Mentally unstable and untrustworthy? That basically narrows it down to any Republican.

The Senate literally makes it’s own rules, and chooses how to organize itself. The rules are so convoluted that the Senate established its own office, the Parliamentarian, to advise on those rules. This is a non-partisan office that serves the Senate as a whole. They get no actual vote, but their decisions affects how work in the Senate progresses. (In particular, they are the ones who make decisions on these “reconciliation” bills that provide a way around the filibuster.

Trump can’t fire her, because she works for the Senate Leadership. The Majority Leader can fire her, but won’t (at least so far), because once the rules start breaking down, it’s impossible to get anything done in the Senate. Republicans could just dispense with the rules to give the majority more power, but they are terrified of what Democrats would do with that power if they ever gained the majority afterwards.

So, if we ever do get to the point that Republicans fire the Parliamentarian, or further restrict the filibuster, it will be because Republicans are counting on never having to give up control of the Senate again.

The parliamentarian simply advises the Majority Leader, all of their rulings only constrain the Senate because the Leader lets it happen. Trent Lott fired the Parliamentarian in 2001 because Lott was angry about his rulings (although Lott didn’t go as far as to ignore those rulings…)

This notion of corporate personhood is purely for our own convenience, so corporations can enter into contracts, have bank accounts, and so on. In no universe did the folks who wrote that “all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights” mean to include corporations on that. After all, corporations were not created by the same Creator as people, were they*?

I would be 100% in favor of an amendment that clearly spells out that the rights enumerated in the Constitution are limited to actual humans, and any corporation or other group of people are not entitled to any more inherent rights than the humans who make up the corporation are entitled to collectively. You don’t get more rights simply by paying a filing fee to Delaware!

This does not remove all of the privileges that we have granted corporations to make it easier to organize, but does mean that corporations have no inherent “right” to anything. Humans have those!

Edited to add: someone has proposed it already! https://www.movetoamend.org/amendment

* = Yes, this is Lemmy, so some snarky person will come along and say “of course they are! We made up both corporations and God!”. But, the founders were deists and believed in a Creator, so let’s try to look at it from their point of view, because that’s what our backwards Supreme Court does…

It would be a fitting end to his political career if he is fillibustering his own obituary.

For the love of all that is holy, I hope that headline is a metaphor.

Hah, you think those ICE officers give a shit about what experts say?

No,you don’t get it. The mere fact that he is talking about it now is a good indication that he’s already done all the analysis, and knows he can’t take any action. So, by coming out and saying he’s “examining” it, he continues to keep the issue in the news and gain popularity on it in spite of knowing the law is not on his side.

He has made the political determination, though, that even New York City, which by some estimations has over 1M Jewish people living in it, is fed up with Netanyahu. Which is pretty remarkable.

I guess Oregon just doesn’t get to vote, then? They’ve been mail-only for years

Those 2 independants caucus with Democrats and would vote for their candidate for Leader, so the current margin once Mitch departs is 52/47 (or, 2 1/2 seats).

The real problem for Fetterman “flipping” is after the election. While there’s every possibility the Democrats will snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, if they claw back a few Senate seats then the balance may end up 50/50 (or even 51D/49R). That’s when Republicans will put on a huge pre$$ure campaign to get someone to defect and promise them all sorts of shit to bail them out of election consequences.

I’m waiting for this Administration to argue that only US citizens are guaranteed “human rights”…

He seems to be obsessed with the purity of bodily fluids, just like Jack D. Ripper. Even looks a little like him.

I bet there are congressional staffers whose only job is to come up with clever, marketable acronyms for bills

In the weeks following a series of Democratic primary victories by progressive and democratic socialist candidates in New York, Colorado, Kentucky, Ohio, Texas, and elsewhere, Trump and his allies in the GOP have relentlessly hammered on the idea that the nation was under siege by “godless Communists” who want to “completely destroy the traditional American way of life,” rhetoric that echoed McCarthy era red-baiting to many critics.

These “Godless Communists” who are looking to “destroy the traditional American way of life” are doing it by winning elections. So, what Trump and Johnson are saying is that we should send the military after these office holders because he doesn’t like their politics.

Want your chance to win $100,000? Just pick the first six cities that will get obliterated in the upcoming nuclear war. We call it the “Big Bomb Parlay”…

Oil Futures are traded on the NY Mercantile Exchange, they trade 23 hours a day (but not on weekends). So any announcement make Friday evening won’t hit the futures market until it opens back up late Sunday.

Filibustering his own death is definitely fitting for him

We finally have something in common

(Obsessing over his death, that is…)

Maybe it was Japan calling as a prank

The spokesperson said the Trump administration is not involved with the company

Bullshit. These stations are in his pocket

https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/freedom-fuel-gas-station-linked-181004904.html

According to GasBuddy analyst Patrick De Haan, the “Freedom Fuel Network” was registered on June 23, 2026, to Corporation Trust Company, a registered agent that has previously been used by Trump-related entities.

It wouldn’t surprise me if he managed to cut his buddies a sweet deal for Venezuelan oil, and this is how they are repaying him