“Butt Tizzy Males” has a charm all its own

The fact of the matter is that most Republicans don’t care.

The wealthy don’t need insurance, they can buy it if it makes sense but they can just rebuild out of pocket (and likely take a tax advantage for doing so). So all the rising rates do is chase people out who had lived there for decades, which makes it easier for the wealthy to build exclusive communities. Big win for them! Yeah the planet may be going to hell, but they’ll be dead before it gets brutal (or so they think).

Now, most people voting for Republicans aren’t wealthy, but for some reason they like voting against their own interests to prop up the wealthy. Maybe they do consider themselves to be temporarily embarrassed millionaires after all.

He thinks “pleading the fifth” means taking the whole bottle of Vodka

It’s OK if you’re a Republican …

He had been in a bad car accident recently, that probably explains the brace.

He was the NYC Mayor in the late 90’s, and when the Sep 11 attacks happened. Later, he ran for President, and talked so much about the attacks that people started referring to him as “Gi911ani”.

Of course, even back then, he was extremely good friends with Donald Trump…

Oh no, this smackdown may drive him to drink.

(Although to be honest, he will be drinking regardless…)

Plot twist: Rudy declines the pardon, because when his lawyer advises he can’t take the fifth anymore, Rudy thinks he’ll have to quit vodka.

It’s even dumber, because it’s not about the budget, it’s about the allocation of funds to certain departments and the authorization to spend that money, which comes after the budget. Some other countries separate budgets and appropriations like this, but those other countries put in those safeguards you mention, because they want government agencies to function even if the politicians are having a snit.

In the US, thanks to “small-government” Republicans, we make it extremely difficult to spend any money without explicit authorization. And since we also have no concept of a no-confidence vote, politicians can basically hold government funding hostage if they want. The politicians that are doing this right now know they won’t have to face another election until next November at the earliest. (Senators serve six year terms, and it’s telling that all of the Democrats who voted for cloture on this bill are either retiring or not up for election next year…)

Or, raise the retirement age to 75

They are limited to 100 miles from the border, but “the border” counts the shoreline, so in reality 2/3 of the population is in that zone.

In the case of the crypto, though, it’s more than just a guess. These things are being actively traded on markets right now, and have a value attached to them. I could buy a bunch of $TRUMP right now if I wanted to.

None of that implies that he’s not also subject to influence from foreign powers with embarrassing info on him.

Forbes estimates it a bit lower, they say his liquid net worth and crypto is a little over $2B, but they admit they are devaluing the crypto because he can’t sell it all at once:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/article/the-definitive-networth-of-donaldtrump/

The unlocked market cap of $TRUMP alone is over $3B, and people suspect he owns much of that personally. There are also a ton of shitty tokens owned by World Libery Financial, which he also owns a good chunk of.

All this crypto literally didn’t exist during Trump’s first term.

I don’t think you realize how much he is grifting out of crypto right now. It’s mind boggling. Two years ago he was more or less insolvent, now they think he has made over 3 billion in crypto alone.

The catch is that a lot of that is tied up in crypto tokens that aren’t exactly traded widely. If started dumping the entire amount the price would crater before he could sell it all.

The jury found that the charges were baloney

Even if they have that in Indiana, this clearly shouldnt apply. Simply walking up to a house is not evidence of an invasion, otherwise every Halloween would be target practice.

That guy got himself out of quite the pickle

Take it easy on the guy, it takes a lot of stamina to be in that room with the President and his full diaper

Map of affected areas:

(Good airspace is Red, bad airspace is Blue)

We elect our politicians on a set schedule, and keep our Executive and Legislative branches separate. So, the next opportunity to “form a new government” is next November, when we re-elect the entire House and 1/3 of the Senate.

And keep in mind what this shutdown actually is. It is a failure to pass a law that appropriates money to government agencies. Not all government spending is subject to appropriations – in particular, Congress is still getting paid, because their salaries are not subject to yearly government appropriations.

Why can’t these agencies just continue to spend money? Because Congress made it illegal to exceed appropriations. This shutdown is not a bug, it’s how our politicians have set things up, on purpose.

Exactly, the burden is on the government to prove that the application is fraudulent, as it should be. Republican act like this is some sort of loophole, though, that permits millions of non-citizens to vote. That’s simply not the case. A non-citizen who affirms they are a citizen is breaking the law, and making it extremely easy for the government to find them to administer punishment. Even if a non-citizen was looking to subert the government somehow, successfully suberting the process to file a single vote is not the most effective way to do it.

I used to be on the side of “why not have people who register to vote prove their citizenship when registering” until I realized how haphazard that proof is. Your average homeless person probably doesn’t have their birth certificate or passport on them, yet if they are a citizen they have as much right to register as I do.