Not that much of a mystery, really. Putin has had Donnie’s nuts in a vise since the 80s.

Yes, knitting needles. We should still be blaming the maniac rather than bitching that the little old lady didn’t do enough.

Amazing, I thought they’d be ghosting they’re their constituents by now.

Edit: I am so ashamed of myself.

Budget bills are not subject to filibuster. There’s not a lot they can do to stop this.

From Budget Reconciliation Explainer

Executive Summary

In the 119th Congress, Republicans might use reconciliation to push through their policy goals.

What is “reconciliation”?

Reconciliation is a tool – a special process – that makes legislation easier to pass in the Senate.

How is it different from a regular bill?

Instead of needing 60 votes, a reconciliation bill only needs a simple majority in the Senate.

People really need to stop blaming the Democrats for not stopping the Republicans for doing evil shit. When an axe-wielding maniac starts killing college co-eds, do you blame the maniac or do you blame the little old lady across the street for not stopping the maniac with her knitting needles. And yes, the Dems are for the most part a bunch of useless little, old ladies because that’s who got elected. Don’t like it? Get more people to vote in the primaries for more pols like AOC and Bernie Sanders. Assuming we ever have any more elections.

i wonder if some of those DINOs dont care about getting re-elected.

Always a possibility when companies can offer ex-politicians cushy lobbying jobs once they’re out of office.

While I am sick to death of posters that keep taking it out an the Dems for not managing to stop the Republican’s evil, I would like to know why they didn’t filibuster. It’s my understanding that they could have done so and held up the approval for an indefinite amount of time. That would have made the news and they could have gone on the talk show circuit harping on everything wrong with this and other nominees.

he spoke up against a polio denier

Because he had polio. This is completely normal Republican behavior. They don’t give a shit about stuff unless it affects them personally.

I did a little more research and I think that the Federal Highway Administration has to approve the tolls. This is from the fhwa.dot.gov website.

Under Title 23 of the United States Code (Highways), there is a general prohibition on the imposition of tolls on Federal-aid highways. However, Title 23 and other statutes have also carved out certain exceptions to this general prohibition through special programs. These programs allow tolling to generate revenue to support highway construction activities and/or enable the use of road pricing for congestion management. If Federal funds have been used or will be used on the highway, then the public authority responsible for the facility must qualify for toll authority under one of these Federal toll programs.

If the tolls are on any roads that used, or will use, federal funds, then FHWA has to approve them. The existing tolls you mentioned are still approved, but the new tolls for congestion management are not now (thanks to Trump).

Trump clearly has dirt on them, plus, if they oppose hime in anyway, they will at minimum get primaried. At worst they’ll get murdered by some MAGAt 2nd amendment zealot. They’re all terrified.

The only hope, if there’s any hope at all, is to get out and promote actual progressives in the primaries and kick out the “center left” assholes that are helping Trump. That,of course, assumes there will ever be anymore elections.

King Trump, indeed.

I don’t know for sure, but I assume it is because the tolls would impact interstate commerce which puts it under federal jurisdiction.

Maybe she’s thinking the crucifix is celebrating execution in general rather than the wrongness of Jesus’ execution. She’s just getting the wrong message from it.

“I would say that it’s pretty standard when you’re downsizing government, you make cuts, you assess those cuts. You see who needs to be rehired, you see who needs to be kept, who needs to be reevaluated.”

Um… It’s standard to fire them and then decide if you should have fired them? That is truly moronic. I just don’t understand how I can think less of these people every time I hear them speak. Is there no bottom? Will they always be able to disappoint me no matter how little I think of them?

Doubly appalling when you consider that the crucifix symbolizes the government murder of Jesus on the cross.

This really shouldn’t surprise anyone at this point.

Nope. It really shouldn’t.

And I’m sure that MAGA scum are cheering about it.

Nothing new here for Trump supporters.

“I voted for him, and he’s the one who’s doing this,” she said of Mr. Trump. “I thought he was going to do good things. He’s not hurting the people he needs to be hurting.”

Well no shit, Sherlock. Blue states pour more money into the federal coffers. They tend to have robust economies. Red states on the other had only survive by latching on to the federal teat and sucking out more money than they put in. Who do you think is going to suffer most from Trump’s decimation of the federal government?

Not bad, not bad at all. I would make a couple changes though. For example, why would the leopards cry out in terror? How about:

I felt a great disturbance in the Farce, as if millions of leopards suddenly cried out in terror hunger and were suddenly silenced sated. I fear a mass face eating has happened.