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Friday Before A Long Weekend Open Thread

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This I, Anonymous in The Stranger has been a bug bear for me for along time. Like, I will take our terrible walkers over our terrible drivers. But man, just, like, recognize that there are other people. Maybe they have actual things to do. Maybe they don’t want to navigate around a group of people, or one slow person managing to take over the whole sidewalk. Come on, everyone.

Anyway, please wash your hands right now and get vaccinated or boosted if you’re eligible. Get them.

Comments

  1. 1

    We’d be better off if Trump had been re-elected.

  3. 3

    I’m sensing a theme of this morning’s spews.

    Minnesota landlord allegedly set apartment on fire blasting ‘We Didn’t Start The Fire’

    The hard part will be resisting the temptation to tie Queen YLB to Uptown Girl. She does prance around HA the same way Christie Brinkley does in that video, tho.

  4. 4

    Two full years of budgetary freeze, $10 billion cut for IRS, and fast track permitting for federal energy leases and licenses.

    It’s a very solid offer, considering how everyone involved understands and anticipates that Republicans will go back on these commitments and demand even more in September.

    Good as it is, it won’t prevent Andy Biggs, Chip Roy, Matt Rosendale, Ralph Norman, Scott Perry, Michael Cloud, Andy Harris, Andy Ogles, Bob Good, Josh Brecheen, and Matt Gaetz from killing it.

    These people are those disturbing, weird kids you heard about in schoolyard legends who tossed their pets off the roof “to see what would happen”. And Brave Kevin sold himself to their degenerate whims.

  5. 5

    @ 4

    Good as it is, it won’t prevent Andy Biggs, Chip Roy, Matt Rosendale, Ralph Norman, Scott Perry, Michael Cloud, Andy Harris, Andy Ogles, Bob Good, Josh Brecheen, and Matt Gaetz from killing it.

    Or the entire House Democrat caucus, if they don’t go along with what their party’s leader’s negotiators agreed to during all of those negotiations.

    Two parties in the House, QoS McHillbilly. If it’s such a good, solid offer, some of those House Democrats surely will recognize that.

  6. 6

    Nice to see Tesla and Ford agreeing to share charging stations.

    Nice for TSLA shares, anyway. Up $9 today as of this writing, they’re knocking on the $200 door again.

    Down again today are Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit’s 3M shares.

  7. 7

    Looking forward to the QoS McHilly-endorsed riots in the street that Jayapal has promised when the Democrats pass and their party’s leader signs a good, solid bill they don’t like.

  8. 8

    I see that Uptown Girl YLB’s fave whore-fucking senator is in the news again:

    Feds investigating if Menendez and wife got gifts including D.C. apartment, Mercedes and jewelry

    A spokeswoman for Menendez declined to comment when asked if the senator or his wife received a Mercedes, free rent, money or jewelry from the IS EG Halal business or associates. She referred NBC News to past statements in which the senator acknowledged an ongoing “inquiry” and said that “should there be any official inquiries, the senator is available to provide any assistance requested of him or his office.”

    In 2019, IS EG Halal was awarded an exclusive contract with the Egyptian government to certify Halal meat exports worldwide. Seven longtime companies across the globe were suddenly fired by the Egyptian government and those firms lost millions in business to the Edgewater firm — a firm run by a Christian with little prior experience in Islamic certification of international meat imports and exports.

    Peter Paradis, the former deputy assistant inspector general at the USDA, said the change in contracts “defies logic.”

    Billy Joel built a house shaped like a piano in New Jersy.

  9. 9

    Robert Menendez fucks whores, and Billy Joel writes songs about them.

    Billy tackles a somewhat controversial topic in “Roberta,” which is about a prostitute or call girl. The song is a ballad but the topic is not love; rather, it is about frustration. The protagonist cannot get what he wants as he states “I suppose that my small change won’t see you through” and “I’d ask you over but I can’t afford you.”

    Meanwhile, Uptown Girl YLB has whored herself in the service of Goldy for nearly two decades.

  10. 10

    if they don’t go along with what their party’s leader’s negotiators agreed to

    They are the numerical minority in the House.
    When a Speaker operates under the rules that were imposed upon Brave Kevin by his Qanon Kaukus the votes of House Democrats become irrelevant.

    More lies piled on top of lies won’t preserve Brave Kevin or spare his party the blame for what they are about to do.

  11. 11

    @ 10

    They are the numerical minority in the House.
    When a Speaker operates under the rules that were imposed upon Brave Kevin by his Qanon Kaukus the votes of House Democrats become irrelevant.

    The votes of Senate Democrats don’t.

    QoS McHillbilly needs y’all to believe that Chuck Schumer, Dick Durbin, and most of all Fetterman and DiFi are innocent pawns in this evil exercise perpetrated by the House GOP.

    At least two Democrats will have to vote for the bill, assuming all 100 senators cast votes. There will be more than just two.

  12. 12

    @ 10, 11

    Or perhaps Chuck Schumer can exercise his authority and simply refuse to bring the agreed-upon bill to the floor when it’s his turn.

    After all, we’ve still got plenty of time.

  13. 13

    All this could have been avoided had Schumer done a clean debt ceiling raise via reconciliation when he had the chance last Fall. But no. ’cause he wanted the GOP to own some of it. Why? Because he wanted his underlings to be able to write mean things like

    When a Speaker operates under the rules that were imposed upon Brave Kevin by his Qanon Kaukus the votes of House Democrats become irrelevant.

    Was it worth it?

  14. 14

    Looking forward to…

    …HuhrDuhrham frog marches that never come, four more years of Trump that never come, Red Tsunamis that never come, blue-to-red state flips that never come, “intellectual conservatives” who have all died off, and some vague, faint, desperate hope for a political future defined by anything other than more fucking Trump.

    The Shit-lord Crybaby continues to feed us his tears.

  15. 15

    @ 14

    … some vague, faint, desperate hope for a political future defined by anything other than more fucking Trump.

    Nothing vague and faint about it.

    QoS McHillbilly won’t admit it, of course, but it’s a bipartisan hope, and he shares in it. Very much so.

  16. 16

    Was it worth it?

    We’ll know for sure in eighteen months.

    Working, investing, and waiting has been turning out well for Democrats these past few years. Maybe we are finally getting the hang of it.

  17. 17

    ..but it’s a bipartisan hope, and he shares in it.

    Patently and obviously false in my case, as anyone who has tracked my comments already knows. I’m absolutely counting on more Trump.

    What I will admit, and have many times, is that President Biden is incredibly vulnerable – probably the most vulnerable incumbent since Carter. But thankfully there are zero Ronald Reagans in sight or over the horizon. Still, it sure does help that furious rage-sobbing white guys are going right back into Trump’s loving arms again. That alone gives Biden a 290 vote floor.

  18. 18

    The Uptown Girl YLB’s fucked kids take another dick in the ass.

    The Kobeissi Letter
    @KobeissiLetter
    BREAKING: PCE inflation, the Fed’s “preferred inflation gauge,” RISES to 4.4%, above expectations of 3.9%.

    Core PCE inflation RISES to 4.7%, above expectations of 4.6%.

    This is a major setback to the Fed’s fight against inflation.

    First increase in PCE inflation since October.
    5:33 AM · May 26, 2023

    Just think how high it would be had Biden not raped the Strategic Petroleum Reserve all these months.

  19. 19

    @ 17

    I’m absolutely counting on more Trump.

    #CrookedHillary felt very much the same way in 2015 and early 2016.

  20. 20

    The votes of Senate Democrats don’t

    Biden is involving them – specifically Manchin. This is well understood and part of the reason House Dems are expressing concerns.

    Nobody, including swing Republicans, wants to own the cuts that are coming.

  21. 21

    @ 17

    Still, it sure does help that furious rage-sobbing white guys are going right back into Trump’s loving arms again. That alone gives Biden a 290 vote floor.

    I recall a certain HA lefty claiming, the day before the 2016 election, that #CrookedHillary had “an absolute lock” on 252 EVs.

    That pantywaist isn’t around, anymore. I got nearly as much mileage out of that as I got out of Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit’s GE recommendation. Shamed him into departure.

    Mastriano’s not running. Maybe subtract 20 from your figure on that news alone.

  22. 22

    Dems will default to prevent their Queen YLBs from having to go out and get a fucking job.

    Manu Raju
    @mkraju
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    1m
    “Hell no,” Garret Graves just said to me when asked if GOP was willing to drop work requirements on social safety not programs to get a deal on debt ceiling. Issue remains a huge sticking point to avoid default

  23. 23

    Nobody, including swing Republicans, wants to own the cuts that are coming.

    And here’s why:

    62 per cent of Americans think the government spends too little on Social Security; 58 per cent of Americans want more spending on Medicare; 63 per cent want more spending on healthcare; 65 per cent want more spending on education; 59 per cent want more spending on poverty assistance.

    In fact, the only truly controversial area of significant government spending where large cuts would not appear to provoke uniform public opposition is military.

    So naturally that’s the one area Republicans are trying to take off the table.

  26. 26

    @ 23

    62 per cent of Americans think the government spends too little on Social Security; 58 per cent of Americans want more spending on Medicare; 63 per cent want more spending on healthcare; 65 per cent want more spending on education; 59 per cent want more spending on poverty assistance.

    Yes, but they want those things when they assume someone else will pay for them.

    Ask them if they will support an increase in their own taxation – FICA, Medicare payroll taxes – in order to get these increases.

    We saw a huge drop in the percent of respondents who thought a minimum wage increase was a good idea when they were told how many jobs it would cost. That was back in the $9/$10 federal minimum wage era. AJC poll, if I recall correctly.

    Answers change when people realize that their wants will come out of their own pockets. You gave me five numbers, and two of them are in the 50s. That’s not going to hold when costs are spread around evenly.

  27. 27

    WA’s new capital gains tax brings in far more than expected
    … potentially sending hundreds of millions more than expected to schools across the state

    >> Schools are fine and everything, but what about our military? When are we gonna send them some of this money? We keep spending it on schools.
    Maybe the military can hold a bake sale or something?
    Have they tried bikini car washes?

    >> Amazing what we can do when we tax the rich

  28. 28

    @ 23

    In fact, the only truly controversial area of significant government spending where large cuts would not appear to provoke uniform public opposition is military.

    So naturally that’s the one area Republicans are trying to take off the table.

    There’s word that Montana Republicans are recruiting an outsider with a military background for the Senate race.

    How do ya think Tester’s gonna vote?

  30. 30

    Republicans Last Week: “BiDeN wEnT tO ThE G7. dEbT cEiLiNggg!!!”
    Republicans This Week: “We Need a 5 Day Weekend.”

  31. 31

    @ 27

    >> Amazing what we can do when we tax the rich

    Wait until we see what we can do when there’s a seriously down year in the markets, and that money’s not there because the capital gains aren’t there.

    The Even Bigger Fucking Moron, do you realize that one of the biggest criticisms of a revenue stream based on capital gain taxation is that it requires a market to rise without interruption?

    Of course you don’t.

  33. 33

    “Uh folks, this is your Captain speaking. I’d like to welcome y’all aboard. It’s our new policy here at GQP Airlines to “spread the costs around evenly”. So at this time I’m gonna invite all you folks in coach to get out your credit or debit cards so we can take up a collection for the folks sitting up in First Class.”

    No matter how many times the Dumbfuck loses these arguments, he always forgets and does it again.

  34. 34

    Today in Twitter
    Twitter is demanding researchers delete data or pay $42,000 a month, every month, forever to use their data. They also no longer offer an annual contract and require you to go month-to-month. They’re free to double the price again next month.

    “I wonder if this is targeted at other companies that had access to swaths of Twitter data and that are now using this data to train large language models, like GPT-3”

  35. 35

    @ 32

    Why the fuck would we do that?

    Because you want a stable revenue stream. Your link:

    Trump’s income, and his tax liability, fluctuated dramatically during his four years in the White House.

    You don’t want to be California, in fat city with a huge surplus one year and stiffing the federal government the next because you are running a massive deficit. It cost Newsom his shot at the presidency.

    There’s not enough income to tax in order to meet your wants/supposed needs if you only tax the rich when you want/need more.

    You know this. You just aren’t brave enough to admit it.

  36. 36

    The republicans wants $1.3T in student loans to start being paid back WITH over 2 years of interest back-payments. Think the resulting recession will be bad?
    Yet republicans were fine will PPP giveaways to business. So weird.

  37. 37

    36 – Hey, if you borrow money, you’re obligated to pay it back. That’s the way it works. I don’t support loan forgiveness because I paid my debts all along the past 70 years, so why can’t these people who took out student loans do the same thing?

  38. 38

    @ 37

    …so why can’t these people who took out student loans do the same thing?

    Well, TBH an awful lot of them have been coddled into a state of functional disability.

    Take The Even Bigger Fucking Moron, for instance. He wants @ 36 giveaways to everybody, because it’s what he’s been led to expect. Meanwhile, he doesn’t understand that the “giveaways to businesses” that were PPP were actually giveaways to employees, who otherwise would have been at least temporarily shit-canned.

    The combination of stupidity, functional disability, and homosexuality is a very sad one.

  39. 39

    Because you want a stable revenue stream.

    Spread across 10 million households it’s stable enough. We know. Because we’ve already done this before, many times in our past, before Republicans broke the federal budget by handing out gigantic tax cuts that nobody really needed, and that ended up paying for double gas wall ovens in kitchens where people never cook installed in third “weekend” homes that sit empty for half the year.

    Americans spent more on video gaming and in-game purchases than they spent on child care last year.

    Nobody ever needed those tax cuts. And they did not build up a healthy, sustainable, productive economy. They funded trash palaces, electric dog polishers, and porn subscriptions.

  40. 40

    so why can’t these people who took out student loans do the same thing?

    Now do Republicans in the House.

  41. 41

    @ 39

    Americans spent more on video gaming and in-game purchases than they spent on child care last year.

    Exactly how much should high school students spend on child care, QoS McHillbilly?

    Video gaming is child care.

  42. 42

    41,

    Okay Boomer

    The $20 million that Travis Scott earned for one single night’s “virtual” performance on Fortnite did not come from the incomes of high school students.

    This is another problem for the GOP and their now tired pose as “the financial adults in the room”.

    The economy has now moved on without them.
    Talk to a Republican when you need clever life hacks for cleaning your gutters without a ladder.

  43. 43

    @ 42

    The $20 million that Travis Scott earned for one single night’s “virtual” performance on Fortnite did not come from the incomes of high school students.

    Probably didn’t come from the incomes of billionaires, either.

    Now, if you’re arguing that twenty-somethings should have greater payroll deductions so that less money is available to them to spend on frivolous garbage like Travis Scott appearances while increasing funding for Medicare and Social Security, that’s a conversation we can have.

  44. 44

    The kreepshit “style”:

    I think my favorite part of the Stewart Rhodes sentencing so far was when his attorney spent 10 minutes arguing for a guidelines reduction for ‘Acceptance of Responsibility,’ then Rhodes gets up an hour later and blames it on Antifa.

    https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1661769152665714689

    Noun, verb, ANTIFA! too f’in funeee..

  45. 45

    She does prance around HA the same way Christie Brinkley does in that video, tho

    Awwww.. look at it project its weekly meeting of klownservatic shitferbrains at the widbee vip lounge..

    how speshul…

    and back in the day… so jealous of Billy Joel.. sorry kreepshit, she wouldn’t look twice at ya..

    another dick in the ass.

    kreepshit being well acquainted with those.. what a fitting initiation from its fellow frat bros after confessing to voting for Carter even AFTER the REAL “miracle on ice”..

    “thank you sir, may I have another..”

    whored herself in the service of Goldy

    more projection.. yawwwn…

  46. 46

    Probably didn’t come from the incomes of billionaires, either.

    Enough of it came from the incomes of households earning more than $250,000.

    And btw, grandpa, Mom and Dad are no longer in their twenties.

    Have I struck a nerve? It seems like maybe I’ve struck a nerve.

  47. 47

    Hey Boomer,

    just making sure you know. Elon’s over 50.

    Larry Page is 50

    Zuck turns 40 next year.

    Don’t let the tee shirts, tanning beds, dental veneers, and hair plugs confuse you.

  50. 50

    btw kreepshit.. Billy Joel and Christie Brinkley had a real, genuine kid together..

    a real, genuine kid.. Alexa Ray Joel..

    it rankles ya, doesn’t it? heh..

  52. 52

    On youtube:

    Tim Scott Says that The Far Left is Terrified of Him

    Sen. Tim Scott: Left weaponizing race ‘for power’

    ‘The View’ reacts to Tim Scott exactly as you’d expect: Rob Schmitt’s News From The Left

    Sen. Tim Scott: The left’s culture of victimhood is eating away at the soul of America

    Tim Scott counters racially charged attacks on ‘The View’, disproving radical left’s lies

    Tim Scott FIRES Back On The Left

    Tim Scott officially announces run for 2024 Presidency while taking aim at the radical left ‼️

    Tim Scott Fires Back At Leftists Who Call Him A ‘Prop’ And ‘Token’ During 2024 Presidential Launch

    Tim Scott Goes After Biden, Radical Left In Passionate 2024 Presidential Announcement Speech

    Noun, Verb, THE LEFT!.. That’s what I do! I can’t fucking lose!

  53. 53

    Talk to a Republican when you need clever life hacks for cleaning your gutters without a ladder.

    The late unlamented Dori Monson hawked gutter screens on the radio for many a year..

    Didn’t bother with the freek hardly at all after it went batshit after 9/11, but I’m sure it graduated to dick pill and life alarm vendors.

  54. 54

    How #CrookedHillary gets the nomination through the back door.

    TAPPER: “And we’re back with our 2024 lead. Horrible news, horrible for Joe Biden in our new CNN poll. While the President leads his Democratic competitors by a huge margin, 2/3 of all of the American people surveyed, 66% of the public, say that a Biden victory would either be a setback or a disaster for the United States.

  55. 55

    54,

    What an incredible political opportunity to have laid out before your party.

    Again.

  56. 56

    Incompetent Treasury Secretary Yellen now says June 5 is when the government goes tits up if something doesn’t happen first.

    But Social Security and veterans’ benefits go out June 1 and 2. So for them there’s no issue until July.

    Money still flows into the government and the government can still pay its interest obligations on federal debt.

    There’s no issue here except the Democrats’ fear that they will be sold out by their corrupt, incompetent, senile fossil of a party leader.

    They should fear him. Look what he did to Afghanistan.

  57. 57

    @37 Hey, if you borrow money, you’re obligated to pay it back. .
    >> Excellent idea. Pass the Debt Ceiling.

  58. 58

    “What’s the point of having power if you can’t use it to punch down whenever you want?” – fascists

  59. 59

    gets the nomination through the back door.

    i.e. cheeto-tinted “culture of losing” is running…

  60. 60

    Look what he did to Afghanistan.

    After pissing away over 1 trillion, walked away from it. Cutting losses short American style. Can we all say Vietnam?

    Last November, no one cared. Ask Laxalt. Ask Oz. Ask Walker. Ask Rick fucking Scott.

  61. 61

    That’s a lotta tax dollars heading south with just one guy.

    First, he’s got to sell the home……and when he does, there will be a new buyer, just as rich.

    It’s not like someone died because they were foolish enough not to get the vaccine and no longer can vote. How does Bill Joel vote? Is he going to be a liberal voter in Florida? Ohhh no!

  62. 62

    “But man, just, like, recognize that there are other people.”

    Lack of self-awareness seems to be a thing with young people these days, even when they’re looking up from their phones. We boomers with canes and walkers have to watch out for them, so they don’t bowl us over.

  64. 64

    @19 2024 isn’t going to be another 2016. At the rate you guys are going, Biden could get re-elected if he was dead.

  69. 69

    @54 An even bigger disaster for Russia and Wagner Group.

    100% of still-living Wagner mercenaries surveyed want Biden to lose.

  70. 70

    @51 “one of the biggest criticisms of a revenue stream based on capital gain taxation is that it requires a market to rise without interruption”

    The market has never risen without interruption, and capital gains taxes come in anyway.

    We all know what Tim Scott wants, because he told us. He wants to replace the capital gains tax, and all other taxation of income, with a 30% federal sales tax. No word yet on whether food, medicine, and rent will be exempt. If so, the tax might be 40%.

    It’s fascinating to contemplate what that might do to an economy dependent on consumer spending.

  71. 71

    Billy Joel certainly isn’t voting for Donal The FuckHump.

    https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/billy-joel-turning-70-donald-trump-new-music-831081/

    You and Donald Trump are about the same age, both born in outer-borough New York. Does that give you any insight into him?
    No. I see him as being from an entirely different planet. I know he was born in Queens, but he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. His father was rich and gave him a lot of money. I don’t know how much empathy he actually has for people who don’t live that kind of life. I’m not a big fan of his, so to be fair I don’t have a lot of insight into him.

    What do you think about his presidency so far?
    I think maybe this was the shock that we needed to shake people out of lethargy. Maybe this was something that should have happened to wake people up and make people realize, “Hey, something like this can actually happen.” Because before he got elected we didn’t think this could happen.

    Are you going to get involved at all in the 2020 election?
    I don’t think I’m going to be politically involved. I find a lot of people resent celebrities touting their candidate. That can actually turn more people off than it can bring more people in. I admire people like Springsteen, who gets up there and touts a candidate. He’s a citizen and he has a right to do that. My experience has always been that people resent it when they go to see you do a show and you get up on a soapbox and spout politics.

  73. 73

    How badly is it going for the Democrats?

    This badly:

    Manu Raju
    @mkraju
    ·
    34m
    WH spox Bates responds: “House Republicans are threatening to trigger an unprecedented recession and cost the American people over 8 million jobs unless they can take food out of the mouths of hungry Americans.” Says Ds “stand against” proposal

    Unclear if it makes it into deal

    Childless, able-bodied Americans who are hungry because being paid to stay home and @ 39 play video games is hard work and gins up a pretty good appetite.

    Get a fuckin’ job if you don’t like bein’ hungry, deadbeat. Grand Theft Auto will be there when you get home.

  74. 74

    @ 70

    The market has never risen without interruption, and capital gains taxes come in anyway.

    Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit, here is the annual federal revenue for capital gains taxes.

    In 2007, $137 billion was paid to the federal government in capital gains taxes.

    In 2009 that figure had fallen to less than $37 billion. That’s $100 billion missing due to a steep recession.

    Capital gains revenue to the federal government remained below $100 billion until 2014.

    Reliance upon capital gains for ongoing expenditures is stupid. Dumbfucks like you attempt to deflect from that reality. Intellectually challenged like The Even Bigger Fucking Moron don’t understand the difference.

  75. 75

    Get a fuckin’ job if you don’t like bein’ hungry, deadbeat. Grand Theft Auto will be there when you get home.

    761,100 Alabama residents or 15% of the state population received SNAP.

    The following also applies to SNAP participants in Alabama.

    71% are in families with children.

    37% are in working families

    38% are in families with members who are older adults or are disabled.

    SNAP lifted 144,000 people above the poverty line in Alabama.

    https://www.cbpp.org/research/food-assistance/a-closer-look-at-who-benefits-from-snap-state-by-state-fact-sheets#Alabama

    Jump off a fucking bridge if you can’t handle the fact there are poor people in this country who could use the help and that includes people with shitty fucking jobs in RED FUCKING STATES.

    Your horsies won’t miss your miserable ass. No one else either.

  77. 77

    @ 75

    71% are in families with children.

    37% are in working families

    38% are in families with members who are older adults or are disabled.

    What part of childless, able-bodied do you not understand, Queen YLB?

    There are plenty of them on the dole, able to work, but not working. They are the target. What pisses you off is that they vote Democrat, because Democrats were the ones who gave them free shit without expecting them to work for it. And now the gravy train is rolling to a stop.

  78. 78

    childless, able-bodied

    show your work asshole. right down to the video game. Your “childless, able-bodied” is today’s “welfare queen”.

    they vote Democrat,

    In Alabama.. yeah right…

    The laughable part about repuke kreepshits demanding “work requirements” is so many receiving benefits have jobs and they meet the income requirements.

    And repukes still wanna cut to give their funders tax cuts.

  79. 79

    @ 78

    they vote Democrat,

    In Alabama.. yeah right…

    Doug Jones, ya dumb twat.

    Terri Sewell, ya dumb twat.

  80. 80

    @ 78

    The laughable part about repuke kreepshits demanding “work requirements” is so many receiving benefits have jobs and they meet the income requirements.

    This is why the GOP focus is on the able-bodied, childless recipients who don’t have jobs, ya dumb twat. There are plenty of them.

  81. 81

    because being paid to stay home and @ 39 play video games is hard work and gins up a pretty good appetite.

    It was a stupid lie when it was a “welfare queen” from Hayward buying lobster thermidor.

  82. 82

    the GOP focus is on the able-bodied, childless recipients

    which is a myth like the “welfare queen” – a racist myth.

    Doug Jones

    A one termer defeated by a racist football coach.

    Alabama, yeah right..

  83. 83

    There are plenty of them.

    No. There are not.

    Did you know that more than half of SSI denials are remanded upon appeal for just this reason? But fewer than 3% of denials are even brought to the first stage of appeal?

    No. The Shit-lord Crybaby did not know. And now all he will care about is finding some exceptional case to “justify” his pathetic hatred.

    All the evidence is to the contrary – that there are far more people who qualify under work requirements but are denied than the other way around. By orders of magnitude.

  84. 84

    Republicans, whose specialty is violating other peoples’ constitutional rights, are taking another run at posting the Ten Commandments in public schools.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2023/05/23/texas-commandments-chaplains-christianity/

    Nevertheless, I think the Ten Commandments could pass First Amendment muster with redactions. You could post them, and put duct tape over the lined-through phrases below:

    You shall have no other gods before Me
    You shall make no idols
    You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain
    Keep the Sabbath day holy
    Honor your Father and your mother
    You shall not murder
    You shall not commit adultery*
    You shall not steal
    You shall not bear false witness
    You shall not covet

    * Redacted as age-inappropriate

    Most of these are actually pretty good rules to live by, and if you cover over the religious propaganda, they should be just fine.

  85. 85

    @83 I would agree to work requirements with the following proviso: For every 10,000 children who go hungry because their mothers can’t get away from their jobs to satisfy the bureaucratic requirements, one GOP House member will resign and be replaced by a Democrat by the governor of his/her state, up to a maximum of 12 such resignations (120,000 children). The work requirements will also have an expiration date of one year or a Democratic House majority, whichever occurs first, which should leave enough time to pass a clean debt ceiling bill before June 5. Sound reasonable?

  86. 86

    @79 Doctor Dumbfuck still resents Doug Jones’ accomplishments as a federal prosecutor.

  87. 87

    @75 If they want to get people off welfare, they should raise the minimum wage.

    That protects taxpayers by making employers pay for their labor, instead of dumping that cost on the government.

  88. 88

    A better system than making Republican-wage workers mail in their paystubs and then wait several weeks for their food stamps to arrive is giving them a check they can cash and buy food with.

    That saves the government a lot of money, too, because you don’t need a bureaucracy to process the paystubs and issue the food stamps.

    Employers paying full wages makes more sense than making workers apply to the government for half their pay. If you still want to subsidize employers, raise the minimum wage and make employers apply for government reimbursement of the difference.

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    @85,

    We can’t fucking afford such extravagances.

    We used all that money building world class volleyball arenas with luxury VIP boxes and fueling business class jets for team travel.

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    It is perfectly self explanatory that a Trump Republican like the miserable lying Shit-lord Crybaby is incandescent with rage at imaginary loafers playing video games.

    “They are the target.”

    Not Brett Favre.
    And certainly not Phil Bryant.

    Not any more than George Santos or Donald J Trump.

    Because at the end of the day this piece of shit hypocrite 100% approves of some kinds of stealing from taxpayers. All his phony righteousness is carefully targeted for political purposes safely wide of any white Republican thieves.

  91. 91

    @90 I guess it’s better to have them enraged at imaginary people than real ones, because that way no one gets hurt.

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