Today's headline in Starkville paper (updated thread)
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I don't remember communist, but Hitler and fascist were pretty commonly thrown around
Actually, he said recess appointments "are on the table" to get Trump appointments through. Which was part of the deal they made...
Not what I've seen. Recess appointments were fine and dandy when Senators had to rely on horses to get to Washington. They have no place now. Switch rolls, I bet you wouldn't be comfortable with Harris doing it. I wouldn't be either. If you don't want the opposition to have a power when they are ascendant, do NOT claim it for yourself when you are ascendent.
A little elaborating: Our Revolution was fought in name against the tyranny of King George III. That was useful propaganda. Every single thing in the Constitution was actually aimed at limiting the power of the majority in the Legislature/Parliament. The Founders knew what they were actually fighting against in the Revolution, even if they said otherwise.
Fix cost of living?
Trump's two big campaign promises:
1. Mass Deportation of undocumented immigrants
2. More Restrictive Trade regulations and higher tariffs on imported goods
Would BOTH *raise* food prices.
American-grown staples would get more expensive due to domestic labor shortage.
Imported foods would get more expensive due to double digit import taxes..
So if "fixing cost of living" was the number 1 campaign issue for people - they just got 17'd!
So's your mom but I wouldn't hold it against her. Even though she's had several things held against her before.
Thune has said recess appointments are on the table. There’s some hand wringing by quite a few R senators that might derail that talk but Thune is on board with it.
Gaetz, Hegseth, and RFK are WTF are you doing picks. The rest are good. Noem, Collins, Burgum (drill baby drill), and Rubio are solid
I signed up on Bluesky and this is what I found
The “blue” in Bluesky is pretty accurate. Looked like a giant echo chamber of left leaning Twitter haters.
It was what it was. 90 million or a billion people being dead still don’t make it what you want it to be. Fact remains it was about as socialist as the United States’ state-capitalism is pure capitalist. Probably less so because it was just another form of state-capitalism.
What’s interesting to me is I travel for work all over NE Mississppi and the only place I can find a bunch of Democrats is on sixpackspeak.
This is true but it’s an in accurate attempt to pretend that far left leads to socialism or authoritarianism. Far left leads toward anarchy as the preferred brand of crazy. It’s just really hard to get people to goose step in anarchy. It’s not so hard to turn people into fearful hyper nationalists willing to follow evil men…I’m not suggesting Trump is socialist, he’s just batshit crazy narcissist who will do whatever most helps him. So really no ideology is out of the question if he can keep up the grift.
“the Nazi Party, officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party (German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP), was a far-right political party in Germany active between 1920 and 1945 that created and supported the ideology of Nazism.”
In the 1920s, Mussolini and Giovanni Gentile described their ideology as right-wing in the political essay The Doctrine of Fascism, stating: "We are free to believe that this is the century of authority, a century tending to the 'right,' a fascist century."
Wild to me that a majority party in the senate would just voluntarily punt on at least giving the appearance of due diligence and carrying out an expected constitutional check by rubber stamping their own president's nominees. We can argue who is qualified and who isn't but that right there screams there's some insanity in the works.
Yeah, i saw that last night. He also said that he intended to grind though it the normal way. We shall see. I don't want to see it, because the Dems will do it even more the next time they are in. I think it should be outlawed.
I thought y'all were talking about a convenience store.I signed up on Bluesky and this is what I found
The “blue” in Bluesky is pretty accurate. Looked like a giant echo chamber of left leaning Twitter haters.
I don’t think many of his fellow republicans want to go along with recess appointments. At least with some of these nominations.
Here: https://www.sos.ms.gov/Content/documents/Elections/2024September Voter Count Red.pdf
26,894 are registered in Oktibbeha County (only 68% of those old enough are registered. Maybe college students that are registered in their home towns?).
I think that's just the percent registered, not the turnout, but you could be right. In general, turnout was lower everywhere. Under 60% here and was 65% in 2020, even with Covid restrictions (no early or mail-in voting here, typically. Absentee might have been a little easier to get then).
Pete Hegseth - great guy, great patriot - but zero experience running any size organization, let alone one with near a trillion-dollar budget and hundreds of thousands of employees.
Which is the way it should be. We have three parts of the government for checks and balance of power. Should not bypass one of them.
Norm shot her dog in the face. I was neutral about her before that. Can't approve of her now.
One thing that Republican Senators need to worry about. Elon Musk has threatened to fund challengers to any who vote to go against President Trump's agenda.
Elon's wealth makes George Soros look like the squeegee guy on the corner in Austin, TX.
Elon's wealth makes George Soros look like the squeegee guy on the corner in Austin, TX.
Yeah I do. It’s because she is a heartless psychopath.
Which is why she was selected to attempt to head up the concentration camps.
Yes, concentration camps from Trump. Obama going to take all our guns. Biden is going to make us buy electric cars...
Stir that tea with your conspiracy theory spoon, it is delicious. My palm reader and horoscopes tell me what to expect from each new president. The presidents are clearly the crazy ones.
Stir that tea with your conspiracy theory spoon, it is delicious. My palm reader and horoscopes tell me what to expect from each new president. The presidents are clearly the crazy ones.
Godwin's law (or Godwin's rule), short for Godwin's law of Nazi analogies, is an Internet adage asserting: "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1."
Not really but we will just agree to disagree and leave it at that.
What we have now is incompetent, let's bring in people equally as incompetent, that'l show 'em!
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