(now if only these MAGA bigots would wake up like Senator Byrd did and do good in the world)

But Biden was the only President I know of to give eulogy to a former KKK member.

Repentance, grace, and worked the rest of his life to fix the evil he did earlier in his life. He became an example of what a changed heart can do. Yes, indeed, worthy of Biden's eulogy. That was a great eulogy, too.

"Senator Byrd reflects the transformative power of this nation," read a statement by NAACP president Ben Jealous. "Senator Byrd went from being an active member of the KKK to a being a stalwart supporter of the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act and many other pieces of seminal legislation that advanced the civil rights and liberties of our country."

In other words, what your current alias posts seems to hurt the credibility of what it posts.

That's a pattern. I'm sure you've noticed.

I do appreciate the use of the principles of the socratic method, however it is wasted on that particular poster.

The judge has extended this to almost every agency - if not every agency - in a post verdict expansion. Also a 2nd Federal judge has ruled the same way on the East coast - stating the reinstatement of those fired be done immediately and proof provided the orders have been carried out.

Judge William Alsup eviscerated the Trump administration's lawyers and the Trump OPM. Ripped them to SHREDS.

Trump wanted retribution?

He might just get it - just not the way he thought.

Trump and the GOP are pushing really hard to make that shht happen. There isn't one redeeming thing about Trump, Vance or the MAGAts supporting them. They called for retribution on their "enemies" (which turned out to be half the population),they wanted a purge, they lied and lied and lied about what they were going to do once in office. They're killing the economy. They are promoting war against our allies. They've even got Denmark saying flat out that Trump's heading for war against Denmark. They're drawing up plans to take Panama by force.

Burning down Mar-a-Lago seems to be a minor outcome if they aren't stopped in their tracks by the courts.

You're all on board with all they're doing I take it?
Are you making calls demanding they stop?
Or are you one of them?

The article is pure horse manure.

Why yes, it is.

"Trump threatens 200% tariff on European alcohol as trade war escalates"

Ain't trade wars fun?!

Who elected this moron?

Who pays taxes in the US:

Let me rephrase what I said before: You are using averages without context to create an impression of an inequity on wealthy people that simply does not exist. its nonsense, and not just because of payroll taxes and excise taxes being massively regressive on those with the least, it's also nonsense because you obscure the ultra wealthy's effectively near zero tax rates.

Reading that report, I just kept snickering.
Jeezus Keeriest on a cracker!

BTW - that bold part? That is 20 TIMES the number of undocumented.

Total health care spending in Florida per year is more than $214,408,000,000, State and Private. This is more meaningful number on the burden of unpaid health care that the state is pays, IMHO.

This is a "Florida estimate." The same state that lied repeatedly about COVID. Still does to this day.
Most importantly all the State of Florida did with this number is take the total unpaid amount and divide the tally of the undocumented into it. It didn't make any effort to include all those that are Florida residents that didn't pay. It assumes everyone that was undocumented is everyone that didn't pay. That is simply not true. There are plenty of people that are US Citizens that reside in Florida that do not pay. For Florida 8.7% of the population of Florida does not pay or has ongoing medical debt they can't pay. This is not surprising given that 30% of people in Florida are below twice the poverty rate. BTW 8.7% comes to 1,870,000 people. That is a much higher number than the reported 93,844 undocumented. That should be a HUGE red flag on this "reporting."

The budget of the AHCA is irrelevant and Snoofy is correct in using the 77.3 billion number (from the article). The number provided by OneIronNut is a meaningless sum. This point is further verified by the headline and information in the article and is how the number $659.9M is used.

#47 -don't be distracted by meaningless averages being used to cover for the ultra rich. Pay attention. Think.

In 2007, Jeff Bezos, then a multibillionaire and now the world's richest man, did not pay a penny in federal income taxes. He achieved the feat again in 2011. In 2018, Tesla founder Elon Musk, the second-richest person in the world, also paid no federal income taxes.

ProPublica has obtained a vast trove of Internal Revenue Service data on the tax returns of thousands of the nation's wealthiest people, covering more than 15 years. The data provides an unprecedented look inside the financial lives of America's titans, including Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, Rupert Murdoch and Mark Zuckerberg. It shows not just their income and taxes, but also their investments, stock trades, gambling winnings and even the results of audits.

Taken together, it demolishes the cornerstone myth of the American tax system: that everyone pays their fair share and the richest Americans pay the most. The IRS records show that the wealthiest can " perfectly legally " pay income taxes that are only a tiny fraction of the hundreds of millions, if not billions, their fortunes grow each year.

The rich are already taxed. Why not tax those who aren't being taxed?

LMAO! That's who we're talking about taxing!

That's IronNut for ya.

I reiterated Zed's correct observation in #32.
You comprehend what you comprehend.
I don't expect anything else.

#8 - Musk is panicked. His stock is in the gutter. He even has tRump selling fElon's Teslas on the White House grounds (absolutely illegal). tRump - the same moron that used to hate electric vehicles. The benefit of having tRump as pRezident is it keeps Vance from doing even more harm. That man is evil.

#42 - I love that! That got an audible laugh out of me!

That's his only hope for acceptance.

You gonna be upset if people chant "Hang JD Vance"?

Itchy - you lost this battle, now you're just a torso on the ground with no arms or legs trying to be taken seriously. It isn't happening.

Mark Kelly is an American hero, a patriot in the true sense of the word.

Your point being????

Obvious for the non-obtuse.

"Ontario suspends 25% electricity surcharge for US customers after Trump ups aluminum, steel tariff "

In a joint statement from Ontario Premier Doug Ford and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, the two leaders said they had a "productive conversation about the economic relationship between the United States and Canada."

"In response, Ontario agreed to suspend its 25 percent surcharge on exports of electricity to Michigan, New York and Minnesota," Ford and Lutnick said.

That's physics, it's not a saying.

Good lord, you are painful.

Thanks Gal, for #24.