yass queen
Biden could protest this nothing bill by refusing to sign it or veto it.
Worst case, he leaves a bit of extra paperwork for Trump.Edit: some context
President has 10 days to sign or veto. If 10 days pass, the bill will become a law if Congress is in session. The bill will die if it is in recess.
The real national bird is the boneless chicken.
Also, the buffalo
Tyson sends their regards
Was it not already?
Not technically no, we all apparently thought it was. Now it is official.
Not official yet. Got to wait for the system to do it’s thing and get the ol Joe handonhiscock on there to make it official.
Watch him veto it.
aaaaa fuck he should.
A message I can get behind “stop fucking around.”
turkey
Never had a national bird, according to this article. Thank God our infinitely wise and useful government got on that before they lost all their power to actually do anything meaningful or helpful. 🦅🇺🇸
Chicken nuggets
I found the reason on Wikipedia
“The bald eagle is an opportunistic feeder.”
It’s the bird the US leadership most identifies with.
Dee is my national bird.
What say you and I go toe to toe on bird law and see who comes out the victor?
i would, but my asshole is in a jar 50 miles away. are you willing to wait?
It’s not like if they didn’t pass this law they would have snuck in Medicare for all - I hate the “Is this a good use of your time” argument.
But it’s never a bad time to criticize how ineffective lawmakers are.
Anything other than this would’ve had an impact on people’s lives. They don’t need universal healthcare. They need something.
Your comment is a prime example of the nirvana fallacy.
this session has been a dud from the start.
a split congress isn’t gonna get much of anything worthwhile done, especially not this late in a session… and extra-especially-not with the ultra hyper-partisanship exhibited by the ‘modern’ republicant party since at least the 1990s.
want something done? something awesome and good? help get democrats and progressives 75%+ of each chamber of congress, plus 38+ state legislatures.
Republicans get large chunks of what they want without a majority like that in Congress on a regular basis. If they can do it so could Democrats. They choose not to. There’s no shortage of convenient scapegoats but there is a massive shortage of meaningful action.
My dude, they couldn’t even repeal Obamacare.
Dems get blasted for not doing enough. Republicans get praise for just stopping things, half of which weren’t happening anyway
Thanks, Republicans for another decade without letting the Dems take our guns. Fuck the Dems for not passing some very basic gun control legislation.
I feel like you’re missing the very clear context that Republicans are hyper partisan who refuse to cross the isle. Earlier this year they voted down their own border security bill because Biden gave it the greenlight.
I’m very aware of the context. For my entire life Democrats have spent more time talking about building coalitions with racists or pointing at their token centrist progress blocker than they have doing anything useful. Say what you like about Republicans but they get their horrible shit done when they have the chance and they don’t give a fuck about decorum or tradition and their voters love them for it.
I think you’re cool and a really good person.
Healthcare for
somenone, small American flags for others!But only if they’re made in China.
They don’t need universal healthcare.
Glad to see the needs of the people are being taken seriously as usual.
It’s not like if they didn’t pass this law they would have snuck in Medicare for all
I might have been at least somewhat mollified of “Natural Bird” meant “New environmental focus on protecting the species” rather than “National Meme”. Might as well make America’s national bird the Dodo, given the rate at which we’re decimating their ecology.
The bald eagle is well protected as a species. Federal charges for killing one. Course that may change under Trump.
They could get a vote on the record where Republicans voted against healthcare. We got this bird thing though, so that’s neat.
They could have tried to do anything actually beneficial for Americans instead though. Like, think about how many hours of work it took Klobuchar’s political peons just to draft the stupid thing. And, they we paid them to do it!! Get fucked Congress.
Actually the Senate passed this in July. It took until now for Congress to pass literally the easiest partisan bill probably because they were waiting to use it as their next shitty rider platform, or because they were too busy wasting time creating a new committee to investigate TikTok.
Investigating TikTok is money well spent, fuck the CCP.
TikTok is shady in how much info it collects and how tailored the feeds it shows people get.
It is not unique about either of those.
Facebook/Google/et. al. being on this coast instead of that coast doesn’t mean they shouldn’t have exactly the same scrutiny. Literally the only evidence offered that TikTok was in any way special was “we can’t tell you but there’s classified info that means we should ban it.” Which is less than encouraging that the ban is for anything other than because of ‘those dang kids’ being annoying.
TikTok
Is Run
By Dictatorship Military
It’s a weapon that wants to cause permanent irreversible harm to hundreds of millions of people, by design.
Agreed.
They’re also not materially different from Instagram or Youtube. Singling them out as “the problem” is short-sighted at best.
Both parties are very serious…
…About keeping this economy and system exactly as it is, as they bicker over social wedges that don’t meaningfully impact quarterly earnings expectations.
They’re both paid well by the same oligarchs to do so.
If you wanted to see them scrambling to pass real legislation to protect the government from an incoming administration, you should have elected a leftist. You’d see Democrat and Republican reps holding hands, having sit ins, and desperately chanting we will overcome if an incoming administration was promising to dismantle for profit healthcare, for example.
Don’t worry though, they’d never let that happen. They have all the tools they need to prevent such a disaster as they see it. Their bribes would dry up overnight if they lost control of the narrative and their plebs.
The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
Have you heard what they sound like? It isn’t what’s usually depicted in videos.
Many times it’s a hawk, similar to how most coyotes in film and TV make wolf howls. Which is crazy because coyotes chattering is much scarier.
They’re dead serious and doing what they were paid to do.
They weren’t paid to protect you, they weren’t paid to make your life easier, they weren’t paid to represent you at all.
All I can say is… I’m glad it’s not the next president who signs it into law.
Yea he would switch it to the Chicken Mcnugget
It would have been cooler if congress lowered the age to qualify for Medicare by one day.
they finally changing it from the turkey?
Doesn’t seem very fitting. Maybe pick one of those birds that eat eggs from other species, replaces with their own and then their babies destroy the other eggs.
Gonna be a lot more of this crap real soon
