Random Thoughts (Political Edition)

[GRtak]

That's not something I'd say out loud.

That's why I typed it. :

This is just a case of a broken clock is right twice a day. And that is giving Hawley a lot more credit than he deserves!

 

[GRtak]

The clock is ticking to fix Social Security as retirees face automatic cut in 9 years​

https://www.npr.org/2024/05/06/1249406440/social-security-medicare-congress-fix-boomers-benefits

Keep kicking the can down the road...

 

[GRtak]

Here we go again.

Marjorie Taylor Greene calls for vote to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson​

Marjorie Taylor Greene calls for vote to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson

The move marked a reversal from a day earlier, when Greene appeared to retreat from her threat to trigger a vote to remove Johnson as speaker.

www.cbsnews.com

 

[CraigB]

They are just the worst.

 

[GRtak]

I was just thinking that we haven't heard about Benghazi in awhile.

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xA8wZpLgERA

 

[GRtak]

Neom: Saudi forces 'told to kill' to clear land for eco-city

An ex-intelligence officer tells the BBC he was permitted to shoot dead those resisting eviction.

www.bbc.com

 

[GRtak]

Barron Trump will serve as a Florida delegate at the GOP convention​

https://www.npr.org/2024/05/09/1250277468/barron-trump-delegate-republican-national-convention

Barron Trump, the youngest of the former president's children, will make his political debut this summer as a delegate at the Republican National Convention.


His name appears on a list of Florida delegates — along with other members of the Trump family — at the GOP convention in Milwaukee in July. The list, released Wednesday, also includes Eric Trump, Donald Trump Jr. and his fiancée Kimberly Guilfoyle, and Tiffany Trump and her husband, Michael Boulos.

 

[NecroJoe]

Barron Trump will serve as a Florida delegate at the GOP convention​

https://www.npr.org/2024/05/09/1250277468/barron-trump-delegate-republican-national-convention

So it's official: the "leave their children alone when it comes to reporting on politicians" gloves can come off when not only are they 18+, but also actively involved in the politicking, right?

 

[GRtak]

Barron Trump will serve as a Florida delegate at the GOP convention​

https://www.npr.org/2024/05/09/1250277468/barron-trump-delegate-republican-national-convention

Barron Trump declines to serve as a Florida delegate at the GOP convention​

https://www.npr.org/2024/05/09/1250277468/barron-trump-delegate-republican-national-convention

Prior commitments? Right, sure, whatever you say.

Tax revenue jumps 22% in April, but U.S. deficit still looms large​

https://www.npr.org/2024/05/10/1250541183/tax-revenue-irs-treasury-deficit-surplus-us

Extending the 2017 cuts will add an estimated $5 trillion to the deficit.

 

[NecroJoe]

Did Barron even last 10% of a Scaramucci?

 

[GRtak]

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=avwnXN1Kep8

 

[Momentum57]

Texas: white man pardoned for shooting black man who legally carried gun while black.

Texas Gov. Abbott issues full pardon for Army sergeant who killed BLM protester

Texas Gov. Abbott has issued a full pardon for a former U.S. Army Sergeant convicted of murder in the shooting death of an armed protester in a 2020 Black Lives Matter march.

www.foxnews.com

You have a second amendment and if that person is scary you can kill em...

 

[GRtak]

Putin and Xi further their embrace to defy U.S.-led pressure​

View: https://www.npr.org/2024/05/17/1252069230/russia-putin-xi-china-visit