Things that made you frown today (Political Version)

[Parkbandit]

I don't wish cancer on much of anyone (animal abusers can get it), so I feel for the dude. I've always thought he was a jerk though, for the most part.

I'm fine with animal abusers and pedophiles getting cancer.

[Methais]

I'm fine with animal abusers and pedophiles getting cancer.

Preferably dick balls & anus cancer all at the same time.

[~Rocktar~]

[Methais]

[ClydeR]

You'd better sit down before you read the rest of this post. I don't want to be responsible for anybody fainting and falling.











Seated? Then let's continue. President Trump said something in his State of the Union speech that wasn't true.

NEW YORK (AP) — Tony Rankins, a formerly homeless, drug-addicted Army veteran, got a standing ovation at the State of the Union after President Donald Trump described how he turned his life around thanks to a construction job at a company using the administration’s “Opportunity Zone” tax breaks targeting poor neighborhoods.

But that’s not completely true.

Rankins, who indeed moved out of his car and into an apartment since landing a job refurbishing a Nashville hotel two years ago, doesn’t work at a site taking advantage of the breaks and never has done so. In fact, he started that job four months before the Treasury Department published its final list of neighborhoods eligible for the breaks. And the hotel where he worked couldn’t benefit even now because it’s an area that didn’t make the cut.

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[Parkbandit]

You'd better sit down before you read the rest of this post. I don't want to be responsible for anybody fainting and falling.

Seated? Then let's continue. President Trump said something in his State of the Union speech that wasn't true.

OMG LIE OF THE YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU DID IT FALLEN! YOU FOUND IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You're such a little pussy.

[Suppa Hobbit Mage]

OMG LIE OF THE YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU DID IT FALLEN! YOU FOUND IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You're such a little pussy.

You read it? I didn't. Waste of time when posted by ClydeR

[Methais]

You read it? I didn't. Waste of time when posted by Fallen

Fixed.

[~Rocktar~]

[Methais]

Pelosi Actually Slowed Coronavirus Funding so Dems Could Campaign On It

"You never let a serious crisis go to waste." - Rahm Emanuel

A new report details how Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi delayed funding allocated to helping prevent the spread of the coronavirus because she knew Democrat candidates running for office could exploit the situation as a campaign talking point.

Elizabeth Vaughn reports:

Speaking withFox News’Laura Ingraham on Monday night, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said, “Look how much politics they want to play.The dirty little secret.We have the coronavirus. We need to fund this. You know what Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker, did? She withheld the bill last week. You know why? So the DCCC could run ads against seven Republicans.”
Ingraham asked, “How many people ran ads on the coronavirus, fundraising appeals?”
“I don’t know how many ran, but they actually took the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, spent money, went into these seven Republican seats to campaign against them about the coronavirus when she’s the Speaker of the House. Instead of putting America first, she put her politics first and kept the bill from coming to the floor,” McCarthy explained.
Sadly the coronavirus is just a tragedy worth exploiting to liberal and progressive lawmakers.

At a press conference on Wednesday McCarthy said:

Last week, we had an opportunity to bring forth the Supplemental, the needed funds for public health and others to deal with this item. We are not the majority. We cannot determine the floor, so Speaker Pelosi left, and had us leave Congress. This week, we hope we’re going to be able to bring it up.
The one concerning issue that I have, not as just the leader of the Republicans, but really as an American. Why didn’t we vote on it last week? And why now is the Democratic arm of the DCCC running ads against seven Republicans? On something they could not vote on, because they could not control it. Are they playing politics and holding the money up so their political arm can attack Republicans on this issue? Can they, for one time put people before politics? I think they owe the American people an apology. I think the Speaker needs to apologize. Cheri Bustos needs to take those ads down and stop playing politics with this.
America is nervous. We’ve been preparing for years in advance. We’ve got to make sure we have all the needed resources there.
So bring the bill to the floor.
That's a great question. What's the hold up?!

Earlier in the conference, the ranking member of the Energy and Commerce Committee, Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), spoke and said that Democrats were trying to include HR3 (Elijah Cummings’ Lower Drug Costs Now Act) with the bill for coronavirus funding. HR3 is a very controversial bill which will require some debate. Walden basically said, let’s keep this separate, because the funds to fight the coronavirus crisis are needed now.
And there it is - Democrats would rather let people die than do the right thing.