Exactly. The only way they could fuck this up, is to cave. That would be the definition of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

Let’s hope they don’t…because honestly, I do not have a lot of faith in their ability to hold the line.

This is actually better. What they offered was a common sense path forward on the issue of the healthcare subsidies. Continue to fund them for a year, and in the meantime form a congressional committee to find options for how to proceed beyond that.

Republicans turning this down just places the blame for continuing the shutdown, firmly in their laps. At this point any talk of this still being the Democrats fault, is beyond ridiculous. They’re actually negotiating, while Republicans are simply refusing to even try.

Vice President Vance on Thursday pushed back on a federal court ruling…arguing the court should not be telling the president how to spend money during a government shutdown.

That’s funny. According to the Constitution, the president has no authority to decide “how to spend money during a government shutdown”. That’s Congress’s job. And they’ve already set aside money for this purpose. Trump is just refusing to do his job and execute the law, as directed by Congress and affirmed by the judiciary.

This is fucking treason.

That’s weird. I thought rich folks couldn’t afford to live there anymore, with all those new taxes and whatnot.

Right on! Let’s fuckin’ GO!!

The one flaw in an otherwise brilliant plan.

It actually has stopped a lot of what they’ve been trying to do. They’ve been getting spanked in court, and it’s actually pretty entertaining watching how incompetent they all are.

He can legally remove-citizenship from anybody, now, & no court-injunction has any power on him, or his appointees I read ( that was bundled-into his big “beautiful” bill, apparently )

No, he can’t. Not even Congress can change the Constitution without an amendment. Trump can “try” to make the claim that he can do this, but the courts will stop him.

I get that things seem bleak, but you can blame that on the media for not adequately covering all his losses in court. He has been blocked on almost everything that he’s been trying to do. What he has been able to get away with, is a vastly toned-down version of what he wanted to do…and he seems unwilling to push the envelope too far. Which means he knows he won’t actually get away with it.

Most of his “power”, comes from lying to you about what he can and can’t do. Don’t give him too much credit.

in exchange for a vote on extending health insurance tax credits that Democrats have demanded.

And, Republicans will just vote “no” on it. So, what the fuck does that even accomplish?

Well, yeah. Without the filibuster, Republicans would be able to completely rewrite election laws, giving them total control over the outcomes.

The only way they can win, is to cheat.

Don’t allow singular leadership, and never govern by religious authority.

But the ballroom is all being paid for by the people who are hoping Trump will do them favors. So, that makes it none of our business.

So, it’s either healthcare subsidies or food? You can’t have both? Even though we had both before Republicans took it all away, so they could give tax breaks to Trump’s rich donors?

Fuck these assholes.

This should be the end of Israel’s international support, right? Right?

Oh, wait. This isn’t the Onion? I didn’t realize Abbott was that stupid.

They should have just dunked him in water. Problem solved. /s

I have very little sympathy for any 13 year old dumb enough to eat magnets. I have zero sympathy for any 13 year old that ate a hundred of them.

Of course he does. smh.

“Urge”?

Except that she personally asserted this narrative. Not someone else. This wasn’t something some surrogate said, without her knowledge.

Her hands were on the stick when this plane was going down. And she was aiming straight at him. This is not an age thing. She took an end-run nose dive, on behalf the establishment. Willingly.