(June 18, 2025 at 12:25 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: “It’s time to take back our community and our state and put the power and the privilege in the hands of competent leaders whose goals are to protect us and the way of life this nation was founded upon and promises to offer.”

https://www.the-independent.com/news/wor...71703.html

(My bolding.) Does Gibson mean like Donald Trump and his sycophants? Donald Trump, who doesn't even understand the Constitution?

(June 18, 2025 at 4:16 am)Alan V Wrote:

(June 18, 2025 at 12:25 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: “It’s time to take back our community and our state and put the power and the privilege in the hands of competent leaders whose goals are to protect us and the way of life this nation was founded upon and promises to offer.”

https://www.the-independent.com/news/wor...71703.html

(My bolding.)  Does Gibson mean like Donald Trump and his sycophants?  Donald Trump, who doesn't even understand the Constitution?

Of course that's what he means. What else could he mean?

Boru

(June 18, 2025 at 5:11 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:

(June 18, 2025 at 4:16 am)Alan V Wrote: (My bolding.)  Does Gibson mean like Donald Trump and his sycophants?  Donald Trump, who doesn't even understand the Constitution?

Of course that's what he means. What else could he mean?

Boru

I don't see much alignment between Trump and the founding fathers.  Gibson is an idiot.

Quote:Hawley and other Republicans have complained for weeks that the House cuts to Medicaid went too far and called for changes, but those warnings appeared to have little impact on Thune or Senate Finance Committee Chair Mike Crapo (R-Idaho).

Instead, Thune and Crapo sided with conservatives, such as Sens. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) and Roger Marshall (R-Kan.), who called for deeper spending cuts than what the House passed.  

GOP lawmakers and aides ascribed Thune’s decision to add even bigger spending cuts in the bill to his sensitivity to the broad desire within the Senate Republican conference for more deficit reduction.

Some Senate GOP sources note that Thune won his contested race to become Senate majority leader in November by picking up more support from conservatives than his chief rival, Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas).

But perhaps a more important factor in Thune’s decision to move in the direction of deeper Medicaid spending cuts is that one of his top priorities is to make several corporate tax cuts in the bill permanent.

Making those tax breaks permanent requires finding hundreds of billions of dollars in spending cuts to offset the cost and comply with the Senate’s Byrd rule, which does not allow provisions passed under the special budget reconciliation process to add to the deficit outside the 10-year budget window.

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5355...dita-cuts/

^It’s almost as if they want to kill off the people who won’t vote for them for trying to kill them off.

Boru

(June 18, 2025 at 12:05 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: ^It’s almost as if they want to kill off the people who won’t vote for them for trying to kill them off.

Boru

The rural poor here where I live -- there aren't many, to be fair -- tend to support Trump.

(June 18, 2025 at 12:45 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:

(June 18, 2025 at 12:05 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: ^It’s almost as if they want to kill off the people who won’t vote for them for trying to kill them off.

Boru

The rural poor here where I live -- there aren't many, to be fair -- tend to support Trump.

It's more like the orange idiot and team know how tv works, seeks to dominate the, what in the before times would have been called discourse. The sauce is reducing everything to an absolute. Make it easy for the aggrieved to understand. Make a show every day. You're with the fanta fascist or you're the enemy. Keep it simple.

(June 18, 2025 at 3:39 pm)Nanny Wrote:

(June 18, 2025 at 12:45 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: The rural poor here where I live -- there aren't many, to be fair -- tend to support Trump.

It's more like the orange idiot and team know how tv works, seeks to dominate the, what in the before times would have been called discourse. The sauce is reducing everything to an absolute. Make it easy for the aggrieved to understand. Make a show every day. You're with the fanta fascist or you're the enemy. Keep it simple.

Yep. The Big Lie works. And, as I've pointed out elsewhere, Trump supporters love him because he gives them space to vent their bigotries. It's sad to say, but they will pay for the privilege of being openly racist.

(June 18, 2025 at 12:45 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:

(June 18, 2025 at 12:05 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: ^It’s almost as if they want to kill off the people who won’t vote for them for trying to kill them off.

Boru

The rural poor here where I live -- there aren't many, to be fair -- tend to support Trump.

They support him now, certainly. When the BBB passes and they lose food aid and medical care, it may be a different story.

Boru

^ Right. More Democrat leaders will get shot.