What a riot.

Republicans are now denying what Republicans, led by Little Marco, ADMITTED.

You can't get a bigger self-own.

" Obviously you have no experience with health care and insurance or anyone that works in health care."

I was a Trustee of a multi-billion dollar Pension and Health Fund, after serving for over two decades on Health Insurance committees.

You were saying?

"Insurance is...the preventer of health care."

The stupid, it burns!

" Trump's economy doesn't start until October the first."

You're talking about fiscal budget years. It became Trump's economy the moment he brought up tariffs.

If inflation jumps by the end of September, that's on Trump, not Biden.

Oh, ffs.

Go to the conservative Heritage Foundation website on vote fraud. It's a compendium of convictions over the last quarter-century.

If your theory was correct, there would be scores of convictions, especially in Democratic strongholds. Instead, it's just the opposite: usually in red enclaves, and rarer than hen's teeth.

"Working family tax cuts"

Well, sure, if your family is in venture capital, private equity, and hedge funds.

Mike Johnson said $10k for the average taxpayer. I about fell off my chair.

So they're cutting $35 billion over a decade, AND requiring the states pay for a system of tracking and enforcement?

A million bucks a day. In Louisiana.

It will be devastating.

"Does that seem easy to falsify?"

Micro-paperwork requirements on actual paper which must be physically processed, versus electronically processed?!?

It's an additional barrier.

Do you believe, in the big picture, an additional barrier will be an additional barrier?

Keep in mind, folks: the default will be to throw EVERYONE off, unless they provide the proper paperwork.

And backups for processing paperwork? That's legally YOUR fault.

The folks who wrote this ABSOLUTELY KNOW the paperwork will keep otherwise-eligible recipients from getting honest benefits.

It's cruelty. And all for power and greed, aka tax cuts for the world's wealthiest.

"Isn't there a clause that says they can volunteer 20 hours a week to qualify?"

So at least three working days a week (or a pair of overtime days), including transportation back and forth?!?

Also: How will that be proven, and will the required proof ever delay or deter a qualifying applicant? And who will police it; how will easy abuse be avoided?

"we all know who this is aimed at."

At folks who don't need another barrier to get help. Nor do they need the added expenses of a non-paying part-time job.

"Sales blow out "experts" estimates"

Well, they weren't experts if they didn't expect a surge of buying before tariffs kicked in.

What will the inflation rates be for July and August?

" dems hired 10,000 IRS agents....AND ARMED THEM."

First, the number is manure: some idiot divided the entire added budget by the average beginners salary ... as if NO dollars we're being spent on the computer system overhaul, and NO dollars would be needed to replace the army of retirees.

Second, only about 2% of IRS agents are armed. And they're armed for good reason: they deal with the types of cases where at least two agents must be assigned.

Ultimately, your claim is a self-own: only someone slathered in talking points would repeat something so ludicrous.

" Are you suggesting that hasn't happened, like, at all?"

Not when Stephen Miller is telling them to pick up day laborers at Home Depot, no.

And remind us how many of the renditioned 253 to El Salvador had a criminal record? More, or less, than seven?

(Narrator: "It was six, kids! That's LESS!")

" Trump acknowledged the interference. He denied collusion"

The Rubio Report admitted over 100 contacts between Russians and Team Trump, all while Team Trump was lying to the American public, claiming ZERO contacts.

If there was no collusion, it wasn't for lack of trying. Junior's Trump Tower meeting with Russians alone proves as much.

"Continue aggressively deporting those who came here illegally."

Including the ones who've been part of the fabric of their communities for decades? Who've raised kids and (otherwise) followed the law? No thanks.

We were promised first, we'd get rid of the worst of the worst... not workers at Home Depot and Chipotle.

I'm all for deporting criminals and gangs. When will that start?

"Officers are required to make an arrest where evidence of domestic violence exists, regardless of whether the victim wants to press charges."

Is that in all jurisdictions, or some? If some...was it for this one?

"Trumpy thinks the DOJ is his personal private law firm and ICE is his Republican Guard.
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(Bonus points for the Saddam reference.)

"Zero government services for illegal aliens except emergency medical care."

Congratulations! Your refusal to deal with reality (aka, your head up your a$s) will result in mass breakouts of usually-controlled diseases.

Heckuva job, Brownie!

"I've always supported that."

No, you haven't. You've NEVER pointed out the hirers usually get off scott-free

"It's a big enticement to come here illegally."

By the employers.

You know....the ones who advertise in the Central and South American newspapers.

" Continue current border enforcement as the new norm."

Including kidnapping US Citizens? Including renditioning folks without due process?!?

"Crack down on employers who hire illegal aliens."

First time for everything, I guess.

Meanwhile, why aren't they going after gang members like they promised?

I have no problem with more choices.

The Trustees, however, have a fiduciary duty to only provide quality offerings. They're legally bound to refuse to offer junk.

This sounds like junk for junk's sake.

"to the degree that they keep their job.....as a county sheriff."

They accept campaign donations, right? They realize if they raid the "well-known secret" they'll lose the donations, right?

I'm not saying it's an unforgivable sin. Like you, I'm saying it's ubiquitous. I also understand the financial straights of small towns, and their inhabitants.

My answer is to address reality, while conferring basic human dignity. I'm tired of folks using the issue as a political football.

But anyone who is against the undocumented worker, while silent about the hirers who knowingly break the law...is part of the problem.

"(Barney's) not up to the task...not skill wise, not financially, and he'd be out of a job by sundown if he actually tried to do what Danforth is suggesting as a remedy"

Thanks for once again proving my point: the Sheriffs are on the take.

"You want Andy Taylor and Barney Fife to arrest illegals and their employers and cram their jails with them."

No, your party's current answer is arrest and deport them.

"we aren't going to ask Counties to enforce and detain these people. Nor prosecute them...not unless they commit a real crime other than being here illegally. Again...why? Because it will break these counties financially to do what you think should be done."

Thank you for agreeing with me. They'd be out of business, because everybody KNOWS who their business hires.

And I DON'T think it should be done; I believe we should treat these folks with dignity. I'm not going to deny almost every plate of food I eat has at least one "illegal" in its chain.

When folks start barfing about the illegals being the ones at fault, and NEVER ADDRESSING THE HIRERS, is when I point out the hypocrisy, and what the Republicans SHOULD be going after, if they were honestly concerned about the solution. Instead, the problem is used as a political tool.

"you will come to the conclusion that everyone has been a hypocrite on this issue forever."

Not me.

I'm the only one living in reality. That's why I constantly point out the folks screeching the loudest aren't addressing the root of the problem.