This man is doing great work. In addition to the bills he signed so recently, I was interested to learn that Illinois bans libraries from banning books! That’s awesome! He’s making Illinois look more and more attractive to live in!

This stunt actually has nothing to do with “fraud” in government spending, but as someone with experience in government procurement, contracting is where the waste is. The government actually doesn’t do too badly when we keep the work in-house. It’s these multimillion dollar contracts to some private company that are where the waste, fraud, and abuse are. Go fucking audit SpaceX. Revisit those contracts. Bet we can save billions every year on just one companies stupid fucking defense contracts. Then go after the rest of these contractors. Threaten to bring the work back in house and see how they react. Follow through and actually bring the work back in house, build the public sector engineering and manufacturing expertise, and see where we are.

I’m very curious what they’d say it needs to pass in order to be “proven”.

And then I’m curious if a pack of ground beef from the grocery store would be able to meet the same standard

Jesus christ you know it’s bad when you agree with John fucking Bolton. Those two are, at best, treasonous Russian assets.

If it was meant in a “lay off me” or “get off my back” way, I think “stop busting my balls” would be an accurate translation

Could that be translated more colloquially to “stop busting my balls”?

In the offhand chance this is a genuine question, it’s because a large number of people in this country are essentially traumatized at the prospect of a pedophile, convicted felon, rapist, fascist in the white house, and schools know that students who are so preoccupied won’t be able to learn/pay attention in class, so they give them a break to allow time to focuse on processing the trauma from the election.

Wouldn’t that potentially give us a democrat as VP, based on the speaker of the house (assuming the house stays blue) being moved up to VP?

Ah so you voted for trump. Good to know.

If they instantly reduce the tax rate to 0% it most benefits the rich folks with expensive property.

Think you just answered your own question

A screw, bolt, nut, etc. that could feasibly have come from the car itself

See, the problem Republicans face is that no one in their right minds trusts them. Too many GOP candidates have said one thing to get elected then pivoted 180° once in office for most people to believe a word out of their mouths. Actions speak louder than words, so unless Reichert is doing something more meaningful than empty promises about maintaining abortion access, I guarantee he’ll try to ban abortion in WA state if elected.

Was at a brewery last night where the “bathroom” was a row of sinks, and then a row of doors labeled “sit” or “stand”. The commode cubicles were full length walls and doors, totally private, and this just makes so much more sense to me

Baseball cap at a baseball game over the weekend, or a hard hat at work last night, depending if you count that as a hat

Not only just to trap Trump, but also to coalesce everyone behind a successor candidate. Because the only thing worse than Biden staying in the race would have been him dropping out and then a dozen Democrat candidates popping up, vying for the nomination, barely 5 months before the election. Further infighting would have handed the election to the weirdos.

But also phrased in such a way that anti-vaxxers can’t hide behind some flimsy excuse and endanger us all

This just feels like a bunch of tech bros found an excuse to vote for the fascist convicted felon/rapist without saying the quiet part too loudly. Like, they have to know the fascists won’t allow anything unregulated by them to exist if they take power, right?

I saw a theory earlier that seems a little too plausible…trump is far enough down the dementia hole that he actually can’t grasp that he isn’t facing Biden any more, and that’s a big part of the panic. Their candidate can’t remember who he is running against.

My tin foil hat thought is that Biden waited so long to drop out partially to allow the party to rally behind a single candidate.

My favorite part of all this is that they actually have nothing on her. All their attacks are based on surface level observations and blatant racism, not anything about policy or scandals or anything. Frankly, the worst thing that could happen is someone unearths an old picture of Kamala ordering a hot dog with mustard while wearing a tan suit.