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[Did I miss any of our commenters noting the evil Democrats led by Bumblebrain handing out Social Security cards (numbers) to millions of illegal aliens over the last four years?  Most of these were also accompanied by drivers’ licenses and get-Medicare-free cards.  All this activity to bolster Democrat voter ranks was made public by DOGE and reported on Fox News.  In response the lamestream has broadcast the sound of silence.  gjr]

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  1. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Resurrected Hillbilly | 23 April 2025 at 02:55 PM
    It’s the Stupid, Stupid…

    Oh dugsKKKI……nobody who so serenely coasted through the Brainstem Administration should be whining about, “…….the-stupid-stupid-team-trump-mistakes-errors-bumbling-stumbling-colossal-screwups-galore” at all!

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  2. Resurrected Hillbilly Avatar
    Resurrected Hillbilly

    A real question from a Trump supporter: ‘Why do liberals think Trump supporters are stupid?’
    THE SERIOUS ANSWER: Here’s what the majority of anti-Trump voters honestly feel about Trump supporters en masse:
    That when you saw a man who had owned a fraudulent University, intent on scamming poor people, you thought “Fine.” (https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2018/04/10/trump-university-settlement-judge-finalized/502387002/)
    That when you saw a man who had made it his business practice to stiff his creditors, you said, “Okay.” (https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-hotel-paid-millions-in-fines-for-unpaid-work)
    That when you heard him proudly brag about his own history of sexual abuse, you said, “No problem.” (https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/list-trumps-accusers-allegations-sexual-misconduct/story?id=51956410)
    That when he made up stories about seeing Muslim-Americans in the thousands cheering the destruction of the World Trade Center, you said, “Not an issue.” (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2015/11/22/donald-trumps-outrageous-claim-that-thousands-of-new-jersey-muslims-celebrated-the-911-attacks/)
    That when you saw him brag that he could shoot a man on Fifth Avenue and you wouldn’t care, you exclaimed, “He sure knows me.” (https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/10/23/president-donald-trump-could-shoot-someone-without-prosecution/4073405002/)
    That when you heard him relating a story of an elderly guest of his country club, an 80-year old man, who fell off a stage and hit his head, to Trump replied: “‘Oh my God, that’s disgusting,’ and I turned away. I couldn’t—you know, he was right in front of me, and I turned away. I didn’t want to touch him. He was bleeding all over the place. And I felt terrible, because it was a beautiful white marble floor, and now it had changed color. Became very red.” You said, “That’s cool!” (https://www.gq.com/story/donald-trump-howard-stern-story)
    That when you saw him mock the disabled, you thought it was the funniest thing you ever saw. (https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/donald-trump-criticized-after-he-appears-mock-reporter-serge-kovaleski-n470016)
    That when you heard him brag that he doesn’t read books, you said, “Well, who has time?” (https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/01/americas-first-post-text-president/549794/)
    That when the Central Park Five were compensated as innocent men convicted of a crime they didn’t commit, and he angrily said that they should still be in prison, you said, “That makes sense.” (https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/06/19/what-trump-has-said-central-park-five/1501321001/)
    That when you heard him tell his supporters to beat up protesters and that he would hire attorneys, you thought, “Yes!” (https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-trump-campaign-protests-20160313-story.html)
    That when you heard him tell one rally to confiscate a man’s coat before throwing him out into the freezing cold, you said, “What a great guy!” (https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/donald-trump-orders-protesters-coat-is-confiscated-and-he-is-sent-into-the-cold-a6802756.html)
    That you have watched the parade of neo-Nazis and white supremacists with whom he curries favor, while refusing to condemn outright Nazis, and you have said, “Thumbs up!” (https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/08/why-cant-trump-just-condemn-nazis/567320/)
    That you hear him unable to talk to foreign dignitaries without insulting their countries and demanding that they praise his electoral win, you said, “That’s the way I want my President to be.” (https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-insult-foreign-countries-leaders_n_59dd2769e4b0b26332e76d57)
    That you have watched him remove expertise from all layers of government in favor of people who make money off of eliminating protections in the industries they’re supposed to be regulating and you have said, “What a genius!” (https://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2017/12/29/138-trump-policy-changes-2017-000603)
    That you have heard him continue to profit from his businesses, in part by leveraging his position as President, to the point of overcharging the Secret Service for space in the properties he owns, and you have said, “That’s smart!” (https://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2018-03-05/how-is-donald-trump-profiting-from-the-presidency-let-us-count-the-ways)
    That you have heard him say that it was difficult to help Puerto Rico because it was in the middle of water and you have said, “That makes sense.” (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/09/26/the-very-big-ocean-between-here-and-puerto-rico-is-not-a-perfect-excuse-for-a-lack-of-aid/)
    That you have seen him start fights with every country from Canada to New Zealand while praising Russia and quote, “falling in love” with the dictator of North Korea, and you have said, “That’s statesmanship!” (https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/02/politics/donald-trump-dictators-kim-jong-un-vladimir-putin/index.html)
    That Trump separated children from their families and put them in cages, managed to lose track of 1500 kids, has opened a tent city incarceration camp in the desert in Texas – he explains that they’re just “animals” – and you say, “Well, OK then.” (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/more-5-400-children-split-border-according-new-count-n1071791)
    That you have witnessed all the thousand and one other manifestations of corruption and low moral character and outright animalistic rudeness and contempt for you, the working American voter, and you still show up grinning and wearing your MAGA hats and threatening to beat up anybody who says otherwise. (https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/democracy/reports/2018/06/04/451570/confronting-cost-trumps-corruption-american-families/)
    What you don’t get, Trump supporters, is that our succumbing to frustration and shaking our heads, thinking of you as stupid, may very well be wrong and unhelpful, but it’s also… hear me… charitable.
    Because if you’re NOT stupid, we must turn to other explanations, and most of them are less flattering.
    They are in a cult.
    They like to label other people criminals but they elected to love a criminal.
    They like to label other people rapists, but they elected to love a rapist.

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  3. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    I don’t recall any time on this blog you have opposed Trump Gregory. You even support him over the opinion of the Libertarian CATO institute when they say:
    “Congress should see these green card applicants as a historic opportunity to unleash the economic potential of immigrants. Approving all existing applicants and increasing legal immigration nearly five fold would shield the United States from many adverse consequences of demographic decline and reduce illegal immigration”
    https://www.cato.org/briefing-paper/green-card-approval-rate-reaches-record-lows
    this is the philosophy of CATO
    “Since 1977, the Cato Institute has been one of the most effective voices in Washington, DC, advocating individual liberty. From media appearances in major outlets, conferences, and book publishing to top-quality research and engagement on Capitol Hill and with key agencies, Cato has successfully injected the libertarian perspective into mainstream policy debates in Washington, DC, and across the country.”
    https://www.cato.org/about

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  4. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    WINNING –
    “Upon consideration of Plaintiffs’ Application for a Temporary Restraining Order, Defendants’ response thereto, and all other pertinent papers, and upon a determination that Plaintiffs have not clearly shown a likelihood that immediate and irreparable harm would occur before consideration of their Motion for Preliminary Injunction, it is hereby ORDERED that Plaintiffs’ Application is DENIED,” the three-judge panel ruled.
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/application-is-denied-trump-wins-victory-over-businesses-that-aimed-to-stop-tariffs-with-trade-court-lawsuit/ar-AA1DtgiY?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=18eb300d74fc45308d01a0a6c030e53e&ei=60
    😉

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  5. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    I have to admit i love the socialist dems have chose this piece of trash –
    Deported ‘Maryland man’ championed by Dems was pulled over driving car belonging to human smuggler
    DHS sources confirmed that Abrego Garcia was pulled over driving an SUV belonging to confessed human smuggler and illegal alien Jose Ramon Hernandez Reyes
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/deported-maryland-man-championed-dems-pulled-over-driving-car-belonging-human-smuggler
    😉

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  6. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Its been a crack up to see comrade bernie have to drop the millionaires from his millionaires and billionaire rants since he is a millionaire now! LOL But like good little limousine liberal he flys private. Where are the eco nuts when the littles congressional commie critter and comrade bernie fly private? If not for double standards they would have none! ROFLOL
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/aoc-and-bernie-sanders-blasted-for-7-million-private-jet-use-after-slamming-trump-as-an-oligarch/ar-AA1Dun2c?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=ab2d1cf7dfc54682afc6ae6c953aa7c5&ei=181
    😉

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  7. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Trumps in a Dump
    Check out todays RCP polling averages that show 13 0f 16 polls have negative job approval numbers for Trump
    https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/approval/donald-trump/approval-rating

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  8. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Trump has slipped by 11 points since January

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  9. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Punch…
    There’s nothing for the poll to measure. He’ll be president until ’29…

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  10. Resurrected Hillbilly Avatar
    Resurrected Hillbilly

    Trump is the Neville Chamberlain of our time.
    https://www.theatlantic.com/

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  11. Resurrected Hillbilly Avatar
    Resurrected Hillbilly

    Kleptocracy President, notice the silence from MAGAloons
    …but Hunter Biden
    https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/23/trump-coin-surges-50percent-after-president-promises-dinner-with-top-holders.html

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  12. Resurrected Hillbilly Avatar
    Resurrected Hillbilly

    It’s all about attention seeking for money,
    Impeach Trump… Republicans need to step up.
    But Bumblebrain…
    https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/04/trump-kleptocracy-autocracy-inc/682281/

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  13. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Jeff…
    Couldn’t get back to sleep?
    Hangover?

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  14. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Ned Beatty | 24 April 2025 at 06:13 AM
    Idaho fascists…

    See dugsKKKi…..this is where my confusion begins…..I have to wonder if your preoccupation with fascists stems from a repressed desire to be manhandled and bound with zip-ties by three burly Idaho Republicans.
    Hey anybody seen George Boardman recently…..he was supposed to raise the level of discourse round these here parts?

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  15. fish Avatar
    fish

    Not a penny less for transgender Operas in Columbia but milk testing gets short shrift…..

    FDA milk quality testing suspended after job cuts…

    Gotta make you wonder about progressive America’s real intentions? It’s a little bit like paying Park Rangers to try and block peoples view of national monuments during the last big budget standoff!
    Sorry….it’s the “Grauniad”!
    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/22/fda-milk-quality-testing-suspended

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  16. Resurrected Hillbilly Avatar
    Resurrected Hillbilly

    Sardine logic…

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  17. Resurrected Hillbilly Avatar
    Resurrected Hillbilly

    People are done with Donald Duck,
    https://x.com/puntillazofinal/status/1914666031890522502

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  18. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Gently Penetrated Hillbilly | 24 April 2025 at 07:51 AM
    Sardine logic…

    No formal logic required!
    I always assumed you’d pick the Opera….Than Francithco Valuths and all! At least until you could arrange the light bondage play with the Idahoans!
    Is it better for you if you yell about politics during….I mean at least until they can get the ball gag in place?

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  19. Resurrected Hillbilly Avatar
    Resurrected Hillbilly

    GREATEST GENERATION’S ANTITHESIS: US
    They were born inflicted with the effects of “The War to End All Wars”, in adolescence endured The Great Depression, then in adulthood crushed the tyranny of a megalomaniac on path to conquer the world, shamed Soviet tyranny, blazed a path to equality for all in Civil Rights, put a man on the moon, and their children in schools where teachers were the boss while making us the envy of the world.
    The Greatest now gone, the pendulum swung to us, a new generation that cuddles suppression, trashes science, education and truth, in an angry, nonsensical tirade where the pain for all has only just begun!
    Richard Kimball

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  20. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Progressives doing progressive things.
    “Jewish students aren’t allowed to walk through Yale’s campus anymore!”
    https://x.com/NetanelCrispe/status/1914922140987494785

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  21. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Not So Gently Penetrated Hillbilly | 24 April 2025 at 09:03 AM

    GREATEST GENERATION’S ANTITHESIS: US
    They were born inflicted with the effects of “The War to End All Wars”, in adolescence endured The Great Depression, then in adulthood crushed the tyranny of a megalomaniac on path to conquer the world, shamed Soviet tyranny, blazed a path to equality for all in Civil Rights, put a man on the moon, and their children in schools where teachers were the boss while making us the envy of the world.
    The Greatest now gone, the pendulum swung to us, a new generation that cuddles suppression, trashes science, education and truth, in an angry, nonsensical tirade where the pain for all has only just begun!


    It seems kinda wordy for when you’re all naked and sweaty…..but it explains the gag! You have interesting hobbies!

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  22. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “Elizabeth Warren has no problem going on TV before an election and calling for Jerome Powell to lower interest rates.
    When Trump publicly calls for a rate cut, Warren goes back on TV and attacks him for it. She is such a fraud.”

    https://x.com/mazemoore/status/1914812475364794432

    Our Lords and Masters do crack me up. Bummer that the feds are so intertwined in everyday life anymore, but that’s a natural side effect of the American Civil War and the GreatdepressionWWII I suppose.
    I don’t expect any local liberals to defend Warren since her grift should be obvious to anyone, but Senator Karen does make me laugh. Her only saving grace is that she looks and sounds so much like the local Town Hall ‘activists’.

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  23. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    and…in the things that probably shouldn’t be legal department:
    “Amazing that despite all their warnings of an impending Handmaid’s Tale dystopia Democrats are the party that gay men vote for to ensure continued access to young boys they can purchase from their mothers”
    https://x.com/AuronMacintyre/status/1915429252062646417

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  24. fish Avatar
    fish

    Oh my…..looks like India and Pakistan are about to jump ugly!
    Wonder how this will impact transgenders in the US?

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  25. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Well. I’ll be.
    https://www.piratewires.com/p/tesla-takedown-tied-to-shortsellers
    You know, every time I read this sort of thing, probably a dozen times a day, I remind myself why there’s absolutely no point in compromise with progressives.
    You are simply fighting with fanatics, and any give they’ll take.

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  26. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Anyone get a load of that Soros Prosecutor who decided that it’s A-OK to key Teslas?
    “…On Monday, April 21, Moriarty announced that her office would be deferring prosecution in exchange for Adams’ participation in a pre-charge diversion program.
    The Star Tribune reported that Moriarty defended her decision, saying that the goal in these types of cases is “to hold the person accountable for keying the car, get restitution to the people affected, and avoid felony convictions when possible, because it can waylay someone’s life.”
    That reasoning from Moriarty was purely surface level, and it failed to hold up to scrutiny for a single day.
    In a bit of sound reporting, the Star Tribune also noted that on the very day Moriarty deferred charges against Adams’s six separate crimes totaling $21,000, Moriarty charged a 19-year-old Brooklyn Park female with no prior criminal history, with felony damage to property for a single incident of keying a co-worker’s car and causing $7,000 in damage….”
    https://www.americanexperiment.org/mary-moriarty-no-stranger-to-controversy/

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  27. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    I mean, it just never ends.
    “A City Journal investigation confirms that Princeton has, in fact, entrenched a system of racial discrimination and segregation. We have obtained more than a dozen internal documents and conducted interviews with a half-dozen employees, who confirm that the university has flagrantly violated the principles of the Civil Rights Act in the name of “social justice.””
    https://www.city-journal.org/article/princeton-university-christopher-l-eisgruber-dei-civil-rights
    But, that Trump guy, didn’t he say something about bleach?

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  28. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Hamstringing the piglet –
    Politics
    Democrats’ vice chair gets ultimatum: stay neutral in primaries or step down from party leadership
    DNC Chair: ‘We can’t be both the referee, and also the player at the same time’
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/democrats-vice-chair-gets-ultimatum-neutral-primaries-down-party-leadership
    😉

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  29. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    You know, back in the days before I got to read missives from local progressive jackwagons on George’s, I never would have guessed that someday a mouth covering would be used not only for anonymity, but as a kind of uniform. I guess they’re called ‘nuisance masks’ for a reason.
    “Jewish students are once again being blocked from walking around on Yale’s campus!”
    https://x.com/NetanelCrispe/status/1914896775804031162

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  30. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Here’s a direct quote from Trump ““When I win, I will immediately bring prices down, starting on day one,”
    How is he doing on that promise Scenes?

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  31. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Starting on day one… he didn’t say it would be finished on day 2 or even that month or year.
    I think he did what he promised to do.

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  32. Resurrected Hillbilly Avatar
    Resurrected Hillbilly

    Trump may have been speaking figuratively about Day One,
    but, regardless, it has been a shit show to date.

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  33. Resurrected Hillbilly Avatar
    Resurrected Hillbilly

    SecDef Fox News alumni Hogsbreath is a screamer.
    Fired his own bro hires,
    The ex drunk is a shit show

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  34. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Basking in the afterglow of a night of hot Idahoan on geriatric California Hillbilly love| 25 April 2025 at 06:45 AM
    Trump may have been speaking figuratively about Day One, regardless, it has been a shit show to date.

    You don’t have to keep selling me on the Tangerine Tornado dugsKKKi…..I’m already a fan!

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  35. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: fish | 25 April 2025 at 06:56 AM
    geriatric California Hillbilly…

    …..geriatric Californian…!
    Apple autocorrect sucks harder than Kamala Harris working her way up the Democrat political ladder!

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  36. Resurrected Hillbilly Avatar
    Resurrected Hillbilly

    The Gay Sardine,
    ‘You don’t have to keep selling me on the Tangerine Tornado’
    How about Hogsbreath? New info out, Fox News Douche had private Internet line installed, bypassing govt. security so he could get on to Signal and porn sites.

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  37. Resurrected Hillbilly Avatar
    Resurrected Hillbilly

    A Shinning Golden Dome on a Hill,
    Try to keep it in your pants Sardine,
    Exclusive: US Congress Republicans seek $27 billion for Golden Dome in Trump tax bill – https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/us-congress-republicans-seek-27-billion-golden-dome-trump-tax-bill-2025-04-24/

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  38. Resurrected Hillbilly Avatar
    Resurrected Hillbilly

    Sardine, your MAGA hero George Santos gets sentenced today.

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  39. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Weak Sauce Porkbelly| 25 April 2025 at 07:07 AM
    The Gay Sardine

    I really hate it when you make me feel sorry for you…..”gay sardine”? What….”That’s you but what am I” was too challenging for you?
    How about Hogsbreath? New info out, Fox News Douche had private Internet line installed, bypassing govt. security so he could get on to Signal and porn sites.
    Get back to me when you can show me the hand wringing you indulged in over the unsecured Clinton private server or classified document trove stored in the trunk of the Bidenmobile behind the heavily secured doors of the Fort Delaware beach house! Frankly I’m more disturbed about the porn! Not because it’s porn but because it’s stupid!

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  40. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Enervated Crapbilly | 25 April 2025 at 07:17 AM
    Sardine, your MAGA hero George Santos gets sentenced today.

    Not my MAGA hero dugsKKKi!
    I’ve long maintained that Santos problems would be long behind him if he had only switched political sides. Since most of his moral failings are democrat virtues the entirety of the democrat power structure and Walking Dead Media would have rallied behind him!

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  41. Scott O Avatar

    “Exclusive: US Congress Republicans seek $27 billion for Golden Dome in Trump tax bill”
    Wow – 27 billion for our nation’s defense.
    Just horrible – don’t the Rs realize how much grift and corruption you can get with that kind of money instead of some stupid defense system?
    Pretty sure defense spending is one of the items the Constitution mandates.
    Just to put the 27B in perspective:
    “But even as “Acting” Secretary of Labor, Su forgave $32.6 billion of California’s debt.”
    https://californiaglobe.com/fr/its-time-former-acting-labor-secretary-julie-su-faces-heat-for-californias-pandemic-fraud/
    The Dems can piss away 27B every month and PorkBelly wouldn’t even know or care.

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