@Milajoy We're finding out that the filibuster doesn't matter. We don't have even 50 GOP votes for anything good.
Their names are Murkowski, Collins, Tillis and McConnell.
@Ghostofcynthia They're pissed off that the reflecting pool rehab only cost $3 million instead of $300 million.
https://t.co/rCQom21g52
"boondoggle" "scandal"
This is justice in a blue state (New York).
State Trooper Christopher Baldner pulls over a family SUV for speeding on the Thruway.
Driver Tristin Goods refuses to show ID and escalates the stop. Trooper uses pepper spray.
Driver floors it and flees at high speed.
Trooper follows training and uses pit maneuver to ram the vehicle and stop the threat.
The SUV crashes. Goods’ own 11-year-old daughter Monica is tragically killed.
Result?
Trooper Baldner was just sentenced to ~7 years in prison for manslaughter.
The father - who caused the deadly chase - walks free after claiming he was “scared for his life.”
@KittyConspires@KoenigJojo@feelsdesperate I don't need to. If you can be a Blackwater security contractor, you are not 90% disabled.
If the VA says you are, the VA is fucked up.
You think you're smart, but you're an idiot. Bye.
@KittyConspires@KoenigJojo@feelsdesperate Here are his disability issues: PTSD, traumatic brain injury, anxiety, and depression.
Nothing in there about cancer or burn pits.
"Disability" is pretty meaningless, if it still allows employment in about the most physically and mentally intense and demanding jobs.
@JohnRLottJr "Obama also defied the War Powers resolution on Syria. He actually did ask for congressional authorization to take military action in that country in 2013, but Congress refused to approve it. He did it anyway."
@mushycrouton Barack Obama said doctors will cut off your foot if there's money in it.
But doctors doing "gender affirming" surgery do it out of kindness.
The Minnesota covid model projected that every single hospital bed in the entire state would be filled with covid patients in the midst of a dire situation this week.
Thankfully, the $1.5 million peer-reviewed model was well off the mark.
How far off?
See the tracker below.
@JesseBWatters I'm back to my Iraq lesson learned: don't go to war unless Congress declares it, as in the Constitution.
Because your own Congress will undercut you and make sure you lose it if you don't.