Elections; 2024
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The budget plan of the Republican Study Committee envisions huge cuts to Medicaid, large but unspecified cuts to non-military discretionary spending, and an increase in the Social Security retirement age to offset the cost of large regressive tax cuts.
Those are the concrete stakes of the upcoming election.
Donald Trump disavowed the Social Security component of this plan. But I would not particularly trust him on that. He violated campaign promises to protect Medicaid during his last presidency and might flip-flop on the Social Security issue if that’s what his allies in Congress want.
Conservatives’ budget plan renews battle over seniors’ benefits
https://rollcall.com/2023/06/14/conservatives-budget-plan-renews-battl
e-over-seniors-benefits/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Originally posted by second:Quote:I can see why a movie like Sound of Freedom would attract Trumptards to go to the theater. And why Trump plays the fear and loathing calliope at every public appearance. That movie and Trump know what buttons to push in the brains of Trumptards.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I know it would work, you fucking goon.
People like you and me? We can't do a fucking thing without providing our social security number first.
I've already said when Trump was building the wall that we wouldn't even need to do this if we just enforced the laws that were already on the books.
Not just e-verify, but no education, healthcare or housing for invaders that come across the border either. Including children.
If you make it clear that there is NOTHING here for any of them, they won't keep coming.
But Democrats love giving tax dollars to people who aren't citizens and shoveling hundreds of Billions to the Ukraine while life keeps getting worse for actual taxpaying citizens who were born here.
Your party is pure cancer and will lead to the destruction of the country.
And yeah... The fucking Bushite cocksuckers that have been flushing the country along with the Democrats for decades aren't helping matters any.
But let's talk about stupid shit like Abortion instead of the actual invasion of our country that gets worse every single day that passes. I'm sure all the military age males that are being illegally shipped into our country are really going to obey any Democrat imposed gun laws when their mere existence here is breaking the law in the first place. Rich, white, tree-hugging Democrats are going to be the first slaves of the New America they voted for.
And I'm not talking wage-slaves like 90% of Americans already are. I'm talking literal boot-licking, meth-addicted sex slaves of the new crime overlords in the making.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
Get fucked, retard.
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So if Biden can’t win the D.C. uniparty anymore, can’t win the far left, can’t hide his personal corruption, and can’t hide from Donald Trump, how is he supposed to win another election? More and more Democrats are realizing with horror what the answer to that question is.
5 Wrong Predictions Ruining Democrats’ Plan For 2024
https://thefederalist.com/2023/09/18/5-wrong-predictions-ruining-democ
rats-plan-for-2024/
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Why Kevin McCarthy Can’t Do His Job
Sept. 21, 2023, 7:00 p.m. ET
The speaker of the House is the only congressional officer mentioned in the Constitution, other than a temporary Senate officer to preside when the vice president can’t. The speaker’s job isn’t defined, but surely it includes passing legislation that keeps the federal government running.
But Kevin McCarthy, the current speaker, isn’t doing that job. Indeed, at this point it’s hard to see how he can pass any bill maintaining federal funding, let alone one the Senate, controlled by Democrats, will agree to. So we seem to be headed for a federal shutdown at the end of this month, with many important government activities suspended until further notice.
Why? McCarthy is a weak leader, especially compared with Nancy Pelosi, his formidable predecessor. But even a superb leader would probably be unable to transcend the dynamics of a party that has been extremist for a generation but has now gone beyond extremism to nihilism.
And yes, this is a Republican problem. Any talk about dysfunction in “Congress,” or “partisanship,” simply misinforms the public. Crises like the one McCarthy now faces didn’t happen under Pelosi, even though she also had a very narrow majority. I’ll come back to that contrast. First, let me make a different comparison — between the looming shutdown of 2023 and the shutdowns of 1995-96, when Newt Gingrich was speaker.
If you had told me back then that I’d someday hold up Gingrich as a model of rationality, I wouldn’t have believed you. But hear me out.
Back in 1995, while Gingrich’s tactics — his willingness to employ blackmail as a political strategy — were new and dangerous, he had an actual policy goal: He wanted to force major cuts in federal spending.
Furthermore, Gingrich tried to go where the money was. The federal government is an insurance company with an army: The great bulk of nonmilitary spending is on the big safety-net programs, that is, Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. And Gingrich in fact sought deep cuts in Medicare and Medicaid.
He didn’t get them, and the government’s role in promoting health insurance coverage eventually expanded greatly — although Medicare has been surprisingly successful at containing costs. Still, Gingrich’s goals were at least coherent.
McCarthy, in his desperate efforts to appease his party’s hard-liners, has acted as if their refusal to approve federal funding is a Gingrich-like demand for reduced federal spending. He tried to pass a continuing resolution — a bill that would temporarily keep the money flowing — that involved deep cuts to certain parts of the federal government.
But there are three notable aspects to this attempt. First, even if he had managed to pass that resolution, it would have been dead on arrival in the Senate.
Second, unlike Gingrich back then, McCarthy tried to go where the money isn’t, slashing nonmilitary discretionary spending. That’s a fairly small part of the federal budget. It’s also a spending category that has already been subject to more than a decade of austerity, ever since President Barack Obama made concessions to Republicans during the debt ceiling confrontation of 2011. There just isn’t any significant blood to be gotten out of this stone.
Finally, even this extreme proposal wasn’t extreme enough for Republican hard-liners. I liked what one representative told Politico: “Some of these folks would vote against the Bible because there’s not enough Jesus in it.” The point is that the party’s right wing isn’t actually interested in governing; it’s all about posturing, and the budget fight is a temper tantrum rather than a policy dispute.
If the G.O.P. were anything like a normal party, McCarthy would give up on the right-wingers, gather up the saner Republican representatives — it would be misleading to call them “moderates” — and make a deal with Democrats. But that would almost surely cost him the speakership, and in general more or less the whole G.O.P. is terrified of the hard-liners, so the party’s p
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Quote:6ix, did you read this part of article? "1. The Indictments Backfired . . . the left thought their indictments would shatter Trump and his base psychologically."
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So if Biden can’t win the D.C. uniparty anymore, can’t win the far left, can’t hide his personal corruption, and can’t hide from Donald Trump, how is he supposed to win another election? More and more Democrats are realizing with horror what the answer to that question is.
5 Wrong Predictions Ruining Democrats’ Plan For 2024
https://thefederalist.com/2023/09/18/5-wrong-predictions-ruining-democ
rats-plan-for-2024/
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The Left did not think that. We all knew how Trumptards react from years of experience. No matter what was revealed about Trump during his Presidency, the Trumptards were unconcerned. So why would Trumptards suddenly change after his Presidency was over? When Hitler made millions of Jews vanish, did Nazis turn away in disgust? They did not. What they suspected made them love Adolph even more. Why are Trumptards any different about Donald's peccadilloes? They love him even more.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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6ix, did you read this part of article? "1. The Indictments Backfired . . . the left thought their indictments would shatter Trump and his base psychologically."
Of course I did.
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The Left did not think that.
The fuck you didn't. It broke Ted's black little heart that this didn't go the way the Legacy Media told you it would.
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“Hitler Said That Too”: Donald Trump Claims Jews Destroyed America
Donald Trump, during Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, has made some highly controversial comments about Jews.
Trump seized the occasion of Rosh Hashanah to attack Jews who voted for Biden. He wrote: “Just a quick reminder for liberal Jews who voted to destroy America [and] Israel because you believed in false narratives! Let’s hope you learned from your mistake [and] make better choices moving forward.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4209650-trump-shares-post-bashin
g-liberal-jews-who-voted-to-destroy-america/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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How General Mark Milley protected the Constitution from Donald Trump
The missiles that comprise the land component of America’s nuclear triad are scattered across thousands of square miles of prairie and farmland, mainly in North Dakota, Montana, and Wyoming. About 150 of the roughly 400 Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles currently on alert are dispersed in a wide circle around Minot Air Force Base, in the upper reaches of North Dakota. From Minot, it would take an ICBM about 25 minutes to reach Moscow.
These nuclear weapons are under the control of the 91st Missile Wing of the Air Force Global Strike Command, and it was to the 91st—the “Rough Riders”—that General Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, paid a visit in March 2021. I accompanied him on the trip. A little more than two months had passed since the January 6 attack on the Capitol, and America’s nuclear arsenal was on Milley’s mind.
In normal times, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, the principal military adviser to the president, is supposed to focus his attention on America’s national-security challenges, and on the readiness and lethality of its armed forces. But the first 16 months of Milley’s term, a period that ended when Joe Biden succeeded Donald Trump as president, were not normal, because Trump was exceptionally unfit to serve. “For more than 200 years, the assumption in this country was that we would have a stable person as president,” one of Milley’s mentors, the retired three-star general James Dubik, told me. That this assumption did not hold true during the Trump administration presented a “unique challenge” for Milley, Dubik said.
Milley was careful to refrain from commenting publicly on Trump’s cognitive unfitness and moral derangement. In interviews, he would say that it is not the place of the nation’s flag officers to discuss the performance of the nation’s civilian leaders.
But his views emerged in a number of books published after Trump left office, written by authors who had spoken with Milley, and many other civilian and military officials, on background. In The Divider, Peter Baker and Susan Glasser write that Milley believed that Trump was “shameful,” and “complicit” in the January 6 attack. They also reported that Milley feared that Trump’s “ ‘Hitler-like’ embrace of the big lie about the election would prompt the president to seek out a ‘Reichstag moment.’ ”
These views of Trump align with those of many officials who served in his administration. Trump’s first secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, considered Trump to be a “fucking moron.” John Kelly, the retired Marine general who served as Trump’s chief of staff in 2017 and 2018, has said that Trump is the “most flawed person” he’s ever met. James Mattis, who is also a retired Marine general and served as Trump’s first secretary of defense, has told friends and colleagues that the 45th president was “more dangerous than anyone could ever imagine.” It is widely known that Trump’s second secretary of defense, Mark Esper, believed that the president didn’t understand his own duties, much less the oath that officers swear to the Constitution, or military ethics, or the history of America.
The difficulty of the task before Milley was captured most succinctly by Lieutenant General H. R. McMaster, the second of Trump’s four national security advisers. “As chairman, you swear to support and defend the Constitution of the United States, but what if the commander in chief is undermining the Constitution?” McMaster said to me.
For the actions he took in the last months of the Trump presidency, Milley, whose four-year term as chairman, and 43-year career as an Army officer, will conclude at the end of September, has been condemned by elements of the far right. Kash Patel, whom Trump installed in a senior Pentagon role in the final days of his administration, refers to Milley as “the Kraken of the swamp.” Trump himself has accused Milley of treason. Sebastian Gorka, a former Trump White House offici
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Do you want more crooks like Clarence Thomas on the Supreme Court? Elect Trump in 2024.
Clarence Thomas’ Latest Pay-to-Play Scandal Finally Connects All the Dots
Sept 23, 2023 8:30 AM
ProPublica released a new report on Friday detailing Justice Clarence Thomas’ close relationship with the Koch brothers with previously undisclosed and extraordinarily damning new details. https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-secretly-attended-k
och-brothers-donor-events-scotus
According to ProPublica, the justice developed a friendship with the Kochs as they were funneling hundreds of millions of dollars into right-wing causes, many of which ended up before the Supreme Court. The brothers then used Thomas to raise money for their sprawling network, inviting him to speak at “donor events” that brought in millions of dollars. He disclosed none of these activities on his annual disclosure forms, an obvious violation of federal ethics law.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/09/clarence-thomas-chevron-et
hics-kochs.html
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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