White House to Ask Congress for a Teeny-Tiny $9.4 Billion in Rescissions to the Budget

I don't entirely blame Trump. The GOP, as you have probably begun to suspect, is simply not serious about any of the things it claims to be serious about.

The White House on Tuesday sent a $9.4 billion rescissions package to Congress in order to codify some of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) cuts as DOGE Chief Elon Musk publicly excoriates the GOP for its failure to address the debt in the "big beautiful bill."
"Today, we have officially received the rescissions request from the White House to eliminate $9.4 billion in wasteful foreign aid spending at State and USAID and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funds NPR and PBS," House Speaker Mike Johnson confirmed, according to The Hill.
The sum represents a small fraction of the $175 billion in estimated savings DOGE has claimed, and an even smaller portion of the $2 trillion in spending cuts necessary to eliminate the deficit.

Elon Musk minced no words in denouncing what he sees as a betrayal of the DOGE mission:

I’m sorry, but I just can’t stand it anymore.

This massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination.

Shame on those who voted for it: you know you did wrong. You know it.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 3, 2025

In November next year, we fire all politicians who betrayed the American people https://t.co/GTRc9Rjled
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 3, 2025

I understand his frustration. He spent 130 days trying to cut the budget while the left savaged his businesses and his personal wealth and what does he get out of it?

Just some fundraising material for fake GOP clock-punchers.

Karoline Leavitt said Musk's outburst "doesn't change the President's opinion." She said this is a "big beautiful bill and Trump's sticking with it."

Trump also sparred with Rand Paul.

Paul, a fiscal hawk, has repeatedly criticized the GOP's penchant for passing single legislative vehicles instead of the 12 appropriations bills. He has further taken aim at the "big, beautiful bill" over its reported impact on the deficit. Trump, for his part, suggested that Paul lacked a practical alternative and was grandstanding.
"Rand votes NO on everything, but never has any practical or constructive ideas. His ideas are actually crazy (losers!). The people of Kentucky can't stand him. This is a BIG GROWTH BILL!" he posted on Truth Social.
"Rand Paul has very little understanding of the BBB, especially the tremendous GROWTH that is coming. He loves voting "NO" on everything, he thinks it's good politics, but it's not. The BBB is a big WINNER!!!" he added in a separate post.

Paul said he would gladly vote for the $9.4 billion in rescissions but also said they were hopelessly inadequate.

Posted by: Ace at 05:35 PM

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1 1st?

Posted by: Crusader at June 03, 2025 05:26 PM (TN0g+)

2 I'll get the others.

Posted by: Crusader at June 03, 2025 05:26 PM (TN0g+)

3 The GOP are anti-Trump, anti-American fiscal responsibility.

The GOP are shit.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 03, 2025 05:28 PM (ZmEVT)

4 The Senators are pissed. They will absolutely not stop the gravy train of grift.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 03, 2025 05:29 PM (ZmEVT)

5 This is almost embarrassingly small.
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Just like GOP penises.

Posted by: Axeman at June 03, 2025 05:29 PM (krQz2)

6 "I don't entirely blame Trump."

As long as Trump is pushing around Congress to support his big-spending agenda, blame Trump. If he was serious about cutting, the rest of the GOP would fall in line.

Posted by: My name was erased at June 03, 2025 05:30 PM (WE1WX)

7 Mullin was on clay and buck going on and on about how this bill cuts 1.68T. Ummmmm no it doesn't you lying fake tough guy pos. Go back to hiding under your desk from grandma's with selfie sticks.

Posted by: BruceWayne at June 03, 2025 05:30 PM (MGB5H)

8 I don't expect any more from the body that has Lindsay Graham signing his own checks for 400K for hotels and lodging while he visits Ukraine.

I won't speculate what that money bought him, but I would never shake his hand.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 03, 2025 05:30 PM (D7oie)

9 Willowed:

193 Nood--Republicans being spineless about cutting spending.
Posted by: Crusader at June 03, 2025 05:27 PM (TN0g+)

What's Nood about that?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 03, 2025 05:31 PM (VNX3d)

10 Nothing will happen.

Posted by: The person who always says that at June 03, 2025 05:31 PM (b/lx9)

11 3 The GOP are anti-Trump, anti-American fiscal responsibility.

The GOP are shit.

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Trump is anti-fiscal responsibility. The GOP is anti-fiscal responsibility. Trump = GOP.

Also, important to note that as bad as the GOP is, Dems are worse.

Posted by: My name was erased at June 03, 2025 05:31 PM (WE1WX)

12 > I understand his frustration. He spent 130 days trying to cut the budget while the left savaged his businesses and his personal wealth and what does he get out of it?

Musk was openly worrying about getting ASSASSINATED for his work with DOGE. I don't think that was idle chatter.

Posted by: bonhomme at June 03, 2025 05:31 PM (lIio7)

13 As has been noted numerous times, The GOP has had control of the power of the purse for 24 of the last 32 years, so any claim that they are the party of fiscal conservatism is bullsh*t.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 03, 2025 05:31 PM (XV/Pl)

14 Trump, for his part, suggested that Paul lacked a practical alternative and was grandstanding.
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The practical alternative is passing a balanced budget and cutting whatever is necessary (including interest payments and mislabeled 'entitlements' if need be) in order to get there. This is Congress' primary job.

The only lack of practicality involved is that they lack the character to do it. They'll of course blame the inevitable inflation consequences on tariffs or some other bullshit when the time comes.

Posted by: Methos at June 03, 2025 05:31 PM (Dnobf)

15 The problem is obvious. Who you gonna vote for in Nov, '26?

Lindsay Graham or the Commie Democrap?

Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 03, 2025 05:32 PM (ZmEVT)

16 Hopelessly inadequate is dead on target. I've never gotten that mad at the Rand Pauls and Thomas Masseys; sure they sometimes screw up when we need to swallow the shit sandwich. But always? Nope.

And it's really really simple. Quick DDG searching gives a 6.8 trillion budget, with a 1.8 trillion deficit. That means the spending is 73.5 % of income. So we cut EVERY ITEM by 26.5%. At that point, Congress does it's job* and figures out what really matters, and gets cut more, so other shit gets cut less. Problem solved.

*I realize that is entering a parallel universe.

Posted by: Eeyore at June 03, 2025 05:32 PM (od0dV)

17 If he was serious about cutting, the rest of the GOP would fall in line.

How many of his people still need to be confirmed?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 03, 2025 05:32 PM (ExV1e)

18 The practical alternative is passing a balanced budget and cutting whatever is necessary (including interest payments and mislabeled 'entitlements' if need be) in order to get there. This is Congress' primary job.

The only lack of practicality involved is that they lack the character to do it. They'll of course blame the inevitable inflation consequences on tariffs or some other bullshit when the time comes.
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Yep. And a practical strategy is to threaten to shut the damn thing down until "we" get what we need.

Posted by: Crusader at June 03, 2025 05:33 PM (TN0g+)

19 Everyone is in favor of budget cuts. Cuts, cuts, cuts. Big beautiful cuts. Until it comes time to actually cut anything.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at June 03, 2025 05:33 PM (tAvsu)

20 Door Number Two is the same continuing resolution we have since since Barky.

Door Number One - Supposedly the BBB has some good stuff slipped in there that will not be in the CR.

Two options. That is all there is.

Repubs who said they are 'no' on the BBB do not offer any amendments to make it what they pretend they want, because they want another CR.

Oversimplifies it a bit, but that's it in a nutshell.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 03, 2025 05:34 PM (/lPRQ)

21 If he was serious about cutting, the rest of the GOP would fall in line.
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LOL.

Posted by: Axeman at June 03, 2025 05:34 PM (krQz2)

22 As has been noted numerous times, The GOP has had control of the power of the purse for 24 of the last 32 years, so any claim that they are the party of fiscal conservatism is bullsh*t.
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Exactly.

SHUT
IT
DOWN
...until "we" get what we need.

Posted by: Crusader at June 03, 2025 05:34 PM (TN0g+)

23 I am at the point that I will vote for the commie democrap just to get Miss Lindsey out.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 03, 2025 05:34 PM (ZmEVT)

24 GOPe is worse than useless.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 03, 2025 05:34 PM (i24o9)

25 $9.4 billion is a rounding error on the federal budget. And every democrat and gop(e) is going to be screaming that Trump is going to kill grandma and starve the children that planned parenthood hasn't murdered.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 03, 2025 05:35 PM (e5NfL)

26 The national debt is an existential threat to the country, arguably the world. And this is all we get in response. Nice.

Can't say I'm surprised, though.

Posted by: Tinfoil Dispenser at June 03, 2025 05:35 PM (ERYKL)

27 Impotence and Treachery, thy name is Republican

Posted by: Fenrisulven at June 03, 2025 05:35 PM (ciYHQ)

28 GOPe is worse than useless.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 03, 2025 05:34 PM (i24o9)
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GOPe and change.

Posted by: Axeman at June 03, 2025 05:36 PM (krQz2)

29 Musk was openly worrying about getting ASSASSINATED for his work with DOGE. I don't think that was idle chatter.

Posted by: bonhomme at June 03, 2025 05:31 PM (lIio7)
__________________

When the ~~Reds~~ Democrats threaten violence, believe every word of that threat. They're like Muslims: looking for an excuse to engage in violence to get their way.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 03, 2025 05:36 PM (YqDXo)

30 does this mean anything? It is from Whitehouse.gov presidential actions:

SEQUESTRATION ORDER FOR FISCAL YEAR 2026
PURSUANT TO SECTION 251A OF THE BALANCED BUDGET AND EMERGENCY DEFICIT CONTROL ACT, AS AMENDED

https://tinyurl.com/ykxkt86m

Posted by: Kindltot at June 03, 2025 05:36 PM (D7oie)

31 Yep. And a practical strategy is to threaten to shut the damn thing down until "we" get what we need.
Posted by: Crusader at June 03, 2025 05:33 PM (TN0g+)

As a political strategy, anyway.

I think we established a couple of Presidential terms ago that even "shut down," the federal government was overspending.

Posted by: Methos at June 03, 2025 05:36 PM (Dnobf)

32 Trump asks for a pittance...

And he won't even get that.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at June 03, 2025 05:37 PM (VP9wG)

33 If you put the wraiths of Alexander Kerensky, General George McClellan, General Braxton Bragg and Vidkun Quisling in charge of the GOP - and threw in Neville Chamberlain for good measure - I'm not sure we would get strategic planning that is much worse than what we get from today's Republican leadership.

Posted by: Paco at June 03, 2025 05:37 PM (mADJX)

34 23 I am at the point that I will vote for the commie democrap just to get Miss Lindsey out.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 03, 2025 05:34 PM (ZmEVT)
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Exactly my view of Thom Tillis.

Posted by: Eeyore at June 03, 2025 05:37 PM (od0dV)

35 Please, sir, I want some more.

Posted by: Public, starving for government that stops raping the country. at June 03, 2025 05:38 PM (bVYSP)

36 > I won't speculate what that money bought him, but I would never shake his hand.
Posted by: Kindltot at June 03, 2025 05:30 PM (D7oie)

If we actually had anyone in government who investigated such things, they'd almost certainly find that $100K or so went to a Ukrainian accomplice, while the remaining $300K went to an organization controlled by, but about five levels of cutouts away from, Miss Lindsay.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 03, 2025 05:38 PM (qpyNK)

37 I think its funny that anyone thought the GOP would do anything other than continue to come up with excuses to fail.

Posted by: TheLastPatriot at June 03, 2025 05:38 PM (1ufgs)

38 The reason they can't cut spending is because about 1/3 of the budget/CR/Omnibus/Cromnibus is straight graft that flows into their pockets or to the connected who will in turn flow money into their pockets.

As someone else noted, The System isn't Corrupt, Corruption is The System.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 03, 2025 05:38 PM (XV/Pl)

39 Musk was openly worrying about getting ASSASSINATED for his work with DOGE. I don't think that was idle chatter.

Posted by: bonhomme at June 03, 2025 05:31 PM (lIio7)
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It's clear which side of politics has already consistently had more street troops. KKK, unions, Hippie Marxists, Jim Jones' crew.

It's also clear which side has more Hutchkinsons, and that loser who wanted to kidnap Kavanaugh

Posted by: Axeman at June 03, 2025 05:39 PM (krQz2)

40 I wonder, do rinos not understand their descendants will get steamrolled when the burning times come, or do they think money makes them immune, or do they just not care.. or what?

Hope you all got enough beans, bullets, bandaids, and batteries

Posted by: heya at June 03, 2025 05:39 PM (he7fo)

41 If you put the wraiths of Alexander Kerensky, General George McClellan, General Braxton Bragg and Vidkun Quisling in charge of the GOP - and threw in Neville Chamberlain for good measure - I'm not sure we would get strategic planning that is much worse than what we get from today's Republican leadership.

Posted by: Paco at June 03, 2025 05:37 PM (mADJX)
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Throw in Pierre Laval.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 03, 2025 05:39 PM (YqDXo)

42 I think its funny that anyone thought the GOP would do anything other than continue to come up with excuses to fail.

Posted by: TheLastPatriot at June 03, 2025 05:38 PM (1ufgs)
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This is not that hill to not capitulate on.

Posted by: Axeman at June 03, 2025 05:40 PM (krQz2)

43 Hope you all got enough beans, bullets, bandaids, and batteries
Posted by: heya

..adds beans to grocery list...

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 03, 2025 05:40 PM (/lPRQ)

44 >>>Elon Musk minced no words in denouncing what he sees as a betrayal of the DOGE mission:

Welcome to the party, pal. Musk is always slow on the political uptake. He voted for Obama. He voted for Biden. He didn't become MAGA if he even is, until Trump nearly got his melon exploded.

Cry me a river about being betrayed by GOPe. He's got money to do something about it.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 03, 2025 05:41 PM (i24o9)

45
Trump never cared about shrinking government, that’s the reality of it

Elon basically put everything on the line to try and accomplish this and you could tell he never got real support.

Posted by: Maroon at June 03, 2025 05:41 PM (xYTjA)

46 This is not the hill to resist becoming DC's gimp on.

Posted by: Axeman at June 03, 2025 05:41 PM (krQz2)

47 I say we all micro-dose on ketamine, and peyote and let the media crap their pantaloons with claims that Musk is a South African shaman gone wild!

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 03, 2025 05:41 PM (qHYlB)

48 It's time we commence hostilities with our friends across the aisle.

Posted by: Weasel at June 03, 2025 05:42 PM (nI4xo)

49 Just to clarify, the gas pedal is still to the floor and no one gives a damn about the chasm?

Posted by: Stateless.. 12% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 03, 2025 05:42 PM (jvJvP)

50 Meanwhile the steel tariffs will be going from 25 to 50% tomorrow. This puts tariffs back to 80% + from China.

I give up on trying to plan for business right now.

What a PITA.

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at June 03, 2025 05:42 PM (NtVYv)

51 Trump never cared about shrinking government, that’s the reality of it

Posted by: Maroon at June 03, 2025 05:41 PM (xYTjA)
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Everyone is, in fact, a doodyhead.

Posted by: Axeman at June 03, 2025 05:42 PM (krQz2)

52 I think its funny that anyone thought the GOP would do anything other than continue to come up with excuses to fail.
Posted by: TheLastPatriot at June 03, 2025 05:38 PM (1ufgs)

Well sure, but I kind of expected that as much of a show as Trump made of DOGE, he might show some interest in getting their work included in the deal, since he can always *not sign* whatever Congress sends him.

Unless of course Trump is just more elaborate failure theater, which is consistent with his continued willingness to obey the Judiciary.

Posted by: Methos at June 03, 2025 05:42 PM (Dnobf)

53 It's time we commence hostilities with our friends across the aisle.

Posted by: Weasel at June 03, 2025 05:42 PM (nI4xo)

Why not?

They've commenced hostilities with us.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at June 03, 2025 05:42 PM (VP9wG)

54 I thought there was going to be a series of recission bills. The idea being able to point out exactly which egregious things were being cut so the bill could just be passed on a straight party line vote if necessary. Meaning make the Dems complain about not sending money for Drag shows in Ecuador or LGBTQ farmers in Malaysia. Instead of having some monstrous bill where it could be nitpicked. This is only the first. At least that is what Vought said last week.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 03, 2025 05:42 PM (t/2Uw)

55 ICE has rounded up the family of the Mostly Peaceful Molotov cocktail dude in Colorado and has scheduled them for deportation. Apparently the whole family is illegal aliens.

Maybe it will even happen, if they can get it done before a Hawaiian judge steps in.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 03, 2025 05:43 PM (qpyNK)

56 So glad DOOM is back.
All the WINNING was exhausting

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 03, 2025 05:43 PM (dE3DB)

57 Trump brings way more positives than negatives, but he’s never been a libertarian small government politician.

The spending during Covid was a prime example

Posted by: Maroon at June 03, 2025 05:43 PM (xYTjA)

58 Sure, it's a small amount, but what this does is give Trump ammunition if any GOP fail to vote for it. He can then say "So-and-so won't even vote to cut *this*!". See how worthless they are?

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at June 03, 2025 05:44 PM (Hw6WF)

59 Trump never cared about shrinking government, that’s the reality of it

Posted by: Maroon at June 03, 2025 05:41 PM (xYTjA)

Right? I mean, he controls the entire Federal government, including the House, Senate, and Scotus. What is his problem.
*eye roll*

Posted by: Archimedes at June 03, 2025 05:44 PM (s8j++)

60 45
Trump never cared about shrinking government, that’s the reality of it

Elon basically put everything on the line to try and accomplish this and you could tell he never got real support.

Posted by: Maroon at June 03, 2025 05:41 PM (xYTjA)

True. Trump is a 90's D. And he was a big spender in his 1st term. We should have seen this coming.

Posted by: Nova Local at June 03, 2025 05:44 PM (tOcjL)

61 Eight days of 'work' left until the big vacation starts. I'd like to get a least a few weeks of enjoyment out of that.

Posted by: Weasel at June 03, 2025 05:45 PM (nI4xo)

62 So glad DOOM is back.
All the WINNING was exhausting

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 03, 2025 05:43 PM (dE3DB)

Doom never left. Doom just waits to pounce.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 03, 2025 05:45 PM (i24o9)

63 Just to clarify, the gas pedal is still to the floor and no one gives a damn about the chasm?
Posted by: Stateless.. 12% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now

The politicians care.
They believe it is going to happen which is why they are going all out on plundering the nation's wealth. At least the low hanging fruit - debasing the dollar takes money from the middle classes' retirement funds and puts it into their own.

Miss Lindsey just skimmed a couple huindred thousand $$$.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 03, 2025 05:45 PM (/lPRQ)

64 O:T - WH X account tweeted that the Boulder terrorists family may be deported tonight.
Please follow through, Homan and Rubio!

Posted by: Lizzy at June 03, 2025 05:45 PM (Hkcdp)

65 I thought there was going to be a series of recission bills. The idea being able to point out exactly which egregious things were being cut so the bill could just be passed on a straight party line vote if necessary. Meaning make the Dems complain about not sending money for Drag shows in Ecuador or LGBTQ farmers in Malaysia. Instead of having some monstrous bill where it could be nitpicked. This is only the first. At least that is what Vought said last week.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 03, 2025 05:42 PM (t/2Uw)

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You are correct, Sharon. Some people just like to light their hair on fire.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 03, 2025 05:46 PM (u73oe)

66 I wonder what really happened with regards to the apparent Trump/Musk rift.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at June 03, 2025 05:46 PM (mH6SG)

67 Doom never left. Doom just waits to pounce.

Doom? What a p***y.

Posted by: Entropy at June 03, 2025 05:46 PM (s8j++)

68 So glad DOOM is back.
All the WINNING was exhausting

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 03, 2025 05:43 PM (dE3DB)

Doom never left. Doom just waits to pounce.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 03, 2025 05:45 PM (i24o9)

Next up: Quake and Quake Server!

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 03, 2025 05:47 PM (VNX3d)

69 15 The problem is obvious. Who you gonna vote for in Nov, '26?

Lindsay Graham or the Commie Democrap?

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So, death by Bunga-Bunga.

Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at June 03, 2025 05:47 PM (ZlKnD)

70 ICE has rounded up the family of the Mostly Peaceful Molotov cocktail dude in Colorado and has scheduled them for deportation. Apparently the whole family is illegal aliens.

Maybe it will even happen, if they can get it done before a Hawaiian judge steps in.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
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Should be on a plain Niger already then released upon landing.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 03, 2025 05:47 PM (/lPRQ)

71 It's time we commence hostilities with our friends across the aisle.

Posted by: Weasel at June 03, 2025 05:42 PM (nI4xo)

I think it's time to commence hostilities with our "friends" on our own side of the aisle.

Posted by: Paco at June 03, 2025 05:47 PM (mADJX)

72 I wonder what really happened with regards to the apparent Trump/Musk rift.

May I suggest that perhaps Elon is used to a world in which people jump when he commands, and Trump does not live in that world?

Posted by: Entropy at June 03, 2025 05:47 PM (s8j++)

73 I wonder what really happened with regards to the apparent Trump/Musk rift.
Posted by: Notorious BFD

...purported rift.

Posted by: MkY at June 03, 2025 05:48 PM (cPGH3)

74 You are correct, Sharon. Some people just like to light their hair on fire.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 03, 2025 05:46 PM (u73oe)

If there is a series of bills, it would be good to know what #2 is and when it will be announced...and then the date for #3 and #4...b/c nothing will happen in 2026 and Congress has a bunch of breaks coming, so only so many will get votes unless things get moving...

Posted by: Nova Local at June 03, 2025 05:48 PM (tOcjL)

75 This is the GOP expecting sex after buying dinner which includes a foot long hot dog AND a soda for a 1.50.

We should show our thanks somehow.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at June 03, 2025 05:48 PM (FCbAQ)

76 @54

>>I thought there was going to be a series of recission bills. The idea being able to point out exactly which egregious things were being cut so the bill could just be passed on a straight party line vote if necessary.

Basically, the WH would submit a rescission package to congress, and funding guidance, my guess is either the rescission package was rejected out of hand an their guidance was laughed at.

It really doesn't matter, we don't do budgets anymore, TOBBB is not a budget, it's simply a CR by another name.

I am disappointed but without support from Congress there's not much the administration can do other than veto the bill, but that's not going to happen. This was probably the last shot at doing something productive before the mid-terms and it's going to be a big fat meh.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 03, 2025 05:48 PM (XV/Pl)

77 I wonder what really happened with regards to the apparent Trump/Musk rift.

May I suggest that perhaps Elon is used to a world in which people jump when he commands, and Trump does not live in that world?

Posted by: Entropy at June 03, 2025 05:47 PM (s8j++)

Is there a rift? Or is that a agit prop media fabrication?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 03, 2025 05:48 PM (i24o9)

78 I think it's time to commence hostilities with our "friends" on our own side of the aisle.

If things continue as they are, at least we won't have John Cornyn to kick around any more.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 03, 2025 05:48 PM (s8j++)

79 I can relate to Musk’s frustration.
Have had enough of DC failure theater and being told we should be satisfied - grateful - when they do the tiniest thing we’ve voted for.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 03, 2025 05:48 PM (Hkcdp)

80 Paul said he would gladly vote for the $9.4 billion in rescissions but also said they were hopelessly inadequate.

Rand Paul Johnson is right!

Posted by: mikeski at June 03, 2025 05:48 PM (DgGvY)

81 "I thought there was going to be a series of recission bills. The idea being able to point out exactly which egregious things were being cut so the bill could just be passed on a straight party line vote if necessary. Meaning make the Dems complain about not sending money for Drag shows in Ecuador or LGBTQ farmers in Malaysia. Instead of having some monstrous bill where it could be nitpicked. This is only the first. At least that is what Vought said last week.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) "

Exactly. Set them up, one at a time. Vote yes or no. Let everyone see where their reps stand.

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at June 03, 2025 05:48 PM (Hw6WF)

82 I don't blame Trump. I blame squishy rinos, who seem to get away with saying the right things to get elected and then doing nothing to represent their constituents.

Primary those squishes!

Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at June 03, 2025 05:49 PM (rF2iL)

83 I see the "They're Killing BIG BIRD!!!!!" screeching has started already.

Sesame Workshop (formerly Children's Television Workshop) rakes in millions from merch every year. Millions.

In any case, Netflix (and before that, HBO) has the first-run rights for Sesame Street. PBS doesn't get the eps for something like a year after they've first appeared on the premium channels.

Big Bird will be fine.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 03, 2025 05:49 PM (qpyNK)

84 This is the GOP expecting sex after buying dinner which includes a foot long hot dog AND a soda for a 1.50.

We should show our thanks somehow.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at June 03, 2025 05:48 PM (FCbAQ)

Nothing shows gratitude like a free trip to the gallows.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 03, 2025 05:49 PM (i24o9)

85 Is there a rift? Or is that a agit prop media fabrication?

Between Trump and Elon? I doubt it. Between Elon and the Congressional slime mold? Probably.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 03, 2025 05:49 PM (s8j++)

86 WH X account tweeted that the Boulder terrorists family may be deported tonight.
Please follow through, Homan and Rubio!
Posted by: Lizzy at June 03, 2025 05:45 PM (Hkcdp)

!!!!!!

Posted by: runner at June 03, 2025 05:50 PM (g47mK)

87 If things continue as they are, at least we won't have John Cornyn to kick around any more.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 03, 2025 05:48 PM (s8j++)

Lankford will still be around for a couple more years. Kick away.

Posted by: BruceWayne at June 03, 2025 05:50 PM (MGB5H)

88 This is the GOP expecting sex after buying dinner which includes a foot long hot dog AND a soda for a 1.50.

We should show our thanks somehow.
Posted by: OneEyedJack

I'll take Luna, you can have Lindsey.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 03, 2025 05:50 PM (/lPRQ)

89 Thanks Duke.
If you really want to see hair on fire, take a look at what's going on on X about this.

On another fun topic, Greta's boat just lost power somewhere in the Mediteranean after spotting a drone overhead. They are in the dark sending a message via cell phone asking forhelp. She does look as carefree as she did yesterday.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 03, 2025 05:50 PM (t/2Uw)

90 Is there a rift? Or is that a agit prop media fabrication?

Probably the later.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at June 03, 2025 05:50 PM (mH6SG)

91 Rand Paul has been big on complaining about the spending but NOT about how they should impose the DOGE cuts. He doesn't like how much money they are spending but isn't showing any support for the cuts Elon's team found.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 03, 2025 05:51 PM (2VST1)

92 er...latter

Posted by: Notorious BFD at June 03, 2025 05:51 PM (mH6SG)

93 Stolen from Rantburg:

A true America First agenda should start with squarely facing our homegrown failures."

No one voted to be $34T in debt.
No one voted to become a minority in our own country.
No one voted for Muhammed to be the number one name in NYC.

The failure is that our votes barely matters.
There are not enough gallows to fix things.

Posted by: Crusader at June 03, 2025 05:51 PM (TN0g+)

94 Big Bird will be fine.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

Who owns the IP?
Hensen (sp?) family estate?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 03, 2025 05:51 PM (/lPRQ)

95 So glad DOOM is back.
All the WINNING was exhausting

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 03, 2025 05:43 PM (dE3DB)

Doom never left. Doom just waits to pounce.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 03, 2025 05:45 PM (i24o9)
---
Reminds of that scene in What about Bob?

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Dr. Leo Marvin: You think he's gone? He's not gone. That's the whole point! He's never gone!
[Leo opens the door; there's Bob]
Bob Wiley: Is this some radical new therapy?
Dr. Leo Marvin: YOU SEE?!
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Posted by: Axeman at June 03, 2025 05:51 PM (krQz2)

96 I did see this : " Wife and 5 children of Boulder attack suspect taken into ICE custody, White House says"

good start

Posted by: runner at June 03, 2025 05:52 PM (g47mK)

97 Build more gallows!

Posted by: BruceWayne at June 03, 2025 05:52 PM (MGB5H)

98 78 If things continue as they are, at least we won't have John Cornyn to kick around any more. - Archimedes

That's a start, anyway.

Posted by: Paco at June 03, 2025 05:52 PM (mADJX)

99 On another fun topic, Greta's boat just lost power somewhere in the Mediteranean after spotting a drone overhead.

Babylon Bee has a bit about how Gaza is offering a peace deal if Europe takes Greta back

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 03, 2025 05:52 PM (2VST1)

100 As if it couldn’t get more predictable, the Boulder terrorists daughter had a glowing write-up in the Colorado Springs Gazette last month as one of their Best and Brightest scholarship recipients.

I mean, come on!

Posted by: Lizzy at June 03, 2025 05:52 PM (Hkcdp)

101 Take this for what it's worth, but I read an article, saw a newsclip, something - that basically indicate this 9b was a test run to gauge the likely success of larger cuts when submitted or if other avenues need explored...

Having said that, gotta go...got a killer deal on a bridge, with ocean front property, in AZ that I have to go pick up.

Posted by: FXDWG at June 03, 2025 05:53 PM (xfTc5)

102 Its true , IT'S TRUE !

"JUST IN: The wife and five children of illegal alien Mohamed Soliman—the suspect in the antisemitic firebombing of Jewish Americans—have been captured and are now in ICE custody for expedited removal.

THEY COULD BE DEPORTED AS EARLY AS TONIGHT."

Posted by: runner at June 03, 2025 05:53 PM (g47mK)

103 > Hensen (sp?) family estate?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 03, 2025 05:51 PM (/lPRQ)

Not the Hensons, for sure. He was a hired hand. Probably even got conned into donating a lot of his time for the "charitable operation".

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 03, 2025 05:53 PM (qpyNK)

104 On another fun topic, Greta's boat just lost power somewhere in the Mediteranean

--
Oh no

Anyway...

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 03, 2025 05:53 PM (dE3DB)

105 >>>On another fun topic, Greta's boat just lost power somewhere in the Mediterranean after spotting a drone overhead.

Lost power? You mean it's not wind powered?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 03, 2025 05:53 PM (i24o9)

106 Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) "

Exactly. Set them up, one at a time. Vote yes or no. Let everyone see where their reps stand.
Posted by: AshevilleRobert

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If only they would do that, but we have been burned so many times before.

But still. $10 Billion a shot would take dozens and dozens of bills to make a dent. ie, they don't have time between vacations, election season, and trips to Ukraine we will be lucky to see one or two more this year.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at June 03, 2025 05:53 PM (bVYSP)

107 As if it couldn’t get more predictable, the Boulder terrorists daughter had a glowing write-up in the Colorado Springs Gazette last month as one of their Best and Brightest scholarship recipients.

I mean, come on!
Posted by: Lizzy at June 03, 2025 05:52 PM (Hkcdp)

Where's the everything's an op guy?

Posted by: BruceWayne at June 03, 2025 05:53 PM (MGB5H)

108 He spent 130 days trying to cut the budget while the left savaged his businesses and his personal wealth and what does he get out of it?

Just some fundraising material for fake GOP clock-punchers.

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That's why Elon Musk is launching satellites by the thousands, builds interplanetary rockets while the congresscritters go to Ukraine and debauch millions of dollars in hotels there. Makers and wasters cannot coexist.

Posted by: Decaf at June 03, 2025 05:53 PM (unUNN)

109 NOw, find more like that and make it a daily occurrence!

Posted by: runner at June 03, 2025 05:54 PM (g47mK)

110 Hakeem giggles

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 03, 2025 05:54 PM (63Dwl)

111 Where's the everything's an op guy?

=

Drunk or high ?

Posted by: runner at June 03, 2025 05:54 PM (g47mK)

112 As if it couldn’t get more predictable, the Boulder terrorists daughter had a glowing write-up in the Colorado Springs Gazette last month as one of their Best and Brightest scholarship recipients.

I mean, come on!

Posted by: Lizzy at June 03, 2025 05:52 PM (Hkcdp)

They must have a book of these, like MadLibs or something.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 03, 2025 05:54 PM (i24o9)

113 This makes we wince, as a Trump supporter… not a good look, and just cool it with the Paul bashing, ‘mkay?

Posted by: tubal at June 03, 2025 05:54 PM (PCK5/)

114 >>>On another fun topic, Greta's boat just lost power somewhere in the Mediterranean after spotting a drone overhead.

Lost power? You mean it's not wind powered?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon
===

Should be solar. No dirty batteries.
It got dark.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 03, 2025 05:54 PM (/lPRQ)

115 91 Rand Paul has been big on complaining about the spending but NOT about how they should impose the DOGE cuts. He doesn't like how much money they are spending but isn't showing any support for the cuts Elon's team found. - Christopher R Taylor

I wonder. Does he have trouble with math, or are his own oxen getting gored?

Posted by: Paco at June 03, 2025 05:54 PM (mADJX)

116 >>>On another fun topic, Greta's boat just lost power somewhere in the Mediterranean after spotting a drone overhead.

Lost power? You mean it's not wind powered?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 03, 2025 05:53 PM (i24o9)

Let Greta start talking. That should generate enough wind.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 03, 2025 05:55 PM (VNX3d)

117 Big bad bullshit bill.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 03, 2025 05:55 PM (dGCAG)

118 On another fun topic, Greta's boat just lost power somewhere in the Mediteranean

--
Oh no

Anyway...
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 03, 2025 05:53 PM (dE3DB)

I am sad..that it did not sink with her on board...

Posted by: runner at June 03, 2025 05:55 PM (g47mK)

119 This who.e mess makes me sick. Musk risked everything for America and Trump. I was wondering why we weren't seeing Lil X around him. It's because of all the threats on his life.These scum in DC haven't done anything useful in years and won't do anything useful in the next 100 years. The American people need to get really sick of this schitz and tell them how tired we all are of their excuses. Tar and feathers are a good start.

Posted by: Megthered at June 03, 2025 05:55 PM (2/IuM)

120 The Andromeda Strain is lethal than Congress.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 03, 2025 05:55 PM (Mz29H)

121 I think Elon is doing his best to get himself and his kids the fuck off this planet before the Big Collapse, personally.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 03, 2025 05:55 PM (qpyNK)

122 I hate being right all the time.

Hate it!

Posted by: BurtTC at June 03, 2025 05:55 PM (dGCAG)

123 >>>On another fun topic, Greta's boat just lost power somewhere in the Mediterranean after spotting a drone overhead.

Lost power? You mean it's not wind powered?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 03, 2025 05:53 PM (i24o9)

Let Greta start talking. That should generate enough wind.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 03, 2025 05:55 PM (VNX3d)

I seriously thought she would travel on a sailing vessel. I denounce myself.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 03, 2025 05:56 PM (i24o9)

124 I'll take Luna, you can have Lindsey.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 03, 2025 05:50 PM (/lPRQ)

Not even with a borrowed dick.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at June 03, 2025 05:56 PM (FCbAQ)

125 We will increase spending less than the Democrats! Good luck running on that in 26.

Guess we're back to hoping spending slows as Dems spending another 2 years on Impeachment Circus.

Posted by: Bete at June 03, 2025 05:56 PM (LX4y3)

126 Was Greta von Thule's boat 'green energy' powered?

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 03, 2025 05:56 PM (Mz29H)

127 Greta, the OG child activist who lectured adults that they were literally killing her generation with their use of fossil fuels, is now adrift at sea …without power?!

Ever headline seems to read as satire😎

Posted by: Lizzy at June 03, 2025 05:57 PM (Hkcdp)

128 I'll take Luna, you can have Lindsey.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 03, 2025 05:50 PM (/lPRQ)

Not even with a borrowed dick.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at June 03, 2025 05:56 PM (FCbAQ)

I'll Sinema. She needs spankings.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 03, 2025 05:57 PM (i24o9)

129 Re: Greta.

Where are are the French UDT guys when you need them?

They whacked Greenpeace's boat, so Greta should be a piece of cake (speaking of which, she looks like she's been eating way too many pieces of cake lately).

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 03, 2025 05:57 PM (qpyNK)

130 One way Trump can be rid of slime like Lindsay Graham is to give him lots of publicity then have Elon fund his primary opponent. Rinse and repeat for as many of them as necessary.

Posted by: Decaf at June 03, 2025 05:57 PM (unUNN)

131 Big Collapse?

Heinlein's Friday

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 03, 2025 05:57 PM (Mz29H)

132 They don't have oars on Greta's boat?

Posted by: fd at June 03, 2025 05:58 PM (Pisim)

133 I keep receiving these fundraising emails about the $5000 check DOGE is supposed to send me.
I don't want a $5000 check from the government, I want the government to run efficiently.

Posted by: PG at June 03, 2025 05:58 PM (afPT4)

134 Why did they even go the tripple b route anyway. That's just a repeat of build back better. A really stupid unforced error.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 03, 2025 05:58 PM (cduTK)

135
On another fun topic, Greta's boat just lost power somewhere in the Mediterranean after spotting a drone overhead.

Please tell me that the Israeli Navy publishes helmet cams from the boarding party.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 03, 2025 05:58 PM (y9nCu)

136 This is the GOP expecting sex after buying dinner which includes a foot long hot dog AND a soda for a 1.50.

We should show our thanks somehow.

Posted by: OneEyedJack

Of course I expect sex after I buy a footlong! What else am I going to do with it?

Posted by: Lindsay Graham at June 03, 2025 05:58 PM (ycI94)

137 I think Elon is doing his best to get himself and his kids the fuck off this planet before the Big Collapse, personally.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 03, 2025 05:55 PM (qpyNK)

I'm beginning to regret not having put myself out there as a cabana boy for bazillionaires, when I was younger, and good looking enough to pull it off.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 03, 2025 05:58 PM (dGCAG)

138
The failure is that our votes barely matters.
There are not enough gallows to fix things.
Posted by: Crusader

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Much the same in Europe.
Gallows are not the answer -- a bloody revolt seems inevitable, where we discard our stupid illusions about how to deal with foreigners, hostile ideologies, and hostile invaders.

We are now in several races to maintain Western Civ.
- China wants us to decay to the point where we can not fight
- The muslims want us to be overwhelmed and unable to resist and deport them all
- The marxists want to take it over using our systems to destroy us.

We have to win on all three fronts.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at June 03, 2025 05:58 PM (bVYSP)

139 Huh, this hash smells funny.

Posted by: fd at June 03, 2025 05:58 PM (Pisim)

140 > They don't have oars on Greta's boat?

I have a feeling Greta would fall overboard if she tried to row.

Posted by: bonhomme at June 03, 2025 05:59 PM (lIio7)

141 I keep receiving these fundraising emails about the $5000 check DOGE is supposed to send me.
I don't want a $5000 check from the government, I want the government to run efficiently.
Posted by: PG at June 03, 2025 05:58 PM (afPT4)

I want machete's taken to the government. 80% of it can go away, and I doubt I'd notice.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 03, 2025 05:59 PM (VNX3d)

142 That’s it , I’m done. Never Trump has my vote

*lights hair on fiire*
*falls on sword*

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 03, 2025 05:59 PM (zpJdl)

143 > 132 They don't have oars on Greta's boat?
Posted by: fd at June 03, 2025 05:58 PM (Pisim)

Sure they have 'ores.

Oh, I see. That's not what you meant. Sorry, Guvnah.

Posted by: Cockney Guy at June 03, 2025 05:59 PM (qpyNK)

144 115 His dad Luap Nor always made sure to get his pork into the budget before doing his "vote against the budget in meaningless performance" theater.

Posted by: Bete at June 03, 2025 05:59 PM (LX4y3)

145 HAHAHAH!!

"The suspect's family are being processed for expedited removal, which would allow authorities to rapidly deport them without a hearing in an immigration court.

The arrests of Soliman's family were confirmed by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on X, where she shared a video saying they will be deported while Soliman's 'despicable actions will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.' "

Posted by: runner at June 03, 2025 05:59 PM (g47mK)

146
Throw in Pierre Laval.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 03, 2025 05:39 PM (YqDXo)

________

"Yoo hoo!" - Jozef Tiso, Ion Antonescu, Miklos Horthy

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 03, 2025 05:59 PM (QnmlO)

147 Ace but is a teeny tiny miniscule about compared to a FUCKIN 4 TRilLION DOLLAR DEFICIT
Wtf ?

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at June 03, 2025 06:00 PM (nYmjK)

148 The GOP is lucky if they don't get called by the refs for flopping.

Posted by: Axeman at June 03, 2025 06:00 PM (krQz2)

149 Glowing green orb > Congress

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 03, 2025 06:00 PM (Mz29H)

150 These recissions are only for this year's unspent funds. Taking back money unspent. They can then be eliminated in next years budget. At least I think that's how it works. If that's the case, that's how the cuts get codified. For example, taking back the funds for the rest of hte fiscal year from NPR shuts it down. Then you don;t put funds in next years budget. They've already put USAID under the State Dept. Take back the rest of the funds for the egregious programs and cut them altogether from next years budget.
Am I missing something?

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 03, 2025 06:00 PM (t/2Uw)

151 *the victims should sue Polis for a billion dollars, he axed for it....a billion dollars to remove that wart is not a lot

Posted by: runner at June 03, 2025 06:00 PM (g47mK)

152 Evergreen
"Now suppose I was a crook. And suppose I was a Congressman... but I repeat myself."
Mark Twain circa 1885

Posted by: MkY at June 03, 2025 06:01 PM (cPGH3)

153 Like I always say, I think Trump should do something actually constructive and historic and that is well within his power - destroy the Republican Party by forming a new one.

The Republican Party can't survive without his supporters, and the Democrat Party can't survive without the GOP.

Trump has the power to topple this regime. He should use it.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 03, 2025 06:01 PM (BI5O2)

154 Group of castaway schoolboys with a conch shell > Congress

Posted by: Cockney Guy at June 03, 2025 06:01 PM (qpyNK)

155 HAHAHAH!!

"The suspect's family are being processed for expedited removal, which would allow authorities to rapidly deport them without a hearing in an immigration court.

Posted by: runner at June 03, 2025 05:59 PM (g47mK)
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Until Judge Punchy chimes in.

Posted by: Axeman at June 03, 2025 06:01 PM (krQz2)

156 Huh, this hash smells funny.
Posted by: fd at June 03, 2025 05:58 PM (Pisim)

Smells like Budweiser?

Posted by: Aetius451AD workphone at June 03, 2025 06:01 PM (2HvAK)

157 This is the dark side of Trump. He won't fight for any meaningful cuts, he just wants to sign a bill that he named. It is a bit disheartening.

That's not giving a pass to the Massie/Rand Paul wing. There should have been a cohesive compromise plan in place from the outset.

Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at June 03, 2025 06:01 PM (ZlKnD)

158 Trump being Trump, sooner or later he'll be ripping Musk, and that will be that. Elon and his billions are going to take a particular interest in the next election cycle. The Leftists and the last administration pissed him and his tech buddies off to the point where they went over to Trump. It can go the other way, too.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at June 03, 2025 06:01 PM (MZ+PY)

159 Crusader ,

You are mistaken. Everyone that voted for Bill Clinton in the '90's voted for this shit.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 03, 2025 06:02 PM (ZmEVT)

160 I keep receiving these fundraising emails about the $5000 check DOGE is supposed to send me.
I don't want a $5000 check from the government, I want the government to run efficiently.

Posted by: PG at June 03, 2025 05:58 PM

I get those as well along with the ones from connecticut where they claim I am going to be arrested for failing to pay for an unspecified traffic ticket from 20 years ago.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 03, 2025 06:02 PM (e5NfL)

161 Until Judge Punchy chimes in.
Posted by: Axeman at June 03, 2025 06:01 PM (krQz2)

not happening; they are here on a visa most likely...they should send them to gaza

Posted by: runner at June 03, 2025 06:02 PM (g47mK)

162 That’s it , I’m done. Never Trump has my vote

*lights hair on fiire*
*falls on sword*

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 03, 2025 05:59 PM (zpJdl)

I agree! I'm done voting for Trump.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at June 03, 2025 06:03 PM (FCbAQ)

163
They don't have oars on Greta's boat?
Posted by: fd

Row well and live.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 03, 2025 06:03 PM (63Dwl)

164 I wonder. Does he have trouble with math, or are his own oxen getting gored?

I don't know. Maybe I missed his support of the DOGE cuts somewhere but I have not seen him ever support them and vocally oppose some. Makes me a bit... suspicious.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 03, 2025 06:03 PM (2VST1)

165 162 That’s it , I’m done. Never Trump has my vote

*lights hair on fiire*
*falls on sword*

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 03, 2025 05:59 PM (zpJdl)

I agree! I'm done voting for Trump.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at June 03, 2025 06:03 PM (FCbAQ)

Snort.. well played..

Posted by: tubal at June 03, 2025 06:03 PM (PCK5/)

166 Judge whatsit will stop the deportation I bet

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 03, 2025 06:03 PM (gDlxJ)

167 A lot of Sturm and drank and it's all overs.

Lot of time left on the clock.

Posted by: Aetius451AD workphone at June 03, 2025 06:04 PM (2HvAK)

168 not happening; they are here on a visa most likely...they should send them to gaza

With or without parachute?

But at the same time I do hope these Democrat tyrants in black robes do try and stop the deportation. Just to make the distinction even more marked.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 03, 2025 06:04 PM (Mz29H)

169 They don't have oars on Greta's boat?

Are you kidding? Ask her to row? She'd curl up in a foetal position and go into a coma.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 03, 2025 06:04 PM (2VST1)

170 Sturm and Drang, phone.

Posted by: Aetius451AD workphone at June 03, 2025 06:04 PM (2HvAK)

171
If Kumala had been elected we would already be debt free.

Posted by: four seasons at June 03, 2025 06:04 PM (3ek7K)

172 Many true facts here, wielded by different people pushing often conflicting observations.

Trump has never been good on fiscal matters. It seems possible he/his team just assume they can grown their way out of fiscal insanity (as happened, entirely by chance, temporarily and without any material help from WH or Congress, in the 1990s). Which seems like a pretty lame assumption, as the fiscal situation is far far worse and there's no exogenous once-in-a-generation technological advance about to juice the economy.

TBBB is not an appropriations bill. Those are supposed to be getting marked up starting very soon. Those are where DOGE-style (heh) cuts for future spending, and many other kinds of cuts, can be done. Rescissions are for past appropriations not yet expended.

Musk is a political novice. He also doesn't seem to understand the role of this bill vs. appropriations bills. He said he's walking away, before the game really starts. His threat to fund challengers to flush out useless GOP incumbents was yuuuuge. Could actually coerce some into faking responsible behavior, while actually getting rid of some next cycle. Walking away now is pretty dumb.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 03, 2025 06:04 PM (1m82a)

173 167 And let the husband out of jail, cause it's their culture to try to kill Jews.

Posted by: Bete at June 03, 2025 06:05 PM (LX4y3)

174 Our votes DON'T matter at all.

If they do, show me where.

I believe Trump is trying but is getting nowhere with the DC crowd. They have their own agenda and it does not favor everyday working people.

Posted by: Case at June 03, 2025 06:05 PM (a1g6Z)

175 170 Sturm and Drang, phone.
Posted by: Aetius451AD workphone at June 03, 2025 06:04 PM (2HvAK)

I liked the other version better…

Posted by: tubal at June 03, 2025 06:05 PM (PCK5/)

176 These recissions are only for this year's unspent funds. Taking back money unspent. They can then be eliminated in next years budget. At least I think that's how it works. If that's the case, that's how the cuts get codified. For example, taking back the funds for the rest of hte fiscal year from NPR shuts it down. Then you don;t put funds in next years budget. They've already put USAID under the State Dept. Take back the rest of the funds for the egregious programs and cut them altogether from next years budget.
Am I missing something?
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 03, 2025 06:00 PM (t/2Uw)

I think you're right, so it will eventually add up to more. I'm happy with any start, even if "small" although I hardly think billions of dollars is small.

Posted by: LASue at June 03, 2025 06:05 PM (lCppi)

177 Pretty sure Rubio can cancel visas, and he had already pledged to deport the families of any terrorists (iirc, this was in context of college Pali activists, but this should go double for torch throwers).

Posted by: Lizzy at June 03, 2025 06:05 PM (Hkcdp)

178 The Leftists and the last administration pissed him and his tech buddies off to the point where they went over to Trump. It can go the other way, too.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at June 03, 2025 06:01 PM (MZ+PY)
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But Elon already knows what's over on that side.

I think it's a reasonable case that he spends money primarying the biggest phonies in DC, perhaps on either side.

Posted by: Axeman at June 03, 2025 06:05 PM (krQz2)

179 > Are you kidding? Ask her to row?

Hang a cheese Danish in front of her face with a fishing rod.

It'd be like a donkey with a carrot.

Posted by: Cockney Guy at June 03, 2025 06:05 PM (qpyNK)

180 Greta should be a piece of cake (speaking of which, she looks like she's been eating way too many pieces of cake lately).

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

Holy cow! You ain't lying! https://tinyurl.com/3wpvwb6j

I've seen a few off-hand comments that seemed to say she was gaining weight, but assumed people were just dunking on her. She needs to put down the Gräddbulle.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at June 03, 2025 06:05 PM (ycI94)

181
I get those as well along with the ones from connecticut where they claim I am going to be arrested for failing to pay for an unspecified traffic ticket from 20 years ago.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 03, 2025 06:02 PM (e5NfL)

For me it's $71 that a douchebag dentist claims I owe from 8 years ago, on a bill that I KNOW I paid in full immediately. Texts started about a month or so ago.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 03, 2025 06:05 PM (y9nCu)

182 On another fun topic, Greta's boat just lost power somewhere in the Mediterranean after spotting a drone overhead. They are in the dark sending a message via cell phone asking for help. She does look as carefree as she did yesterday.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 03, 2025 05:50 PM (t/2Uw)
_______________

Drop some oars to them.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 03, 2025 06:05 PM (YqDXo)

183 Some are probably drinking.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 03, 2025 06:05 PM (Mz29H)

184 Pretty sure Rubio can cancel visas,

Posted by: Lizzy at June 03, 2025 06:05 PM (Hkcdp)
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You sure?

Posted by: Judge Boasberg at June 03, 2025 06:06 PM (krQz2)

185 Pretty sure Rubio can cancel visas, and ~~he had already pledged to deport the families of any terrorists (iirc, this was in context of college Pali activists, but this should go double for torch throwers).~~
Posted by: Lizzy

WRONG!

Posted by: Hawaiian Judge at June 03, 2025 06:06 PM (ycI94)

186 Greta should be a piece of cake (speaking of which, she looks like she's been eating way too many pieces of cake lately).

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
_______________

I bet she's still flat-chested though.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 03, 2025 06:06 PM (YqDXo)

187 there are millions like that terrorist hanging around, expired visa, 10 kids , Uber driver, the works

Posted by: runner at June 03, 2025 06:06 PM (g47mK)

188 Drop some oars to them.
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Several dozen. No reason to un-box them.

Posted by: Crusader at June 03, 2025 06:07 PM (TN0g+)

189
That’s it , I’m done. Never Trump has my vote

*lights hair on fiire*
*falls on sword*

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 03, 2025 05:59 PM (zpJdl)

I agree! I'm done voting for Trump.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at June 03, 2025 06:03 PM (FCbAQ)

___________

I'm going to go get an abortion. Resist we must!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 03, 2025 06:07 PM (QnmlO)

190 Some are probably drinking.

===

"some"? when are they not ??

Posted by: runner at June 03, 2025 06:07 PM (g47mK)

191 Are you kidding? Ask her to row? She'd curl up in a foetal position and go into a coma.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
_______

She beats the drum for her galley slaves.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 03, 2025 06:07 PM (UBKzV)

192 Sturm and Drang, phone.
Posted by: Aetius451AD workphone at June 03, 2025 06:04 PM (2HvAK)

I liked the other version better…
Posted by: tubal at June 03, 2025 06:05 PM (PCK5/)

I'm still at work, so I can't Sturm AND Drank.

I can only do one.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 03, 2025 06:07 PM (dGCAG)

193 His dad Luap Nor always made sure to get his pork into the budget before doing his "vote against the budget in meaningless performance" theater.

Yeah I remember that well. I would bring that up to Paul supporters and they got all sheepish and talked about how he may as well benefit his people if the spending is gonna happen anyway. There's crap named after Paul in Kentucky where his district was. He was all lip and no service.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 03, 2025 06:08 PM (2VST1)

194 Sturm and Drang, phone.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Hey! Small world.
That's the law firm I use.

Posted by: MkY at June 03, 2025 06:08 PM (cPGH3)

195 169 They don't have oars on Greta's boat?

Are you kidding? Ask her to row? She'd curl up in a foetal position and go into a coma.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

So you're saying there's a chance...

Posted by: David Hogg at June 03, 2025 06:08 PM (ycI94)

196 Everybody knows that the key to a strong executive function is placating judges.

It is the opinion of this court that the Founders would have meant no other.

Posted by: Judge Boasberg at June 03, 2025 06:08 PM (krQz2)

197 On another fun topic, Greta's boat just lost power somewhere in the Mediterranean after spotting a drone overhead. They are in the dark sending a message via cell phone asking for help. She does look as carefree as she did yesterday.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 03, 2025 05:50 PM (t/2Uw)
_______________

Drop some oars to them.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 03, 2025 06:05 PM (YqDXo)

Airdrop lots of beans. Once they've eaten, the crew and passengers can take turns off the stern, using "natural" gas propulsion.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 03, 2025 06:08 PM (VNX3d)

198 I bet she's still flat-chested though.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 03, 2025 06:06 PM (YqDXo)

That was actually a topic yesterday. So.e video of her getting arrested and with her hanging limp, it showed off her 'figure'.

They were boobs. But attached to a mental.

Posted by: Aetius451AD workphone at June 03, 2025 06:08 PM (2HvAK)

199 Drop some oars to them.
-----------
Several dozen. No reason to un-box them.

Posted by: Crusader at June 03, 2025 06:07 PM (TN0g+)
_______________

And a guy with a drum to help them row in unison. Like the scene in Ben Hur.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 03, 2025 06:08 PM (YqDXo)

200 what is it with some people, every time something pops up , of a positive nature , they dump doom and gloom ? are they old and sick or something? prostate problems ??

Posted by: runner at June 03, 2025 06:08 PM (g47mK)

201 I bet she's still flat-chested though.

Based on that video going around yesterday I'd say at least B cup. But I am no expert.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 03, 2025 06:09 PM (2VST1)

202 >>> Glowing green orb > Congress
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 03, 2025 06:00 PM (Mz29H)

sigh... [raises the lightning sword]

Posted by: Taarna at June 03, 2025 06:09 PM (cduTK)

203 The GOP is working with Dems and the Courts to contain Trump just as before, and just as I predicted, which wasn't difficult to do, because the Great American Shell Game didn't change when that government assassin missed his mark.

As always: nothing can ever be done as long as the GOP exists. They're not just the Democrats' best line of defense, they're it's only one.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 03, 2025 06:09 PM (BI5O2)

204 I'm going to go get an abortion. Resist we must!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 03, 2025 06:07 PM (QnmlO)

Hah, I'm gonna get a sex change operation, SO I can then have an abortion.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 03, 2025 06:09 PM (dGCAG)

205 B-cup

Balloon cup?

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 03, 2025 06:09 PM (Mz29H)

206 Glowing green orb > Congress
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 03, 2025 06:00 PM (Mz29H)
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The Loc-nar.

Posted by: Axeman at June 03, 2025 06:10 PM (krQz2)

207 186 Greta should be a piece of cake (speaking of which, she looks like she's been eating way too many pieces of cake lately).
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
_______________
I bet she's still flat-chested though.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara

I know the feeling. Fat without the consolation prize of big tiddies is nature's cruel joke.

Posted by: Lena Dunham at June 03, 2025 06:10 PM (ycI94)

208
TBBB is not an appropriations bill. Those are supposed to be getting marked up starting very soon. Those are where DOGE-style (heh) cuts for future spending, and many other kinds of cuts, can be done. Rescissions are for past appropriations not yet expended.

+++
Yes and it is amazing how many smart people don;t understand this. The Big Beautiful Bill needs to be passed to keep the tax cuts in place. They are complaining about the debt limit in the bill. There needs time to put cuts and new budget in place while economy continues to grow. If this doesn;t pass, there will be Hell to pay because the tax cuts stop in July otherwise.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 03, 2025 06:10 PM (t/2Uw)

209 Based on that video going around yesterday I'd say at least B cup. But I am no expert.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 03, 2025 06:09 PM (2VST1)
_____________

More likely a Kleenex-cup.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 03, 2025 06:11 PM (YqDXo)

210 204 I'm going to go get an abortion. Resist we must!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 03, 2025 06:07 PM (QnmlO)

Hah, I'm gonna get a sex change operation, SO I can then have an abortion.
Posted by: BurtTC at June 03, 2025 06:09 PM (dGCAG)

Do that you will be a spokesperson for the Woke, at least… or maybe a Tv pundit…

Posted by: tubal at June 03, 2025 06:11 PM (PCK5/)

211 Forget it,Jake. It's Griftertown

Posted by: A dude in MI at June 03, 2025 06:11 PM (/6GbT)

212 As always: nothing can ever be done as long as the GOP exists. They're not just the Democrats' best line of defense, they're it's only one.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

I'm on board. What shall we call the new Party?
I'm leaning toward the Constitutional Party.

Posted by: MkY at June 03, 2025 06:11 PM (cPGH3)

213 Tensor just generated what happens when you mash up a bikini top with a kimono.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 03, 2025 06:11 PM (Mz29H)

214 The Big Beautiful Party.. .

Posted by: tubal at June 03, 2025 06:12 PM (PCK5/)

215 This is the dark side of Trump. He won't fight for any meaningful cuts, he just wants to sign a bill that he named. It is a bit disheartening.

That's not giving a pass to the Massie/Rand Paul wing. There should have been a cohesive compromise plan in place from the outset.

Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at June 03, 2025 06:01 PM (ZlKnD)

Having watched decades of congressional
failure via omnibus bills, reconciliation bills and continuing resolutions, I'm fine with this as a start to getting to a regular budget process.

Posted by: LASue at June 03, 2025 06:12 PM (lCppi)

216 Greta looks like the singer in Simple Minds, circa 1985.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 03, 2025 06:12 PM (UBKzV)

217 I'm on board. What shall we call the new Party?
I'm leaning toward the Constitutional Party.

Posted by: MkY at June 03, 2025 06:11 PM (cPGH3)
_______________

The Vengeance Party.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 03, 2025 06:12 PM (YqDXo)

218 Every time the GOPe behaves like this I hear Paul Ryan or John Boehner saying " that's not who we are". Ok so you're useful lumps

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 03, 2025 06:12 PM (oRTCs)

219 The GOP is working with Dems and the Courts to contain Trump just as before, and just as I predicted, which wasn't difficult to do, because the Great American Shell Game didn't change when that government assassin missed his mark.

As always: nothing can ever be done as long as the GOP exists. They're not just the Democrats' best line of defense, they're it's only one.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 03, 2025 06:09 PM (BI5O2)

This is why I still have hope, because I never expected Trump to move the ball very much. Oh, I thought maybe he'd do a little here or there, but things like the release of Epstein and JFK files, I expected nothing, and hoped it would open more people to the reality that their governments rules over them. It doesn't serve them.

So that's my hope, that there's still time to destroy the Republican Party, once and for all.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 03, 2025 06:13 PM (dGCAG)

220 How about the people who equate any mild criticism with being Jonah Goldberg?

Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at June 03, 2025 06:13 PM (ZlKnD)

221 Greta looks like the singer in Simple Minds, circa 1985.

"~~don't you~~ HOW DARE YOU forget about me"
--Greta

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 03, 2025 06:14 PM (2VST1)

222 It’s basically the mirror image of when democrats promise spending cuts after the tax increases.

They really want to lower the deficit , just as soon as they jack up everyone’s taxes.

Posted by: Maroon at June 03, 2025 06:14 PM (xYTjA)

223 221 Greta looks like the singer in Simple Minds, circa 1985.

"don't you HOW DARE YOU forget about me"
--Greta
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 03, 2025 06:14 PM (2VST1)

Lol

Posted by: tubal at June 03, 2025 06:14 PM (PCK5/)

224 Musk was openly worrying about getting ASSASSINATED for his work with DOGE. I don't think that was idle chatter.
Posted by: bonhomme at June 03, 2025 05:31 PM (lIio7)

-----------------

As I have said earlier, he should do what Soros does and buy politicians and other elected officials.

I know, Elon does not operate like that, he comes right out and says what he believes, no interpreters in between but he will have to learn to set up the political situation to fit what he wants to do.

Posted by: Decaf at June 03, 2025 06:15 PM (unUNN)

225 He won't fight for any meaningful cuts, he just wants to sign a bill that he named. It is a bit disheartening.

I don't think he cares very much about debts, and he doesn't seem to have any fight in him over budgets.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 03, 2025 06:15 PM (2VST1)

226 Do that you will be a spokesperson for the Woke, at least… or maybe a Tv pundit…
Posted by: tubal at June 03, 2025 06:11 PM (PCK5/)

You think so? I was just hoping for an OnlyFans account.

Maybe a girl should dream... bigger.

I almost typed "bugger." Heh.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 03, 2025 06:15 PM (dGCAG)

227 Tensor just generated what happens when you mash up a bikini top with a kimono.
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 03, 2025 06:11 PM (Mz29H)
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Would it be called a "bikono" or a "kimini"?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 03, 2025 06:15 PM (GlyvH)

228 Those are where DOGE-style (heh) cuts for future spending, and many other kinds of cuts, can be done. Rescissions are for past appropriations not yet expended.

-------

All correct, and also unimportant. The GOP will vote to block every meaningful part of Trump's agenda just as they did last time, and they are *happy* to sacrifice the House next year, just as they were in '18.

We're watching this rerun of this extremely gay soap opera and getting just as worked up as when it first aired, and waiting with bated breath for story beats we already know are coming well advance. It's like a weird, collective amnesia.

We can't change the GOP. It just has to go.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 03, 2025 06:16 PM (BI5O2)

229 Greta looks like the singer in Simple Minds, circa 1985.

"don't you HOW DARE YOU forget about me"
--Greta
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
________

Sanctify yourself!
-- Greta

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 03, 2025 06:16 PM (UBKzV)

230
Elon said last week that he found so much crap that he wouldn't touch it because "they" would kill him.

Nice assholes we have in the government.

Posted by: four seasons at June 03, 2025 06:16 PM (3ek7K)

231 As I have said earlier, he should do what Soros does and buy politicians and other elected officials.

I think Elon is about to bust out several billion dollars to affect the 2026 elections.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 03, 2025 06:17 PM (2VST1)

232 Remember in lead up to 2016 Jeb Bush was the overwhelming favorite.

There is no world where in 2028 a McCain or Romney type could get within sniffing distance of the nomination.

Posted by: Abi at June 03, 2025 06:13 PM

Uh jeb! was never the overwhelming favorite with anyone in the gop. He was the favorite with the uni party and the msm. He spent over $250,000,000 and dropped out after the south carolina primary with less than 10% of the vote.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 03, 2025 06:17 PM (e5NfL)

233 Professor

Not sure, pondering posting and asking that question.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 03, 2025 06:17 PM (Mz29H)

234 Trump is correct - the BBB will unleash unprecedented growth in the money supply.

Posted by: Oglebay at June 03, 2025 06:17 PM (2ap+5)

235 I'm on board. What shall we call the new Party?
I'm leaning toward the Constitutional Party.

Posted by: MkY at June 03, 2025 06:11 PM (cPGH3)
_______________

The Vengeance Party.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 03, 2025 06:12 PM (YqDXo)

***

TOGA Party. Come on. Who's not on board for a good TOGA party??

Totally
Outstanding &
Great
America

Posted by: Diogenes at June 03, 2025 06:17 PM (W/lyH)

236 Tensor, why does she now have two belly buttons?

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 03, 2025 06:17 PM (Mz29H)

237 So, while those of here are ranting about fiscal matters, this happened:
BREAKING:

Ukrainian drone swarms are striking power substations in the Russian-occupied regions of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia.

Looks like we won;t have to wait for SMOD or aliens.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 03, 2025 06:18 PM (t/2Uw)

238 The problem is obvious. Who you gonna vote for in Nov, '26?

Lindsay Graham or the Commie Democrap?
Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 03, 2025 05:32 PM (ZmEVT)

---------------

Take out Graham in the primaries and then push the difference from the old slime dog.

Posted by: Decaf at June 03, 2025 06:19 PM (unUNN)

239 Tensor, why does she now have two belly buttons?
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 03, 2025 06:17 PM (Mz29H)
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Does she have two mommies? OK, that would get real weird, real fast...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 03, 2025 06:19 PM (GlyvH)

240 The Sat Cong Party.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 03, 2025 06:19 PM (BI5O2)

241 Elon said last week that he found so much crap that he wouldn't touch it because "they" would kill him.

Nice assholes we have in the government.
Posted by: four seasons at June 03, 2025 06:16 PM (3ek7K)

If that were to happen, it's the kind of bullsh*t that topples governments. It could turn very ugly.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 03, 2025 06:20 PM (W/lyH)

242 I'm on board. What shall we call the new Party?
I'm leaning toward the Constitutional Party.

Posted by: MkY at June 03, 2025 06:11 PM (cPGH3)
_______________

The Vengeance Party.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 03, 2025 06:12 PM (YqDXo)

Blanket Party

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 03, 2025 06:21 PM (i24o9)

243 Uh jeb! was never the overwhelming favorite with anyone in the gop. He was the favorite with the uni party and the msm. He spent over $250,000,000 and dropped out after the south carolina primary with less than 10% of the vote.
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Please clap.

Posted by: Crusader at June 03, 2025 06:21 PM (TN0g+)

244 Ukrainian drone swarms are striking power substations in the Russian-occupied regions of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia.

Looks like we won;t have to wait for SMOD or aliens.
-
Russian ICBMs are probably deflationary.

Posted by: Methos at June 03, 2025 06:21 PM (Dnobf)

245 Perhaps Lindsay Graham knows that he is gone at his next election and that's why he is spending all the taxpayers' money he can get his hands on.

Posted by: Decaf at June 03, 2025 06:22 PM (unUNN)

246 So, while those of here are ranting about fiscal matters, this happened:
BREAKING:

Ukrainian drone swarms are striking power substations in the Russian-occupied regions of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia.

Looks like we won;t have to wait for SMOD or aliens.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 03, 2025 06:18 PM (t/2Uw)
***

This business is out of control and we will be lucky to survive it.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 03, 2025 06:22 PM (W/lyH)

247 I think I'm hearing shit tons of cicadas chirping, but I've seen hardly any in the air or on the ground.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 03, 2025 06:22 PM (UBKzV)

248 TACO Party.

Taking
America
Constitutional
Again

Posted by: Crusader at June 03, 2025 06:22 PM (TN0g+)

249 Li’l Z is just asking to get nuked…

Posted by: tubal at June 03, 2025 06:22 PM (PCK5/)

250 The government spends $9B that it doesn't have every single day. To call this cut peanuts is an insult to peanuts.

Posted by: Oddbob at June 03, 2025 06:23 PM (/y8xj)

251 I missed the Billie Piper/Dr. Who thing.

I would be fine with it if she regenerated with no clothes on

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at June 03, 2025 06:23 PM (ufFY8)

252 >> It's like a weird, collective amnesia.

Yep. I figured this is what would happen. I admit to getting my hopes up in January and February when DOGE hit the ground running, USAID was shut down and Zelenskyyy had his public meltdown.

But here we are in June and the GOPe still refuses to make meaningful spending cuts and we’re still slouching towards WWIII.

Oh well, the memes were fun.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at June 03, 2025 06:23 PM (l3YAf)

253 OMB Director @russvought
on the first rescissions package: "We are intending to be strategic, work with Congress, see what they're willing to do, and if they pass this, we'll send up many more."

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 03, 2025 06:23 PM (t/2Uw)

254 TACA

Take
A
Chance
America

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 03, 2025 06:23 PM (Mz29H)

255 Perhaps Lindsay Graham knows that he is gone at his next election and that's why he is spending all the taxpayers' money he can get his hands on.
Posted by: Decaf at June 03, 2025 06:22 PM (unUNN)

I heard the other day there is a quiet investigation going on, regarding the bribes he's taken from Ukraine.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 03, 2025 06:23 PM (dGCAG)

256 OMB is a freak show.

Posted by: runner at June 03, 2025 06:24 PM (g47mK)

257 I’m willing to see how things progress.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at June 03, 2025 06:24 PM (Vh9CX)

258 Okay posted that image to my Tensor account, link in nic.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 03, 2025 06:24 PM (Mz29H)

259 I missed the Billie Piper/Dr. Who thing.

I would be fine with it if she regenerated with no clothes on
-
Conveniently, the Doctor was already wearing a dress when he regenerated into her.

Posted by: Methos at June 03, 2025 06:24 PM (Dnobf)

260 Perhaps Lindsay Graham knows that he is gone at his next election and that's why he is spending all the taxpayers' money he can get his hands on.

Is he? I don't know from SC politics but I hadn't heard of him having a serious challenger.

Posted by: Oddbob at June 03, 2025 06:24 PM (/y8xj)

261 OMB is a freak show.
Posted by: runner at June 03, 2025 06:24 PM (g47mK)

Orchestral Maneuvers of the Budget?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 03, 2025 06:25 PM (VNX3d)

262 And you may find yourself living in a shotgun shack
And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile
And you may ask yourself, "Well, how did I get here?"

Posted by: Gref at June 03, 2025 06:25 PM (aBgBM)

263 There's no way to explain this easy to you ... so I'll just let it rip.

Trump is an old school NYC liberal. And the GOP, just like the DNC, is made up of Made Political Class Boomers.

Its borrow and spend and print all the way down. It'll be 40 Trillion before The Donald leaves.

Posted by: Mike Armstrong at June 03, 2025 06:25 PM (EatKz)

264 Why not give River Song a TARDIS

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 03, 2025 06:26 PM (Mz29H)

265 Li’l Z is just asking to get nuked…

Posted by: tubal at June 03, 2025 06:22 PM

I got a gut feeling that the guy who came to fame by pounding his dick on a piano keyboard knows way more than we do about the operational status of russian Nukes.

Tons of spies and defectors have crossed the lines in the last 5 years and he has more up to date info on russian assets than we do. And I suspect that the russian nuclear bear has been declawed.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 03, 2025 06:26 PM (e5NfL)

266 Sharon there's nothing really important in those strikes, and nothing over there is leading to WWIII or even a major crisis. They're like the kind the Ukes have been getting hit with for a few years. I believe the rail line Russia pushed through down there is electrified, but they can probably sub in diesel locos and in any case the Ukes are far from any capability to mount any sort of offensive action on the ground in the south, so the logistics situation has no special urgency to it.

And don't forget the Nth Uke attack on the Kerch bridge yesterday. Another action that won't have any effect on the battlefield, where the Russians have picked up the pace on a bit on their advances up north in Sumy, and continue grind away successfully in the east.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 03, 2025 06:26 PM (1m82a)

267 Now that Greta has fully graduated from her tweener training bra, I'm convinced she needs to have a head on collision with the iceberg that sank the Titanic. Just the tip, mind you. No need to panic and abandon ship!

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 03, 2025 06:26 PM (qHYlB)

268 @elonmusk 4h

I’m sorry, but I just can’t stand it anymore.

This massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination.

Shame on those who voted for it: you know you did wrong.
You know it.

... "In November next year, we fire all politicians who betrayed the American people."

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 03, 2025 06:27 PM (Ri+6K)

269 Ukrainian drone swarms are striking power substations in the Russian-occupied regions of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia.

Looks like we won;t have to wait for SMOD or aliens.
-
Russian ICBMs are probably deflationary.
Posted by: Methos at June 03, 2025 06:21 PM (Dnobf)

These days you have to ask who is reporting on it. The "success" of these strikes is exaggerated by corporate media, including Faux Nooz and NY Post.

I'd like to hear what Trump has to say about all this. Did he approve the strikes? Was he even aware they would happen before they did?

We're quickly turning this into the Cuban Missile Crisis II.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 03, 2025 06:27 PM (dGCAG)

270 Let's not mince our words here:

GOP Congresspersons do not care about it because GOP voters don't care about it.

If the national debt and deficit was top priority for GOP registered voters, ahead of immigration and household vitality, the GOP would have a wholly different roster of elected members.

So let's stop pretending the GOP voter base cares one fig about the debt or deficit.

Posted by: geewhiz at June 03, 2025 06:27 PM (V87Oy)

271 I would not bet against Russia under any circumstance…

Posted by: tubal at June 03, 2025 06:27 PM (PCK5/)

272 And now, Kamala celebrates Pride Month.

Dr. Jebra Faushay@JebraFaushay
I can’t believe she lost.

Stand for what you stand for then when you’re not standing, fight for why you were standing. Then fighting sitting down.

-
His truth goes marching on!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Being All He Can Be at June 03, 2025 06:28 PM (L/fGl)

273 I should not have allowed myself to hope we could slay Leviathan. Things looked good for a while, but now I think we got Krakened.

Posted by: Blame It On gp's Juice at June 03, 2025 06:28 PM (Nw0dN)

274 When the supposed fiscal Conservative Party has to be dragged kicking and screaming to cut less than 1/10 of 1% in spending you know the country’s bigly and yuuuugely fucked.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 03, 2025 06:28 PM (VYKOS)

275 We're quickly turning this into the Cuban Missile Crisis II.
Posted by: BurtTC at June 03, 2025 06:27 PM (dGCAG)

Meant to say, Cuban Missile Crisis, by way of Bay Of Pigs.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 03, 2025 06:28 PM (dGCAG)

276 nood!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 03, 2025 06:30 PM (/Ghsb)

277 A handful of bombers lost is not being "declawed". No material change in Russia's strategic nuke capabilities.

Meanwhile our modernization situation for same is approaching crisis stage. Unless one has confidence in the update/maintenance efforts on delivery vehicles and warheads that are *decades* past their planned retirements (actually some confidence is warranted, but it's reached kind of a ridiculous point by now).

Posted by: rhomboid at June 03, 2025 06:30 PM (1m82a)

278 GOP Congresspersons do not care about it because GOP voters don't care about it.

I think they do, they just don't translate that into voting, and even when they do, the politicians get to Washington and the coke and hookers circuit and decide they don't care so much.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 03, 2025 06:30 PM (2VST1)

279 275 We're quickly turning this into the Cuban Missile Crisis II.
Posted by: BurtTC at June 03, 2025 06:27 PM (dGCAG)

Meant to say, Cuban Missile Crisis, by way of Bay Of Pigs.
Posted by: BurtTC at June 03, 2025 06:28 PM (dGCAG)

Why we have not gotten the hell clear away from that mess baffles me…

Posted by: tubal at June 03, 2025 06:30 PM (PCK5/)

280 ... "In November next year, we fire all politicians who betrayed the American people."

And replace them with Democrats who will be even worse.

Posted by: Oddbob at June 03, 2025 06:31 PM (/y8xj)

281 I think I'm hearing shit tons of cicadas chirping, but I've seen hardly any in the air or on the ground.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba
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We've been blanketed with them. Very loud. I see maybe 1/2 dozen a day, on sidewalks, others flying around.

This year has been like a mini-apocalypse. Flood, wildfires, hail storm, cicadas.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 03, 2025 06:31 PM (XeU6L)

282 Its borrow and spend and print all the way down. It'll be 40 Trillion before The Donald leaves.
Posted by: Mike Armstrong at June 03, 2025 06:25 PM (EatKz)

It’ls 36 now and the deficit is $2t and will grow every year. By the time he leaves it’ll be closer to 50 than 40.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 03, 2025 06:32 PM (VYKOS)

283 Why not give River Song a TARDIS

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 03, 2025 06:26 PM (Mz29H)

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Or River Tam for that matter ... so we can finally get a sequel to Firefly/Serenity.

Posted by: ShainS -- This comment killed 300,000 people, over 200,000 of them children at June 03, 2025 06:32 PM (1WO3A)

284 262, I say that frequently

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 03, 2025 06:32 PM (/Ghsb)

285 Why we have not gotten the hell clear away from that mess baffles me…
Posted by: tubal
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$$$$, and political games, but mostly $$$$

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 03, 2025 06:33 PM (XeU6L)

286 284 262, I say that frequently

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 03, 2025 06:32 PM (/Ghsb)

Same as it ever was
Same as it ever was
Same as it ever was
Same as it ever was

Posted by: Gref at June 03, 2025 06:34 PM (aBgBM)

287 Welts, it's more clear than ever where to send our donations.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 03, 2025 06:34 PM (Ri+6K)

288 I think these drone strikes are a public relations move designed to pull Western powers into the conflict by irritating Putin into doing something Zelensky can jump on. Zelensky knows we are losing interest in Ukraine and him. He is poking the bear. But it is purely to pull idiots like the French and Germans in. As ong as we're in NATO there is that risk.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 03, 2025 06:35 PM (t/2Uw)

289 And replace them with Democrats who will be even worse.
Posted by: Oddbob
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Skinflint

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 03, 2025 06:36 PM (Ri+6K)

290 This year has been like a mini-apocalypse. Flood, wildfires, hail storm, cicadas.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 03, 2025 06:31 PM (XeU6L)

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If you see someone who looks like The Grim Reaper carrying a scythe and a chess board ... RUN!!!

Posted by: ShainS -- This comment killed 300,000 people, over 200,000 of them children at June 03, 2025 06:36 PM (1WO3A)

291 I did see this : " Wife and 5 children of Boulder attack suspect taken into ICE custody, White House says"

good start
Posted by: runner at June 03, 2025 05:52 PM (g47mK)

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If their father doesn't give a damn* about them then they should be sent back to their mother country.

*A guy who thinks it's more important to try to kill strangers rather than look after his family does not love his family.

Posted by: Decaf at June 03, 2025 06:38 PM (unUNN)

292 283 Why not give River Song a TARDIS

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 03, 2025 06:26 PM (Mz29H)

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Or River Tam for that matter ... so we can finally get a sequel to Firefly/Serenity.

nonsense. everyone knows it's her *brother* that's the doctor.

Posted by: anachronda at June 03, 2025 06:41 PM (oY6Yp)

293 288 I think these drone strikes are a public relations move designed to pull Western powers into the conflict by irritating Putin into doing something Zelensky can jump on. Zelensky knows we are losing interest in Ukraine and him. He is poking the bear. But it is purely to pull idiots like the French and Germans in. As ong as we're in NATO there is that risk.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice)
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Putin understands what's going on and has exercised considerable restraint. He will extract pain on Ukraine more than Zelensky expects. (Soup anyone?) But as long as he and Trump are talking we will refrain.

Personally, I'd like us to cease all assistance. Not one iota.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 03, 2025 06:42 PM (Ri+6K)

294 And replace them with Democrats who will be even worse.
Posted by: Oddbob

The Republicans in both Houses will breathe a sigh of relief. They can campaign for '28 on doing what they promised to do in their '24 campaigns, but didn't. "We're looking forward, not at the past, Margaret."

Same as it ever was.

Posted by: Gref at June 03, 2025 06:42 PM (aBgBM)

295 As if it couldn’t get more predictable, the Boulder terrorists daughter had a glowing write-up in the Colorado Springs Gazette last month as one of their Best and Brightest scholarship recipients.

I mean, come on!
Posted by: Lizzy at June 03, 2025 05:52 PM (Hkcdp)

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But of course, your money goes to scholarships for illegal aliens while your kids can go into lifetime debt for their education. This says something about who hates their children.

Posted by: Decaf at June 03, 2025 06:43 PM (unUNN)

296
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If their father doesn't give a damn* about them then they should be sent back to their mother country.

*A guy who thinks it's more important to try to kill strangers rather than look after his family does not love his family.
Posted by: Decaf
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The only thing they love is allah. They live to die for allah.
Send. Them. All. Back.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 03, 2025 06:47 PM (Ri+6K)

297 10
Nothing will happen.
Posted by: The person who always says that
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Until bankruptcy. Then a lot will happen.

Posted by: wth at June 03, 2025 06:47 PM (v0R5T)

298 This is so exciting!!

It costs $17 Billion a day to run the federal government.

So this package will keep things running for 12 hours !!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Jeeves at June 03, 2025 07:32 PM (ck9nl)

299 Trump is disappointing with this. It just shows he just wants to be liked so he's caving on spending and the train rockets faster to the cliff.

Elon has every right to be pissed off. He stuck his neck out to try to make a difference and trump is pissing on him and telling him it's raining.

Posted by: Regrettingthevote at June 03, 2025 08:06 PM (gb+fN)

300 Elon has every right to be pissed off. He stuck his neck out to try to make a difference and trump is pissing on him and telling him it's raining.
Posted by: Regrettingthevote at June 03, 2025 08:06 PM (gb+fN)

Not really sure Trump is bothering to tell Elon it’s raining.
VERY regrettable situation.

Posted by: Voter theater. at June 03, 2025 08:13 PM (FCPbW)

301 The red rat commie bastards of the Democrat Party are our opponents. The Republicans are our enemies.

Posted by: toby928 reminds you at June 03, 2025 08:18 PM (jc0TO)

302 dammit

Posted by: toby928 reminds you at June 03, 2025 08:18 PM (jc0TO)

303 they ought to just freeze spending at 2024 levels and see what happens

Posted by: Jeff Carter (@pointsnfigures1) at June 03, 2025 08:31 PM (ZiwLX)

304 Speaking of government over-spending, the smoked pork shoulder is about done.

Posted by: mrp at June 03, 2025 08:33 PM (rj6Yv)

305 Putin understands what's going on and has exercised considerable restraint. He will extract pain on Ukraine more than Zelensky expects. (Soup anyone?) But as long as he and Trump are talking we will refrain.

Personally, I'd like us to cease all assistance. Not one iota.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 03, 2025 06:42 PM (Ri+6K)

The Germans are dependent on Russian natural gas. I wouldn't be surprised if a new nuclear bomber fleet surcharge is being added to the next invoice.

Posted by: mrp at June 03, 2025 08:35 PM (rj6Yv)

306 Why are we trusting the media's analysis of what this bill will do to the long term budget? Or CBO, for that matter.

Posted by: Serious Cat at June 03, 2025 09:02 PM (TaHi/)

307 This doesn't have to be the only rescissions package.

Posted by: MikeN at June 03, 2025 09:26 PM (HVZOH)

308 "I don't entirely blame Trump."

Not entirely, of course. But people acting like Trump has any desire to cut spending is hilarious.

Posted by: Doug at June 03, 2025 10:17 PM (FDpin)

309 Democrats think they can tax their way out of a spending problem. Republicans think they can grow their way out of it.

Neither side wants to solve the actual problem.

Posted by: Tinfoil Dispenser at June 03, 2025 11:25 PM (ERYKL)

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311 Tensor just generated what happens when you mash up a bikini top with a kimono."

That crafty b@stard is still kicking? Dude had ONE good idea and got stuck on it

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