The fact that extending 702 is a matter of bipartisan consensus when Trump isn’t president is part of the problem tho

The Democratic party’s refusal to stop red state governments’ voter suppression efforts or do much of anything else will tend to have that effect

West Virginia will have something to say about this when they wake up from the daily methadone nap

Idk, West Wing was a lot shittier than people remember

I think he’s gonna make better votes in Congress than Fetterman just because he’s been a lot more specific on policy commitments while campaigning than Fetterman ever was, but I also don’t see how you can have the military career he did and then later say “It is reasonable to ask people to trust me with political power” and actually be a fully reformed human being, so I bet we get a scandal where he’s caught in a racist groupchat with his security detail after he’s elected or something like that

Still, I’d rather have someone who says dumb shit but votes good than someone like Collins who does the exact opposite

Too? Bartender shouldn’t face criminal charges for exercising her self defense right.

The amendment — which was proposed during a vote-a-rama on Republicans’ reconciliation bill to fund immigration enforcement — needed 60 votes to overcome a point-of-order objection.

It failed by a vote of 52-47.

Only reason the GOPers voted for this was because they knew it would fail, but of course they get sole credit in the headlines anyway

Your beef isn’t with the headline writer who’s describing the situation accurately, it’s with the Republicans running an ass backwards government where the President apparently gets to spend whatever money he wants on whatever he wants to spend it on unless Congress can find the votes to tell him no

“forcing”? Unless they Clockwork Orange’d him that headline’s word choice is bullshit

That is some clean zip tie work

Same asshole move we saw from way too many Dem leaders in 2020 when George Floyd protests were happening, and similar to asshole moves we saw from the same people in 2024 against anti-genocide protesters. Democratic party must do better on this.

People should be able to expect better from a Dem governor

Ah, so he’s not actually doing anything anyone else couldn’t do, he’s just asking other people to do something. That makes more sense but I would not have gotten that out of this headline.

Crazy their state constitution allows the governor to just unilaterally impose taxes like this, I would have thought that would be something their legislature has to do

In a $5 million dollar undisclosed location

Even republicans deserve credit if it was them

Absolutely fucking not in general because fuck the Republican party,

But also absolutely fucking not in this specific case - between them slashing government services and inflating the hell out of the economy the average person’s standard of living is down while the deficit is still up. That cut in income taxes is like giving someone a thimble of water after setting them on fire, but also they flooded the sink and made a mess in the kitchen doing it somehow.

By lying shamelessly

If only Trump can show a little bit of restraint and resist his impulse to slap his name all over everything he can maybe that will work out for him

I’m talking about printing money and using it to pay bond holders.

I think that would do even more to devalue the dollar and inflate things than just cutting checks to households would, if only because bond holders are the types to watch everything the government does and try to get a step or two ahead with their trades and stuff. They’d see that and react like the CNBC hosts did when the GameStop guy said he was gonna buy eBay by just issuing a bunch of new stock.