All of this, but also I hate hate hate how the media implicitly equates being a moderate/centrist with being good
Being willing to compromise is one thing but making compromise your whole ideology is really just telling your constituents “If you believe what I campaigned on when I asked for your vote you’re a sucker, the only thing I really believe in is being on the winning side of every fight”
“If you don’t want another strongly worded letter about this you better shape up mister! … Anyway, please find out check for hundreds of billions of dollars enclosed.”
Could it be because their constituents will fuck them up if their healthcare premiums skyrocket?
Doubtful, since open enrollment already closed and this bill is DOA in the Senate if it manages to make it out of the House anyway. They’re just taking the opportunity the Dems who voted to reopen the government handed them to pretend to care about this issue without actually doing anything about it that might threaten their donors’ taxbreaks.
I give it 90 seconds after that moment until their searching for the old reference lands them on some new and better reference they’d rather use instead
The legislation failed by a vote of 51-48, with Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, Josh Hawley, R-Mo., and Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, both Alaska Republicans, joining Democrats to support it.
Honestly at this point I wouldn’t be surprised if the DNC spends money on ads thanking her for this
calling on the incumbents up for reelection next year to support a Democratic bill to extend health care subsidies.
Ugh, Democratic party managers are so fucking bad at their jobs, the Republicans are just going to count their votes so their people up for reelection can make a show of supporting this while the rest of them guarantee it still fails
and the best the US media can do is speculate that maybe the deranged toddler-in-chief might maybe not support him quite as much as he used to because maybe a few of the brazenly traitorous Republican scumbags in Congress might actually take issue with him
While also doing some drive by racism on Native Americans with a stupidly written racist ass headline
“So you say you’re tired of the weakness and degeneracy of society and want to tear down a government that you think coddles the weak and doesn’t allow the master race to subjugate everyone else under their hierarchy? Well, I don’t think I need to take a political science course to know an anarchist when I hear one!” - cops (actually)
“Well, if a duly sworn law enforcement officer says so it must be true.” - journalists (actually)
The US has been using this kind of logic since Sept 12 2001 (arc)
SACHA PFEIFFER, HOST:
After the attacks on September 11, 2001, the George W. Bush administration arrested hundreds of suspected terrorists. Most of them were never criminally charged and eventually let go. Some spent years in inhumane conditions, even though they had no connection to the Taliban or al-Qaida. In 2002, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld visited Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where many of those prisoners were being held, and described them using this term.
(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)
DONALD RUMSFELD: And one of the most important aspects of the Geneva Convention is the distinction between lawful combatants and unlawful combatants.
PFEIFFER: By labeling them unlawful combatants, the U.S. said it was justified in holding them indefinitely without trial and denying them international legal protections. The Trump administration is now applying the same term to people on board boats it’s blowing up because it says they’re transporting drugs from South America. The language here matters. It underpins the legal arguments presidents make to justify their actions. Here’s current Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth referring to the cartels that ship drugs from the southern hemisphere to the United States.
(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)
PETE HEGSETH: So our message to these foreign terrorist organizations is we will treat you like we have treated al-Qaida.
A lot more good information and history in that article, but the important point is that because they’re not soldiers (i.e. lawful combatants), they don’t get Geneva Convention protection, but because they’re not criminals either they don’t get due process protection either. It’s a completely blatant and stupid way to just ditch all the humanitarian guardrails around government violence we spent the 20th century building, it was fucked 20 years ago and it’s fucked today but we never held the people doing it accountable so here we are.
He’s also a piece of shit on immigration issues, the country would definitely be a better place if he got primaried
Maybe our country shouldn’t send those occupying forces next time then, but we did this time, and now the only decent thing for us to do is stand by the people our scumbag leaders put on the front lines of their foreign policy choices
I hope it does, a big part of how we ended up here was because dipshits in the Obama administration refused to go after W’s people who committed crimes because they didn’t think it would poll well
There have been tons of massive protests, the average American doesn’t support this crap and they’re doing what they can
The question should be the fuck is wrong with America’s police officers, service members, judges, and lawmakers and other elected officials
I think it’s also because the minority of people who still identify as Republicans care more about people they don’t like being hurt than their own material well being
The problem with the party leadership route is that party insiders are the only ones who get to vote on it, and when that’s the electorate she can’t even beat Gerry Nadler. If she can run in a race with real people voting on it I think she could beat anyone.
That for profit company would appreciate people doing their advertising work for them for free I’m sure
Has it actually been reported anywhere that the sandwich in question came from this restaurant chain?
Didn’t stay in office tho
Yeah, but will any of the police officers involved in this disgrace lose anything? Or is it just going to be taxpayers signing a settlement check again?