Originally published at: House GOPers Claim Bill Will ‘Eventually’ Pass After Trump Bullying. But Not Everything Is ‘Hunky Dory’
President Donald Trump attended the closed-door House Republican conference meeting Tuesday morning in an attempt to convince two obstinate factions to get on board with the party’s reconciliation package. One group of members has been calling for steeper spending cuts; another group of largely blue-state Republicans has been unhappy with leadership’s state and local tax…
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What I wouldn’t give to hear what this addled pile actually said in that room. These lickspittles saying it was “one of the best speeches” they’d ever heard tells you everything you need to know, about the speech and them.
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Frim the Guardian…
Trump announces $25bn in funding for Golden Dome missile defense project – US politics live
Funding for Trump’s missile defense shield idea to protect the US from long-range strikes included in tax bill facing opposition from some Republicans
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More money ripped from the poor so rich can wallow in excess
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So we have the cruel faction of the fascist party versus the really cruel faction, in a contest to see who can inflict the most pain on the most people.
It’s lose/lose for all of us who aren’t rich.
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Trump directed the Saudis, “Don’t touch Khashoggi,” reflecting the popularity of the journalist whose stories were a regular in the Washington Post.
“Leave him alone unless we’re talking about limbs and digits. He really doesn’t need those, and they’re basically fraud and waste.”
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“I would say the President’s message, fundamentally, is quit monkeying around … we have got to deliver this for the American people,” Johnson told reporters, adding that “there were a lot of nodding heads in that room.”
“Many people were saying …”
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“Don’t fuck around with Medicaid,” Trump reportedly told House Republicans, in an effort to get them to pass a bill that fucks around majorly with Medicaid.
And there’s no one within a million miles of Trump to point out that he, and the entire Republican party, are totally odds…with themselves. Trump is crashing the car into a tree while the GOP passengers are competing at shouting “you are the greatest driver ever! sir.”
Sadly, we’re all in the car too.
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He is such a class act, isn’t he.
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And when this bill passes, they fucked around with Medicaid, then they shall learn what protests really look like. The “they” will be every Republican except DonOLD.
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Lawler won his 2024 race 52-46 (with 2% going to the Working Families Party Candidate). That’s “a lot” only for those who consider Trump’s 2024 victory a “landslide.”
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The way to leave Medicaid alone is to tax the rich a modest amount. But that would never happen… too logical
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St. Ronald of the Laffer Curve turned us away from taxing the rich and the country has transferred more and more of its wealth to them consistently since then.
Oh, was that too class warfarey?
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Bullying is Donnie’s MO. Cadet Bone Spurs is, in actuality, an insecure coward.
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Woulda been a total fail in the military
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I thought I heard one of those republicans say they were seriously investigating Jill Biden for abusing her husband. Elder abuse, they said.
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Ok
Taking a break for physical therapy. Back after that…
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And, now he is Commander in Chief in charge of the nuclear codes. Horrifying!
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Severe diarrhea creates movement as well. Maybe they’ve taken to drinking untreated water, per RFK Jr’s sage advice.
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Someday they’ll be asked to provide evidence of all the waste, fraud, and abuse they claim. And on that day, pigs will also fly!
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Norman has recently been fitted with a cochlear implant and had before this been profoundly deaf.
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