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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM

fruitpork Since: Oct, 2010
#417251: Nov 14th 2023 at 1:11:38 PM

Better than the republicans’, since I’m not behaving like an elementary schooler.

AngelusNox Warder of the damned from The guard of the gates of oblivion Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Married to the job
Warder of the damned
#417252: Nov 14th 2023 at 1:12:51 PM

With much better dignity than the house republicans.

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Blueace Surrounded by weirdoes from The End Of the World Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Surrounded by weirdoes
#417253: Nov 14th 2023 at 1:17:56 PM

[up][up][up] Anyone chanting "FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!" yet?

Wake me up at your own risk.
Altris from the Vortex Since: Aug, 2019 Relationship Status: Not caught up in your love affair
#417254: Nov 14th 2023 at 1:52:26 PM

I was unaware of the apparent kidney-elbowings until now. What a time to be alive.

So, let's hang an anchor from the sun... also my Tumblr
AngelusNox Warder of the damned from The guard of the gates of oblivion Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Married to the job
Warder of the damned
#417255: Nov 14th 2023 at 2:01:38 PM

WaPo: Univision, the Spanish language news giant, shifts its approach to Trump

The presence of corporate executives at Mar-a-Lago raises alarm among Democrats who are used to Latino media criticism of the former president’s policies

The Democratic alarm further spiked two days later, when Univision advertising representatives told the Biden campaign that spots already purchased to run during the Trump interview in Nevada, Arizona, Pennsylvania and Florida had been canceled — owing to a heretofore unannounced policy about opposition advertising in single-candidate interviews.

Oh for the fucks sake.

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DingoWalley1 Asgore Adopts Noelle Since: Feb, 2014 Relationship Status: Can't buy me love
Asgore Adopts Noelle
#417256: Nov 14th 2023 at 2:57:15 PM

Who could've guessed that greedy Capitalist enterprises would side with racists who would enrich them (temporarily) over people who aren't racist but won't let them make as much money as possible?/sarcasm

AngelusNox Warder of the damned from The guard of the gates of oblivion Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Married to the job
Warder of the damned
#417257: Nov 14th 2023 at 3:02:17 PM

And the leopards are getting a bypass surgery due to all fat from the faces they have been eating.

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PresidentStalkeyes Eats moldy bread and flies into windows from United Kingdom of England-land Since: Feb, 2016 Relationship Status: Do you like me? (Yes ⎕ Definitely ⎕ Absolutely!!! ⎕)
Eats moldy bread and flies into windows
#417258: Nov 14th 2023 at 3:02:19 PM

I mean, judging from that blurb alone, the title seems a little misleading - it seems to suggest more that it's going for a more 'neutral' approach as opposed to favouring Biden, which still isn't ideal but is no different from what, say, CNN or other broadly centrist news outlets have been doing.

Those sell-by-dates won't stop me because I can't read!
HeraldAlberich from Ohio (Before Recorded History) Relationship Status: Gonna take a lot to drag me away from you
Parable Since: Aug, 2009
#417260: Nov 14th 2023 at 3:06:48 PM

With 209 Democrats backing it versus only 127 Republicans.

thok That's Dr. Title, thank you! (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Non-Canon
That's Dr. Title, thank you!
#417261: Nov 14th 2023 at 3:11:00 PM

Mike Johnson probably won't lose the Speakership; he may be MAGA, but there isn't the complete lack of trust between him and the Democrats that there was with McCarthy.

Edited by thok on Nov 14th 2023 at 3:11:12 AM

Blueace Surrounded by weirdoes from The End Of the World Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Surrounded by weirdoes
#417262: Nov 14th 2023 at 3:13:35 PM

...Yet.

Wake me up at your own risk.
Silasw A procrastination in of itself from A handcart to hell (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
A procrastination in of itself
#417263: Nov 14th 2023 at 4:11:00 PM

Democrats should not save him if another vote is called, the man won’t accept that Trump lost in 2020 and is trying to impose Evangelical Christian doctrine upon the entire country.

“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ Cyran
PresidentStalkeyes Eats moldy bread and flies into windows from United Kingdom of England-land Since: Feb, 2016 Relationship Status: Do you like me? (Yes ⎕ Definitely ⎕ Absolutely!!! ⎕)
Eats moldy bread and flies into windows
#417264: Nov 14th 2023 at 4:17:00 PM

Won't they just replace him with someone even worse, repeat ad nauseam until they've run out of people?

When I think about it, it's another reason I'm skeptical their Agenda 2025 is as ironclad as its spokesgremlin paints it as, because if the House is any indication their standards for 'loyal enough' narrow extremely quickly.

Those sell-by-dates won't stop me because I can't read!
Parable Since: Aug, 2009
#417265: Nov 14th 2023 at 4:22:04 PM

Biden and Xi have agreed to a deal to clamp down on fentanyl importation from China ahead of their meeting tomorrow.

Bloomberg reported that under the deal - which the US and Chinese presidents are still finalizing - China would go after chemical companies to halt the flow of fentanyl and the source material used to make it.

In return, Biden's White House would lift restrictions on China's forensic police institute. China had long questioned why the US would expect cooperation in the battle against fentanyl when the US government had placed restrictions on the institute.

Two thirds of 110,000 overdose deaths from synthetic drugs in the US last year were linked to fentanyl.

Silasw A procrastination in of itself from A handcart to hell (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
A procrastination in of itself
#417266: Nov 14th 2023 at 4:23:48 PM

[up][up] They might, but I fail to see how that’s the Democrats problem?

Any Speaker the Republican caucus can agree on will be someone who awful Democrats can’t work with them on anything other than C Rs.

The House is probably going to limp through to November with CR after CR, if it wants to do that with speaker changes each time because the Republicans want to be public about being incapable that plays in Democrats favour.

The Republican caucus might even get toxic enough that Republican Congressmen start quitting and Democrats gain the majority.

Edited by Silasw on Nov 14th 2023 at 12:25:09 PM

“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ Cyran
AngelusNox Warder of the damned from The guard of the gates of oblivion Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Married to the job
Warder of the damned
#417267: Nov 14th 2023 at 4:29:17 PM

I mean, judging from that blurb alone, the title seems a little misleading - it seems to suggest more that it's going for a more 'neutral' approach as opposed to favouring Biden, which still isn't ideal but is no different from what, say, CNN or other broadly centrist news outlets have been doing.

It is fairly worse than that. Televisa Univision is the biggest Spanish speaking news conglomerate and it is cozing up to Trump after its CE Os met at Mar-a-Largo and through Jared.

Not only it was a fairly more even news platform but the fusion with Televisa brought changes to the Univision that made it give more favorable airtime to Trump, ignore his immigration policies, his border wall rhetoric and shift the poor treatment of immigrant families as being the fault of Obama.

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Brandon Deadly Vu! from Between Thanksgiving and Christmas (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Don't hug me; I'm scared
Deadly Vu!
#417268: Nov 14th 2023 at 7:29:04 PM

Republican Rep. Tim Burchett accuses Kevin Mc Carthy of elbowing him in the kidneys while Burchett was talking with a reporter. Burchett chased after Mc Carthy to confront him about it but he just brushed Burchett off.
Now I'm just imagining Burchett stumbling through the halls hunched over in pain, after McCarthy. grin

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Parable Since: Aug, 2009
#417269: Nov 15th 2023 at 10:12:19 AM

Republicans end House work week early after MAGA Caucus kills Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations bill.

This is one of those funding bills the CR passed yesterday was supposed to give them more time to put together. It wasn't even noon over in DC when the vote failed and Johnson sent everyone home.

Kaiseror Since: Jul, 2016
#417270: Nov 15th 2023 at 10:19:12 AM

[up] So the shutdown is happening after all then?

Parable Since: Aug, 2009
#417271: Nov 15th 2023 at 10:35:34 AM

Assuming the Senate passes, or might have already passed, the CR we've got till January for the House to pass the actual budget bills. It's just that so far the Republicans haven't accomplished that.

Kaiseror Since: Jul, 2016
#417272: Nov 15th 2023 at 11:04:18 AM

[up] So the thing the passed yesterday wasn't what was killed today? With all this shit going on, it makes it hard to keep track.

DeMarquis (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#417273: Nov 15th 2023 at 11:17:16 AM

The budgeting process is a mess, but that's by design.

I'm done trying to sound smart. "Clear" is the new smart.
sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#417274: Nov 15th 2023 at 5:49:22 PM

Question: Does the new CR still prevent new aid for Ukraine?

Parable Since: Aug, 2009
#417275: Nov 15th 2023 at 5:53:53 PM

It doesn't include anymore. I don't recall anything about blocking more aid in regards to the CR.


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