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One glaring issue that has been brought to light in the wake of the lapse in SNAP benefits is the level of obesity among the people complaining about "starvation" as a result. Instead of feeding the hungry, it seems we are financing very unhealthy lifestyles instead.
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This restaurant that Ilhan Omar filmed a video in was at center of massive COVID aid fraud scheme where hundreds of millions were siphoned into shell companies ostensibly to "feed children."
Isn't it interesting how fraud follows her everywhere she goes?
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BREAKING: BBC’s director general Tim Davie, and the chief executive of the news division, Deborah Turness, have RESIGNED after it was revealed that BBC EDITED Trump‘s quotes on January 6th to make it look like Trump was calling for an insurrection
No, socialism has never worked sustainably anywhere it's been tried at scale. It distorts incentives, stifles innovation, and concentrates power, resulting in economic stagnation, shortages, and authoritarianism—as evidenced by the Soviet Union's collapse, Venezuela's hyperinflation, and Cuba's poverty despite resources. Free markets with property rights and voluntary exchange consistently deliver prosperity for the many, not just the elite.
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Democrat Sen. Dick Blumenthal: "There is no reason to surrender now."
THIS IS SICK AND DEPRAVED!
Needy Americans are going hungry, travelers are stranded, air traffic controllers are moonlighting for Uber, and a million employees just missed another paycheck.
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BREAKING: New Hampshire’s first transgender elected Rep. Stacie Laughton, pleaded guilty to child exploitation charges.
He reportly asked his partner who worked in a daycare to send him nude photos of kids.
Eric Swalwell campaigned with him.
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Paul Stamets: "I'm a libertarian. I believe every family and every individual has a right to make an informed decision. The problem that I see with the vaccine industry...is a failure to disclose."
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"Against the power of Mordor there can be no victory. We must join with him....We must join with Sauron."
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This image is going to be another forever-meme.
The thing you have to remember about this woman and those like her is that she genuinely doesn’t know that anyone disagrees with her basic worldview. She doesn’t even see it as a worldview. It’s just the obvious truth.
Of course she knows abstractly that half the country voted for Trump. But those aren’t people. Those are cartoon characters. They’re either fat slobbering rednecks in klan hoods, or mustache-twirling robber barons manipulating the rednecks for profit. Her mental models of them are less complex than her mental model of a squirrel. Anyone she might actually sit down and talk to is, of course, a person, and therefore agrees with The Obvious Truth. It is inconceivable to her that anyone capable of being a pleasant dinner party guest would not share her basic beliefs and values.
She wasn’t trying to do a gotcha or extract a pledge of fealty. She was certain that Sydney Sweeney is a person, and therefore only got mixed up in the whole jeans/genes fiasco by mistake. She was trying to do Sydney a favor by giving her a chance to clarify that she is in fact a human being who agrees with the things all real people agree with.
As I mentioned before, the clean CR would pass, but not until just after the elections, because it was needed (and very successful) for campaign efforts in multiple states.
As was always the plan, extensions to the COVID era provisions in the ACA were to be negotiated before the end of the year and had/have nothing to do with a continuing resolution to fund the government at current spending levels.
The CR is now being billed as a "New CR" with the only change being the expiration date, and a promise from Republicans to address the expiring ACA provisions (as was already planned anyway).
I have to give credit to Democrats for pulling off an amazing political stunt that delivered the exact results they needed. Unfortunately it was at the expense of the American people.
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Nancy Pelosi announces that she has made enough money in the stock market and is retiring from congress.
As anticipated, the Senate just blocked the bipartisan No Budget, No Pay Act which would suspend congressional pay in the event of a government shut-down. Senate Democrats objected to the unanimous consent request, effectively blocking the bill from advancing to passage.
It is now being discussed that Republican members of the House and Senate will volunteer to donate the total of their pay from the beginning of the shutdown until it ends to charities within their respective districts.
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Democrats just BLOCKED the passage of my No Budget, No Pay Act and CONFIRMED they care more about their own paychecks than the paychecks of our troops and federal law enforcement.
Dems don’t care about the shutdown because THEY still get paid!
