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This "both sides are the same" crap drives me nuts.
Republicans: We want to kill everyone we don't like.
Democrats: No!
Both-sides-are-the-same: Geez, guys. Can't you compromise?
Republicans: Okay, we'll only kill some of the people we don't like.
Democrats: Still no!
BSATS: See, Democrats? This is why no one likes you. You never compromise!
Republicans: We want to kill everyone we don't like.
Democrats: No!
Both-sides-are-the-same: Geez, guys. Can't you compromise?
Republicans: Okay, we'll only kill some of the people we don't like.
Democrats: Still no!
BSATS: See, Democrats? This is why no one likes you. You never compromise!
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Manchin and Schumer announce deal for energy and health care bill
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Sen. Joe Manchin on Wednesday announced a deal on an energy and health care bill, representing a breakthrough after more than a year of negotiations that have collapsed time and again.
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Wow.
Did Democrats actually outmaneuver the GOP for once in the Senate? Regardless of the quality thereof of the semiconductor bill, it certainly looks like Schumer had Manchin publicly trash the reconciliation bill as a non-starter to get Mitch to throw support behind the other one, then immediately pledge to vote for the reconciliation bill as it was written last week after the former passed.
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I do hope so, just to know that McConnell will be so pissed that it happened.Manchin and Schumer announce deal for energy and health care bill
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Sen. Joe Manchin on Wednesday announced a deal on an energy and health care bill, representing a breakthrough after more than a year of negotiations that have collapsed time and again.
Wow.
Did Democrats actually outmaneuver the GOP for once in the Senate, and use Manchin to do it?
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Imagine suing for the right to deny certain children food.
Of course this really isn’t about the lunches. It’s about testing how much cruelty the public will put up with. If they can get away with denying trans kids food, then who’s next? Undocumented kids? Queer kids? Muslim kids? Jewish kids?
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McConnell assails Manchin spending deal after Dems strip his leverage
Senate Republicans approved a semiconductor bill on Wednesday they had vowed to stop if Biden's agenda was revived. It came alive hours later.
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Sure looks like they did it intentionally.
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Don’t **** with the Oglala Lakota.
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Christian Mission Ousted from Pine Ridge Indian Reservation after Distribution of Hate Materials | Currents
On Friday, July 22, the Oglala Sioux Tribe and its President, Kevin Killer, issued a statement demanding that the Jesus is King Mission leave the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation after pamphlets were distributed that promoted that Jesus, not Tunkasila (...
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This is both brutal and completely deserved. Strong profanity warning.
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Republicans Explain Why They Voted Against Veterans’ Healthcare
“I voted no because the bill would create $400 billion in unnecessary spending to help people.”
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I just assume it's the Dave Chappelle meme where he says "because 🤬 'em, that's why"This is both brutal and completely deserved. Strong profanity warning.
Republicans Explain Why They Voted Against Veterans’ Healthcare
“I voted no because the bill would create $400 billion in unnecessary spending to help people.”
Also, I would 100% believe Mike Lee ran on a pro-burn pit platform.
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Man. You know, for a bit Jon I'm assuming put together himself out of his own damn house, it sure hits all the beats of him at the height of his powers with an entire army of some of the best writers on television at his side.
Remember how they replaced that man with someone whose idea of satire was spending a summer blowing Andrew Cuomo just because Cuomo got in public slap fights with Trump over how much better his coverup of New York's disastrous Covid response was over the federal government's attempts to do the same?
Remember how they replaced that man with someone whose idea of satire was spending a summer blowing Andrew Cuomo just because Cuomo got in public slap fights with Trump over how much better his coverup of New York's disastrous Covid response was over the federal government's attempts to do the same?
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So the PACT Act is headed to Biden for a signature, which he's expected to give, after an 86-11 vote in the Senate. No new amendments, just the same omitted language regarding contract buyout that blocked its implementation in June after an 84-14 vote.
The supposed additional language (or "pork") re: mandatory versus discretionary funding that caused Republicans to stall on the second passage wasn't enough to stall any longer, probably because there was no such additional language and the amendment proposed by the rat mother****er Toomey that would make the issue a future political pawn didn't take.
Garbage. On. Parade.
Edit: Looks like there was a confrontation between Jon Stewart and right-wing disinformation artist Jack Pedosobiec outside the Capitol, during which Stewart rightly called Pedosobiec a "****ing troll." I love it.
The supposed additional language (or "pork") re: mandatory versus discretionary funding that caused Republicans to stall on the second passage wasn't enough to stall any longer, probably because there was no such additional language and the amendment proposed by the rat mother****er Toomey that would make the issue a future political pawn didn't take.
Garbage. On. Parade.
Edit: Looks like there was a confrontation between Jon Stewart and right-wing disinformation artist Jack Pedosobiec outside the Capitol, during which Stewart rightly called Pedosobiec a "****ing troll." I love it.
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