Showing posts with label congress. Show all posts
Showing posts with label congress. Show all posts
Sep 21, 2026
Sep 1, 2026
Stansbury Is Fire
Rep Melanie Stansbury (NM01) is a rising star - a Democrat who knows we're in a brick fight, and is unafraid to throw some fuckin' bricks.
She's basically pointing out a variation on Chesterton's Fence. ie: Don't do something irreversible without understanding the consequences of your actions. Don't tear down the fence until you know why somebody put it up.
In this case, gutting EPA and species protection rules makes it easier for a critter to go extinct, and while we know some of the effects on the ecosystem will surely be negative, we don't know what the specific long term ripple effects will be. Remove part of the food chain, and there will probably be some adaptations that nature can make, but there's more than a fair probability that those adaptations won't be to our benefit.
Leave shit alone until you know what comes next.
"Move fast and break things" is a child's way of thinking.
Aug 29, 2026
BKjr Lied
The son of a bitch lied under oath.
RFK Jr. Lied in Confirmation Hearings About Spreading Measles in Samoa
Newly obtained documents reveal that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. specifically told the Samoan prime minister the trip was to study the MMR vaccine.
During two separate confirmation hearings last year, America’s foremost anti-vaccine activist claimed that his trek to the Polynesian island country had “nothing to do with vaccines.” Fact check: It did.
Letters obtained by The Guardian and the Associated Press, published Thursday, reveal that Kennedy explicitly informed the Samoan prime minister ahead of his trip of his intention to study the efficacy of the measles, mumps, and rubella, or MMR, vaccine.
In one such letter dated January 20, 2019, Kennedy unambiguously argued that he believed two recent infant deaths on the island were “temporally associated with MMR vaccines.”
“For most of the world, investigation of adverse health events associated with vaccines—or any pharmaceutical for that matter—is both difficult and time consuming,” Kennedy wrote. “Health information systems are rarely designed to support rapid study of associations between diagnoses and specific vaccination events.
“It is, however, known that vaccines vary both lot-to-lot from specific manufacturers, and between manufacturers for a single vaccine type,” he continued. “This makes the likelihood of adverse lot and manufacturer specific effects higher for smaller nations where all vaccines can be from a few or a single lot and manufacturer.”
Kennedy’s visit preceded a deadly measles outbreak on the island in 2019. At the time, Kennedy’s anti-vax nonprofit, Children’s Health Defense, spread rampant misinformation about the efficacy of vaccines throughout Samoa, tanking the nation’s vaccination rate from a 60 percent–70 percent range to just 31 percent, according to Mother Jones.
Up until that point, Samoa had not experienced a severe measles outbreak since 1985, when 1,095 confirmed cases were reported to the World Health Organization. But in 2019, after Kennedy’s visit, the country reported 5,707 cases of measles as well as 83 measles-related deaths, the majority of which were children under the age of five.
During his confirmation hearings in February 2025, Kennedy repeatedly told skeptical lawmakers that his visit had “nothing to do with vaccines” and was actually focused on implementing public health systems that would digitize Samoan health records.
A spokesperson for the Department of Health and Human Services told The Guardian in a statement that “Secretary Kennedy’s visit to Samoa in 2019 was unrelated to vaccines.”
The spokesperson added that “any claim or insinuation based on these letters that Secretary Kennedy lied under oath or to Congress is not only false but outright defamatory,” despite the fact that Kennedy was not sworn in under oath before his congressional hearings.
However, that didn’t grant Kennedy the ability and free license to lie to America’s lawmakers: It’s a felony to make false statements to or conceal facts from the federal government, as detailed by U.S. Code.
How many times do we just look the other way on this shit?
Newly obtained documents reveal that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. specifically told the Samoan prime minister the trip was to study the MMR vaccine.
During two separate confirmation hearings last year, America’s foremost anti-vaccine activist claimed that his trek to the Polynesian island country had “nothing to do with vaccines.” Fact check: It did.
Letters obtained by The Guardian and the Associated Press, published Thursday, reveal that Kennedy explicitly informed the Samoan prime minister ahead of his trip of his intention to study the efficacy of the measles, mumps, and rubella, or MMR, vaccine.
In one such letter dated January 20, 2019, Kennedy unambiguously argued that he believed two recent infant deaths on the island were “temporally associated with MMR vaccines.”
“For most of the world, investigation of adverse health events associated with vaccines—or any pharmaceutical for that matter—is both difficult and time consuming,” Kennedy wrote. “Health information systems are rarely designed to support rapid study of associations between diagnoses and specific vaccination events.
“It is, however, known that vaccines vary both lot-to-lot from specific manufacturers, and between manufacturers for a single vaccine type,” he continued. “This makes the likelihood of adverse lot and manufacturer specific effects higher for smaller nations where all vaccines can be from a few or a single lot and manufacturer.”
Kennedy’s visit preceded a deadly measles outbreak on the island in 2019. At the time, Kennedy’s anti-vax nonprofit, Children’s Health Defense, spread rampant misinformation about the efficacy of vaccines throughout Samoa, tanking the nation’s vaccination rate from a 60 percent–70 percent range to just 31 percent, according to Mother Jones.
Up until that point, Samoa had not experienced a severe measles outbreak since 1985, when 1,095 confirmed cases were reported to the World Health Organization. But in 2019, after Kennedy’s visit, the country reported 5,707 cases of measles as well as 83 measles-related deaths, the majority of which were children under the age of five.
During his confirmation hearings in February 2025, Kennedy repeatedly told skeptical lawmakers that his visit had “nothing to do with vaccines” and was actually focused on implementing public health systems that would digitize Samoan health records.
A spokesperson for the Department of Health and Human Services told The Guardian in a statement that “Secretary Kennedy’s visit to Samoa in 2019 was unrelated to vaccines.”
The spokesperson added that “any claim or insinuation based on these letters that Secretary Kennedy lied under oath or to Congress is not only false but outright defamatory,” despite the fact that Kennedy was not sworn in under oath before his congressional hearings.
However, that didn’t grant Kennedy the ability and free license to lie to America’s lawmakers: It’s a felony to make false statements to or conceal facts from the federal government, as detailed by U.S. Code.
Jul 14, 2026
It's About Time
Joe Neguse is a rising star.
I'd love to get real, and stop fuckin' around with time changes, but he ain't wrong.
"Republicans are majoring in the minors - fiddling with the clocks while the country burns."
May 25, 2026
The Runaway GOP
Republicans are scared shitless about the midterms, so they're moving to cancel out Democrats' seats in both the house and the Senate.
They knew last December they'd lose on the Epstein vote, so Mike "The Flaccid" Johnson sent them home early.
Johnson did the same thing last week when he knew he was going to lose on the War Powers resolution.
It takes for-fuckin'-ever sometimes, but so far, we've managed to get there every time. If we can stay engaged and keep paying attention, we'll get there this time too.
Apr 24, 2026
Apr 8, 2026
Meow
Putting aside the massive Purity Policing thing she seems to be attempting - trying to set herself up as the Great Arbiter of Integrity - she makes a fair point.
Question: Is she ready to propose a few solutions to reform the thing, or is she just pimping for the attention, or is she angling for better assignments, or what?
She's certainly not making any new friends among her colleagues. I guess it could be she's having a Mr Smith Goes To Washington moment - disillusioned, and lashing out against the injustice of the powers-that-be.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) vented that she is tired of serving with a bunch of “immoral freaks” in Congress on Tuesday, with the conservative lawmaker recently ripping both Democrats and Republican representatives for alleged sexual and financial crimes.
“I am sick of serving in Congress with immoral freaks who abuse their office and bring dishonor to the institution,” Paulina Luna posted on X. “Congress is rotted to the core and it needs a complete overhaul. The American people deserve better than this.”
While the congresswoman did not call anyone out by name in her post, it isn’t too hard to figure out who she is angry with. Paulina Luna shared a story from The Hill a few hours earlier where she insisted Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX) and Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL) both “need to go.”
That report came a month after “Luna filed two resolutions to censure Gonzales or strip him of his committee assignments following allegations that he had an affair with a separate congressional staffer, who died by suicide,” according to The Hill.
As for Cherfilus-McCormick, a House Ethics Committee investigation found “clear and convincing evidence” in March that she stole $5 million in FEMA funds in 2021. A federal grand jury indicted the representative last year for it, claiming Cherfilus-McCormick used a “substantial portion” of the dough to fund her 2022 campaign; she has denied any wrongdoing and argued the charges against her were racist.
Paulina Luna on Tuesday said the latest lawmaker who should be branded an “immoral freak” is Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA).
Swalwell — who is running to succeed Gavin Newsom as California’s next governor — “will ‘soon’ face sexual harassment allegations from a number of ‘credible women,’ including former staffers,” The Washington Free Beacon reported on Monday. Cheyenne Hunt, the head of the liberal advocacy group Gen Z for Change, accused Swalwell of sleeping with “many of his interns” and made them all sign NDAs, the report noted.
Mar 9, 2026
Today's Erika
Voting YES would refer the matter to committee, which effectively kills it.
It's dead now - by a vote of 357 - 65
House kills effort to release all congressional sexual misconduct and harassment reports
Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., had forced the vote in light of allegations that her Republican colleague Tony Gonzales of Texas sent sexual text messages to a subordinate.
WASHINGTON — The House on Wednesday voted to scuttle an effort by Republican Rep. Nancy Mace to shed more light on sexual misconduct allegations against members of Congress.
Mace, a conservative Republican who is running to be governor of South Carolina, forced a floor vote on her resolution directing the House Ethics Committee to make public all reports on allegations of congressional lawmakers and aides engaging in sexual misconduct or harassment.
But in a 357-65 vote, the House voted to refer the Mace resolution to committee — a move that effectively killed it.
The Ethics Committee had encouraged members to vote to refer the resolution. In a joint statement, the Republican and Democratic leaders of the committee argued it "could chill victim cooperation and witness participation in ongoing and future investigations" and would make it harder for the committee "to investigate and eliminate sexual misconduct in the House."
“Here and elsewhere, perpetrators of sexual misconduct should never be shielded from responsibility for their misdeeds,” Chairman Michael Guest, R-Miss., and ranking member Mark DeSaulnier, D-Calif., said.
But, they added, “victims may be retraumatized by public disclosures of interim work product, excerpts of interview transcripts, and certain exhibits. And witnesses, who often only speak to the Committee confidentially or on condition of future anonymity, could fear retaliation if their cooperation is made public.”
Mace has spoken openly about her own experiences as a sexual assault survivor, and she’s been at the center of the fight over releasing the government’s Jeffrey Epstein files. She was one of just four House Republicans who teamed with Democrats on a discharge petition last fall that circumvented her own GOP leadership and eventually led to the Justice Department’s release of the Epstein files.
She said her resolution came after NBC News and other outlets reported that a GOP colleague, Rep. Tony Gonzales of Texas, had sent sexual text messages to a female aide, Regina Santos-Aviles, with whom he allegedly had an affair before she died by suicide last year. Gonzales previously denied having an affair but has not addressed the substance of the allegations since the text messages came to light.
Mace is among several Republicans who have called on Gonzales to resign.
“I would like members of Congress to tell their female colleagues where they stand on sexual harassment within the U.S. House of Representatives,” Mace told reporters. “Do you support women up here, that work up here, and who are your colleagues, or do you not?”
Earlier Wednesday, the House Ethics panel said it will open an investigation into the allegations against Gonzales. House rules explicitly prohibit lawmakers from engaging in relationships with their own staff members.
In a brief statement, Gonzales said of the Ethics probe: “I welcome the opportunity to present all the facts to the committee.”
In Tuesday night's primary in Texas, Gonzales was forced into a May runoff election against GOP challenger Brandon Herrera.
Sen Kaine
Under "normal" circumstances, I'm OK with him being Mr Congeniality, but these current circumstances are anything but normal.
It's a brick fight, Democrats
Throw some fuckin' bricks
He finally gets to it with this Colby guy - and I'm glad for that. I just wish now that he'd learn to stop smiling when does get to it.
Feb 6, 2026
Calling His Bluff
Jagoff Congress Critters like James Comer seem to think their job is to make life shitty for people, and get a good video clip for DumFux News.
As Clintons prepare to answer questions about Epstein, Trump balks
Republican Rep. James Comer opened a door that has long been closed. His party might come to regret the decision.
It’s never been altogether clear why Rep. James Comer, the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, launched a crusade to get Bill and Hillary Clinton to testify as part of his panel’s Jeffrey Epstein investigation. But the Kentucky Republican did it anyway, even issuing first-of-their-kind subpoenas to compel the Democrats’ testimony.
When the Clintons resisted the cheap, partisan tactics, Comer upped the ante, scheduled a contempt hearing and set the stage for a possible criminal process. The former Democratic president and former secretary of state, left with little choice, ultimately acquiesced.
There’s still some question about how the next steps will unfold, though Hillary Clinton sent an interesting rhetorical shot across Comer’s bow on Thursday morning. “For six months, we engaged Republicans on the Oversight Committee in good faith,” she wrote online. “We told them what we know, under oath. They ignored all of it. They moved the goalposts and turned accountability into an exercise in distraction.”
“So let’s stop the games,” Hillary Clinton added. “If you want this fight, @RepJamesComer, let’s have it — in public. You love to talk about transparency. There’s nothing more transparent than a public hearing, cameras on. We will be there.”
The hapless committee chairman hasn’t yet responded, but in the meantime, there’s also a larger context to all of this. The New York Times reported that no former president has ever been compelled to testify to Congress under subpoena, and Comer has set a precedent his party might ultimately come to regret.
Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, told the Times that “like all powers of Congress or any other branch, these are powers that can be abused. We’re living in a period of spectacular abuse of power.”
That’s true, though it’s also true that now that the door is open, others can walk through it.
Rep. Robert Garcia of California, the top Democrat on the Oversight Committee, told the Times: “There’s no question that Oversight Democrats will want to speak to Donald Trump and others. That is a precedent that has now been set by Comer and House Republicans.”
It was against this backdrop that NBC News’ Tom Llamas reminded the incumbent president: “Democrats are already saying if you bring President Bill Clinton and he has to testify, we’re bringing President Trump.” Before the anchor could finish his question about this, Trump interjected.
“Well, I think they might say that, you know? But they’ve already brought me. See, I’ve been brought,” the president replied. “They had me indicted, many, many times. Many, many times.”
Like so many of the president’s comments, this didn’t make any sense at all — congressional Democrats had nothing to do with the many criminal charges Trump has faced — though the response suggested he’s not at all eager to answer questions about Epstein, even if subpoenaed in future years, and even if the Clintons cooperate.
Watch this space.
With all the shit the Republicans have been piling on the Clintons for 35 years, they must believe the Epstein files thing is either just the latest thing they can use to embarrass them with, or to distract and deflect - "it's really all about Slick Willy!!!"
It's like they don't know who they're fuckin' with.
I expect not to be surprised if Bill and Hillary end up doing their thing via Questionnaire, or if Comer decides he really doesn't want to risk what happens if he opens that can of worms in public, and calls the whole thing off.
Republican Rep. James Comer opened a door that has long been closed. His party might come to regret the decision.
It’s never been altogether clear why Rep. James Comer, the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, launched a crusade to get Bill and Hillary Clinton to testify as part of his panel’s Jeffrey Epstein investigation. But the Kentucky Republican did it anyway, even issuing first-of-their-kind subpoenas to compel the Democrats’ testimony.
When the Clintons resisted the cheap, partisan tactics, Comer upped the ante, scheduled a contempt hearing and set the stage for a possible criminal process. The former Democratic president and former secretary of state, left with little choice, ultimately acquiesced.
There’s still some question about how the next steps will unfold, though Hillary Clinton sent an interesting rhetorical shot across Comer’s bow on Thursday morning. “For six months, we engaged Republicans on the Oversight Committee in good faith,” she wrote online. “We told them what we know, under oath. They ignored all of it. They moved the goalposts and turned accountability into an exercise in distraction.”
“So let’s stop the games,” Hillary Clinton added. “If you want this fight, @RepJamesComer, let’s have it — in public. You love to talk about transparency. There’s nothing more transparent than a public hearing, cameras on. We will be there.”
The hapless committee chairman hasn’t yet responded, but in the meantime, there’s also a larger context to all of this. The New York Times reported that no former president has ever been compelled to testify to Congress under subpoena, and Comer has set a precedent his party might ultimately come to regret.
Members of Congress don’t necessarily think that is a good thing; they want the ability to bring in former presidents when they are relevant witnesses and may have something meaningful to say. And Mr. Comer’s move was a rare power play by a Republican lawmaker at a time when the G.O.P.-led House and Senate have ceded much of their power to the White House.
But his accomplishment also amounted to a remarkable use of government power to target a political adversary — the kind seen more often in autocratic societies where a peaceful transfer of power is not a given because leaders fear ending up in prison after leaving office. And it was one that some experts said further chipped away at the country’s democratic norms.
Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, told the Times that “like all powers of Congress or any other branch, these are powers that can be abused. We’re living in a period of spectacular abuse of power.”
That’s true, though it’s also true that now that the door is open, others can walk through it.
Rep. Robert Garcia of California, the top Democrat on the Oversight Committee, told the Times: “There’s no question that Oversight Democrats will want to speak to Donald Trump and others. That is a precedent that has now been set by Comer and House Republicans.”
It was against this backdrop that NBC News’ Tom Llamas reminded the incumbent president: “Democrats are already saying if you bring President Bill Clinton and he has to testify, we’re bringing President Trump.” Before the anchor could finish his question about this, Trump interjected.
“Well, I think they might say that, you know? But they’ve already brought me. See, I’ve been brought,” the president replied. “They had me indicted, many, many times. Many, many times.”
Like so many of the president’s comments, this didn’t make any sense at all — congressional Democrats had nothing to do with the many criminal charges Trump has faced — though the response suggested he’s not at all eager to answer questions about Epstein, even if subpoenaed in future years, and even if the Clintons cooperate.
Watch this space.
Dec 7, 2025
Guess Who
- 36 accused of spouse abuse
- 7 arrested for fraud
- 19 accused of writing bad checks
- 117 bankrupted companies
- 3 convicted of, and done time, for assault
- 71 can't qualify for a credit card
- 14 arrested on drug-related charges
- 8 arrested for shoplifting
- 21 are currently defendants in lawsuits
- 84 arrested for drunk driving in the last year
These numbers are not about people off the streets in "blue cities", and they're not about spoiled pampered brats in pro sports, and they're not ancient history.
These are numbers from the 535 Congress Critters we've got on our payroll right now.
Nov 20, 2025
Another'n
Legislation to restore union rights for hundreds of thousands of federal workers is headed for a House vote.
The bill is opposed by the GOP leaders who control the lower chamber, but a bipartisan group of lawmakers this week very quietly secured the required 218 signatures on a discharge petition to sidestep Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and force the proposal to the floor.
The breakthrough, which was overshadowed by the week’s intense focus on the Jeffrey Epstein saga, sets the stage for the House to pass legislation returning the collective bargaining rights to federal employees who were stripped of those powers under an executive order signed by President Trump earlier in the year.
Rep. Jared Golden (D-Maine), the lead sponsor of the legislation, said House rules will allow him to call the bill for a vote as early as Dec. 2.
Labor supporters celebrated the development, with some hammering Trump and GOP leaders for attacking working-class people during a period when economic anxieties are already prevalent. They’re eager to highlight the issue with a House vote — and predict it will pass easily on the floor.
“Speaker Johnson is required, pursuant to the discharge petition, to set in motion an up-or-down vote on restoring collective bargaining for hardworking federal employees,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-Calif.) told reporters Wednesday in the Capitol. “And that’s a bipartisan discharge petition that will trigger that vote, so we know the votes exist in the House of Representatives.”
The discharge petition, championed by Golden and Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.), was introduced in June but was short of the 218 signatures needed to compel consideration of the underlying bill. That changed on Monday, when a pair of New York Republicans — Reps. Nick LaLota and Mike Lawler — endorsed the petition, which had been stuck at 216 signatures for more than two months.
The success of the petition is the latest setback for Trump, Johnson and other GOP leaders, who were forced by another discharge petition to swallow legislation this week forcing the Justice Department to release the full Epstein files — a bill Trump had fervently opposed.
The triumph of the back-to-back petitions has raised questions about Trump’s powers of influence over a House GOP conference he has typically bent to his will. But GOP supporters of the Golden petition said the pushback is not only justified, but constructive.
Rep. Don Bacon (Neb.), one of five GOP lawmakers who endorsed the petition, suggested the rogue Republicans were doing Trump a favor by strengthening the image of the party in the eyes of the labor movement.
“I think we have to force the issue on the president and the leadership. … It’s for the president’s own good,” Bacon said. “For him to rip up an agreement, I think it undermines him in the labor community.”
The legislation might not arrive, however, as a stand-alone bill. That’s because bipartisan negotiators are working separately to install the collective bargaining language in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the annual Pentagon budget package. Because the NDAA is expected to pass through both chambers of Congress next month, Golden and other supporters of his bill see that as the preferred vehicle for securing the restoration of bargaining rights, which might be too controversial on their own to pass through the Senate.
“Right now, the language to restore those rights is in the NDAA, but there’s still negotiations [over] whether it’s going to stay in,” LaLota said. “So those who are righteous about this issue generally don’t want there to be a vote right now [on the Golden bill], and want to preserve the good faith that’s in the negotiations in the NDAA.”
“This is language that is in the NDAA already, that we’re just hoping doesn’t get stripped out.”
If it does get stripped out, it would almost certainly compel Golden to lean on the discharge petition to force a vote on his stand-alone bill.
If GOP leaders try to undermine the discharge petition in a rule, as they did earlier in the year on a successful petition related to proxy voting, Republicans say they’re ready to sink that rule to ensure the bargaining bill reaches the floor. Bacon noted six Republicans had initially blocked a GOP rule in September to leverage win concessions from Republican leaders on tariff policy.
“We let them know that’s not acceptable, so I hope they don’t do that,” Bacon said. “I mean, this is why we have a discharge petition process.”
“There will have to be a vote on it,” he added, “one way or the other way.”
At issue is an executive order, signed by Trump in March, that prohibits collecting bargaining for hundreds of thousands of federal employees across 18 federal agencies, including the departments of State, Defense, Homeland Security and Health and Human Services.
In a fact sheet accompanying the announcement, the White House said certain unions “have declared war on President Trump’s agenda” and argued the change was necessary to protect national security.
“President Trump is taking action to ensure that agencies vital to national security can execute their missions without delay and protect the American people,” the fact sheet reads. “The President needs a responsive and accountable civil service to protect our national security.”
Critics of the executive order have rejected the national security argument, noting that many of the affected federal employees work in industries that directly bolster the armed services and border security.
Others said they simply opposed the idea of scrapping a deal after it had been negotiated.
“When you have a labor agreement and then you just rip it up, it’s not right. And that’s essentially what President Trump did,” Bacon said. “When you sign an agreement, you live by it.”
The final stretch toward 218 signatures was not without some drama.
Lawler was in the hunt to be the 218th lawmaker to endorse the petition, putting it over the top, and had expected a House newcomer, Rep. Adelita Grijalva (D-Ariz.), to provide the 217th signature shortly after she was sworn in on Nov. 12.
Grijalva, however, was at the center of the weeks-long fight to be the 218th signature on the Epstein petition, which was delayed because Johnson refused to swear her in during the long government shutdown. With the government reopened last week, Democratic leaders wanted to keep the focus of Grijalva’s arrival squarely on the Epstein issue, and encouraged her to sign only the Epstein petition on the day she was seated, lest they dilute their own message. The others — including Golden’s petition and one sponsored by Jeffries to extend ObamaCare subsidies — could come later.
The delay drew howls from some of the New York Republicans, who accused Jeffries of delaying the process at the expense of federal workers.
Democrats, however, see the controversy as a victory, since it was not only Lawler who signed Golden’s petition this week, but LaLota as well — an additional Republican likely to help advance the bill if it comes to the floor on its own. That extra cushion could prove crucial, because one of the Democrats on the petition, Rep. Mikie Sherrill (N.J.), is expected to resign from the House on Thursday following her victory this month to become New Jersey’s next governor.
“Importantly, Democrats have ensured that there is now sufficient bipartisan support to withstand any procedural motions that try and kill this successful discharge petition,” Christie Stephenson, a Jeffries spokesperson, said Wednesday.
Oct 29, 2025
Today's Belle
Pointing out that Senate Republicans are trying some kind of end-around - and failing, because their word is worth nothing as of the last time they tried this shit, and they're working for Trump, whose word has never been worth the effort it takes to piss on it.
Oct 14, 2025
Today's Robert
"... and if the lights go out for a while, fuck it. So be it. The truth shines brightest in the dark anyway."
Oct 1, 2025
It Gets Weirder
There's no way for me to either confirm (or disprove) any of this, but Tizzyent has been pretty good at doing that kind of thing, and he seems pretty convinced. So I can weight this to the positive side, even though large grains of salt are in order.
Sep 27, 2025
Stalling
It's Trump's favorite play. Use every trick in the book to push your responsibilities out - to buy time, hoping people will stop thinking about it, or that somebody will come up with some bullshit that gets you off the hook.
Sep 24, 2025
Got It
Kelly Thompson is a recovering Republican - switched in 2016 - running to flip a red seat in Indiana's 3rd district.
Aug 28, 2025
Today's Belle
Republicans know they've got a real turkey on their hands, so they're thinking about changing the name to something they can use to scam the rubes with - again.
The Working Family Tax Cuts Law
Belle has several suggestions for alternate names, and I'm going to send them mine too.
- The Big Bamboozle Bill
- The Grandma Lives With You Now Bill
- The Boosting American Poverty and Crime Act
- The Yacht-Buyer Benefits Package
- The Busting Hospitals Act
- The Fuck The Farmers Initiative
- The Billionaires Win Again Bill
- The Dead Americans Non-Prevention Act
Jul 15, 2025
Today's Moment Of Shame
There are plenty of times when congress critters like to do things just because it'll embarrass the president.
This is kinda like that, except for the part about a president who likes to fuck girls who haven't come of age - a president who likely broke the law and did pretty much exactly what he's spent the last 10 years accusing his opponents of doing.
Hard to say how MAGA is going to react to their guys in congress moving officially to block the release when half of them have benefited from this horseshit for years too.
Every accusation is a confession.
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