There’s also an entire military’s worth of people who are sworn to support and defend the Constitution who have been paid with pretty close to Ship Money.
Mike Johnson and GOP in Congress could choose to pass a bill to pay military during the shutdown. They’ve chosen to stay away. They’ve chosen to allow the admin to break the law. So you gotta wonder how long before they decide the gov doesn’t need to “open” and Congress doesn’t need to pass a budget
President Trump on Wednesday signed a memorandum expanding his administration’s authority to repurpose unspent federal funds to pay members of the military during the government shutdown, escalating his challenge to the authority of Congress on spending matters.
Also occurred to me how desperate that company must feel - the entire time I worked there I don’t think they contributed to any political campaigns. I think the felt they were above politics.
I worked for 14 years at one of the companies with a seat at this bribery orgy desecrating the seat of American power and I’m kind of surprised at how much that bothers me
I hate that there will be entire curriculums in the history departments of respectable universities with course like “Understanding the Rise of American Fascism: From Something Awful to 8Chan”
Shuttle traders are something I associate with the collapse of the Soviet bloc. I wonder what our equivalent of the iconic stuffed to the gills plaid bag will be
Federal prosecutors seized $15 billion in cryptocurrency from an investment scheme known as “pig butchering” that they allege emanated from forced labor camps in Cambodia.
One of the things that makes me really sad is that there has been a national strategic reserve of chud assholes for years that I wasn’t aware of and now they have free reign