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 Elise Stefanik (R–NY) for U.N. ambassador has been withdrawn, which suggests that there is a real fear among Republican leadership that they can lose the House based on special elections to fill seats of Congress members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 Elise Stefanik (R–NY) for U.N. ambassador has been withdrawn, which suggests that there is a real fear among Republican leadership that they can lose the House based on special elections to fill seats of Congress members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]

GO
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

[batmagadanleadoff]

"The impacts of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ sweeping cuts to public health funding in New York state and New York City have started to come into focus, with wide-ranging consequences for disease surveillance and outbreak response, addiction recovery programs, and mental health services.

The state Health Department expects to lose more than $300 million, diminishing its disease surveillance and outbreak response work as it confronts emerging measles cases and the spread of bird flu."

https://www.thecity.nyc/2025/04/03/trum ... -new-york/

It's gonna be like Chernobyl just after the explosion here in the US after all of these cuts. But the important thing is that the billionaires will now be able to buy themselves a fourth vacation home and their teen-age kids will be able to trade in their Porsches for Lamborghinis.

[batmagadanleadoff]

It's the Anti-MAGA hat.



https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/styl ... anada.html

[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.

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Republicans Plan to Skirt Senate Rules to Push Through More Tax Cuts



Excerpt:

The approach amounts to a rewriting of the strictly governed reconciliation process, and a backdoor way to knock down a crucial Senate guardrail on a simple majority vote — using the so-called nuclear option in a move akin to eliminating the filibuster.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/us/p ... -cuts.html

Charlie Brown. Meet the football. Or rather, don't meet the football.

Guess which political party is Charlie Brown?

[MFS62]

Talking about the tariffs, former Republican Congressman Adam Kinzinger so aptly put it, “America just shot itself in the nuts to own the libs.”

Later

[batmagadanleadoff]

I think I just found my soul-mate:

She marched against Trump in 2017. Now, she says, ‘just let it all burn.’

Excerpt:

But she also understands why so many Democrats have shut down since Trump’s victory rather than hit the streets. “It’s kind of like, fine, we’ll just let it all burn then, because you couldn’t believe that America was stupid for two times in a row, voting for the same imbecile,” she said. “So you get what you deserve.”

“That is kind of where I’m at right now,” she added. “Like, fine. This is what people wanted.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics ... ce-energy/

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That's what I've been saying. Let it all burn. Bring down the whole fucking house. The jackasses voted for the madman that tried to overthrow the government and who led a vast conspiracy to flood the courts with dozens of meritless lawsuits claiming election fraud and to submit fake electoral college slates. Let them get what they deserve. A meltdown. Bankruptcies. Breadlines. A decimated government. Disease and pandemics. Bring it all on. Retards. People living paycheck to paycheck, if they even have a fucklng paycheck voting for the scumbag party that wants to eliminate the safety net every chance it gets. Retards. Because what matters the fucking retards, the only thing that fucking matters to these jackasses is that the Jackie Robinson biographies get thrown into the bonfire.

[batmagadanleadoff]

This is why people not trained in the use of firearms shouldn't ever play with guns.



ICE Barbie Kristi Noem cosplays with automatic rifle pointed at head of other law enforcement official.

Kristi Noem before the botox lips, the veneers, the cheek implants, nose job and hair extensions.

[MFS62]

The Penguins won, at least for now. The tariffs have been delayed (except for China) for 90 days.
I wonder how his people will spin the fact that he just got his ample ass kicked by the world and forced to retreat?

Later

[Bob Alpacadaca]

Amazing how women in leadership positions are treated.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Amazing how women in leadership positions are treated.

No it's not amazing. It's deserved. This has nothing to do with her sex. She's a scumbag creep. A proven pathological liar. A narcissist. Just like the President. Posing in front of that El Salvadoran prison with the prisoners as stage props? Do you have any idea what kind of a hellhole that prison is? Nobody ever gets out of there alive. The prisoners are tortured every second of their waking moments. For fun and sport. The blood is on her fucking hands for sending anyone there. And where the fuck does the US even get the authority to send Venezuelan immigrants over there in the first place? There's no law authorizing that. Not that the corrupt SCOTUS won't invent a law out of thin air when the time comes. They're not wanted in El Salvador for crimes committed there. If they violated their immigration status, they should be deported to Venezuela. After they've had their day in court. Which they were denied. You know. Due process. The fucking cornerstone of our Constitution. Why don't you answer these questions instead of throwing hissy fits over a Mets fan in a fur coat. But if he wore a MAGA hat with his fur coat, he'd be your hero, wouldn't he?

Amazing how women in leadership positions are treated.

Amazing how some women in leadership positions abuse their power by stealing taxpayer dollars to fund their personal plastic surgeries, fancy hotel stays and transportation to the medical providers of said plastic surgeries.

I wonder where she got the money for the $50,000 gold Rolex watch she was wearing in front of that El Salvador prison?

https://www.argusleader.com/story/news/ ... 740791007/

[Bob Alpacadaca]

We know how you feel about women. They're just "typewriters." You demonstrate this all the time. It's your specialty.

[batmagadanleadoff]

We know how you feel about women. They're just "typewriters." You demonstrate this all the time. It's your specialty.

No. Not all women. Just the vile and objectionable ones. I guess you're a big fan of Ivanka, too. As well as illegal and unconstitutional renditions. That topic, you still avoid. Maybe one day, Musk's thugs will show up at your door, drag you onto a rocketship and drop you off on the moon. But while you're on the moon, don't forget to defend Kristi Noem, who fixed her teeth on the taxpayers' dime. Nothing wrong with that, either. The problem, according to you, is that I pointed it out.

Would it make you happier if I called Ivanka vile and objectionable instead of a typewriter? Is there a synonym for vile and objectionable that I could use that would satisfy you? Or am I not allowed to opine at all that Noem is vile and objectionable? What an idiot you are.

[Edgy MD]

Guys, both of youse, namecalling goes in the Reddy. Please.