Originally published at: The Rollercoaster Over When To Force Congress To Write DOGE Cuts Into Law Continues - TPM – Talking Points Memo
On the same day that the clip of Elon Musk trashing House Republicans’ “big, beautiful” bill has been making the rounds, Politico is reporting that the White House has picked back up its effort to force congressional Republicans to choke down some of the DOGE cuts. In a clip of a CBS News interview the…
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Republicans: More debt!
Republicans: No! Lots more debt!!
Republicans: More debt AND tax cuts for the affluent!!!
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a “unique organization of patriots who are military combat veterans with special operations experience, former law enforcement, elected officials and intelligence professionals.”
Our taxes taught them their skills.
Beware those who boast of their patriotism and clam up about our liberty.
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I’ll be hitting 70 later this year ( hopefully )and have clear memories of the stories that came out of the old Soviet Union. One was the KGB tactic of getting neighbors pitted against each other. They didn’t actually need to recruit anyone to spy on their neighbors, just give the impression that had. It made people paranoid and suspicious of each other and kept them watching each other instead of watching what their government was doing. That class in Portage County sounds a lot like that, I wonder if the class ever really existed. Maybe it was enough just to get people wondering and suspicious of each others activities. That’s how far things things have gone in just a few months.
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Woohoo. Northeastern Ohio opens a real higher-education enterprise – one suitable for this wonderful moment, heralding Trump’s Golden Sage to come. Stasi training! Come and get it! Here in the home of the Goodyear blimp and the birthplace of Lebron James, that traitor n-word who didn’t give his entire career to the Cleveland Cavaliers, which he owed to us Buckeyes for everything we gave him.
"The description of the training is unnerving: it is supposedly designed to help teach “communities to identify individuals and organizations hostile to liberty and creatively and lawfully flush them out,” according to a copy of the flyer that was published by WKYC, a local NBC affiliate.
"The event is called an “Into Action class” and, it appears, will be hosted by a something called an Allied Special Intelligence Group. The flyer on the local GOP website described the organization using some militia-coded language: a “unique organization of patriots who are military combat veterans with special operations experience, former law enforcement, elected officials and intelligence professionals.”
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A recessions package
The article is about Trump’s rescission package but Nicole slipped in a reference to his “big, beautiful bill.” Malaprops to her.
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I’m betting that the 73% of Americans that support cutting government waste didn’t and do not consider the National Parks, cancer research, and the National Weather Service waste. I’m betting if given a choice, they’d rather the money for trump’s grandiose military parade go to their roads and schools.
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This just in per CNN:
Trump administration orders some US companies to halt sales to China
And from AP:
Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the U.S. will begin revoking the visas of Chinese students
TACO President sure has a big hate for those on his list.
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Breakin’
U.S. Court of International Trade Stops Trump’s Tariffing
Next: What happens when “And they let you” meets someone who won’t.
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The largest city in Portage County is Kent, a city all too acquainted with political violence. History rhymes a fuck of a lot.
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That’s my question too, because I don’t understand what actual power this U.S. Court of International Trade has.
Does this immediately suspend Trump’s current tariffs until he wins on appeal? Somehow I’m doubting it with this administration’s “move fast and break things” approach. But I don’t know anything about how this works. We need clarification.
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The NYT Liveblog says this about the timeline:
It was not clear precisely when and how the tariff collections would grind to a halt. The decision gave the executive branch up to 10 days to complete the bureaucratic process of halting them. Shortly after the ruling, the Justice Department told the court that it planned to file an appeal.
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I’d bet that around 95% of that 73% know exactly bugger-all about where the government actually spends money, how much, and for what. They think it’s all going to stuff aid money into foreigners’ pockets, buy Cadillacs for “welfare moms,” and fund eggheads to study “wokeness.”
Almost none of them, the occasional rare principled libertarian excepted, want to shut down their ag research station, their weather forecasts, the money that keeps their local hospital afloat, or the money that pays for their kid’s classroom aide.
But that’s exactly what the dumfuks voted to do, whether they knew it or not.
ETA: Besides, asking about “cutting government waste” is already a skewed question. If it’s waste then of course you ought to cut it. But who defines “waste?” Elmo thinks any NASA contract that doesn’t flow directly to the SpaceX bottom line is a wasted opportunity.
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Bullies who get balked often lash out in a different direction, like the guy who gets yelled at by his boss, so he goes home and kicks the dog.
ETA: And this “TACO” thing is really getting under his pasty painted skin.
Good.
More of the same, please.
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that’s exactly what i was thinking
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President Taco? Or is he in fact Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho??
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“TACO” in all caps, because it’s an acronym; one that is apparently making the rounds among the Wall Street types, as they spend yet another week riding the on-again off-again tariff roller coaster:
Trump Always Chickens Out.
And he’s hating it. So sad. Insert tiny violin here.
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The North Carolina election that wouldn’t die. If anybody doubts that Republicans are the party of the Sore Losers, this proves it. Hey, why don’t Democrats start harping on this?
Yeah, the Convicted Felon “King” is still whining about 2020. Heck, give him a mic and he’ll whine about 2016! Also, keep hitting him on his TACO deal-making prowess. Ya know, “Trump Always Chickens Out”? He’ll whine some about “negotiating positions”, but the savvy reporter would point out that he’s the only one changing position.
I’ve been saying this for a decade now: Needle him. He’s thin skinned and it’s easy to make him lose it. And act even less “Presidential.” One day, Americans will notice.
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No way. Prez Camacho was cool. Not to mention ripped.
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