[…]
The short-term funding bill would keep the government running until Oct. 31 and trigger a 1 percent cut to current fiscal levels, according to the plan released just before lawmakers were briefed Sunday evening.
The 1 percent cut is an average for the federal budget. The Defense Department and the Department of Veterans Affairs would not receive any cuts, while other government agencies would have their budgets slashed by8 percent until the end of October.
The effort is meant to garner support from hard-right lawmakers who demanded significant cuts to support a short-term funding extension.
The short-term extension would include a border security bill that House Republicans passed through their narrow ranks earlier this year but would leave out a divisive policy on verifying workers’ immigration status. The plan also includes provisions on the border that will be added to the Homeland Security appropriations bill in an effort to extract concessions from the Senate on the issue when both chambers negotiate on funding the government for a full fiscal year.
Missing from the proposal are requests from President Biden for more than $20 billion in aid for Ukraine and $16 billion in disaster relief. Both Democratic and Republican Senate leaders have said they would tack money for those matters on to any short-term funding bill.
Striking an apparent deal is a significant, albeit small, step for the House Republican Conference, whose leaders must now gather enough support for the measure to pass and fulfill a request by Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) to show a united conservative front ahead of inevitable negotiations with the Senate.
While many involved in the deal are telegraphing that these parameters should ensure that the bill gets the necessary 218 Republican votes to pass, vocal lawmakers initially panned the development. Several of the conservative demands are also likely to be rejected by the Senate, pitting both chambers against each other with less than a dozen days to spare to prevent a partial government shutdown.
The proposal was not negotiated by leadership. Instead, six House Republican members from two of the five ideological factions — Reps. Dusty Johnson (S.D.), Stephanie I. Bice (Okla.) and Kelly Armstrong (N.D.) from the pragmatic Main Street Caucus; and Reps. Scott Perry (Pa.), Chip Roy (Tex.) and Byron Donalds (Fla.) from the Freedom Caucus — initiallymet for 2½ hours Wednesday night to hash out parameters of a potential agreement after far-right lawmakers prevented a floor vote funding the Defense Department until demands were met.
“House Freedom Caucus members have worked over the weekend with the Main Street Caucus on a path forward to fund the government and secure America’s border,” Perry said in a statement Sunday. “We now have a framework for our colleagues across the House Republican Conference.”
Earlier on Sunday morning, McCarthy said that he would bring the proposal “to the floor, win or lose.”
“I’ve been through shutdowns, and I’ve never seen somebody win a shutdown. ’Cause when you shut down, you give all your power to the administration,” McCarthy said on “Sunday Morning Futures” on Fox News Channel. “How are you going to win your arguments to secure the border if the border agents don’t get paid?”
[continues]
Trump posted this Rosh Hashanah message last night on his Truth Social site, telling “liberal Jews” who “destroy America” to “make better choices moving forward” — “Wake up sheep.” Link to post
Hmm, nothing about the r’s POS being DOA in the Senate. I can hear the crying and rending of cloth when that happens.
James Carville on impeachment: “The people they have running it, Comer and Jordan, are borderline stupid. I so want them to do this. I can’t tell you how much I want them to do this. I want them to hold hearings. I want the American people to watch them make fools of themselves”. (CNN)
So the nuts understand that a shutdown won’t help them. How does a department cut its budget by 8% for a 6 week period? It’d probably take that long to decide where to cut the budget that deeply. Fucking idiots.
BiD…No, don’t miss Chuck Toad……and it seems I also will continue not watching MTP……..Ms Welker and NBC seem to have screwed the pooch…….her big “get”, getting him to admit to calling the shots on the Big Lie, the opinions seem to mostly be that Jack Smith already had that and that the admission might help the case some, but not so much etc
Miss Chuck Toad? “You can’t miss what you ain’t never had”. I never saw him that I didn’t use the remote to shut him up, so…..
it’s deja vu all over again time.
beating a not so dead horse with my usual rant against 24/7 loser guy coverage and remembering 2016 and the complicit media. here’s a similar rant from a letter to editor back in may of this year:
[plug in here an update of NBC’s meet the press interview this weekend]
Even President Biden doesn’t get that kind of attention. It’s time to stop giving free publicity, especially to an incompetent candidate.
I know ratings and ads support the various forms of media, but the media owes the public equal opportunity in their reporting. Trump does not deserve more publicity than other candidates, just because he does things to create attention. No one person should be considered more important than anyone else. At the very least, when newspapers write about him or when TV programs talk about him, they should omit his picture, which only draws more attention to the story.
I hope the current campaign equalizes coverage for all the candidates and stops playing favoritism.
Marlene Bronson, Los Angeles
Here’s something to understand about the House GOP crazies: They are only about performative outrage that gets them on right wing media to raise a fortune in grass roots emails. That makes them immune from the Speaker’s command of big donors, so McCarthy has no leverage over them. I also suspect they don’t care about keeping the majority because they’re not really about governing. Indeed, it could be they’re happier out of power — fueling fury against Democrats in charge is a better “business model” for them.
“Even President Biden doesn’t get that kind of attention.”
PatD, my quibble with the writer on that is the WH has a standing invitation from major media to do anything they want — town halls, one-on-one interviews, even phoners if they like — but Biden is seldom made available for that. It’s his choice, not the media’s.
The trouble with getting too confrontational is it plays into his hands. He disrupts the whole interview and nothing gets accomplished other than him playing the martyr to his Maggots. Kristen’s interview was worthwhile — she teased some important legal concessions out of him and pressed him into a meltdown on abortion by keeping things on track.
Plenty of useful clips there for prosecutors and the Biden campaign.
Also at the end is the story of how G. E’s CEO almost killed MSNBC
(Drew Barrymore sees the light but Bill Maher is still a Scumbag SCAB.)
C-Block (31:20) THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: A fitting time to bring up 2009 and the day Jeff Zucker called us in to his NBC President’s office and announced that our corporate boss Jeff Immelt was ready to take MSNBC off the air because his mommy was a fan of Bill O’Reilly and was mad that I was criticizing Bill. Seriously.
They already played into his hands by giving him a platform to spew his lies with no fact check.
He NEEDS “confrontational”. The current situation cries out for it.
“Mr President” indeed. Isn’t that particular honorific reserved for the sitting president?
He also needs to not under any circumstances be given the Debut interview for the new MTP after they finally dumped Mr Both-Sides Chuck Toad.
Surprising is the Ms/Mrs Boebert has never had the word ethics applied as in Ethics Committee. Did she bring anything different to the r’s than what they had themselves? Yes, she was involved in the act on camera in a theater, where all the others do it in rooms without cameras. Love of money and power has strange bedfellows?
“Good morning Mr Pig. Can you share with us what it’s like to be constantly referred to by some as a pig? Does it hurt your little feelings? Would it help if you could overthrow the government and lock up Hillary?”
Ms Welker simply managed to sound insipid in the clips I’ve heard.
I am so happy surprised today. I finally lost ten percent of my desired weight loss. Difficult when two of my medications have “Significant weight gain” as the first side effect. Covid weight gain on top of the other made me unhappy. And, a scale that gives results which tend to not be repeatable.
@NormOrnsteim12hOy. Trump says the Capitol Police testified against Nancy Pelosi, and then burned all the evidence. Lie upon lie upon lie. Unchallenged by Welker. Every word out of his mouth is a lie, and he talks over any questioner. Just a colossal mistake to showcase this sociopath.
The comments are mostly along these lines, and the clips I’ve heard reinforce that view.
BB. Yay weight loss. That’s a good thing. I’ve been carrying a bit extra myself since putting down the cigarettes but not overly concerned as yet.
Have you noticed how red SFB’s tiny, piggy eyes are lately. Allergies? Weed? Sleepless, coke-fueled nights? Tears of rage?
When he says he doesn’t think about going to jail, rest assured, he thinks about it all the time.
@WajahatAli
Meet the Press…I really hoped for the best. But it serves as proof that most corporate media isn’t built for this fight against fascism, not made for this moment, and they just don’t have the skill set to take on right-wing authoritarianism & lies. They haven’t learned a thing.
“Hunter Biden sued the Internal Revenue Service on Monday, alleging its agents illegally released his tax information and that the agency failed to protect his private records.”
“President Joe Biden’s son alleges the IRS unlawfully disclosed his tax return information and did not establish safeguards to ensure the confidentiality of his records. He is seeking, among other things, all documents involving the disclosure of the tax information, $1,000 for each unauthorized disclosure and attorneys fees.”
Sturg – Anyone under a certain age probably gets their info from the interwebs, not MTP or any of the other Sunday shows.
The only folks who aren’t shooting themselves in the ass by being MAGAts are rich, white, straight guys.
He tried to mitigate his responsibility in the overturning of Roe, but it didn’t work. Women know. Women never forget. Also, he’s a convicted rapist. No woman trusts him to be in charge of anything. He’s a toxic male who surrounds himself with other toxic males like Corey Lewindowski.
Only the brainwashed, Christo-fascists who are directed, from the pulpit, to vote for him will do so.
The MAGAt army is made up of anti-semites, and I think most people are quite aware of that fact.
They’re also anti-catholic but the roe v wade overturning Supreme Court make-up kind of stymied them on that.
I’m not gonna defend Bill Maher… I haven’t watched him for a couple of years.
I did read somewhere (sorry… can’t remember where) that he will not be doing his monologue, new rules, or any of the show that require his writers. He said he supports their cause. But Bill said the real victims in this fight are the people on the lowest rung of the entertainment business. You know… the makeup and hair people… the cafeteria people… the parking lot attendants… etc., etc. He says they are the ones really taking this strike on the chin… and they are starting to lose their homes. Yet no one talks about that.
just sayin….
Others are coughing up funds to keep their employees afloat.
Bill Maher just tweeted: “My decision to return to work was made when it seemed nothing was happening and there was no end in sight to this strike. Now that both sides have agreed to go back to the negotiating table I’m going to delay the return of Real Time, for now, and hope they can finally get this done.”
…suddenly less concerned about the hair and makeup people
Hurry up, fellows; I’m being inconvenienced over here.
(haha I can almost hear, “Don’t you know who I am?”)
Saw this today on the internets, speaks for itself.
“In 1970, a radical feminist group called the Redstockings formed in response to outdated ideas in Iceland surrounding issues like violence against women, reproductive rights, and women’s labor.”
“The Redstockings were known for their loud and public demonstrations, and in 1975 they proposed their biggest idea yet: a women’s strike, a day when women would collectively refuse to work at home and in the office to prove their economic worth to society.”
“An estimated 90 percent of Icelandic women refused to work that day, and it shut down the country. Flights were canceled without flight attendants, and schools were closed without teachers. Men had to bring children to work because there was no child care at home.”
“The effects of Kvennafrí were felt across the country. Iceland quickly passed its first Gender Equality Act and soon after elected its first female president — the world’s first woman president to be elected democratically.”
“In 1975, Icelandic women made around 40 percent less than what men made. Today, that number is around 10 percent, making Iceland one of the few countries in the world where women are paid almost as much as men.”
Iceland also came down on the bankers instead of bailing them out.
“A Republican candidate for Missouri governor on Monday vowed to burn books if elected after he was criticized for a video showing him burning cardboard boxes with a flamethrower.”
“The video, which has gone viral on social media, shows state Sen. Bill Eigel, a Weldon Spring Republican who is running for governor in 2024, and state Sen. Nick Schroer, a St. Charles Republican, using flamethrowers to torch a stack of boxes at a fundraising event in Defiance in St. Charles County on Friday.”
“In the video, I am taking a flame thrower to cardboard boxes representing what I am going to do to the leftist policies and RINO corruption of the Jeff City swamp,” Eigel said in a statement to The Star on Monday. “But let’s be clear, you bring those woke pornographic books to Missouri schools to try to brainwash our kids, and I’ll burn those too – on the front lawn of the governor’s mansion.”
Marty Taylor
Kristen Welker’s first show as host of Meet the Press was totally hijacked by Donald Trump. Welker approached Trump with misplaced deference and respect.He deserves neither. Welker could have challenged Trump by asking questions that have not already been asked thousands of times. She could have treated him like the indicted criminal he is. Welker could have asked Trump about his dictatorial plans if elected. Instead she fed him questions that Trump could easily lie about. No wonder. He has answered then all before. And Trump ran over her like he does in any interview. An opportunity missed. And that’s a shame.
Observation from the recliner. Something I am very happy about are all the commercials aimed at the 20 to 30 year olds. I am sick of Boomer commercials, especially the ones that are about as classy as Carter’s Little Liver Pills, but 65 years later. But, you can tell on some who, and what age, was making decisions. A commercial aimed at and using actors of the age of 20-30 year olds, but with old Boomer music that is sketchy at best. Let the next hump of population do it, Boomers be yourself retired.
Easy to tell when Trump doesn’t think an interview went well. He hasn’t posted any clips or made mention of the Meet the Press interview. In contrast he boasted for days with clips and praise about that CNN Town Hall, which was a fiasco because they did it live.
Never cross a picket line. This last weekend my mother and I were talking about the current auto strikes and told me that when she was pregnant with me, she and my father went to the line at Ford’s (River Rouge) to bring my grandfather some food and then walk the line with him. Yup. I am labor before Mom had labor and I was born!!!
James is nervous
Saw the first TV ad for a Republican President candidate today: Billionaire, Doug Burgum (67)
Welker’s husband works for BigPharma (Merck). Maybe that’s a nothing-burger, but their family would financially benefit more from a Republican administration.
Kristen was never that nice to Hillary. It was always whutaboutcheremails.
Many of the comments I saw today referenced Welker’s treatment of Hillary
Ivy and Sturge, come to think of it I can’t remember any media person being nice to Hillary.
except perhaps the ones that played media persons on sat nite live
Pat, I think they were all following scripts that were handed to them from the higher ups. Whutaboutcheremails was a cash cow.
BB
About boomer music, I just ran across this article.
Back in 2021, investors spent more than $5 billion buying the rights to old songs. Never before in history had musicians over the age of 75 received such big paydays
Bob Dylan sold out his entire song catalog ($400 million—ka-ching!). Paul Simon sold out ($250 million). Neil Young sold out ($150 million). Stevie Nicks sold out ($100 million). Dozens of others sold out
The interesting thing is, the investment funds are now selling some of the rights to cover debt payments. They couldn’t make the songs they bought cover the cost of acquiring them.
We may not be the only boomers setting on our recliners and tuning out.
Jack
Biden is ours. Sorry James but them’s the facts. Dumbass is theirs unless he’s in jail. Chris Christy is so cute thinking that because he’s got 14% in NH he stands a chance in hell. Shit, I’ll be surprised if he wins NJ.
Biden got 5 American hostages freed from Iran, today. For free. Remember “diplomacy”?
i won’t pretend he’s not doing well for the sake of argument. Given the choice between a guy that’s pretty good at his job and a compulsively-lying insurrectionist, i will take the guy that’s pretty good at his job 10/10 times
Those song catalogs: That’s because nobody has paid to do a cover or use it in advertising yet, because every other ad on TV uses Tom Tom Club’s “Genius of Love”…and I wish to heck they’d stop.
“Trump wrote to-do lists for assistant on White House documents marked classified”
“As described to ABC News, the aide, Molly Michael, told investigators that — more than once — she received requests or taskings from Trump that were written on the back of notecards, and she later recognized those notecards as sensitive White House materials — with visible classification markings — used to brief Trump while he was still in office about phone calls with foreign leaders or other international-related matters.”
Molly Micheals. Hope Hicks. Did Stan Lee help with WH staffing?
“Sources said that after Trump heard the FBI wanted to interview Michael last year, Trump allegedly told her, “You don’t know anything about the boxes.”
“Speaking to federal investigators, Michael recounted how, by late 2021, as many as 90 boxes of materials from Trump’s time as president were moved into a basement storage room at Mar-a-Lago, and how — as pressure from the National Archives mounted — she and Trump aide Walt Nauta would bring boxes to Trump’s residence for him to review.”
“…Trump began to seem more reluctant to cooperate with the agency, and he asked Michael to help spread a message that no more boxes existed, sources said she recounted.”
“…Michael even pointed out to him that many people, including maintenance workers, knew otherwise because they had all seen that there were many more than 15 boxes, sources said she told investigators.”
“The next day, after the FBI search, Michael returned to work at Mar-a-Lago and found her desk in a bit of a mess, with drawers turned over, sources said. Buried underneath a drawer organizer were the to-do lists Trump had written for her on the backs of briefing notes with classification markings, Michael later recalled to investigators, according to sources.”
“When Michael discovered that the FBI hadn’t taken those documents in their search of Mar-a-Lago, she helped make sure they were given to the FBI that same day, the sources told ABC News.”
“…Michael noted that when the FBI first contacted her for an interview as part of their investigation last year, she notified Trump about the request. In response, he told her, “You don’t know anything about the boxes,” she told investigators, according to the sources.”
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start the countdown to shutdown. are you ready?
on the other hand, they could punt
House Republicans reach short-term funding deal as shutdown looms – The Washington Post
Trump posted this Rosh Hashanah message last night on his Truth Social site, telling “liberal Jews” who “destroy America” to “make better choices moving forward” — “Wake up sheep.” Link to post
Hmm, nothing about the r’s POS being DOA in the Senate. I can hear the crying and rending of cloth when that happens.
James Carville on impeachment: “The people they have running it, Comer and Jordan, are borderline stupid. I so want them to do this. I can’t tell you how much I want them to do this. I want them to hold hearings. I want the American people to watch them make fools of themselves”. (CNN)
So the nuts understand that a shutdown won’t help them. How does a department cut its budget by 8% for a 6 week period? It’d probably take that long to decide where to cut the budget that deeply. Fucking idiots.
BiD…No, don’t miss Chuck Toad……and it seems I also will continue not watching MTP……..Ms Welker and NBC seem to have screwed the pooch…….her big “get”, getting him to admit to calling the shots on the Big Lie, the opinions seem to mostly be that Jack Smith already had that and that the admission might help the case some, but not so much etc
Miss Chuck Toad? “You can’t miss what you ain’t never had”. I never saw him that I didn’t use the remote to shut him up, so…..
it’s deja vu all over again time.
beating a not so dead horse with my usual rant against 24/7 loser guy coverage and remembering 2016 and the complicit media. here’s a similar rant from a letter to editor back in may of this year:
Old Berman’s take sums up the stance of those opposed.
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-countdown-with-keith-olbe-99705496/
Here’s something to understand about the House GOP crazies: They are only about performative outrage that gets them on right wing media to raise a fortune in grass roots emails. That makes them immune from the Speaker’s command of big donors, so McCarthy has no leverage over them. I also suspect they don’t care about keeping the majority because they’re not really about governing. Indeed, it could be they’re happier out of power — fueling fury against Democrats in charge is a better “business model” for them.
“Even President Biden doesn’t get that kind of attention.”
PatD, my quibble with the writer on that is the WH has a standing invitation from major media to do anything they want — town halls, one-on-one interviews, even phoners if they like — but Biden is seldom made available for that. It’s his choice, not the media’s.
The trouble with getting too confrontational is it plays into his hands. He disrupts the whole interview and nothing gets accomplished other than him playing the martyr to his Maggots. Kristen’s interview was worthwhile — she teased some important legal concessions out of him and pressed him into a meltdown on abortion by keeping things on track.
Plenty of useful clips there for prosecutors and the Biden campaign.
Also at the end is the story of how G. E’s CEO almost killed MSNBC
(Drew Barrymore sees the light but Bill Maher is still a Scumbag SCAB.)
C-Block (31:20) THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: A fitting time to bring up 2009 and the day Jeff Zucker called us in to his NBC President’s office and announced that our corporate boss Jeff Immelt was ready to take MSNBC off the air because his mommy was a fan of Bill O’Reilly and was mad that I was criticizing Bill. Seriously.
They already played into his hands by giving him a platform to spew his lies with no fact check.
He NEEDS “confrontational”. The current situation cries out for it.
“Mr President” indeed. Isn’t that particular honorific reserved for the sitting president?
He also needs to not under any circumstances be given the Debut interview for the new MTP after they finally dumped Mr Both-Sides Chuck Toad.
Surprising is the Ms/Mrs Boebert has never had the word ethics applied as in Ethics Committee. Did she bring anything different to the r’s than what they had themselves? Yes, she was involved in the act on camera in a theater, where all the others do it in rooms without cameras. Love of money and power has strange bedfellows?
“Good morning Mr Pig. Can you share with us what it’s like to be constantly referred to by some as a pig? Does it hurt your little feelings? Would it help if you could overthrow the government and lock up Hillary?”
Ms Welker simply managed to sound insipid in the clips I’ve heard.
I am so happy surprised today. I finally lost ten percent of my desired weight loss. Difficult when two of my medications have “Significant weight gain” as the first side effect. Covid weight gain on top of the other made me unhappy. And, a scale that gives results which tend to not be repeatable.
@NormOrnsteim12hOy. Trump says the Capitol Police testified against Nancy Pelosi, and then burned all the evidence. Lie upon lie upon lie. Unchallenged by Welker. Every word out of his mouth is a lie, and he talks over any questioner. Just a colossal mistake to showcase this sociopath.
The comments are mostly along these lines, and the clips I’ve heard reinforce that view.
BB. Yay weight loss. That’s a good thing. I’ve been carrying a bit extra myself since putting down the cigarettes but not overly concerned as yet.
Have you noticed how red SFB’s tiny, piggy eyes are lately. Allergies? Weed? Sleepless, coke-fueled nights? Tears of rage?
When he says he doesn’t think about going to jail, rest assured, he thinks about it all the time.
@WajahatAli
Meet the Press…I really hoped for the best. But it serves as proof that most corporate media isn’t built for this fight against fascism, not made for this moment, and they just don’t have the skill set to take on right-wing authoritarianism & lies. They haven’t learned a thing.
https://www.politicususa.com/2023/09/16/kristen-welker-helps-trump-whitewash-his-coup.html
Kristen Welker helps Chump whitewash his coup
https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/18/politics/hunter-biden-irs/index.html
“Hunter Biden sued the Internal Revenue Service on Monday, alleging its agents illegally released his tax information and that the agency failed to protect his private records.”
“President Joe Biden’s son alleges the IRS unlawfully disclosed his tax return information and did not establish safeguards to ensure the confidentiality of his records. He is seeking, among other things, all documents involving the disclosure of the tax information, $1,000 for each unauthorized disclosure and attorneys fees.”
Sturg – Anyone under a certain age probably gets their info from the interwebs, not MTP or any of the other Sunday shows.
The only folks who aren’t shooting themselves in the ass by being MAGAts are rich, white, straight guys.
He tried to mitigate his responsibility in the overturning of Roe, but it didn’t work. Women know. Women never forget. Also, he’s a convicted rapist. No woman trusts him to be in charge of anything. He’s a toxic male who surrounds himself with other toxic males like Corey Lewindowski.
Only the brainwashed, Christo-fascists who are directed, from the pulpit, to vote for him will do so.
The MAGAt army is made up of anti-semites, and I think most people are quite aware of that fact.
They’re also anti-catholic but the roe v wade overturning Supreme Court make-up kind of stymied them on that.
I’m not gonna defend Bill Maher… I haven’t watched him for a couple of years.
I did read somewhere (sorry… can’t remember where) that he will not be doing his monologue, new rules, or any of the show that require his writers. He said he supports their cause. But Bill said the real victims in this fight are the people on the lowest rung of the entertainment business. You know… the makeup and hair people… the cafeteria people… the parking lot attendants… etc., etc. He says they are the ones really taking this strike on the chin… and they are starting to lose their homes. Yet no one talks about that.
just sayin….
Others are coughing up funds to keep their employees afloat.
Bill Maher just tweeted: “My decision to return to work was made when it seemed nothing was happening and there was no end in sight to this strike. Now that both sides have agreed to go back to the negotiating table I’m going to delay the return of Real Time, for now, and hope they can finally get this done.”
…suddenly less concerned about the hair and makeup people
Hurry up, fellows; I’m being inconvenienced over here.
(haha I can almost hear, “Don’t you know who I am?”)
Saw this today on the internets, speaks for itself.
Stephen King also has a comment.
https://www.vox.com/videos/23842984/iceland-womens-day-off-strike-kvennafri
“In 1970, a radical feminist group called the Redstockings formed in response to outdated ideas in Iceland surrounding issues like violence against women, reproductive rights, and women’s labor.”
“The Redstockings were known for their loud and public demonstrations, and in 1975 they proposed their biggest idea yet: a women’s strike, a day when women would collectively refuse to work at home and in the office to prove their economic worth to society.”
“An estimated 90 percent of Icelandic women refused to work that day, and it shut down the country. Flights were canceled without flight attendants, and schools were closed without teachers. Men had to bring children to work because there was no child care at home.”
“The effects of Kvennafrí were felt across the country. Iceland quickly passed its first Gender Equality Act and soon after elected its first female president — the world’s first woman president to be elected democratically.”
“In 1975, Icelandic women made around 40 percent less than what men made. Today, that number is around 10 percent, making Iceland one of the few countries in the world where women are paid almost as much as men.”
Iceland also came down on the bankers instead of bailing them out.
https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article279475914.html
“A Republican candidate for Missouri governor on Monday vowed to burn books if elected after he was criticized for a video showing him burning cardboard boxes with a flamethrower.”
“The video, which has gone viral on social media, shows state Sen. Bill Eigel, a Weldon Spring Republican who is running for governor in 2024, and state Sen. Nick Schroer, a St. Charles Republican, using flamethrowers to torch a stack of boxes at a fundraising event in Defiance in St. Charles County on Friday.”
“In the video, I am taking a flame thrower to cardboard boxes representing what I am going to do to the leftist policies and RINO corruption of the Jeff City swamp,” Eigel said in a statement to The Star on Monday. “But let’s be clear, you bring those woke pornographic books to Missouri schools to try to brainwash our kids, and I’ll burn those too – on the front lawn of the governor’s mansion.”
Marty Taylor
Kristen Welker’s first show as host of Meet the Press was totally hijacked by Donald Trump. Welker approached Trump with misplaced deference and respect.He deserves neither. Welker could have challenged Trump by asking questions that have not already been asked thousands of times. She could have treated him like the indicted criminal he is. Welker could have asked Trump about his dictatorial plans if elected. Instead she fed him questions that Trump could easily lie about. No wonder. He has answered then all before. And Trump ran over her like he does in any interview. An opportunity missed. And that’s a shame.
Observation from the recliner. Something I am very happy about are all the commercials aimed at the 20 to 30 year olds. I am sick of Boomer commercials, especially the ones that are about as classy as Carter’s Little Liver Pills, but 65 years later. But, you can tell on some who, and what age, was making decisions. A commercial aimed at and using actors of the age of 20-30 year olds, but with old Boomer music that is sketchy at best. Let the next hump of population do it, Boomers be yourself retired.
Easy to tell when Trump doesn’t think an interview went well. He hasn’t posted any clips or made mention of the Meet the Press interview. In contrast he boasted for days with clips and praise about that CNN Town Hall, which was a fiasco because they did it live.
Life on the picket line is going to get interesting. Local Kaiser Permxxxxxxxxxx has voted to authorize strike in DC region, and that is adding to the strike votes in the West. The Kaiser union has done this several times in the past with some results.
Never cross a picket line. This last weekend my mother and I were talking about the current auto strikes and told me that when she was pregnant with me, she and my father went to the line at Ford’s (River Rouge) to bring my grandfather some food and then walk the line with him. Yup. I am labor before Mom had labor and I was born!!!
James is nervous
Saw the first TV ad for a Republican President candidate today: Billionaire, Doug Burgum (67)
Welker’s husband works for BigPharma (Merck). Maybe that’s a nothing-burger, but their family would financially benefit more from a Republican administration.
Kristen was never that nice to Hillary. It was always whutaboutcheremails.
Many of the comments I saw today referenced Welker’s treatment of Hillary
Ivy and Sturge, come to think of it I can’t remember any media person being nice to Hillary.
except perhaps the ones that played media persons on sat nite live
Pat, I think they were all following scripts that were handed to them from the higher ups. Whutaboutcheremails was a cash cow.
BB
About boomer music, I just ran across this article.
The interesting thing is, the investment funds are now selling some of the rights to cover debt payments. They couldn’t make the songs they bought cover the cost of acquiring them.
We may not be the only boomers setting on our recliners and tuning out.
Jack
Biden is ours. Sorry James but them’s the facts. Dumbass is theirs unless he’s in jail. Chris Christy is so cute thinking that because he’s got 14% in NH he stands a chance in hell. Shit, I’ll be surprised if he wins NJ.
Biden got 5 American hostages freed from Iran, today. For free. Remember “diplomacy”?
i won’t pretend he’s not doing well for the sake of argument. Given the choice between a guy that’s pretty good at his job and a compulsively-lying insurrectionist, i will take the guy that’s pretty good at his job 10/10 times
Those song catalogs: That’s because nobody has paid to do a cover or use it in advertising yet, because every other ad on TV uses Tom Tom Club’s “Genius of Love”…and I wish to heck they’d stop.
https://abc7ny.com/donald-trump-classified-documents-to-do-list-assistant/13797962/
“Trump wrote to-do lists for assistant on White House documents marked classified”
“As described to ABC News, the aide, Molly Michael, told investigators that — more than once — she received requests or taskings from Trump that were written on the back of notecards, and she later recognized those notecards as sensitive White House materials — with visible classification markings — used to brief Trump while he was still in office about phone calls with foreign leaders or other international-related matters.”
Molly Micheals. Hope Hicks. Did Stan Lee help with WH staffing?
“Sources said that after Trump heard the FBI wanted to interview Michael last year, Trump allegedly told her, “You don’t know anything about the boxes.”
“Speaking to federal investigators, Michael recounted how, by late 2021, as many as 90 boxes of materials from Trump’s time as president were moved into a basement storage room at Mar-a-Lago, and how — as pressure from the National Archives mounted — she and Trump aide Walt Nauta would bring boxes to Trump’s residence for him to review.”
“…Trump began to seem more reluctant to cooperate with the agency, and he asked Michael to help spread a message that no more boxes existed, sources said she recounted.”
“…Michael even pointed out to him that many people, including maintenance workers, knew otherwise because they had all seen that there were many more than 15 boxes, sources said she told investigators.”
“The next day, after the FBI search, Michael returned to work at Mar-a-Lago and found her desk in a bit of a mess, with drawers turned over, sources said. Buried underneath a drawer organizer were the to-do lists Trump had written for her on the backs of briefing notes with classification markings, Michael later recalled to investigators, according to sources.”
“When Michael discovered that the FBI hadn’t taken those documents in their search of Mar-a-Lago, she helped make sure they were given to the FBI that same day, the sources told ABC News.”
“…Michael noted that when the FBI first contacted her for an interview as part of their investigation last year, she notified Trump about the request. In response, he told her, “You don’t know anything about the boxes,” she told investigators, according to the sources.”
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