BillyClark

It’s money laundering in the sense that it starts off in a state where it can’t be used for the purposes they want, then they send it out into the world, a big chunk of it vanishes, and it comes back in the condition that it can be used to finance their campaigns.

Ideally, I’d like to see him impeached for raping children. That would be his legacy.

The worst part is that’s just money that our government has sent over to Israel. It’s like money laundering for traitors.

My biggest beef with the filibuster is that I think it’s the wrong way of doing things. If you want to protect minority rights, then make laws or constitutional amendments that specifically protect them. The filibuster is just this giant hammer that beats away everything, good or bad.

And, this is just my belief, but it just seems unamerican. The Constitution specifies how to pass laws in the Senate. It needs a majority. The filibuster is a rule that, especially with modern filibusters that are nothing but votes, simply means you need more votes than the US Constitution specifically says. Yes, it’s a rule of procedure rather than the direct vote, but it amounts to the exact same thing.

For people who don’t know, the Kennedy Center had a large team of people whose job it was to get enough donations to keep it running… IIRC something around 100 people, and under Trump’s direction, that team was more or less completely dismantled.

The previous director of the Kennedy Center was a very rich man, I think a billionaire, who had personally donated millions to the Kennedy Center, and Trump got rid of him.

Trump did everything he could to sabotage all existing sources of funding for the Kennedy Center.

It’s hard to describe in words what a pathetic loser Trump is. He can’t stand to have somebody whose name is in any way elevated above his own. He’ll destroy any cultural institution and anybody else’s happiness just to get the tiniest bit of honor for himself.

At least if we get rid of filibuster, Trump will have to veto everything. With the filibuster, it’s the senate’s fault for sucking. Without, it’s Trump’s fault for sucking.

Maybe Republicans had a reason to keep the filibuster, since it makes Trump’s job easier, but I don’t think there’s any legitimate reason for Democrats to keep it.

Filibuster is just so stupid. In the future, after we hopefully abolish it, nobody will understand why we ever had it.

Just like when we get real universal healthcare, people will look back at these times and wonder what the fuck was wrong with us idiots.

I seem to recall that the term Obamacare was originally used by conservatives pejoratively, to make it less appealing to other conservatives.

I think Trump will simply sign whatever is put in front of him because he’s almost illiterate and it’s too much trouble to read.

I’m guessing that Trump’s brain has finally rotted away and that’s why his current responsibilities are choosing drapes and that sort of thing. Now that Trump has been humiliated by the last elections, they have no reason to hold back, so they put the true evil people into positions of power, and whatever goes wrong, it will just make Trump look like an idiot.

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I live in Texas, and while I suspect most people here like pickup trucks, I detest them. Only a pickup that is all beaten up from heavy use or seems to be actively being used can be forgiven. Everything else is just an eyesore to me. And if you live in Texas and you want to know a shortcut for identifying the worst drivers on the road, just look for any large meticulously maintained pickup truck. The driver is guaranteed to be an asshole.

I still remember the day I first saw the Cybertruck. I couldn’t believe they found a way to make pickup trucks uglier. I never believed they’d actually manufacture any or get anybody to buy one. It was just so obvious. Nobody would want to drive an embarrassment like that.

Am I the only person who saw this sentence?

According to Punchbowl News, Jordan’s pitch will be that new blood is needed and that he specializes in investigations.

After reading that, I thought Punchbowl News must be a top-tier satire publication, but apparently, Jim Jordan seriously said that he, a person whose biggest claim to fame is that he refused to investigate repeated claims of SA on college students for unknown years, “specializes in investigations” and that they need “new blood”.

Is he so dense that he could say something like that without realizing what it means? Or is he secretly reminding people what he’s done, in an effort to taunt his victims, like serial killers have done in the past?

They don’t have a super majority, so everything they do will be vetoed. So why not get rid of filibuster now? It seems the perfect time.

I always thought Abbott was an ineffective governor, and that the only reason he’s been in office this long is that the Texas governor’s election is always in off-years, when people who have trouble getting to the voting booths are even less likely to go.

The biggest moron involved in this is Donald Trump, for primarying Cornyn in favor of maybe the most corrupt person in Texas government. Somebody who has no charisma and is incapable of debating and who everybody knows is corrupt was chosen over the incumbent just because Paxton is better at licking boots.

I don’t like Cornyn, either, but Paxton is a lemon of a candidate.

I haven’t researched Rodgers, but if everything you’re saying is true, then it looks like the Michigan Democratic Party made the correct choice.

I mean, in this MAGA timeline, obviously, it doesn’t matter what, it’s wrong to support any Republican unless the alternative is like a serial killer or something… on reflection, I think a serial killer might be preferable to a Republican, since the serial killer would cause less harm.

Even billionaires took a long time to figure it out.

But really, Democrats aren’t doing too badly in the current situation.

And Trump has demonstrated over and over that even if you swear fealty to him, he’ll stab you in the back for even a small personal benefit.

The only good thing about Trump taking advice from Harp is that he’s listening to anybody at all. We’ve all seen what happens when Trump tries to think for himself. He just prattles on about windmills killing whales and whether he’d rather be in the water with batteries or sharks and other completely brain dead shit.

I once won tickets to see a variety show in Vegas, and it had topless women chorus line dancing between acts. If you had asked me before then whether I’d prefer a variety show with topless women or without, I’d have said, “With, please.” But that would have been wrong.

I swear, they all had the same desperate fake smile as Katie Zacharia in that picture, and they all were pushing out their chests with their bolt-on tits as hard as they could. I remarked to my date that all of the dancers seemed extremely motivated to display the most fake parts of their bodies, as I’m guessing their teeth were all fake, too.

It was all extremely off-putting, like they were all victims of human trafficking. I admit I couldn’t stop looking, either. It was sort of like looking at a car crash if all the victims had their fake tits out.

On the other hand, the variety act itself was extremely entertaining.

But anyways, based on Katie Zacharia’s smile in that picture, I can’t help but remember that very odd experience. One of the reasons I don’t like Vegas.

I’m not that guy, but…

You aggress me just because “firearms” and ignore that I’ve helped many people throughout my life.

Dude, they are talking about your parents, not you.

Bad parenting? Ugh not really, maybe the leave me alone treatment or thrown against the wall or being whipped fun times. Aside that, it’s like I had three cars in high school, an apartment, a credit card, and another apartment in another country, a 4k computer in the early 2000s.

You’ve just listed a bunch of things that I’d associate with bad parenting. Physical abuse, emotional abuse, and spoiling with expensive items.