Duffy emphatically denied that the FAA’s recent nationwide rollout of an $875 million artificial intelligence system called Strategic Management of Airspace, Routes, and Trajectories (SMART) had anything to do with Friday’s disruption, claiming that the system “is not even plugged in.”

Lol…

The FAA said earlier this week that it “will now use SMART in the airspace of all 22 [air traffic control] centers across the country to reduce delays, reduce fuel consumption, and improve the travel experience for the flying public.”

The Speaker picks committee spots/leadership and decides what comes to a vote.

Both are too important to trust Jeffries with

To be fair…

So does the Senate.

It’s by definition undemocratic.

The alleged Chinese spy, Alice Huang, was an executive of Nvidia customer Megaspeed, a Singapore-based company that U.S. officials suspect of helping route advanced Nvidia chips into China. The Democratic inquiry comes from Rep. Richard Neal (D-Mass.), the top Democrat on the House Ways and Means Committee, and Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), the top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee. As the minority party, they can ask questions but can’t compel answers.

In two months they can make him answer, for now they can just ask and write the letter…

Like, what would you rather they do, that they can actually do?

Not even sure why the main thing they’re complaining about is the “dirty tricks”,

The article you posted explains it:

Furious Democrats accused Republicans of playing “dirty pool.” They said Republicans pulled Rep. Mark Takano (D-Calif.), the ranking member of the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee, away from the podium, where he was leading the Democratic side of the debate, in order to discuss changes to the bill. It was during that parley — while Takano was away from his microphone — that McDowell fast-tracked the proposal, they said.

“After publicly announcing a recorded vote on the TCAVA legislation, House Republicans asked if RM Takano and Democrats would agree to last minute engrossment corrections,” a Democratic leadership aide said.

“While members and staff were evaluating these changes away from the podium, House Republicans called the vote up and passed it by voice within seconds — depriving Democrats of the ability to even evaluate the proposed changes and ask for a recorded vote so Members could vote against the biggest cut to veterans benefits in US history,” the aide added.

“On Veterans Day of all days, using dirty tricks to steal from Veterans is a disgrace.”

Maybe some of you don’t realize this, but while I don’t like the Dem party, this is clearly news bait to drive a wedge in the left.

I want to hope that all the accounts “falling for it” aren’t actually that dense, but the only argument for that is they’re constantly shitting on the only other option to facial and never trying to approve it.

And well, thats just as easily an argument for them legitimately not understanding any of this too

Jeffries didn’t even whip the vote. He told people to ‘vote their conscience,’ and 11 members of his caucus didn’t show up,” writer Laura Bassett wrote on social media. “This is why people want a stronger leader.”

Jeffries is a piece of shit and shouldn’t be anywhere near any leadership position…

But whipping votes is the job of the second in line…

A job with the literal title “minority whip”…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Clark

We can’t just focus on two popular names, we need to flush all the neoliberals out of leadership.

All that being said, votes just happen whenever with no warning. It’s way past time that these votes need to be scheduled in advance. Instead of “vote starts now” at least “vote starts in 24 hour, exactly at ____ o’clock”

Once the main vote happens, there can be exceptions for follow ups, like “next vote in one hour”

The current way shit is done is fucking stupid

USA comes second after Israel and Epstein class.

What?

Like, you know North Korea exists, right?

There’s a bunch of countries worse

This doesn’t exactly make sense…

Did they let people who are almost out office vote? Did the few incoming Republicans get to vote?

It’s just weird to be doing it now.

No one does false flags, they instigate and allow a response to land.

Israel tried it and Iran didn’t bite.

trump launched attacks on election day and Iran didn’t bite.

And Trump won’t try to instigate to save hegsforth, because it hurts trump now.

Because Republicans controlled Congress and the Oval and let him…

That’s why he’s being impeached, it’s not that he did horrible shit, he did it without approval.

There’s just as much grounds to impeach the president and House/Senate majority leadership for letting him do it.

Your could have this much power over the military as long as everyone with authority just lets you and says people have to do what you say.

Unions are like anything else democratic…

When people feel like they don’t need to pay attention to leadership elections, shitty people get elected to leadership.

At least the Machiniests seem to know what’s up.

But don’t forget how many endorse Republicans and neoliberals to the determent of their members.

Fucking arrest them when they fuck around in your state…

We literally fought a civil war over federal agents raiding states with laws they don’t agree with.

People simplify it as “slavery”, but it’s worse. The Southern States wanted federal agents to literally do slave raids in Northern states, calling every Black American in free states stolen property to be auctioned off in the South.

Lincoln was explicitly fine with Southern slavery, just read his inauguration speech, it’s 99% about how he’s cool with slave states…

The line was he wouldn’t enslave everyone in the North against the wishes and laws of that state. That was why the South started a civil war, the fact that they couldn’t force states to do what they wanted.

Eventually outlawing slavery federally, was an economic sanction more than anything else. Back to Lincoln’s inaugural speech, when he was elected he didn’t even think the Fed should be strong enough to do that even if it wanted.

Shits always more complicated than what we learned in 6th grade history class.

Maisse isn’t in the next congress, that’s why he’s doing it now.

But yeah, if it doesn’t pass now it almost certainly will in two months.

Some early voting ‘dumps’ were so large that it was impossible to win, no matter how many people went to vote

What he means is that in some races, Republicans would have lost if every single Dem voter had stayed home on election day…

Because so many Dem voters couldn’t wait and voted early.

Top priority should be removing the cap on deductions so it’s funded.

Then once the wealthy are paying into it, increase payments.

I didn’t watch this, but saw someone (one of the night show hosts) bring up how conservative podcasters kept bringing up that post made by an anonymous twitter account with an anime profile pic…

People laughed at how ridiculous it was, and the only reason anyone saw it, was Republicans bitching about it.

Actually it might have been that podcast that Cody Johnson from oldschool Cracked that I saw it.

Either way, the original tweet was something rightwingers latched onto immediately, it’s just a dumb twitter joke, literally what the right said was totally cool and Elon explicitly said was why he bought twitter, “to make comedy legal”

Lol…

The day they arrest the first journo trump will be impeached and convicted.

All those fucking sources are Republicans. And Dems only need like 5 Republican Senators to convict in the Senate. They’ll get rid of trump to save themselves from trump in a heartbeat

Maybe he’s doing it just to get JD on the big boy chair? That way he can try to start pivoting the party back to the middle before 2028.

If these petitions do anything

They don’t…

It makes people feel like they did something and makes them unlikely to do something that works. It’s basic psychology

number of proven signatures allows immigrants, non-Americans and youth below voting age

Just because you cant vote, doesn’t mean you’re representatives don’t represent you…

Do you think elementary kids writing letters to politicians can vote?

Man, that would have been hilarious, and likely killed off the UFC.

That guy’s a giant piece of shit