Senate GOP Sorts Out Which Poison Pills It Can Swallow To Pass House’s 'Big Beautiful' Bill

[paulw]

Did those helmets ever have any practical use?

[irasdad]

Only in extremely intimate settings.

(Often involving mood music.)

[lanabill]

If I was in close quarters fighting w/o firearms I’d like a spike on my helmet. (Town hall meetings, for example.)

[claimsadjuster]

It provides an advantage to the helmet wearer when “butting heads”.

[claimsadjuster]

Extra points if you can name that tune.

[tiowally]

Meanwhile Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), who recently announced a gubernatorial bid in his state

Which one? Alabama or Florida, where he lives on the Redneck Riviera?

[shorebreeze]

There is so much poison in the bill. Literally.

Like the grant of mining leases on federal land IN PERPETUITY to copper-nickel mining companies in northern Minnesota in the Boundary Waters watershed.

There is one corrupt giveaway after another in this bill and it’s designed to be irreversible.

[tao]

@ronbyers

@tao

All of the lunacy that motivates maga is taught in red state schools.

I would like some evidence supporting that claim. As the relative of several red state teachers I arm pretty sure they aren’t actively teaching the lunacy that motivates MAGA. People are learning that lunacy through their local television sets, and churches. Don’t blame the teachers. They are not paid enough to be responsible for that level of evil.

Fair question. I’m thinking of Texas school books, library censors, and strip mall charter schools that exclude challenged children so as to overburden public schools with special needs kids. Local school boards obviously have great influence. This is all very squishy sociology I admit.

Moving on to higher education, it looks like there is a concerted effort to squelch science and free thought. Only ideas that align with Dear Leader’s Brain Farts of the Day are acceptable.

[lommi]

Never write “way in which”. Orwell is rotating in his grave.