When reading posts, there are yellow stars against the names of the most respected Shrewds. The number of points in the star, starting at 3, represents the Shrewd'm-Star rating. This number is the average recommendation that the author received over the last 12 months.
- Manlobbi
Halls of Shrewd'm / US Policy
No. of Recommendations: 2
But because the Senate Parliamentarian is a Harry Reid hire, it likely doesn't save any money. For sure it doesn't kick any illegals off Medicaid because that's not a financial thing at all. Or something.
Anyway, back to the House.
No. of Recommendations: 1
And democrats should be happy with this bill: The Senate version adds some $400 billion to the deficit every year.
No. of Recommendations: 9
Dope1: And democrats should be happy with this bill: The Senate version adds some $400 billion to the deficit every year.
Yeah, they were so happy, every democrat voted against the bill.
Only three republicans jumped ship: Collins, Paul, and Tillis.
You republicans own this clusterfcuk that's going to add trillions of dollars to the nation's debt and kill a sh!tload of grandmas and grandpas (and some children, too).
But, hey, cheer up: Mad King Donald just said we'll have concentration camps in almost every state. That should get you cultists all randy.
No. of Recommendations: 4
Dope1: And democrats should be happy with this bill: The Senate version adds some $400 billion to the deficit every year.
Reality check...
Don't like massive debt and deficits? Don't vote for the GOP.
George Bush (41) took the deficit to -$300 billion per year.
Clinton got it to zero. During his presidency, Clinton managed to zero out the deficit and end his term with a +$128 billion per year surplus.
Lil' Bush (43) went from a surplus to -$1.4 trillion per year.
Obama halved it to -$600 billion per year.
Trump then ramped the deficit up to an unheard of -$2 Trillion per year!
Finally Trumps BBB will bankrupt America. Game over, we had a hell of a run. (For my MAGA friends who failed economics see Ferguson’s Law.)
"Trump is a @#$%ing moron!" ~Rex Tillerson
No. of Recommendations: 5
And democrats should be happy with this bill
Since WWII, Republicans have added more to the national debt than Democrats, and, as a bonus, the economy has performed better under Democrats than Republicans.
Enough of your ignorance and lies.
You own it, 100% lock, stock, and barrel.
No. of Recommendations: 2
Enough of your ignorance and li
You do love simple talking points, emphasis on “simple”. Because looking at things more deeply isn’t a thing for everybody.
At any rate. I’ve argued for decades that we spend too much. My cred there is impeccable. Everybody else here? Not so much.
No. of Recommendations: 14
At any rate. I’ve argued for decades that we spend too much. My cred there is impeccable.
You argue we spend too much but you keep voting for the people that consistently spend the most. You got no cred.
No. of Recommendations: 9
Dope: At any rate. I’ve argued for decades that we spend too much. My cred there is impeccable. Everybody else here? Not so much.
Heather Cox Richardson:
In fact, the drive to slash health insurance is part of the Republicans’ determination to destroy the modern government.
Grover Norquist, a lawyer for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and one of the key architects of the Republican argument that the solution to societal ills is tax cuts, in 2010 described to Rebecca Elliott of the Harvard Crimson how he sees the role of government. “Government should enforce [the] rule of law,” he said. “It should enforce contracts, it should protect people bodily from being attacked by criminals. And when the government does those things, it is facilitating liberty. When it goes beyond those things, it becomes destructive to both human happiness and human liberty.”
Norquist vehemently opposed taxation, saying that “it’s not any of the government’s business who earns what, as long as they earn it legitimately,” and proposed cutting government spending down to 8% of gross domestic product, or GDP, the value of the final goods and services produced in the United States.
The last time the level of government spending was at that 8% of GDP was 1933, before the New Deal. In that year, after years of extraordinary corporate profits, the banking system had collapsed, the unemployment rate was nearly 25%, prices and productivity were plummeting, wages were cratering, factories had shut down, farmers were losing their land to foreclosure. Children worked in the fields and factories, elderly and disabled people ate from garbage cans, unregulated banks gambled away people’s money, and business owners treated their workers as they wished. Within a year the Great Plains would be blowing away as extensive deep plowing had damaged the land, making it vulnerable to drought. Republican leaders insisted the primary solution to the crisis was individual enterprise and private charity.
When he accepted the Democratic nomination for president in July 1932, New York governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt vowed to steer between the radical extremes of fascism and communism to deliver a “New Deal” to the American people.
The so-called alphabet soup of the New Deal gave us the regulation of banks and businesses, protections for workers, an end to child labor in factories, repair of the damage to the Great Plains, new municipal buildings and roads and airports, rural electrification, investment in artists and writers, and Social Security for workers who were injured or unemployed. Government outlays as a percentage of GDP began to rise. World War II shot them off the charts, to more than 40% of GDP, as the United States helped the world fight fascism.
That number dropped again after the war, and in 1975, federal expenditures settled in at about 20% of GDP. Except for short-term spikes after financial crises (spending shot up to 24% after the 2008 crash, for example, and to 31% during the 2020 pandemic), the spending-to-GDP ratio has remained at about that set point.
The national debt is growing because tax revenues have plummeted. Tax cuts under the George W. Bush and Trump administrations are responsible for 57% of the increase in the ratio of the debt to the economy, 90% if you exclude the emergency expenditures of the pandemic, and have left the United States with a tax burden nowhere close to the average of the 38 other nations in the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), all of which are market-oriented democracies. And those cuts have gone primarily to the wealthy and corporations.
Republicans who backed those tax cuts now want more. They are trying to force through a measure that will dramatically cut the nation’s social safety net while at the same time increasing the national debt by $3.3 trillion over the next ten years.
No. of Recommendations: 3
You argue we spend too much but you keep voting for th
My alternative is to vote for spendthrift liberals who think the best way to heat a house is to stack up some $20 bills on the living room floor and light them on fire.
Show me a serious democrat. I’ll show you a unicorn that craps Jelly Donuts. In other words such things don’t exist.
No. of Recommendations: 2
Yeah, they were so happy, every democrat voted against the bill.
Probably because it doesn’t bankrupt America fast enough.
As for the rest of your dribbles, whatevs. Not a one of you libs has ever supported
any kind of spending reductions on anything other than defense.
Your preference to think of the US as a collection of hippies all blazing up the World’s Biggest Bowl and partying down…on somebody else’s dime.
No. of Recommendations: 3
Heather Cox Richardson:
lol. Wonder how many sentences it takes before the first HITLETHIERNAZIPUTIN reference.
No. of Recommendations: 2
Reality check...
Don't like massive debt and deficits? Don't vote for the GOP.
Dope is impervious to facts.
No. of Recommendations: 11
Dope1: lol. Wonder how many sentences it takes before the first HITLETHIERNAZIPUTIN reference.
Your party is building a literal concentration camp with metal cages inside of it in Florida -- nine bunks to the cage -- bragging about having concentration camps in states all across the country, and selling concentration camp memorabilia.
TRUMP: “We have a lot of bad people...many of them were born in our country. I think we ought to get them the hell out of here too.”
Umm, sorry but this all seems kinda' Nazi-ish to most of us here in the real world.
Looking at photographs, Auschwitz had more windows than Alligator Alcatraz (or Alligator Auschwitz, if you prefer).
I'm gonna' go out on a limb here and say if you claim to be a good person and you're not outwardly opposing this shit, you're not a good person.
Yeah, I know, that's not really going out on a limb, is it?
No. of Recommendations: 2
Your party is building a literal concentration cam
I'm going to use this idiocy as a self-attestation for intelligence. In other words, if you think that, you probably aren't very intelligent.
Umm, sorry but this all seems kinda' Nazi-ish to most of us here in the real world.
1) No it doesn't
2) You're not in the real world
No. of Recommendations: 3
And by the way. Here's literal Nazism.
And it ain't from my side of the aisle.
left wing fruits of evil and failure. Taste them.
https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/lawsuit-claims-je...A lawsuit has been filed against Seattle Public Schools and Dr. William Jackson, alleging antisemitic harassment against a student at Nathan Hale High School.
The complaint, filed by J.K., R.L., and their 16-year-old daughter M.K.L., details a series of antisemitic incidents throughout the 2023-2024 school year, culminating in a hate crime on May 22, 2024.
The family claims that the school administration failed to address the hostile environment, leading to significant emotional distress and educational disruption for M.K.L.
KIRO 7 spoke to J.K., M.K.L.’s mother, who said, “She was hearing things like, Hitler’s plan should have worked, and I hate the Jews, you should kill yourself.”
The lawsuit states that M.K.L. endured antisemitic slurs and threats, which were reported to Principal Dr. William Jackson and Vice Principal Makela Steward-Monroe, but no meaningful intervention was made.
According to the complaint, the harassment began following the October 7, 2023, attack on Israel by Hamas.
M.K.L., a Jewish student, faced verbal abuse and threats from classmates, including being told to “kill herself” due to her Jewish identity.
The situation escalated with a planned walkout in support of Palestine, where M.K.L. was surrounded and spat on by other students.
“A student threatened to jump her if she wore Hanukkah pajamas to school one day... There was a group of students surrounding her and ganging up on her, and while they were talking to her, spit in her face,” her mother said.
Despite repeated reports to the administration, the family alleges that no action was taken to protect her.
The complaint describes a pervasive culture of antisemitism at Nathan Hale High School, with students drawing swastikas and making derogatory comments during Holocaust studies.
According to the lawsuit, the administration’s inaction allegedly emboldened students to continue their behavior.
Her mother added, “He [the school’s principal] didn’t do anything to make it different despite how many times my daughter was in there crying about the numerous times that she was being harassed, told to shut up, called names.”
On May 22, 2024, a group of approximately twenty students threatened to physically assault M.K.L., forcing her to hide in a classroom for safety.
The family claims this incident was the culmination of a year’s worth of unchecked harassment.
The lawsuit accuses Seattle Public Schools and Dr. Jackson of discrimination, intentional infliction of emotional distress, negligence in care, and negligent supervision and training.
The family seeks damages for the emotional and educational harm suffered by M.K.L.
Seattle Public Schools responded to the lawsuit, saying, “SPS will review and address these allegations. The district remains dedicated to creating an inclusive and equitable environment for all students, and does not tolerate racism, discrimination, or violence in any form.”
M.K.L. transferred to another school last year, with her mother adding, “It’s a totally different culture. There truly isn’t bigotry and hate that’s accepted at the school. It’s just not part of the culture. So very clearly, it can be done.”Seattle public schools are among the wokest in the nation. Wonder why it's so acceptable at so many woke outfits to treat Jews this way. Actually, I don't wonder at all.
No. of Recommendations: 2
Grover Norquist, a lawyer for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and one of the key architects of the Republican argument that the solution to societal ills is tax cuts, in 2010 described to Rebecca Elliott of the Harvard Crimson how he sees the role of government. “Government should enforce [the] rule of law,” he said. “It should enforce contracts, it should protect people bodily from being attacked by criminals. And when the government does those things, it is facilitating liberty. When it goes beyond those things, it becomes destructive to both human happiness and human liberty.”
Norquist vehemently opposed taxation, saying that “it’s not any of the government’s business who earns what, as long as they earn it legitimately,” and proposed cutting government spending down to 8% of gross domestic product, or GDP, the value of the final goods and services produced in the United States.
You can't govern a complex modern society that way.
We sure as hell shouldn't be making those tax cuts for the rich permanent.
No. of Recommendations: 4
Me:
Your party is building a literal concentration camp... Dope1:
I'm going to use this idiocy as a self-attestation for intelligence. In other words, if you think that, you probably aren't very intelligent.Here's a photograph of Auschwitz II-Birkenau -
https://whc.unesco.org/en/documents/107820And here's a photograph of Alligator Auschwitz -
https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/202...If you don't think those are eerily similar, then "you probably aren't very intelligent."
No. of Recommendations: 3
If you don't think those are eerily similar, th
And follow-ups with more stupidity come with more downgrades. Gonna need to write down a scale, I see...
No. of Recommendations: 2
TRUMP: “We have a lot of bad people...many of them were born in our country.
'bad people' translation: anybody who doesn't worship me. Anyone who says mean things about me. Anybody with a skin color darker than my beautiful orange tone. Anybody whose ancestors came from a shithole country (as defined by Trump).
No. of Recommendations: 3
The photo of Donald Trump visiting the concentration camp. Can you imagine how giddy this must have made him feel? The thought of being able to someday lock away all those awful people who don't like him. Like journalists who tell the truth about him. You know he would if he could.
No. of Recommendations: 1
TRUMP: “We have a lot of bad people...many of them were born in our country. I think we ought to get them the hell out of here too.”
Someone born in this country is a U.S. citizen (currently still true as long as their parents are citizens). So deporting them is not legal. Arrest, indictment, trial, conviction, imprisonment, sure, but deportation is not legal.
No. of Recommendations: 5
Anti-Jewish threats are wrong and the kids involved should be punished- but this is nothing to the industrialized policy of kidnapping, beating, imprisonment under horrible conditions and deportation (disappearing of thousands of migrants, and Alligator Alcatraz is the current jewel in the crown of this inhuman policy. Hell, the Republican Party of Florida is even selling merchandise on their monstrosity.
The worst of the worst? Only the “bad hombres”? The criminal gang members?
We already know that’s a first class lie.
Fucking Nazis.
No. of Recommendations: 2
You know he would if he could.
Wait a few months.
He can and he will.
And our resident MAGAs will be positively giddy.
No. of Recommendations: 2
Anti-Jewish threats are wrong and the kids involved should be punished- but this is nothing to the industrialized policy of kidnapping, beating, imprisonment under horrible condit
Good thing we don't have that, except in the minds of the insane.
No. of Recommendations: 11
No. of Recommendations: 2
Umm.
Yes, only in the minds of the insane.
Or, in some cases: Programmed.
No. of Recommendations: 1
Dope1: Good thing we don't have that, except in the minds of the insane.
Nice and comfy in your RW propaganda bubble. Ignorance is bliss I guess.
No. of Recommendations: 5
I’ve argued for decades that we spend too much.
Wrong. We don't tax enough. And, arguably, we don't spend enough, which is why we have a whole host of societal problems (and one of the largest prison populations in the world).
No. of Recommendations: 1
Your party is building a literal concentration camp with metal cages inside of it in Florida -- nine bunks to the cage -- bragging about having concentration camps in states all across the country, and selling concentration camp memorabilia.
You have no one to blame except your Party and your former President Biden.
Biden’s welcome mat was laid out with the promise of free housing, free meals, free healthcare
and more, all paid for by American taxpayers. Your side invited rapist, murderers, drug runners, and an assortment of low life.
Your side wanted cheap labor instead of paying Americans who are willing to do menial work if paid a decent wage.
Americans cast their vote for President Trump because of his promise to to deport the illegal aliens
back to where they came from or other countries who will take them. Biden’s and the democrats welcome mat is gone, thanks to the American people who voted for President Trump.
“Officials say detainees will have access to medical care, 24/7 air conditioning, and a rec yard, as well as support from attorneys and members of the clergy.”
To help speed up the process, DeSantis is offering up members of the state's National Guard to be “deputized” as immigration judges to hear detainees' cases, as a way to loosen another chokepoint in the country’s long-overburdened immigration court system.
“I would ask every other governor to do the exact same thing,” Noem said. “This is unique because we can hold individuals here. They can have their hearings, to get due process and then immediately be flown back home to their home countries.”
Again, this problem is the fault of Biden and democrats. So stop the bellyaching.
