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Posts Made By: Rod Kaufman

May 26, 2023 11:22 PM Forum: Politics

When are they going to learn, $9,000,000,000 lost in 1 week.

Posted By Rod Kaufman
While I'm doubting the loss figure without even bothering to look at the Davis link, the reason Target backed off from selling the merchandise is because of threats of violence against their employees. An that emanates from the right wing culture wars from the like of DeSantos and company...

May 26, 2023 11:34 PM Forum: Politics

When are they going to learn, $9,000,000,000 lost in 1 week.

Posted By Rod Kaufman
Originally Posted by Richard Davis
Miranda Devine put it succinctly:

New York Post columnist Miranda Devine declared, “Another one for the Get Woke, Go Broke files: Target
loses $9 billion value in a week. Are these companies on a suicide mission? Why do they keep doubling down?
When big business is more interested in ideology than profit, capitalism is terminal"
There's no proof the loss, is it's even real, particularly one of this magnitude, is due to the fact that Target sold a small amount of clothing that people supposedly didn't like and boycotted the stores across the nation over. That's a bunch of right wing BS being advanced by the New York Post and Faux news. It's a bunch of HS...

May 29, 2023 08:44 AM Forum: Politics

Biden/McCarthy Reach Deal

Posted By Rod Kaufman
" Representative" Chip Roy(r Texas), wades into the debt deal: "‘turd-sandwich". 
https://thehill.com/homenews/4024342-chip-roy-blasts-biden-mccarthy-debt-ceiling-deal-as-turd-sandwich/

"On the Republican side, far-right members of the House did not even wait for the text before slamming the proposal and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy for agreeing to it. For example, GOP Rep. Bob Good of Virginia tweeted, “No one claiming to be a conservative could justify a YES vote.”
https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/28/opinions/debt-ceiling-deal-democrats-compromise-obeidallah/index.html

If you read/hear Kevin McCarthy's take on the bill, you'd think you're looking at two different bills. 
If Chip and his fellow wingnuts have their way, the economy tanks beginning in early June. Isn't that what Trump and the MAGAs want? What say you Trump fans?

May 30, 2023 05:44 AM Forum: Politics

Biden/McCarthy Reach Deal

Posted By Rod Kaufman
"Chip" won't give up! Anything to tank the bill and the economy.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/29/politics/chip-roy-house-rules-committee/index.html
DeSantos wants to tank it all too!
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4025135-desantis-blasts-debt-ceiling-deal-us-is-still-careening-toward-bankruptcy/

Cons, I ask you, where do you stand?

May 30, 2023 11:38 AM Forum: Politics

Biden/McCarthy Reach Deal

Posted By Rod Kaufman
“Prior to this deal … our country was careening towards bankruptcy. And after this deal, our country will still be careening towards bankruptcy,” DeSantis said on “Fox & Friends.”
"Rep. Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.) noted that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) voted to increase the debt ceiling while serving in the House, when asked in an interview on News Nation Monday to respond to criticism of the newly announced bipartisan deal from DeSantis and former President Trump."
“It’s said that you campaign in poetry, and you govern in prose. Man alive, are those comments proof of that,” Johnson said. “Ron DeSantis, he has voted for debt ceiling increases in the past when he’s in the House. I know those guys. They should have the flexibility to change their minds, but they should be honest with the voters that when they’ve been here in the past, they’ve raised the debt ceiling.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4025503-key-gop-lawmaker-notes-desantis-voted-to-raise-debt-ceiling/

May 31, 2023 01:45 AM Forum: Politics

Biden/McCarthy Reach Deal

Posted By Rod Kaufman
Now the MAGA's in congress want to kick out McCarthy!
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4026377-first-republican-publicly-supports-ousting-mccarthy-as-speaker/
Remember, to get his butt elected to the speakership, he agreed it'll basically take a vote to remove him. 
The cons seemingly will tank their own speaker to tank the economy, following Trump's commands, in an effort to make Biden look bad in the process.

May 31, 2023 04:40 AM Forum: Politics

Biden/McCarthy Reach Deal

Posted By Rod Kaufman
It looks like the MAGA's stated intent to block the bill in the rules committee will fail as a key holdout reportedly will vote for the deal. "Chip" Roy and the so-called freedom caucus can scream all they want but, at the end of the day, cooler heads are apparently prevailing...

June 1, 2023 04:16 AM Forum: Politics

Biden/McCarthy Reach Deal

Posted By Rod Kaufman
Originally Posted by Greg Shaffer


You read the same thread as me.....you should know lol
It Tara Reade who has now defected to Russia, aided by a convicted Russian spy Marina Butin who infiltrated the NRA:
"Butina was convicted of crimes related to the 2016 US presidential election, pleading guilty to using her contacts in Republican political circles, in the gun-rights lobby and at the National Prayer Breakfast to influence US relations with Russia."
https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/17/media/maria-butina-rt-tv-show-intl/index.html
https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/31/politics/tara-reade-defects-russia-biden-intl/index.html
Rich finds Tara quite credible...

June 1, 2023 04:21 AM Forum: Politics

Biden/McCarthy Reach Deal

Posted By Rod Kaufman
Originally Posted by Greg Shaffer
Come on guys.....its just more of the same ol kabuki theater DC engages in every time this issue comes up.....so they can all claim they are fighting the good fight while they collectively shove more bad deals down our throats. But then you have as much right to your outrage as I have to make fun of it smile
Just Kabuki theater, huh?
You obviously forgot about the GOP threat of default and the subsequent GOP sequester deal that produced the fiscal sequester insanity under Obama and the billions it cost the USA in the process of doing so...

June 1, 2023 04:39 AM Forum: Politics

Biden/McCarthy Reach Deal

Posted By Rod Kaufman
Originally Posted by James Brown

All four Ds voted against passing the bill from the rules committee.   Are they MAGA freaks now?   I wish someone could explain this to me.  Seems the Ds are just as willing to play politics with our financial well being as any R might be.

Jim
This article from TheHill may offer the explanation you're seeking:
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4028918-house-gets-debt-ceiling-bill-over-key-procedural-hurdle-with-democratic-help/

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