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  1. Well, to save all those millions of Americans from losing their health care, of course Oh there will be a few members forced to eat the sh it sandwich over this for sure. If it gets done at all
  2. Ya sure The Big Beautiful Bill is swirling the toilet
  3. Dems need to smell the blood in the water and jump on this
  4. Taken in conjunction with that crazy, super long range air battle Pakistan had with India--with Pakistan using Chinese made equipment--and 2025 has already seen a monumental change in warfare. Our military needs to change a lot, and fast.
  5. About time they targeted the trains https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/06/01/bridge-collapses-onto-train-russia/ A wave of explosions hit Russian railways, derailing trains and killing at least seven people on the eve of new peace talks with Ukraine. Bombings targeted bridges and rail lines in regions bordering Ukraine, and inside Ukrainian-occupied territory, in what the Kremlin called “acts of terrorism”. Seven people died and scores were injured when a passenger train travelling to Moscow was derailed by a collapsed bridge in Bryansk, north of Kyiv. Meanwhile, a freight train was derailed by another fallen bridge in Kursk, the territory that Ukraine seized before being forced out by Russian forces earlier this year. In separate reported attacks in occupied Ukraine, Kyiv’s military intelligence agency said a Russian military train had been blown up near Melitopol, while a Ukrainian partisan network claimed an attack on a Russian rail line in occupied Donetsk. This is good news, also https://kyivindependent.com/enemy-bombers-are-burning-en-masse-ukraines-sbu-drones-hit-more-than-40-russian-aircraft/ An operation by Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) using first-person-view (FPV) drones smuggled deep into Russian and hidden inside trucks has hit 41 Russian heavy bombers at four airfields across the country, a source in the agency told the Kyiv Independent on June 1. The operation — codenamed "Web" and a year-and-a-half in the planning — appears to have dealt a major blow to the aircraft Moscow uses to launch long-range missile attacks on Ukraine's cities. "The SBU first transported FPV drones to Russia, and later on the territory of the Russian Federation, the drones were hidden under the roofs of mobile wooden cabins, already placed on trucks," the source said.
  6. This was a really interesting encounter. The Pakistanis claimed to have shot down several Indian (western made) jets using very long range "kill chains" where a jet fires a long range missile and then other platforms pick it up and guide it to target way down range. Apparently the Indian pilots never saw what was coming. These were Chinese made weapon systems. No dog fighting at all. The Indians for their part claim to have hit many targets in Pakistan and to have shot down ALL incoming drones and missiles coming the other way.
  7. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/comment/2025/05/20/republican-party-torn-apart-by-trumps-new-tax-bill/ Class conflict has erupted in Trump’s America – within his own Republican Party. The party controls both houses of Congress, as well as the presidency. But their struggle to agree upon tax legislation shows that Republicans in Washington are challenged by the clashing interests of their traditional wealthy constituents and their new working-class base. For decades, the Democratic Party, once the party of labour and farmers, has been losing white working-class and white rural voters to the Republicans. In the last decade and a half, working-class whites have been joined by growing numbers of Hispanic and black voters in the exodus to the GOP. Meanwhile, college-educated professionals and high-income voters – once the core of the Republican coalition – have migrated in the opposite direction to the Democratic Party. The results of this realignment were dramatically evident in the election of 2024. Kamala Harris won voters from households earning more than $100,000 a year – roughly the top third of the population – along with low-income voters making less than $30,000 a year. At the same time, Trump enjoyed a 20 percentage point improvement in support among voters from households earning between $50,000 and $100,000 a year. This long-term class realignment of the parties has caused a crisis for the winners, the Republicans, as well as the losers, the Democrats. Affluent, college-educated “country club” Republicans, no longer dominant, are forced to share the party with working-class, less-educated “country music” Republicans. The tensions between the country club and country music wings of the party have erupted in debates over the tax bill that Congressional leaders and President Trump seek to pass by Memorial Day, May 26. State and Local Tax deduction One source of tension involves the State and Local Tax (Salt) deduction in the federal tax code, which allows taxpayers to deduct state and local taxes like property taxes and sales taxes from their federal income tax liability. The Salt deduction has indirectly subsidised the richest households who reside in places with the highest state and local taxes, like the New York and San Francisco metropolitan areas. The Joint Committee on Taxation in 2014 found that only 1 per cent of households earning less than $50,000 benefited from the Salt deduction, while 88 per cent of the benefit went to households with income above $100,000. And for decades there was no cap to the deduction that the rich could claim. This changed in 2017, when the Republican Congress in the first Trump administration capped the Salt deduction at $10,000 per household in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) of 2017. That Republicans, not Democrats, imposed the cap was shocking proof of how much the party had changed since the Reagan era. Members of the country music wing of the party asked: why should taxpayers in lower-income, less-educated states like Missouri and Montana subsidise millionaires and billionaires in high-tax, big-government coastal states like New York and California? The fate of the Salt cap in the Republican tax bill has provoked furious controversy. The dwindling number of Republicans from Northeastern and West Coast “silk stocking” districts have insisted that the cap must be raised to benefit their constituents. One of the most vocal is Representative Nick LaLota. He represents Suffolk County, New York, the fourth wealthiest county in New York State. Nationwide, however, few benefit from the Salt deduction – only 9.5 per cent of taxpayers claimed it in 2022. Medicaid Another flashpoint of conflict between the country club and country music factions of the Republican Party involves Medicaid, the joint federal-state programme of health insurance for low-income Americans. Back in the Reagan era, calls to cut spending on Medicaid and other social insurance and welfare programmes, whose recipients mostly voted for Democrats, were uncontroversial in a Republican party dominated by upscale voters angry at their tax bills. But many of the Republican Party’s new working-class and rural voters depend on Medicaid and other programmes like food stamps. This explains why some populist Republicans like Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri oppose cuts in Medicaid. In addition, some Republicans fear that Democrats will claim that they cut spending on working-class and poor Americans to reduce taxes on the rich. To immunise themselves from Democratic attack ads, Republicans in Congress have included measures that benefit ordinary Americans and retirees in the bill, including an increase in the standard deduction for all taxpayers, an increase in the child tax credit to $2,500 until 2028, when it would revert to $2,000, a new $4,000 deduction for Americans over 65 (instead of the elimination of taxation on Social Security that Trump favoured), and the elimination of taxes on tips, one of Trump’s campaign promises, but only until 2028. Having criticised President Biden’s policies of forgiving student loan debts of some college graduates as elitist, Congressional Republicans would allow car owners of all classes to deduct up to $10,000 in interest on car loans. Slowly but surely, then, the Republican Party is responding to its newly-important working-class voters by letting them share – if only a little – in the tax-cut largesse given to its traditional affluent supporters.
  8. Got anything along the lines of "And Indian and a Pakistani walk into a bar"?
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