Nope i just travel to blue cities from time to time and see the damage drugs do to once semi livable places.
Caribbean Hen wrote: ↑Sun Jan 05, 2025 4:41 pmWe’re soft and spoiled rotten like a hog all fattened up for the kill
But whether or not Tate is ultimately convicted of his allege violent crimes, by his own admission he is a sexual predator, Shapiro argued Sunday on his eponymous show.
He played clips of Tate describing his strategy for meeting girls, getting them to like him, and then “making” them fall in love with him so they would work on webcams for him.
UNI88 wrote: ↑Tue Jan 14, 2025 12:11 pm
New MAGA Divide Erupts Over Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate
But whether or not Tate is ultimately convicted of his allege violent crimes, by his own admission he is a sexual predator, Shapiro argued Sunday on his eponymous show.
He played clips of Tate describing his strategy for meeting girls, getting them to like him, and then “making” them fall in love with him so they would work on webcams for him.
Comments like these had previously gotten Tate banned from most social media platforms, until he was reinstated on X, formerly Twitter, after it was taken over by Trump mega donor and adviser Elon Musk.
Shapiro called Tate an “evil con artist.”
“Even if you just believe the stuff he has said about himself, what he says is evil,” Shapiro said. “He is a self-professed pimp and pornographer. He made his money grooming women for the sex industry.”
referee stops contest
thank you for sharingBobcat wrote: ↑Fri Jan 03, 2025 5:21 pmNope i just travel to blue cities from time to time and see the damage drugs do to once semi livable places.
I am also not one of those asshole that tells you you cant do something you like to do because I don't like it. In this case I hope you do more of it, if its what you enjoy. Its a free country and nobody should tell you what to do.
Days before Trump’s inauguration, Bannon took another swipe at the “oligarchs” surrounding Trump by slamming the decision to move the inauguration indoors. Bannon claimed the move was most likely precipitated as a protection measure for the billionaires in Trump’s midst.
“It ain’t gonna be that cold,” said Bannon on the Saturday episode of his WarRoom podcast. “Just because the oligarchs are there. They’re too tender, coming from Silicon Valley. Are they too soft?”
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“Here’s what upset me and why I got engaged. [Musk] called the American citizens retards the R word. [Musk didn’t use the word himself but promoted a post on X that used it],” said Bannon. “He dissed the MAGA movement as being racist, which is the old trope that the left. He used all the left tropes to come after us.”
He added, “These oligarchs in Silicon Valley, they have a very different view of how people should govern themselves. I call it techno-feudalism. They don’t believe in the underlying tenets of self-governance.”
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“We’re populist. We believe American citizens should come first in everything. And in the visa program, there is no legal immigration to this country,” said Bannon.
A Republican family feud spilled out into public eye Wednesday when Rep. Byron Donalds angrily confronted Speaker Mike Johnson about a lack of legislative action.
“Byron Donalds is more and more frequently being obnoxious towards the speaker. Angry at the time it’s taking. Parroting [Rep.] Chip [Roy]. I don’t mind making one’s point but the rudeness is uncalled for,” one GOP lawmaker who took issue with Donalds' tone told the Daily Beast.
Several federal agencies have advised employees not to respond to Elon Musk’s email demanding federal workers list five accomplishments from the past week or risk losing their jobs.
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The Department of Defense shared a message to its employees on the social platform X, noting it is responsible for reviewing employee performance.
“When and if required, the Department will coordinate responses to the email you have received from OPM. For now, please pause any response to the OPM email titled ‘What did you do last week,’” Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness Darin Selnick said in a statement.
FBI Director Kash Patel also told employees to hold off on responding to the email. Patel said the bureau would be handling responses to OPM’s request and would be coordinating employee reviews that align with the FBI’s procedures.
NBC News reported the State Department also instructed its employees not to respond.
Johnson plans to hold a vote Tuesday on a sweeping budget plan that calls for $2 trillion in cuts over a decade to help pay for tax cuts and new national security spending. But the fate of that measure is uncertain amid rising pressure back home, as Republicans across the country face blowback over the blitz of spending freezes and federal worker firings directed by billionaire Elon Musk.
“You have to do this with a scalpel and not a hatchet. And we have to make sure that people who work hard but rely on Medicaid for health insurance, or seniors in a nursing home, or folks who are disabled, are protected,” Rep. Jeff Van Drew, a New Jersey Republican, told CNN.
Van Drew — who’s had protesters lined up outside his South Jersey district office — said he’s spoken to Johnson about getting “an assurance” before he agrees to advance Trump’s agenda.
He isn’t alone. Several other Republicans, such as Reps. Nicole Malliotakis of New York and Don Bacon of Nebraska, have yet to commit to Johnson’s budget plan until party leaders can promise the final bill won’t gut key federal aid programs like Medicaid, food assistance and Pell grants, according to multiple people familiar with discussions. At least one Republican, Rep. Victoria Spartz of Indiana, announced Monday she was a no on the “current version” of the budget plan, seeking deeper cuts.
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Bacon, for his part, said he wants to advance Trump’s agenda on national security, energy production and tax cuts. “But we don’t want to make significant cuts to Medicaid, and the current proposal appears to do just that,” he told CNN.
Many centrist-leaning Republicans, including Bacon, had spent the first few weeks of Trump’s presidency carefully avoiding direct criticism of the new administration. But a month into Trump’s second term, a growing number of rank-and-file lawmakers are publicly warning against some of the president’s recent moves to shake up the status quo in Washington, like his cost-cutting task force run by Musk, and — now — his support for a budget plan that could gut hundreds of billions of dollars from the nation’s largest low-income health program.
Across the country last week, multiple GOP lawmakers faced questions in town halls and local interviews about the close-to-home impact of Trump’s rapid-fire attempt to downsize the federal government.
In New Jersey, Van Drew raised concerns about firings in a local Federal Aviation Administration center. In Alaska, Rep. Nick Begich was grilled by local officials about a federal funding freeze that could increase the likelihood of power blackouts. In Ohio, Rep. Troy Balderson was blunt during a local business luncheon that he believed some of Trump’s unilateral moves went too far.
“Congress has to decide whether or not the Department of Education goes away,” Balderson said, according to The Columbus Dispatch. “Not the president, not Elon Musk. Congress decides.”
Several states away, Rep. Rich McCormick — a military veteran and fiscal hawk from Georgia — faced boos in a town hall as he was pressed about cuts to the local government health hub, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“I don’t think executive privilege should be as strong as it is. I think we’re out of balance right now. I think your direct representation, whether you like me or not, I’m the closest thing you have to represent,” McCormick said as he faced jeers in the crowd.
The increasing dissatisfaction felt by some House Republicans won’t make it any easier for Johnson and his leadership team as they attempt to lock down the votes for the separate budget vote on Tuesday. Some New York Republicans, for instance, are still furious at Musk’s team for going after a 9/11 survivors fund, even after the cuts were swiftly reversed.
Conservative Republicans told CNN they believe their more centrist colleagues will ultimately fall in line and support the budget plan. Still, the lingering angst from the middle is a warning sign for GOP leaders as they draft and later try to pass the massive measure with zero room for error — without risking their majority in 2026.
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And it’s not just battleground-district Republicans who are seeking assurances from Johnson on the looming cuts.
A group of Hispanic Republicans, led by Rep. Tony Gonzales of Texas, sent an open letter to Johnson last week warning the party not to slash benefits for Medicaid and food assistance, which they said would directly impact their own voters.
Cutting Medicaid, they wrote, would have “serious consequences,” particularly in Hispanic communities,” which they described as the “future of the Republican party.”
FAKE NEWS. Stopped reading right there 3rd line.. There are no tax cuts. Only scheduled tax increases.UNI88 wrote: ↑Mon Feb 24, 2025 2:58 pm Facing pressure at home, GOP lawmakers warn Johnson against ‘hatchet’ spending cuts
Johnson plans to hold a vote Tuesday on a sweeping budget plan that calls for $2 trillion in cuts over a decade to help pay for tax cuts and new national security spending. But the fate of that measure is uncertain amid rising pressure back home, as Republicans across the country face blowback over the blitz of spending freezes and federal worker firings directed by billionaire Elon Musk.
“You have to do this with a scalpel and not a hatchet. And we have to make sure that people who work hard but rely on Medicaid for health insurance, or seniors in a nursing home, or folks who are disabled, are protected,” Rep. Jeff Van Drew, a New Jersey Republican, told CNN.
Van Drew — who’s had protesters lined up outside his South Jersey district office — said he’s spoken to Johnson about getting “an assurance” before he agrees to advance Trump’s agenda.
He isn’t alone. Several other Republicans, such as Reps. Nicole Malliotakis of New York and Don Bacon of Nebraska, have yet to commit to Johnson’s budget plan until party leaders can promise the final bill won’t gut key federal aid programs like Medicaid, food assistance and Pell grants, according to multiple people familiar with discussions. At least one Republican, Rep. Victoria Spartz of Indiana, announced Monday she was a no on the “current version” of the budget plan, seeking deeper cuts.
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Bacon, for his part, said he wants to advance Trump’s agenda on national security, energy production and tax cuts. “But we don’t want to make significant cuts to Medicaid, and the current proposal appears to do just that,” he told CNN.
Many centrist-leaning Republicans, including Bacon, had spent the first few weeks of Trump’s presidency carefully avoiding direct criticism of the new administration. But a month into Trump’s second term, a growing number of rank-and-file lawmakers are publicly warning against some of the president’s recent moves to shake up the status quo in Washington, like his cost-cutting task force run by Musk, and — now — his support for a budget plan that could gut hundreds of billions of dollars from the nation’s largest low-income health program.
Across the country last week, multiple GOP lawmakers faced questions in town halls and local interviews about the close-to-home impact of Trump’s rapid-fire attempt to downsize the federal government.
In New Jersey, Van Drew raised concerns about firings in a local Federal Aviation Administration center. In Alaska, Rep. Nick Begich was grilled by local officials about a federal funding freeze that could increase the likelihood of power blackouts. In Ohio, Rep. Troy Balderson was blunt during a local business luncheon that he believed some of Trump’s unilateral moves went too far.
“Congress has to decide whether or not the Department of Education goes away,” Balderson said, according to The Columbus Dispatch. “Not the president, not Elon Musk. Congress decides.”
Several states away, Rep. Rich McCormick — a military veteran and fiscal hawk from Georgia — faced boos in a town hall as he was pressed about cuts to the local government health hub, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“I don’t think executive privilege should be as strong as it is. I think we’re out of balance right now. I think your direct representation, whether you like me or not, I’m the closest thing you have to represent,” McCormick said as he faced jeers in the crowd.
The increasing dissatisfaction felt by some House Republicans won’t make it any easier for Johnson and his leadership team as they attempt to lock down the votes for the separate budget vote on Tuesday. Some New York Republicans, for instance, are still furious at Musk’s team for going after a 9/11 survivors fund, even after the cuts were swiftly reversed.
Conservative Republicans told CNN they believe their more centrist colleagues will ultimately fall in line and support the budget plan. Still, the lingering angst from the middle is a warning sign for GOP leaders as they draft and later try to pass the massive measure with zero room for error — without risking their majority in 2026.
...
And it’s not just battleground-district Republicans who are seeking assurances from Johnson on the looming cuts.
A group of Hispanic Republicans, led by Rep. Tony Gonzales of Texas, sent an open letter to Johnson last week warning the party not to slash benefits for Medicaid and food assistance, which they said would directly impact their own voters.
Cutting Medicaid, they wrote, would have “serious consequences,” particularly in Hispanic communities,” which they described as the “future of the Republican party.”
BDK's standard MO for dealing with things that might hurt trump/MAQA or make them look bad ...BDKJMU wrote: ↑Mon Feb 24, 2025 6:22 pmFAKE NEWS. Stopped reading right there 3rd line.. There are no tax cuts. Only scheduled tax increases.UNI88 wrote: ↑Mon Feb 24, 2025 2:58 pm Facing pressure at home, GOP lawmakers warn Johnson against ‘hatchet’ spending cuts
Nope. Once you taste rotton food at 1st bite, you don‘t continue eating it.
Says the guy who voted for trump 3 times.
Good boy!BDKJMU wrote: ↑Mon Feb 24, 2025 6:22 pmFAKE NEWS. Stopped reading right there 3rd line.. There are no tax cuts. Only scheduled tax increases.UNI88 wrote: ↑Mon Feb 24, 2025 2:58 pm Facing pressure at home, GOP lawmakers warn Johnson against ‘hatchet’ spending cuts
Gullible Kalm posting FAKE NEWS charts again!
Of course it’s a left leaning Econ policy group. Who are we supposed to believe? Heritage? Cato? The folks who brought us 40 years of Reaganomics?BDKJMU wrote: ↑Mon Feb 24, 2025 7:18 pmGullible Kalm posting FAKE NEWS charts again!
By the left wing ITEP. You can see it on their homepage.
Soon as I saw on their chart starting no one under 360k would get a tax cut knew it was a fake chart, because the majority of those with Fed income tax liability got a tax cut in 2017, which means if it expires, a majority of those with tax liability will see a tax increase.
This. I truly feel bad for the billionaires and their plight.