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What the actual fuck?

It's what's expected of the vain, horrible people who populate the World's Worst Deliberative Body.

Oh come on, I'm sure the Baileys thought it was a thigh-slapper.

Almost?

The US #Senate is the world's worst deliberative body.

The only way this Republic can be saved is to have it taken out back and shot in its present form. It must be replaced with a representative body, not a 1660-1832esque version of England's House of Lords.

Until then we are fcrewn.

*FRCREWN*.

I'm not sure how many times I'm going to have to call the Senate "the world's worst deliberative body" before the day is out, but I sure ain't done yet.

We're going to need concentration camps for all the guys who tried to send people to concentration camps.

Yeah, that pay for about a...

What was I saying? Oh right. That's how much money you'd save, it'd pay for about a half-second of PPACA subsidies. If that.

Let's not go there.

I want my representative, if I ever get one again (Carolyn Bourdeaux was ok) to be decently compensated.

Representative Mccormick

Is there an elected Republican medical doctor who isn't a complete and utter dick?

Speaking of which, one of my favorites, someone who is actually *named* "Doctor Dick"!

mccormick.house.gov

"I piss on your FSAs."
The only appropriate response.

Cruel, but fair.

Better not be.

Always gonna have some crooks.

Do you maintain a residence in one the most expensive metro areas in the country + a separate residence elsewhere, for where your family lives full time while you're away?

Also, if you think they don't need qualifications, you can probably count on representatives living down to your expectations.

C’mon now, My Sharona clearly sounds more like a Republican’s anthem.
“I always get it up for the touch of the younger kind.”

As long as MAGAts keep deluding themselves, they're gonna have to take that particular incoming fire, which is always gonna be true

I fucking hate that meme. If I have to explain you obviously don't know me at all.

Yeah please don't repeat that nonsense. They draw a shit income as it is (based on their living expenses and necessary qualifications) and we should pay them like*professionals* rather than making them dependent on graft.

Screenshot from Wednesday's Fox News coverage.

Oooh I'm bad at math, must participate.

So she says.

You might consider passing this one along to your liberal friends who think the NYT is the cat's pajamas.

Come on, you have one or six who still do, right?

Concur.

Regarding what his contact with the NYT yielded, it was:

"a piece making the various more or less bovine noises of studious grey-lady impartiality, with the labor of anything resembling 'appraisal' surgically excised."

Apparently. I sure as shit ain't reading it.

The LOL-phunn-iest part of Wal*Mart Turkey-Daygate, of course, was Donnie pretending that this particular retail marketing package was a rock-solid economic indicator.

When we know it's just something one of his butt-boys brought up during a briefing, dimly remembered and messed up in delivery.

...and that's what his FRIENDS call him!

Oh wait, that joke doesn't work. He has no friends.

Trump kicks his golf ball back on the course so much that caddies have nicknamed him 'Pelé' The latest Speed Read,/speed-reads,,speed-reads, breaking news, comment, reviews and features from the experts at The Week

"the deal wizard" is good. In this context I vastly prefer "Pelé"

Re: your stated hopes for a responsible, caring GOP?

I've similar hopes for a herd of sparkle-ponies prancing on my front lawn 'round a Skittles fountain

Both are as likely to show up in the next year.

theweek.com/speedreads/8...

Put his breathable air supply on "pause".

FORCED-birth. Never forget to include that. Maternal mortality figures alone reveal what a lie "pro-life" ALWAYS was.

They hate women and want them to be nothing more than vessels for white baby production and subservience between deliveries.

[Narrator] But they never protected the children.

We can't always count on the Republicans' collective cluelessness and stupidity to make things so easy for us, but boy howdy, it's a nice-to-have.