Both parties refuse to remove the limit because once one of them does, the other has no excuse not to. The GOP knows that they can basically get whatever they want in budget reconciliation (the one bill a year that ignores the filibuster) and the Dems know that if they actually start passing laws people will expect them to improve their material conditions. So it remains a useful fiction for both of them.
I mean, that’s a reasonable assumption in most cases, but with the way this legislation is written I don’t see how that’s possible. It changes the entire process for registering to vote, and you have to be registered in order to vote. This isn’t like bathroom bills where they’ll target people who “look trans”, this is an actual bureaucratic process that they’re rewriting. Stuff goes on file. There are records. There are whole departments of people involved in processing this stuff, not just one single guard at the gate who can wave you through.
Political capital isn’t just voter approval, it’s your ability to cut deals and draw together coalitions within your own party. Trump is burning a lot of goodwill among Republican reps and senators pushing this do or die approach to this bill.
That would be the smart play, yes (although I don’t believe, constitutionally, that they can actually prevent a new congress being seated… But that doesn’t change the fact that it’s politically valuable to have legislation fail so that you can invent a problem that you “tried” to fix). However Trump doesn’t seem to have gotten the memo. The thing about that gambit is that you have to look like you tried, but don’t actually, y’know, burn every bit of political capital you have trying to make it happen. Trump, on the other hand, is now saying he’s going to completely roadblack all legislation until this passes. He’s making it a do or die bill, a "If this is the only thing I pass in my entire term I’m fine with that’ piece of tentpole legislation, which is definitely not what you do when the point is to fail nobly.
That is the most bizarre thing about this legislation; dem voters are shown to be more likely to own passports, and are more likely to keep their original name when getting married. This will obviously fuck over poor voters the hardest, so maybe that’s the point, but it still seems ultimately self-defeating.
I think Trump is just throwing himself behind anything that vaguely sounds good for him because he’s panicking.
And for the “Trump is going to rig the midterms, we’re all screwed” crowd, yes, he’ll try, but if he was confident he was going to succeed he wouldn’t be acting so desperate right now, would he?
The greatest military power in the world can’t handle the fight they chose to start.
Excellent addition, thank you.
Yeah, Hitler understood that you needed the bread as well as the circuses.
That said, the degree to which he improved material conditions in Germany is overplayed in popular media. While the Nazis did push programs like the VW Beetle and cheap holiday packages, their relentless push to rearmament came at a serious cost to Germany’s ability to produce or import consumer goods, and the average German frequently struggled with empty shelves in the supermarkets.
“Heartwarming! One twin wants to feed all trans people into a giant meat grinder, other wants to raise minimum wage by $0.25, but they still get along despite their differences!”
This is about self-preservation. Now that the US government has decided that “Supply chain risk” means “Didn’t bend over and take it like a good boy”, everyone has a gun to their head.
My brother in Christ, the Nazis studied America to learn how to be more racist. This isn’t new.
Fun fact, in Canada our total exports have actually been going up, including our total exports to the US. But as a preventage of our exports, exports to the US have shrunk because our exports to the rest of the world have grown faster.
We should send Trump a gift basket.
No one knows. This entire thing is a temper tantrum.
He’s apparently applying these tariffs under a different law than the one they used previously, which does explicitly allow the president to apply temporary (150 days) tariffs of up to 15%. So you would assume this is meant to replace the tariffs the SC struck down.
But he’s also stated that the previous tariffs are going to stay in effect, just under a different legal theory. So in his mind, it’s possible that he thinks this 15% is on top of the existing amounts, and he’s literally just tariffing the whole world harder because he’s mad about a decision by his judiciary.
Then again, maybe he’s just a dementia-ridden old idiot who can’t keep his own bullshit straight for more than 30 seconds.
That’s not exactly what’s happening here. He hasn’t refused to follow the supreme court ruling. Instead he’s claiming that other laws grant him the authority to impose tariffs.
In some respects he’s right. There is a law that very explicitly grants the president the authority to impose tariffs, but only up to 15%, and only for 150 days. It’s this law that he’ll be using to impose this new 10% global tariff.
He’ll likely also be trying to find any kind of legal wiggle room to maintain the existing tariffs, but I doubt he’ll get very far with that. At best he might be able to impose a bunch of sector specific tariffs.
Edit to add: I’ll note for the sake of completeness that Trump has claimed that the existing tariffs will remain in place. But again, his claim is not that the court has no authority over him, just that there are other legal mechanisms that still give him that power. I suspect that this is just Trump mouthing off. But either way, he’s being very careful not to actually defy the court’s authority here, and that’s a distinction that matters.
Unfortunately, yes. I’d rather them not have a majority, gives the NDP a lot of room to manuever. But Pollievre kinda fucked that one.
“No closer” feels like a stretch. If I’m reading that right there are four seats in play, three of which are safe Liberal ridings. And given the continued collapse of the cons, they’ve got strong odds on the fourth.
Barring an upset, they’ve got it.
Graham said the United States’s longstanding European allies should stop worrying about Trump seizing Denmark’s sovereign territory, arguing Trump has achieved the assurances he needs to build up a major U.S. military presence on the vast island.
“If you’re nervous, have a beer, go see a doctor. Stop being nervous,” he quipped. “The point is everybody loves NATO. I love it more because people are doing more,” he said, referring to increased defense spending by NATO’s European members.
Tell you what bud, drag Trump, Miller, Hegseth, Noem, Kennedy and Bondi onto a stage in handcuffs and give each one a bullet in the head, televised to the world.
And then reload the gun and eat it.
Then I’ll crack a beer.
For completely unrelated reasons these presidential rankings have been cancelled forever.
I would assume probably not, but I don’t live in the US so I couldn’t tell you for sure.
Lemmy.ml: “Waah, protests don’t do anything, wake me when there’s a general strike.”
No Kings: “We’re doing a general strike.”
Lemmy.ml: “Oh, fuck, shit, I didn’t… Um… WELL SCREW YOU, YOU’RE PROBABLY GOING TO DO IT WRONG ANYWAY.”