Have some respect! You must refer to him by his official title of “Coach”.

Yes, Cuomo was forced out, but he is attempting a comeback by running for Mayor of NYC against Eric Adams. Aren’t there any non-shitty Democrats in the city who want that job?

The Senate has some weird rules. The vote to approve the bill itself only needed a simple majority. But in order to hold that vote, you first need to hold a different vote to declare that everyone is done talking, and they should just get on with the actual vote already. That vote is what needed 60/100.

The actual vote ended up 54/46, with 2 Democrats voting for it and Rand Paul voting against it (I guess he really doesn’t like these “kick-the-can” resolutions)

Looks like this is the roll call from the first vote (cloture) which needed 60: https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1191/vote_119_1_00128.htm

And this is the actual vote: https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1191/vote_119_1_00133.htm

Note that Schumer voted “no” on the actual bill, but “yes” on the vote to have a vote.

“I’m the President, and I say it’s illegal, so it’s illegal! Isn’t that how it works?”

Trump and Musk are already demolishing Washington DC, you Canadians should come down and finish the job, 1814-style.

So we’ll be holding Congressional hearings into what went wrong, right? Isn’t that Congress’s job?

It’s because the President is letting him do it. In many cases, he is exceeding what the President has the lawful authority to let him do, but Congress is also letting him do it.

It’s bad enough that Congress is ceding its power to the Presidency, but even worse that they are both enabling this asshat.

Then again, the simple fact that the Wall Street Journal found about this “secret” meeting means that there are some people at our security agencies who understand the threat.

Violence never solves problems, it only replaces them with new ones. However, at certain times in human history, violence has been used to replace an unsolvable problem with several solvable ones.

Sounds to me like he’s planning a war or two…

Remember during the election, when the folks in Texas kept describing migrants as “military-age men”? He’s gonna claim that the migrants are an invading army and he needs the military to root them out.

It may be the only thing that does matter. The man-baby craves attention. If his “ratings” are going down he might decide to do something different.

What’s still not clear to me is what the plan is if the CR is not passed. Republicans control the overall agenda in Congress. What I fear would happen is Republicans would start to fund the government bit by bit, starting with the bits they like the most.

Then in 3 months, when the Department of Education and other things are still not funded, Republicans can say “See! Democrats wouldn’t let us open it. It’s all AOC’s fault!”, and the public would buy it.

If there were a clear path to a better deal by shutting down the government, I’d be all for it. Go ahead, downvote me if you want, but I’m more interested in knowing how I’m wrong about this. If your response is “we need to stop this because it’s awful”, that’s fine, but how does stopping it lead to something better?

It’s not even that Democrats are all that great at governing, it’s more that Democrats believe in Government in the first place. Republicans just assume everyone in government (especially at the Federal level) is unapologetically corrupt. Then they get elected to run the government and prove their own point.

I agree with everything this guy wrote, but he missed the key point of the backlash to Biden’s economic policies. Yes, it was a net positive for the country, but on an individual basis, it left a lot of people behind. They got fed up with the talk about how awesome the economy was under Biden when their own salaries were stagnant (if they even managed to keep their job the whole time).

To these people who vote for Trump, it’s a simple thing. They were left behind under Biden, and Trump makes them feel like he is fighting for them. Of course he isn’t, but he sounds like he is, and that’s what matters.

Musk is more than just the CEO, he is also the largest shareholder. The last estimate I see online is 12%. So while he does not hold a majority, as the largest shareholder he has outsized influence with the board. He probably hand-picked them all.

while GOP lawmakers express concern over … deep government cuts.

Bullshit. This is exactly what they have wanted for years, ever since this guy drew a bath for the sole purpose of drowning Government in it

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover_Norquist#:~:text=drown it in the bathtub."

The only concern they have is that their voters might realize that the GOP has been lying to them all along about how unimportant the Federal Government should be, and take away their cushy Government job at the polls.

Maybe the hardest pass of anyone considering running.

You sure about that? Gavin Newsom is probably running…

Why? It’s easy to respond to all requests with 💩

You surely mean a former Reddit user… If they haven’t been banned yet, they will be soon.

It’s freedom from government regulations, many of which stem from the last time we let companies set up their own towns. What could possibly go wrong?