October 27, 20231 yr 4 hours ago, Mike31mt said: The bible teaches people how to be better humans. You don't have to crap on the bible and religion because evangelicals are nut jobs Hardly exclusive to the bible so value is low
October 28, 20231 yr 22 hours ago, Toastrel said: It was just used by the Speaker of the House as his basis for decision making. Did you miss that? Misused, I would say. He's a politician, not a theologian.
October 31, 20231 yr 32 minutes ago, toolg said: Hawley is despicable The problem with DC is that politicians have no interest in legislating to benefit their constituents. Rather they want to do pro wrestling style shoots, to get on fox news and twitter in small snarky sound bites so they can get mouth breathing wingnuts to send them campaign donations. No politician is more emblematic of the empty suit trying to accomplish the aforementioned than Hawley. Just an utterly useless piece of crap.
November 1, 20231 yr On 10/27/2023 at 4:07 AM, mr_hunt said: Pfftt......we used to get thoughts AND prayers....now its just prayers.
November 1, 20231 yr 8 hours ago, kiwieagle said: Pfftt......we used to get thoughts AND prayers....now its just prayers. Their thoughts are issued to them, and they aren't allowed extras.
November 2, 20231 yr A teeny weeny step forward with 20 Repubs going against MTG's censure resolution.
November 2, 20231 yr Christ their obsession with hitting the IRS is ridiculous. God forbid we collect taxes and fund the country. But nope, let's add to the deficit... Mike Johnson Has Already Run Out of Ideas The new speaker's doomed, ridiculous plan to trade funding for Israel for IRS cuts suggests he is even more powerless than Kevin McCarthy. Now that he’s a week into the job, Johnson faces his first big test. Here’s where the good vibes have hit a skid: He is demonstrating that he may not be cut from leadership timber after all, which poses a long-term problem in that the caucus he presides over is as chaotic and incapable of governing as ever. On October 19—six days before Johnson was elected speaker—Joe Biden asked Congress to approve a $105 billion aid package for Ukraine, Taiwan, and Israel. Given the sizable opposition to Ukraine funding among the GOP’s MAGA wing, that bill was always going to be a tough sell. Speaking to Sean Hannity last week, Johnson laid out a path forward, telling the Fox host that he planned on "bifurcating those issues.” "We’re not going to abandon [Ukraine,] but we have a responsibility, a stewardship responsibility over the precious treasure of the American people, and we have to make sure that the White House is providing the people with some accountability for the dollars,” Johnson said. This all put Johnson in an immediate bind. Funding for Israel is deeply popular within his caucus. Funding for Ukraine is not. And Johnson has a deeply unserious plan for resolving this problem. Some of it will come as no surprise. As he hinted to Hannity, he separated the funding for Israel from the money earmarked for Ukraine and Taiwan and announced he would move forward with a stripped down, $14.3 billion bill. Despite his pledge not to "abandon Ukraine” there was no word on what he planned to do about aid for that country’s war against Russia—or, for that matter, Taiwan. But Johnson also had another card up his sleeve. In addition to advancing an aid package to Israel alone, he coupled that to a demand that that aid be offset by cuts to the IRS—specifically cuts to the money given to the agency in the Inflation Reduction Act that was specifically provided so that they could become more efficient, and more effective at tracking down rich tax cheats. It was a trollish, stupid ploy. It was also not a pay-for, given that the $14.3 billion in IRS funding is designed to raise revenue by recovering unpaid taxes from wealthy scofflaws. On Wednesday, the Congressional Budget Office confirmed these fundamental truths. Its analysis found that Johnson’s idea would add more than $26 billion to the deficit.
November 2, 20231 yr 59 minutes ago, Tweek said: Its analysis found that Johnson’s idea would add more than $26 billion to the deficit. Exactly. It also allows Trump and his friends to continue their tax fraud. The government takes in less money and would result in the deficit described above. It's clear that Maga Party doesn't really care about the deficit. The deficit is just a political tool for them to use.
November 2, 20231 yr 21 minutes ago, Toastrel said: GOP Unity didn't last long. "Vaping groping Lauren Bobert" The fact that these 2 (who are practically identical in every way except for Bobert being sluttier and hotter) hate each other, never fails to crack me up.
November 2, 20231 yr 37 minutes ago, Toastrel said: GOP Unity didn't last long. Ever since I found out I was mis-using the phrase "I could care less,” it couldn’t bother me more when I see others do it.
November 2, 20231 yr And then this dude... What’s Up With Mike Johnson’s Very Shady-Seeming Financial Disclosures? The Daily Beast reports that in financial disclosures dating back to 2016, the year he joined Congress, Johnson never reported having a savings or checking account in his name, his spouse’s name, or in the name of any of his children. In his latest filing, which covers last year, he doesn’t list a single asset either. Which, given that he made more than $200,000 last year—in addition to his wife’s salary—is more than a little odd.
November 2, 20231 yr 15 minutes ago, Tweek said: And then this dude... What’s Up With Mike Johnson’s Very Shady-Seeming Financial Disclosures? The Daily Beast reports that in financial disclosures dating back to 2016, the year he joined Congress, Johnson never reported having a savings or checking account in his name, his spouse’s name, or in the name of any of his children. In his latest filing, which covers last year, he doesn’t list a single asset either. Which, given that he made more than $200,000 last year—in addition to his wife’s salary—is more than a little odd. Only because there is an (R) next to his name.
November 2, 20231 yr 11 minutes ago, Toastrel said: Hamasers are walking in from Gaza!!! More importantly, it's not "dimensia." It's "dementia." I know she's a moron, but at this point, I gotta assume they WANT me to mock them for lazy misspelling, and sound like an "elitist."
November 2, 20231 yr 1 hour ago, Gannan said: "Vaping groping Lauren Bobert" The fact that these 2 (who are practically identical in every way except for Bobert being sluttier and hotter) hate each other, never fails to crack me up. This is an important distinction. MTG is hauntingly ugly. I F'd some serious dogs back in my single days but I absolutely would've kicked her out of bed. Boebert on the other hand is actually pretty hot in a skanky redneck way.
November 2, 20231 yr 9 minutes ago, VanHammersly said: This is an important distinction. MTG is hauntingly ugly. I F'd some serious dogs back in my single days but I absolutely would've kicked her out of bed. Boebert on the other hand is actually pretty hot in a skanky redneck way. Apparently, she has no problem in doing a Dem.
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