Puking Elephant

Decay is progress.

[toddstarnes @toddstarnes]

History will record that Texas fell to the Islamists under the rule of Republicans.

Let it be known that the Republicans stood down and allowed the Islamists to overrun the Lone Star State. They literally control every office in state government. And they've done nothing.

[Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump]

Be prepared, there is a small chance that our horrendous leadership could unknowingly lead us into World War III.

[Puking Elephant @pmcbeezy]

@RandPaul https://t.co/YDg1prvT3D

Straight banger

[MERICA MEMED @Mericamemed]

Found my new ringtone

[Stephen King @StephenKing]

I was wrong, and I apologize. I have deleted the post.

[Puking Elephant @pmcbeezy]

@RyanSilapan Definitely the take I would expect from someone that obsesses over high school girls.

[JD Vance @JDVance]

Well, I’ve finally made it

[Puking Elephant @pmcbeezy]

@DmpNoori27494 @Thorson777 @SixMillionNerds That dude whiter than the driven snow.

[Puking Elephant @pmcbeezy]

@therabbithole The Civil War was fought over slavery.

[Puking Elephant @pmcbeezy]

@ATRightMovies August Osage County

[Puking Elephant @pmcbeezy]

@washghost1 Fake. Not an F40.

[Stephen Miller @StephenM]

I’ve seen a few claims making the rounds on the Big Beautiful Bill that require correction.

The first is that it doesn’t “codify the DOGE cuts.” A reconciliation bill, which is a budget bill that passes with 50 votes, is limited by senate rules to “mandatory” spending only — eg Medicaid and Food Stamps. The senate rules prevent it from cutting “discretionary” spending — eg the Department of Education or federal grants. The DOGE cuts are overwhelmingly discretionary, not mandatory. The bill saves more than 1.6 TRILLION in mandatory spending, including the largest-ever welfare reform. A remarkable achievement.

I’ve also seen claims the bill increases the deficit. This lie is based on a CBO accounting gimmick. Income tax rates from the 2017 tax cut are set to expire in September. They were always planned to be permanent. CBO says maintaining *current* rates adds to the deficit, but by definition leaving these income tax rates unchanged cannot add one penny to the deficit. The bill’s spending cuts REDUCE the deficit against the current law baseline, which is the only correct baseline to use.

Another fantastically false claim is that the bill spends trillions of dollars. This is just completely invented out of whole cloth. This is not a ten year budget bill—it doesn’t “fund” almost any operations of government, which are funded in the annual budget bills (which this is not). In other words, if this bill passed, but the annual budget bill did not, there would be no government funding. Under the math that critics are using, if we passed a one paragraph reconciliation bill that cut simply 50 billion in food stamp spending, they would say the bill “added” trillions in spending and debt because they are counting ALL the projected federal spending that exists entirely outside the scope of this legislation, which is of course preposterous. The only funding in the bill is for the President’s border and defense priorities, while enacting a net spending cut of over 1.6 TRILLION dollars.

The bill has two fiscal components: a massive tax cut and a massive spending cut.

[Puking Elephant @pmcbeezy]

@marklevinshow I’m for the solution that doesn’t involve Americans fighting in and dying in a foreign war.

[Puking Elephant @pmcbeezy]

@LangmanVince I would rather be a Tanzanian albino.

[Puking Elephant @pmcbeezy]

@mtnbikerdenis1 @Peace010642 Who are the private foundations, and how are they funded?

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

This is the first time I've felt like breaking down. But that means letting them win.

Look... I don't know who you are. Unless you're Bill Kristol, I don't know why you hate me so. I gave up a lucrative career to do this. It was never for money.

Why am I doing this? I know numbers. I see that my children have no future unless we tame spending. And as we are finding out, taming spending, also means taming the corruption in the government.

The numbers don't lie. Look at them, logically. Look at how much of our economy is sustained on deficit government spending. Look at the exponential rise in interest rate payments. We are not far from where we have to borrow to pay off the interest. And from there, it's only disaster.

I survived 20% layoffs. Most of the private sector has. Layoffs are healthy. There is no way, shape, or manner that what DOGE is doing comes anywhere near to "cruelty."

You are trying to kill my husband when all I want to do was give my children a future.

Why?

Just why?

Please repent and come to Jesus. Literally.

[Puking Elephant @pmcbeezy]

@Laffs_Dynamics So, the gun fires, but the slide doesn’t blow back and eject the shell?

[Chef Andrew Gruel @ChefGruel]

Always remember re: American Heart Association - “Historically, the AHA was a relatively small organization until it received a substantial donation in 1948 from Procter & Gamble (P&G), the makers of Crisco, a vegetable shortening made from hydrogenated cottonseed oil. This donation, reportedly $1.7 million at the time (equivalent to roughly $20 million in today's dollars when adjusted for inflation), coincided with the AHA's rise in prominence and its subsequent advocacy for replacing saturated fats with polyunsaturated fats, such as those found in vegetable oils and margarine. P&G, as a major producer of these products, stood to benefit commercially from such recommendations.”