It wasn't that long ago that Nancy Pelosi insisted that one dime less than she asked for was going to destroy the country.
When your worth is based on how much money ( taken from taxpayers ) you give to the people who bribed you, it's the politician's future bribes that would be destroyed, not the country.
At least Islam's Taqiyya is lying to pretend to fit in. Barack Hussein Obama was Taqiyya in every way. His history and grades and funding is secret and lies. Taqiyya is the lies of a coward, or spy. There's an underlying rationality to lying about your faith in a world of hostile intolerance, by a cult of utter intolerance. Taqiyya is a weapon.
Leftist Fundamental Dishonesty is different. Orwellian. Obvious falsehoods are stated, and unless you willingly lie to yourself and others, you will be destroyed. Support Big Brother or be tortured until you "confess your sins" then be destroyed anyway.
Redemption is not possible in a system of lies.
In any argument, a wise and honest soul will self examine to be sure their principles and facts are correct. To win an argument with lies is a hollow victory and others will point to your lies and prove you both wrong, and untrustworthy.
There is strength of character in learning you were wrong and moving to truth.
But after checking your facts and assumptions, never apologize for being truthful. Don't lie to get along. Don't accept lies as excuses. You won't get courtesy, fairness, or forgiveness from liars. Keep stating the truth until they reveal the spoiled brat within.
I've been ignoring the Bud Light fiasco, because it's lousy beer, and I don't care if they hire a cross dressing actor.
I do watch the spoiled brat tantrums with very mild amusement when they aren't attacking me or America.
The marketing "genius" who hired the cross dressing dude to represent their brand appears to be a Sorority b word who detests frat boy idiots, ( an attitude I agree with ) who she thinks are her customer base.
A lot of people besides spoiled brats drink their lousy beer. Construction workers, poets, hair dressers... I even have drunk their Michelob if it's the least crummy beer a bar has. And that was back when it was an American owned businesses. I don't drink beer hardly at all, now. Too many carbs.
So A-B hired a woke Sorority sister. Don't care. Belgian company.
Since I didn't buy their products before, me boycotting or not makes zero difference and Don't care.
But it's a valuable lesson about apologizing.
If you're a sane patriotic American, a bull puck non apology doesn't get you any points. Weasel words and claims of tradition are hollow BS and insulting. Either admit you screwed up or stand your ground. A-B would have done MUCH better if they'd flat out said they were trying to broaden their customer base and "it's just trying to sell more beer. Grow up and grow a pair, or keep yours, we want everyone to enjoy our product". Honesty gets points. Boldness gets points. It's a strategy real Americans can respect.
Then there's "Them". The lefty perpetual victim virtue signalling idiots. An apology of ANY kind shows weakness to the jackals. So the weasel words that didn't please sane Americans just inflamed their privilege more.
Intolerant jerks of every kind can kiss my shiny metal...
Oh, some mild amusement at A-B management totally not understanding their customers on both ends of the curve.
But the lesson is, if you SHOULD apologise for something, make a sincere apology. IF you don't think you should, don't. And be bold and preferably funny about it. And IF the complaints are from lefties, no apology matters at all, so don't show fear to the mob. Mock them.
If I was A-B marketing head, I'd have put up an entirely different attitude. American flags! "We love all our customers, straight, gay, whatever, we don't care as long as we can drink responsible in our great and tolerant country."
And if you're a CEO, fire every DEI/ESG/KBG/Gestapo employee and increase your profits to your shareholders. You'll have a happier, more productive work environment without whiny brats.
And if you're a whiny brat? Better learn how to lubricate and service the robots that are replacing you.
The Party of Rich White Racists has gone back to it's Core Business.
The same thing you hear about corporations that are failing from lousy management and incompetent leaders. Usually before they are bought and broken up to strip it of any value before dropping the husk and employees into the dumpster. ( not even that value exists in the Parties, they produce nothing to sell except power )
The D Party has returned to it's Core, the rich white plantation owners, still angry about having to pay servant scum, after the Evil R Party freed their slaves. The grudge is over a century old, but still bitter down the generations.
It's true the D/Klan Party had a brief reform period, led by the ( rich from Prohibition booze ( drug ) smuggling ) Kennedy brothers, who fought for the poor and blacks.
They were murdered and replaced by LBJ and his Blacksploitation policies, which dominate to this day. Sure, there are plenty of Token Negros in the Klan Party, all voting, thinking, and talking the Plantation Owner line. The Uppity ones who don't, are called Uncle Toms. See Supreme Court Justice Thomas.
You'd need electrodes on the testicles level torture to get the truth out of Democrat Party leadership, but it's kinda obvious that one of the Accomplishments of Trump they HATE the most was his policies that helped drive Black employment and income to record levels since LBJ's Great Society established the Bureaucratic Permanent Dependent Class, with rules against marriage and responsibilities.
You can tell they hated the Blacks getting ahead because their Media minions refused to report it.
I've watched the Party Media swing back and forth on Elon Musk. Love him for making The Virtue Signal car. Hate him for openly being for free speech.
Boy, that last tells you all you need to know about these would be elite scum.
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And for the Tesla fans... You can't deny the Self Righteous Idiots like AOC brag about how awesome they are, because THEY are saving the planet by buying a car. Before Elon created Tesla, it was the Prius that was the Self Righteous Idiots brag.
You ( Tesla fans ) may have bought one for other reasons. Doesn't change that it's a propaganda tool for others.
Ditto, my Rav4 is a Prius with more room and ground clearance. I didn't buy it to show off how Woke I am. I bought it because I'm a cheapskate who saw Biden* was deliberately jacking up energy costs. And, because it has very cool technology. ( Gearhead Tesla fans I'm sure share the like for cool tech )
I don't brag how my purchase saves the planet. I will, & do, brag how it saves me money.
Your rationalizations on why you buy a Tesla, or Prius, or have a motorcycle, are your own business. Heck, I brag about my Cyclone's good gas mileage!
I'm all in on personal freedom and preaching tolerance for people who are peacefully different than the "accepted normal".
And apparently unlike many Adults, I remember the cruelty of school gangs/cliques. Mean Girls. Jocks. ( I was a Band Geek ) I suspect most adults have suppressed the details of school trauma. Just hung onto the angst/emotional stuff.
After all, half the people are below average.
Exactly how we slid like a semi on ice, from "it'd be nice if the insecure gay and lesbian kids didn't get picked on", to "You're a monster if you don't want your kid to be sent to Drag Queen story time"... Is going to be a subject of history papers by whatever civilization replaces this one. And grounds for destruction in the cult that rules academia today.
As a person of Irish descent, I can tell you lines drawn across other people's countries by the Brits are arbitrary with no relation to the native's wishes or history.
See also Persia, Iran, Iraq, and Syria.
Anecdotally, when alt-history fiction writer S. M. Stirling wanted to create the nastiest bad guys in his imaginary worlds he combined the American Tories who in real life fled to Canada, German nihilists, and Southern Democrats into an aggressive slave owning cult.
From the outside, it looks like there's a serious effort to delegitimize women, lesbians, and gays, through the "trans" & child rape grooming fringe.
Both by direct attack on the hard earned acceptance of Choice in their lives, and the backlash against the evil child rapist wannabes exploiting the children. Which they hide behind the rainbow flag the radical fringe have taken over.
I think to demonstrate the effectiveness of the Biden* DHS, every plastic bag of Fentanyl seized by the Border Patrol and DEA, should be piled in the Capitol Rotunda, behind velvet ropes, obviously for safety, and show everyone what kind of job they're doing.
I'm very glad I'm not still in chronic high level pain daily. ( thanks, and great job to my Ortho team! Who installed the Titanium knees. )
I was just one of millions affected by the push to blame doctors and Big Pharma for the opioid crisis. Cutting availability of pain meds to chronic sufferers.
Personally, I don't like the effects of opioids so much I prefer bearable pain to taking effective drugs. ( and decades of martial arts and high impact sports gives me a skewed perspective on pain. I consider myself a wimp. )
But lots of people are in heavy chronic, daily pain, and getting relief can be a problem when addiction control efforts focus on tight controls on Doctors, while ignoring tons of drugs shipped through Mexican Cartels by the CCP, to prosecute their War of Narcoterrorism, against America.
I can understand picking the low lying fruit, but it's not an effective targeting strategy if you are trying to reduce addiction.
BREAKING: McCarthy gets debt-ceiling deal -- with work requirements
The Screw you but not the banks that bribed Obama to get the sweet deal student loan business scam is still in place.
Little history... Obama Nationalized Student Loans by Executive Order, after getting millions in totally unrelated campaign contributions from the banks that just coincidentally got contacts to get taxpayer guaranteed profits. And I have a bridge for sale.
I've described my Plan elsewhere here, so let's just say I'd do the opposite of Joe* and not screw the taxpayers. ( details on request )
Iirc, we haven't had a legal budget vote since Senator Obama voted yes, then complained it was out of control spending in the last year of the Bush the Younger administration.
Every pretend budget vote since has been a "continuing resolution" to spend your taxes outside the normal process with no published and debated budget.
I'm not saying that they haven't argued about how to spend your money, but the checks and balances have been discarded.
Iirc, The Bad Orange Man promised to stop this illegal practice of irresponsible and unaccountable spending, but the Establishment won that fight.
Q: When was a single appropriation bill last passed, or multiple installments together, covering the entire federal government for one entire fiscal year?
It appears that FY1997 was the last time everything was completed before the start of a fiscal year. While the following is from 2016, congress.gov shows the use of continuing resolutions in subsequent years.
From The Congressional Appropriations Process: An Introduction:
In only four instances since FY1977 (FY1977, FY1989, FY1995, and FY1997) were all regular appropriations enacted by the start of the fiscal year. In all other instances, at least one CR was necessary to fund governmental activities until action on the remaining regular appropriations bills was completed.