Texas is like a cat, convinced of its independence while being completely dependent. Anything we got gone is due to being part of the Union. We’d be Cuba 2.0 on our own at best.
Just a reminder that Vice was founded by Gavin McInnes, who also founded the Proud Boys and explicitly mentioned wanting to use Vice as a hipster-to-chud pipeline.
Sure! This is a very illuminating article about the zeitgeist in the early 00s, including an interview with McInnes with the quote where he notoriously said “I love being white.”
Dems need to nominate Liz Cheney for speaker. They could easily get 20 GOP votes (she was their former leader) but would only need 5 of their votes. She would still be Republican but she is also a loyal American.
The reasonable Republicans have always had the option of approaching the Democrats and making concessions in order to get a speaker elected on a bipartisan basis, they just haven’t.
Won’t work this go around. The speaker pro tempore wouldn’t let the vote get to the floor if they thought that might happen. It’s an all republican circus this time.
He literally has to schedule floor votes. It is his only job and the constitution requires that there must be a speaker. His only power is to decide when the next vote is scheduled. He cannot control how anyone votes.
Yes but he will not be scheduling a vote if he thinks that has any chance of happening. And you aren’t coordinating 217 people without him noticing. The constitution doesn’t say how often they have to vote and there aren’t exactly precedents requiring him to schedule a vote if he doesn’t want to.
Yes but he will not be scheduling a vote if he thinks that has any chance of happening
This assumption that one person could force the House to never have a speaker is a ridiculously nonsensical argument. It is literally an impossibility for there never to be a vote for speaker. There is a 0% chance of that happening. The constitution requires it. If there is too long of a delay than the members can and obviously would hold a vote without him. And the GOP would pay a huge price in the next election for attempting to bring the idiocy to a new level.
You’re right, it’s an impossibility for there never to be a vote for speaker. But the GOP is in the driver seat. They’ll either come to a consensus or there will not be a speaker until the next congress, which is in 14 months. They’ll probably come to a consensus because, you’re right, the electoral consequences are probably too great if they don’t. But there is virtually no chance that democrats and a handful of Republicans are going to get to decide the speaker this term.
or there will not be a speaker until the next congress, which is in 14 months.
That is not a possibility. That is a completely impossible scenario for a large variety of reasons.
But there is virtually no chance that democrats and a handful of Republicans are going to get to decide the speaker this term.
There is a very significant chance. Cross party coalitions are a very common thing in state legislatures. And even Republicans are getting totally fed up with the anti-American neofascists in their party.
Is it really that ridiculous? One man forced the Senate to never vote on a Supreme Court Justice, and they have the constitutional obligation to do that.
I bet they're going to subpoena her for a hearing the day-of or after the start of the Fulton trial just to delay the trial for Trump and then maybe he can cry unfair that his constitutional right to a speedy trial was violated.
It’s not over yet until the sheriff actually seizes assets and has the door locks changed.
Every hour between now and the 25th ratchets up the defendant’s willingness to do something desperate. Foreign money, selling any national secrets he managed to hide from the feds, promises of cabinet picks, it’s all on the table and our safety is what’s for sale.
We had a similar ramp up of anticipation for the Carroll case’s 93 million judgement too. His lawyers were in court bald faced lying to the judge about not having a bond and needing time/reduced bond amounts right up until the last moment. Then they filed the bond in the last hour.
Can he do it again? I don’t know. None of us truly do. He’s a lying con man, so nothing he says matters. Four days is a long time in politics and finance.
My biggest concern on the political/media side of things is that he does have the bond already. All of this thrashing is performative to get the media whipped into a frenzy of anticipation and then he drops the bond at the last moment. This makes him look stronger and the media who frothed over his imminent demise look blundering. Don’t walk into that trap.
The moment the sheriff locks up his properties I’ll celebrate like crazy. Until it’s really done, anything can happen and I wish the the DA, the courts, the political leadership, and media agencies stay sharp while the clock ticks down. Don’t get hit at the finish line.
Not that similar. Not similar in circumstances and, certainly, not similar in the amount which is nearly 5x as much. Getting a $93m bond is much easier than getting a $467m bond.
And all his whining and crying in the media makes him look anything but strong.
Look, I don’t blame you for being cautious in your optimism, but, even if comes up with the bond somehow, he’s losing the appeal for sure and the people of the state of New York will get their payout. And that’s all the more reason for nobody to put up the money unless they get all his assets in return.
When analysts at the Ludwig Institute for Shared Economic Prosperity, a nonprofit research center focused on lower- and middle-income families, measured what they call the “true rate of unemployment” in October, it was 23.6%, more than six times higher than the official number.
“What can I add that has not already been said?” Kelly said, when asked if he wanted to weigh in on his former boss in light of recent comments made by other former Trump officials. “A person that thinks those who defend their country in uniform, or are shot down or seriously wounded in combat, or spend years being tortured as POWs are all ‘suckers’ because ‘there is nothing in it for them.’ A person that did not want to be seen in the presence of military amputees because ‘it doesn’t look good for me.’ A person who demonstrated open contempt for a Gold Star family – for all Gold Star families – on TV during the 2016 campaign, and rants that our most precious heroes who gave their lives in America’s defense are ‘losers’ and wouldn’t visit their graves in France.
“A person who is not truthful regarding his position on the protection of unborn life, on women, on minorities, on evangelical Christians, on Jews, on working men and women,” Kelly continued. “A person that has no idea what America stands for and has no idea what America is all about. A person who cavalierly suggests that a selfless warrior who has served his country for 40 years in peacetime and war should lose his life for treason – in expectation that someone will take action. A person who admires autocrats and murderous dictators. A person that has nothing but contempt for our democratic institutions, our Constitution, and the rule of law.
“There is nothing more that can be said,” Kelly concluded. “God help us.”
All these fuckers should be held to the fire when they show up. They need to be asked,“Why? Why did you support this shit?” Hutchison, Kelly, Griffin, Barr, all of them should not get a fucking pass just because they have since come out questioning trump’s fitness.
We gotta stop thinking that everyone that doesn’t think exactly like us is our enemy. This guy probably did an untold amount of things to obfuscate what Cheeto knew during his presidency and what his actual options were. Remember that huge bomb in Afghanistan or the killing of Iran’s head of CIA? Or completely backstabbing our allies, the Kurds? Or when he met and then fell in love with Kim Jong Un?
When Cheeto was presented reprehensible options, he chose them.
Love how people are confusing salaries or yearly income to net worth.
Net worth is the total accumulated value of all the stuff you own (value of assets minus the liabilities) - houses, cars, investments, etc. That is massively different than what you are getting paid each year which is what a lot of people here are using as a metric.
It isn’t out of the question for someone to make “only” $100 or 200k/year and be considered a “millionaire” by most people’s definition. They might be older and have paid off their house. That house might be worth $500k and all the other stuff they own is a few hundred thousand more. Plus maybe $100k in some investment portfolio. Thus making them technically a millionaire. There are a lot more millionaires out there than people realize, including some people here or their parents or maybe grand parents.
That’s not to take away from the argument that billionaires have too much money, but at least phrase the movement correctly. Stop equating someone making $50k/year with someone’s who’s assets are worth $1B. That’s comparing apples to oranges and not just by the sheer difference in the numbers either.
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