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Rep. defending Ken Paxton on impeachment for fraud, bribery and corruption makes his final remark: “Don’t give Democrats another victory handed to them on a silver platter.” pic.twitter.com/tk7DKL1HEn
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) May 27, 2023
CL’d:
re: #126 Nerdy Fish
Quoth Mrs. Fish: “When even the Republicans have had enough of your shenanigannery, you know you’re corrupt as shit.”
Paxton fired four (4!) of his Division Heads, who were, like, the 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th people on the Org Chart. They had the temerity to question some of his Directives, and warned him there was going to be trouble.
So he fired them all and they sued Paxton. Then came Discovery where the 4 guys and a bunch of other people came forward and were deposed, many, many under oath and subject to perjury, More back and forth followed and the AGs office offered the Whistleblowers $3.3 million bongo buckaroos to settle the suit. So Paxton came to the Lege to ask that it be paid, Stetson in hand, in a Supplementary Budget item. Members of the Lege asked to see the evidence turned over in Discovery which led to the Settlement Offer, made by Paxton.
He gave it to them and they read it. Damning stuff. So they opened an Investigation of their own.
Paxton was indicted for Securities Fraud before he was elected AG. He sued the Obama Admin at every to turn, left Tfg alone, and sued Biden at every turn. He was also on odious bucket of rotting offal who treated everybody like dogshit.
Gettin’ closer.
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— NWS Cheyenne (@NWSCheyenne) May 27, 2023
A special weather statement has been issued for Kimball NE, Albin WY and Bushnell NE until 4:45 PM MDT pic.twitter.com/rHdbYGAdqM
— NWS Cheyenne (@NWSCheyenne) May 27, 2023
Here’s the Texas House vote to impeach @KenPaxtonTX #txlege pic.twitter.com/F7pU7FJVIn
— Scott Braddock (@scottbraddock) May 27, 2023
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Impeached. Now let’s see him convicted of his crimes and imprisoned.
re: #5 Backwoods Sleuth
Former President Skidmark threatened any Republican who voted to impeach Paxton. Looks like a lot of Texas Republicans told Skidmark to fuck off.
tRump must be fuming mad right now. The Texas Leg. just gave him a big F.U. and a middle finger in eye. I bet his (un)Truth Social will be blowing up with deranged rants real soon. Abbott is probably crapping his pants as well.
re: #10 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
tRump must be fuming mad right now. The Texas Leg. just gave him a big F.U. and a middle finger in eye. I bet his (un)Truth Social will be blowing up with deranged rants real soon. Abbott is probably crapping his pants as well.
Don’t forget Rafael C who also threatened Texas Republicans!
re: #3 austin_blue
Definitely stealing “shenanigannery”
Yikes.
and TEXAS doesn’t care what somebody in “philly” thinks!
Sit down Liberal, nobody needs your mouth here.— KC in TX (@KRNCinTX) May 27, 2023
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re: #13 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Let them try that with a Texan:
Texas is full of corrupt politicians like Paxton and Ted Cruz.
— Blue in Red Texas (@RockwallBlue) May 27, 2023
re: #10 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
tRump must be fuming mad right now. The Texas Leg. just gave him a big F.U. and a middle finger in eye. I bet his (un)Truth Social will be blowing up with deranged rants real soon. Abbott is probably crapping his pants as well.
re: #11 Joe Bacon ✅
Don’t forget Rafael C who also threatened Texas Republicans!
Needz moar shivs.
Gettin’ closer (about seventy miles WSW):
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— NWS Cheyenne (@NWSCheyenne) May 27, 2023
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— NWS Cheyenne (@NWSCheyenne) May 27, 2023
Tornado Warning including Carpenter WY and Hillsdale WY until 5:30 PM MDT pic.twitter.com/UyicZk5paH
— NWS Cheyenne (@NWSCheyenne) May 27, 2023
re: #11 Joe Bacon ✅
Don’t forget Rafael C who also threatened Texas Republicans!
True. But they need him and D.C. so wont go after him, unfortunately. But I will predict that this is going to be a big blow to tRumps campaign as I am sure the deathsantis’s campaign is going to pick up the middle finger Texas just gave tRump and run with it. Least wise, I hope they do.
re: #12 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
Definitely stealing “shenanigannery”
Please do. I love using that word. I wish I could remember where I heard it.
re: #18 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
True. But they need him and D.C. so wont go after him, unfortunately. But I will predict that this is going to be a big blow to tRumps campaign as I am sure the deathsantis’s campaign is going to pick up the middle finger Texas just gave tRump and run with it. Least wise, I hope they do.
Maybe. DeSantis is still trying to play coy and not attack Trump directly because he needs Trump’s voters. I see this playing out the same way as the 2016 GOP Primary, where no one attacks Trump whilst he slays them one-by-one.
AND RIGHT ON CUE…
Marjorie Taylor Greene uses her birthday to celebrate ‘brave new whistleblower’ in Biden probe
She says a new…”Witless” has emerged who links Joe to a pay to play scheme when he was Vice-President.
re: #21 Joe Bacon ✅
AND RIGHT ON CUE…
Marjorie Taylor Greene uses her birthday to celebrate ‘brave new whistleblower’ in Biden probe
She says a new…”Witless” has emerged who links Joe to a pay to play scheme when he was Vice-President.
And this one isn’t in court, in jail, or “missing”?
re: #22 Nerdy Fish
And this one isn’t in court, in jail, or “missing”?
Won’t stop “See B.S.” from hyping this new lie.
LOL
His name is TED, so I’m just gonna call you SCHULTZ, because you’re just another dizzy dingbat Liberal like she is
— KC in TX (@KRNCinTX) May 27, 2023
— Kari (@dazd_nconfuzd) May 27, 2023
Trivia: The city and county of Lubbock are named for noted slavery enthusiast, Confederate bushwhacker, and all-round family blacksheep Thomas Saltus Lubbock rather than for his older and better known brother, Francis Lubbock, who was Confederate governor of Texas.
This came about because of a round of new county creation by the post-reconstruction (ie Confederate revivalist) legislature in 1876.
They were naming many of the new counties for various Confederate heroes and Francis Lubbock seemed an obvious choice. The problem was that state law forbade naming a county for a living person and Francis inconveniently persisted in not dying. Otoh, Thomas Saltus had died of typhoid fever back in 1862, so he became a post mortem stand-in. Francis did not finally kick off until 1905 and age 89. He was the last surviving Confederate governor.
The Weather Service doesn’t like us.
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— NWS Storm Prediction Center (@NWSSPC) May 27, 2023
Trump today: Ken Paxton is my friend and I will go after anyone who tries to impeach him.
Trump tomorrow: Well we all know Ken Paxton is a loser, very bad guy, trust me, but I don’t even know the guy.— Elon Musk Blows Goats | teleskiguy@mastodon.social (@ballfootski) May 27, 2023
re: #20 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Maybe. DeSantis is still trying to play coy and not attack Trump directly because he needs Trump’s voters. I see this playing out the same way as the 2016 GOP Primary, where no one attacks Trump whilst he slays them one-by-one.
I honestly don’t think so. The shot across the bow has been fired by the Texas GQP. Deathsantis may be an flaming asshole, but he’s not a complete idiot and his campaign would be fools NOT to take advantage of this. There is now blood in the water and IF the Texas Senate finds Paxton guilty and boots him, it MAY open the floodgate of the other GQP candidates telling him to F.O. and pointing out the MANY legal problems tRump is facing and that staying with him is a losing position. That is my my hope least wise.
In the category “nonsensical”:
Libertarians aren’t fiscally conservative and socially liberal.
Conservatives are fiscal spendthrifts and liberals are social authoritarians.
We are fiscally libertarian and socially libertarian, and side with individual rights over state power on all issues.— Libertarian Party (@LPNational) May 26, 2023
re: #28 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
I’ll wait and see. They stuck with him through two impeachments, his company coming under criminal investigation, being adjudicated against in E. Jean Carroll’s lawsuit, sticking behind him when he slandered her again on CNN, ignored his nepotism hires, defended him taking classified information to his home, defended him when he tried to extort states for PPE, defended him when he let a million people die of a pandemic, &c.
I don’t believe any of them will underbus him. They would immediately be primaried in their next election. Whatever the GOP was is gone now. It’s a full-blown religious cult.
This you? https://t.co/d60P23IscD pic.twitter.com/LQ5eP3NC2T
— Kaylan_TX (@Kaylan_TX) May 24, 2023
re: #29 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Overblatts aren’t fiscally snivel and socially frummert.
Snivels are fiscal spendthrifts and frummerts are social niblings.
We are fiscally overblatt and socially overblatt, and side with the pritzes over wicket men on all issues.— Elon Musk Blows Goats | teleskiguy@mastodon.social (@ballfootski) May 27, 2023
Unexploded artillery shells, grenades on the ground with their pins pulled…clean up is going to be hectic once Russia is gone.
What is happening in Texas with the impeachment of Ken Paxton is the clearing of the decks for Ron DeSantis. Dade Phelan is team DeSantis. Ken Paxton is team Trump. Abbott formerly team Trump is hiding in the closet trying not to get caught up in this
— Texas Paul Schroder (@Paultx890) May 27, 2023
it is really good playing, but who was it who recently said on twitter, I think, “if I see one more guitarist slapping the body of the guitar while playing……” :-) It has seemingly become about as clicheic as the barbed-wire bicep tattoo.
re: #31 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I’ll wait and see. They stuck with him through two impeachments, his company coming under criminal investigation, being adjudicated against in E. Jean Carroll’s lawsuit, sticking behind him when he slandered her again on CNN, ignored his nepotism hires, defended him taking classified information to his home, defended him when he tried to extort states for PPE, defended him when he let a million people die of a pandemic, &c.
I don’t believe any of them will underbus him. They would immediately be primaried in their next election. Whatever the GOP was is gone now. It’s a full-blown religious cult.
Granted. We’ll have to wait to see if the rats want to stay on or close to that sinking ship only to be sucked down with it it as it sinks or try to swim away away before they are dragged down as well. My personal belief is that the more pragmatic ones will start distancing themselves from him real soon. Like I said, there is blood in the water and the sharks are circling. Whether they attack or not is the question right now.
Words: What do they mean?
Yes because communism is definitely when a multinational conglomerate opens retail locations to sell ice cream.
— bass4themasses (@bass4themasses) May 27, 2023
re: #14 nines09
Holy Fuck. A Molotov.
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Next county southwest of me.
Severe Thunderstorm Warning continues for Pine Bluffs WY, Burns WY and Bushnell NE until 6:15 PM MDT. This storm will contain wind gusts to 70 MPH! pic.twitter.com/Dt9imiwhj9
— NWS Cheyenne (@NWSCheyenne) May 27, 2023
re: #36 steve_davis
I’m tired of that thumping on 2 and 4 thing too, but I think this guy had an interesting approach in this one. Super heavy strings on that guitar, probably hurts to play.
T-storm chances continue tonight/tomorrow, with a threat for strong/severe storms. The primary threat this evening will be across the Panhandle, with the threat expanding eastward tomorrow. The main hazards with storms will be torrential rainfall, hail, and damaging winds. #NEwx pic.twitter.com/t6vaSxjFGb
— NWS North Platte (@NWSNorthPlatte) May 27, 2023
(Had to spend some time looking this up)
From threads _way_ back. Looks like Belafon called it early!
re: #14 Belafon
From yesterday:
Occasionally, even in Texas, things suddenly change.
re: #20 ckkatz
I would be
veryextremely happy to have been wrong!
Go ahead Texas, prove me wrong, I double dare you!
Okay Texas you proved me wrong once, you impeached Paxton.
But you’ll never convict him. Go ahead prove me wrong. I double-dog dare ya!
re: #41 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Words: What do they mean?
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“Ice cream, Mandrake! Children’s ice cream!”
re: #50 ckkatz
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(Well, to the grocery store anyway. bbiab.)
Will you be buying some commie ice cream, too?
Truth Social Has Until July 24 To Clean Up Its Act Or Close Up Shophttps://t.co/BYEtn6JWIr
— CoffeyTimeNews (@CoffeyTimeNews) May 26, 2023
Yes…Yes…Please Proceed…More Republicans In Disarray…
‘Club for No Growth’: Trump slams conservative advocacy group for supporting DeSantis
Donald Trump late Saturday leveled an attack against the “Club for Growth,” a conservative advocacy group that recently criticized the former president in an ad, for supporting Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis
Trump posted on Truth Social, his own social media platform that he created after being banned from most other platforms in the wake of his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection attempt, that the group is attempting to counter DeSantis’ own policy decisions.
“The very stupid, China loving ‘Club for No Growth,’ which has been backing Ron De Sanctimonious as his poll numbers have been absolutely CRASHING, has just spent some of the RINO money they have accumulated on an ad campaign hoping to counter the fact that Desanctus, just off the worst Presidential ‘Launch’ in history, opted three times to cut & destroy Social Security, even lifting the minimum age to 70,” Trump wrote. “He also voted to cut Medicare & institute a 23% National Sales Tax. Ron is a loser!”
It was previously reported that the war between Trump and the Club for Growth was threatening to undermine the Republican party’s plans for the 2024 election and that could blow up endorsement plans.
re: #51 A Three Hour Tour
Will you be buying some commie ice cream, too?
Ya know, that’s a good idea
Cherry Garcia ftw!
And also some creamsicles.
(Just finishing up listening to the Bellue article headliner piece. Very nice piece, btw. And thinking that I need to listen to some Gipsy King music for a reference.)
If Republican voters want to finish the job to dismantle the Deep State, reform the FBI, DOJ, & CIA, return power to the people, & win in 2024, why not unite behind Trump, raise $, organize grassroots to fight Dems, & stop wasting resources fighting each other?
— Rod Blagojevich (@realBlagojevich) May 27, 2023
We’re the next county in line to the east.
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— NWS Cheyenne (@NWSCheyenne) May 28, 2023
re: #56 gocart mozart
Convicted felon governor sez what?
re: #53 Joe Bacon ✅
Yes…Yes…Please Proceed…More Republicans In Disarray…
‘Club for No Growth’: Trump slams conservative advocacy group for supporting DeSantis
Donald Trump late Saturday leveled an attack against the “Club for Growth,” a conservative advocacy group that recently criticized the former president in an ad, for supporting Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis
Trump posted on Truth Social, his own social media platform that he created after being banned from most other platforms in the wake of his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection attempt, that the group is attempting to counter DeSantis’ own policy decisions.
“The very stupid, China loving ‘Club for No Growth,’ which has been backing Ron De Sanctimonious as his poll numbers have been absolutely CRASHING, has just spent some of the RINO money they have accumulated on an ad campaign hoping to counter the fact that Desanctus, just off the worst Presidential ‘Launch’ in history, opted three times to cut & destroy Social Security, even lifting the minimum age to 70,” Trump wrote. “He also voted to cut Medicare & institute a 23% National Sales Tax. Ron is a loser!”
It was previously reported that the war between Trump and the Club for Growth was threatening to undermine the Republican party’s plans for the 2024 election and that could blow up endorsement plans.
This is a taste of what would happen if Christians actually “won”, and I also feel that we will win if we hold on because they will destroy each other.
re: #47 GlutenFreeJesus
“They put their giant corporation’s communist stores” is doing a helluva leap there.
lol
100% he didn’t know “smoked salmon” meant it was cooked pic.twitter.com/qzqobC3nyG
— Gila Monster Mash (@therulingglass) May 27, 2023
re: #63 Backwoods Sleuth
lol
Also, grilled salmon is a delicious preparation, when properly seasoned.
re: #62 Unabogie
“They put their giant corporation’s communist stores” is doing a helluva leap there.
One of the many reasons real macro, micro & political economics should be required classes to graduate from High School. Along with civics, logic, critical thinking, debate & public speaking, real history, various liberal & fine arts as well as natural sciences and, arguably, math through introductory calculus.
Perhaps a sonnet on a current event or political topic as the final exam to graduate … ;)
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re: #64 Nerdy Fish
Also, grilled salmon is a delicious preparation, when properly seasoned.
I like baking it in parchment with a bit of sweet mango chutney and a veg like broccoli or asparagus.
re: #67 Backwoods Sleuth
I like baking it in parchment with a bit of sweet mango chutney and a veg like broccoli or asparagus.
That sounds good. Last time out, I grilled it on medium heat with parmesan-infused olive oil, lemon pepper, and Old Bay. It was amazing.
There is a deal!
It’s a platinum coin with Reagan’s face on it. pic.twitter.com/mNzL9jwAV1
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) May 28, 2023
re: #56 gocart mozart
Well, he was already a crook. I guess he’s no longer a Democrat. The Crook Party can have him.
re: #71 jaunte
Who will the next Speaker be?
That’s going to be a bloodbath. The crazies will demand it be one of their own, probably Margarine Tater-Greens, but nobody outside the Freedumb Caucus will ever vote for one of those drooling morons. That impasse could drag out for days, as McCarthy tries to hold himself out as the only reasonable option, and the various fucknuggets jockey for an ever-shrinking slice of the pie, until the chamber finally settles on some milquetoast white dude.
re: #73 Nerdy Fish
That’s going to be a bloodbath. The crazies will demand it be one of their own, probably Margarine Tater-Greens, but nobody outside the Freedumb Caucus will ever vote for one of those drooling morons. That impasse could drag out for days, as McCarthy tries to hold himself out as the only reasonable option, and the various fucknuggets jockey for an ever-shrinking slice of the pie, until the chamber finally settles on some milquetoast white dude.
But did McCarthy make a deal with the Democrats for them to vote for him to remain Speaker?
re: #63 Backwoods Sleuth
Subtweeting Elmo
It’s a banal point probably, but my problem with Succession boils down to making the super-rich interesting and compelling as characters, with tragic depths, instead of making them boring weirdos for whom huge wealth is functionally equivalent to a severe cognitive impairment
— Aaron Bady (@zunguzungu) May 27, 2023
re: #10 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
tRump must be fuming mad right now. The Texas Leg. just gave him a big F.U. and a middle finger in eye. I bet his (un)Truth Social will be blowing up with deranged rants real soon. Abbott is probably crapping his pants as well.
He’s been impeached; let’s see if he gets convicted. The modern GOP is nothing more than an organized crime family.
When that direct deposit hits pic.twitter.com/cK6qGqBm3F
— pourmecoffee (@pourmecoffee) May 28, 2023
WaPo ping: Joe and the R’s have an agreement in principle.
There may be a paywall for the article.
People used to tell me I was too fucking nice, but that seems to happen a lot less as I grow older.
re: #80 PhillyPretzel ✅
There may be a paywall for the article.
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President Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) reached an “agreement in principle” to raise the debt ceiling and slash federal spending, clinching a critical first step toward preventing a government default that could be nine days away.
While the full details of the agreement are not yet clear, it offers Congress a roadmap for averting a fiscal crisis, according to two people familiar with the matter, who requested anonymity to describe the sensitive talks.
Much of the emerging deal is expected to reflect Republicans’ initial demands after party lawmakers assumed control of the House in January and plotted a strategy to leverage the debt ceiling to achieve their policy agenda — ignoring repeated warnings that their brinkmanship could plunge the country into a recession.
In the hours before Biden and McCarthy unveiled their plan, however, some Democrats and Republicans already had started to condemn its size and scope — underscoring the difficult task the two leaders face to muscle legislation through the pitfall-prone, narrowly divided House and Senate with roughly a week to spare.
Conservatives on Saturday appeared on the verge of revolt, with some faulting McCarthy for failing to extract the same level of spending cuts that the GOP-led House adopted last month with no Democratic support. On Saturday, the far-right House Freedom Caucus tweeted that the initial reports of the deal were “unacceptable,” and one member — Rep. Dan Bishop (R-N.C.) — predicted it could mean “war.”
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Twitter’s $42,000-per-Month API Prices Out Nearly Everyone
Tiers will start at $500,000 a year for access to 0.3 percent of the company’s tweets. Researchers say that’s too much for too little data.
Blackburn*, however, says researchers will continue to find a way to scrutinize what’s happening on Twitter. “We’ve been mostly cut off from Facebook for years and we’ve continued to make progress,” he says. “It’s not like science is going to be held hostage by a guy that played himself into burning $44 billion on a website that makes no money, just so he could force all its users to read his shitposts.”
*Jeremy Blackburn, assistant professor at Binghamton University in New York.
wired.com
The White House and House of Representatives have reached an agreement in debt ceiling talks, avoiding national default.
The New York Times reported three people familiar with the negotiations confirmed Saturday that a deal had been reached after months of contentious partisan negotiations.
Two additional sources confirmed to Reuters that negotiators agreed to cap non-defense discretionary spending at 2023 levels for two years in exchange for a debt ceiling increase over a similar period.
The agreement helps steer the country away from a catastrophic debt default.
re: #85 Joe Bacon ✅
Not having to manage the economy through a debt default means the administration can continue its success in building infrastructure/jobs for the next two years, which is a defeat for the anti-American GOP.
re: #85 Joe Bacon ✅
The White House and House of Representatives have reached an agreement in debt ceiling talks, avoiding national default.
The New York Times reported three people familiar with the negotiations confirmed Saturday that a deal had been reached after months of contentious partisan negotiations.
Two additional sources confirmed to Reuters that negotiators agreed to cap non-defense discretionary spending at 2023 levels for two years in exchange for a debt ceiling increase over a similar period.
The agreement helps steer the country away from a catastrophic debt default.
That is a good deal which will have the Freedumb Caucus howling mad.
It’s not revealed yet exactly what President Biden and Speaker McCarthy agreed to, but it seems that Democrats voting to support him if the wingnuts try to take him out would be one of the requirements.
If that’s what’s happened, McCarthy will have given the last of his power away in the attempt to grasp full power as Speaker.
That means Democratic bills can advance to a vote (though that doesn’t mean they’ll pass), and if they’re blocked, Democrats simply withdraw support and the wingnuts take him out.
re: #88 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
It’s not revealed yet exactly what President Biden and Speaker McCarthy agreed to, but it seems that Democrats voting to support him if the wingnuts try to take him out would be one of the requirements.
If that’s what’s happened, McCarthy will have given the last of his power away in the attempt to grasp full power as Speaker.
That means Democratic bills can advance to a vote (though that doesn’t mean they’ll pass), and if they’re blocked, Democrats simply withdraw support and the wingnuts take him out.
Republicans in disarray!
re: #84 jaunte
Twitter’s $42,000-per-Month API Prices Out Nearly Everyone
Tiers will start at $500,000 a year for access to 0.3 percent of the company’s tweets. Researchers say that’s too much for too little data.
People thought that $42,000/mo charge was a hoax when I first posted it here, but nope. No hoax.
re: #91 Charles Johnson
Do you think he seriously thinks he’ll get organizations to pay that, or is this just another device to kill Twitter faster?
Negotiators agreed to some Republican demands for enhanced work requirements on recipients of food stamps
re: #91 Charles Johnson
People thought that $42,000/mo charge was a hoax when I first posted it here, but nope. No hoax.
And the amount Elmo wants for that access is no accident either, I’m sure… it’s a “fuck you, go away” price.
That, and it fucking has a 420 reference in it, the fuckhead.
0.3 percent of the dataset for $500,000 a year is insane.
re: #92 jaunte
Elon Musk is a very bad human being with way too much power and money. He’s our Caligula.
re: #96 Nerdy Fish
Fucking hell.
Elections have consequences. If the Democrats had held just five more House seats, compromise with the GOP wouldn’t be necessary.
re: #99 No Malarkey!
Elections have consequences. If the Democrats had held just five more House seats, compromise with the GOP wouldn’t be necessary.
AND if we had picked up just one more Senate seat we could have told Boris and Natasha to fuck off.
re: #93 No Malarkey!
I hope they thought of a workaround for “work requirements” / GOP Hunger Games.
“This is a party that added $7.8 trillion in one single term under Trump to our debt.
They let him spend over $100 million on personal golf trips to Mar-a-Lago and now they want to blame Meals on Wheels feeding our seniors for the deficit?
No. I think that’s ridiculous.” pic.twitter.com/N82QZRGcIX— Kaivan Shroff (@KaivanShroff) May 27, 2023
This only solidifies my decision to retire next year.
re: #72 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Well, he was already a crook. I guess he’s no longer a Democrat. The Crook Party can have him.
Blagoyevich is an imbecile; his attempt to sell the Senate seat was not to enrich himself but to help fund his campaigns. He is a true moron.
re: #73 Nerdy Fish
That’s going to be a bloodbath. The crazies will demand it be one of their own, probably Margarine Tater-Greens, but nobody outside the Freedumb Caucus will ever vote for one of those drooling morons. That impasse could drag out for days, as McCarthy tries to hold himself out as the only reasonable option, and the various fucknuggets jockey for an ever-shrinking slice of the pie, until the chamber finally settles on some milquetoast white dude.
The racist Scalise? Or could the Democrats save McCarthy?
Here comes the storm line. Lots of lightning.
Severe Thunderstorm Warning including Kimball NE, Dix NE and Bushnell NE until 7:30 PM MDT pic.twitter.com/PMVnpAii19
— NWS Cheyenne (@NWSCheyenne) May 28, 2023
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— NWS Cheyenne (@NWSCheyenne) May 28, 2023
re: #101 jaunte
I hope they thought of a workaround for “work requirements” / GOP Hunger Games.
There will be more red tape for hungry people, and some people will lose benefits they need and suffer as a result, but the GOP doesn’t care. Unfortunately, the threat of throwing the nation into a recession and millions of people losing their jobs is too great a risk to take.
“…McCarthy, who dashed out before the lunch hour Saturday and arrived back at the Capitol with a big box of takeout, declined to elaborate on those discussions. One of his negotiators, Louisiana Rep. Garret Graves, said there was “not a chance” that Republicans might relent on the work requirements issue.
thegrio.com
Make sure you’re well-fed while taking food away from hungry people.
re: #106 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Be careful and stay safe.
MORE … WHAT DEMS ARE SAYING: The deal keeps non-defense spending at around FY2023 levels. No budget caps after 2025.
— Andrew Desiderio (@AndrewDesiderio) May 28, 2023
re: #98 Charles Johnson
Elon Musk is a very bad human being with way too much power and money. He’s our Caligula.
there’s even a horse.
re: #82 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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Much of the emerging deal is expected to reflect Republicans’ initial demands after party lawmakers assumed control of the House in January and plotted a strategy to leverage the debt ceiling to achieve their policy agenda — ignoring repeated warnings that their brinkmanship could plunge the country into a recession.
(more)…..
I hope that the deal doesn’t come across as one-sided BUT given all their subsequent demands (and their continuing to move the goal posts) they may claim that a GOP deal is a compromise.
re: #110 jaunte
Tbh, this feels like a win for Dems. There was always going to be some pain in the non-defence spending space, but this is discomfort rather than agony.
— DHinrio (@DHinrio) May 28, 2023
And in 2025 the GOP holds the country hostage again.
re: #113 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
And in 2025 the GOP holds the country hostage again.
No, think positive. In 2025, the Democratic majority abolishes the debt limit altogether, along with all the other bullshit that got pushed through as part of this deal.
re: #113 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
And in 2025 the GOP holds the country hostage again.
Not if the Democrats win the House and retain the Senate and the White House. That should be our goal.
re: #113 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Tbh, this feels like a win for Dems. There was always going to be some pain in the non-defence spending space, but this is discomfort rather than agony.
— DHinrio (@DHinrio) May 28, 2023
And in 2025 the GOP holds the country hostage again.
Hope the report turns out to be true and that we are basically saved till the 2024 election. The Democrats must make an nationwide effort to demonize the GOP as the party of rich sociopaths so that we can retake the House, keep the Presidency, and (against all odds) expand our control of the Senate by 1 or 2 seats.
re: #98 Charles Johnson
Elon Musk is a very bad human being with way too much power and money. He’s our Caligula.
Too much credit.
He’s another Falstaff. They’re all Falstaffs; a wheezing chortle of Falstaffs.
re: #113 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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And in 2025 the GOP holds the country hostage again.
If Democrats had accepted everything from Republicans, that statement would still be true. If Democrats won everything, that would still be true.
There are no consequences for Republicans in office until late 2024.
Germany cracks down on far right with raids as hate crimes rise
Multiple criminal investigations are ongoing into a small but potentially dangerous group of far-right Reichsbürger extremists who allegedly plotted to overthrow the government and install an obscure hereditary prince, inspired by a florid mixture of right-wing conspiracy theories.
The country’s domestic intelligence service, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (known by the German abbreviation BfV), has designated the youth wing of the the Alternative for Germany, or AfD, as extremist.
A decade after it was founded as a more conventional party critical of the European Union and integration, the far-right AfD is now firmly a part of the Germany political landscape. An opinion poll from German public broadcaster ZDF on Friday gave it 17% of the national vote — enough to become the third-strongest party in the country.
re: #115 No Malarkey!
Not if the Democrats win the House and retain the Senate and the White House. That should be our goal.
Even then, they would have to abolish the filibuster, and I bet they can’t. Dammit.
I’m waiting to see the full details hoping that they are not cutting Civil Service pensions as they did when Obama surrendered in 2011.
re: #121 retired cynic
Even then, they would have to abolish the filibuster, and I bet they can’t. Dammit.
Sinema is not going to be re-elected. She has torpedoed her own brand so hard, her only hope is to take the party in Arizona down with her. Manchin is not exactly cruising down Easy Street either, but he’s far more likely to be replaced with a Republican, so that’s a loss. However, with those two obstructionists out of the way, if the Democratic Party can hold a majority in the Senate, they make the rules, and they absolutely can AND WILL abolish the filibuster.
RIP George Maharis. Remember him in Route 66.
George Maharis, the handsome star of “Route 66” who left the series at the peak of its popularity, died Wednesday, May 24, at 94.
His friend and caretaker Marc Bahan confirmed the actor’s death on Facebook Saturday.
re: #125 jeffreyw
Mom always used Contadina Tomato paste when making her Sloppy Joes along with lots of diced onions and green peppers.
re: #124 Nerdy Fish
if the Democratic Party can hold a majority in the Senate, they make the rules, and they absolutely can AND WILL abolish the filibuster.
At which point they make DC a State, and maybe Puerto Rico. Then let’s talk about expanding the Supreme Court; we can’t do it all at once, if they’re going to go to 13 (to match the number of appellate districts) it’ll have to be add one in each presidential term until they get to that.
re: #128 sagehen
At which point they make DC a State, and maybe Puerto Rico. Then let’s talk about expanding the Supreme Court; we can’t do it all at once, if they’re going to go to 13 (to match the number of appellate districts) it’ll have to be add one in each presidential term until they get to that.
I mean, it doesn’t have to be done that way. Look at Minnesota; we got literally ALL the progressive agenda done, in one fell swoop, with the thinnest of majorities. I think, at a minimum, abolishing the filibuster, statehood for DC and Puerto Rico, and fixing the size of SCOTUS to the number of districts in the US federal court system are easily in the bag.
re: #48 ckkatz
(Had to spend some time looking this up)
From threads _way_ back. Looks like Belafon called it early!Okay Texas you proved me wrong once, you impeached Paxton.
But you’ll never convict him. Go ahead prove me wrong. I double-dog dare ya!
Nothing in nature changes faster than a society ready for change.
re: #119 Joe Bacon ✅
Interesting story! I would have thought that Sloppy Joe’s had been popularized earlier than the 1930’s. That is well within my parent’s lifetime.
I had not heard of “Loose Meat Sandwich” before.
Also, looks like her hotplate is an Ovenete Infrared Burner. Not heard of those before, either.
Thanks for posting!
re: #129 Nerdy Fish
I mean, it doesn’t have to be done that way. Look at Minnesota; we got literally ALL the progressive agenda done, in one fell swoop, with the thinnest of majorities. I think, at a minimum, abolishing the filibuster, statehood for DC and Puerto Rico, and fixing the size of SCOTUS to the number of districts in the US federal court system are easily in the bag.
I like the way you think and with you all the way.
re: #132 Semper Fi
I like the way you think and with you all the way.
As a Minnesotan who is proud of what our legislature accomplished this year with the razor-thin Senate margin, I have some room for optimism. It doesn’t have to all be doom and gloom all the time.
re: #130 silverdolphin
Nothing in nature changes faster than a society ready for change.
Very true.
Hemingway once observed (albeit regarding bankruptcy) “Gradually then suddenly”.
I do hope that enough folks are finally tired of Republican lawlessness.
On the other side of my county now. Standing by to lose my Internet service.
Severe Thunderstorm Warning including Perrin NE until 8:45 PM MDT pic.twitter.com/uRO5BpfR4l
— NWS Cheyenne (@NWSCheyenne) May 28, 2023
The replies to McCarthy’s tweets tonight from the MAGA crowd are as unhinged as you might expect.
— Tim Fullerton (@TimFullerton) May 28, 2023
re: #133 Nerdy Fish
As a Minnesotan who is proud of what our legislature accomplished this year with the razor-thin Senate margin, I have some room for optimism. It doesn’t have to all be doom and gloom all the time.
Your state Constitution isn’t the flawed document of our Constitution.
re: #127 Joe Bacon ✅
Mom always used Contadina Tomato paste when making her Sloppy Joes along with lots of diced onions and green peppers.
ketchup, sweet baby ray’s, onions, peppers, etc
re: #106 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Here comes the storm line. Lots of lightning.
As ideal as the kite flying wind may be, I’d advise against such an activity.
re: #138 jeffreyw
One thing I remember when Mom made spaghetti sauce is that she used the Contadina tomato paste and she mixed in a pint jar of applesauce with it along with diced green peppers and onions. Then she put in a bit of celery salt, oregano and a bit of nutmeg.
Sure tasted better than Ragu or Prego.
re: #115 jaunte
March 22, 2023
From last thread-
Sounds like Tipsord is RIF’ing/Retrenching the company.
I wonder if the rapidly changing and unstable legal and governance framework is the reason. Or if it is the rapidly changing and unstable climate. Or maybe California limits the amounts that insurance companies can soak customers.
From the wiki -
Since Tipsord became CEO, State Farm has gone from nearly 70,000 employees to 53,586 employees in 2021.Since 2015, numerous locations have been closed. Five more office centers are slated to close in 2020 and 2021.
re: #85 Joe Bacon ✅
The White House and House of Representatives have reached an agreement in debt ceiling talks, avoiding national default.
The New York Times reported three people familiar with the negotiations confirmed Saturday that a deal had been reached after months of contentious partisan negotiations.
Two additional sources confirmed to Reuters that negotiators agreed to cap non-defense discretionary spending at 2023 levels for two years in exchange for a debt ceiling increase over a similar period.
The agreement helps steer the country away from a catastrophic debt default.
This is what I hoped would happen, if true. Take the debt ceiling off the table until after the election. And remove the budget hostage taking that could shut down the government. For that, what I have heard is they get back some 100s of millions of COVID money whicj has not been spent.
re: #141 ckkatz
State Farm has gone from nearly 70,000 employees to 53,586 employees
Alexa will now be calling to deny your first claim.
Specific funding levels:
o $886B for defense (3% increase)
o $121B for veterans’ medical care
o $637B for other non-defense programs, (roughly equal to 2023)— Sam Stein (@samstein) May 28, 2023
re: #115 No Malarkey!
Not if the Democrats win the House and retain the Senate and the White House. That should be our goal.
You may call me a dreamer. But I think there is a path to an historic shift in power in the House and Senate as we move the Overton Window to the left.
re: #143 jaunte
Alexa will now be calling to deny your first claim.
I suddenly realized that the first commercial application of AI is likely going to be to deny home and medical insurance benefits.
A crapton of people are defending Apartheid Clyde’s Nazi tweet.
re: #136 jaunte
The best part of this deal is that it will throw the fascists into a frothing rage.
re: #119 Joe Bacon ✅
The Origin of the Sloppy Joe.
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re: #125 jeffreyw
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It took decades, but I finally cottoned to the fact that hot dog buns are superior to hamburger buns for sloppy joes; hot dog buns are perfect to keep all of the filling in the bun, not on the plate (or your hands or your shirt).
The grief I experienced and witnessed yesterday at Nick’s memorial service was a little overwhelming. Plenty of open sobbing. Not one speaker could keep their composure at the dais.
re: #148 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
A crapton of people are defending Apartheid Clyde’s Nazi tweet.
That would be because a crapton of people seem to think that accruing billions of dollars of wealth somehow makes one virtuous, because God only blesses those who are righteous, or some such bullshit.
re: #146 silverdolphin
You may call me a dreamer. But I think there is a path to an historic shift in power in the House and Senate as we move the Overton Window to the left.
Nothing would make me happier.
re: #142 silverdolphin
My assumption is that one unstated part of the agreement is that the Democrats will provide enough support to ensure that the agreement passes and that McCarthy survives for some period long enough to pass the agreement.
At which point the Republicans are going to try and see how much dissatisfaction and blame they can paint onto the Democrats.
McConnell seemed to hint as much last week. Where, iirc, he said that while he would not oppose such an agreement, but that the Democrats would own it.
re: #148 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
A crapton of people are defending Apartheid Clyde’s Nazi tweet.
To think Elon blew over $20 billion just to make a bunch of new Nazi friends.
Aaaaand that’s a block.
— RadicalOldWoman (@RadicalOldWoman) May 28, 2023
re: #152 Nerdy Fish
That would be because a crapton of people seem to think that accruing billions of dollars of wealth somehow makes one virtuous, because God only blesses those who are righteous, or some such bullshit.
The John Knox variant of the Calvinist Heresy is built on that bit of evil.
re: #155 No Malarkey!
To think Elon blew over $20 billion just to make a bunch of new Nazi friends.
You think they’re new? I think he blew $20B+ because he already had a bunch of those friends, and this was the only way he could think to help them.
re: #157 William Lewis
The John Knox variant of the Calvinist Heresy is built on that bit of evil.
The age-old Prosperity Gospel, “God blesses those who pay a metric fuck-ton of money to the Church,” except somehow bizarrely reversed.
re: #141 ckkatz
From last thread-
Sounds like Tipsord is RIF’ing/Retrenching the company.
I wonder if the rapidly changing and unstable legal and governance framework is the reason. Or if it is the rapidly changing and unstable climate. Or maybe California limits the amounts that insurance companies can soak customers.
For the same reason federal underwriting is the only way anybody can get hurricane and/or flooding insurance in Florida.
It used to be that x% of homes would put in claims each year, now it’s 2x or 3x or 4x. And the price of real estate going up as it has, that’s truckloads of money. The only way an insurance company can make money on this is if your annual premiums are 15% of the value of your home.
re: #159 Nerdy Fish
The age-old Prosperity Gospel, “God blesses those who pay a metric fuck-ton of money to the Church,” except somehow bizarrely reversed.
And yet I remember a Bible story about how a poor woman who gave all she had, little though it was, was more blessed than the rich man who gave more.
re: #161 No Malarkey!
And yet I remember a Bible story about how a poor woman who gave all she had, little though it was, was more blessed than the rich man who gave more.
One of my favorite passages, and one which is written out of the Prosperity Gospel because it doesn’t align with their preconceived notions.
re: #132 Semper Fi
I like the way you think and with you all the way.
I’m with this agenda and think it is quite possible. We need to keep the pressure up on the stupidity of the GOP.
re: #149 No Malarkey!
The best part of this deal is that it will throw the fascists into a frothing rage.
We shall see. So far MTG is very happy over the CDC COVID clawback.
re: #164 silverdolphin
We shall see. So far MTG is very happy over the CDC COVID clawback.
I missed the clawback part. What was that?
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re: #164 silverdolphin
We shall see. So far MTG is very happy over the CDC COVID clawback.
She has chosen to align herself closely with McCarthy for power. If you remember her and Boebert had a big falling out over that. I expect a lot of Freedumb Caucus members are going to be very upset.
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