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The OBBB was passed through the budget reconciliation process, which allows it to be passed in the Senate without a cloture vote, but also limits it to strictly budgetary items. It is a budget bill, full stop. It has to be I order to be passed through the Reconciliation process.

The current shutdown has nothing to do with the budgetary process, it has to do with a lack of appropriations.

I don’t block many people, but I am blocking you, because you are a troll.

And then give the facts.

The problem is that even facts are even subjective for these people. It’s always been that way.

I remember that after 9/11 I had a coworker who was convinced the problem was with Islam itself. “I’ve read their book”, he would explain to everyone who was within earshot, “They want to kill all the infidels. Their religion is incompatible with our country”. He held that as a fact, just as sure as the fact that the sun sets in the west, and that God gave him the right to bear arms.

To many people in this country, Muslim = Terrorist, no further questions asked. You can’t argue with that. Not because they are right, but you literally can’t argue with someone who thinks God gave them those incorrect facts.

No, the budget was passed as the One Big Beautiful Bill. It was passed without Democratic support because the Senate used the Budget Reconciliation process to bypass the filibuster. But now, the Senate cannot again use Reconciliation to pass any of the two competing appropriations bills. (And as far as I know, neither bill actually performs the appropriations from the budget, and just keeps current spending levels in place, with the Democratic bill adding the healthcare fix.)

The OBBB includes provisions that fucks over healthcare. The House appropriations bill kept those things in place. The Senate rejected it, then the House stopped working.

We have no concept here of triggering an election. All of our Federal elections are for set terms, no matter what. We don’t have any notion of a “no confidence” vote in government. If we did, I bet it would fail every time.

It’s even worse than that. They passed a budget, but need a separate vote for actually authorizing the money to be spent.

Congress set it up this way, on purpose, so that small-government types would have an additional opportunity to negotiate shit that’s already been negotiated.

Or, raise the retirement age to 75

They are limited to 100 miles from the border, but “the border” counts the shoreline, so in reality 2/3 of the population is in that zone.

Buffalo already is Upstate…

In the case of the crypto, though, it’s more than just a guess. These things are being actively traded on markets right now, and have a value attached to them. I could buy a bunch of $TRUMP right now if I wanted to.

None of that implies that he’s not also subject to influence from foreign powers with embarrassing info on him.

Forbes estimates it a bit lower, they say his liquid net worth and crypto is a little over $2B, but they admit they are devaluing the crypto because he can’t sell it all at once:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/article/the-definitive-networth-of-donaldtrump/

The unlocked market cap of $TRUMP alone is over $3B, and people suspect he owns much of that personally. There are also a ton of shitty tokens owned by World Libery Financial, which he also owns a good chunk of.

All this crypto literally didn’t exist during Trump’s first term.

I don’t think you realize how much he is grifting out of crypto right now. It’s mind boggling. Two years ago he was more or less insolvent, now they think he has made over 3 billion in crypto alone.

The catch is that a lot of that is tied up in crypto tokens that aren’t exactly traded widely. If started dumping the entire amount the price would crater before he could sell it all.

This is Buffalo, NY. Can the pig play defense? The Bills are out a few CBs this weekend…

Many people in Westchester NY will honor her memory by getting stuck in traffic on the parkway that is named after her

I don’t think I have voted for the eventual winner in the Democratic primary since Obama in 2008. But the current primary process is broken, and only exists to rubber-stamp the establishment candidate. And remember that in 2008, Obama was not the establishment candidate, his win was not expected. If anything, the party has made the primary process even more of a game since then.

Having said that, though, if Newsom is the primary winner I will hold my nose and vote for him, because he will still be better than any Republican. (And if Trump is still alive by then, we will know that whoever gets the nomination will be in his pocket, anyway).

I would fix the Democratic Party primary process by doing it all in one month. Four weeks in May or June, 12 to 13 states per week, rotating by region. Fuck all these states who think they are special by having “first in the nation” primaries or caucuses, where the one Podunk town with 13 registered voters gets to be in the news every 4 years. Every state is important.

Oh, and do it on Saturday. Let the media cover it like it’s fucking March Madness.

The jury found that the charges were baloney

Even if they have that in Indiana, this clearly shouldnt apply. Simply walking up to a house is not evidence of an invasion, otherwise every Halloween would be target practice.

He and Putin will start their own Friendship Union.

We can call it FU2

Mr. Been Cuffed

That guy got himself out of quite the pickle

Take it easy on the guy, it takes a lot of stamina to be in that room with the President and his full diaper