Originally published at: Performative Austerity Vanishes As GOP Flees Town Before Trump’s Dictator-Style Parade - TPM – Talking Points Memo
Hardly any Republicans in the Senate want to be caught dead at President Trump’s big boy parade this weekend. The two most powerful Republicans in Congress — House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) — are not going to come. Johnson’s office claims he has other plans, Thune’s office says…
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“I don’t like spending on anything, but if you’re going to splurge on something, this is probably not a bad thing,” Johnson told WSJ this week.
RoJo puts in the hard work to maintain his reputation as the stupidest person in the Senate.
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Austerity
"I could end the deficit in five minutes,” Warren Buffett told CNBC’s Becky Quick in a 2011 interview. “You just pass a law that says that any time there’s a deficit of more than 3% of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible for re-election.”
Like Elon, I support it too.
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Elon Musk
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I regret some of my posts about President
last week. They went too far.
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Omg talk about low energy. He makes Jeb Bush look like a speed freak.
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I took Valentine in to be neutered on Monday, this is him recuperating the next evening. Somehow I think the wrong creature might have had their balls cut off this week…
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“Trump and the world’s richest man actually spoke on the phone late on Monday night“
Ending the Russia-Ukraine war. Nope
Ending the Gaza War. Nope.
End the Trump-Musk war. Easy peasy.
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I was going to ask you about that when you posted the below photo of Valentine over the weekend.
…but I didn’t want to sound like I was scolding you 
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Actually that is Kombo Kat, and his procedure is set for this coming Monday. And they will be rarities here in Punta Gorda, most people here don’t get their pets neutered. The results of course are damn near catastrophic with stray dogs and cats everywhere. Valentine and KK are both rescues, I found Val tied inside a potato sack at the bottom of a huge pile of garbage back in February. Poor little thing was screaming for his life and fortunately I heard him in time. Kombo Kat was a feral kitten who appeared outside my cabin here one night, took me a day or so to coax him inside. And he’s shown no interest in going back out that door since. This is Kombo in his entirety …
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It is 100% carrying water for the opposition to participate in this collective delusion that Dems for some reason need to answer for every teen who throws a rock rather than hold the Trump admin accountable for intentionally creating chaos and breaking the law to stoke violence.
Corallary: Democrat should not need to answer for the opinions of every Democrat. My opinion that there should be no limits on immigration should not be something the Democrats have to defend. It’s my opinion, not theirs. Furthermore, my opinion is that violence against ICE, in the effort to protect lives, and interfere with their ability to commit crimes against humanity, is justified. This opinion of mine should not require Democrats to defend me, or even condemn me. They can ignore me, and still work with me when it comes to forming a coalition to stop Trump.
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One of the most dependable formulations in political commentary is that Democrats are responsible for everyone vaguely, even just aesthetically, associated with the left, while Republican politicians can directly fraternize with neo-Nazis and still claim ideological distance.
Riga nails it again
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There needs to be red state billboards with a photo of a bad road or school building and
$45 MILLION WOULD HAVE FIXED OUR TOWN
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Thank you for neutering your cat.
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The forecast from what remains of the soon to be demolished National Weather Service predicts rain on the big Dictator Parade. However, count on it: it won’t happen, and the worshipping minions will claim it was due to “divine intervention” in support of the new Messiah. Kind of like the bullets missing him.
That’s just how things have been going.
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Still, I wish he could have worked another Epstein reference into his apology.
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Cute little bugger, too.
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He’ll be able to kick back once Tuberville is elected Goobernator of Alabama.
Bless you, Reverend Jim. Six of my cats were either rescued directly or obtained from Animal Control; the 7th was a gift from a friend’s litter.
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Which posts does he regret? Inquiring minds and all that . . .
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I regret saying I saw the President having unnatural relations with a farm animal
last Sunday morning. It was actually somewhat after 1 pm.
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