cutting off the President’s authority mid-campaign would send the wrong message
Hey Fetterman, the message we want to send is “Don’t fucking start wars in random non-aggressive countries on behalf of Israel”. That’s absolutely the right message which should be sent right at this moment you asshole.
Ah yes, refusing to release documents you are required to by law. Nothing fishy there.
It’s pretty rare that anyone does that. The only cases I’m aware of is someone doing a protest.
Ima bet poison then burning the body.
Progressive dems have been cleaning up over the past year. Hopefully the DNC doesn’t plug it’s ears and ignore the obvious. There’s certainly a good number of corporate democrats trying to make this out to be a nothing.
I’ll be cynical, his job is to get elected. The way that has traditionally worked is by making constituents happy.
He is failing at that job because he’ll be primaried in his next election.
As minority leader, his job is to become majority leader. Again, traditionally, by making the nation happy with the party. He’s failing there because right now everyone (other than consultants) hates his fecklessness. Which is a major drag on the Democrat party.
Senators need to show some backbone and oust him as minority leader, he’s failing miserably. They are failing by playing nice with this loon.
I suspect we may be seeing more of this. Whether or not it adds up to anything, IDK. Trump is fucking up business with his dipshit moves like tariffs and attacking Powell.
No rich person in the US likes tariffs, they also don’t like economic instability and inflation. Trump putting in a crony that lowers the interest rates to -1% will cause severe problems in the economy.
Powell has by and large been pretty competent in his job. He was perhaps a bit slow on lowering interest rates but not in an indefensible manner.
When did the IDF start training our admirals?
Depends on if Roberts decides to retire or if Sotomayor dies. We’ll get another whack job if either of those things happens. Not saying Roberts isn’t a whack job, but he’s about the most moderate conservative on the court right now. (God help me, Barret is a close second).
No way he doesn’t get replace with someone like Aileen Cannon.
Alito or Thomas retiring will be a wash. Alito has said he’ll retire, so expect that to happen in the next 3 years. But honestly, I highly doubt there’s anyone as crooked as he is so it doesn’t really matter.
You can sue the federal government. Qualified immunity keeps these assholes from facing any consequences at all.
It’s remarkably cheap for a billionaire to do this shit. Bezos bought wapo for $250M
It’d frankly be dead cheap for a billionaire to setup and run a progressive newspaper and/or fund a hundred YouTube progressives and progressive politicians.
Heck, they could setup and operate a general union fund and support union campaigns and union relief funds. They could indefinitely support striking workforce. Doing that just once would completely change how companies interact with unions.
They don’t have the votes to pass a law, they do have the votes to stop laws from being passed. Further, the Republicans just killed a rule that allows 30 senators to block all bills by challenging executive decisions. The Republicans killed the rule to roll back a Biden admin decision to allow California stricter emission standards. Every challenge requires a mandatory 10h of debate. There are about 100 years worth of Trump admin decisions Dems can challenge to block the upcoming budget bill.
Will they do that? Probably not, because they rolled over on the CR when they could have easily filibustered it.
And yes, Schumer knows about this, he wrote an open letter warning Republicans not kill the rule.
This is what I hate about the Democrats. They’ll happily roll over, yet I guarantee you the Republicans will abuse the hell out of this rule if a Dem president gets into office.
Exactly.
The senate is particularly bad. Schumer is basically MIA and is effectively rolling over because thinks letting republicans get everything they want somehow looks good for him.
It’ll all be super PAC donations. Because that’s untracked and allows for unlimited donations.
Often, some of the dumbest people in the company. Unless the CEO literally founded the company, chances are really high that they are a know nothing nepotism hire. Their only skill was being born to a rich and well connected family.
I really wish people would stop idolizing business leaders as ideal government leaders.
The principles that make a good business are fundamentally different and often in conflict with good government leadership.
A business would say “oh that rural farming community? let’s ignore them. They’ll never make up more than a tiny fraction of our profits”.
A good government, on the other hand says “oh that rural farming community is the breadbasket for the population. Let’s keep them happy so the people in the cities can continue to eat cheap produce”.
And this doesn’t even touch the corruption aspect. A business leader won’t likely have the morals to properly regulate their own business.
And, to be clear, 2019 was under the trump admin. I can’t stress enough how crystal clear and dire someone’s case would have had to have been for Trump’s immigration judges to grant asylum. They were giving that out to basically nobody during his first term. Except for I guess this guy.
I need you to explain why you think it’s a better choice to give Trump the ability to indiscriminately terminate non-essential government employees than to have control of the budget.
AN EXECUTIVE ORDER IS NOT LEGALLY BINDING.
TRUMP SIGNING ONE DOESN’T MAGICALLY GRANT HIM LEGAL POWER TO INDISCRIMINATELY TERMINATE EMPLOYEES.
Your opinion that an EO is somehow more scary than a bill that grants the powers of the EO to the president is what’s entirely insane.
You aren’t concerned with facts as you’ve been corrected not just by me but multiple other people throughout this comment chain. You just want to believe schumer didn’t do something stupid.
FFS I’ve already covered this while talking about the bill. It had riders ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rider_(legislation) ) that gave the admin addition discretion over the budget. Those riders are not temporary.
And I already covered EOs if you bothered to read.
You are now purposely being obtuse because you don’t want to accept that schumer did something moronic.
He helped the republicans pass a bill that Trump wanted them to pass. End of story.
My suggestion for anyone voting in the US. Vote early in person if possible. If you are going to vote by mail, do it ASAP.
That’s the best way to get your ballot counted, which is the most important thing right now.
Oh, and check your registration, like today. And tomorrow. And like once a week.
The worst time to vote is election day. Avoid that at all costs.