This has been the extent of republican's negotiating. "Give us everything we want, and nothing you want, or else no deal".

I'd like to think that, if he were to drop to the floor, everyone in the room would ignore him, and look away.

Do they really think immigrants with serious medical conditions would want to come to the country with the most expensive health care costs in the world?

He's also one of those old school Democrats who fear the word "socialist" as much as the republicans.

It's another attempt to make everyone suffer more from the "democrat's" shutdown. He wants the country to feel as much pain as possible, so he can continue to blame them.

If trump told tuberville to eat his dirty undershorts, tuberville would do it without a second thought.

Now they're starving them as well.

I have seen no evidence that he knows anything about anything, except how to bullshit.

So then we punch him when he's down. That's what he and the other republicans do to everybody else, good Christians that they are.

... and more time to, perhaps, do their jobs for a change. REPEAL CITIZENS UNITED!

Many democratic countries limit the length of their campaigns, including Canada, Mexico, the U.K., and Japan. Doing so would give us all a mental break from the noise associated with it. It would also give candidates less time to spin their "beliefs" based on what all the polls say.

Even a scoundrel of his magnitude has a small speck of decency. I haven't yet seen one in the current POTUS.

When discussing the economy under Biden, it should always be noted that he inherited a pandemic that was rapidly spinning out of control, and that the entire world economy was suffering badly from it. It wasn't just in the U.S.

It's strange that someone like Adams, who got wealthy by slamming corporate culture and practices day after day, would come out in support of these waste products of that same culture.

What he said Part 2: 💯 🎯

hegseth has no idea how transparent he is being about how trump wants to run the D.O.D. "Ask no questions, and we will tell no lies" comes to mind.

With the level of cheating republicans seem to be planning, their outlook for the midterms could indeed be "fine".

The clergy are just doing their job by getting in the face of the oppressive and criminal "ICE" agents. johnson should stop complaining about them, and do his own job for a change.

the trump bureau of labor statistics........... 🙈🙉🙊

They are doing their best to purge the military of all who are not loyal to this president.

That's been trump's m.o. all along. 1st he creates a huge problem, or makes a small problem much worse. Next, he makes a big show of his superior negotiating skills. Finally, he brings the situation half way back to it's original state, and declares a stunning victory. "Problem solved!!!!"

The key word here is "little".

We’ve got to look beyond Trump and look at the puppeteers controlling him! Federalist Society, the Heritage Foundation and all the billionaires that have a stake in this while making LARGE sums of money and will continue to do so with this unbelievable corrupt regime!!! SCOTUS, senators, congressman

“America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, 'It ain’t no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.' It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by the American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters. The meanest eating or drinking establishment, owned by a man who is himself poor, is very likely to have a sign on its wall asking this cruel question: 'if you’re so smart, why ain’t you rich?' There will also be an American flag no larger than a child’s hand – glued to a lollipop stick and flying from the cash register. Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge how in fact hard money is to come by, and, therefore, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves. This inward blame has been a treasure for the rich and powerful, who have had to do less for their poor, publicly and privately, than any other ruling class since, say Napoleonic times. Many novelties have come from America. The most startling of these, a thing without precedent, is a mass of undignified poor. They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.”

reading slaughterhouse 5 for the first time and i was absolutely knocked senseless by this passage, which is so true and relevant that it feels like it was pulled from a history book

Funny how none of the people running the country have ever been in need of anything, yet they all claim to have great empathy for those of us who have.

The republicans, on the other hand, want to "make America great" as if it weren't great already. They are literally tearing it apart, from our system of governance, to our historic buildings. They ignore our laws and have no regard for the will, or wellbeing of the people. So, who hates America?

Maybe the fact that he's a selfish, ignorant asshole has something to do with it.

We would be infinitely better off if the president would tend to his own business, and stop trying to exert pressure on states over how they conduct their elections. He has no right to do so.