Not sure if it's been mentioned, but apparently the terrorists who were planning to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer were also considering kidnapping Virginia Governor Ralph Northam.
"If you are ever asking yourself 'Is Trump lying or is he stupid?', the answer is most likely C: All of the Above" - Seth Meyers
McConnell is going to try to pass another slimmed down stimulus package soon and of course there's not a lot of information on what he's going to include in it. I imagine though it's going to have poison pills in it such as allowing businesses to be immune from lawsuits if their workers get sick from Covid.
https://www.businessinsider.com/mcco...te-big-2020-10
I can't see him getting close to trumps last thing he floated so I am not sure the point. All the house has to do is point to the trump offer and go the senate is not serious because they didn't pass something even matching Trumps so its basically DOA without the house having to do anything.
"The war is over guys! Mission Accomplished!" - George Bush June 5, 2003
But Bush gave a nice speech before he left office = Good "professional" president. lol
Who gives a shit about how nice they say stuff on TV if they bankrupt our country by bombing goatfuckers in the middle of a dessert on the other side of the planet?
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Honestly I'll put myself onto this boat as well. We shouldn't yearn for ye olden days of useful idiot war-mongers just because the current guy is a psychopathic shit-flinging chimpanzee currently high on either Adderall or steroids just because the war-monger could string two sentences together without verbally shitting himself.
So, lets talk about how badly Trump has fucked the US on foreign policy again. Because contrary to ghostkitties assertions of Trump being "Strong on the military", he isn't, and we are in a much worse position in pretty much every area of the world. For now, lets focus on North Korea.
So lets start with this.
That is a big ass rocket. Or in technical terms, an ICBM. Specifically, it is a lengthened version of the Hwasong-15 ICBM they already tested. These new missiles were on parade over the weekend, and they are brand new. Based on the dramatic lengthening of the missile body, most experts agree that these can hit the entire continental United States if they actually work (Based on previous missiles from Best Korea, the estimate is that 25% of the time, they work every time).
To be clear, when Obama left office, the Hwasong-15 did not exist, let alone the lengthened version. North Korea also had perhaps 1-2 nuclear devices, and no deployable nuclear weapons. Under Trump, North Korea now has deployable nuclear weapons, with MRV capable ICBMs that can hit the entire US. Because his bromance with Kim Jung Un is the biggest failure in US-North Korean policy, perhaps ever. Everyone is saying it.
This spray-tanned egotist has pissed away 4 crucial years as North Korea finalized and deployed an actual nuclear deterrent. Even if Biden wins, he can't go back to Obama policy, because North Korea has actual nukes now. Trump never got a single goddamn thing from Kim. He got played like a fiddle, and we are all endangered for it. Irresponsible amateurism has consequences.
Trump wants a huge package he can run on. It will take a lot of time to negotiate.
McConnell wants something done now for the sake of Senate elections and downballot races.
If only those two Republicans could like, get together and talk this out. I know McConnell is avoiding the White House because it's a virus-infested hellhole, but like...they can call each other on the phone. Or Facetime. Or Skype. Or Zoom. Or I'm sure they have a fancy secure communications channel over video too.
This is why it drives me up a wall wolf blitzer was bitching at nancy to just take trumps deal. Trump does not have a deal the GOP can't get on the same page as trump so there is no deal out there for nancy to accept. Until the gop is done negotiating with themselves there is no starting point here.
there should be no stimulus until after the election
let the economy rot and burn
you know how much stimulus republicans let obama pass?
none
time to start playing dirty
and maybe after we take the senate, if we do, then we can do a big stimulus and take credit for it