...And Less

Better than nothing at all  -- assuming this really does mean they're hashing out the details and that there's no more preening/trolling -- but I'll never understand the mind-set that's willing to risk descent into fascism over what I saw on Twitter referred to as a debate over whether federal spending will be $60 trillion dollars or $62 trillion. 

Oh, and the Pentagon got $10 billion dollars above and beyond what they requested this fiscal year. 

This isn't even Lite beer in a bottle. It's warm, flat Lite beer in a paper cup. 

Kiss The Ring

Guy worth more than $5 million dollars wants to make sure child care tax credits end for income above $60K. 

While you're at it, ditch the clean energy initiatives. 

And don't forget to kiss the ring...

I'll bet Sinemanchin's kissing someone's ring too...

Just An Honest Difference Of Opinion, Right?

When two sides to every story reaches its logical limit...

Have a good weekend. 

The New Shibboleth

Is the lie about Voter "Fraud" and/or "Stop The Steal."

They're also fantasizing about civil war and genocide. 

How Christian of them. 

With Friends Like These...

It'd be one thing if the country was, if not a solid democracy, a functioning one.

But Bonfires of the Vanities is happening with a real bonfire getting way, way the fuck out of control. 

And neither Manchin nor Sinema wins. 

At best, maybe -- maybe -- they prolong their careers a bit longer at the expense of  the public they were elected to serve. 

Or maybe they get washed out like everyone else who doesn't pass the ever crazier shibboleths that define MAGAstan and its citizenry... 

"The Manufacture Of Ignorance"

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Maybe It Should Be Considered Newsworthy

Sure, I'd much rather see, oh, I don't know, as deep a dive into DJT's systemic corruption (maybe pretend it's an email management controversy...just saying), but actively creating a Horst Wessel figure to further, um, essentially fascist political aims -- and with pretty much the entire GOP going along for the ride -- might merit more than cursory mention.