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Joe, nihilistic Republican'ts NEVER believed in State's Rights, except when it favored Republican'ts.

Before the so-called "Sanctuary Cities", the entirety of environmental regulations is premised on State's Rights: that one state should not be allowed to pollute another.

These guys riding in the back of rental box trucks are going to get seriously fucked up if not killed when said rental box trucks experience a "rapid unscheduled disassembly".

You might not like seatbelts, but they keep you from cracking skulls with your ride mates.

MTG's "unaffordable" is a feature not a bug, do recall: Republicans intentionally dragged down incomes qualified to receive tax credits, because they are Republicans. They ask if MGT has refrigerator and a TV, remember that?

MTG and her family make too much money to qualify. Thanks Obama!

Oh but, (says a colleague and his wife who have dual citizen ship with Italy, about whether or not he's bailing to Italy) you have to wait in line for health care!

I didn't even bother arguing with him about it, I'm so tired of hearing the Big Healthcare propaganda, over and over and over...

Stiffing hospitals for ER services, because "illegal aliens" isn't the pwn goal Mike's Johnson thinks it is.

Sound to me like a great argument for universal health care? Let's have a convo about that, Mike's Johnson, before you go ripping the public swimming pools out.

I mean public hospitals.

They are SOOO close to getting it, but never will.

Upton Sinclair rolls in his grave.

Nuclear power? Steam engine. Not so different from the coal powered steam turbine the hot shot Chinese engineering student showed me.

I'll give you solar power is gettin' out of the cave.

Do remember that just before the election, he was asking if he could just hand over the keys to both McCain and Obama, due to his and his pals' Wall Street "investment instrument" idiocy, plunging the country into recession.

A petroleum moonshine operation it is.

I had a 2nd gen. Chinese housemate from NYC's Chinatown that was so damned smart he was interning at the local power plant. Showed me drawings of the power plant: a steam engine on steroids.

Very weird how little we've changed from the caveman days.

We are *ALL* Reality Winner now.

Thank you for your service to the Republic, if we can keep it.

PSA: If you think your business plan is failing due to taxes, regulation and/or payroll, maybe the problem is with your business plan, and not the taxes, regulation and/or payroll.

Playing that "I post-dated payroll, plz don't cash 'til Monday" game? Gaming the system is not a business plan.

IYKYK? Mark Hamill wins the internet today.

IYKYK? Mark Hamill wins the internet today:

This is how ass kissers survive: by virtue of the boss that wants to be your friend. It's such a morale killer too, because it immediately sets the stage for favoritism.

Do yourself a favor and don't be friends with your staff. It never ends well.

They shout from the rooftops that the Democrats are drinking the blood of children.

Republicans have never met a projection they didn't like.

"The president was making a joke, okay?"

Yeah, the "president" made you a real joke, Mr. "Sqeaker"? Awesome "trapped mouse" look on you face! It is really going serve as confidence building for the GQP, no?

This is true. But it's also the stupid.

I tried to explain to a staffer a *decade ago* that intersex people really are a thing, who are routinely sex assigned at birth. He says "Well, that can't happen THAT much!", to which I then had to explain that in a country of 300 million, what's that mean?

That's what happens when you begin adulthood at 14, after reading Fountainhead and acquiring the entire universe's knowledge from doing so.

Tariffs go into the General Fund at Treasury. If the $17 trillion exists, that's where it is.

Make a lot more sense now why he's trying to fire Treasury Commissioners.

From the industry that "both sides" bullshit to accommodate flat earthers, that has internalized the idea that "reality has a liberal bias", the industry drunk on the "Green Lantern Effect" that thinks things happen "by force of will", this is shaming who?

Say Soros if you mean Soros.

I'm still trying to figure out what "tariff money" he's referring to, which by definition is paid by the importer, into the General Fund of the U.S. Treasury for CONGRESS to determine it's use.

It makes a whole lot more sense now why he wants to fire Treasury Commissioners.

Trump’s speech to the generals and admirals: I don’t even know where to begin “Unhinged” is one word I heard on the news shows describing Trump’s speech this morning.

"It’s not really worth quoting any more of his lies and nonsense, because you’ve heard it before, heard it too many times."

Trump’s speech to the generals and admirals: I don’t even know where to begin open.substack.com/pub/luciantr...

It's the same fiction trotted out by those who oppose affirmative action: the fiction that equal standards are not, in fact, equal standards.

Equality looks like oppression, and all that...

I've tried for years to reach MAGA staffers, including a mechanic that I have failed to convince oil is not the planet's lubrication. He's anti-vax, of course.

Lies are easy to believe when you are unable to comprehend the truth.

There's one of Trump's "fat soldiers" right there. To the gentleman on the right: "fat, dumb and unconstitutional is no way to go through life"

Funny how the most powerful man in the world can't use the N word.

I'm not sure I want to know what the other N word is, but I'm sure it also has 2 or more syllables, because that's why he "can't use either one of them".

Golden escalator should have been the end of it. We are a sorry excuse of a country, if you can still call it that.

Trump can't say "deplorables" because it has more than one syllable. "Bad" it is, because it's one syllable, his favorite number of syllables.

"Straight outta casting!" is going to be the death of us all...

I can guarantee you no general is thinking "WHAT THE FUCK IS HE TALKING ABOUT?" because they know damned well "WHAT THE FUCK IS HE TALKING ABOUT?".

If generals don't know "WHAT THE FUCK IS HE TALKING ABOUT?", then they are lying. They train for this, but it usually happens elsewhere.