They’re saying that the fact that they folded makes all the harm of the last 40 days meaningless. These 8 motherfuckers waited until extra harm had been done before signing off on the harm caused by getting the ACA.

This outcome is the worst possible. If they’d been spineless 6 weeks ago they’d still be traitors, but this is somehow even worse.

“We ensured a vote!”

Bullshit. Even if the vote happens, it won’t pass, and even if it did, Trump could veto it. This was the one chance to save the ACA and also to really damage Trumpism. The shutdown was devastating to the GOP and the Dems would have won eventually just like in 2019, but instead these 8 traitors are handing the country over when they’ve just had their only real opportunity to fight this administration.

Fuck them all. Every single one of them should be ejected from the caucus.

He’s lying, but also between healthcare costs, tarrif-driven inflation, grocery costs, and now cutting off food to millions of Americans $2000 doesn’t mean shit.

Denying people their aid is bad enough. Now they’re trying to take the money back.

I think they legitimately want violence in th street as a pretense for the Insurrection Act.

The government that needs its shit sorted most isn’t US allies

It is discriminatory. And that’s how Trumpers like it. The greatness the MAGA movement wants to return the country to is Jim Crow, segregation, child labor, etc.

They want you back in the mines with no PPE or health plan. You are expected to work until you’re no longer useful, and then immediately die.

The thing about UU is that it is kinda both because it was made from the merger of Unitarians, who were a Christian sect and Univesalists who were not specifically religious.

It’s weird and lovely. I know a lot of clergy from other faiths who attend UU churches in retirement because they want the fellowship, but don’t want to be the defacto “backup preacher.”

We’re never happy.

Covid convinced me we’re done.

We couldn’t even get people to wear a fucking mask to protect themselves from a disease they saw killing their neighbors. Shit - we can’t get them to allow other people to wear a mask.

Thet can buy non-NFA rifles or shotguns. They cannot buy handguns.

You really, super-duper don’t know what you’re talking about if you think an 18yo can walk into a gun store and buy a handgun.

It’s been illegal to sell a handgun to anyone under 21 everywhere in the US for decades. The Governor of Florida can’t change that.

Yeah, they can say it isn’t against Florida law, but the ATF super duper doesn’t care about Florida’s little make-believe firearm deregulation.

Gun ownership age has been 18 since there was a gun ownership age.

21 only applies to handguns and certain specific other weapons like NFA items and unlassified “firearms” (guns that aren’t classified as pistols, rifles or shotguns - mostly firearm receivers or a few weird stockless “shotguns” that don’t actually fit the shotgun definition).

A judge issued a retraining order preventing Trump from deploying the Guard to Portland while the legal fight over it continues.

The Trump admin appealed that order. Their argument was that the administration couldn’t otherwise enforce federal law. Their evidence they needed manpower from the guard was that they’d had to deploy 115 federal protection service officers (25% of the entire country’s manpower) from other posts around the country to try and maintain order. The 9th circuit panel agreed that was compelling and put a stay on the restraining order.

But the 9th circuit since learned that they hadn’t actually deployed those 115 officers.

Since that was the basis of the decision, the stay was lifted, and the restraining order is back in effect.

Don’t forget he was talking about public shootings when it happened.

A lot of the confusion comes from the fact that the FBI refers to is personnel as agents, whereas “agent” means something entirely different to the CIA.

CIA agents aren’t employees of the CIA, but are people in other positions that are being used by the CIA. This can include informants, spies, etc.

I was in Costco the other day, and there were a shocking number of people loudly complaining about prices. Usually people in the store will keep it to themselves, or maybe grumble a bit and move on. But they were truly getting worked up.

GOP is really playing it stupidly. The number one way to get violently overthrown is to make it hard for people to put food on their plates.

CIA agents aren’t government employees.

He’s deploying the military against his own people for protesting his crimes against humanity…

The cool thing about inflation is it hides shitty stock market performance.

The greater the inflation, the more stocks and GDP go up!

Reality has a well-known liberal bias. So of course it’s on the Republican’s enemy list.