I wish thered be a mutiny or anything to kick out all the leaders of the Democratic Party. All of them are worthless and way, way past the retirement age.
yet somehow those dumbasses with their multiple mansions and millions feel like they relate to people who are poor and born 50 years after them.
I mean, that doesn't make the party look better. It's the same kind of mindset as "you called me racist so now I'm going to be racist to spite you look what you've done liberals".
If you genuinely thought that my post was in favor of not fighting at all, you need to have your head examined.
Okay then, why fight the Republicans at all if you're just going to unilaterally accept that there's no way to save the Obamacare subsidies? Go lay down in chalk outline of yourself.
Why do they think that them having a falling out would make it less likely that Trump was involved and/or had him killed to hush him lmao.
they probably know that MAGA won't give a ****, even with trump in there
House Republicans on Wednesday released 23,000 pages of documents from the estate of Jeffrey Epstein after months of delays. The move came shortly after Democrats disclosed emails from that trove suggesting President Trump knew far more about Mr. Epsteins sex trafficking than he previously acknowledged.
The documents were obtained by the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, Representative James Comer, through a subpoena in August. They were published online about two hours after House Democrats released an email from Mr. Epstein in which he wrote that Mr. Trump spent hours at my house with one of Mr. Epsteins victims.
It was not immediately clear what other disclosures the larger release would include. The Times is reviewing the documents and will provide updates. But the emails between Mr. Epstein and friends and associates were laced with unflattering, at times mocking, references to Mr. Trump.
In 2018, for example, Mr. Epstein described Mr. Trump as borderline insane in an email exchange with Lawrence H. Summers, the former Treasury secretary and Harvard University president. A year later, an Epstein associate dismissed Mr. Trumps financial disclosures as 100 pages of nonsense.
And in a January 2019 email released by Democrats, Mr. Epstein flatly asserted that of course Mr. Trump knew about his associations with young women, many of whom were later found by investigators to have been underage.
Mr. Trump urged Republicans to reject any effort to revive a discussion of his relationship with Mr. Epstein, blaming Democrats for the release of the documents in a post on social media and writing that they were trying to bring up the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax again because theyll do anything at all to deflect on how badly theyve done on the Shutdown.
Still, Mr. Trump and the White House appeared to be rushing to prevent additional revelations. Top administration officials met in the White House Situation Room on Wednesday with Representative Lauren Boebert, a Colorado Republican who is backing an effort to force a House vote on whether to demand the release of more files related to Mr. Epstein.
House Republicans are walking a thin and perilous political line in the Epstein case.
They are seeking to protect Mr. Trump, Mr. Epsteins close friend until the two men had a falling out years ago. But they have their own political flank to cover by appeasing a restive party base that has demanded full disclosure of Mr. Epsteins interactions with other powerful men an issue that has at times transcended loyalty to the president.
The release of documents appears to be intended to provide Republicans with a defense against charges that they have not released all of the governments files on Mr. Epstein and his longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell and possibly to stave off demands, including from some House Republicans, to force a vote to release additional files.
Democrats claimed that the sheer volume of the release on Wednesday was intended to disorient, and to distract attention from their revelations about Mr. Trumps actions during the time he and Mr. Epstein were close.
I'd rather we fight battles that were winnable rather than engage in silly theatrics when from the onset we know we can't do anything. And my major disappointment isn't simply the fact that Dems caved on this one issue, it's the fact that since the election they have caved on each and every single one. It's a consistent pattern. At some point in these next few years a win would be nice, but losing just because there's nothing to do is pathetic and I feel is more damaging in the long run. Republicans control all branches of government and nearly all forms of media, so Dems willingly handing Republicans own goals seems more hurtful than helpful. The spin on this one isn't even hard at all to use against Democrats. You have to twist yourself in knots to not blame them now.
See, another dude saying it was a forgone conclusion. Sure fight the GOP but why are we aiming to lose and and come out worse? Is it impossible to pick better battles or do we have to throw ourselves at each and every opportunity just to come out worse?
We have been over this THREE TIMES in this topic. Deaths from SNAP going unfunded are a speck of dust compared to the mass graves we will see from the Obamacare subsidies expiring. The two are not equivalent in ANY way just because people will die in both cases. If you disagree with my assessment, I would LOVE to know why.
Do you think it helps their longterm perception issue of being weak and feckless if they willingly take on losing battles just to achieve nothing? Why are they engaging in government shutdowns if they're going to cave when people go unpaid? Did they not know that's what happens during a shutdown? Are they stupid?
And I think this just loops back to my earlier question of what even was the point of attempting the shutdown in the first place if their losing hand was so glaringly obvious to CEmen but not our Democrat senators.
We are on a closed message board on a dying website with a population under 200. Do you honestly think I have ANY impact on "the average voter"? I'm not a YouTuber with 100,000 subscribers. I should not need reduce my criticism for fear of a audience that doesn't exist going out and voting Trump because they don't understand that a Democrat will always be the better option.
I genuinely do not know what to say to you aside of "the highest order of contempt for the GOP is implied". If the Democrats fail to adequately fight back against an administration that wants to usher an era of unparalleled suffering into the world, they deserve to be criticized for it. I'm not some unwitting tool of propagandists and it's frankly insulting that you think I have no agency in what I do. If you have a problem with what I'm saying beyond "you're attacking Democrats too much", then say it.
Why do the shutdown at all then?
Incalculably less, yes. I don't think you fully grasp how fucked a whole tenth of the population is now.
I don't believe the number would be anywhere near as high, food is much cheaper and easier to access than healthcare
The shutdown could have gone on for a full year and I guarantee you it would have done less damage than caving will do.
Courts and/or corporate donors.
I do, eventually, I believe their hand would be forced one way or another
Yes, obviously. Do you think those people somehow have even more money (we're sometimes talking a full order of magnitude) for healthcare just lying around?
Because. The dems. Caved.
Not getting SNAP benefits means you're out a few hundred dollars a month
mtg might vote to release, are we counting her already?
In the USA right now, a third party cannot win. It just can't happen. It can't.
did anyone tell them its a year to late for that
President Donald Trump thinks no one knows what a magnet is. The polarizing president was in conversation with Fox News about the economy when he veered off track to discuss China and magnetic trains. President Xi was willing to do the railroad thingsthats magnets, he said. Now, nobody knows what a magnet is. If you dont have a magnet, you dont have a car. You dont make a computer, you dont make, er, televisions and radios and all the other thingsyou dont make anything. Its a 30-year effort to monopolize a very important thing. Now, in two years, well have magnets, all the magnets we want. Because of tariffs, listen I called, I said youre going to play the magnet, were going to play the tariff on you. His confusion over magnetism is well documented, and the record suggests he was being sincere when he said, No one knows what they are. During his diplomatic tour of Asia, Trump,79, stood in front of servicepeople of the U.S. Navy and said, You know, the new thing is magnets. So instead of using hydraulic that can be hit by lightning, and its fine. You take a little glass of water, you drop it on magnets. I dont know whats going to happen.
They're evil. Their only goal is to maximize human suffering. This has been obvious for over 2 decades. The Democrats are SUPPOSED to be the ones defending us from them. I am aiming my criticism at the part of the equation that is nominally more receptive to it.
"I love the poorly educated."
"Why am I surrounded by fucking idiots?!"
A new loyalty test for prospective hires has left the Justice Department with thousands of vacancies and a mounting case backlog.
Trumps DOJ has experienced a sharp decline in applicantsespecially qualified onesin large part because of the partisan hiring process, The Washington Post reported on Monday.
As part of the vetting process, Justice Department applicants have been required to gush over their favorite Trump executive order or policy and detail how they would move it forward, the Post reported.
Career positions like those at the DOJ are designed to be nonpoliticalbut experts described this question as a workaround.
Even though that question doesnt ask if you are Republican, the spirit of that question asks for the job applicant to give their loyalty to the president, Raymond Limon, an expert in federal labor laws, told the Post.
Trump appointees have also found other ways to align the DOJ with MAGA. In February, Ed Martinwho was then the acting top prosecutor in D.C.wrote a letter to William Treanor, the former dean of Georgetown University Law Center, declaring his office wouldnt hire any talent from a law school that had what Trump officials viewed as DEI policies, the Post reported.
But the politicizing of the Justice Department, a once-prestigious employer, hasnt exactly boosted applicants. The vast majority of the 600 employees in the Civil Rights Division, for example, have left, with only a dozen or so of those career positions replaced, the Post reported.
Still, that hasnt stopped Trump officials from ousting at least 200 people in the DOJ who worked on cases seen as anti-Trump under the Biden administration and are now installing their allies in their place, according to data from Justice Connection. Among those especially targeted are lawyers involved in cases against Jan. 6 rioters and immigration judges.
Now, prospective hires at the DOJ are mostly coming from Republican congressional offices and advocacy groups, sources told the Post. Other candidates are far from qualified for the roles theyre seeking, they added.
In August, Jeanine Pirro, now the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, even appeared on her former employer Fox News as her office was down 90 prosecutors, and pleaded with viewers to email her if they wanted a job.
What we are seeing is a total drop in who is applying, Treanor told the Post. Its gone from a good amount of our graduating class to virtually no one applying for jobs at the Justice Department.
Additionally, roughly two thirds of DOJ lawyers tasked with fielding the constant legal challenges to Trumps policies have quit amid mounting frustration. Around 69 of the 110 lawyers who work in the DOJs Federal Programs Branchwhich responds to lawsuits against the administrationhave left their posts since the 2024 election, Reuters reported in July.
I would think the healthcare lobby would be pushing hard to save the ACA subsidies. If those truly go away it's going to hurt both healthcare providers and insurers and cause healthcare costs in general to go up more than they have been already.
I'm still not wavering on the position that with Dems in control of Congress, this doesn't happen at all.
So shutdown is over after this vote?
If they were controlled opposition, there wouldnt have been a shutdown in the first place. Why is it so unfathomable that there are 10 or so dinosaurs in the Senate who are truly fucking stupid, bad at politics and extremely selfish?
Are you starting to see why I have such a low opinion of Schumer?
Already there are concerns about the squeeze on tourism destination
That's crazy that Dragonmaids have enough mats to do all that and then summon 5 Headed Dragon lol
He's technically immune to battle destruction too, though the amount of times that battle destruction will come up is probably... maybe 0 in the history of 2 people actually playing yugioh and isn't out to proc it.