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Posted
11 hours ago, Valmy77 said:

We'll see how performative it is.

A weird amount of suggestions that local and state control of law enforcement will be stripped away and placed under federal control.

The right sells the notion that "sanctuary cities" harbor criminals of all types and don't prosecute for any crime.  And it sells like hot cakes. Defund the police was a horrible own goal by progressive with regards to branding and just fed into RW propaganda.

They will find a on off example during some protest this summer to increase the use of federal troops and law enforcement for local matters.

Logical next step in facism.

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6 minutes ago, Born to Run said:

Defund the police was a horrible own goal by progressive with regards to branding and just fed into RW propaganda.

It was done by activists and shows the danger of just sidelining and ignoring the progressive wing to just do whatever. Because they will do whatever. They need to have their leaders in the Democrats so that they can have their energy directed in productive directions to actually achieve progressive ends.

Because "defund the police" was not an own goal in the sense that it was the result of a strategy that backfired. It was the result of no strategy. No leadership. So the void was filled.

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Posted
10 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

At least Ward routinely shit talks Trump, something Ani will never do.  He remains curiously quiet.

The dangers of both siderism though....

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3 minutes ago, Born to Run said:

The dangers of both siderism though....

I don't mind people annoyed we elected such an old dude in 2020. It just drives me nuts then many of the same people elected an equally old dude in 2024.

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But I was told Republicans were against taxes.

 

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/04/29/congress/house-transportation-reconciliation-text-gas-tax-00315222?nname=playbook-pm&nid=0000015a-dd3e-d536-a37b-dd7fd8af0000&nrid=0000014e-f0fd-dd93-ad7f-f8fde5bf0000

 

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The House Transportation Committee early on Tuesday released draft text of its portion of the GOP’s sprawling domestic policy bill, which it plans to mark up Wednesday. The proposal includes $15 billion for upgrading various parts of the aviation system, as well as new fees on electric vehicles and a first-of-its-kind $20 annual fee on all other passenger vehicles.

 

 

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The new fee is intended to move the country away from the 18.4 cents-per-gallon federal gasoline tax, which has not been raised since 1993 and has had its buying power steadily eroded even as infrastructure spending has increased. But raising it, at least on the federal level, has been a political non-starter.

Lawmakers have toyed with the idea of moving instead to a system of charging people based on how many miles they drive, but that idea has privacy challenges and so far state-level pilot projects have not been nationalized.

 

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Besides the broad $20 levy, the proposal would impose an annual vehicle registration fee of $200 for electric vehicles and $100 for hybrid vehicles. The new user fees are estimated to provide $50 billion over the next decade, according to the committee.

The hybrid and EV registration fees would take effect immediately, and the fee on the other passenger vehicles would take effect in 2031, Transportation Chair Sam Graves (R-Mo.) said.

 

 

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51 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

once again, did not have RS as being the bastion of political reporting in 2025, but here we are

 

reading that....

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Posted
1 hour ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

If they want to move away from a gasoline-based transportation tax, what is the justification for EV/Hybrid tax being 5x/10x ICE vehicle taxes, other than fuck the libs?

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29 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

yes, please, elect him pope. only he can save the catholic church. from the vatican, of course. hes' fixed everything here so he can go

 

 

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40 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

 

“Never heard of him. That’s Fake News probably Just liberal, woke……Oklahoma….uh, beautiful, Big tariffs will be cheap Eggs and gas! I also just informed my club that I won another Golf championship during Lunch today. Biden couldn’t smooth a sheet with a hot babe….I lost my Train of thought.”

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He simply must be driven from office in ‘26:

https://www.alternet.org/johnson-hegseth-cnn/?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Apr.29.2025_7.55pm

 

Late Tuesday morning, April 29, CNN's Wolf Blitzer delivered some breaking news: House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana), according to Blitzer, "is taking steps to change House rules" in a way that "would effectively block an investigation into the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth's use of the Signal chat app."

Hegseth's critics are calling for him to resign in response to reports that he discussed a U.S. military operation in Yemen in two separate conversations on the messaging program Signal — a platform that, critics say, is not secure enough for discussing sensitive or classified information. President Donald Trump's defense secretary is also drawing criticism over firings at the Pentagon.

Hegseth's problems, Raju noted, aren't Johnson's only reason for this move.

Raju told Blitzer, "And I just asked the speaker about this. He's done this now on multiple occasions — not just on this, but also, to deny efforts to target Trump on tariff policy. I asked him why he's protecting Donald Trump."

CNN aired a clip of Johnson saying, "No, we're using the rules of the House to prevent political hijinks and political stunts. And that's what the Democrats have. As I mentioned: no leader, no vision, no platform. All they have is obstruction

 

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Posted
3 hours ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

yes, please, elect him pope. only he can save the catholic church. from the vatican, of course. hes' fixed everything here so he can go

 

Not on the xitter, so someone else might be so kind as to determine if this is real, as is alleged.

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Posted
9 hours ago, Pancho said:

Amazon to start telling customers how much of the price is due to tariffs and Klan Barbie is freaking out calling it a “hostile and political act.”

what's a little unbundling between trilligarchs?

Posted
4 minutes ago, Bullneck said:

The modern GQP very, very much wants to tell ALL "not real Americans" (y'all know who we're talking about) "hey, be happy we treat you as 60% of a person. You're lucky to get that much from us, your lords and masters."  I'd say they just aren't saying it out loud....but they pretty much are.

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56 minutes ago, Willfully Horn said:

Not on the xitter, so someone else might be so kind as to determine if this is real, as is alleged.

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It’s real.  Beyond parody, but it is a real tweet.  

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Posted
1 hour ago, Willfully Horn said:

Not on the xitter, so someone else might be so kind as to determine if this is real, as is alleged.

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They're just trolling us at this point.

I guess we'd have to retire the rhetorical question, "Is the Pope Catholic?"

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Posted
22 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

The modern GQP very, very much wants to tell ALL "not real Americans" (y'all know who we're talking about) "hey, be happy we treat you as 60% of a person. You're lucky to get that much from us, your lords and masters."  I'd say they just aren't saying it out loud....but they pretty much are.

The backlash was from fellow Republicans who think 3/5 is too much

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54 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

The modern GQP very, very much wants to tell ALL "not real Americans" (y'all know who we're talking about) "hey, be happy we treat you as 60% of a person. You're lucky to get that much from us, your lords and masters."  I'd say they just aren't saying it out loud....but they pretty much are.

We celebrate that every February 3rd through 5th. Didn't yall know that? I mean people didn't know about Juneteenth.

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Posted
3 hours ago, Satchel said:

He simply must be driven from office in ‘26:

https://www.alternet.org/johnson-hegseth-cnn/?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Apr.29.2025_7.55pm

 

 

Late Tuesday morning, April 29, CNN's Wolf Blitzer delivered some breaking news: House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana), according to Blitzer, "is taking steps to change House rules" in a way that "would effectively block an investigation into the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth's use of the Signal chat app."

Hegseth's critics are calling for him to resign in response to reports that he discussed a U.S. military operation in Yemen in two separate conversations on the messaging program Signal — a platform that, critics say, is not secure enough for discussing sensitive or classified information. President Donald Trump's defense secretary is also drawing criticism over firings at the Pentagon.

 

Hegseth's problems, Raju noted, aren't Johnson's only reason for this move.

Raju told Blitzer, "And I just asked the speaker about this. He's done this now on multiple occasions — not just on this, but also, to deny efforts to target Trump on tariff policy. I asked him why he's protecting Donald Trump."

CNN aired a clip of Johnson saying, "No, we're using the rules of the House to prevent political hijinks and political stunts. And that's what the Democrats have. As I mentioned: no leader, no vision, no platform. All they have is obstruction

 

Every accusation with this cult.

Posted
1 hour ago, DixonHur said:

They're just trolling us at this point.

I guess we'd have to retire the rhetorical question, "Is the Pope Catholic?"

Does the pope shit in the woods?

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Posted (edited)
1 hour ago, Bullneck said:

No, it was a terrible move. It should have been zero. Giving the slave states extra reps for their human trafficking victims did not help the end of slavery. Idiot. If we give the slave states more power, surely slavery will end faster!!!111

The North gave that one up and got nothing in return. 

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