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[Giantone]

Republican Votes Helped Washington Pile Up Debt
https://news.yahoo.com/republican-vo...192611182.html



WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden will submit his latest budget request to Congress on Thursday, offering what his administration says will be $2 trillion in plans to reduce deficits and future growth of the national debt.

Republicans, who are demanding deep spending cuts in exchange for raising the nation’s borrowing cap, will almost certainly greet that proposal with a familiar refrain: Biden and his party are to blame for ballooning the debt.

But an analysis of House and Senate voting records, and of fiscal estimates of legislation prepared by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, shows that Republicans bear at least equal blame as Democrats for the biggest drivers of federal debt growth that passed Congress over the past two presidential administrations.

The national debt has grown to $31.4 trillion from just under $6 trillion in 2000, bumping against the statutory limit on federal borrowing. That increase, which spanned the presidential administrations of two Republicans and two Democrats, has been fueled by tax cuts, wars, economic stimulus and the growing costs of retirement and health programs. Since 2017, when Donald Trump took the White House, Republicans and Democrats in Congress have joined together to pass a series of spending increases and tax cuts that the budget office projects will add trillions to the debt.

The analysis is based on the forecasts that the CBO regularly issues for the federal budget. They include descriptions of newly passed legislation that affects spending, revenues and deficits, tallying the costs of those new laws over the course of a decade. Going back to the start of Trump’s tenure, those reports highlight 13 new laws that, by the CBO’s projections, will combine to add more than $11.5 trillion to the debt.

[nonniey]

Originally Posted by Giantone

What is insane is you trying to spin a good take on the negative connotation of the word "retard".

I didn't say retard I said retarded. Reading comprehension is a good thing, try it some time. And it is not a take. Mentally retarded is the medically correct term.

[Giantone]

Originally Posted by nonniey

I didn't say retard I said retarded. Reading comprehension is a good thing, try it some time. And it is not a take. Mentally retarded is the medically correct term.

chico says retard! ...........still you need to stop. Mentally challenged is the term, stop trying to convince yourself your not an ass for using that term.

[Giantone]

GOP Congressman Matt Rosendale Poses With Neo-Nazis



NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Rep. Matt Rosendale (R-Mont.) apparently thought nothing of the man’s gray, Nazi-style trench coat and Hitler Youth haircut.

A smiling Rosendale posed for a photograph outside the U.S. Capitol last week alongside two well-known white supremacists: Ryan Sanchez, a former member of the violent neo-Nazi street gang Rise Above Movement who was dressed similarly to a WWII German officer, and Greyson Arnold, a pro-Nazi blogger.

“Just ran into Congressman @mattformontana , a real America First representative with backbone,” Arnold wrote in an Instagram post.

Independent journalist Vishal Singh first drew attention to the photo by posting it on his own Instagram.

“These are not mere far-right activists,” Singh wrote in the caption. “These men support active calls for genocide against LGBTQ+, Black, and Jewish people in the United States. Why are Republicans meeting with mask-off neo-Nazis?

https://www.instagram.com/p/CpVVLumO...0-90ffa68217ea

[BaltimoreSkins]

Bwahahahaha I love how the link for the posing with neo nazis takes you to a picture of Daniel Jones

[Giantone]

Originally Posted by BaltimoreSkins

Bwahahahaha I love how the link for the posing with neo nazis takes you to a picture of Daniel Jones

LOL, thought I got rid of that, thanks.

[nonniey]

Originally Posted by Giantone

chico says retard! ...........still you need to stop. Mentally challenged is the term, stop trying to convince yourself your not an ass for using that term.

I said I gotta disagree to an extent. Maybe I should have said I agree to an extent. Intent was to point out that using the term retarded is okay when describing someone who is actually mentally retarded. Some demand that even that use be abolished. Those people don't know what they are talking about.

[mooby]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...21c83c39&ei=14

Even if absolutely nothing comes out of the Dominion lawsuit, I am thoroughly enjoying what Carlson, Hannity, Ingraham/etc. think about Trump in private.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...df4a81db&ei=15

[MTK]

Originally Posted by nonniey

I didn't say retard I said retarded. Reading comprehension is a good thing, try it some time. And it is not a take. Mentally retarded is the medically correct term.

Mental or intellectual disability is the preferred term now.

Rosa's Law[1] is a United States law which replaced several instances of "mental retardation" in law with "intellectual disability". The bill was introduced as S.2781 in the United States Senate on November 17, 2009, by Barbara Mikulski (D-MD). It passed the Senate unanimously on August 5, 2010, then the House of Representatives on September 22, and was signed into law by President Barack Obama on October 5.[2] The law is named for Rosa Marcellino, a girl with Down syndrome who was nine years old when it became law, and who, according to President Barack Obama, "worked with her parents and her siblings to have the words 'mentally retarded' officially removed from the health and education code in her home state of Maryland."[3]

Rosa's Law is part of a long line of changes that has been ongoing since the early 1900s. Words such as idiot and moron were common in court documents and diagnosis throughout the early 1900s.[4] In the 1960s, changes in the law led to the use of such terms as mental retardation. With the loss of idiot (IQ 0–25), imbecile (IQ 26–50) and moron (IQ 51–75), specific descriptors of IQ-based intelligence were abandoned because of negative public sentiment. Under Rosa's law, these would be described respectively as profound, severe, and moderate levels of intellectual disability.

Nobody uses MR in my line of work anymore.

[MTK]

Originally Posted by mooby

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...21c83c39&ei=14

Even if absolutely nothing comes out of the Dominion lawsuit, I am thoroughly enjoying what Carlson, Hannity, Ingraham/etc. think about Trump in private.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...df4a81db&ei=15

What a hot mess Faux news is, and the fact their hosts are still straight up lying to everyone every night is simply amazing. Do these people have any morals at all? Seriously don't know how they sleep at night. Tucker is basically a national security threat with the way he's downplaying and spinning Jan 6.

[Chico23231]

Originally Posted by mooby

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...21c83c39&ei=14

Even if absolutely nothing comes out of the Dominion lawsuit, I am thoroughly enjoying what Carlson, Hannity, Ingraham/etc. think about Trump in private.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...df4a81db&ei=15

Im surprised people are surprised by this. I think most are exhausted by Trump in conservative media

Also if Democrats are refusing to support Biden publicly to run, I imagine privately in the media, Capitol Hill, etc people are expressing dissatisfaction as well.

Tuckers text messages are good, but his footage this week about the Jan 6 lies are the bigger story.
-josh hawley running footage was an edited lie, where both Dems and gop were running to a marked location
-Buffalo headress guy was escorted by police around the capitol like he was on a toured and allowed to access the senate floor by police
-Lied about Barry Loudermilk taking rioters on a reconnaissance mission
- video evidence of capitol police standing around in riot gear not doing a thing

[BaltimoreSkins]

Those Capitol police should be charged too. They should have thrown his ass to the ground and maced him

[Chico23231]

Originally Posted by BaltimoreSkins

Those Capitol police should be charged too. They should have thrown his ass to the ground and maced him

Totally agree.

The January 6 committee failed to answer the security questions in general…fbi admitted it had undercover officers in the crowd and they didn’t do anything to stop it, Mayor denied national guard request in a written letter, Pelosi denied more more security for the capitol grounds, Capitol police in riot gear film sitting off to the side not doing a thing while the riot was going on, police causally parading people inside the capitol and around the building and then out the exit.


Pelosi statement is already out saying why this footage was with held out from defendants charged…saying it was the security footage and she didn’t have the authority(false as McCarthy had the authority to release it to the media)…we will see if this is a due process issue now.

[Giantone]

Originally Posted by Chico23231

Totally agree.

The January 6 committee failed to answer the security questions in general…fbi admitted it had undercover officers in the crowd and they didn’t do anything to stop it, Mayor denied national guard request in a written letter, Pelosi denied more more security for the capitol grounds, Capitol police in riot gear film sitting off to the side not doing a thing while the riot was going on, police causally parading people inside the capitol and around the building and then out the exit.


Pelosi statement is already out saying why this footage was with held out from defendants charged…saying it was the security footage and she didn’t have the authority(false as McCarthy had the authority to release it to the media)…we will see if this is a due process issue now.

LOL, just when you think chico can't get any dumber .....he surprises you!

[mooby]

Originally Posted by MTK

What a hot mess Faux news is, and the fact their hosts are still straight up lying to everyone every night is simply amazing. Do these people have any morals at all? Seriously don't know how they sleep at night. Tucker is basically a national security threat with the way he's downplaying and spinning Jan 6.

They are representative of the new corporate America. Prosperity of the brand is more important than prosperity of America.