All Hat No Cattle: Live coverage: House set for Friday vote to avert shutdown, without debt ceiling hike

Live coverage: House set for Friday vote to avert shutdown, without debt ceiling hike

House Republicans are searching for a way to avoid a government shutdown hours before the late Friday deadline, after their second funding proposal was defeated Thursday night.

Let's be real folks, Elon Musk wants a government shutdown because Vladimir Putin wants a government shutdown. - Liam Nissan

The World Is A Safer Place Without Trump

I think this should be kind of a big deal: @elonmusk tweeting at 1:03am, “Only the AfD can save Germany.”

The AfD is Germany’s neo-Nazi party. - Bill Kristol

Sounds As Though Speaker Johnson Will Be Toast

Steve Bannon gave Mike Johnson (R-LA) a vote of no confidence in front of a MAGA-friendly crowd as the House speaker grapples with a looming government shutdown.

CNN’s Dana Bash played a clip of Bannon telling a gathering in Arizona that Johnson doesn’t have “the right stuff” to push through a spending bill that will meet the approval of Donald Trump and Elon Musk.

Maybe it’s just me, but Republicans having two daddies seems kind of woke. - Alex Cole

Republican Shenanigans

President Musk's latest budget deal crashed and burned faster than a Tesla. - Jeff Tiedrich

What Will Happen To Luigi Mangione?
Luigi Mangione, the man accused of shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, appeared Thursday in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, where his lawyer questioned conflicting federal charges she described as “highly unusual.”

Good luck finding 12 jurors, and a couple of alternates, who haven’t been screwed over by a health insurance company.

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Rock The Voter News

If Fani Willis had a conflict of interest because a man might have paid for a meal, imagine how serious it would be if Supreme Court justices heard cases related to an election their wives had tried to overturn. - Andrea Junker

Hey Y'all, I Think This Is What's Called "Drunk With Power"

Tech billionaire Elon Musk on Thursday claimed he will fund moderate primary challenges to incumbent Democrats in heavy-blue districts around the country.

“Oh … forgot to mention that I’m also going to be funding moderate candidates in heavily Democrat districts, so that the country can get rid of those who don’t represent them, like this jackass,” Musk wrote on his social media platform X Thursday night.

Why is the Biden administration silent on the richest man in the world doing the bidding of Putin?

WHY IS HE STILL A FEDERAL GOVT CONTRACTOR??? - Adam Kinzinger

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Business/Tech News

Tesla issued its 7th recall this year.

Elon Musk can’t even make a reliable car but do go on about how he’s gonna make the government more efficient. - Art Candee