Apparently the vets thing will pass next week. I follow this stuff and I have no idea what’s going on. Amazed senators think anyone cares at all about anything other than bills that pass (and even then).
Mr President, passage would not have been delayed if Senator Schumer had kept his promises. Good news is, despite his mendacity, it will pass this next week. https://t.co/HVUtLYmFeU— Senator John Cornyn (@JohnCornyn) July 31, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 31 July 2022 15:47 (one year ago) link
cornyn is talking out of his ass
― akm, Sunday, 31 July 2022 17:02 (one year ago) link
So, given what we know of cover-ups and incompetence, why are there *any* Trump picks still in appointed government positions?
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 31 July 2022 17:18 (one year ago) link
Deep state
― F'kin Magnetometers, how do they work? (President Keyes), Sunday, 31 July 2022 18:01 (one year ago) link
Dem adherence to norms and traditions
― Are U down with the BVM (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 31 July 2022 18:44 (one year ago) link
If God didn’t want Louis DeJoy running the Post Office, He’d smite him.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 31 July 2022 18:50 (one year ago) link
getting ready to cast my vote in the missouri primary. my choices for a democratic senator are a marine, someone with busch in their name, and a guy who spends all of his interview time talking about how cool the text message campaign is that he built which costs 2 cents per message instead of the state-wide average of 6 cents.
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 2 August 2022 15:04 (one year ago) link
guess i'm voting for tough guy marine with a soft heart lucas kunce to stand up man-to-man with all the republican candidates who center their campaigns around how they want everyone to use their guns and also how everyone is out to get them. he was endorsed by sanders last night, i guess. but early polling shows that even if Eric Greitens, who is a shell of a man and a reaaaaaaaaaal piece of shit, wins the Republican nomination, Kunce would be a significant underdog. And if the other Eric (Schmitt) wins -- Schmitt is a reaaaaaaaaaal piece of shit -- then it's not even close. The good people of Missouri know in their hearts that they want a reaaaaaaaaaaaal piece of shit!
speaking of, trump made an endorsement yesterday: ""I am therefore proud to announce that ERIC has my Complete and Total Endorsement!"
predictably, both Erics thought it was about them.
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 2 August 2022 15:11 (one year ago) link
so did Eric Trump
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 2 August 2022 15:13 (one year ago) link
that eric trump is a reaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaal
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 2 August 2022 15:16 (one year ago) link
so Nancy Pelosi is in Taiwan, not really sure what to make of that
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Tuesday, 2 August 2022 15:18 (one year ago) link
She should hoist an American flag and claim the country, see what China makes of *that*.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 2 August 2022 15:20 (one year ago) link
Good news, I guess:
President Joe Biden has far outpaced his Oval Office predecessors in nominating women and racially diverse attorneys to the federal bench, a new American Bar Association analysis confirms.
As of July 1, 68% of the 68 federal judges nominated by Biden and confirmed by the Senate are Black, Hispanic or Asian American, and just three are white men, the ABA found. By contrast, 16% of the judges installed on the federal bench by former President Donald Trump are non-white, according to the organization's 2022 Profile of the Legal Profession.
The report, released Thursday, details how diversity within the federal judiciary is slowly increasing.
After Biden, Barack Obama appointed the second-most non-white federal judges, at 36%, followed by Bill Clinton at 24%. According to the ABA’s figures, which date back to the Carter administration, Ronald Reagan had the lowest percentage of non-white federal judges at 6%....
...In addition to racial diversity, Biden has pushed to nominate federal judges with a broader range of professional experience and has tapped more nominees with backgrounds as public defenders than past presidents.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 2 August 2022 16:02 (one year ago) link
Our intelligence community is the best.— Pete Buttigieg (@PeteButtigieg) August 2, 2022
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 2 August 2022 18:07 (one year ago) link
lol
what a weird thing to say
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 2 August 2022 18:09 (one year ago) link
Not if they’ve got Chasten held at an undisclosed location.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 2 August 2022 18:10 (one year ago) link
appropriately chastened
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 2 August 2022 18:14 (one year ago) link
Gimme a CGimme an IGimme an A
― F'kin Magnetometers, how do they work? (President Keyes), Tuesday, 2 August 2022 18:15 (one year ago) link
Pete was assigned to 'intelligence' when he served in the US army, so he's a member of the club.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Tuesday, 2 August 2022 18:16 (one year ago) link
Would be funny if the DOT had its own spooks looking for, I dunno, foreign subversion of air traffic control or something.
― Are U down with the BVM (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 2 August 2022 18:26 (one year ago) link
I just remembered that the buildings for the Federal Highway Administration and the CIA are adjacent to each other in Virginia.
― Are U down with the BVM (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 2 August 2022 18:27 (one year ago) link
BURNPIT: U.S. Politics, August 2022
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 2 August 2022 19:00 (one year ago) link
Boring: sorry, nope, the FHWA facility adjacent to CIA HQ is just a test track. Their headquarters is in SE.
― your marshmallows may vary (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 4 August 2022 00:32 (one year ago) link