Miscellaneous And Off Topic Subjects

[THE_WIZARD_]

DSL...do us all a favor and pull your lips over your head and swallow...

[Dr. Strangelove]

The Mike Lindell/Kari Lake lawsuit trying to force Arizona to count all ballots by hand got denied cert by the US Supreme Court yesterday (she lost at every other level in the court system too). Only took them maybe two weeks to throw that turd sammich in the trash. Another big fat loss for crash's gal.

She's in Pensacola tomorrow raising money. Pensacola?!?! Are the Patriots of Arizona out of money, crash?

Arizona GOP Senate candidate Kari Lake to host event in north Florida this week (flvoicenews.com)

[Dr. Strangelove]

He doesn't strike me as the self-immolating type.

Figuratively, not literally. Heh

[Mike]

I was hoping it was Trump

He doesn't strike me as the self-immolating type.

[Dr. Strangelove]

Trump has a post up this morning complaining about the strong US dollar. This was a frequent gripe of his even back in his first administration. It remains to be seen if he can actually enact the policies he's touting during the campaign but between this, more tax cuts, and all the tariff stuff, there's lots of reasons to think Trump will make inflation worse. Not better.

Trump trade advisers plot dollar devaluation - POLITICO

Nationalists are obsessed with running trade surpluses and don't care what damage they might do to the economy otherwise.

[Dr. Strangelove]

Seconded

[CGVT]

I was hoping it was Trump

[THE_WIZARD_]

I figured it was CGVT...

[Mike]

I think that guy self-immolated because of Trump. His TDS level was terminal.

[iam416]

There are lots of 9-0 decisions.

Wait, crash wasn't the dude who self-immolated in the name of DJT??????

Fucking hell.

[crashcourse]

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/22-193_q86b.pdf

Nice to see a 9-0

[Mike]

Deft maneuvering!

[Dr. Strangelove]

[THE_WIZARD_]

I'd like to paralyze you.

[Dr. Strangelove]

In light of the quick and overwhelming support for the Ukraine aid package the House passed on Saturday one has to ask two questions: 1, why did it take months to bring this bill to the floor for a vote? 2. Do we really have representative government? Over two years since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, a majority of Americans (58%) continue to support the United States providing military and economic assistance to Ukraine, including eight in 10 Democrats (78%) and a slight majority of Independents (54%).

That we are even talking about the problems the bill faced in congress ignores the second question. We simply don't have representative government. When a handful of right wing whackos can derail the concept of representative government is, to me, astonishing.

It's because McCarthy allowed changes to House rules that made it significantly easier for just a handful of assholes to repeatedly paralyze the govt.