The Republican National Committee has voted to run on a platform of banning transgender members of the military.
I was prepared to actually defend Paul Ryan when I clicked on the headline: Social media users slam Ryan for tweet on $1.50 pay hike. I thought 1.50 an hour isn’t nothing. Except that Paul Ryan was patting himself on the back for a teacher getting 1.50 more PER WEEK. He has since deleted the post.
He wound up deleting that tweet after all of the shade started to fly.
You took shooting lessons from Sarah Palin, didn’t you?
“I have heard time and again that the middle class is getting crumbs, but I’ll take it!”
Paul Ryan via Twit
Yes, he will…
I like long guns, always have. Got a cousin, always was a crack shot, came to beer cans and the like. For whatever reason, he was a total bust on the deer lease. Always missed. Darndest thing. So, anyway, ain’t gonna shoot anything that would prefer I didn’t unless I absolutely have to. And I ain’t gonna pretend I like venison.
I honestly thought it must be from a parody account.
I once came across a herd of beers. Them suckers spray everywhere when you hit 'em. Total waste.
Had to catch 'em in some of them 6 ring plastic traps to get 'em home.
Wait, you are saying that this whole trump and republican thing isn’t a parody?
Holy fuck!
In the Midwest, they had some concerns about that CWD, which might be transmissible. Evidence would suggest that the Rs may have been eating too much dubious venison.
The best part of that story is that there’s a comment from Phil Plait (BadAstronomer) - a blast from the past! 
FBI Agent resigning over “Relentless Attacks on the Bureau”
Stupid Republican Idea of the Year has been attacking the FBI/DOJ because their Sacred Cow POTUS is under investigation. I expect a lot more good people to be abandoning ship before the takeover of the Justice Department is complete; good people don’t stick around to start goosestepping and trading in their black suits for brown shirts.
They used to say when fascism comes to America, it’ll be wrapped in a flag, carrying a gun, and holding a Bible… used to because with the Tea Party, Trump, and the alt-right, backed by evangelicals and the NRA, it’s already happened. It’ll just take some time for the institutions that are being eroded to be so thoroughly corrupted that no one can miss the totalitarianism anymore.
There was an awesome response by someone on Twitter to that tweet.
I should add that when I saw that tweet, I assumed the person had taken creative license with (i.e., just made up or greatly exaggerated) the amount the Koch Brothers would save. However, it turns out to be exactly the number you get when you divide this estimate of up to 1.4 billion dollars per year by 52 weeks!
$1.50 per week isn’t nothing. Even without overtime, that’s equivalent to a wage hike of a whopping 3½¢ per hour.
As shown in this old lesson from the Doris Day-era about the relentless power of getting an additional 7½¢ every hour, for forty hours every week, after a mere ten years, or so the accountant claims, the savings will be enough to buy a ping-pong set with paddles made of gold!
Well, that was my misreading, I thought the quote was from him, not the overjoyed *lumpenprole *who, like sensible people everywhere, slept through math class.
Oh wait a minute. I forgot the tax cuts expire before ten years are up. I guess you can forget the ping-pong set with paddles made of gold. Well, the peons can be thankful they helped out David and Charlie Koch. At least their ($26 Million+ per week) cuts are permanent.
Maybe he should try giving the deer a can of beer…