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Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses of the week

The Ugly “Conservatives”:

Lawrence O’Donnell: What if Joe Biden is doing everything right in the debt ceiling negotiations?

Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.

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  1. 1

    Assuming he isn’t pardoned, how much of tge 18 years will Rhodes serve? I mean, doubt he would qualify for good behavior.

  2. 2

    Friend who is black and gay was bragging about the first of two ARs that showed up today. He said “Diamondback are really good quality basic guns, for a good price. They’re no Daniel Defense. But they’re easily upgradable. My next upgrades are good optic/ red dot sights. ”
    He is a responsible gun owner and is going to the gun range to practice.
    Liberals are arming.

  3. 3

    Uh Ron…Ron…Ronald…Ronnie

    Post birth abortion is not legal in California. That’s ACTUAL murder. BTW have you seen the internal polling on what issue gets us absolutely destroyed by Millennials and Gen Z making our long term political prospects extremely dire?

    Please stop. You’re making this impossible.

    And people like you are going to try the ‘tie the pregnant woman to a bed for nine months’ plank in the platform at the convention aren’t you?

    Shut the fuck up man. When you get on camera…don’t even say abortion let alone this ‘Post Birth’ crap. Stop it with this Opus Dei talking points.

  4. 4

    Behold:

    The Shit-lord Crybaby’s latest Western Libertardian folk hero from the other day is a Groomer.
    https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2015/aug/29/sackett-who-took-on-epa-gets-prison-in-sex-case/#:~:text=Mike%20Sackett%20was%20ordered%20Tuesday,be%20imprisoned%20for%2013%20months.

    Sackett negotiated via text for an hour of sex with a 12-year-old
    …
    Sackett arrived at a negotiated meeting place, got into a vehicle with an undercover agent, then left the vehicle after discussing the possibility of having anal sex with the child

    Republican hero who ass fucks 12 year olds wins FREEDUMB to fill in streams with his bulldozer.

    How could this possibly work out any other way.

    And a hearty congratulations goes out to Pacific Legal Foundation for superb client screening.
    Beautiful.

  7. 7

    Come to TEXAS! We’re growing and a great place for your business opportunity. Low taxes and a great source of highly educated workers.

    A small high school in rural Texas has postponed its graduation ceremony after an end-of-year review revealed only five of the school’s 33 seniors had met the requirements to graduate, according to the school district’s superintendent.

    Don’t sweat it. We’ll give y’all a couple three extra weeks to get that high school participation trophy.

    6.6% is…well it’s not great.

  8. 8

    @7

    The other day I took my 11 year old to Target in Plano and there was a rainbow shirt and he asked me, “Papa, what does that mean “Trans People Will Always Exist” and I slapped him so hard he won’t recognize his momma and yelled, “You tell me who at that librul school a yers taught yer ass to READ!”

  9. 9

    BREAKING: Marjorie Taylor Greene is planning to put a nationwide pornography ban bill in the debt ceiling bill
    Marjorie Taylor Greene is planning to remove the remove “Miller Test” a key protection that sexually explicit content currently enjoys in the United States.

    The republicans are pulling out the stops to crash the economy. They must think it will get them votes.

  10. 10

    @7 just imagine you’ll be able to import all the smart people because they know how much better it is to live in Texas.

    I visited the Amish Country in PA this past weekend. There really is no need for education. They know true Independence! I mean they’re letting little things creep into their lives, but the really don’t need to be educated.

    Ironically they are benefitting from others’ people education.

    I bought myself an Amish crafted birdhouse! We could all do something like that to make ends meet.

  11. 11

    After posting @10 I had ChatGPT phrase what I said a little better.

    See who needs education. I’m tired of 85% of my tax money going towards Education. The remaining 15% must go towards the worthless cause of fighting the Heterosexual Neanderthal Virus.

    The Amish people, known for their strict adherence to traditional ways of life and rejection of modern technology, often evoke a sense of irony in contemporary society. Here are a few aspects that some people might find ironic:

    Paradoxical use of technology: While the Amish are generally known for their rejection of modern technology, they do make selective use of certain technologies. For example, they may use tractors and other machinery for farming, or they might have electricity and telephones in some instances. This selective adoption of technology can be seen as ironic, as it seems contradictory to their overall philosophy of simplicity and separation from the modern world.

    Tourist industry: The Amish have become a tourist attraction in certain regions, particularly in the United States, where visitors come to witness their traditional lifestyle. It is somewhat ironic that while the Amish strive for privacy and separation from the modern world, their way of life has become a source of curiosity and fascination for outsiders.

    Relying on non-Amish society: Despite their desire for self-sufficiency and separation, the Amish often rely on the broader non-Amish society for various services and resources. They may depend on non-Amish doctors, hospitals, and stores for certain necessities or medical treatments that are not available within their own communities. This reliance on the outside world can be seen as ironic, given their emphasis on self-sufficiency.

    Social media presence: In recent years, some Amish individuals and communities have started using social media platforms to share information and connect with a broader audience. This use of technology appears contradictory to their overall rejection of modern gadgets and the Internet. It highlights the tension between their desire for isolation and the increasing influence of the digital age.

    It’s important to note that irony is subjective and can be interpreted differently by different people. What one person may see as ironic, another might see as a nuanced expression of cultural adaptation or negotiation. The Amish people have a complex relationship with technology and the modern world, and their choices are rooted in their religious beliefs, community norms, and historical context.

  12. 12

    There is nothing wrong with being a trades person. Don’t look down on people who fix your cars, weld your stuff and generally make mechanics of the economy work.

  14. 14

    “There is nothing wrong with being a trades person. But more importantly, the black guy shouldn’t be allowed to raise MY taxes. I question his loyalty to my country. “

  16. 16

    @ 2

    He is a responsible gun owner and is going to the gun range to practice.
    Liberals are arming.

    Liberals don’t like being ripped off, either. But they’ll vote for it.

  18. 18

    End of an era in Tacoma, but surprised it didn’t end sooner. Last freight trains have run up Tacoma Gulch. Tacoma Public Utilities, owner of Tacoma Rail, never wanted what became the Mountain Division to Morton, Centralia, and Fredrickson, but the city of Tacoma purchased this former Milwaukee Road line, supposedly for tourist trains. It had been a nightmare for past operators, as Tacoma Gulch near the Brown and Haley building is a 3.65% grade, and nobody has gotten the right amount of motive power per train right. Although TR has come close, with the EMD SD70ACe-P4 demos. Freight revenue doesn’t come close to what is needed to fix up tge section North of Fredrickson, and the city of Tacoma has sold this branch to short line operator Rainier Rail, who will run the freight to an interchange with Class Is at Centralia. TPU is probably happy with this, as the Tideflats division , formerly Tacoma Municipal Belt Line is TRs bread and butter, serving the Port of Tacoma.

    Although a freight train is longer than a commuter train, doubt a commuter train, as some have suggested for tge line to Fredrickson. Can handle the Gulch. Would like to see Stadler bring a FLIRT for a demonstration, though. The reason the city originally bought this line, was an idea for an excursion train to Mount Rainier, as there is a spot on the Morton Branch called National Park Junction. The freight train took 2 days to reach Fredrick son and back to the Port because if the it was a big freight train, they had to double the Gulch, breaking the train into two, and then reassembling. Took several hours off the crews Hours of Service.

    https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/news-wire/tacoma-rail-ends-service-to-frederickson-wash/

  19. 19

    Charley Lang from West Wing:

    “I believe in local government.
    I’m in favor of individual rights rather than group rights.
    I believe free markets lead to free people, and that the country needs a strong national defense.

    The Republican Party no longer believes in any of these things.

    Donald J. Trump, the runaway leader of the party nomination race preaches daily from the stump that he would strip away authority from local government and concentrate it within his executive branch of the federal government. He’d take away local control of elections. He’d take away local election of school boards. He’d send tens of thousands of battlefield armed soldiers into our communities to seize control away from local governments.

    Donald Trump says if he becomes president he will take away your individual right to demonstrate against his government and will arrest you if you do so. He says he will force all pregnant persons in every state to give birth under all circumstances with no exceptions. He says he will create new federal agencies to decide for you what books to read to your children, what television you can watch, what music to listen to. He says he want police to have the power to stop and frisk you at any time, anywhere, for any reason. And he says if you are arrested he doesn’t think you should be allowed to stand trial and be represented by an attorney.

    The most popular Republican candidate says he will take over certain private businesses if they don’t do as he commands them to do as president. Trump says he will target and punish private businesses who don’t support him just like Fat Midget. Trump and other Republicans promise to punish private, free market companies like Disney, Target, or AB InBev for making the private choice to acknowledge that gay, trans, and non-binary people exist and for trying to include them.

    And of course, Trump frequently proclaims that we should abandon Ukraine, Europe, and NATO to be overrun by Vladimir Putin. He’d prefer to sell our global defense allies to our enemies, rather than to support them.

    He says all this stuff very regularly in stump speeches, online comments, and spittle-flecked rants. He intends to try to do all this stuff. And for that reason he is by far the most popular Republican candidate. The Republican Party supports all this shit now. It is 2023, not 2000. Things change. The Republican Party sure as fuck has. Romney, Bush, Weld, McCain, – ALL OUT. RINOs.
    Spray-tan Billy Mummy wished them all into the corn field.

  20. 20

    @17. Idiot, go back and read what I said and try to comprehend. I did not make a blanket statement. I know this is distressing to you and your kind, but people are diverse and make all sorts of choices. After all, “Noun, Verb, THE LEFT! I’m BLACK” guy exists. Someone married you.
    I said he was black and gay because I know from your postings, both of those aspects terrify you. My friend is a progressive liberal. And armed. With an arsenal that would make a white supremist drool.
    Liberals are arming.

  21. 21

    Joe the Plumber @12 “Don’t look down on people who fix your cars, weld your stuff and generally make mechanics of the economy work.”

    How would you know? You’re just a political activist. You were never a plumber, mechanic, or welder.

  22. 22

    @16 “Liberals don’t like being ripped off, either.”

    And don’t get ripped off like this. Honestly, how gullible are Trumpers? Incredibly gullible.

  23. 23

    @20 “With an arsenal that would make a white supremist drool.”

    I’ve never understood this. The Army and Marines issue troops only one rifle, because a soldier or Marine can shoot only one rifle at a time, and any more are just useless weight and baggage.

  24. 24

    Liberals are arming.

    I’ve been contemplating it too. Don’t like guns, but looks like I’ll need to fire at someone who wants to fire at me first.

    Liberals must arm. They are dealing with fascist Nazi’s. It’s not only protection, but a patriotic fight to protect democracy.

    In the mean time – point out every Heterosexual Neanderthal Viral death and every religious leader molestation charges. Shame them for a fight they can’t win. Their faults are bigger.

  25. 25

    When Steve Schmidt, whom I think is a bit of a POS, talks about the Republican Party being Fascist Dictators, and compares DeFuckFack to Mussolini……then we have issues.

    But the greater issue is people like Bob not wanting to recognize it and defend democracy over party. Traitorous mother fucker.

  27. 27

    23)Especially if they are Airborne. After D-Day, and it was shown in Band of Brothers, our paratroopers learned keep your weapon with you during the Jump, or as they told the Replacements, Jump prepared to fight. German Paratroopers kept putting their rifles in containers before they jumped, e en after Crete, and during the Bulge. Supposed to sieze a key road junction behind Elsenborn Ridge, tge Falshinjaegers who managed to get there (after Crete the Germans didn’t do large scale airdrops, and between that and allied fighters, the Luftwaffe was low on transport pilots that could fly in formation, and could navigate), lost a good chunk of their weapons in tge drop. So they were only going to seize the road if the Panzers showed up. Problem is, the American Corps at Elsenborn Ridge, held the line, the 12th SS Panzer Division didn’t get through.

    https://youtu.be/0x_pxZVBwo0

  29. 29

    Ken Paxton is impeached by a vote of 121-23 with 2 voting “present.” He’s too rancid even for Texas Republicans to stomach.

  31. 31

    29)Under TX Law, he’s suspended pending trial in the Senate. Although he still gets to pick his interim replacement.

  32. 32

    24,

    I knew a guy from HS got into hand guns. He desperately wanted to become a cop, but could not make it through the selection (???)

    He got a CCW permit and went to a range that was owned by an ex Sheriff. Took all kinds of classes, like protective and evasive driving, advanced lifesaving, he volunteered, etc. Still could not get on with any department.

    But he did start carrying all the time “for security” including to bars and clubs and ballgames “in case some asshole gets out of line”.

    I think by now you already have guessed how this turns out. No he isn’t dead. But at the age of 27 he did get to enjoy being pistol-whipped with his own handgun and then having to report it stolen. The gun was later recovered at a shooting in Oakdale. Victim was an Asian female age 44. She lived.

  34. 34

    @ 32

    … he did get to enjoy being pistol-whipped with his own handgun and then having to report it stolen. The gun was later recovered at a shooting in Oakdale.

    And a LEO left his handgun in a public rest room. Somehow was still allowed to be a cop. Shot an unarmed woman to death one January day a couple of years ago, even though she presented no immediate threat.

    This LEO got to enjoy being called a hero.

  35. 35

    Lt. Mike Byrd shot a suspected terrorist backpack bomber as she was making a violent forced entry into a highly restricted portion of the Speaker’s Lobby filled with elected lawmakers, and refusing dozens of commands to stop.

    Ashli Babbit, an emotionally disturbed, radical extremist, was shot in the left shoulder and driven backward away from the entry she was attacking. She was left conscious but bleeding profusely and went quickly into shock. None of the other terrorist commandos accompanying Babbitt sought to aid her, but instead fled from the entrance leaving her alone. Lt Byrd’s fellow officers from the Capitol Police Emergency Response Team were then able to safely give aid to her, keep her alive, and transport her to Washington Hospital Center where she later died. None of her family or fellow terrorist commandos accompanied her to the hospital. She died alone – a terrorist coward in the company of lifesaving heroes.

    The fate of cowards is the fate of terrorists. To die alone in shame and fear.

  38. 38

    @ 37

    Actually, there will be significant spending cuts, but I’m not reading that deadbeat POS will have to do work in order to receive goverment handouts, so Queen YLB may still have something to celebrate.

    Spending will fall further when SCOTUS stomps all over the student loan giveaway scheme that my corrupt, incompetent, senile fossil of a president tried to get away with, which also gives Queen YLB a reason to celebrate, as her fucked kids won’t have to bear that financial burden.

    GOP does more for the benefit of Queen YLB’s fucked kids than Democrats ever will.

  39. 39

    @ 38

    I may have written too soon. Biden may have caved on work requirements, too.

    Manu Raju
    @mkraju
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    McCarthy says vote WEDNESDAY on bill to avoid default. Text out tomorrow. Suggests that work requirements are part of final deal. Spoke to Biden twice tonight. Didn’t take questions. Plans to brief members tonight

  40. 40

    Jayapal still silent.

    She’s munching on that crap sandwich fed to her by her party’s leader.

  42. 42

    A good day is one in which the marginal federal tax rate that Queen YLB’s fucked kids pay is higher than the rate my wife and I pay.

    Despite the conservative criticisms, Republicans clearly won the debate in one important sense: Unlike debt ceiling fights in the past — when GOP leaders demanded spending cuts but conceded tax hikes to Democrats in return — McCarthy drew a red line on new revenues early in the process, focusing the deficit reduction effort squarely on only the spending side of the budget equation in what amounts to a major victory for Republicans.

    This has been a good day. Enjoy that crap sandwich, Pramila.

  43. 43

    Yesterday, riding Grays Harbor Transit Rt40 from Olympia to Aberdeen, noticed it had good ridership between McCleary and Aberdeen. Freeloaders. Actually, all of GHT is fare free, whether tge out of county routes to Olympia and Centralia, or city routes in Aberdeen. Plus, they say fare free runs to the end of tge years, and unlike Intercity Transit in Olympia, they can resume fare collection if they want. GHT didn’t remove the fareboxes. Glad the convenience store across the street from the Olympia Transit Center re-opened, needed a soda while I was waiting for the 620 back to Lakewood,, and paid a little towards the ride.

    Clallam Transit is my favorite of the rural systems on the Olympic Peninsula. Rt 123 Port Angeles to Bainbridge Island, probably in the running for the longest public transit operated bus route in the state. Started out as 2 round trips, now 3, and they have invested in the service with better buses. They want 123 to pay its own way, as the majority of the mileage is out of county. A driver said that if tge Strait Shot, as they branded it, averages 10 riders a trip., and the fare is $10 one-way for adults, it is self sufficient. A few times I rode it in the summer, it exceeded 10 per trip. Even had passengers making the tight connection with the Coho. Supervisors step up in the case of the latter if tge Hood Canal Bridge delayed the bus. Tge new buses tgey bought for the Strait Shot are from Motor Coach Industries, might even be actually using the luggage compartment for luggage.

  44. 44

    @42 “A good day is one in which the marginal federal tax rate that Queen YLB’s fucked kids pay is higher than the rate my wife and I pay.”

    Given that you have zero earned income, every day is a “good day” by that definition.

  45. 45

    Well, let’s see. Biden got the 2-year debt ceiling extension he wanted, which pushes the next debt ceiling fight past the 2024 election. He got the 2023 baseline he wanted, instead of the 2022 baseline and effective 8% spending that Republicans demanded. He got a 2-year spending cap, instead of the 10-year cap Republicans demanded. He gave up a little IRS funding to catch wealthy tax cheaters, which won’t cost the Treasury any revenue it has now. He accepted slightly more stringent work requirements for food stamps, with exemptions for veterans and homeless people, but none on Medicaid. On the GOP side, Republicans protected a few rich tax criminals/GOP donors and won’t get blamed for a global depression. A win-win.

  46. 46

    Ken Paxton getting impeached is a good day. I wonder if the Whidbee Apologist will post excuses for this corrupt scumbag?

    “B-b-b-ut he’s a Christian! He goes to church! That makes it all good!”

    Like hell it does. I’m tired of people waving a cross over character flaws. At least he’s not one of those pastors raping little boys in the name of Jeebus.

    The Tex Watson Parole Rule applies: It’s good that you found Jesus in prison and are preaching the Gospel inside the walls. Keep up the good work.

  48. 48

    I would imagine that if Brave Kevin can get his members to agree to this deal, he’ll be as relieved to see the debt limit terrorist bomb defused as the rest of America – minus the FREEDOOM KAUKUS of course.

    Without the debt ceiling they are left with only the Jordan and Comer DICK PICS hearings, where all media attention goes to die.

  49. 49

    …what amounts to a major victory for Republicans.

    The terrorists released all their hostages in exchange for pizzas and turning the water back on.

    But they are really, really good pizzas.👍👍🤣🤣

  50. 50

    @47 Compromise is when people who make ridiculous demands they can’t enforce agree not to pull the pin on the grenade and blow themselves up and the other side says, “Okay, you can live.”

  51. 51

    @49 It sure looks like our weak, senile, incompetent president made the Republicans back down. For months, he wouldn’t even talk to them. When he finally did, he threatened to chop them off at the knees. But, being a generous man, he tossed them a bone and said, “Here, doggy, have a bone.” And they gleefully chomped down on the bone, and ran through the whole neighborhood barking, “Look what I’ve got!” And the weak, senile, incompetent president just smiled.

  52. 52

    I’d say the Republicans got concessions proportionate to their influence among voters: Some, but not a whole lot.

    Maybe two feet of the whole nine yards.

  53. 53

    All it will take now to complete the humiliation of the House “majority” is more Democrats than Republicans voting to keep McCarthy on as speaker if the Default Caucus is dumb enough to push things that far.

  54. 54

    53,

    The GOP memory hole is bottomless. They’ve forgotten already how close they came to that just a couple of months ago.

  55. 55

    53)Would be ironic. I doubt McCarthy was thinking about that when he made the deal to get tge votes to become speaker.

  56. 56

    53, 54:

    The government will simply print more more. That’s what Modern Monetary Theory is all about. All the blather in the news is about nothing.

  59. 59

    There’s nothing wrong with more money in circulation if the economy is producing more goods and services. Otherwise you get ruinous deflation. This is the fatal flaw of the gold standard.

  60. 60

    Passing a debt ceiling bill will require carving 218 GOP and Democratic votes from the center, and getting a sufficient number of senators from both parties on board. There will be “hell no” posturing on both right and left, but that won’t matter if the “no’s” are outvoted. The big question then becomes whether the House GOP Hell No Caucus will try to retaliate against McCarthy, and the Democrats backstop him. This is a realistic possibility.

    If more Democrats than Republicans vote to keep him as speaker, that won’t make him a Democratic speaker, but for the rest of this Congress he’ll have to operate knowing his caucus will oust him the moment Democrats don’t support him anymore. And that means he’ll have to keep his new friends happy, or at least not do anything to really piss them off. He’ll be like a dog wearing a choke collar.

  61. 61

    On Tuesday, DeSantis appointed Meredith Sasso to Florida’s Supreme Court. On Friday, her husband resigned from the Disney oversight board, which is being sued by Disney in state court. She should recuse herself anyway if the case reaches the state supreme court, because she would be ruling on actions her husband took while on the board.

    https://nordot.app/1035263487050892254?c=592622757532812385

  62. 62

    A Raw Story headline says, “Kevin McCarthy facing possible revolt as far-right House members start issuing threats”

    The story begins, “As House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) continues to negotiate a deal to avoid a debt crisis, members of the far-right Freedom Caucus are growing furious with him over broken promises he made to them.”

    https://www.rawstory.com/kevin-mccarthy-freedom-caucus-2660709204/

    This isn’t good, it’s excellent. For why, see #60 above, paragraph 2.

  64. 64

    @ 60

    The big question then becomes whether the House GOP Hell No Caucus will try to retaliate against McCarthy …

    The only person asking this question is Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit.

  65. 65

    @64

    And the Freedumb Caucus
    And r/TheDonald
    And Twitter
    And Truth Social
    And your uncle on Facebook

  66. 66

    Neither Hakeem nor Pramila have committed to voting for the agreement to which their party’s leader has signed off.

    Leadership.

  67. 67

    Pramila at least no longer silent.

    Manu Raju
    @mkraju
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    Progressives uneasy about the deal.
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    Igor Bobic
    @igorbobic
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    Jayapal says on CNN she doesn’t know how she’ll vote on the deal.

    “I haven’t seen the text…We’re all trying to wade through spin right now.”

    She added of GOP: “I’m not happy with some of the things I’m hearing about, but they are not cutting the deficit and spending”

    When yer spin is “Hey the deficit’s still growing and we’re still spending way too much.”, it’s the crap sandwich talkin’.

  69. 69

    @68

    There is no such thing as a good, gracious GOP loser.

    “You can’t fire me because I quit” -Dumbfuck realizing the senile old President just did a little jig on the still twitching body of the MAGA caucus.

  70. 70

    I would imagine the deflated Shit-lord Crybaby’s entire weekend will be preoccupied with A/B testing various iterations of concern trolling spin.

    But when all that settles down and blows away, after a difficult negotiation Democrats will remain unified and Republicans will be more divided, conflicted, and disorganized than ever.

    Quality Leadership.

  72. 72

    @ 69

    …the senile old President just did a little jig on the still twitching body of the MAGA caucus.

    If you can’t convince anyone in the Jayapal caucus to believe that, there’s no reason anyone else should.

    But if you need to envision that crap sandwich as a delicacy in order to choke it down, you go right ahead and do that, Little Cupcake.

  73. 73

    How one House Democrat describes watching the jig @ 69 that Biden supposedly danced on Republicans:

    “I have not made up my mind. The whole enterprise is a corrupt enterprise, in terms of legislating this way, and I’m gonna listen to what the president’s and his people’s arguments are, but no, I’m anything but a clear yes vote at this point,” he told anchor Shannon Bream in an interview on “Fox News Sunday.”

    Himes, a moderate Democratic vote that could be key to passing the legislation, laid out his objections to the deal, saying “none of the things in the bill are Democratic priorities.” But he argued the bill might garner the support of enough Democrats to get it across the finish line.

    In fact, it’s such a great deal for Democrats that Manu Raju writes,

    The top Democrat in the House does not say if he will support the deal.

    and HuffPo’s Igor Bobic writes,

    Jayapal says on CNN she doesn’t know how she’ll vote on the deal.

    It’s a crap sandwich for Democrats, and they’re still figuring out how to spin it otherwise.

    A “huge win” for Biden will get 200 Dem House votes. Wait and watch.

  74. 74

    • Democrats said they wouldn’t negotiate on the debt limit. They negotiated, frantically, to get the debt limit increased.

    • Democrats said they wouldn’t accept work rule changes for handouts. Instead of recipients 18-49 having to work half-time, recipients 18-55 will have to work half-time.

    • That money for more IRS agents in ’23? Gone. Overall $10B in IRS funding is clawed back.

    • Unspent COVID funds are clawed back.

    • Student loan recipients? Start payin’ it back, ya fuckin’ deadbeats.

    • GOP wanted to repeal the promised Biden giveaway to student loan debtors. Democrats prefer to let the Supreme Court do it next month instead.

  75. 75

    The late-March House bill passed with a handful of Freedom Caucus members objecting.

    This bill will pass the House with a dozen or maybe two dozen Freedom Caucus members objecting.

    What’s the difference? Both bills pass, and McCarthy gets both of them done.

    Now we get to watch Hakeem grovel in the service of the old white guy in the big White House.

  76. 76

    This is freaking perfect:

    https://youtu.be/GeRGTXZIJTI

    kreepshit’s “grandkids” all grown up and at the job “grandpa” picked out for them: the police.

    And “kicking the living shit”, working out an eternal grudge.. heh.

  77. 77

    @73

    Compare and contrast.

    Democrats: “I’m not sure how I’ll vote on the deal.”

    Maga Caucus: “No one claiming to be a conservative could justify a YES vote.

  79. 79

    Of course, we won’t know until it gets done.

    But given all the recent and ongoing history at least casually observed by the majority of swing voters, one reason the Shit-Lord Crybaby finds it so vital to follow every word or gesture from an unranked member in only her fourth term is that he, along with all those swing voters, suspects that Republicans are about 1000 times more likely to blow this thing up.

    And if (when) they do they’ll take the blame.

  80. 80

    it only took Sinema 24 hours to broker this deal?

    Dang right. I’m a “winner”.. All my buds in PE, HFs and Pharma told me to tell ’em no tickee, no washee…

    aka munee..

    I sure do luv serving my “consitutuents”…

  81. 81

    Bob, so dearly, doesn’t want to talk about DeFuckFace, DeFuckHump, and DeGOPfucks Fascism agenda, he’d rather talk Debt Ceiling nonsense.

    He is a fake and fraud and a Nazi.

  83. 83

    @ 80

    no tickee, no washee…

    aka munee..

    Girlfriend, if you have to insert a definition into an attempted joke, it’s not a joke. Silly twat Queen YLB.

  84. 84

    @ 79

    … an unranked member in only her fourth term …

    She’s Seattle’s House rep. She heads the Progressive Caucus. It’s why I find it relevant and, this week, particularly useful.

    I never thought to disrespect Jayapal in the way you just did, QoS McHillbilly. Might have to use that myself, now that you have. Although when I do, I certainly will be called misogynist and racist against those of Asian subcontinent heritage.

  85. 85

    Overall $10B in IRS funding is clawed back.

    Leaving what? 70B?

    A good day is one in which

    knock, knock, knock.. Manchinema IRS agents calling for herr doktor kreepshit…

  86. 86

    Every now and then, the SCOTUS actually makes a good and decent decision. They voted nine to zero against the State of Minnesota when the State seized a little old lady’s home for $15,000 in back taxed and promptly sold the property for $40,000, earning illegal profits for that rapacious government.

    The Court said “no way, Jose,” and ordered the State to give the excess back to the little old lady. IMHO, the State should also be forced to pay punitive damages in the amount of at least $10 million to the lady as a way of showing greedy bastards and bitches in state bureaucracies aren’t above the law.

    Every so often, government must have its ass kicked by the citizens to show government employees who is really in charge.

  87. 87

    @83 if you have to insert a definition

    It’s placed there for emphasis, dipwad..

    If you didn’t know I don’t answer to dipshits like you.

    I serve my “constituents”..

    I’m a winner. See my fu wardrobe, the fine wines I swill?

  88. 88

    Jeffries cagey on Democratic support for debt ceiling deal

    Only a true MAGAturd could possibly be this obtuse about how these modern “bipartisan” politics operate.

    With the opposing party consisting of pipe-bomb building, radical grifters, plumbing the deeps of the attention economy, Democrats have to tread carefully if they want to get things done. If a Democratic Congressional leader appears too enthusiastic about anything, then dimwits like Backpages Barbie will oppose it just for the follows and mentions it generates.

    But if they go too far in the other direction, expressing too much disappointment in order to draw out FREEDOOM KOOKAUS support, they risk losing their own voters. Democrats have to appear at least a little reluctant to help Brave Kevin whip enough votes.

    And thus it is, that by keenly focusing so much attention on those guarded and carefully worded comments from Democrats, profoundly stupid Republican trolls like the Shit-lord Crybaby may play an important role in getting it to pass.

    #owngoal

  89. 89

    She’s Seattle’s House rep. She heads the Progressive Caucus

    Which leaves her less important than Chip Roy’s outer office receptionist’s dog groomer in the next seven days.

  90. 90

    @ 85

    Leaving what? 70B?

    About that, I think, over nine additional years.

    One thing I did not know is how much the IRS has already been sreamlined. In 1993 it cost 60 cents to collect 100 tax dollars. In 2022 it cost 29 cents to collect that money. [Link at Table 31, here.]

    To the extent that the $70B goes into technology instead of personnel, it’s money well-spent. The US doesn’t have a revenue problem. It has a spending problem.

  91. 91

    @ 89

    Which leaves her less important than Chip Roy’s outer office receptionist’s dog groomer in the next seven days.

    She’s been a laughingstock for several months now:

    Progressive Caucus retracts Ukraine letter

    Well, that backfired: The Congressional Progressive Caucus retracted its letter calling on President JOE BIDEN to push for direct diplomacy with Moscow less than a day after it drew intense backlash from other Democrats.

    The about-face, which POLITICO first reported was under consideration, comes as some Democratic lawmakers vent their fury that the letter backing talks with Russian President VLADIMIR PUTIN — originally drafted and signed in June — wasn’t recirculated before its public release on Monday. That created a sticky situation for the 30 House Democrats who signed on, all lawmakers in the roughly 100-member Congressional Progressive Caucus, making it look like they were urging Biden to push for diplomacy immediately despite Russia’s engagement in war crimes and indications of a military escalation against Ukraine.

    There are 100 dumb twats in the House Progressive Caucus, while only about 45 dumb twats comprise the House Freedom Caucus. This leaves 290 potentially rational House members.

    That number is otherwise known as Enough To Get The Bill Passed.

  92. 92

    Enough To Get The Bill Passed.

    Manu Raju
    @mkraju
    ·
    2h
    Amid anger from the left and far-right over the Biden-McCarthy debt deal, there’s a positive sign for the White House in its efforts to corral House Dem support.

    Rep. Anne Kuster, head of New Dems, a center-left bloc, signaled that her 99-member group may support the plan.

    Oh, she did more than signal. Her statement at the tweet.

    Lessee, 99 New Democrats minus 45 Freedom Caucus members leaves……

    Enough To Get The Bill Passed.

  93. 93

    I’m OK with being cruel to Steve.

    Paul Krugman
    @paulkrugman
    ·
    8h
    One point I haven’t seen emphasized about the budget deal is that as far as I can tell, it’s not going to involve a major hit to the safety net for children. The new SNAP work requirements are cruel, but they apply to childless adults in their 50s 1/

  94. 94

    The natural consequences of a state whose motto has become Burn This Bitch To The Ground.

    CLIMATE
    State Farm to stop accepting homeowners insurance applications in California due to wildfires, construction costs

    The company said it will work with the California Department of Insurance and other policymakers to improve conditions in California, but that State Farm decided to take action to improve its “financial strength.

    All those companies ditching the shithole of San Francisco are doing it to improve their financial strengths, too.

    What will California do when it doesn’t have $32 billion in COVID fraud money pumping through its veins?

  95. 95

    Watching the 500, new annual tradition, last caution becomes a Red Flag, this year with 14 to go, to clean track of debris. Although this Red is justified, driver hit another car that had spun out, and overturned himself.

  96. 96

    Clearly the solution to this problem is to lower the barriers to law school entry.

    “A Partner at a Big Firm … Received Memos with Fake Case Cites from … Two Different Associates”

    EUGENE VOLOKH | 5.27.2023 12:34 PM

    A message I got from Prof. Dennis Crouch (Missouri), in response to my posting A Lawyer’s Filing “Is Replete with Citations to Non-Existent Cases”—Thanks, ChatGPT? to an academic discussion list. (The full text was, “I just talked to a partner at a big firm who has received memos with fake case cites from at least two different associates.”) Caveat emp…—well, caveat everyone.

    Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit spews with nonexistent rationale.

    I like Volokh’s team.

  97. 97

    minus 45 Freedom Caucus members leaves……

    Enough To Get The Bill Passed.

    But not enough for Brave Kevin to keep his precious gavel.

  98. 98

    but they apply to childless adults in their 50s

    Like a disabled veteran seriously injured in a repuke war…

    already working the shit paying job it can do..

    feckless.. and wasteful.. added requirements require extra bureaucracy to enforce… which means less benefits to people in need so repuke donors get tax cuts.

    yawwwn.. another day.. another degenerate repuke play for billionaires so the kreepshits of the world can get some crumbs.

  99. 99

    State Farm to stop accepting homeowners insurance applications in California due to wildfires… All those companies ditching the shithole of San Francisco..

    Wow. Developers should stop building homes in the forested slopes of San Francisco.

    All those companies should relocate to St Louis.. Misery has two repukes in the U.S. Senate keeping St. Louis “crime-free”..

  101. 101

    96,

    I read the original post from Kendra Albert that Eugene Volokh responded to which prompted the message.

    And it gave me immense reassurance that the profession is entirely safe from AI. If you’re not familiar with her, let’s just say she’s the sort of lawyer Eugene Volokh follows intensely.

    She describes these mistakes as very fundamental to the way AI systems gather and process vast quantities of information – including information from plenty of dubious sources.

    Kind of like FOX, or the nearest, most convenient sobbing, humiliated “conservative” Trump supporter.

  103. 103

    3 Red Flags, never seen a 500 like this.

    Speedway on race day reminds me of my neighborhood in Seattle during Seafair, neighbors making a little money on parking.

  104. 104

    @73 “I have not made up my mind. … I’m gonna listen to what the president’s and his people’s arguments are, but no, I’m anything but a clear yes vote at this point”

    No waffling on the other side:

    “’We’re going to try’ to stop it from passing the House,’ Representative Chip Roy, a prominent member of the hardline House Freedom Caucus, said on Twitter.”

    How’s he gonna do that? By inviting Rep. Himes to lunch?

  105. 105

    102,
    California over there jealously eyeballing Branson and Lake o’ the Ozarks. /s

  106. 106

    @74 “Student loan recipients? Start payin’ it back, ya fuckin’ deadbeats. GOP wanted to repeal the promised Biden giveaway to student loan debtors. Democrats prefer to let the Supreme Court do it next month instead.”

    Interesting. Doc ran out of bullet points, after a very short list of bullet points, so he’s adding things to the bill.

  107. 107

    @75 “The late-March House bill passed with a handful of Freedom Caucus members objecting. This bill will pass the House with a dozen or maybe two dozen Freedom Caucus members objecting. What’s the difference? Both bills pass, and McCarthy gets both of them done.”

    The difference is the March bill passed with all Republican votes, no Democratic votes, and zero votes to spare; so if even one more Freedom Caucus or other House Republican objects, McCarthy will need to make it up with Democratic votes. That’s the difference.

    This is a bipartisan bill. Reps of both parties will oppose it. McCarthy will need to cobble together 218 votes from the center. That’s very different from catering to the “burn it all down” arsonists in his party. That’s the difference.

  108. 108

    @ 104

    “’We’re going to try’ to stop it from passing the House,’ Representative Chip Roy, a prominent member of the hardline House Freedom Caucus, said on Twitter.”

    How’s he gonna do that? By inviting Rep. Himes to lunch?

    Roy’s on the Rules Committee. Along with two other hard-right GOP reps – this was part of the deal McCarthy made in order to become Speaker. Add those three to four Democrats and, should all vote against the legislation, they can block it.

    No lunch required.

    You’re quite the dumbfuck, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit.

  109. 109

    @ 107

    Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit, comparing the House-passed bill to last night’s agreement as if there is no difference between them.

    Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit, oblivious to the New Democrat Coalition’s support for the agreement.

    Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit, spewing because he can, regardless of any rationale.

  110. 110

    @84 Oh look, doc found himself an actual slur, after demonizing eggplants because I called out the lack of intelligence of vegetables, which he does himself every time he posts about Biden.

  111. 111

    @86 If you think that’s bad, you should see what cops do, when they seize innocent travelers’ cars, cash, and kids, and hold them in jail until they sign over the cash in order to get the car and kids back.

    Washington is among the states to pass laws requiring a criminal conviction before cops can keep forfeiture money. I can’t think of a red state with such a law. Republicans like to legalize highway robbery.

  112. 112

    @90 $80 billion over 10 years is $8 billion a year. $70 billion over 9 years is $7.78 billion a year. According to my calculations, what Republicans got for their billionaire donors is one more year of tax cheating followed by 2.78% less enforcement in the next 9 years. That’s a deal I’d take in exchange for Republicans assenting to being humiliated in front of their wealthy donors. Who, by the way, would’ve suffered a serious decline in wealth if their Republican gofers didn’t agree to these terms. A little more taxes and rubbing McCarthy’s face in the dirt is something these billionaires can readily afford.

  113. 113

    @91 Aren’t you glad you’re represented by Rick Larsen instead of Primila Jayapal? That, by itself, is reason enough to live on Whidbey Island despite the Grange neighbors down the road.

  114. 114

    @92 Here, Doctor Dumbfuck isn’t just celebrating the likely passage of the bill, he’s dancing a jig. He must really like it.

  115. 115

    @92 Here, Doctor Dumbfuck isn’t just celebrating the likely passage of the bill, he’s dancing a jig. He must really like it.

  116. 116

    @93 Washington fifty-somethings will have no trouble satisfying the requirements. The time they’ll spend at DSHS offices waiting to see a caseworker and then filling out the paperwork will be a full-time job.

  117. 117

    As a veteran, I don’t have to satisfy work requirements. As a senior citizen, I wouldn’t be required to, anyway. As a millionaire, I’m not eligible for food stamps in any case.

  119. 119

    @ 113

    Aren’t you glad you’re represented by Rick Larsen instead of Primila Jayapal?

    Yes. I’ve met him. I vote for him. He’s around regularly for chats and he’s not a dumbfuck far-lefty.

    The first name of your congressional representative, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit, is spelled Pramila.

  120. 120

    @ 117

    As a millionaire, I’m not eligible for food stamps in any case.

    As a liar about your wealth, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit, anything handed to you at government expense would be a waste of food.

  121. 121

    @96 I recall one of my law school professors saying, “The quality of an argument isn’t determined by how much it weighs on a scale.” A certain HA blowhard comes to mind.

  123. 123

    @109 Dumbfuck logic on display:

    Student loans in House-passed bill.
    Student loans not in last night’s agreement.
    New Democrat coalition supports last night’s agreement.
    Therefore, Doctor Dumbfuck expects a big win on student loans — in the Supreme Court.

  124. 124

    @119 “The first name of your congressional representative, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit, is spelled Pramila.”

    Wow. Dripping with ethnic disdain. What’s the other word for that? Starts with “r”. It isn’t “Rick.”

  125. 125

    Tyler moved out of the condo and into an apartment building for seniors in 2010. Geraldine Tyler owed $15,000 in back property taxes and fines by the time the county foreclosed on her Minneapolis home in 2015. The county pocketed the balance and, as required by Minnesota law, used the extra money for forest development, county parks, and recreation programs.
    >> Money for those sweet program’s got to come from somewhere, Home Equity laws helped them not raise taxes on rich people.
    The Minnesota Home Equity laws was enacted in 1936. State and local governments, like all entities at the time, were suffering under the Great Depression and were seeking revenue anywhere they could find it. However, Minnesota is one of only 12 states that has kept the law on the books.
    >> Shame on the state for not changing the laws in all this time. Hope this make them have to.

  126. 126

    Roy’s on the Rules Committee.

    Who are the “moderates” Brave Kevin is depending on to join with Democrats on Rules?

    One of them actually built and programmed his very own tiny digital “Doom Clock of Debt” that he wears on his suit lapel every day. Known around the halls of Congress by the nickname Dr. No.

  127. 127

    Primila Jayapal
    Pramila Jayapal
    This spelling outrage from a man who routinely denigrates black women and gay people. I’d list his greatest hits of racist and homophobic slurs but it wouldn’t change anything. He likes being a greedy racist incel.

  128. 128

    @125 When I was in law school, I studied a case about a New York City employee during the Great Depression who went to his job and did the work but wasn’t paid his wages because the city didn’t have money, so he couldn’t pay his property taxes because he had no income, so the city took his home for non-payment of taxes, because you know the city needed revenue so it could pay its employees. And the courts upheld this taking. That’s when I realized American law is all about money and property, and has little or nothing to do with justice.

    Now convince me going to medical school isn’t all about money and property and affording F-250s, horse trailers, horse barns, and horses.

  130. 130

    “U.S. Goes After Private Donations Made To Jan. 6 Rioters. The Justice Department is increasingly trying to prevent rioters from being able to profit from participating in the 2021 attack.”

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/justice-department-targets-captiol-riot-donations_n_647376a2e4b0047ed77c2a5c

    Good. Many of these terrorists had public defenders. They should repay the public. And judges should impose fines to prevent them from profiting from their crimes.

  131. 131

    Hey there.

    This is your President, Joe Biden here. And I just real quickly want to use this opportunity to thank all you folks out there for giving so generously to help me fund my Deep State.

    https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/government-claw-back-money-jan-6-rioters-profit-99660357

    It’s just a tremendous honor and a real privilege for me to see such generosity and sacrifice from some of the dumbest, least educated, most gullible hicks, hayseeds, and sub-morons our great nation has to offer. 😎😎😎
    Thanks to your help, and the help of hundreds of thousands of Republican useful idiots just like you, even in the face of a devastating zero percent reduction (good job Kevin, and call me when you get there, mkay? 😉) Team Deep State can continue to steal elections with moon lasers and travel through time to plant evidence on Trump.

    And a special thanks to the folks at GiveSendGo for making this possible. Technology! Crazy stuff!

  134. 134

    @130

    How about criminal charges to all the insider trading that occurs in Congress? Shouldn’t those criminals have to repay and serve serious time, too?

  135. 135

    @134,

    Only the Republicans, my friend! 😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎

  136. 136

    “The Florida mom whose complaints about reading material prompted Amanda Gorman’s acclaimed poem ‘The Hill We Climb’ and other books to be restricted at a local elementary school admits she only read parts of the material she objected to. … ‘I’m not an expert,’ she said. ‘I’m not a reader. I’m not a book person. I’m a mom involved in my children’s education.’”

    https://www.aol.com/florida-mom-challenged-amanda-gorman-192830263.html

    You’re an ignoramus, ma’am, and people like you shouldn’t be allowed to interfere with other people’s children’s education.

  137. 137

    @ 136

    … people like you shouldn’t be allowed to interfere with other people’s children’s education.

    That worked out well for Terry McAuliffe, didn’t it?

  138. 138

    Hakeem guarantees no default.

    House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York said on CBS’ “Face the Nation” that he expected there will be Democratic support but he declined to provide a number. Asked whether he could guarantee there would not be a default, he said, “Yes.”

    Doesn’t leave much room for Pramila to threaten to tank it. She’s all talk. Has been for quite awhile now.

  139. 139

    Words of Wisdom From Elon Musk
    Incompetence, in the limit, is indistinguishable from sabotage

  140. 140

    Name that party!

    Sex offender Jeffrey Epstein paid school tuition for the children of then-governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands, whose wife made efforts to enable student visas and a work license for young women connected to Epstein, according to a court filing by JPMorgan Chase.
    Those tuition payments by Epstein allowed then-Gov. John de Jongh Jr. “to funnel additional money to his political campaigns,” JPMorgan said in the filing in U.S. District Court in Manhattan.
    The former governor’s wife, Cecile de Jongh worked for Epstein, managing his companies in the territory.

  142. 142

    “Yeah, to be sure it was a foot-long crap sandwich,” Pramila recounted, “but at least it didn’t come with double the meat!”

    Manu Raju
    @mkraju
    ·
    19m
    Many Dems don’t like the Biden-McCarthy debt limit deal, but think it could have been worse for them. “It’s not a victory, but it’s a lot better than what might have happened if there were default,” one Dem senator told me after a briefing with the WH tonight.

  143. 143

    Name that party!

    Same party of troll fav Bill Richardson, opposite party of other troll fav Ken Starr..

    amirite???

    Dunno nothin’ about Virgin Islands pols and their political affiliations btw..

  144. 144

    @141. Greed racist incel.
    What Elon said….
    https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1663015083738374146

    What Arthur C Clarke actually said was ….
    “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”

    If you are going to excoriate Rabbit over a misspelled vowel, I have thoughts and prayers you don’t off yourself for getting the whole quote wrong.

  145. 145

    Tiocfaidh ár lá on Twitter.
    #VacateTheChair is trending because right-wingers are sad that the debt deal won’t lead to malnutrition in enough children to suit them
    —
    Laura Loomer on Twitter.
    I’m just going to say,
    @mattgaetz
    @RepMTG
    and the 20 so called dissenters in Congress are awfully quiet about how
    @SpeakerMcCarthy
    just screwed the American people over again with his no good deal with Biden.
    When will someone MOTION TO VACATE?
    —
    Gunther Eagleman™ on Twitter.
    Someone in the House GOP needs to be held responsible for getting played by Joe Biden and the democrats on the debt ceiling bill
    I can think of no one better than @SpeakerMcCarthy
    #VacateTheChair
    —
    TEAM USA on Twitter
    We have been utterly SOLD OUT.
    We need a Motion to Vacate to remove Speaker McCarthy NOW.
    Who agrees?
    —
    Red
    #VacateTheChair You’re a liar.
    (Photo of mcarthy holding a book titled “HOW TO ROLL OVER LIKE A BITCH”)
    —
    Rand Paul
    Fake conservatives agree to fake spending cuts. Deal will increase mandatory spending ~5%, increase military spending ~3%, and maintain current non-military discretionary spending at post-COVID levels. No real cuts to see here.
    Conservatives have been sold out once again!
    —
    ULTRA MAGA 1776 FJB
    Hold the vote on Tuesday at 9 am! #REMOVEtheGOPspeaker

  146. 146

    @ 144

    … for getting the whole quote wrong.

    Using your rationale, The Even Bigger Fucking Moron, George Harrison got the whole The Chiffon’s song wrong.

  147. 147

    @138 “Doesn’t leave much room for Pramila to threaten to tank it.”

    Can you provide a quote where she called it a “turd sandwich” and promised to try to stop it from passing?

    https://thehill.com/homenews/4024342-chip-roy-blasts-biden-mccarthy-debt-ceiling-deal-as-turd-sandwich/

    Or called a debt default a “delay” and promised a “government shutdown”?

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tim-burchett-government-shutdown-debt-ceiling_n_6472d150e4b045ce24836bb2

    I’ll take Pramila Jayapal over Chip Roy or Tim Burchett any day. I suspect you will, too, if they prevent your Missus from getting her Social Security check.

  148. 148

    @140 Underage sex party!

    After seeing what very rich hedge funders do with their money, you now support raising taxes on very rich hedge funders, no? Starting with the carried interest deduction? The Treasury needs the money, you know, to reduce deficits.

    Or does the Republican Party wish to continue subsidizing very rich hedge funders’ efforts to buy islands, politicians, and underage sex by exempting them from taxes?

  149. 149

    @145 “Someone in the House GOP needs to be held responsible for getting played by Joe Biden and the democrats on the debt ceiling bill”

    Well that would be Brave Kevin who got taken to the cleaners by the old senile incompetent vegetable — again.

  152. 152

    Because he’s an asshole? And most people don’t like assholes?

    That’s putting it mildly. He is a Nazi. Steve Schmidt posted on him being a Nazi but it was taken down…..not sure i fanyone else got to see it?

  153. 153

    Manchin credits the GOP with advancing his energy project.

    Craig Caplan
    @CraigCaplan
    ·
    12h
    Manchin on debt deal:”Last summer,I introduced legislation to complete the Mtn. Valley Pipeline.I am pleased Speaker McCarthy & his leadership team see tremendous value in completing MVP to increase domestic energy production & drive down costs across America & especially in WV.”

    The closest he got to thanking a Democrat was his use of the word “bipartisan” in the rest of his statement:

    I am proud to have fought for this critical project and to have secured the bipartisan support necessary to get it across the finish line.”

    It’s not a 51-49 Senate. At most it’s 50.5-49.5.

  154. 154

    The IRS funding took a much bigger hit than we thought:

    IRS’ cuts steeper than some had expected
    Biden agreed to trim $21.4 billion from one of his signature achievements — an $80 billion boost in Internal Revenue Service funding that Democrats had pushed through last year.

    That’s a bigger cut than many earlier news reports describing the deal had envisioned.

    While the debt legislation calls for only a $1.4 billion rescission immediately, the administration says it has agreed to take another $10 billion this fall to shore up other non-defense discretionary spending in annual appropriations bills.

    And it says it will repeat that next year when lawmakers tackle fiscal year 2025 funding — swiping another $10 billion from that $80 billion and using it for other domestic programs.

    Fear not, libbies, for the IRS will still possess the teeth to stick it to Queen YLB’s fucked kids, and not just to “so-called journalist” Matt Taibbi.

  155. 155

    Even Biden thinks Queen YLB is nothing more than a silly twat.

    Asked about the concerns of some Hill Democrats that the deal would lead low-income Americans to go hungry, the president responded that it was a “ridiculous assertion.”

  156. 156

    At most it’s 50.5-49.5.

    That’s a light-year of movement in the right direction since the 2018 mids where it became 47/53.

    We like Manchin right where he is. And unlike some other parties we seldom mention around here (/s), we certainly won’t be primarying him next year. The president, the majority leader, the DSCC, and his Senate colleagues support his reelection and are working to see him succeed.

    And once again, thanks almost entirely to Republicans, Senate President Harris will continue to cast votes beyond 2024. Then it’s on to 2026, Collins’ retirement, Caribou Barbie blowing up AK, leaving Tillis and Ernst struggling to keep their heads above the rising tide of Dobbs backlash.

    Oh yeah. We love Joe Manchin.❤️

  157. 157

    @155 heh.. witness the babbling of a “fake klownservatic”…

    See Rand Paul’s babbling @ 145..

    So kreepshit has now outsourced to chatgpt? more time with the horsies..

  158. 158

    Fear not, libbies, for the IRS will still possess the teeth to stick it

    teh widbee kreepshit…

    knock, knock, knock, “the winner” IRS calling for herr doktor kreepshit…

  159. 159

    @145

    Wow.. all the klownservatics are whinging about their “culture of losing” to…

    a “senile vegetable”..

    heh..

  160. 160

    I hear shoplifting has plummeted at Target after conservatives decided to boycott it.

  161. 161

    High school reschedules graduation ceremony due to only 5 out of 32 seniors found eligible to graduate
    >> Falls County, TX is Very conservative. In Falls County, TX 31.0% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 68.1% voted for the Republican Party. According to Marlin High Schools’ Texas Schools report card, 98.7% of the school’s students come from an economically disadvantaged background.
    >> You get the government you vote for.

  163. 163

    Blue on blue wars starting over the Democrat losses.

    Andrew Solender
    @AndrewSolender
    ·
    1h
    Kaine is “extremely disappointed” by a provision in the debt ceiling bill greenlighting Manchin’s coveted Mountain Valley Pipeline, his spox tells
    @Eugene_Scott

    “This provision is completely unrelated to debt ceiling matter. He plans to file an amendment to remove [it].”

    From nearly vice president to a Senate back-bencher. How far Kaine has fallen. Another liberal with a POS kid, too.

  164. 164

    Sorry kreepshit @ 163… the “real” klownservatics claimed they’ve been sold out by the RINOs

    heh.. Rand Paul calls you “fake”.. too funnee!

    Keep dancin’ your jig “fake klownservatic”…

  165. 165

    Be good little girls and do what you’re told, now.

    Axios
    @axios
    ·
    4h
    SCOOP: House Democrats are being told to say the newly released debt ceiling bill rejects “extreme demands” from Republicans — a messaging plan to counter Kevin McCarthy’s claims that it’s a total GOP win.

  166. 166

    Today:

    John Bresnahan
    @bresreports
    New: A preliminary CBO estimate found that the Fiscal Response Act – the debt-limit package set to be voted on by Congress this week – could cut spending by $2.1T if proposed budget caps are left in place for full 6 years, per GOP sources
    7:27 AM · May 29, 2023

    Just yesterday dumb twat Pramila was saying the bill didn’t cut spending:

    I’m not happy with some of the things I’m hearing about, but they are not cutting the deficit and they are not cutting spending, because, if you think about the fact that they have agreed to increase Pentagon spending, number one, they have agreed to increase VA spending, number two, and while there are some fiscal calculations that are being made around what nondefense discretionary spending is — and, by the way, for people that are listening to that — that’s a lot of mumbo jumbo.

    Democrats didn’t want to cut spending. McCarthy forced them to cut $2.1 trillion in spending. His speakership is threatened not at all.

  167. 167

    His speakership is threatened not at all.

    If it takes dems to save it, it’s a failure of a speakership..

    Imagine Nancy Pelosi needing repuke support.

    Weakest pos speaker ever… Makes Ryan look good. Boosts “the culture of losing” for 2024..

  168. 168

    Look who’s upset about losing $2.1 trillion in unnecessary spending:

    Rep. Pramila Jayapal
    @RepJayapal
    The debt ceiling is about paying our previous bills, and this entire charade has shown that our country’s obligations should never be in doubt.

    We should suspend the debt ceiling permanently and make sure extreme MAGA Republicans can never hold our economy hostage again.
    11:17 AM · May 28, 2023
    ·

  169. 169

    We should suspend the debt ceiling permanently and make sure extreme MAGA Republicans can never hold our economy hostage again.

    Sounds good to me.. Fuck this hostage taking shit.

  170. 170

    Dumb twat Pramila, Saturday:

    Pramila Jayapal
    @PramilaJayapal
    Today, the United States is closer to default than we have ever been for one reason only: Republicans’ economic hostage taking.
    12:22 PM · May 27, 2023

    Today, the national debt is $2.1 trillion less than it would have been had Democrats had their way.

    Oh, yeah. And no default.

  171. 171

    “OK, girls, our message is By forcing us to negotiate, the Republicans failed to get everything they wanted.”

    Max Cohen
    @maxpcohen
    ·
    21h
    During White House briefing for House Dems on the debt-limit bill, the administration officials focused on touting what GOP demands they stopped from making it into the package

    Fools no one, but whatevs.

  172. 172

    Today, the national debt is $2.1 trillion less than it would have been had Democrats had their way.

    Democrats again sacrificing for klownservatic recreational wars, eh kreepshit?

    Less than one half of them anyway..

    One war you still wanted to keep going.

    btw, this shit sandwich still hasn’t passed kongress yet.

  174. 174

    Look at kreepshit go.. taking a golden shower in klownservatic “fakeness”…

    RINO… heh..

  175. 175

    @ 172

    btw, this shit sandwich still hasn’t passed kongress yet.

    In which Queen YLB suddenly prefers default to a recorded Democrat party loss. It’s dumb twat day at HA.

  176. 176

    if the debt ceiling increase become automatic

    you’re too stupid to get it..

    NO DEBT CEILING… PERIOD..

    Pass a fucking budget and fund it.. Economy never tanks cuz of stoopid “ceilings”.. No hostage taking. If the government spends less in subsequent years due to budget compromises made between the two parties so be it..

    RINO.. “fake” klownservatic.. heh..

  177. 177

    RIP Stupid Democrat Spending.

    Pramila Jayapal
    @PramilaJayapal
    ·
    39m
    This #MemorialDay, I hope we can all take a moment to remember and honor those who made the ultimate sacrifice for our country.

    We must commit to investing in diplomacy around the world and ending forever wars so no more families are left mourning.

  179. 179

    Speaker McCarthy takes my corrupt, inompetent, senile fossile of a president out to the woodshed in a WSJ Op-Ed:

    That is what House Republicans have fought for since Jan. 12, when I called on President Biden to negotiate a responsible debt-limit increase. For 97 days, Mr. Biden dragged his feet and instead promoted a far-left wish list that included more reckless spending, more taxes and more debt. Apparently he thought he could ignore the national debt crisis like he ignores the crisis at the southern border.

    House Republicans never gave up. While the president ducked negotiations and Senate Democrats were missing in action, Republicans passed a bill that forced Mr. Biden to the table and changed the paradigm. With the introduction of the Fiscal Responsibility Act, we are changing the direction in Washington through a responsible debt-limit increase that cuts spending, saves taxpayers money and restores economic growth.

    Perhaps the most historic and foundational change is cutting spending year over year for the first time in more than a decade. Taking aside veterans’ healthcare, which will be fully funded, we will return to 2022 spending levels for nondefense accounts and set top-line spending at 1% growth for the next six years.

    In other words, we will spend less money next year than we did this year—stopping inflationary spending while fully funding national defense, meeting our obligations to veterans, and preserving and protecting Social Security and Medicare.

  180. 180

    @ 178

    Ok look Mike Lee wants to gum up the works:

    Lee said he’d delay it unless the cuts were substantial. Did you read the title of your linked piece, Queen YLB?

    Lee will find that $2.1 trillion in cuts is substantial. And really, he’s correct. Look at all the liberal tears being shed because of it.

  181. 181

    a responsible debt-limit increase

    extortion isn’t responsible.. it’s reprehensible.. and hypocritical..

    cheeto-lini got what.. 3 debt limit increases?? Did the Dems threaten to tank the economy?

    yawwwnn… the “woodshed” is Kevin’s outhouse if it take Dems to save its speakership and the Dems will happily do that if it helps “the culture of losing” for the GOPP…

  182. 182

    When asked why the president was unwilling to hold a press conference or any other public event that was not clearly staged, newly appointed White House spokeswoman Dianne Feinstein had no comment.

    Nick Sortor
    @nicksortor
    🚨 NEW: The left-leaning White House Correspondents’ Association has condemned Biden for REFUSING to hold a news conference amid the looming debt ceiling crisis.

    “The White House was not persuaded by our argument that the public deserves to see them answer questions,” said WHCA
    1:04 PM · May 26, 2023

  183. 183

    Lee will find that $2.1 trillion in cuts is substantial.

    Heh.. we’ll see.. Any “budgetary reforms” in this shit-sandwich kreepshit..

    RINO… “fake” klownservatic.. heh..

  184. 184

    @ 181

    cheeto-lini got what.. 3 debt limit increases??

    You didn’t hear me whining that Scalia was confirmed 98-0 when Democrats tried to block Kavanaugh, Queen YLB.

    Grow the fuck up, ya dumb cunt.

  186. 186

    @184 Can someone put on their kreepshit decoder ring for me? This shitforbrains is struggling with the definition of hypocrisy..

    I don’t recall Scalia being Nixon’s tool.

    RINO… “fake” klownservatic… that shit is too funee…

  187. 187

    @185 Excellent way to put things.

    Any day a “senile vegetable” inspires a Rand Paul to deem our dear kreepshit a “fake” klownservatic is a nice day..

  191. 191

    @153 Got any explanation for why this red-voting red state senator won’t join the red party? I do. Republicans are so toxic even Manchin doesn’t want to be one. The GOP is more toxic than coal, polluted streams, and mountaintop mining put together.

  192. 192

    @166 “could cut spending by $2.1T if proposed budget caps are left in place for full 6 years” and China doesn’t invade Taiwan before 2030 …

    Best laid plans of mice and men etc.

  193. 193

    @ 186

    I don’t recall Scalia being Nixon’s tool.

    My point, ya dumb twat, is that things aren’t the same anymore. Reid went nuclear, McConnell warned him as he was doing it, and turns out right away it cost Dems a SCOTUS seat.

    Dems have filibustered GOP SCOTUS nominees, and during Trump’s term every other political appointment nominee, which made it harder for the GOP to get stuff done.

    Now Biden, who has had one EO after another overturned when challenged in court, thinks he can pull the same shit with $40B in student loan giveaways. Schumer lied to his own WV Senator to get a bill passed last Fall.

    Fast-forward to 2023. Now that we’re back to divided government, the GOP is pushing back.

    And you’re whining about the good ol’ days, ya dumb twat. Both parties are responsible, but Schumer chose poorly last Fall, Biden chose poorly for 97 days, and Dems found themselves sitting in a round room and told to go shit in the corner when debt ceiling rolled around. Numerous Democrats contemporaneously warned them about it, but they chose as they did, regardless.

    Deal with it. And grow the fuck up in the process.

  194. 194

    @179 “cutting spending year over year for the first time in more than a decade”

    Pandemic spending vs. no pandemic spending. Gee, how hard is that?

  196. 196

    @180 “Look at all the liberal tears being shed because of it.”

    Lookit Doctor Dumbfuck dancing a jig over money being taken from hungry children and given to defense contractors and Roger Rabbit.*

    * I own stocks of defense contractors

  197. 197

    @184 “Scalia was confirmed 98-0”

    Senatorial courtesy. Republicans don’t believe in it. See Merrick Garland. So Democrats don’t anymore, either. What’s good for the goose, is good for the gander.

  198. 198

    @193 “Dems have filibustered GOP SCOTUS nominees, and during Trump’s term every other political appointment nominee, which made it harder for the GOP to get stuff done.”

    Goose, gander. Think you can do a Merrick Garland and Dems will take it lying down? Baseball rules, dude.

  199. 199

    192,

    That one word, “if”.

    “If” Donald J Trump had never been born.

    “If” Senate Republicans had voted to convict.

    “If” JEB! had any support. Any at all. “Please clap.”

    We got a brief 14 day vacation from MAGA/Trump media domination thanks to a uniquely terrifying wrinkle in the budget process. Looks like vacation is over. And it’s time for Republicans (and to a much lesser extent, all of us) to resume their suffering under the crippling weight of a political reckoning they imposed on themselves seven years ago because a black family had been shitting in the White House bathrooms.

  201. 201

    Where Biden won big, really BIG, in the debt negotiations is the GOP’s very own Kevin McCarthy blowing away “Sleepy Joe” (Trump), “dementia” (Rogan), “not cognitively present” (Stephen Miller), age test (Nikki Haley), “vegetable” (Doctor Dumbfuck), to wit:

    “I thought his team was very professional, very smart, very tough, at the same time, so …” The fact that McCarthy said “team” threw reporters off. They asked again, specifically about Biden. “What I was referring to was the president. I was talking about President Biden, yes.”

    https://www.rawstory.com/joe-biden-kevin-mccarthy-dementia/

  202. 202

    that things aren’t the same anymore.

    hostage taking is the new normal.. Wow.. great times…

    but still.. it’s not enough for the magats..

    as they call dancing kreepshit RINO and “fake” klownservatic…

  203. 203

    Where Biden won big, really BIG, in the debt negotiations

    kreepshit is dancing a jig to a “senile vegetable” winning anything?

    Say it’s not so. Otherwise what a RINO.. what a fake klownservatic….

  204. 204

    201,

    In complete fairness, McCarthy is probably the dumbest Speaker in modern history. It seems his one saving virtue as a politician has been his total willingness, without any hint of shame, to unreservedly beg and plead for whatever the fuck he needs at any time from whomever he thinks can deliver.

  210. 210

    @ 201

    … Kevin McCarthy blowing away “Sleepy Joe” (Trump), “dementia” (Rogan), “not cognitively present” (Stephen Miller) …

    On the Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit side we’ve got McCarthy’s description of two phone calls with Biden on Sunday, and I think one on Saturday. The two were not in the same room when they communicated. The same McCarthy who, according to QoS McHillbilly @ 204, demonstrates “total willingness, without any hint of shame, to unreservedly beg and plead for whatever the fuck he needs at any time from whomever he thinks can deliver”. So not the most honest guy in the room if he’ll say anything to get what he needs.

    On the side of the 25th Amendment we’ve got every video-recorded public event Biden has participated in, now and going forward.

    I’m OK with the disparity. A lie about a doddery old fool in order to save our nation $2.1 trillion? I’ve heard worse. Much worse.

  212. 212

    @ 198

    Goose, gander. Think you can do a Merrick Garland and Dems will take it lying down? Baseball rules, dude.

    Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit, we can go back to how Miguel Estrada’s nomination was treated, and Barack Obama’s filibuster of Alito. This isn’t John Tower stuff. It’s bush league, petty politics.

    Things changed when Harry Reid went nuclear. That’s when your side suffered true retribution for your leader’s short-term gain.

    That’s when Merrick Garland became possible. Thanks, Harry.

  213. 213

    I’m sure Queen YLB will find some way to tie this to the GOP.

    Chuck Thies
    @ChuckThies
    ·
    3h
    In DC, more juveniles have been shot in 2023, to date, than in ALL of 2022.
    Quote Tweet
    DC REALTIME NEWS
    @RealTimeNews10
    ·
    6h
    This murder on the Metro just gets worse. We now learn it was a 17 year old youth life taken. Another young person killed in the Nation’s Capital. Just sickening and sad. It’s already worse this year, than last. And it’s only May. twitter.com/RealTimeNews10…

  215. 215

    It’s kinda funee that kreepshit babbled here that Biden won’t serve out this term after reading some piffle at zerohedge and other places..

    Then Comer and MTG fizzled out…

    Now it pines for the 25th that Biden’s cabinet has to sign off on..

    cheeto-lini incited an insurrection all the while peddling a big lie. As its misadministration fell apart, cheeto filled the empty seats with maga hacks. If anyone needed to be sent packing, it was the repuke base’s darling who is today’s front runner.

    The silly kreepshit never disappoints.

  217. 217

    @212 “That’s when Merrick Garland became possible.”

    Oh really? Garland wasn’t blocked by a filibuster.

  218. 218

    in order to save our nation $2.1 trillion

    He also believes he didn’t go long on TSLA when it was still above $200 last year. At midnight on the 31st he was in his basement office sweating out budgets and trades while his wife was at the party slipping a little tongue to one of the neighbors and letting him briefly fondle her ass.

    He’ll tell you it was a great party. And it was as far as he knows.

  221. 221

    The insane, deranged, misogynist kreepshit of widbee is known here for many batshit insane views.. one of them that stands out is its unhinged hatred of public schooling and public schoolteachers.. we’ve found an appropriate story:

    “Christina, 34, and Aaron, 37, had joined no coalitions. They had published no memoirs. Their rebellion played out in angry text messages and emails with their parents, in tense conversations conducted at the edges of birthday parties and Easter gatherings. Their own children — four of them, including Aimee — knew little of their reasons for abandoning home schooling..

    Aaron had grown up believing Christians could out-populate atheists and Muslims by scorning birth control; Christina had been taught the Bible-based arithmetic necessary to calculate the age of a universe less than 8,000 years old. Their education was one in which dinosaurs were herded aboard Noah’s ark — and in which the penalty for doubt or disobedience was swift. Sometimes they still flinched when they remembered their parents’ literal adherence to the words of the Old Testament: “Do not withhold correction from a child, for if you beat him with a rod, he will not die.”

    “It’s specifically a system that is set up to hide the abuse. … At some point, you become so mentally imprisoned you don’t even realize you need help.”

    “The use of the rod is for the purpose of breaking the child’s will,” stated the handout that they bent over together in the church. “One way to tell if this has happened is to see if they can look you in the eyes after being disciplined and ask for forgiveness.”

    But they could provide new and different opportunities for their own kids. They were doing so in Loudoun County, one of the hotbeds of America’s culture wars over public instruction about race and gender. To the Bealls, who truly knew what it was like to learn through the lens of ideology, concerns about kids being brainwashed in public schools were laughable.

    “People who think the public schools are indoctrinating don’t know what indoctrination is. We were indoctrinated,” Aaron says. “It’s not even comparable.”

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/interactive/2023/christian-home-schoolers-revolt

    Two fundie Christian parents.. in Loudoun County… the land of kreepshit’s maniacal obsession: the skirt wearing dude..

    Heh.. spare the rod, spoil the child.. this will be the “training” the widbee kreepshit fantasizes that its “grandkids” will learn to accept so they can grow up to be the violent “kick the living shit” thugs that is the klownservatic ideal. January 6 every day!

  223. 223

    The Freedumb Caucus is blustering live now on the Capitol Steps about how Kevin should have told the President to go fuck himself and plunge the U.S. into a full on default crisis because they already voted on a bill that had no chance at all of ever being law so apparently that’s 46 house Rs who agree that Kevin got rolled.

    “I want to be very clear not one Republican should vote for this deal!” – Chip Roy, R-TX

    “McCarthy claim: Deal cuts $1.9B of Democrats’ $80B IRS funding. “Nixed the total FY23 staffing funding request for new IRS agents. NOTHING prevents IRS from using the remaining $78.6B RIGHT NOW to hire agents.” Dan Bishop R-NC

    “Supporting this deal is stabbing the American people directly in the back.” R- Moron with a date rape Son, CO

    Why just the other day our Dumbfuck was saying “No one is taking removing Kevin seriously except the pundits over at state news CNN

    WASHINGTON — As criticism builds in Republican ranks over the debt ceiling deal struck by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., and President Joe Biden, some hard-line conservatives have begun floating the idea of toppling the speaker.

    On a House Freedom Caucus call Monday night, Rep. Ken Buck, R-Colo., floated using the motion to vacate, a rule that would allow any member of Congress to force a vote to remove the speaker, two sources familiar with the call told NBC News. Buck, speaking toward the end of the call, referred to it as the “elephant in the room,” one source said.

    After House Freedom Caucus Chairman Scott Perry, R-Pa., suggested it might be too early for such a drastic threat, Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., proposed using the threat to force McCarthy to allow members to amend the bill on the House floor, under an “open rule” that could stall the bill’s passage. Perry responded that they would discuss the issue more when members return to Washington after the long weekend.

    If you put Kevin in a pot and slowly turn up the heat he’ll boil to death before he even knows the water is getting warm

  225. 225

    More for Kevin:

    Dan Bishop, R- NC “How much confidence do you have in the speaker right now?” “NONE! ZERO! You Cannot forfeit the hostage”

    “McCarthy has lost the trust” – Ralph Norman, R- SC

    “We gotta relook at how our leadership structure is in place.” – Chip Roy, R-TX

    https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1663608433533173760?s=20

    The MAGAts are coming for your SOUL republicans.

  226. 226

    “Another One” – DJ Khalid

    A Pennsylvania restaurant owner who screamed death threats directed at then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi while storming the U.S. Capitol was sentenced on Tuesday to more than two years in prison.

    Pauline Bauer was near Pelosi’s office suite on Jan. 6, 2021, when she yelled at police officers to bring out the California Democrat so the mob of Donald Trump supporters could hang her.

    “You don’t have jurisdiction over me, a free living soul, a woman,” Bauer, a Pennsylvania resident, said in June 2021, at her arraignment in federal court in Washington, D.C.

    “I stand above the law, because God gave man the law,” Bauer also said, according to a transcript.

    OUR Jurisdiction is your ass in prison.

  227. 227

    @226 Clear example of a power-tripping government violating a sovereign citizen’s right to travel.

  228. 228

    @225 Excellent! Kevin now needs Democratic votes to remain speaker. This doesn’t make him a Democratic speaker, but we now have a hostage.

  233. 233

    @ 231

    I wonder if he’s the fake AOC?

    Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit, you should be wondering about whether to dump your 3M shares, again. How much longer are you going to hurt your family by continuing to hang onto them? You’re repeating your GE inanity, dumbfuck. Down 20% since you re-purchased them. Time to take another loss.

    You should also be wondering about when, if ever, AT&T shares are gonna recover from the nearly 20% ass-pounding they have given you since you bragged about your one-day 6% gain on the shares only a few months ago.

    And why the fuck did you pick Citigroup instead of JP Morgan, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit? All Citigroup has done is drag you further and further from ever becoming a millionaire. You’re down, what, 30% on that ill-conceived purchase?

    Instead you spend your time worrying about a guy whose company’s shares jumped 4% today and more than 26% in the last month.

    I don’t get it. I just don’t get it.

  234. 234

    231,

    It’s the future of American “conservatism”.

    Detached, self-referencing trolls confronting AI-fabricated enemies in an entirely virtual environment, and celebrating virtual reality triumphs before a dwindling audience of masturbating non-player characters.

  235. 235

    To the best of my knowledge and limited experience, the Shit-lord Crybaby is still the only regular commenter on HA to rather frequently post complaints about his own struggles to pay for simple, inexpensive things like gasoline and restaurant gratuities.

    There’s probably good information in that.

  236. 236

    @235 Looks like somebody’s spending his time perusing my brokerage statements because he can’t stand to look at his, doesn’t it?

  237. 237

    236,
    I assume that his pointed decision to memory-hole his first quarter plays some role in that.

  238. 238

    Xfinity rolled out it’s “Pride is All Year Long” campaign featuring….drag queens.

    Wait till the American Taliban finds out that cable TV is a monopoly depending on your neighborhood and find out DirectTV /At&T is the sponsor of “Turn Up the Love” tour featuring all LGBTQ artists and donates pretty substantially to The Trevor Project.

    I guess you could spend money on Apple TV streaming (gay)
    HBO (Really Gay)
    NBCs Peacock (yeah, gay)
    Prime Video (they were already mad at them for the gay)
    Netflix (gay)

    Saaaaay…did you know Nascar has an exclusive streaming deal in the works for their primary sponsor Xfinity?

    Did you also know there’s really no way to get the NFL, NBA and most NCAA games without subscribing to a bunch of (gay) streaming networks?

  239. 239

    Things aren’t starting well for glitchbot candidate Ron.

    Monmouth:
    Who would you like to see nominated
    Trump (43%) (41% 3/23)
    De Santis (19%)(27% 3/23)

    Favorables, Trump up 3% since 2/23, DeSantis down 7%

    Head to head just Trump DeSantis
    56/35 Trump (47/46 Trump 3/23)

    Who is the strongest GOP against Biden
    Definitely/Probably Trump 63%

    This is while the entire GOP knows Trump is liable for sexual assault and likely to be shortly under federal criminal indictment for election theft activities.

  240. 240

    BREAKING NEWS: Doctor Dumbfuck’s star witness Tara Reade has defected to Russia. “Tara Reade made the announcement during a press conference on Russian state television in which she appeared with convicted spy Maria Butina.”

    https://www.rawstory.com/tara-reade-russia/

    Which raises this question: Was she a Russian asset all along?

  241. 241

    @ 235

    …post complaints about his own struggles to pay for simple, inexpensive things like gasoline and restaurant gratuities.

    In the years 5-10 BT (before Trump) Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit would – on a near-daily basis – regale us with tales of how much he made in the stock market in the preceding hours. Each time he told us it was at the expense of a losing Republican on the other side of the transaction.

    Once he even posted his brokerage account balance – because I asked him to. And it was to the dollar. Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit way overshared, for years, culminating with his moronic defense of GE shares on October 20, 2017, mere weeks before they plummeted much further and mere months before GE cut its dividend by 95%.

    He’s lying about being a millionaire – his own numbers demonstrate that. And he doesn’t post about his daily winnings anymore.

    You’re welcome for that, BTW.

    Anyway, please, go ahead and think of me as a pauper. After all, every day I clean up roughly 60 pounds of horse shit. Real horse shit, that comes out of real horses’ asses. What wealthy, sane person would do that if he/she/it didn’t have to? Clearly anyone who does can’t afford to hire someone else to do it.

    So that’s me. Pauper. I’m a pauper the same way that Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit is a millionaire.

  242. 242

    G-clown overshared, too. It’s how I was able to back-calculate his AGI.

    There’s a lesson to be learned here, people. And it’s don’t be a dumbfuck. Don’t be like Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit. Or like AIDS-afflicted, chronic monkeypox carrier G-clown.

  243. 243

    @241 “After all, every day I clean up roughly 60 pounds of horse shit. Real horse shit, that comes out of real horses’ asses. What wealthy, sane person would do that if he/she/it didn’t have to?”

    Has anyone here ever argued you’re sane?

  244. 244

    @240 Taaaaaaaraaaaaa… lmao…. russian agent… on the marina butina show…

    whoaa.. did kreepshit go apeshit over her once upon a time..

    hunter’s dick pics took that shit over…

  245. 245

    So let’s talk about Tara Reade some more. It’s now plausible that she’s a Russian asset, her sexual harassment accusations against Biden were Russian disinformation, and were part of Russian interference in the 2020 election. Her defection to Russia makes that at least as plausible as her accusations being true, does it not?

  246. 246

    So let’s talk about Tara Reade. Is it not plausible that she’s a Russian asset, her sexual harassment accusations against Biden were Russian disinformation, and part of Russian interference in the 2020 election?

    There’s no evidence her accusations are true, but there is evidence she was working for Russia’s interests when she made them.

  248. 248

    @ 246

    Don’t forget Reade’s mother. Oh, and Larry King. Beginning 30 years ago. Russkies, all.

  249. 249

    In 2021, the New York Times observed,

    “She also harbored a secret. She had never obtained the undergraduate degree required for law school admission.”

    https://theintercept.com/2021/03/14/new-york-times-tara-reade/

    It now seems she had other secrets, too. And other names, too (e.g., “Alexandra McCabe”).

    I wonder if her birth name was “Svetlana”?

    https://thecrimereport.org/2020/05/27/california-d-a-investigates-tara-reades-credentials/

  252. 252

    While it’s possible Reade is a Russian sleeper agent planted in the U.S. decades ago, that seems somewhat unlikely, because FSB-trained agents usually aren’t as clumsy as her.

  253. 253

    “serious medical issue,”

    Was it the Heterosexual Neanderthal Virus that got her?

  254. 254

    Don’t forget Reade’s mother. Oh, and Larry King. Beginning 30 years ago. Russkies, all.

    “When we spoke a year ago, Reade told me the only named sources she could give me were her deceased mother and the friend I spoke to. A recently uncovered tape of her mom on Larry King Live appears to corroborate Reade’s claim that she was struggling in Biden’s office in 1993, but does not include an assault allegation.”

    https://www.vox.com/2020/5/7/21248713/tara-reade-joe-biden-sexual-assault-accusation

    Russians watch Larry King? He was on RT was he not? Stack that shit next to the Khalidi tape..

  256. 256

    Reade was always an obviously pitiable, unaccomplished, seemingly disturbed person, even before anyone learned about her history as a bunko artist. But that never stopped our pathetic lying troll from completely discrediting himself backing her implausible lies. This is of a whole along with his soaring claims of market timing genius and professional accomplishment.

    An unemployed rad tech who inherited a damp, wooded acreage in the Puget Sound who kills his days nervously day trading his “system” and trolling an obscure liberal blog in between trips to Costco and bouts of masturbating to violent sport murdering cop videos.

  257. 257

    Former spy and current Duma member Marina Butina is asking Putin to fast-track Reade’s Russian citizenship. In Russia, you don’t get favors like that for no reason. It’s a reward for services rendered.

  258. 258

    Tara Reade endorses Russian invasion of Ukraine, civilian massacres, bombing hospitals and schools, and kidnapping Ukrainian children:

    “‘It’s very sad that America has chosen the wrong side in history,’ she said, echoing Kremlin propaganda about the Ukrainian government. ‘To my Russian brothers and sisters, I’m sorry right now that American elites are choosing to have such an aggressive stance.'”

    And there’s also this: “Late last year, Russian diplomats sought to bring Reade to the UN to testify about diversion of U.S. weapons provided to Ukraine, Semafor reported.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12141223/Bidens-ex-Senate-aide-accused-sexual-assault-defects-RUSSIA.html

  259. 259

    Oh hey, just this month Matt Gaetz and MTG invited Reade to testify against Biden, but now another Republican “whistleblower” has gone “unavailable.”

  260. 260

    House Democrats not exactly buying QoS McHillbilly’s argument that McCarthy got rolled by a clever Joe Biden.

    Manu Raju
    @mkraju
    ·
    27m
    Dems not happy with concessions in debt deal.
    Rep. Dingell: “I’m angry that we are being held hostage. And we are continuing to be held hostage because we do not have a choice.”

    Asked about changes to NEPA: “It is my husband’s legacy, and why I’m so angry. I also care about it.”

    Dumb twats like Queen YLB, tho, are taken in hook, line, and sinker.

  263. 263

    I’m angry that we are being held hostage.

    Heh.. Yeah that’s what shitheel repukes do..

    And their asshole lickers @ 260 dance a jig to…

    Anger is understandable..

    uhhh.. next?

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