🎶Lowered Expectations🎶

1. Visible tattoos. Have to be off legal age to get a tattoo, right?

2. Talk to them. Even if it’s awkward, it’s practice.

Used diapers and dog shit are free and they fit well in those elastic band water balloon launchers.

I really do hope they do what you say and shut down the government again over ICE. With luck they will only have to keep it shut down until the newly elected democrat majority house takes office in January.

And the house passed it 222-209. If you want to blame the 8 Senate Democrats that voted for the bill, go ahead (Durbin, King, Hassan, Shaheen, Cortez Masto, Rosen, Fetterman, and Kaine),but blaming all of them is nonsense. Republicans are by far the problem and pretending there is no difference is delusional.

They were still doing that during the shutdown. The shutdown didn’t impact ICE at all.

Democrats voted against the bill. They didn’t have enough votes to stop it and they realistically couldn’t keep the government shut down til the end of the year. That would be a bigger disaster to Americans than the bill itself. Why are you giving Republicans a free pass on responsibility?

So first you said they voted in favor of the bill which I proved was a lie. Then you moved the goalposts to say “well, they didn’t fight hard enough” when you admit they literally shut down the government to stop the bill. Why are you so mad at Dems when you are giving Republicans a free pass?

Which budget bill besides the OBBB was passed in 2025?

Standard divide and conquer tactics. If they can keep Democrats fighting each other, the Republicans can continue their business uninterrupted.

I knew the first reply would be about a US centric comment.

BULLSHIT

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Big_Beautiful_Bill_Act

I fully expect to see a similar headline about the US in the next 3 years.

Denmark?

We have to ask ourselves if the money that was spent on cops in schools was instead spent on counseling for troubled students, would we be better off?

I would argue that this would have been just as effective at preventing shootings without any of the negative side effects.

I forget what they are called, but there is basically a parachute on a rope that gets dropped into fast deep water currents to tow boats.

I don’t do it as often as I should, but I like making a big batch of soup or stew and freezing it in portion size containers.

45: $20,000 in sinus surgery so you aren’t halfway suffocating while you sleep.

See? Switching to Apple makes everything worse.

I read Hillbilly Elegy shortly after it came out due to the prompting of a conservative acquaintance. It is such an infuriating book because he comes SO close to getting it. Instead of acknowledging that he only got where he is through the help of others including government welfare, he decides he is a Special Boy and would have been great regardless.