Unconvicted Felon

This is one reason why he IS so despondent:
“Buzz Kill: The Trump Conviction Presents A Target-Rich Environment For Appeal”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/buzz-kill-trump-conviction-presents-target-rich-environment-appeal

“…We Need New Conspiracy Theories, Because All Our Old Ones Have Become Reality”—
https://justthenews.com/podcasts/bauer-and-rose-podcast/bauer-and-rose-we-need-new-conspiracy-theories-because-all-our-old

There are a few things a bit more important than appropriations IMO.

What? New York real estate developer? Really?

How about this:
Unlike the donkey party Trump didn’t show up in DC with an army of camp followers ready to fill government and do his bidding. He had to turn to the GOP fill his government and implement the policies those lying shitbags ran on and instead they stabbed him in the back, front, side, top and bottom.

@NC: ” But it’s really all about appropriations. That’s where the revealed preferences are.” +100!! Which is why so much attention focused on the presidential race is misplaced. We hear all too little about those “critical” senate and house races, in our own or other states, where contributions from conservative outsiders might help tip the scales. Or investigations about the amount and sources/goals of their larger donors. The Federalist, Fox, NRO, etc. should be headlining these campaigns – whose ahead, why, what they still need, etc. It is most unlikely that the local news organizations or media will be doing that favorably for the Republicans.

Felonious Trump

(Jazzman Thelonious Monk 1917-1982)

Can’t speak for Banned Lizard, but I can speak for me. The Dems seem to get a lot done when THEY have infinitesimal majorities (such as pass Obamacare). Johnson can stop cutting spending deals with the Dems, but won’t. If the House doesn’t pass a bill there’s no bill at all, and they can do that veto with the majority they have, they do not need to compromise to stop them dead in their tracks.

They have the power to block everything, but they want to see their cronies paid, so they won’t use their power to stop the Dems. They’ll keep giving the Dems 1/2 or 3/4 of what they want, including funding for NGOs that help the Dems in this very election, in order to keep the trough full. Meanwhile, to feed the narrative that they are doing anything else, they’ll give speeches full of concern and maybe have some more hearings. A lot of people who follow politics have the impression that hearings and speeches are “doing something”.

But it’s really all about appropriations. That’s where the revealed preferences are, at least as of Wednesday May 23.

Johnson and his leadership team officially announced during a GOP conference meeting Wednesday an ambitious timeline to pass as many of the 12 government spending measures for fiscal year 2025 — otherwise known as appropriations bills — as possible in the coming months. He wants to do so before lawmakers spend August campaigning in their districts, according to multiple people in attendance who, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss off-the-record meetings.
…More pragmatic conservatives prefer to finish the appropriations process ahead of the new year, hoping to move ahead on consequential legislative deadlines — like addressing the debt ceiling — that loom in 2025. Those members also warn that the speaker should not entertain the agenda of a handful of hard-liners who have moved goal posts and ultimately oppose whatever Republicans put forth.
“I think people understand we need to build back the muscle memory of actually doing our appropriations work. I think that means we need to come as close as possible to passing total appropriations bills out here before we leave for August,” said Rep. Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.), who chairs the pragmatic Main Street Caucus.
So far, House Appropriations Chairman Tom Cole (R-Okla.) has released top lines for each funding bill that largely mirror parameters set by then-Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and President Biden last May, which the House Freedom Caucus has revolted against.

South Park nailed Disney. Disney is too dumb to survive this Wonderful World of Woke. I recall the 1960s Disney Wonderful World of Color (although we only had a black and white TV fed by an antenna strapped to the chimney).

The past is a different place.