A new Congress convened Sunday with Senate Republicans in open warfare, as several GOP senators leveled highly personal accusations against at least a dozen fellow Republicans who are planning a challenge this week to the results of the presidential election.
The split, virtually unprecedented during the ironclad tenure of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), came as the traditionally celebratory moment unfolded instead against the backdrop of a pandemic that is killing thousands of Americans each day.
Their announced challenge was met with an impassioned response from other Republican senators, who hope the party can move beyond Trump’s chaos and are frustrated that GOP members would challenge a patently legitimate election outcome. Sen. Patrick J. Toomey (R-Pa.) said in a blistering statement that the effort “directly undermines” Americans’ right to choose their leaders and would “disenfranchise millions of voters in my state and others.”
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), the first GOP senator to announce his intent to challenge the electoral college tally, swiped back in a letter to his colleagues late Saturday accusing Toomey and others of engaging in “shameless personal attacks” and making “unfounded claims about the intentions of our fellow Senators.”https://apple.news/AuwM7F5UZRp-jUkcAyfduBw
Hilarious
By FortuneFaded Go To Post
The time between now and January 20 is going to be lit. DY's boy will most definitely throw more tantrums and do more anti-democracy bullshit, and there's a non-zero chance he goes out like his role model Hitler. This mother fucker definitely does not want to be a former President.
This is America, we can barely throw rich people in jail, you think Presidents are getting locked up
It's all about that self preservation game. Today it's Trump, tomorrow it could be my guy! A president is never gonna see real consequences for their crimes.
By Not Go To PostThis is America, we can barely throw rich people in jail, you think Presidents are getting locked upnow imagine a "rich" president
By DY_nasty Go To Postdecide whether to prosecute huh
One wonders how pissed brad raffensburger really is
A judge in the United Kingdom has denied Julian Assange’s extradition to the United States, where he faces espionage charges for his work running WikiLeaks. The Guardian reports that the ruling was delivered in a criminal court this morning, with the Wall Street Journal reporting that the judge noted that the risk of suicide is too high..
OAKLAND, Calif. — More than 225 Google engineers and other workers have formed a union, the group revealed on Monday, capping years of growing activism at one of the world’s largest companies and presenting a rare beachhead for labor organizers in staunchly anti-union Silicon Valley.
But unlike a traditional union, which demands that an employer come to the bargaining table to agree on a contract, the Alphabet Workers Union is a so-called minority union that represents a fraction of the company’s more than 260,000 full-time employees and contractors. Workers said it was primarily an effort to give structure and longevity to activism at Google, rather than to negotiate for a contract.Close enough?
Another way Reagan fucked us all was depriving all these new industries of labor leverage. Tech, vfx, games workers are all treated like shit because they became viable after the 80's
Maybe only naming the highly black and minority Fulton county in your mob call to the state AG was a bad idea? Fulton country DA seeems pissed
Y’all were talking about Kumail and his HGH jaw but this dude looks like Ken Griffey Jr from the simpsons
Well, I guess I should say looked
Well, I guess I should say looked
By reilo Go To PostHey Congress, do something…
Ok I’ve played this game a ton, but I really really don’t have “bill Kristol egging AOC on for impeachment #2” on my hellscape bingo card
By Fenderputty Go To PostOk I’ve played this game a ton, but I really really don’t have “bill Kristol egging AOC on for impeachment #2” on my hellscape bingo cardLet’s get it! 😎
Being serious, first Georgia. Biden administration is gonna be Obama 2.0 without those senate seats. We already have Biden with that reaching across the aisle/nice guy bullshit.
By Blue Go To PostLet’s get it! 😎
Being serious, first Georgia. Biden administration is gonna be Obama 2.0 without those senate seats. We already have Biden with that reaching across the aisle/nice guy bullshit.
Obama 2.0 still had 1.5 years of full control. Biden won’t have that even if we take the senate. Everything will be done via reconciliation if we do. It’s gonna be tough.
😂😂😂
I was hoping for a show but this would be something lmfao
obama at least showed up trying to do shit.... biden is showing up maybe kinda could be willing to somewhat get back to the general state of where things stood at the end of it all
on one term at that
so like nah
on one term at that
so like nah
First thing he did was wash the sins of his political brethren. But Obummer was kinda good, for a war criminal.
By inky Go To PostFirst thing he did was wash the sins of his political brethren. But Obummer was kinda good, for a war criminal.i'm sure biden will be offered a nobel peace prize for simply not being trump
Yeah if we take the senate, I think we will get basic governance back. Not progressive legislation. Lol
A functional cabinet, bills being brought up to a vote and MAYBE another stimulus etc. you’re not gonna get much else. Passing things via reconciliation means you have to couple tax increases (removal of new Corp rate from Trump) with some policy to stay revenue neutral. Honestly I wouldn’t put it past republicans to make stimulus part of reconciliation. They’ll filibuster actual legislation.
A functional cabinet, bills being brought up to a vote and MAYBE another stimulus etc. you’re not gonna get much else. Passing things via reconciliation means you have to couple tax increases (removal of new Corp rate from Trump) with some policy to stay revenue neutral. Honestly I wouldn’t put it past republicans to make stimulus part of reconciliation. They’ll filibuster actual legislation.
By DY_nasty Go To Postplus we got wars to start again. can't be president if you out here dodging wars
He dodged the draft mang the writing was on the wall.
By DY_nasty Go To Postplus we got wars to start again. can't be president if you out here dodging wars
I mean unless Pompeo starts some shit before Biden takes over, I don’t see this myself. Maybe ... but I think he wants to be a two term president and a war won’t get him tbat
By Fenderputty Go To PostI mean unless Pompeo starts some shit before Biden takes over, I don’t see this myself. Maybe … but I think he wants to be a two term president and a war won’t get him tbatanybody who runs stating they want to be a one term up front truly gives no fucks in any context
and lol..... if pompeo was a hawk, then he's terrible at it. also, i don't think people really grasp how many conflicts we either left completely, participated in just to say we were there, ran in safe mode, or straight up avoided. this is a country that spent decades hoping anyone would call their or their allies' bluffs on some bully shit.
dudes will write small essays on the military industrial complex, t3h rUsSiAns, etc but there's someone running for office right now salivating at the idea of being the man/woman who gets a central american war popping.