Is this really the rallying cry the Repubs want to coalesce around?

[Lesh]

It’s free.

Nothing’s free

 

[BlindBoo]

I'm just waiting for the moment when Republicans realize they cannot allow him to continue to be President.

Politically speaking, hopefully, all the rats will drown with the ship when "Captain Ahab" goes down.

 

[Dragonlady]

Was the Dinner (Usually a Roast) a state event? It's another deflection. The lack of a Royal Ballroom doesn't correspond with the apparent lack of security at that hotel. The blame, if there is any, after all they stopped the freak, is on the security detail for the POTUS.

The hotel is a public building where anyone can come in and register and be a guest. Anytime the president leaves the White House and goes to a public event, he is going to an “insecure building”.

There was no lack of security at that hotel. The attacker never even made it to the same floor, where the dinner is being held. The system worked.

 

[BlindBoo]

The hotel is a public building where anyone can come in and register and be a guest. Anytime the president leaves the White House and goes to a public event, he is going to an “insecure building”.

There was no lack of security at that hotel. The attacker never even made it to the same floor, where the dinner is being held. The system worked.

I can accept that.

 

[Nostra]

It's not just Congress. The whole of the Rabid Right Wing Propaganda Machine took off within minutes, parroting the talking point, obviously wasting no time making the most hay out of the near tragedy. Like they always do. Marching their TP's in lockstep across all platforms that they can to force feed all their flock the same false narrative.

Raygun was gunned down outside that same Hotel. In response Congress passed some sensible gun legislation, they never tried to immediately to pivot and tie their policy objectives to the tragic event.

“Never let a crisis go to waste”-Dimtard Hack.

 

[Nostra]

Nothing is "free". Those who paid it for it expect a return on investment.


.

Prove it.

 

[Nostra]

Nothing’s free

Nope. It’s free.

 

[Nostra]

The hotel is a public building where anyone can come in and register and be a guest. Anytime the president leaves the White House and goes to a public event, he is going to an “insecure building”.

There was no lack of security at that hotel. The attacker never even made it to the same floor, where the dinner is being held. The system worked.

What if he had a bomb strapped to him instead of a shotgun, stupid?

 

[berg80]

The hotel is a public building where anyone can come in and register and be a guest. Anytime the president leaves the White House and goes to a public event, he is going to an “insecure building”.

There was no lack of security at that hotel. The attacker never even made it to the same floor, where the dinner is being held. The system worked.

I think that's the correct assessment. The SS did a credible job under difficult circumstances. Especially considering the elevated threat of politically motivated violence trump has helped create.

 

[pknopp]

I'll remember to do tell him you said hi in the next meeting. Deflection attempt noted and discarded.

What deflection? He isn't attempting to get the taxpayers to pay for what Trump claimed would be privately funded?

 

[BlindBoo]

“Never let a crisis go to waste”-Dimtard Hack.

In reference to political unity and forming consensus for needed reforms and changes. Not "Always use a tragedy to attack and divide" Epstein Class Propagandist.

 

[Papageorgio]

Americans are rightly upset about the cost of living, the price at the pump, the Iran war. I don't think they believe the prez deserves an in kind, taxpayer funded reward for dealing with an aspect of his job, security, that unfortunately comes with the territory. Tone deafness on the part of R's rarely gets so striking. I don't know how they missed it.

Congressional Republicans rally around Trump’s White House ballroom project​

Congressional Republicans rally around Trump's White House ballroom project

A group of Senate Republicans is proposing a bill to authorize $400 million in federal funds for the construction of a White House ballroom.

www.cnbc.com

It is especially galling at this moment when King Charles is on a State visit. There are many trappings of the presidency that are austere, that were designed by the Founders and born of our 200+ year history that are a visual, physical, intentional contradiction to European monarchies. We don't have aristocrats who spend their time partying in gilded ballrooms and never have. The WH is not a resort, it's a place of governance. The very idea the ballroom has to exist is an anathema to the image we have of this country. Of all the problems we face as a nation getting a ballroom built is about the least important one I can imagine. Yet it occupies far too much of the prez's attention when we are involved in an economically destructive war.

That’s not an issue for me, I worry about inflation, jobs, food, shelter, work, money, health, my family. I don’t care about a ballroom at the WH, maybe if there was a bigger place to entertain at the WH, we wouldn’t be using hotels for dinners, but in a grand scheme, I really don’t care, even if it is taxpayer money, a few million?

If that is a big issue, then, I would think you have way too much time on your hands or a mental patient.

 

[hadit]

Apparently not.

Obviously so. IOW, some people can both handle prosecuting a war AND building an addition to the White House at the same time. We see your kind of thinking whenever a president attempts to do something his haters don't like, ie, existing.

You realize issuing a record number of proclamations and EO's isn't democratic governance as much as it is autocracy, right?

Irrelevant.

 

[hadit]

What deflection? He isn't attempting to get the taxpayers to pay for what Trump claimed would be privately funded?

Oh, he certainly is, and the only reason I can think for them to do so is to be able to claim credit for it.

 

[hadit]

I think that's the correct assessment. The SS did a credible job under difficult circumstances. Especially considering the elevated threat of politically motivated violence trump has helped create.

And those "difficult circumstances" would be reduced by having our own permanent, fully secured structure. Good point you have there.

 

[Meathead]

It is especially galling at this moment when King Charles is on a State visit. There are many trappings of the presidency that are austere, that were designed by the Founders and born of our 200+ year history that are a visual, physical, intentional contradiction to European monarchies. We don't have aristocrats who spend their time partying in gilded ballrooms and never have. The WH is not a resort, it's a place of governance. The very idea the ballroom has to exist is an anathema to the image we have of this country. Of all the problems we face as a nation getting a ballroom built is about the least important one I can imagine. Yet it occupies far too much of the prez's attention when we are involved in a economically destructive war.

What a bizarre post!

 

[pknopp]

And those "difficult circumstances" would be reduced by having our own permanent, fully secured structure. Good point you have there.

The issue this weekend was at a private event that wouldnt be held at the White House.

 

[Dragonlady]

Politically speaking, hopefully, all the rats will drown with the ship when "Captain Ahab" goes down.

The billionaire owned right wing media has spent the last 45 years telling the American people that tax cuts for the rich are good and meaningful economic policy and that raising wages for working people is destroying American.

Now they're busy telling American men that feminism, DEI and immigrants are the reason why they have nothing. It's not tax cuts for the wealthy that are bankrupting America, the WOMEN are the reason why white American men are struggling.

Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, the PayPal billionaires, Elon Musk, and Donald Trump are the leaders of this "women are the problem" movement. Right wing religion is telling women they must be "subserviant" to men.

This is the garbage MAGA is promoting. These guys are the worst of the worst.

I think that's the correct assessment. The SS did a credible job under difficult circumstances. Especially considering the elevated threat of politically motivated violence trump has helped create.

 

[Dragonlady]

Americans are rightly upset about the cost of living, the price at the pump, the Iran war. I don't think they believe the prez deserves an in kind, taxpayer funded reward for dealing with an aspect of his job, security, that unfortunately comes with the territory. Tone deafness on the part of R's rarely gets so striking. I don't know how they missed it.

Congressional Republicans rally around Trump’s White House ballroom project​

Congressional Republicans rally around Trump's White House ballroom project

A group of Senate Republicans is proposing a bill to authorize $400 million in federal funds for the construction of a White House ballroom.

www.cnbc.com

It is especially galling at this moment when King Charles is on a State visit. There are many trappings of the presidency that are austere, that were designed by the Founders and born of our 200+ year history that are a visual, physical, intentional contradiction to European monarchies. We don't have aristocrats who spend their time partying in gilded ballrooms and never have. The WH is not a resort, it's a place of governance. The very idea the ballroom has to exist is an anathema to the image we have of this country. Of all the problems we face as a nation getting a ballroom built is about the least important one I can imagine. Yet it occupies far too much of the prez's attention when we are involved in a economically destructive war.

What is being lost in all of this discussion of a "ballroom" is not a venue for entraining at all, it's the "secure bunker" and command centre to be built underneath the ballroom that should be concerning Americans.

Why does the President need a nuclear bomb proof bunker under the White House? Who exactly is he afraid is going to attack the White House??? And why is he afraid of this happening?

 

[kyzr]

It was supposed to be paid for by donations ( the donors of course looking for favors).
Now the taxpayer is gonna foot the bill
Remember how Mexico was gonna pay for the Wall?
Yeah, All bullshit

Not BULLSH!T, a New Remittance Tax pays back taxpayers for the wall.

The Remittances Tax: High Paperwork, Low Payoff

The House "One Big Beautiful Bill" includes a new 3.5 percent tax on remittances, or non-commercial transfers of money that people in the US send to people abroad.

taxfoundation.org

• The House‘s One Big Beautiful Bill Act includes a new 3.5 percent tax on remittances, or non-commercial transfers of money that people in the US send to people abroad.
• The tax will impose extra ID-verification and reporting hurdles on American citizens and financial institutions, not just the intended tax base of remittance senders without citizenship. The process for recouping erroneously collected tax will be cumbersome.
• The tax will be hard to enforce. Cash hand-offs, cryptocurrency wallets, and informal value-transfer networks sit outside the statutory net, so the rule will divert flows to opaque channels rather than capture meaningful revenue.