Bending the Knee and Politics in 2025

[Lefty Specialist]

It's quite hilarious that they all fell over themselves saying, "It wasn't REALLY classified", so the Atlantic said, "Okay, then we'll publish a full transcript!"

If this happened under a Democratic administration heads would roll immediately, but nothing will happen to these fuckups.

Two things: the transcript shows they were arrogantly dismissive of the Europeans, our closest allies (for now, anyway). And the reason they were on Signal in the first place was to avoid government recordkeeping, as all communications are supposed to be retained and archived. Fortunately a major magazine did it for them.

And looking to buy a new car? Any imported car will have a 25% tariff slapped on it next week. That includes Mexican and Canadian cars along with the Germans, Japanese and Koreans. And there'll be lots of other tariffs coming April 2nd. Trump insists inflation won't go up because humina himuna arglebargle.

Hawley, meet Smoot.

[Edgy MD]

That disaster deserves its own breakoff thread, I think, but I am lazy.

The nomination of Rep. Elise Stefanik (R–NY) for U.N. ambassador has been withdrawn, which suggests that there is a real fear among Republican leadership that they can lose the House based on special elections to fill seats of Congress members who were nominated to join the cabinet from districts previously thought safely Republican.

Or maybe I am just drawing an inference that is not there.

[batmagadanleadoff]

That disaster deserves its own breakoff thread, I think, but I am lazy.

The nomination of Rep. Elise Stefanik (R–NY) for U.N. ambassador has been withdrawn, which suggests that there is a real fear among Republican leadership that they can lose the House based on special elections to fill seats of Congress members who were nominated to join the cabinet from districts previously thought safely Republican.

Or maybe I am just drawing an inference that is not there.

You're not imagining anything. You're spot on. In the upcoming special election for Florida's deep, deep blood red 6th Congressional District, which President Hitler won by 30 points last November, the Dem candidate is down by just five points in the latest poll, and is expected to close the gap even further. Isn't Florida, with its huge population of retirees, about as dependent on SS and Medicare as any other state in the nation?

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/27/politics ... index.html

[Lefty Specialist]

[MFS62]

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Since Kim Jong Un is on the list, I might as well be, too.
Later

[Lefty Specialist]

Cory Booker standing up, 16 hours and counting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2utlMxAwtE

[batmagadanleadoff]

Cory Booker standing up, 16 hours and counting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2utlMxAwtE

I doubt that the fucking retards that voted for this piece of shit in the first place give a flying fuck. If the fucking retards get angry enough, all they'll do anyways is to vote for a different Republican lying scumbag.

[batmagadanleadoff]

The Senate Parliamentarian is a sort of umpire who interprets Senate rules. Importantly, the Parliamentarian decides what can and cannot be done under a Budget Reconciliation proposal, a filibuster-proof method by which to pass certain legislation that comes under Budget Reconciliation rules. The GOP intends to pass their proposed tax bill, which will extend President Hitler's tax cuts and very likely, make deep cuts to the safety net, through the Budget Reconciliation process, thus needing only 50 votes to pass the measure instead of 60. The current Parliamentarian, Elizabeth MacDonough, a Democat, was appointed in 2012 by then Dem Speaker of the House, Harry Reid.

And now a lesson to the chicken-shit Dems who wouldn't kill the filibuster to serve their own needs when Biden occupied the WH and the Dems held but a tiny, microscopic Senate majority:

Republicans are set to make the audacious play of bypassing the Senate parliamentarian and moving forward with a budget resolution based on a scoring baseline set by Budget Committee Chair Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) that would allow them to argue extending President Trump’s 2017 tax cuts won’t add to the deficit.

Senate Republicans are being careful to say they won’t “overrule” the parliamentarian — the Senate’s procedural umpire — but Democrats are already accusing Republicans of going “nuclear” by flouting the Senate’s rules and precedents.

Read it all at https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/522 ... mentarian/

Once again, it appears that the ruthless GOP is about to Charlie Brown football the Dems.

I suppose if the GOP really wanted to make things obvious, they could simply fire the current Parliamentarian and instead install, oh, I dunno, maybe Ivanka the Typewriter.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Buffoonery has a new meaning after Day 1 of RFK Jr.'s hearing to be HHS secretary.

If the crackpot is confirmed, youse should start wearing your Covid masks again because the bird flu will come and it'll be worse than the Covid pandemic with this scumbag administration that will discourage the use of Covid masks, handcuff and cripple health agencies and conceal the data and incidents from the American public.

‘It’s a bloodbath’: Massive wave of job cuts underway at US health agencies

Excerpt:

In a post on LinkedIn, former US Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Robert Califf said, “The FDA as we’ve known it is finished, with most of the leaders with institutional knowledge and a deep understanding of product development and safety no longer employed.”

Califf told CNN on Tuesday that “If we let down our guard and don’t do a good job reviewing, we’re going to unleash some things that are really dangerous into the population. Unless there’s some super plan, there’s going to be an effect on safety, because it takes whole teams of people to monitor safety of products, and the timetables for product review will probably be delayed.”

Califf said he was dismayed to see how federal workers were being treated.

“This is a sad and inhumane way to treat people,” he said. “It’s different when you’re a company and you’re out of money and you can’t pay people, but the federal government can pay people and do things in an orderly, respectful fashion – and not have them end up in line trying to get to work and have their badges not work as a way to fire them.”

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/01/health/s ... end_recirc