[Leo Gorcey] I’ll see it when I believe it. [/LG]
It might have legs…
Freedom Caucus attacks Senate megabill in 3-page dissection
The document circulated Wednesday as GOP leaders sought the hard-liners’ support.
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/07/02/congress/freedom-caucus-memo-gop-megabill-00437375
But, as I expected, because it’s not vicious enough,
TOPLINE: This Senate bill – relative to the House: 1) increases deficits
- waters down the already only partial repeal of the “Green New Scam” leaving, at best, 50% intact
- fails to ensure illegals are fully removed from Medicaid rolls
- eliminates the prohibition on Medicaid and CHIP funding for transgender surgeries
- only limits Planned Parenthood funding for one year not ten,
- contains excessive pork for Alaska and Hawaii,
- includes more expensive SALT provisions (for just 5 years to reduce the “cost” as a gimmick) to bail out blue states in high tax jurisdictions electing socialists to run their cities.
https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000197-cbfe-da98-a3b7-fbfeff590000
How vicious you ask,
The Senate weakens the House-passed bill’s common-sense reforms to implement strong work
requirements by raising the age of children for parents to be exempt to age 14 from 7,
True, but if they try to change it back, it has to be passed by the Senate again.
They’re not going to change it back.
Trump is going to talk to the one of the 20 in the weakest position. He’s going to offer some select executive-branch incentives, along with some threats about about what the FBI, IRS and ICE could do to that member’s family and business. Once that member folds like a cheap suit, it will be on to the next one. The pressure on the holdouts will increase with each one he turns. He’ll roll up the “Freedom ‘Caucus’” like a throw rug, give them something they can crow about like “a promise from the President to establish a blue-ribbon committee to address our nation’s fiscal issues” or something like that, and the bill will be on Trump’s desk to sign this Friday.
The same way their master and his cronies appear on international TV wearing plastic Adjust-O-Strap ball caps. They seem to handle that with aplomb.
Strange as it seems, Shirley was originally a male name. Shirley Povich, the father of TV talk show host Maury Povich, was a prominent sports journalist.
WTF??
IRS says churches can now endorse political candidates
IRS says churches can now endorse political candidates : NPR
In a break with decades of tradition, the Internal Revenue Service says it will allow houses of worship to endorse candidates for political office without losing their tax-exempt status.
The surprise announcement came in a court document filed on Monday.
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In Monday’s court filing, the IRS didn’t go that far. But it did say that when a house of worship “in good faith speaks to its congregation, through its customary channels of communication on matters of faith in connection with religious services, concerning electoral politics viewed through the lens of religious faith” it neither participates nor intervenes in a political campaign.
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“The lens of religious faith”?? Right. 
“For now we see through a glass, darkly…”
“the lens of opposition to abortion, bringing prayer back to the classroom, and general opposition to liberal heathens, praise the Lord!” I wonder what party they will tend to support?
For those keeping score, this is Lawrence Britt’s 8th of 14 Characteristics of Fascism:
As before/always, Britt wrote this paper in the Spring of 2003, when most of us had barely even heard of Donald Trump. This isn’t Monday Morning Quarterbacking. It’s based on his in-depth analysis of “the following regimes: Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, Franco’s Spain, Salazar’s Portugal, Papadopoulos’s Greece, Pinochet’s Chile, and Suharto’s Indonesia.”
To which one can now add Putin’s Russia, and the likes of Orban in Hungary and the Kaczynskis in Poland.
And it isn’t necessarily the political leaders and organisations that drive the relationship:
Check out this insane fucking headline.
Massive interference with the justice system of a democracy.
Do we actually have a new low here?
Maybe not, since Trump is massively interfering with the justice system of the United States. But it feels to me a new low.
For those who haven’t been following the news from Brazil:
One might will wonder from where they drew the inspiration?
Understandably, and having standing, 45/47 has concerns about precedence.
The Royal Navy’s Articles of War are fairly strict on the penalties to be applied for mutiny.
Surely Bolsonaro is a sucker and a loser for being caught? Unlike the genius Trump who got away with his attempt.
Trump was caught; we just refused to do anything to him about it. Unlike the Brazilians.
Oh I agree. I just meant it from Trump’s point of view, hence him being a genius.
Or the French.