18 People Looking for a New Job
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wrote on 28 Jan 2025, 15:04 last edited by
On a bigger picture, it is frustrating that the legislation branch has become somewhat "subservient" to the executive branch. It should be more independent.
The recent removal of the House Chair of the Foreign Affairs committee is a perfect example of this.
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On a bigger picture, it is frustrating that the legislation branch has become somewhat "subservient" to the executive branch. It should be more independent.
The recent removal of the House Chair of the Foreign Affairs committee is a perfect example of this.
wrote on 28 Jan 2025, 15:05 last edited by@taiwan_girl I am constantly amazed with how in touch you are with our civics. You're probably ahead of about 90% of our citizens.
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@taiwan_girl I am constantly amazed with how in touch you are with our civics. You're probably ahead of about 90% of our citizens.
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wrote on 28 Jan 2025, 16:53 last edited by
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wrote on 28 Jan 2025, 17:02 last edited by
Is she? Man I feel like a dope. I'm pretty bad at remembering where each person lives, but thought she travels a lot but otherwise lives in Taiwan. I thought this topic came up before and TG implied she knew a lot because of TNCR and international news often focuses on USA crap. What's the truth @taiwan_girl ???
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wrote on 28 Jan 2025, 17:11 last edited by
She's an international woman of mystery who has no "home" per se. But as befits mysterious international women of mysterious mystery, she is citizen to more than one country, and she probably also has fake citizen paperwork for many others, issued by mysterious governmental agencies in support of her mysterious job duties.
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She's an international woman of mystery who has no "home" per se. But as befits mysterious international women of mysterious mystery, she is citizen to more than one country, and she probably also has fake citizen paperwork for many others, issued by mysterious governmental agencies in support of her mysterious job duties.
wrote on 28 Jan 2025, 17:13 last edited by@Horace said in 18 People Looking for a New Job:
She's an international woman of mystery
Aren't we all?
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wrote on 28 Jan 2025, 18:24 last edited by
THe name is Bond, Jennifer Bond!
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wrote on 28 Jan 2025, 18:26 last edited by
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wrote on 28 Jan 2025, 21:58 last edited by jon-nyc
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I know this carries as much credibility as any other anonymous tip from the left or the right, but here you go:
wrote on 28 Jan 2025, 22:26 last edited by@89th said in 18 People Looking for a New Job:
I know this carries as much credibility as any other anonymous tip from the left or the right, but here you go:
Good.
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wrote on 28 Jan 2025, 22:27 last edited by
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wrote on 28 Jan 2025, 22:34 last edited by
If any of y'all listen to David Webb, he had a parade of Congress Critters on this morning. They're currently working in Florida and the deficit hawks are flying. They've been told Social Security and Medicare are off the table, but to take a torch to any fat they can find. Wasteful programs, duplicate programs at separate agencies, layoffs, reallocation of resources, clawbacks of funds not spent...The goal is $2T/yr.
They won't get that. They're going to try, though.
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wrote on 28 Jan 2025, 23:42 last edited by jon-nyc 2 Mar 2025, 03:29
They have the smallest majority in the house in 96 years. The moderates will be the holdouts I suspect.
My best guess is they end up, after a lot of drama, with more or less the same formula they use every time they have a trifecta. Take away health care and food assistance from low income families and use the money to fund tax cuts for their donors.
Only non-witches get due process.
- Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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They have the smallest majority in the house in 96 years. The moderates will be the holdouts I suspect.
My best guess is they end up, after a lot of drama, with more or less the same formula they use every time they have a trifecta. Take away health care and food assistance from low income families and use the money to fund tax cuts for their donors.
wrote on 12 Feb 2025, 21:30 last edited by@jon-nyc said in 18 People Looking for a New Job:
My best guess is they end up, after a lot of drama, with more or less the same formula they use every time they have a trifecta. Take away health care and food assistance from low income families and use the money to fund tax cuts for their donors.
The House Budget Committee released its own plan on Wednesday that would add more than $3 trillion to the deficit over a decade while cutting $1.5 trillion in federal spending, much of it from health care and food programs for the poor. It also calls for $4.5 trillion in tax cuts, and for raising the debt ceiling, the statutory cap on what the nation can borrow to finance its debt, by $4 trillion.
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wrote on 12 Feb 2025, 21:31 last edited by jon-nyc 2 Dec 2025, 21:33
Analysts are saying the 4T increase in the debt limit in the house is planning 'should last us 2 years.
So here they are adding >10% to the national debt in just the first two years.
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They have the smallest majority in the house in 96 years. The moderates will be the holdouts I suspect.
My best guess is they end up, after a lot of drama, with more or less the same formula they use every time they have a trifecta. Take away health care and food assistance from low income families and use the money to fund tax cuts for their donors.
wrote 21 days ago last edited by@jon-nyc said in 18 People Looking for a New Job:
My best guess is they end up, after a lot of drama, with more or less the same formula they use every time they have a trifecta. Take away health care and food assistance from low income families and use the money to fund tax cuts for their donors.
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wrote 21 days ago last edited by
It's reassuring to see that some things about the GOP haven't changed.
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They have the smallest majority in the house in 96 years. The moderates will be the holdouts I suspect.
My best guess is they end up, after a lot of drama, with more or less the same formula they use every time they have a trifecta. Take away health care and food assistance from low income families and use the money to fund tax cuts for their donors.
wrote 20 days ago last edited by@jon-nyc said in 18 People Looking for a New Job:
Take away health care and food assistance from low income families and use the money to fund tax cuts for their donors.
Anyone disagree with that characterization for what the GOP does?
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wrote 20 days ago last edited by jon-nyc
Actually I do, even though I wrote it.
I forgot the word ‘partially’ before ‘fund’. I don’t want to pretend that they’re not increasing the deficit more than any other bill has in the entire history of the world. .
