved in, displaced the low income housing and completed the transfer of wealth cycle from the banks (bankrupt owners now) to the state.
Ha ha to the assh*%$ liberal CA residents who voted for this. Suckers.

Posted by: actually inside the beltway at July 17, 2025 12:38 PM (A0ECY)

94 91 Finally ending NPR and PP funding is kind of...big.

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The Donks last week: public TV and radio funding is minimal, trivial really.

Donks this week: millions will die!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at July 17, 2025 12:38 PM (GgdB9)

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NPR will amble along.

PP may collapse. Completely.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 17, 2025 12:38 PM (eDVuN)

95 Thune snuck 90% of what the parliamentarian demanded be cut out of the OBBB by just slipping it into the final amendment in the vote-a-rama.

He's much, much better than Mitch.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Yes he did and then rammed it through quickly before the Dems realized they could have objected to the restored parts via the Byrd rule.

Posted by: whig at July 17, 2025 12:39 PM (ctrM5)

96 Report from the Front Lines are that cuts to NPR are going to create 'news deserts'.

Im still laughing 😃.

Posted by: torabora at July 17, 2025 12:39 PM (KtOUo)

97 Who's the cruelest commenter on this site: Ace, Elric, or Y's Dice?

Posted by: Bulg at July 17, 2025 12:39 PM (77rzZ)

98 You know Thune is a fcking RINO weasel doing much of the lead sabotage in the background.
Posted by: Red Rider at July 17, 2025 12:35 PM (Z0LyE)

It’s always repub senators in deep deep red states (I’m looking at you Lindsey)… Somehow Ron Johnson in purple WI never seems to act the weasel but Lankford in the most republican of states does…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 17, 2025 12:39 PM (5MZNC)

99 Why do we care about AIDs and HIV? WTF? Don't fuck crazy, people.
Posted by: pudinhead at July 17, 2025 12:28 PM (W3T6M)
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We don't. But the corruption and graft in AIDS money is off the charts. Probably 90% of all the AIDS money supposedly for Africa never leaves DC.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 17, 2025 12:40 PM (iFTx/)

100 Those PEPFAR funds aren’t even for US citizens. It’s for mostly third world countries.

Let that sink in. For Susan Collin’s and Lisa Murkowski their hill to die on was global AIDS prevention funding.

Posted by: Vengeance at July 17, 2025 12:40 PM (g88zo)

101 Hahahahaha

Posted by: torabora at July 17, 2025 12:40 PM (KtOUo)

102 They said they had broken arms to get the thing passed
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I'm sure there's a Michelle Fields joke in here somewhere.

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2025 12:41 PM (Qr870)

103
NPR will amble along.

PP may collapse. Completely.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Direct from the CPB webpage last night, they had federal funding of about 15 percent of the total spending on PBS and NPR.

This is exactly the type of program that the states should run, not fedgov. Too many leftists have BBC fantasies (and yes I know what the subtext might be considered).

Posted by: whig at July 17, 2025 12:41 PM (ctrM5)

104
Let that sink in. For Susan Collin’s and Lisa Murkowski their hill to die on was global AIDS prevention funding.
Posted by: Vengeance at July 17, 2025 12:40 PM (g88zo)

Can't wait for DataRepublican to draw out that little gem of a graph.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 17, 2025 12:41 PM (RlmPm)

105 >>Who's the cruelest commenter on this site: Ace, Elric, or Y's Dice?

garrett. And it's not close.

Also one of the nicest.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2025 12:42 PM (viF8m)

106 Ace, can’t wait for the article on how Salazar and Lawler are now pushing for illegal alien amnesty.

Posted by: Vengeance at July 17, 2025 12:42 PM (g88zo)

107 104
Let that sink in. For Susan Collin’s and Lisa Murkowski their hill to die on was global AIDS prevention funding.
Posted by: Vengeance at July 17, 2025 12:40 PM (g88zo)

Can't wait for DataRepublican to draw out that little gem of a graph.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 17, 2025 12:41 PM (RlmPm)

Nope, wasn't their hill - they both still voted no.

Posted by: Nova Local at July 17, 2025 12:42 PM (tOcjL)

108 Who's the cruelest commenter on this site: Ace, Elric, or Y's Dice?
Posted by: Bulg at July 17, 2025 12:39 PM (77rzZ)

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Your mother was a hamster.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 17, 2025 12:42 PM (2UnvF)

109 >>Who's the cruelest commenter on this site: Ace, Elric, or Y's Dice?

They all have a glorious command of invective. Maybe ask VDH?

Posted by: Nazdar at July 17, 2025 12:42 PM (NcvvS)

110 Pass it and remove the AIDS stuff in the next bill

Posted by: It's me donna at July 17, 2025 12:42 PM (VE6XX)

111 103 Direct from the CPB webpage last night, they had federal funding of about 15 percent of the total spending on PBS and NPR.

This is exactly the type of program that the states should run, not fedgov. Too many leftists have BBC fantasies (and yes I know what the subtext might be considered).
Posted by: whig at July 17, 2025 12:41 PM (ctrM5)

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Cutting out a 15%, completely free, stream of cash is going to hurt any organization.

They'll have to reorg and pull back on operational costs.

But they should survive.

I really don't think private donations will outweigh the lost Medicaid funds for PP, though, in the OBBB.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 17, 2025 12:43 PM (eDVuN)

112 I’m getting the impression that Maine and Alaska do a lot of sucking off the federal teet and are states of layabouts.

Posted by: Vengeance at July 17, 2025 12:43 PM (g88zo)

113 100 Those PEPFAR funds aren’t even for US citizens. It’s for mostly third world countries.

Let that sink in. For Susan Collin’s and Lisa Murkowski their hill to die on was global AIDS prevention funding.
Posted by: Vengeance
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Donors in the case of Murcow and electoral fears for Collins is my guess. I dislike Murcow much more than Collins (although the saccharine bullshit she occasionally speaks annoys me.) Murcow is not the best senator that Red State AK can do. Collins is about the best for a deepening blue ME that the GOP can get.

Posted by: whig at July 17, 2025 12:43 PM (ctrM5)

114 I wish the deal were much better, but we have to make due with what we have. Take the deal. Then go back for more.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 17, 2025 12:26 PM (iFTx/)

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Johnson has said that there will be more. Just noises, but he's earned some trust on these kinds of noises.

He and Thune have also made note of the Senate's ability to pass two reconciliation packages in a fiscal year, with explicit mention of how they'll go back to the well to cut more there without the need to "pay for" the lost revenue of the tax cut extension.

Noises, but their noises have paid off so far to some degree.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 17, 2025 12:29 PM (eDVuN)
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Exactly. Take the deal while it exists. Then go back for more. There does seem to suddenly be an appetite to gut the federal Bog of Eternal Stench, at least among the rank and file. It's the usual vomitous harpies and asscracks that are mucking the whole thing up.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 17, 2025 12:43 PM (iFTx/)

115 Finally ending NPR and PP funding is kind of...big.

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The Donks last week: public TV and radio funding is minimal, trivial really.

Donks this week: millions will die!

As I've said before, the amount of money going to NPR/PBS is trivial in the scheme of overall government spending, but it's an absolutely indispensable indicator that the GOP has finally gotten the message.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2025 12:43 PM (Riz8t)

116 Who's the cruelest commenter on this site: Ace, Elric, or Y's Dice?
Posted by: Bulg at July 17, 2025 12:39 PM (77rzZ)
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They are the New Cruelty.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 17, 2025 12:43 PM (XZ5S6)

117 I don't need to see an lists.

All I want is for the unredacted Epstein search warrants for his residences, devices and accounts as well as the LE/IC dossier and assessment.

Remember, this is what everyone wanted regarding Crossfire Hurricane, which we never got either.

The affidavits will reveal what they were investigating, what they were seeking and who they were targeting and who was feeding them information and the extent and scope of this thing.

The dossiers will show us the LE/IC thinking of who they thought Epstein and his operation was.

It should take less than two weeks to compile this information and release it to the public.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 17, 2025 12:43 PM (XV/Pl)

118 One thing evident reading the exhaustively documented Blacklisted by History; the leftists have used the exact same playbook for at least 80 years now. I’m somewhat taken aback by the similar treatment Mr. Trump has received compared with Sen. McCarthy.

Particularly through the media, though not exclusively so, but the ability of the politicians to take things out of context, and completely fabricate controversies out of whole cloth, and then amplify them through the power of the press is a sight to behold. Everything you’ve been taught about the “Red Scare” and Senator McCarthy is wrong. Not just a little bit, completely and utterly wrong.

But it is received wisdom, even by those on “our side”. It may be the electorate is catching on to the scams a little bit, considering they have completely tuned them out, but they still have considerable power and can jinn up rioting mobs willing to torch your town on a moment’s notice. They have raised an army of disaffected defectives ready to deploy, seemingly chronically unable to connect the dots on who is really responsible for the misery being ladled out daily. I predict this will change, and dramatically so.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 17, 2025 12:44 PM (dDLWu)

119 Funny post at Twitchy showing that even with the handling of the Epstein crap, Trump's popularity with Republicans has gone up. Enten at CNN had a couple of polls and the news persons head looked like it would implode

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 17, 2025 12:44 PM (egMwa)

120 In about 50 years, new high income residents will have moved in, displaced the low income housing and completed the transfer of wealth cycle from the banks (bankrupt owners now) to the state.
Ha ha to the assh*%$ liberal CA residents who voted for this. Suckers.
Posted by: actually inside the beltway at July 17, 2025 12:38 PM (A0ECY)

There's a good possibility that Southern California will financially collapse as everyone moves out, and that the Palisades in 50 years will look like the ruins of Rome did about 800 ad.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 17, 2025 12:44 PM (uWKK8)

121 I would love to see the propagandists at Firing Line (Buckley is rolling over in his grave over what that show has become) and PBS New Hour all out of jobs…. Or at the very least run those propaganda shows without taxpayer money

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 17, 2025 12:44 PM (5MZNC)

122 Who's the cruelest commenter on this site: Ace, Elric, or Y's Dice?
Posted by: Bulg at July 17, 2025 12:39 PM

Obviously it’s me. ☺️

Posted by: Piper at July 17, 2025 12:45 PM (pRpzT)

123 Connie Francis morte at 87.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 17, 2025 12:45 PM (/U5Yz)

124 Obviously it’s me. ☺️
Posted by: Piper at July 17, 2025 12:45 PM (pRpzT)

Me too....

Posted by: It's me donna at July 17, 2025 12:45 PM (VE6XX)

125 Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at July 17, 2025 12:34 PM (GgdB9)

Actually , Unitarians have some hymns which people from other Protestant traditions would probably know .UU's just focus on God the creator and people living a life of peace and justice, and Jesus as the great teacher without his death as a sacrifice to save humanity or his resurrection although they might save Jesus " Lived again through his teaching.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 17, 2025 12:45 PM (2GCMq)

126 I don't think the Senate has the Constitutional authority to add spending to a bill from the House - since that would mean the spending originated in the Senate. I think the Senate can cut spending, but not add in new spending.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at July 17, 2025 12:45 PM (Da7Vv)

127 @actually inside, the history of low-income housing in LA is that it is vastly overpriced and just public grift into the pockets of well-connected developers, who then contribute to their politicians they own. It's Chinatown, Jake.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at July 17, 2025 12:45 PM (eStot)

128 Why do we care about AIDs and HIV? WTF? Don't fuck crazy, people.
Posted by: pudinhead at July 17, 2025 12:28 PM (W3T6M)

Part of it is that the money was being used in Mozambique for abortions.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 17, 2025 12:46 PM (D7oie)

129
Despite all the resources we’d devoted to building up our news audience among blacks and Hispanics, the numbers have barely budged. In 2023, according to our demographic research, 6 percent of our news audience was black, far short of the overall U.S. adult population, which is 14.4 percent black. And Hispanics were only 7 percent, compared to the overall Hispanic adult population, around 19 percent.

Because everyone knows that Black and Hispanic types all LOVE that faggy NPR whisper voice in the newsreaders, and classical music written by pasty white Europeans.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 17, 2025 12:46 PM (y9nCu)

130 >>the news persons head looked like it would implode

Not like there's anything inside to impede that.

Posted by: Nazdar at July 17, 2025 12:46 PM (NcvvS)

131 Murkowski is finished in Alaska and she knows it. She only won last time because of the ranked choice voting scheme. Republicans are determined to put forth a consensus candidate and get rid of that coke slob once and for all.

Posted by: Vengeance at July 17, 2025 12:46 PM (g88zo)

132 Report from the Front Lines are that cuts to NPR are going to create 'news deserts'.

I'm sure the bruthas in the hood all sit down at 5 pm to listen to hot takes from Judy Woodruff.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2025 12:46 PM (Riz8t)

133 126 I don't think the Senate has the Constitutional authority to add spending to a bill from the House - since that would mean the spending originated in the Senate. I think the Senate can cut spending, but not add in new spending.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at July 17, 2025 12:45 PM (Da7Vv)

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"Oh, really?"
-The ACA

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 17, 2025 12:46 PM (eDVuN)

134 Lankford in the most republican of states does…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt
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Lankford is a sanctimonious pos in my opinion. Shady shit was going on at the Baptist youth camp he headed and his testimony given in a lawsuit against the camp was horrendous.

OK would be well rid of him. Plus Mark Tapscott has a hardon for this guy and Mark prefers sanctimonious weasels instead of someone deplorable actually fighting the good fight.

Posted by: whig at July 17, 2025 12:46 PM (ctrM5)

135 Who's the cruelest commenter on this site: Ace, Elric, or Y's Dice?
Posted by: Bulg at July 17, 2025 12:39 PM (77rzZ)
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The Blade is honored to be included in this Bermuda Triangle of Cruelty

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 17, 2025 12:46 PM (iFTx/)

136 119 Funny post at Twitchy showing that even with the handling of the Epstein crap, Trump's popularity with Republicans has gone up. Enten at CNN had a couple of polls and the news persons head looked like it would implode

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 17, 2025 12:44 PM (egMwa)

B/c no one gives a sh&t...they b&tch and moan on internet boards, but they are happy with tax cuts, decreased egg prices, safer neighborhoods through illegal criminals being arrested, and a return to a non-woke country where girls can be girls and boys can be boys.

Posted by: Nova Local at July 17, 2025 12:46 PM (tOcjL)

137 Let that sink in. For Susan Collin’s and Lisa Murkowski their hill to die on was global AIDS prevention funding.
Posted by: Vengeance at July 17, 2025 12:40 PM (g88zo)

some of that money is being diverted to preform abortions in Africa, which appears to be their hill to die on after all.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 17, 2025 12:47 PM (D7oie)

138 All Things Consisered in tha hood.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 17, 2025 12:47 PM (i58WI)

139 There's a good possibility that Southern California will financially collapse as everyone moves out, and that the Palisades in 50 years will look like the ruins of Rome did about 800 ad. Posted by: Tom Servo at July 17, 2025 12:44 PM (uWKK

Just wait until the earthquake.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at July 17, 2025 12:47 PM (eStot)

140
How does McConnell vote? With the beeping light on the front of his wheelchair/life-support booth?

Maybe they just connect a cable from a port in the booth to his voting console.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at July 17, 2025 12:47 PM (kMjf0)

141 Susan Collins needs a punch in the dick.

Posted by: Vengeance at July 17, 2025 12:47 PM (g88zo)

142 assclowns and harpies and fart suckers Oh my.
assclowns and harpies and fart suckers Oh my.

Posted by: DaveA at July 17, 2025 12:48 PM (FhXTo)

143 >>Funny post at Twitchy showing that even with the handling of the Epstein crap, Trump's popularity with Republicans has gone up

No way, really? You mean people care about silly things like inflation and tax cuts?

shocker

Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2025 12:48 PM (viF8m)

144 Who's the cruelest commenter on this site: Ace, Elric, or Y's Dice?
Posted by: Bulg at July 17, 2025 12:39 PM (77rzZ)

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Gentlemen, I despise each and every one of you.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 17, 2025 12:48 PM (2UnvF)

145 >>>Report from the Front Lines are that cuts to NPR are going to create 'news deserts'.

That wins the prize for the most retarded thing you will read this week.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 17, 2025 12:48 PM (i24o9)

146 JJ ran a story this morning about RFK Jr firing two of his top aides. They weren't holdovers; one had been a decent Trump political appointee in his first term, and the other had been a highly regarded Republican congressional staffer before Kennedy chose them (or was told to choose them, more likely)
BUT... the two (female) highly placed members of his staff got into a personal bitchfight with each other, Lord knows why, and it started to spread throughout his staff as each one tried to get the other fired. RFK Jr. finally had enough and said "to hell with it, be gone the both of you!"

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 17, 2025 12:48 PM (uWKK8)

147 Epstein didn't kill himself.

https://tinyurl.com/3wvdw8m5

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 17, 2025 12:35 PM (/U5Yz)

Why is Maxwell still alive?

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at July 17, 2025 12:48 PM (oSeBJ)

148 >>How does McConnell vote? With the beeping light on the front of his wheelchair/life-support booth?

Maybe they just connect a cable from a port in the booth to his voting console.

One shart is yes, two sharts are no.

Posted by: Vengeance at July 17, 2025 12:48 PM (g88zo)

149 There is much wailing and knashing of teeth about EBT and the one that pays your rent cuts. Did any of that happen?

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 17, 2025 12:49 PM (i58WI)

150 While I want more cuts in Federal spending at least there getting rid of some things. Defunding NPR and PBS may not bring giant savings, but it is both symbolic and practical. And it makes the Dems cry

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 17, 2025 12:49 PM (egMwa)

151 This is exactly the type of program that the states should run, not fedgov.
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Imma okay with state's doing this but they better have some Demolition Derbies and shit that real people want to watch.

Posted by: pudinhead at July 17, 2025 12:49 PM (W3T6M)

152 shit pebbles so good
shit nuggets almost as good
so yum

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at July 17, 2025 12:49 PM (3QVBj)

153 RFK Jr. finally had enough and said "to hell with it, be gone the both of you!"
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 17, 2025 12:48 PM (uWKK

I envy that man

Posted by: Kindltot at July 17, 2025 12:49 PM (D7oie)

154 142 assclowns and harpies and fart suckers Oh my.
assclowns and harpies and fart suckers Oh my.

Posted by: DaveA at July 17, 2025 12:48 PM

Explain this fart sucking you speak of....

Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at July 17, 2025 12:49 PM (IifOV)

155 Hopefully when the Arabs take over we get an Emir with a since of humor.

Posted by: Case at July 17, 2025 12:49 PM (ilX37)

156 Because everyone knows that Black and Hispanic types all LOVE that faggy NPR whisper voice in the newsreaders, and classical music written by pasty white Europeans. Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 17, 2025 12:46 PM (y9nCu)

It would be really, really, really funny to hear what the NPR geniuses would come up with to appeal to a more black and Hispanic audience simultaneously.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at July 17, 2025 12:49 PM (eStot)

157 Report from the Front Lines are that cuts to NPR are going to create 'news deserts'.

I was listening to the local NPR classical station on the way to an appointment this morning, when their "news" came on. Guess what led. Go on, guess.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2025 12:50 PM (Riz8t)

158 Who's the cruelest commenter on this site: Ace, Elric, or Y's Dice?
Posted by: Bulg at July 17, 2025 12:39 PM (77rzZ)

Who?

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at July 17, 2025 12:50 PM (2J/Lj)

159 126 I don't think the Senate has the Constitutional authority to add spending to a bill from the House - since that would mean the spending originated in the Senate. I think the Senate can cut spending, but not add in new spending.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at July 17, 2025 12:45 PM (Da7Vv)

They can only do it if the House agrees and then ratifies what they did - which is why it all fails if the House doesn't do so by Friday night.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 17, 2025 12:50 PM (uWKK8)

160 145 >>>Report from the Front Lines are that cuts to NPR are going to create 'news deserts'.

That wins the prize for the most retarded thing you will read this week.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 17, 2025 12:48 PM (i24o9)

Their heads are so far up their own asses they can almost see daylight again.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 17, 2025 12:50 PM (RlmPm)

161 Epstein didn't kill himself.

Trying to avoid He who should not be named.. some hit piece is supposedly coming out today connecting trump to the mess....

Posted by: It's me donna at July 17, 2025 12:50 PM (VE6XX)

162 There's a good possibility that Southern California will financially collapse as everyone moves out, and that the Palisades in 50 years will look like the ruins of Rome did about 800 ad.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 17, 2025 12:44 PM (uWKK

I’m pretty sure that won’t happen. I lived there a long time and have several relatives and friends still there… so I visit often. Despite what you hear and see in the news it’s still a largely beautiful and pleasant place. For instance, when the insane were protesting ICE in LA a few weeks ago all was normal and beautiful just 30 minutes south….

I will say it’s absolutely true that govt there is doing all they can to destroy that beautiful place

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 17, 2025 12:50 PM (ZtAny)

163 147 Epstein didn't kill himself.

https://tinyurl.com/3wvdw8m5

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 17, 2025 12:35 PM (/U5Yz)

Why is Maxwell still alive?
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating

Good question. She probably has a kill switch out there.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 17, 2025 12:50 PM (/U5Yz)

164 So the corruption and graft behind the AIDS/HIV pretext will continue as usual.

Posted by: Rod at July 17, 2025 12:51 PM (z0FFS)

165 BUT... the two (female) highly placed members of his staff got into a personal bitchfight with each other, Lord knows why, and it started to spread throughout his staff as each one tried to get the other fired. RFK Jr. finally had enough and said "to hell with it, be gone the both of you!"
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 17, 2025 12:48 PM (uWKK

———

Like I asked in the previous thread: why do most regrets revolve around women?

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 17, 2025 12:51 PM (Vh9CX)

166 There is much wailing and knashing of teeth about EBT and the one that pays your rent cuts. Did any of that happen? Posted by: Boss Moss at July 17, 2025 12:49 PM (i58WI)

No, but from your mouth to God's ears.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at July 17, 2025 12:51 PM (eStot)

167 Take the deal. Then go back for more. Lather, rinse, repeat.

We don't have a a functioning GOP. We have a few solid guys. But the rest are a sordid skein of slapcock losers, cocksuckers, surrender monkeys, diseased remoras, and perverts who suck farts out of subway seats. They aren't good enough to wipe your ass with.

I wish the deal were much better, but we have to make due with what we have. Take the deal. Then go back for more.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 17, 2025 12:26 PM (iFTx/)

That is the best description of the Republican Party I have ever seen...and I am stealing it! You are a spectacular wordsmith Elric! All hail to you!

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at July 17, 2025 12:51 PM (9RaL8)

168 26 I don't think the Senate has the Constitutional authority to add spending to a bill from the House - since that would mean the spending originated in the Senate. I think the Senate can cut spending, but not add in new spending.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President

You would be wrong. Tax and spending bills have to originate in the House, after that, Senate can do as they please with it and the House can disagree with what the Senate did.

Obamacare was passed, if I recall correctly, by removing all the language out a House passed minor tax bill by amendment. Then the senate crammed all the language of Obamacare into that bill to the House and sent it back to the House. They did this because reconciling the bill without a filibuster was no longer possible due to Scott Brown's election and the Dems falling to 59 votes in the Senate.

Posted by: whig at July 17, 2025 12:51 PM (ctrM5)

169
38 in a 30 mph speed zone gets licensed susspended for 6 months? Emma Watson.
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 17, 2025 12:38 PM (i58WI)

To be fair, she supposedly has a lead foot and has a huge stack of speeding tickets. This was apparently the last straw.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 17, 2025 12:52 PM (y9nCu)

170 Epstein didn't kill himself.

https://tinyurl.com/3wvdw8m5

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 17, 2025 12:35 PM (/U5Yz)

Why is Maxwell still alive?
Posted by: Washington Nearsider

She only had one client. She pimped girls to Epstein. Or so everyone says.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 17, 2025 12:52 PM (k3Vs9)

171 Lankford in the most republican of states does…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt
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Lankford is a sanctimonious pos in my opinion. Shady shit was going on at the Baptist youth camp he headed and his testimony given in a lawsuit against the camp was horrendous.

OK would be well rid of him. Plus Mark Tapscott has a hardon for this guy and Mark prefers sanctimonious weasels instead of someone deplorable actually fighting the good fight.
Posted by: whig at July 17, 2025 12:46 PM (ctrM5)
____

In context, I don't think his testimony was that bad, but otherwise I agree. I think he was very poorly prepped for that deposition. He seemed not to know the age of consent in OK. It was an incredibly stupid lawsuit to begin with; obviously a legal money-grab.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 17, 2025 12:52 PM (iFTx/)

172 It would be really, really, really funny to hear what the NPR geniuses would come up with to appeal to a more black and Hispanic audience simultaneously.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at July 17, 2025 12:49 PM (eStot)

"What if we just ran a couple dozen McDonalds' ads all in a row?"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 17, 2025 12:53 PM (RlmPm)

173 38 in a 30 mph speed zone gets licensed susspended for 6 months? Emma Watson.
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 17, 2025 12:38 PM (i58WI)

To be fair, she supposedly has a lead foot and has a huge stack of speeding tickets. This was apparently the last straw.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur

Supposedly four this year already. Points add up.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 17, 2025 12:53 PM (k3Vs9)

174 Only $9 billion, after so much fracas, is disappointing. It's not even a drop in the ocean.

Posted by: Can't Make gp's Shimmy Shake On Tea at July 17, 2025 12:53 PM (J4/Z5)

175 I don't think the Senate has the Constitutional authority to add spending to a bill from the House - since that would mean the spending originated in the Senate. I think the Senate can cut spending, but not add in new spending.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at July 17, 2025 12:45 PM (Da7Vv)

This isn't the Senate obligating new spending. It's the Senate declining to cut existing spending.

House said: Cut A, B, C, D, and E.
Senate said: Cut A, B, and E.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at July 17, 2025 12:53 PM (oSeBJ)

176 Supposedly four this year already. Points add up.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 17, 2025 12:53 PM (k3Vs9)

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Every guy loves the bad girl

Posted by: Oglebay at July 17, 2025 12:54 PM (2ap+5)

177 I care less about the federal budget than I do about taking toys away from the leftists. Defunding programs that leftists use to push their agendas is worthwhile, regardless of what the bill does to the debt or deficit.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at July 17, 2025 12:54 PM (B9Prs)

178 She only had one client. She pimped girls to Epstein. Or so everyone says.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 17, 2025 12:52 PM (k3Vs9)

Not to perpetuate the conspiracy theories, but I don't believe she was involved with any blackmail/influence operations, other than procuring girls.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 17, 2025 12:55 PM (i24o9)

179 "What if we just ran a couple dozen McDonalds' ads all in a row?" Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 17, 2025 12:53 PM (RlmPm)

Masterpiece Theater sponsored by Popeye's.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at July 17, 2025 12:55 PM (eStot)

180 Who's the cruelest commenter on this site: Ace, Elric, or Y's Dice?
Posted by: Bulg at July 17, 2025 12:39 PM

Obviously it’s me. ☺️
Posted by: Piper

I was referring to verbal cruelty, not the physical kind represented by your harsh workout routines and mandatory kale consumption.

Posted by: Bulg at July 17, 2025 12:55 PM (77rzZ)

181 The progtards I work with have made it their goal to “make me admit” Trump is a fraud and a slimeball and was totally in on the Epstein Island crap. They are circling like vultures. The energy is like hyenas preparing to rip an antelope to shreds.
____

Why did Biden sit on it for 4 years?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 17, 2025 12:56 PM (Dv3i1)

182 Only $9 billion, after so much fracas, is disappointing. It's not even a drop in the ocean.

And if they hadn't passed it, would you be so blase? Somehow, I doubt it.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2025 12:56 PM (Riz8t)

183 Only $9 billion, after so much fracas, is disappointing. It's not even a drop in the ocean. Posted by: Can't Make gp's Shimmy Shake On Tea at July 17, 2025 12:53 PM (J4/Z5)

One bird in the hand or two birds in that bush way, way, way over there?

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at July 17, 2025 12:56 PM (eStot)

184 One of the conditions iirc for statehood on Alaska, they were generally supposed to be exempt from the Feds strangling their resource extraction. Of course they reneged on that deal.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 17, 2025 12:56 PM (dDLWu)

185 166 There is much wailing and knashing of teeth about EBT and the one that pays your rent cuts. Did any of that happen? Posted by: Boss Moss
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There are no limits to teh number of rescission bills but you have to have something in place like the CR and budget framework passed in March first before you can employ it. Time for rescission bills for FY 2025 though ends by Sept. 30th. Will be harder to squeeze in more than one perhaps in addition to regular funding bills.

Rescission process replaced the prior executive practice of impounding unspent money by executive order.

BTW, the House and Senate have been doing their regular order homework with a number of FY 2026 spending bills going through Appropriations markup. Education and Justice are the two exceptions that might have early Sept votes in the House. Justice because Senator from MD that wants the new FBI hq in Md instead of the underused Reagan Bldg in DC.

Posted by: whig at July 17, 2025 12:56 PM (ctrM5)

186 They are closing like 6 McDonald's in South East Chicago.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 17, 2025 12:57 PM (i58WI)

187 Who's the cruelest commenter on this site: Ace, Elric, or Y's Dice?
Posted by: Bulg at July 17, 2025 12:39 PM

Obviously it’s me. ☺️
Posted by: Piper at July 17, 2025 12:45 PM (pRpzT)

124 Obviously it’s me. ☺️
Posted by: Piper at July 17, 2025 12:45 PM (pRpzT)

Me too....
Posted by: It's me donna at July 17, 2025 12:45 PM

And the women come out to cut up what remains, Just roll to your rifle and blow out your brains And go to your God like a Moron..

Posted by: toby928 at July 17, 2025 12:57 PM (jc0TO)

188 BUT... the two (female) highly placed members of his staff got into a personal bitchfight with each other, Lord knows why, and it started to spread throughout his staff as each one tried to get the other fired. RFK Jr. finally had enough and said "to hell with it, be gone the both of you!"
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 17, 2025 12:48 PM (uWKK

———

Like I asked in the previous thread: why do most regrets revolve around women?
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 17, 2025 12:51 PM (Vh9CX)
____

Most of my regrets don't revolve around women. Sure, there's a few moves I shoulda made but didn't, and a few moves I made that I shouldn't have. The Blade was actually quite shy and immature in his early teen years, and intimidated by girls.

Regrets in general are like slow-acting poison. A few you can learn from. But most will do nothing but bring you down. I try to have as few regrets as possible.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 17, 2025 12:57 PM (iFTx/)

189 Take the 9B in cuts and then come back in the fall for the rest.

The next rescission package should be in the 500B range from the rest of the DOGE cuts.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 17, 2025 12:57 PM (XV/Pl)

190 They are closing like 6 McDonald's in South East Chicago.

Did they get tired of picking bullets out of the walls?

Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2025 12:57 PM (Riz8t)

191 Like I asked in the previous thread: why do most regrets revolve around women?
Posted by: MAGA_Ken

So many boobs in the world, and so little time.

Posted by: Bulg at July 17, 2025 12:57 PM (77rzZ)

192 177 I care less about the federal budget than I do about taking toys away from the leftists. Defunding programs that leftists use to push their agendas is worthwhile, regardless of what the bill does to the debt or deficit.
Posted by: joe
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Healthy way to look at it. There will be no movie finish on the endless budget battles--it will be more like renovating a house.

Posted by: whig at July 17, 2025 12:58 PM (ctrM5)

193 A bit late:

Re: headline

'Addind'?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 17, 2025 12:58 PM (bss/y)

194 174 Only $9 billion, after so much fracas, is disappointing. It's not even a drop in the ocean.
Posted by: Can't Make gp's Shimmy Shake On Tea

It establishes precedent that actually cutting spending can be done.

But yes, I'd like to see a $2T spending recisson.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 17, 2025 12:59 PM (Dv3i1)

195 Take the deal. Then go back for more. Lather, rinse, repeat.

We don't have a a functioning GOP. We have a few solid guys. But the rest are a sordid skein of slapcock losers, cocksuckers, surrender monkeys, diseased remoras, and perverts who suck farts out of subway seats. They aren't good enough to wipe your ass with.

I wish the deal were much better, but we have to make due with what we have. Take the deal. Then go back for more.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 17, 2025 12:26 PM (iFTx/)

That is the best description of the Republican Party I have ever seen...and I am stealing it! You are a spectacular wordsmith Elric! All hail to you!
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at July 17, 2025 12:51 PM (9RaL

_______

The Blade performs at open mic on Friday night

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 17, 2025 12:59 PM (iFTx/)

196 carveout preserved funding for global HIV/AIDS programs.

If we have money to give away to fraudulent "HIV/AIDS" slush funds then I'm being taxed too much.

The Left wants people to die and funds all kinds of programs that specifically kill people in traditional and imaginative ways. So the HIV/AIDS funding is really money laundering for Leftist causes that have nothing to do with human flourishing.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 17, 2025 12:59 PM (c3sdc)

197 Who?
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at July 17, 2025 12:50 PM (2J/Lj)

Criminal, isn't it.

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2025 12:59 PM (Qr870)

198 A bit late:

Re: headline

'Addind'?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 17, 2025 12:58 PM (bss/y)

Forget it. He's on a roll.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 17, 2025 12:59 PM (i24o9)

199 Actually , Unitarians have some hymns which people from other Protestant traditions would probably know .UU's just focus on God the creator and people living a life of peace and justice, and Jesus as the great teacher without his death as a sacrifice to save humanity or his resurrection although they might save Jesus " Lived again through his teaching.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 17, 2025 12:45 PM (2GCMq)

Based on the signs I've seen driving by a unitarian church, I'm rather confident their primary beliefs are: Black Lives Matter, LGBT Pride, and No Nukes.

Posted by: Sjg at July 17, 2025 12:59 PM (aqZN1)

200 "Epstein didn't kill himself"

That's right. He is alive and well, living in Rio.

Posted by: Case at July 17, 2025 12:59 PM (ilX37)

201 91 Like I asked in the previous thread: why do most regrets revolve around women?
Posted by: MAGA_Ken

Because the majority of posters here are men, a large number of whom seem to have or had unhappy marriages and/or bitter divorces.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 17, 2025 12:59 PM (2GCMq)

202 Keir Starmer announces that the UK is lowering the voting age from 18 to 16 in all UK elections.

LOL Europe is toast.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 17, 2025 12:59 PM (/U5Yz)

203 177 I care less about the federal budget than I do about taking toys away from the leftists. Defunding programs that leftists use to push their agendas is worthwhile, regardless of what the bill does to the debt or deficit.
Posted by: joe
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Personally target individual Dem House members by pulling funding from their districts.

And laughing in their faces as they do it.

"You thought you were gonna keep getting this $30 million a year for upkeep on this county property" (or whatever) "but it's gone now. Fuck you. Go back and tell your local political machine how you fucked up by promising to never vote for a GOP backed budget bill you fucking twat."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 17, 2025 01:00 PM (eDVuN)

204 The Unitarians like to deuce the pool.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 17, 2025 01:00 PM (i58WI)

205 RFK Jr. finally had enough and said "to hell with it, be gone the both of you!"
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 17, 2025 12:48 PM (uWKK

I envy that man
Posted by: Kindltot at July 17, 2025 12:49 PM (D7oie)

STOP MAKING ME LIKE A KENNEDY! DAMMIT!!!

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at July 17, 2025 01:00 PM (2J/Lj)

206 When is the last time there was *any* kind of cut in the "budget"?

Maybe it isn't sufficient on its own, maybe it could have been better, but the fact that it could even conceivably get to -$9 billion, instead of the usual +$100-150 billion, is damn near miraculous.

Scumbags are still scumbags, but in general I chose not to lose sight of the fact that the needle might actually move in the right direction for once.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 17, 2025 01:00 PM (RlmPm)

207 OT — Tulsi Gabbard has absolutely fallen off the administration radar. What’s she up to??

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 17, 2025 01:00 PM (ZtAny)

208 So many boobs in the world, and so little time.
___

Seen one, wanna see em all.
-Ron White (and bonus reference to yesterday's art thread)

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 17, 2025 01:00 PM (Dv3i1)

209 Based on the signs I've seen driving by a unitarian church, I'm rather confident their primary beliefs are: Black Lives Matter, LGBT Pride, and No Nukes.
Posted by: Sjg at July 17, 2025 12:59 PM

and they said to each other, let us make a God in Our image..

Posted by: toby928 it is written at July 17, 2025 01:00 PM (jc0TO)

210 Posted by: Sjg at July 17, 2025 12:59 PM (aqZN1)

Yes, they are quite left wing in their politics . I was just commenting on their religious beliefs based on their hymnal.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 17, 2025 01:01 PM (2GCMq)

211 >>>Like I asked in the previous thread: why do most regrets revolve around women?

Because they have all the boobs and sammiches, and because we like boobs and sammiches.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 17, 2025 01:01 PM (i24o9)

212 "Oh, really?"
-The ACA

I'm wrong, I misremembered Article 1

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at July 17, 2025 01:01 PM (Da7Vv)

213 Who's the cruelest commenter on this site: Ace, Elric, or Y's Dice?
Posted by: Bulg at July 17, 2025 12:39 PM

Fen, obviously.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 17, 2025 01:01 PM (kgE5c)

214 typo

I'm wrong, I misremembered Article 1 Section 7.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at July 17, 2025 01:02 PM (Da7Vv)

215 >The bill has to be passed by the House by midnight tonight according to the rules, or it fails. Then I guess we'd have to go through the whole process again.

Standard Operating Procedure.

Posted by: davidt at July 17, 2025 01:02 PM (i0F8b)

216 "Epstein didn't kill himself"

That's right. He is alive and well, living in Rio.

...along with Elvis.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at July 17, 2025 01:02 PM (C4BAC)

217 OMG! Zombie USAID!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at July 17, 2025 12:30 PM

AHHHH!!!! Night of the Living Fed!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 17, 2025 01:03 PM (kgE5c)

218 215 >The bill has to be passed by the House by midnight tonight according to the rules, or it fails. Then I guess we'd have to go through the whole process again.

Standard Operating Procedure.
Posted by: davidt
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Friday actually. Today is Thursday.

Posted by: whig at July 17, 2025 01:03 PM (ctrM5)

219 "Epstein didn't kill himself"

That's right. He is alive and well, living in Rio.

...along with Elvis.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at July 17, 2025 01:02 PM

and Bin Laden.

Posted by: toby928 at July 17, 2025 01:03 PM (jc0TO)

220
Masterpiece Theater sponsored by Popeye's.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at July 17, 2025 12:55 PM (eStot)

*snerk*

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 17, 2025 01:03 PM (y9nCu)

221 200 "Epstein didn't kill himself"

That's right. He is alive and well, living in Rio.
Posted by: Case

Ironically, the movie "Blame it on Rio" involves middle-aged men and improper relationships with teenage girls.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 17, 2025 01:04 PM (Dv3i1)

222 38 in a 30 mph speed zone gets licensed susspended for 6 months? Emma Watson.
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 17, 2025 12:38 PM (i58WI)

To be fair, she supposedly has a lead foot and has a huge stack of speeding tickets. This was apparently the last straw.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur

Supposedly four this year already. Points add up.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 17, 2025 12:53 PM (k3Vs9)
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I read that the earlier offenses involved drunk driving, but that seems to have been scrubbed from the record. It now just makes a vague reference to her license having all these prior points, without saying why. I'm suspicious.

Watson is a talentless hack twat and insufferable man-hater who deserves all the misery coming to her. I hope JK is dunking on her.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 17, 2025 01:04 PM (iFTx/)

223 Oh, and btw, Johnson had the rules committee and the House pass a rule (prior to Senate passage actually) for expedited handling of the rescission bill. So it goes straight to the floor.

Posted by: whig at July 17, 2025 01:04 PM (ctrM5)

224 Masterpiece Theater sponsored by Popeye's.

==

Masterpiece Theater sponsored by Viagra...

Posted by: runner at July 17, 2025 01:04 PM (g47mK)

225 I'm keeping it simple: Whatever Nova Local has posted.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 17, 2025 01:04 PM (NFX2v)

226 You know the case that I want the FBI to solve? D. B. frickin' Cooper. Don't tell me it can't be done, Patel.

Posted by: Bulg at July 17, 2025 01:04 PM (77rzZ)

227 Ace is cruelest…. But Elric and YD are right there!

Ranking I’m more interested in though… hottest Trump cabinet members:

Kristi Noem
Tulsi Gabbard
Pam Bondi

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 17, 2025 01:04 PM (ZtAny)

228 Personally target individual Dem House members by pulling funding from their districts.

And laughing in their faces as they do it.

"You thought you were gonna keep getting this $30 million a year for upkeep on this county property" (or whatever) "but it's gone now. Fuck you. Go back and tell your local political machine how you fucked up by promising to never vote for a GOP backed budget bill you fucking twat."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 17, 2025 01:00 PM (eDVuN)

Along those line, Trump finally yanked $4 billion in funding from California's pathetic High Speed Rail program. Gavin says he'll sue, of course.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 17, 2025 01:04 PM (uWKK8)

229 I try to have as few regrets as possible.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 17, 2025 12:57 PM (iFTx/)

Regrets? I've had a few...
But then again...too few to mention.

Posted by: The Sex Pistols at July 17, 2025 01:04 PM (cohUm)

230 Most of my regrets don't revolve around women. Sure, there's a few moves I shoulda made but didn't, and a few moves I made that I shouldn't have. The Blade was actually quite shy and immature in his early teen years, and intimidated by girls.

Regrets in general are like slow-acting poison. A few you can learn from. But most will do nothing but bring you down. I try to have as few regrets as possible.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 17, 2025 12:57 PM (iFTx/)

=====

A la Coltrane and Ellington, women put me in a sentimental mood. When I was 8 years old, I fell hard for an older girl who flipped her dad the bird when he told her to do something (and had turned his back). She died of ovarian cancer at 49. Thinking about her helps me reconcile with my own mortality.

Posted by: Oglebay at July 17, 2025 01:05 PM (2ap+5)

231
>>>Report from the Front Lines are that cuts to NPR are going to create 'news deserts'.

It's already easier to buy a gun than get the news!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 17, 2025 01:05 PM (63Dwl)

232 Masterpiece Theater sponsored by Viagra...
Posted by: runner

That would work with the "I, Claudius" episode where they showed one of Messalina's boobs.

Posted by: Bulg at July 17, 2025 01:06 PM (77rzZ)

233 A regret is just a mistake you couldn't be bothered to learn from.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 17, 2025 01:06 PM (RlmPm)

234 97 Who's the cruelest commenter on this site: Ace, Elric, or Y's Dice?
Posted by: Bulg

Afraid of the 'ettes?

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 17, 2025 01:06 PM (NFX2v)

235 210 Posted by: Sjg at July 17, 2025 12:59 PM (aqZN1)

Yes, they are quite left wing in their politics . I was just commenting on their religious beliefs based on their hymnal.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 17, 2025 01:01 PM (2GCMq)

My wife was invited by a friend to a Christian Scientist church once. She said their music reminded her of the Mutant Church in "Beneath the Planet of the Apes."

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 17, 2025 01:07 PM (uWKK8)

236 Who's the cruelest commenter on this site: Ace, Elric, or Y's Dice?

Posted by: Bulg

Atc, when she chooses.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at July 17, 2025 01:07 PM (oSeBJ)

237 That would work with the "I, Claudius" episode where they showed one of Messalina's boobs.
Posted by: Bulg at July 17, 2025 01:06 PM (77rzZ)
------------

Ah yes, the contest which she won, lying down.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 17, 2025 01:07 PM (tT6L1)

238 Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 17, 2025 01:04 PM (ZtAny)

She's not technically in the cabinet, but what about Karoline Leavitt?

And I don't get the Tulsi thing.

Posted by: Bulg at July 17, 2025 01:07 PM (77rzZ)

239 Personally target individual Dem House members by pulling funding from their districts.

And laughing in their faces as they do it.

"You thought you were gonna keep getting this $30 million a year for upkeep on this county property" (or whatever) "but it's gone now. Fuck you. Go back and tell your local political machine how you fucked up by promising to never vote for a GOP backed budget bill you fucking twat."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 17, 2025 01:00 PM (eDVuN)

"If you do that, next time Democrats are in charge, they might do the same thing to Republican politicians!"

"I already thought it was a good idea, you don't have to keep trying to convince me."

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at July 17, 2025 01:08 PM (B9Prs)

240 If we ended entitlement programs, worrying about PBS funding would be moot. Most of our budget goes to entitlement programs and the financing of debt.

End it now. No Medicare. No Medicaid. Social Security - everyone who paid in gets the money back, and they can then invest it into the stock market. Or spend it as they see fit.

Will be a big hurt on the federal budget at first, but within a year or two we will be swimming in black and paying down our debt.

Once the debt is gone, only balanced budgets from here on out with only enough taxes being levied to pay for our military.

Posted by: Diabeetus at July 17, 2025 01:08 PM (fq8Zx)

241 Here are the House Republicans who are backing the mass amnesty bill for illegal migrants:

Rep. Maria Salazar
Rep. Don Bacon
Rep. Gabe Evans
Rep. Mike Kelly
Rep. Young Kim
Rep. Michael Lawler
Rep. Dan Newhouse
Rep. David G. Valadao
Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart
Rep. Brian K. Fitzpatrick
Rep. Marlin A. Stutzman

BOHICA baby.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 17, 2025 01:08 PM (/U5Yz)

242 206 When is the last time there was *any* kind of cut in the "budget"?

Maybe it isn't sufficient on its own, maybe it could have been better, but the fact that it could even conceivably get to -$9 billion, instead of the usual +$100-150 billion, is damn near miraculous.

Scumbags are still scumbags, but in general I chose not to lose sight of the fact that the needle might actually move in the right direction for once.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Part of the fear that officeholders have is that just one vote will kill them at the polls next election. In reality, doing the right thing generally pays off at the polls. So, you do baby steps like individual rescission bills to implement the DOGE and Executive order cuts and put that into law.

Because the debt ceiling was wrapped into the BBB, the Senate can do two more reconciliation bills for this Congress. And if the actual fiscal appropriation bills for FY 2026 are passed by Sept. 30th, then rescission bills on those FY 2026 appropriations become fair game.

So far, despite all the disappointments, we are returning to regular order which is a credit to Thune and Johnson as well as Trump.

Posted by: whig at July 17, 2025 01:08 PM (ctrM5)

243 239 "If you do that, next time Democrats are in charge, they might do the same thing to Republican politicians!"

"I already thought it was a good idea, you don't have to keep trying to convince me."
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at July 17, 2025 01:08 PM (B9Prs)

=======

Turning Congressional budgeting into a fist fight over who pulls the most funding?

Oh, no. Please, stop.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 17, 2025 01:09 PM (eDVuN)

244 She died of ovarian cancer at 49. Thinking about her helps me reconcile with my own mortality.
Posted by: Oglebay

Found out late last year that the sexiest girl in my graduating class died of Covid. So sad.

Posted by: Bulg at July 17, 2025 01:09 PM (77rzZ)

245 The bill has to be passed by the House by midnight tonight according to the rules, or it fails. Then I guess we'd have to go through the whole process again.

Maybe Republicans should put an end to all these stupid Calvinball rules. Of course, then they wouldn't be able to hide behind all these pointless technicalities.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 17, 2025 01:09 PM (Pr4qS)

246 241 Here are the House Republicans who are backing the mass amnesty bill for illegal migrants:

Rep. Maria Salazar
Rep. Don Bacon
Rep. Gabe Evans
Rep. Mike Kelly
Rep. Young Kim
Rep. Michael Lawler
Rep. Dan Newhouse
Rep. David G. Valadao
Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart
Rep. Brian K. Fitzpatrick
Rep. Marlin A. Stutzman

BOHICA baby.
Posted by: Maj. Healey
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I file that bill under not gonna happen. Done for their own district's consumption, not for passage.

Posted by: whig at July 17, 2025 01:09 PM (ctrM5)

247 241 Here are the House Republicans who are backing the mass amnesty bill for illegal migrants:

BOHICA baby.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 17, 2025 01:08 PM (/U5Yz)

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So, roughly 5% of the caucus.

A rounding error.

And Johnson will never bring the bill to the floor for a vote.

Okay. On to the next thing we should be outraged by.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 17, 2025 01:09 PM (eDVuN)

248 Tulsi is probably doing a good job right now, since no one is bitching about her.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 17, 2025 01:10 PM (uWKK8)

249 Watson is a talentless hack twat and insufferable man-hater who deserves all the misery coming to her. I hope JK is dunking on her.
_______________________

Obrist: Temporal incursion complete.
Annorax: Scan the continuum. Is Emma Watson still a talentless insufferable twat?
Obrist: Affirmative.
Annorax: Prepare a new set of calculations for the next incursion.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 17, 2025 01:10 PM (dWqYU)

250 Connie Francis morte at 87.

--

I always get her confused with Connie Stevens. Which one is the singer and which one is the perky blonde dingbat...

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 17, 2025 01:10 PM (qBdHI)

251 Report from the Front Lines are that cuts to NPR are going to create 'news deserts'.

I actually often listen to NPR while I'm driving. Just to stay up on what the enemy's doing. Call it IPB.

I also swear and pound the steering wheel a lot when I'm doing this.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at July 17, 2025 01:10 PM (C4BAC)

252 Keir Starmer announces that the UK is lowering the voting age from 18 to 16 in all UK elections.

*inhales sharply*

Smell that? It's the stank of desperation.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2025 01:10 PM (Riz8t)

253 I file that bill under not gonna happen. Done for their own district's consumption, not for passage.
Posted by: whig

You are probably correct.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 17, 2025 01:10 PM (/U5Yz)

254 Rep. Maria Salazar
Rep. Don Bacon
Rep. Gabe Evans
Rep. Mike Kelly
Rep. Young Kim
Rep. Michael Lawler
Rep. Dan Newhouse
Rep. David G. Valadao
Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart
Rep. Brian K. Fitzpatrick
Rep. Marlin A. Stutzman

BOHICA baby.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 17, 2025 01:08 PM (/U5Yz)
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I don't think it makes it to Trump's desk. I suspect it may be performative because they need those votes in the mid terms. Of course, they may also not be able to read the room.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 17, 2025 01:11 PM (tT6L1)

255 It's all fun and games until *I* appear.

Posted by: The Parliamentarian at July 17, 2025 01:11 PM (Qr870)

256 254 I don't think it makes it to Trump's desk. I suspect it may be performative because they need those votes in the mid terms. Of course, they may also not be able to read the room.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 17, 2025 01:11 PM (tT6L1)

========

Johnson controls the schedule of floor votes. No one else has a say.

They can't trick him into it, or anything.

He's not going to let it come to a floor vote, and we'll never hear of this bill again after about 12 hours.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 17, 2025 01:11 PM (eDVuN)

257 "If you do that, next time Democrats are in charge, they might do the same thing to Republican politicians!"

"I already thought it was a good idea, you don't have to keep trying to convince me."
Posted by: joe, living dangerously

There are no winners in such a war. It is the only war we can all agree on not to start.

Posted by: Congress at July 17, 2025 01:12 PM (Dv3i1)

258 Trump Admin Sues to Remove Three Former Board Members of NPR, PBS Parent Group Who Refuse to Leave

-
You're fired!

No, I'm not!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 17, 2025 01:12 PM (L/fGl)

259 Report from the Front Lines are that cuts to NPR are going to create 'news deserts'.

--

I'll take one news sunday with chocolate syrup and sprinkles, please.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at July 17, 2025 01:12 PM (B9Prs)

260 Okay. On to the next thing we should be outraged by.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

People using "less" when they mean "fewer."

Posted by: Bulg at July 17, 2025 01:12 PM (77rzZ)

261 250 Connie Francis morte at 87.

--

I always get her confused with Connie Stevens. Which one is the singer and which one is the perky blonde dingbat...
Posted by: Lady in Black

Francis was the singer. Pretty Little Baby was one of her hits.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 17, 2025 01:12 PM (/U5Yz)

262 Maybe Republicans should put an end to all these stupid Calvinball rules. Of course, then they wouldn't be able to hide behind all these pointless technicalities.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls
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Most of those technicalities are in statutes, you know--laws. To wit, the Budget and Impoundment Act of 1974. So you have to either abolish the filibuster so you can replace that Act with a new guidance legislation or you can follow the procedures.

And to be fair, there are some advantages in the oblique and confusing nature of budgeting bills--it is just that the GOP has never really used them to cut spending and taxes which the Dems would never do.

Posted by: whig at July 17, 2025 01:12 PM (ctrM5)

263
Turning Congressional budgeting into a fist fight over who pulls the most funding?

Oh, no. Please, stop.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 17

Don't throw me in the briar patch. Oh no!

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 17, 2025 01:12 PM (MGB5H)

264 255 It's all fun and games until *I* appear.
Posted by: The Parliamentarian at July 17, 2025 01:11 PM (Qr870)

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*pants the Parliamentarian with the final amendment of the vote-a-rama*
-John Thune, doing the bare minimum a GOP leader should do

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 17, 2025 01:12 PM (eDVuN)

265 260 Okay. On to the next thing we should be outraged by.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

People using "less" when they mean "fewer."
Posted by: Bulg at July 17, 2025 01:12 PM (77rzZ)

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IT DEPENDS ON IF THE NOUN BEING COUNTED IS EITHER COUNTABLE OR UNCOUNTABLE!!!!

*lights hair on fire*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 17, 2025 01:13 PM (eDVuN)

266 Jay Guevara Obituary in sidebar.

RIP, my friend.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 17, 2025 01:13 PM (i24o9)

267 @252

>>Smell that? It's the stank of desperation.

I really have no idea how the UK works but shouldn't something the momentous require whatever qualifies for an amendment to whatever passes for their constitution?

That can't happen on a mere vote can it?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 17, 2025 01:13 PM (XV/Pl)

268 The Parliamentarian can't be bargained with. The Parliamentarian can't be reasoned with. The Parliamentarian doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And the Parliamentarian absolutely will not stop, ever. Until you are dead.

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2025 01:13 PM (Qr870)

269 Wait. Stop. Don't.
-- Willie Wonka

Posted by: Bulg at July 17, 2025 01:13 PM (77rzZ)

270 'People using "less" when they mean "fewer."'

Ever since you guys pointed that out, I've been doing it fewer often.

Posted by: Can't Make gp's Shimmy Shake On Tea at July 17, 2025 01:13 PM (J4/Z5)

271 260 Okay. On to the next thing we should be outraged by.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

People using "less" when they mean "fewer."

People who use "there's" with plurals.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2025 01:13 PM (Riz8t)

272 I don't think it makes it to Trump's desk. I suspect it may be performative because they need those votes in the mid terms. Of course, they may also not be able to read the room.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 17, 2025 01:11 PM (tT6L1)

Don Bacon is a never-Trumper who's already announced he's retiring at the end of his term.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 17, 2025 01:13 PM (uWKK8)

273 > Here are the House Republicans who are backing the mass amnesty bill for illegal migrants
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ICE should check each one out at 3AM to see if they're harboring any illegals.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 17, 2025 01:13 PM (Q4IgG)

274 Not to perpetuate the conspiracy theories, but I don't believe she was involved with any blackmail/influence operations, other than procuring girls.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 17, 2025 12:55 PM (i24o9)

Mike Benz is claiming that Epstein's origin is in Iran-Contra. I am not up enough on it to say whether it is a good claim or not, but there are some aMAZing coincidences if true.

That means, of course, that Epstein is CIA and not Mossad or MIwhatever

Posted by: Kindltot at July 17, 2025 01:13 PM (D7oie)

275 Its like lady of the lake

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at July 17, 2025 01:13 PM (8Tfr9)

276 Connie Stevens is the bombshell. Hot! Hot! Hot!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 17, 2025 01:14 PM (L/fGl)

277 Along those line, Trump finally yanked $4 billion in funding from California's pathetic High Speed Rail program. Gavin says he'll sue, of course.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 17, 2025 01:04 PM (uWKK

Good. The discovery is going to be entertaining.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 17, 2025 01:14 PM (D7oie)

278 Posted by: Tom Servo at July 17, 2025 01:07 PM (uWKK8

I'm sorry . I don't know what that means. Heavy and dirge like? Because Christian Science beliefs are pretty upbeat- as far as I as God/ Christ being the great physician and healer and who answers prayer and loves people . I've officiated at two weddings for Christian's scientists because they don't have ordained clergy but there were not hymns so I am not familiar with them.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 17, 2025 01:14 PM (2GCMq)

279 People who use "there's" with plurals.
Posted by: Archimedes

Oh yes. That one definitely grinds my gears.

Posted by: Bulg at July 17, 2025 01:14 PM (77rzZ)

280 254 I don't think it makes it to Trump's desk. I suspect it may be performative because they need those votes in the mid terms. Of course, they may also not be able to read the room.
Posted by: blake
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Blake, Johnson had the House vote on rules package on Wednesday. The rescission bill rules have already been approved and thus it goes immediately to the floor. No amendments.

I will tip my hat to Thune and Johnson in managing their caucuses and the timing of these bills. Best I've seen since Newt and Dole teamed up in Clinton's first term from teh GOP perspective.

Posted by: whig at July 17, 2025 01:14 PM (ctrM5)

281 Irregardless.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 17, 2025 01:15 PM (MGB5H)

282 Connie Francis morte at 87.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 17, 2025 12:45 PM (/U5Yz)

Another part of my youth gone.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at July 17, 2025 01:15 PM (5xuJ/)

283 The stench of past cheating generates a bias in my mind: There’s no way that this chap Pogacar at the Tour de France is not doping. He’s just crushing the best bike riders in the world…. He’s good but he’s also doping (I strongly suspect). No one is that good

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 17, 2025 01:15 PM (lepZb)

284 260 Okay. On to the next thing we should be outraged by.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

The crazy people that feel .45ACP is a better round then 9mm.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 17, 2025 01:15 PM (/U5Yz)

285 High Speed Rail is for closers.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 17, 2025 01:15 PM (i58WI)

286 A poster on X pulled a lovely trick on a Tankie. The poster asked the Tankie to explain exactly what was NAZI about a propaganda poster that shows an attractive white woman holding up her healthy baby in the foreground, while a white adult and children frolic in the background.

The Tankie does exactly what we all expect and foams at the mouth about the propaganda depicting happy white people and declares that it's clearly terrible NAZI propaganda, which makes it disgusting and bad.

BUT, it's actually old communist Russia propaganda.

So. Sweet.

http://tiny.cc/fhmp001

Posted by: bonhomme at July 17, 2025 01:15 PM (lIio7)

287 280 I will tip my hat to Thune and Johnson in managing their caucuses and the timing of these bills. Best I've seen since Newt and Dole teamed up in Clinton's first term from teh GOP perspective.
Posted by: whig at July 17, 2025 01:14 PM (ctrM5)

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Imagine if Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell had been half as interested in passing Trump's agenda as Johnson and Thune are.

With the majorities that Ryan commanded, no less.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 17, 2025 01:15 PM (eDVuN)

288 I really have no idea how the UK works but shouldn't something the momentous require whatever qualifies for an amendment to whatever passes for their constitution?

That can't happen on a mere vote can it?
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 17, 2025 01:13 PM (XV/Pl)

The UK likes to pretend that they have some kind of constitution, but in actual fact they never have. Their "constitution" tends to mean "whatever we can get away with in Parliament".

Funny thing is that newly enfranchised youth will probably vote against Labour, not for. If they vote at all.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 17, 2025 01:15 PM (uWKK8)

289 277 Along those line, Trump finally yanked $4 billion in funding from California's pathetic High Speed Rail program. Gavin says he'll sue, of course.
Posted by: Tom Servo
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Prime target for a rescission bill. Even other states don't like that spending on trains when other needs for transportation are more pressing.

Posted by: whig at July 17, 2025 01:16 PM (ctrM5)

290 So Reagan was responsible for Epstein?

Posted by: Bulg at July 17, 2025 01:16 PM (77rzZ)

291 278- Meant "as far as I know"

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 17, 2025 01:16 PM (2GCMq)

292 Found out late last year that the sexiest girl in my graduating class died of Covid. So sad.
Posted by: Bulg at July 17, 2025 01:09 PM (77rzZ)

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Does it give you a funny feeling like, if she's up there, it must be a pretty good place?

Posted by: Oglebay at July 17, 2025 01:16 PM (2ap+5)

293 Mike Benz is claiming that Epstein's origin is in Iran-Contra. I am not up enough on it to say whether it is a good claim or not, but there are some aMAZing coincidences if true.

That means, of course, that Epstein is CIA and not Mossad or MIwhatever

Posted by: Kindltot at July 17, 2025 01:13 PM (D7oie)

My gut says he was almost certainly CIA, which is why we'll never find out.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 17, 2025 01:16 PM (i24o9)

294 262 Maybe Republicans should put an end to all these stupid Calvinball rules. Of course, then they wouldn't be able to hide behind all these pointless technicalities.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls
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Most of those technicalities are in statutes, you know--laws. To wit, the Budget and Impoundment Act of 1974. So you have to either abolish the filibuster so you can replace that Act with a new guidance legislation or you can follow the procedures.

And to be fair, there are some advantages in the oblique and confusing nature of budgeting bills--it is just that the GOP has never really used them to cut spending and taxes which the Dems would never do.
Posted by: whig at July 17, 2025 01:12 PM (ctrM5)

Then repeal it.

The idea that procedure should be as abstruse and complicated as possible is a lawyer's playground.

The present system hasn't produced conservative results in 40 years.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 17, 2025 01:16 PM (Pr4qS)

295 So far, despite all the disappointments, we are returning to regular order which is a credit to Thune and Johnson as well as Trump.
Posted by: whig

I'd like to be at the point where we say we've returned to regular order.

I do wonder though, after 12 budget bills are passed (or whatever the correct number is) and the R's lose the House, whether that kills regular order for all time if it gets blamed, probably wrongly, for the loss.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 17, 2025 01:16 PM (Dv3i1)

296 Its more like crime story with the cleveland mob instead of the chcago mob in crime story re wexner

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at July 17, 2025 01:17 PM (8Tfr9)

297 295 I'd like to be at the point where we say we've returned to regular order.

I do wonder though, after 12 budget bills are passed (or whatever the correct number is) and the R's lose the House, whether that kills regular order for all time if it gets blamed, probably wrongly, for the loss.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 17, 2025 01:16 PM (Dv3i1)

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Regular order is budget bill and appropriation bills.

It's not one bill per department.

One bill per department would be killer, but no one, not even Trump, is interested in that in DC.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 17, 2025 01:17 PM (eDVuN)

298 Bulg - Karoline Leavitt is attractive for sure. Trump seems to have a knack for finding competent attractive women

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 17, 2025 01:18 PM (lepZb)

299
At today's Houston Kennel Club show. Passed by the Beagle ring. A little girl of 5 or 6 was taking around her dog, who was about half as tall as her. Unbelievably precious.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 17, 2025 01:18 PM (OmHSM)

300 Being surprised congress is addicted to spending is like finding out a crack whore is addicted to crack.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 17, 2025 01:18 PM (z3aWw)

301 Can we just nuke the Capitol and make Trump the King?

/only half-joking

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump Needs to Sue Donkey-Chompers for Defamation a la ABC at July 17, 2025 01:18 PM (hbKLn)

302 Maria Salazar has been pushing her so called "dignity bill" for years.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 17, 2025 01:19 PM (63Dwl)

303 Being surprised congress is addicted to spending is like finding out a crack whore is addicted to crack.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 17, 2025 01:18 PM (z3aWw

This is about me isn't it?
-Hunter

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 17, 2025 01:19 PM (MGB5H)

304 Imagine if Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell had been half as interested in passing Trump's agenda as Johnson and Thune are.

With the majorities that Ryan commanded, no less.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Ryan and McConnell could have done a lot. They purposefully chose to squander and piss on GOP voters.

Thune and Johnson are like new coaches midseason for a lousy team that is underperforming. All of a sudden, they start winning--winning like losing is contagious because of the attitudes of the team change.

Posted by: whig at July 17, 2025 01:19 PM (ctrM5)

305 Once again taking a moment in the willow period to note that Mark is now writing at my blog.

His first post is about the new Superman.

Link in nic!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 17, 2025 01:19 PM (eDVuN)

306 Maria Salazar has been pushing her so called "dignity bill" for years.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 17, 2025 01:19 PM (63Dwl

If they want dignity they can dig a canal.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 17, 2025 01:19 PM (MGB5H)

307
California high-speed rail isn't a matter of interstate commerce. Why did we fund it?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 17, 2025 01:20 PM (OmHSM)

308
Irregardless.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 17, 2025 01:15 PM

agreed, but for all intensive purposes, it's a mute point

they'll never tow the line, it's to much too ask

Posted by: AltonJackson at July 17, 2025 01:20 PM (tljrc)

309 A la Coltrane and Ellington, women put me in a sentimental mood. When I was 8 years old, I fell hard for an older girl who flipped her dad the bird when he told her to do something (and had turned his back). She died of ovarian cancer at 49. Thinking about her helps me reconcile with my own mortality.

When I was 32 in 1980 I was taking a walk that brought me past an elementary school just as a class of 1st graders came boiling out to the school to go on a field trip. The teacher was trying to get them to line up, and it looked like somebody trying to heard cats. I smiled at her sympathetically, and she smiled back at me. That was the first time in my life that a woman had ever smiled at me.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at July 17, 2025 01:20 PM (Da7Vv)

310 Does it give you a funny feeling like, if she's up there, it must be a pretty good place?
Posted by: Oglebay

Hadn't thought about that. But I don't think ogling is allowed in Heaven. Lusting in your heart is definitely out. So, I guess it doesn't matter if she's up there or not.

Although, she was a nice lady and it would be nice to talk with her again.

Posted by: Bulg at July 17, 2025 01:20 PM (77rzZ)

311 308
Irregardless.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 17, 2025 01:15 PM

agreed, but for all intensive purposes, it's a mute point

they'll never tow the line, it's to much too ask
Posted by: AltonJackson at July 17, 2025 01:20 PM (tljrc)

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I take all of this for granite.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 17, 2025 01:20 PM (eDVuN)

312 >>Mike Benz is claiming that Epstein's origin is in Iran-Contra. I am not up enough on it to say whether it is a good claim or not, but there are some aMAZing coincidences if true.

Adnan Khashoggi

Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2025 01:20 PM (viF8m)

313 Maria Salazar has been pushing her so called "dignity bill" for years.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

Yet she is still on committees and has not been censured by the FL GOP.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 17, 2025 01:20 PM (/U5Yz)

314 Maria Salazar has been pushing her so called "dignity bill" for years.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 17, 2025 01:19 PM (63Dwl

If they want dignity they can dig a canal.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 17, 2025 01:19 PM (MGB5H)

Moat. You mean, dig a moat.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 17, 2025 01:21 PM (i24o9)

315 Maria Salazar has been pushing her so called "dignity bill" for years.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 17, 2025 01:19 PM (63Dwl

If they want dignity they can dig a canal.
Posted by: BruceWayne at July 17, 2025 01:19 PM (MGB5H)
____

Oh fuck her and her amnesty-by-another-name

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 17, 2025 01:21 PM (iFTx/)

316 314 Maria Salazar has been pushing her so called "dignity bill" for years.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 17, 2025 01:19 PM (63Dwl

If they want dignity they can dig a canal.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 17, 2025 01:19 PM (MGB5H)

Moat. You mean, dig a moat.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 17, 2025 01:21 PM (i24o9)

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Around the Florida Keys, no less.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 17, 2025 01:21 PM (eDVuN)

317 One bill per department would be killer, but no one, not even Trump, is interested in that in DC.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 17, 2025 01:17 PM (eDVuN)

Huh. Then maybe we should fire all of them. Including Trump.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 17, 2025 01:21 PM (z3aWw)

318 That was the first time in my life that a woman had ever smiled at me.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President

I hope your mother smiled at you sometimes.

Posted by: Bulg at July 17, 2025 01:22 PM (77rzZ)

319 317 One bill per department would be killer, but no one, not even Trump, is interested in that in DC.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 17, 2025 01:17 PM (eDVuN)

Huh. Then maybe we should fire all of them. Including Trump.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 17, 2025 01:21 PM (z3aWw)

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And it's not an issue that animates voters.

So, good luck on that.

I'll probably have better luck getting Congresscritters out of office on my "End the Current Copyright Regime, Life+70 is a crime against the Constitution" platform.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 17, 2025 01:22 PM (eDVuN)

320 Adnan Khashoggi
Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2025 01:20 PM

That's a blast from the past.

Posted by: toby928 at July 17, 2025 01:22 PM (jc0TO)

321 Under the Dignity bill, Chris Van Hollen's drinking buddy, Maryland Man Kilmar Garcia.... The wife beating gang member involved in human trafficking... would be eligible for amnesty and eventual citizenship.

https://is.gd/KNwE3j

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 17, 2025 01:22 PM (dWqYU)

322 I take all of this for granite.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

For all intensive purposes.

Posted by: Bulg at July 17, 2025 01:23 PM (77rzZ)

323 California high-speed rail isn't a matter of interstate commerce. Why did we fund it?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 17, 2025 01:20 PM (OmHSM)
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Gavin had some well connected donors who needed a payoff.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 17, 2025 01:23 PM (tT6L1)

324 297 295 I'd like to be at the point where we say we've returned to regular order.

I do wonder though, after 12 budget bills are passed (or whatever the correct number is) and the R's lose the House, whether that kills regular order for all time if it gets blamed, probably wrongly, for the loss.
Posted by: Chuck Martel

It gets weird but basically you pass a budget framework, the twelve authorizing committees then authorize spending for the agencies within their jurisdiction, then the Appropriations matches the tax receipts with the authorizations from those 12 committees in accordance with the overall budget cap. Appropriations in both House and Senate are currently marking up most of the spending bills. Defense is likely to be first for a number of reasons plus it is a two year appropriation. The rest of the appropriations for FY 2026, apart from Education and Justice (FBI bldg block on Justice and DoE death in Education) bills are likely to be stumbling blocks. So we might see a gubmint shutdown briefly in October but Trump gets to decide what is necessary and what isn't on government operations. No closing public parks nonsense, etc.

Posted by: whig at July 17, 2025 01:23 PM (ctrM5)

325 Irregardless.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 17, 2025 01:15 PM

agreed, but for all intensive purposes, it's a mute point

they'll never tow the line, it's to much too ask
Posted by: AltonJackson at July 17, 2025 01:20 PM (tljrc)

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I take all of this for granite.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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I could care less about any of this.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 17, 2025 01:23 PM (XvL8K)

326 This bill doesn't cut spending to pre Civil War levels so I'm a no.

Posted by: Thomas Massie at July 17, 2025 01:23 PM (2UnvF)

327 Salazar's district is like +20 Republican. A homeless street drunk could probably win against her.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 17, 2025 01:24 PM (/U5Yz)

328 Missing in country articles, posts about something that might be significant for the USA, too. IDK.

Sky News, 'Almost 7,000 Afghans being relocated to UK in secret scheme after MoD data breach
Details about the blunder can finally be made public after a judge lifted a court injunction that had been sought by the government.' 15 July 2025

The Telegraph, 'British spies and special forces exposed in Afghan data leak'
Identities of agents and elite soldiers are among UK’s most closely guarded state secrets, 17 July 2025

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 17, 2025 01:24 PM (NFX2v)

329 Conservative things haven't happened in Congress because the conservative party isn't, not because the process is slow and byzantine.

Posted by: toby928 at July 17, 2025 01:25 PM (jc0TO)

330

So how come Democrat's can convincingly campaign that the Repubs want to shut down Social Security.

The government as it is now can't shut down shit.

Posted by: pawn at July 17, 2025 01:25 PM (QB+5g)

331 New one: strippers

Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2025 01:25 PM (Riz8t)

332 Salazar's district is like +20 Republican. A homeless street drunk could probably win against her.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 17, 2025 01:24 PM (/U5Yz)

Also has a lot of legal Cubans and Venezuelans. Run against her and push the fact that she keeps trying to do this hard and it would probably be pretty easy.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 17, 2025 01:25 PM (MGB5H)

333 María Elvira Salazar 🇺🇸
@MaElviraSalazar
21h
For 40 years, Washington gave you two bad choices: blanket amnesty or mass deportation. I’m offering a third way, the American way, rooted in law, order, and earned respect through my DIGNITY Act.

+++++

You know, I have an idea, let's try a couple more months of mass deportation a try and see if that offsets the last 50 years.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 17, 2025 01:25 PM (D7oie)

334 >>That's a blast from the past.

Remember his nephew, Jamal Khashoggi? He was the Washinton Post, ahem, reporter, who was murdered in the Saudi consulate in Turkey a couple of years ago.

For no apparent reason.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2025 01:25 PM (viF8m)

335 319 -

Yeah, I know. The Men In Black motto still holds.

Please get animated by what they’re told to be animated about.

By who?

Exactly.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 17, 2025 01:25 PM (z3aWw)

336 Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 17, 2025 01:04 PM (ZtAny)

She's not technically in the cabinet, but what about Karoline Leavitt?

And I don't get the Tulsi thing.
Posted by: Bulg at July 17, 2025 01:07 PM (77rzZ)
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Tulsi is not a beauty but she's attractive, keeps herself in good shape, seems confident without being a bird-handed girlboss, and dresses nice. By DC standards that makes her 25 year old Heidi Klum.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 17, 2025 01:25 PM (iFTx/)

337 Francis was the singer. Pretty Little Baby was one of her hits.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 17, 2025 01:12 PM (/U5Yz)

Along with Stupid Cupid, Who's Sorry Now, Teddy, Where The Boys Are, and many, many more. I still have all of her 45's that I bought when I was a teen back in the stone age. RIP, Connie.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at July 17, 2025 01:25 PM (5xuJ/)

338 The best argument for making Trump an actual king is the eventual coronation of a royally pissed off Prince Barron.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 17, 2025 01:26 PM (RlmPm)

339 Reunify the Virginias.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 17, 2025 01:26 PM (i58WI)

340 Nood. Strippers. Democrat strippers.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 17, 2025 01:26 PM (ExV1e)

341 325 Irregardless.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 17, 2025 01:15 PM

agreed, but for all intensive purposes, it's a mute point

they'll never tow the line, it's to much too ask
Posted by: AltonJackson at July 17, 2025 01:20

I take all of this for granite.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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I could care less about any of this.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at

It's enough to make me loose my mind.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 17, 2025 01:26 PM (ajCaF)

342 314 Maria Salazar has been pushing her so called "dignity bill" for years.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 17, 2025 01:19 PM (63Dwl

If they want dignity they can dig a canal.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 17, 2025 01:19 PM (MGB5H)

They want dignity they can go home and stop "living in the shadows" /spit/.

Posted by: Gref at July 17, 2025 01:26 PM (aBgBM)

343 This bill doesn't cut spending to pre Civil War levels so I'm a no.
Posted by: Thomas Massie at July 17, 2025 01:23 PM

I would be satisfied with the austere budget of 2007.

Posted by: toby928 at July 17, 2025 01:26 PM (jc0TO)

344 Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 17, 2025 01:18 PM (OmHSM)

Awww. That's cute Not nearly as exciting but I saw a little girl of three ( I asked her mother her age) with beautiful blonde hair and blue eyes, and the girl had the lovely name of Francesca. I don't hear that name very often. Her mother was very pretty too and I told her I liked her blue eyes. I can get away with this, maybe because I'm an older woman who's obviously not a tranny.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 17, 2025 01:26 PM (2GCMq)

345 The funny thing about that is khashoggi was supposedly an early funder of alex jones (i kid you not)

Not exactly donna shalala held that seat before for reasons passing understanding

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at July 17, 2025 01:26 PM (8Tfr9)

346 By the way, Omnibus IS regular order. Has been done that way even before the Budget and Impoundment Act.

The more individual appropriations bills voted upon are better as less chance for crap to get inserted into them. But the remainder of the twelve bills can be voted on together in an omnibus. Next year, it will be eleven as the NDAA (national defense) are two year appropriation bills.

Posted by: whig at July 17, 2025 01:27 PM (ctrM5)

347 Stupid autocucumber.

And fat fingers.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 17, 2025 01:27 PM (z3aWw)

348 I take all of this for granite.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

For all intensive purposes.

Posted by: Bulg at July 17, 2025 01:23 PM (77rzZ)

I have some rentals. The tenets are terrible!

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at July 17, 2025 01:27 PM (C4BAC)

349 The best argument for making Trump an actual king is the eventual coronation of a royally pissed off Prince Barron.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 17, 2025 01:26 PM

First Citizen Barron will reject the crown.

Posted by: toby928 at July 17, 2025 01:27 PM (jc0TO)

350 232 Masterpiece Theater sponsored by Viagra...
Posted by: runner

That would work with the "I, Claudius" episode where they showed one of Messalina's boobs.
Posted by: Bulg at July 17, 2025 01:06 PM (77rzZ)

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PBS ran the BBC mini-series of “Life and Loves of a She-Devil” in the early 90s after Roseanne did a Hollywood film from the same book. The mini-series had soft core porn level scenes in it.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 17, 2025 01:27 PM (Vh9CX)

351 326 This bill doesn't cut spending to pre Civil War levels so I'm a no.
Posted by: Thomas Massie at July 17, 2025 01:23 PM (2UnvF)

I'll take it over nothing.
But we're talking about a handful of billions, out of a budget of trillions, being passed by skin of the teeth margins through fairly technical procedures.
You don't have to Massie to be a bit cynicalz

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 17, 2025 01:27 PM (Pr4qS)

352 At today's Houston Kennel Club show. Passed by the Beagle ring. A little girl of 5 or 6 was taking around her dog, who was about half as tall as her. Unbelievably precious.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 17, 2025 01:18 PM (OmHSM)

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Pics or it didn't happen!

j/k

BTW, wifey sent me an Twitter post (although per the Reader's Context, may be misleading) about the potential dangers of hosing or cooling down your dog with water in the heat (might cause heat stroke owing to heat being trapped by wet fur?).

Would be curious to get your (and/or other's) insight/opinion on this matter, Hadrian. [And I'm also curious if the same applies to cats?]

https://is.gd/ygTlc9

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump Needs to Sue Donkey-Chompers for Defamation a la ABC at July 17, 2025 01:28 PM (hbKLn)

353 AtC was on X explaining that self defense advice telling her to go for the face first would not work for her.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 17, 2025 01:29 PM (cuCUO)

354 BUT... the two (female) highly placed members of his staff got into a personal bitchfight with each other, Lord knows why, and it started to spread throughout his staff as each one tried to get the other fired. RFK Jr. finally had enough and said "to hell with it, be gone the both of you!"

I was assured that once women ran every country there would never be another war.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 17, 2025 01:29 PM (2ocoG)

355 But we're talking about a handful of billions, out of a budget of trillions, being passed by skin of the teeth margins through fairly technical procedures.
You don't have to Massie to be a bit cynicalz

We got here because progtards understood that a small win is still a win, and if you stack enough small wins pretty soon men can be women. The Massie types need to understand that too.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 17, 2025 01:30 PM (2ocoG)

356 Candace Owens@RealCandaceO
These are not our friends or allies. These are demons and they are our enemies. They lie, steal, cheat, murder and blackmail.
Pray for the innocent.
God will have his vengeance.

-
The Klingons? KAOS? The mob?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 17, 2025 01:31 PM (L/fGl)

357
BTW, wifey sent me an Twitter post (although per the Reader's Context, may be misleading) about the potential dangers of hosing or cooling down your dog with water in the heat (might cause heat stroke owing to heat being trapped by wet fur?).

___________

Between the rear legs in the crotch. Shorter coat, better cooling and circulation.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 17, 2025 01:31 PM (OmHSM)

358 A couple of weeks ago I was coming out of a restaurant and a woman was coming in and she said "Hello" to me. Once again a life time first. I guess at 77 I'm finally old enough to not scare women when they see me.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at July 17, 2025 01:32 PM (Da7Vv)

359 I'd put myself at about 99% regret. About how I lived my life, what I believed in, following rules and meeting externally-imposed obligations instead of living, mindlessly following the narrow strictures set upon me, being a people pleaser and a doormat believing that was a high virtue. I could have been so much more, and lived a much better and happier life had I gone in the direction of a becoming my own person and not just a utility for other people to wring out and discard.

Posted by: Regrets. I've had a few. at July 17, 2025 01:33 PM (TbWk/)

360 The bill has to be passed by the House by midnight tonight according to the rules, or it fails. Then I guess we'd have to go through the whole process again.

Posted by: Ace at 12:18 PM

We tried. We really tried. Oh well, we'll get 'em next time, so long as you vote to keep us.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at July 17, 2025 01:33 PM (Hx0tZ)

361 Bruenel supposedly killed.himself in prison also.

Nothing to see ... move along.

I get that there is a lot of hysteria. But there clearly there is some shit in the game. I think Trump is coming across as pissing on our heads and telling us it's raining. That said I don't know that the world is run by pedos. I know there is a shit ton of psychopath behavior in the circles of power, and whatever flavor of sin is prevalent isn't the real issue. The real issue is putting some of these asshole psychopaths away. So as to discourage the others. So is Trump holding back so as to not embarrass the royals??? Prince Andrew?? Other famous folks he knows? Maybe. If so he is doing it wrong.

Posted by: C'mon Trump at July 17, 2025 01:35 PM (Pu5mb)

362 I thought USAID was dead. Why is its funding being merely "reduced?"
Posted by: Frasier Crane at July 17, 2025 12:23 PM (bNf8H)
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Something like 90% of staff were let go and remaining staff operates under the State Department, I believe.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 17, 2025 12:26 PM (tT6L1)

Some programs in USAID were from the start reserved as 'essential' and also still being paid out. I presume these are not 'naked dancing for queersexual' type programs.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2025 01:46 PM (8avO+)

363 Keir Starmer announces that the UK is lowering the voting age from 18 to 16 in all UK elections.

LOL Europe is toast.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 17, 2025 12:59 PM (/U5Yz)

If the UK is like here, that may not go as Starmer expects.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2025 01:48 PM (8avO+)

364 You know the case that I want the FBI to solve? D. B. frickin' Cooper. Don't tell me it can't be done, Patel.
Posted by: Bulg at July 17, 2025 01:04 PM (77rzZ)

Seems pretty simple story. Dude steals money, thinks he can jump off mid flight and hike somewhere. He couldn't. The end.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2025 02:00 PM (8avO+)

365 AtC was on X explaining that self defense advice telling her to go for the face first would not work for her.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 17, 2025 01:29 PM

AtC advice:

Rah, rah, ree!
Hit 'em in the knee!
Rah, rah, raas!
Hit 'em in the other knee!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 17, 2025 02:10 PM (0sNs1)

366 Maine is full of Moocher Swamp Yankees. How do I get in on this cruel commenter gig?

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 17, 2025 02:27 PM (wBaIH)

367 It's like straightening your tie while you're wearing no pants

Posted by: The rhino is a powerful beast at July 17, 2025 04:31 PM (De1dq)

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