Originally published at: Republicans Pass Trump’s Rescissions Package, Blindly Letting Exec Branch Claw Back Billions
House Republicans passed President Donald Trump’s $9 billion rescissions package Thursday night after Senate Republicans made minor changes to the bill. The package — which passed on a largely party line 216-213 vote — effectively authorizes actions the White House has already taken to claw back billions in foreign aid and public media funding that…
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Insanity reigns……
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And this is a complete surprise to absolutely no one!
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Trump’s Team Tried to Kill Report on Salacious Letter to Epstein
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The Wall Street Journal, and Rupert Murdoch, personally, were warned directly by President Donald J. Trump that the supposed letter they printed by President Trump to Epstein was a FAKE and, if they print it, they will be sued. Mr. Murdoch stated that he would take care of it but, obviously, did not have the power to do so. The Editor of The Wall Street Journal, Emma Tucker, was told directly by Karoline Leavitt, and by President Trump, that the letter was a FAKE, but Emma Tucker didn’t want to hear that. Instead, they are going with a false, malicious, and defamatory story anyway. President Trump will be suing The Wall Street Journal, NewsCorp, and Mr. Murdoch, shortly. The Press has to learn to be truthful, and not rely on sources that probably don’t even exist. President Trump has already beaten George Stephanopoulos/ABC, 60 Minutes/CBS, and others, and looks forward to suing and holding accountable the once great Wall Street Journal. It has truly turned out to be a “Disgusting and Filthy Rag” and, writing defamatory lies like this, shows their desperation to remain relevant. If there were any truth at all on the Epstein Hoax, as it pertains to President Trump, this information would have been revealed by Comey, Brennan, Crooked Hillary, and other Radical Left Lunatics years ago. It certainly would not have sat in a file waiting for “TRUMP” to have won three Elections. This is yet another example of FAKE NEWS!
Trump will sue the WSJ, directs Bondi to unseal Epstein material - POLITICO
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Critic’s Notebook: The Awful Optics of CBS Canceling ‘The Late Show With Stephen Colbert’
Stephen Colbert’s ‘Late Show’ canceled by CBS, ends May 2026
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The ”empty suit” continues to hollow out America.
It is only about a two minute read:
It is Jack Hopkins so you know it’s got some meat to it.
…here’s the raw truth: The human mind is built to conserve energy. And despair is efficient. It tells you to shut down. Quit. Freeze. Numb out.
Hope? That burns fuel.
It requires risk. It demands courage. It feels ridiculous.
And it’s your only shot
Let’s clear this up right now
Hope is not some fairy dust you sprinkle on your pain.
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as well as the lack of clarity from the White House and the Office of Management and Budget on where exactly the cuts in the request would come from.
Taxpayers have a right to know where money is going and where it’s not going if it was supposed to be going earlier. This is a particularly horrific development, with the GOP increasingly docile and rubber-stamping like Putin’s United Russia party. Russia’s federal budget has become extremely opaque as the Ukraine war has worn on, making it almost impossible for outsiders to figure out where the money is coming from and where it’s going (legit uses vs. corrupt diversions of money). Because of war losses and emigration, Russia has also ceased to publish census figures, opening the floodgates for hanky-panky at the regional level through population under- or over-estimates. But thankfully the GOP has not gone full United Russia yet, probably.
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When I told Dear Hubby (who was travelling the last two days back to St. Paul, MN) that this had happened, he asked me where the money that was being clawed back was going to go.
I honestly couldn’t tell him. I suspect it will line some contributors’ pockets, but there is no indication of where this will go instead (maybe to ICE and DHS and DOJ???).
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Stephen will be just fine - he’ll get another gig if he wants one. He just turned 61 and is probably comfortable enough to retire early.
What I question is what CBS will put on in its place to placate the First Felon.
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I’d almost guess that they’re turning it all into an executive branch slush fund.
Like DHS FEMA monies are alleged to have been redirected to finance ICE.
Clearly, it’s not what anyone envisioned in budgeting the government.
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Still more important…Hakeem Jefferies alluded to the point that if the majority can nullify outlays they disagree with as soon as the ink is dry on a budget, what incentive is there for the minority to negotiate?
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Is there a perfectly good and innocent explanation that the liberals on this forum are missing? Was he spreading the word of our lord among the pedophiles? Were they eating the cats, he was rescuing kittens, and deporting the evil eaters? He has aced many IQ exams at Walter Reed. Was he doing pelvic exams and puberty checks as a social service? Was he the camp nurse checking for lice?
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I did not have “Wall Street Journal takes fiercest stand against 47” on my politics bingo card.
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A country that loves to screech how tough it is. A country that swears “don’t tread on me” is the nation’s true motto. A country that can’t pass a school without having kids shot up with “price of freedom” shrugs.
A country that’s collapsed faster than the Afghan army. What a fucking joke.
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I need help you all. I screwed up big time. While cleaning cookies on my laptop, I accidentally deleted my tpm cookies and loss my access. Phone & desktop are fine of course, but want to fix this on the laptop and have no idea how.
I tried to email tech support but no response in 2 days, tried to email josh but that came back as not delivered.
I used josh@talkingpointsmemo.com.
Sigh…hate it when I do something stupid.
Any ideas?
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The WSJ can clean Trump’s clock if he sues. Discovery in this libel case will blow up in Trump’s patriotic clown face.
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“He who sweats more in training bleeds less in war.”
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So, the Republicans balk at cutting $400 million of funding to prevent AIDS overseas — presumably over humanitarian concerns — but are OK with cutting $800 billion in Medicaid funding? What happened to America First?
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It morphed into Billionaires First, and somehow MAGA is okay with that.
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False claim. Trump was NOT “president” when he sent Jeffy his “bawdy” love letter. If the lawsuit against Murdoch’s WSJ uses this phrasing, it ought to be thrown out on arrival.
Yeah, I know. That shows how little I know about the US legal system.
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