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It may be retaliation, but it's probably just as much about the Tina Peters situation as it is about Lauren Boebert. Trump seems to have decided that Colorado Must Be Punished, even though Eastern Colorado is as red Republican as the districts come.
I have a theory that Lauren Boebert doesent actually need glasses but wears them to seem smarter. It isnt working.
Authoritarians who did everything they could to make this dude feel like he should be a literal king are mad that he doesn’t give a fuck what they say. Crazy.
Morons.
No shit, dumbfuck.
Stick to the handjobs. You're better at it than thinking.
She filed for divorce the month before the theater handy, and she's not currently with the guy she was jacking, so it would seem that she's pretty shit at handjobs.
Kinda sad for someone who was supposedly a cheap escort in Colorado.
Fuck around find out.
This bitch and the rest of the GOP spent the last 10 years on their hands and knees sucking Trump's tiny trumpet (Boebert at a Beetlejuice musical). Then the moment the narcissistic toddler they put into office again gets slight push back, he immediately retaliates.
I garuntee you the dumb fucks who voted Boebert into office will primary her out next cycle. Not because of what I just said, but because she dared to challenge their god emporer who just took away their clean water.
"But you weren't supposed to retaliate against me"
"Who would have thought this spotted apex predator would eat MY face??"
Of course it is retaliation. What else would it be? His claim that it is wasteful or that it's about "fiscal sanity" (lol) [1] is simply not a believable claim. Projects like this are exactly why governments exist. But selfish little baby has to make it all about him.
[1] I love that, even now, the idiotic myth that Republicans and conservatives are somehow the best stewards of money, the economy or business still lingers on. It was a ridiculous notion decades ago and has blown way into the child-like imagination phase at this point. Conservatives and Republicans are always terrible for the economy and terrible at balancing budgets, etc.
Yeah but Conservatives and particularly Republicans are great at spreading a message. It's more important that people believe that Conservatives and Republicans are good stewards of the economy than actually being good stewards. The economy will ebb and flow regardless of what anyone does, so why do anything about it when you can just take credit for the highlights.
All these assholes who supported this idiot and are now seeing what he is were thoroughly warned. They chose not to listen because "librul says"!
I wonder if, in those areas where 50,000 people live, if there are any Taco flags still flying. Their vote for Taco didn't matter since Colorado went blue, but....still. They might want to read the fucking room.
I drove through rural Georgia this week. Yep, they're everywhere.
Override the veto? A unanimously passed bill should be able to do that, and push back at the admin, win win
They probably have to worry about the credible death threats that Taco will direct at them. The Republican Party is not so much a political party but more like a crime family or a terrorist group.
The last article I read didn’t even mention the possibility which I couldn’t understand; at least this one does:
It was not immediately clear whether the Republican leaders in Congress would allow a vote to override Trump’s veto in Colorado
I can only assume republicans wouldn’t because they didn’t know they weren’t in step with Trump’s wishes?
It’ll be interesting to see how it goes and how willing Congress is to separate themselves from such an unpopular president.
With Trump officially opposed, I assume that Mike Johnson will prevent an override from coming to a vote. That will be fun to watch.
It's kind of shocking to learn that there are places in the United States where radioactive tap water is a thing.
3/4 of the US outside major metros should be classified as a developing country. We have many areas that barely have functional plumbing, let alone any other type of developed infrastructure.
The Navajo nation in New Mexico just got widespread electricity in the last 20 years. In other parts of the country, Natives still live without power.
A lot of people don't have any idea how desperate life is for the poorest in this country.
Which is even worse when you know that most of these places were doing pretty solid up until the 1970s-1980s, they've spent 50 to 40 fucking years slowly decaying while the feds and to an extent the states sat on their assess doing nothing. Fun act did you know that The Learning Channel has its roots in Appalachia as a way of educating the masses there. Sure some of them got fucked over by simple inevitably factors like the collapse of the logging industry up in NorCal, but others were fucked over by bad government policies that empowered corporations and fucked over smaller co-ops, independent farms, and small corporate farms.
Fun act did you know that The Learning Channel has its roots in Appalachia as a way of educating the masses there.
Considering what The Learning Channel turned into, that's a perfect microcosm of the sort of shit that's happened to them over the last few decades.
I’m in my 30s and I, briefly, lived in a house with no running water some years ago. I agree that most people don’t realize how far behind the rural areas are.
I've been wondering about that myself.
She’s not wrong. It is retaliation. Just not against her
When the president does something like this, congress should keep sending it back. Just spam his ass with it.
No need for that. A veto can be overturned by Congress entirely and a unanimously passed bill should be quite easy to accomplish that with. In a normal functioning democracy, at least.
The GOP members who initially voted bypartisantly (I believe it was a voice-only vote, no exact tally was made) may not want to do a formal override vote and paint themselves as an opponent to their supreme leader.
Hence my last sentence.
He’ll just use an autopen.
In addition to the autopan in his bed.
Here's a bet, IF the Congress has the guts to override the cult leader, he tries to use an executive order to prevent the implementation somehow.
The US has to decide if it abides by the rule of law or the rule of executive orders. If it's the latter, Congress is no longer necessary and can be disbanded.
If they disband congress please remove the pensions as waste, fraud, and abuse.
And may as well get rid of the courts too.
Ya love to see it.
Keep tearing each other apart, MAGA. This is better than daytime TV.
She's pretty sharp for the dullest knife in the drawer.
How is this helpful? It's important to know about these things.
I’m not saying we shouldn’t know about it, I’m using Norm to comment that of course this is retaliation. Everything with Trump is transactional.
I just did it using a one word fictional magazine title. Norm used this gag more times than one, and usually accompanied the graphic with, “Read all about it in this month’s riviting issue of Duh.”