The GOP "Big Beautiful Bill" repeals an excise tax on, wait for it, TANNING BEDS. People won't be able to afford a hospital bed with their cuts to healthcare, but, y'all, tanning beds get a tax break!! youtube.com/shorts/XK18I...

So...trump says that it will be a hardship for Putin/Russia if they do not get to take ALL of Ukraine. WTAF is he babbling about, and who agrees with him?

"We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender,". [Churchill's defiance against the fascists is relevant today, in country]

How can an American Citizen be "deported"? Isn't that supposed to be sending you to your home country? I think it's called "exiled". So the government wants to exile Americans. WTF?

Trump paid El Salvador $6mil in March to house deported- for one year, with the possibility of renewal. www.newsfromthestates.com/article/us-h...

Is the Trump's Administration $6 million to El Salvador to house deportees an overreach of use of funds especially given due process and human rights concern? Is there documentation or congressional notification? Can we get some oversight and trace the funds' source and legality? Someone...Anyone?

The regulatory requirements governing reduction in force are contained in Title 5, Code of Federal Regulations, Part 351. Federal agencies must follow the procedures contained in the Code of Federal Regulations when conducting a RIF. [They are not following the law].

So much coverage of this security screw-up, nobody is covering Musk as he shuts down the operations of our Social Security. Turn out the lights, the party's over. Let's see if the payments go out next month to 70+ million recipients.

While everybody's hair is on fire over the Signal Chat debacle, the Muskrats are quietly dismantling the structure of our Social Security System. Willful destruction, so they can privatize it.

I suppose if the Russians are included in a "classified chat" it doesn't have to be classified. It's not really being reckless, if you don't care who knows about it. Unbelievable.

So much insanity as trump/Musk dismantle the government. I'm thankful for March Madness, to keep me from actually going mad.

I decided not to donate any money to the Democrat Party or any Democrat, until Chuck Schumer resigns his Leader position. They are always asking, so I'm just sayin' no, for now.

If old Joe would have made Jack Smith the Attorney General, and given him a green light, we would not be going through this shit-storm dismantling of the United States. trump would be in prison. The epic failure of the Biden Administration.

Wouldn't it be more symbolic if protesters used chain saws? In a peaceful sort of way, of course.

Musk is the front-person, who claims waste-fraud-abuse all over the government. He has yet to provide any specific example, like the names of people cashing someone else's SS check. Who? This is a set-up, to close government agencies so they can be contracted out to their billionaire cronies.

I want to see somebody purchase a new Tesla Cyber Pickup, and do a promo by hacking it up with an Elon Model Chainsaw. And show it on national TV over and over.

trump's speech to DOJ is a litany of lies, lies, and more lies. I turned it off after 5 min. Talk about weaponizing the DOJ, he's doing it right out in the open.

I just realized why the Democrats have had their asses kicked for so long. It is fucking Chuck Schumer. Geeze, I'm so stupid, I did not see this coming. We can't win anything with that feckless twit as leader.

Every day, maybe more than once a day, trump changes the story of the "why" for his insane tariffs. Does that give you any idea that he has no plan? He does not know what he is doing. He is wrecking our economy, and messing with the global economy.

Schumer has a Bluesky account. Follow him, let him know how you feel.

trump always boasted about the stock market. Now that he has crashed it, he doesn't care about it (so he says). Let all his Billionaire donors come after him for what he is doing to them.

Regarding the rampant firing of government employees, trump says "we are keeping the best people". Well, there are laws against that, too. There is an order of retention, based on service time, veteran's preference, and performance reviews and awards. You just can't keep who you deem "the best".

Is there a more ignorant United States Senator than Tommy Tuberville? OMG. Remember that he said the 3 branches of government are the House, Senate, and the Executive Branches. He said that. He has no mind of his own, just what trump tells him to do.

Federal Employees have retention rights. They can't just be let go with no warning. A RIF has to be declared. Personnel offices have to assist finding them a position somewhere else in the government, if available. Early retirements have to be offered. There is a system.Musk/trump violating the law.

No.

At what point does the CDC tell everyone to get the measles vaccine? Epidemic? Pandemic? Never? RFK jr. says catch it and take cod liver oil, steroids, and antibiotics. This is what happens when you put a crackpot non-medical moron in charge of the health of the US.

I never imagined a US President picking a fight with Canada over nothing, wanting to annex Greenland, take over the Panama Canal, abandon our European allies, and try to destroy the existing government structure in this country. The Republicans can stop this madness. I don't think they care.

Reply from my D Congressman: ["I voted to censure my colleague not because I disagree with what he said but because we must respect the institution."] This is the problem with Democrats. Trump trashes them in a joint session, and only Al Green objected enough to get thrown out. "Respect" is gone.

Where are we going? The very fact that our scientists have to stand up and tell the country and the government what will happen if not for them and their daily work, is like we have gone back 100 years in time. What a bunch of morons in power; unbelievable. Wake the fuck up!

Can we get some class-action lawsuits about the tariffs?

Wondering what Tariff Exemptions cost nowdays? Is it a percentage, or a flat fee? Who gets the money?; oh, Elon/trump, inc.

Can everyone try to distinguish between the national debt, and the budget deficit? They are different, bigly. Thanks in advance.

Wondering if Fox News will do any fact-checking.

Taking the Panama Canal, taking Greenland, establishing another office (of shipbuilding). Cutting costs? Fraud, waste, abuse much? Where you getting the money? SS, Medicare, middle class taxes? WTF?

Where's the protest by our Democrats? Only Al Green took one for the team so far.

I want to see one 135 year old person getting SS on the list he is lying about. Just show us one. Just because their name is on the SS rolls, don't mean somebody is collecting it. Or anybody who's getting a dead person's SS. Show us one fucking example, show us the indictment for fraud.

It's a lying shit-show so far, about 5 min into his rant. Speaker ordering people to be quiet. I love it. They're going to be busy removing people, hope it lasts all night. Protest for the people.

Lindsey Graham. There are no words to describe him. I have never seen anyone quite like him. I wanna cuss, but I'll just leave it here.

I knew we were in for a lot of pain and aggravation with trump and his project 25. It's getting worse, will get even more so; but seeing it hit those who voted for him is just a little bit satisfying. Just a little.

trump promised not to cut Social Security and Medicare. So if he completely derails the SS Administration, and people don't get their payments, isn't that the same thing? Just fuck it all up and claim that he didn't cut anything. Yea, we get it.

Larry Kudlow is a joke.

What if Russia vacates all the land they stole from Ukraine since 2014? And Ukraine withdraws from occupied Russian territory (if any). Russia gets all sanctions lifted. Sign treaty. Nah, that makes too much sense.

Meanwhile, amongst the carnage of that Oval Office disaster, what else is Elon Musk up to? We got word that he fired the scientists at our Pacific Tsunami Warning Center yesterday. Yea, he did that.

On a positive note, Zelinsky did not grovel. He did not bow to trump or JD Vance. He has the respect of the world.

Is there a more pathetic US Senator than Lindsey Graham?

Notice how trump went completely off the rails, about "witch-hunt", Hunter's laptop, Joe Biden, and every petty grievance he could come up with. And the lies. He is completely deranged.

Whatever happened to the procurement process in the US Government? Materials, service contracts, supplies, etc.; all need to go through a bidding process. trump is just giving Musk and all their cronies all of it. No process. Not legal.

trump's first televised cabinet meeting. Could only watch a few minutes; sickening the way they are required to kiss his ass, Musk grandstanding, lies, petty grievances, whining about the election (he won). Meeting of the minds, with no minds present.