Why?
I don't understand why Republicans would do this.

Always probe first, before you pack meat.

I enjoyed hearing Trump say the country is doing great during the football game. I don't think I remember him mentioning the shutdown, so it's probably not a priority for him, like armed forces recruitment is. During the shutdown.

I've known many people that lived in Florida for a few years. Mostly drawn by a strong tourist economy that practically guaranteed employment, and by being young, wanting to have fun, and living somewhere with better weather and hotter chicks.

I guess giving Argentina's beef industry $40 Billion wasn't enough to harm American farmers.

"Who, then, will buy their goods/services?"

It seems like they're counting on wealthy people to purchase YouTube+, Hulu+, Disney+, Apple TV+, Peacock+, Netflix+, and Slingbox+ while the other 80% make do with $20 rabbit ears.

"women who are entering the workplace in such great numbers that they now make up large portions or majorities of their professions."

"Large portions."

"As of 2025, 55 women lead Fortune 500 companies" -- Google

"are you advocating for Muslims to take part in these programs? of course not. this is why" their mosques and their Islamic communities take care of their communities"
...
"then Christian and Jews are in complete submission to the Muslims in power because they control our social welfare programs. people, it's not a conspiracy theory."

There's no reasoning with this kind of "logic."
Why don't Christians and Jews just take care of Christians and Jews, like Muslims take care of Muslims?
Then the Christians and Jews wouldn't need social welfare programs in the first place.

Look at what's happening in the quote.
Muslims are living up to "Am I my brother's keeper?" and the Christians and Jews are not.
They're telling you to your face that they don't care about you.

Great job market for people with the highly sought after Jan 6 pardon skill set right now.

BillJohnson was forged in the flames of conservative hatred for gay equality:

Save Our Children, Inc. was a political coalition formed in 1977 in Miami, Florida, U.S. to overturn a recently legislated county ordinance that banned discrimination in areas of housing, employment, and public accommodation based on sexual orientation. The coalition was publicly headed by celebrity singer Anita Bryant, who claimed the ordinance discriminated against her right to teach her children biblical morality.

...

"What's BJ boi's problem with marriage equality?"

He thinks it will be used to force anti-gay churches to perform gay weddings at gunpoint.
I'm not making it up. That's really what he thinks.

The choices are:
Global Warming
or
Microplastics in every cell of every living thing.

Our choice: Both.

"Yeah when Fauci shutdown the entire country so nobody was allowed to work."

Not a thing that happened.

Though I do believe the part about you not working. And blaming someone else.

I'm sad that I won't get to see the UPS MD-11 that would fly over the neighborhood every evening. It was always fun to hear it coming in as it sounded different from the usual 737s and occasional other types of passenger aircraft.

"The front fell off."

Also, Japanese citizens are immigrants, so those are the kinds of people Trump is already sending to camps.

You mean like the camps the anti-fascist Democrats already sent Japanese citizens to?
#57 | Posted by visitor_

Yes.

How long?

Snoofy,
Give me time to think...sheesh.
#238 | Posted by BillJohnson

You've had fifteen years to think of a replacement for the ACA.

You haven't spent a single moment of those fifteen years thinking up a replacement.

Immediately create a dedicated, bipartisan Task Force for the sole purpose of identifying costs.
#237 | Posted by BillJohnson

I can identify the costs right now.
Cigna, Aetna, UnitedHealth Group.
Health insurance companies have never treated a single patient.
They're unnecessary, redundant middlemen.

Hey...I'm being diplomatic here.
#245 | Posted by BillJohnson

No, you're being two-faced.
It's the defining feature of your life.
Like when you lied to Uncle Sam about being gay.

"The word compromise has been eliminated from the politic sphere it seems."

Can't negotiate with terrorists, now can we?

"In Springfield, they're eating the dogs, the people that came in, they're eating the cats."

You'd negotiate with the terrorist Dems? Dems who hate America so much they let the pet eating people in? No way, Jose!

"The increase in manufacturing would lead to a decline in tariff revenue, Bessent said, but would bolster tax revenue."

Oh I see. Tax revenue goes down, but tax revenue also goes up.

We're robbing Peter to pay... Peter.

So uh... Is she a MAGA Republican or what?

"And median household income has increased by almost $20k per year since 1990 in inflation-adjusted dollars."

Setting aside that means the median income goes up $20K a year, which is obviously wrong:
How much more has upper quintile household income increased, compared to median income?

I can't quite tell if you're denying there has been $50 trillion of wealth shifted from the bottom 90% to the top 1% in the past forty years, or just saying that the people in the bottom 90% demographic from whom the income has been shifted away shouldn't miss it, or something else.

Let's start with the shift. Do you agree $50 trillion of wealth shifted from the bottom 90% to the top 1% in the past forty years?

"The simple fact is that back in the 1960s you could rent a small apartment, buy a used car, and put yourself through college on a minimum wage job. I know because I did it (pumping gas, washing dishes, working as a part-time DJ), as did millions of my generation. Just ask your grandparents. So, what happened?"

The government got involved.
#5 | Posted by madbomber

"The government got involved"
Yes, that's actually what the headline says. The headline you've been arguing with says the same thing you said.

"Federally secured loans mean that students and homeowners could borrow hundreds of thousands of dollars, even when they might be able to pay those loans."

Students can't borrow "hundreds of thousands of dollars" of Federally secured loans. When I started in 1990 I borrowed something like $1,600 for one year. When I went back to school in the 2010s I borrowed about $55K over two and a half years. Medical students can borrow well over the $100k mark but have to turn to private lenders to get there.

And Federally secured home loans offer security for the lender, not the homeowner. The home itself still serves as collateral, will be auctioned off if the mortgagee defaults, and the lender made whole by the FHA.