When they’re the majority party they are also glacial at best.

Couldn’t even pass minimum wage increase. Twenty years. Come on now

Don’t stop with her.

We have many corrupt, thieving politicians that blatantly flaunt their mysteriously acquired wealth on comparatively low salaries, bOtH pArTiEs. Some have done so for decades and are senior members that seem untouchable.

A member of her staff is serving a federal sentence in prison for a reason. There have been over 50 convictions in connection with this fraud of the Minnesota welfare system. This is all publicly available information.

If this was any of us, we’d already be serving hard time. Her “congressional plot armor” isn’t impregnable, is it? We’ll see.

She shouldn’t be deported, she should be in prison.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-mn/pr/three-more-plead-guilty-feeding-our-future-fraud-scheme

I’ve lost track, is this number four?

This is the Trump administration. Just have an AI Super American Eagle do the press releases. He can have catchy phrases and wear a red-white-and-blue top hat. And a monocle!

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No, Israel doesn’t have enough money to buy the USA.

However, they are very important to the USA’s strategic goals, which include control of the Middle East. So, they have a lot of leverage.

USA is JP Morgan’s, Vanguard’s, and BlackRock’s bitch. Israel is small potatoes.

UFC and sports betting is not “decadent”.

They’re fundamentally human activities that people enjoy (as they always have for all time).

The Saudi Royal family is decadent, not betting 20 bucks on your favorite team.

No, that’s how we’ll look at the drug war and normalizing throwing people in dungeons over drugs (and gambling).

A free society is a gambling and drug-using society. Your viewpoint is conservative, and an unfortunate side effect of our fundamentalist religious roots.

I don’t agree with her at all (I am pro sports betting and other betting), but I do admire her for standing up for what she believes in. Rare today

Please be advised that in this example Jayapal is crying “whataboutism”, not the Trump admin.

Although they are more than happy to do so. Democrats or Republicans, we can always count on whataboutery.

p.s. bOtH sIdEs, yes, yes, you got me, how dare I be observant

No, they should put Omar in prison where she belongs.

After you take the majority, Jaypal, then you can put Homan in prison if you can make a case. Because we all know that you aren’t concerned about Omar becoming fabulously wealthy in a few years off of taxpayer dollars, you’re cool with that.

We can’t count on you to “look at yourself”, obviously… as you very well know. .

I think we’ll find that it’s due to her thievery of millions of dollars from Minnesota’s welfare program. People are already serving hard time in federal prison. We know for a fact that her staffers are knee deep in fraud.

Which is, in itself, sickening, don’t you agree? She’s stealing from the very people who need her help the most.

If the judge signed a search warrant over her immigration paperwork, I will stand corrected. We’ll know soon enough.

What is horrible? Knowing the religious and cultural habits of others is horrible now? Why do you think it’s horrible?

Oh, I know why. It’s a rhetorical question. It’s because you’re horrible, and you only know horror, so you project it on all around you.

It’s the response to be expected with the arrival of thousands of Muslim refugees; Islamic fundamentalists encourage Christian fundamentalists, and they all fuel each others fervor.

Abrahamics all share the same bloodthirsty hateful core, all inspired (and even commanded) by the Bible and Koran. Violence is the fundamental, intractable result.

(and both of these faiths are unfathomably wealthy, yet we still must pay their share of taxes)

The USA has much different motivations than Hitler.

The USA (by this I mean those who control our government financially, Trump is a goon) doesn’t want to wipe out it’s own population. There’s no desire for “breathing room”, there’s a massive amount of comparatively empty land.

You’re expendable, but unless you make things expensive for someone, the USA is fine with you being a consumer and drone. You are still generating wealth for the system, and there’s no reason to spend the money to load you into a train. You generate more wealth than you consume.

They don’t care enough to bother killing you, you’re not a threat to them. (by “you” I mean the average American voter). Democrats or Republicans are consumers only, they’re not capable of changing the political system in any way.

It’s a massive “political playpen” without an option to threaten Amazon.

If you’re right, they’ll immediately start loading thousands of people like you and me into trains after they “seize power”. If I’m right, the Democrats will “win” a narrow majority and immediately call a recess. WOW THAT WAS CLOSE OKAY RECESS

Don’t ban it, they only flourish. The banning grants them legitimacy.

Tax it. Stop making exceptions for them. It will die all on its own.

Shia vs Sunni, Catholic vs Protestant, and so on.

The potential for an explosive event full of horror is always there, because all of the Abrahamic faiths say that only they are magically wise, and the “other” is worthy of death.

That scriptural endorsement has been and always will be fuel for the stupid and violent to do what they are naturally inclined to do. The Bible, Koran, and Tanakh all claim the same thing. “You are granted special magic super brain powers; they are stupid, inferior, and damned”.

So, the “they” always has motivation and even a moral imperative to kill the “other”.

… and to this day, these “faiths” are tax free. they’re all fabulously wealthy, but still, we must pay fealty

Susan, you have made my jaded heart feel pity, you’re so hideous that I feel guilty for laughing at your expense.

Comedy is a harsh mistress; as we laugh at others, we all do it with some underlying terror, knowing that her baleful eye could always turn upon us. She giveth, and she taketh away.

The voting doesn’t make policy. “Donations” makes policy.

bOtH pArTiEs change their own platforms to accommodate their financiers. They don’t actually have any real standards. Ds aren’t actually “pro labor”. Rs aren’t actually “state’s rights”.

That’s all lip service, and ignored immediately when inconvenient.

Don’t listen to what they say, that’s how they trick you, lying is “easy mode”.

Watch what they do.

Those “weird shirt” glory days are dead, let it go. It’s going to get a lot worse.

(ETA I’m voting, please vote. Because it’s funny)

The Republic of Iran is evil incarnate to its own people, and everybody else.

The USA should stay out of it. But, instead, we’ve been a very poor example, from choosing to found Israel after WW2 all the way to today. We are totally invested in Israel (our 51st state), and therefore, will always be in conflict with a good deal of the middle east.

Jerusalem has been Jewish, then Roman, then Muslim, then Christian, then Muslim again, now Jewish. These Abrahamic fundamentalists will always fight for the Holy Land and kill each other for all time, as they always have.

The Jews should have been accepted into the USA after WWII, in my opinion, with no nation building and no CIA-backed coups in Iran. As it is, there’s no end to it at this point, the fundies will take us with them and drag us all into hell.

“We solemnly promise to declare recess, make insider information trades, raid welfare funds, and take donor-paid-for vacations”

thunderous applause

Who has he betrayed? South Africa?

He’s greedy, he will do whatever makes him the most money. He is loyal to money alone.