US Politics, May 2023: May 1 never happened

waybacked

another strong contender, along with punted and bobbed

Wayback the Stranger-- deleted track from Pyromania

xp

lol sic ya beat me to it

The person who proposed it to Dan Savage explained it thusly:

Boy prostitutes were sometimes called peg boys because they would sit on pegs to keep their assholes open between clients, so I suggest the word "peg." The woman would be the "pegger", the boy would be the "peggee," the act would be "pegging," and the boy would write in his personal ad: "I want to get pegged."

wait what thread is this??

US Politics, June 2023: Sit On Pegs To Keep Their Assholes Open

Pegasaurus Ron

i was gonna post (in honor of Savage) a political comment involving both pegging and santorum and couldnt bring myself to it

on june 7, North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum is going to announce he's running for the GOP nomination for president of the united states!!!!!!!!

Instantly imagined a campaign T-shirt ripping off the Filosofem cover art, but I'm too lazy to bother creating it, especially since the guy's campaign is dead in the water no matter what.

If you can't beat 'em, Burgum

BURGUM / BUTTIGIEG 2024

The Bi-Partisan Ticket

Makin’ America Peg Again!

Boy prostitutes were sometimes called peg boys because they would sit on pegs to keep their assholes open between clients

This has to be a myth, right?

I saw Pegboy once... dudes from Nayked Raygun I believe.

the guitarist in my band got a pegboy cap at fest a few years ago and i love it when he wears it

This thread sure took a turn (sorry, a wayback)

It's your favorite foreign movie

Underrated post.

if we lived in a utopia the us politics thread would always be about pegging

I'm just a poor waybacking stranger
Traveling through this world below
There's no sickness, no toil or danger
In that bright land to which I go

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7FJFy6Pzjw

I don't think I will ever think of Hamilton the same way again

We are so fucked. https://t.co/1VIjkAnKsQ

— Jena Friedman (@JenaFriedman) May 27, 2023

Have we talked about Michael Flynn's amazing new scam?

https://www.businessinsider.com/michael-flynn-launches-4thepure-online-website-covid-19-unvaccinated-people-2023-5

A very-fashy dating service/blood bank/sperm bank/breast milk bank for COVID-unvaccinated people only. What do you want to bet Flynn's donating his own sperm?

Watched a bit of the Texas AG impeachment presentation, this corrupt asshole who has been under indictment for close to a decade is so not going to get convicted.

I should note, not going to get impeached despite the recommendation of a bunch of Republicans.

oh shit, I guess it did happen after all! I have been watching, but then set the computer down for a while.

I was about to say, his supporters mouthed off but then they were absolutely crushed in the vote.

I was surprised by that vote too, I figured they'd impeach him but I assumed it would be a razor-thin margin

but the whole thing is utterly mystifying... why now?

Yeah I feel like we haven’t gotten anywhere near the full story

The Texas legislature's heart grew three sizes

It’s the same cocaine orgies that brought Madison Cawthorn down

Maybe they want to get ahead of more scandals that haven't gotten out yet

It's purely because he's an asshole and not a team player who can be replaced by someone with his exact politics who's less of an asshole to fellow Republicans.

What’s this about? Haven’t been paying attention.

DETAILS OF THE AGREEMENT, per source w/direct knowledge:

—Two-year approps deal
—No budget caps after 2025
—Work requirements: no changes to Medicaid
—Phases in & then sunsets (in 2030) SNAP time limits to people up to age 54
—WH pushed to reduce # of ppl subject to time limits

— Andrew Desiderio (@AndrewDesiderio) May 28, 2023

Phases in then sunsets SNAP time limits? This is just cruel.

McCarthy told House Republicans on the GOP call that there is "not a single thing in this bill" for Democrats.

— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) May 28, 2023

Well, there's someone to take seriously.

Here's how we square the 6 years v. 2 years circle. Republicans say it's a 6-year agreement; WH notes that after two years, "There are no budget caps... only non-enforceable appropriations targets"

— David Dayen (@ddayen) May 28, 2023

The WaPo:

The details of those cuts are not year clear, though Republicans — who initially sought to slash spending by roughly $130 billion — presented them as far more significant in size and scope. In the 2025 fiscal year, nondefense spending would see a 1 percent increase, with “nonenforceable” appropriations targets in future years, the source said.

Biden and McCarthy agreed to offset additional reductions in domestic spending by clawing back and redirecting other money. That included funds set aside to help the IRS pursue unpaid taxes, which Republicans long have opposed, according to two other individuals who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the sensitive negotiations. The two men also agreed to rescind some money previously authorized to combat the coronavirus pandemic.

Biden and McCarthy also agreed to several provisions unrelated to federal spending and the nation’s fiscal health. They came to terms around new rules that would ease permitting around energy projects. And they brokered a deal around a key GOP demand: new work requirements on low-income Americans who receive food assistance under the program known as SNAP, one of the individuals said.

The new rules would apply to recipients up to age 54 who do not have dependents, raising the current limit of age 49. However, the bill would include some new exemptions for former military service members and people who are homeless, a source said.

Otherwise, the emerging compromise did not make any changes to programs including Medicaid, as Republicans previously demanded, although the full range of the newly proposed new work requirements is not entirely clear.

Work requirements only seem apply to over age 50 something poor people seeking medical assistance it seems I think (oh wonderful)

Summary of deal as I understand it:
— Debt ceiling raised 2 years
— Domestic programs frozen next year, up 1% ‘25. Inflation-adjusted cut
— Boosts defense, VA $
— Some tightening of work requirements on TANF, SNAP
— Energy permitting (details tbd)
— Claw back some new IRS $

— Jeff Stein (@JStein_WaPo) May 28, 2023

Now that he's whittled out some pseudo compromise that he's supposedly close to OK with, McCarthy is so not going to be able to rally his army of stupids to vote for it, is he? Gonna be like his speakership vote redux.

Enough Dems may go for it to negate the Republican holdouts

And I say this with all due respect to all parties involved: Fuck you, eat shit

otm

It is very bad that, every so often, we make a set of arbitrary and damaging policy decisions that have no real impact on the debt in the name of solving a debt problem that is not really a problem, and I hope we have an administration invested in putting an end to this someday.

— Osita Nwanevu (@OsitaNwanevu) May 28, 2023

How i break it down

Yep!

Biden and his new chief of Staff seem obsessed with trying to be bipartisan and centrist, but not interested in strongly making the case ifor Democratic priorities. Just behaving defensively while McCarthy was out there pushing an extreme right plan and then settling for a slightly less extreme rightward “compromise “ that may only pass if Dems vote for it

More pegging discussion today from an unexpected quarter. David French:

The release of the Missouri senator Josh Hawley’s new book on manhood is the latest peg for a national conversation about men,

Taking Manhood up a Peg by Josh Hallway

Dems have never once played hardball to get Dem policy priorities in debt limit negotiations under Republican presidents.