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2y ago

Democrats warn Mike Johnson: We won't save you again
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usernamesAreTricky @lemmy.ml 2y ago

What do they expect to accomplish over the next 30 days
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I think you misunderstand what I am referring to. I am referring to the second Johnson speaker vote which was in March and filed by MTG. They didn't know the results of the election nor did they want to get unfairly blamed for republican dysfunction in said election as often happens
In what world would you even trust Johnson to keep his word
The rules that republicans agreed on let all house members, including dems, call for a motion to vacate the speaker. Only needed a singular representative to do so and given that there were plenty of republicans willing to get rid of him, so they had some leverage over him
And to clarify the House Dems in the original article are talking about his next speaker vote come the start of next year

2y ago

Fire unions livid as funding for 9/11 health fund excluded from federal budget, funds in jeopardy

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usernamesAreTricky @lemmy.ml 2y ago

Don't post NYPost articles. They are often highly misleading, outright wrong, and generally right-wing garbage

2y ago

Democrats warn Mike Johnson: We won't save you again

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usernamesAreTricky @lemmy.ml 2y ago

I believe I read somewhere that they got some political concessions out of it and also wanted to actually get stuff done while a dem was the president. Now they have no incentive to help get unless they get something quite good back in return since republicans have a trifecta

They didn't help on his initial vote in nor did they help McCarthy

2y ago

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usernamesAreTricky @lemmy.ml 2y ago

That's not what they are doing right now

I'm also going be real that this is also the least of my concerns for a platform. If they make some people change their handle that don't need to, it really isn't a massive deal in the grand scheme of things. Especially since when handles are changed on Bluesky, all the references to that handle also change because they have a constant ID for all accounts. Impersonations leading people to scams is a much larger issue

2y ago

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usernamesAreTricky @lemmy.ml 2y ago

? Did you read what the article? The change here is pretty minor and just reserving the @name.bsk.social if they verify with a domain to something like @domain.tld

Now, users that verify their account by linking their domain name get to automatically keep the default @username.bsky.social username

2y ago

Trump addresses Elon Musk's growing political influence: 'He's not going to be president'

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usernamesAreTricky @lemmy.ml 2y ago

Not exactly the same comparison. This would be far more blatant capture for the Supreme Court. The natural born citizen requirement is much more cut and dry. There were still some non-partisan legal people who genuinely thought Trump shouldn't be disqualified (though many many disagreed with them)

The Supreme Court does pass on insane legal ideas sometimes even if they allow plenty of horrible stuff too. Like in 2023 in Moore v. Harper, they ruled 6-3 against the Independent state legislature theory. Though on the flip side their presidential immunity ruling was indeed insane

2y ago

Trump addresses Elon Musk's growing political influence: 'He's not going to be president'

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usernamesAreTricky @lemmy.ml 2y ago

Not constitutionally no. He doesn't meet the requirement to be president which requires you to be born as a US citizen

Edit: also it seems like Johnson was moreso making a jab at musk in his comments about the difficulty of the job - rather than actually making him a genuine offer

2y ago

Trump addresses Elon Musk's growing political influence: 'He's not going to be president'

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usernamesAreTricky @lemmy.ml 2y ago

Amending the constitutional is a much higher bar than people think it is. You'd need way more than just a fetterman here or there. Keep in mind still had 38 republicans vote against his and Trump's second version of the bill

It requires 2/3 of congress, and 3/4 of state legislatures

Assuming he loses zero republicans, this you would need:

67 in the senate meaning you'd need 14 dem senators

290 in the house of representatives meaning you need 70 dem reps

And in state legislatures, he'd need 38 of them to ratify. Republicans only have a trifecta in 23 (it’s unclear if governors can veto ratification or not), they have both state legislatures in 28, and it’s split in Alaska, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and we'll see about Minnesota with some legal challenges.

If we assume no governor vetos nor any republicans going against it, that's 28. Then let's imagine in those split states you convince them all, that's 33. Keep in mind each state has its own list of people you'd need to convince, not just one person here

Then in the other 5 you'd have to be talking about states with dem trifectas where it's hardly going to be politically popular to bend to Musk

You would need on the order of at minimum of 100+ dems in congress and state legislatures to pull that off assuming governors don't veto / ruled that they aren't able to. And also assuming that all republicans go for it at all levels of government, and that dems in other states with republican legislatures don't use procedural tactics to slow down ratification, etc.

2y ago

Trump addresses Elon Musk's growing political influence: 'He's not going to be president'

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usernamesAreTricky @lemmy.ml 2y ago

Listen to his "ahaha" at the end

https://bsky.app/profile/acyn.bsky.social/post/3ldw2c76xre23

2y ago

Republicans embrace "our prime minister" Elon Musk

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usernamesAreTricky @lemmy.ml 2y ago

Yes, but: Hagerty pushed back on Democrats' assertions that Musk is pulling Trump's strings, saying Trump is "clearly the leader" of the Republican Party.

A good sign of being the leader is constantly having to say you are the leader

2y ago

President Biden: My Legacy Is "I Kept My Word," "When I Said I Was Going To Do Something, I Did"

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usernamesAreTricky @lemmy.ml 2y ago

Because legislation was a much faster route so they started there. It took a bit before died in the senate

2y ago

President Biden: My Legacy Is "I Kept My Word," "When I Said I Was Going To Do Something, I Did"

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usernamesAreTricky @lemmy.ml 2y ago

You mistake me for a centrist, and that I am not. You mistake me as a fan of Biden, and that too I am not

Yes, we definitely need so much more. We're not going to get it if we shit on any and every single piece of good news. We're just going to end up with people too burnt out to do anything. Take the small wins and use them as motivate to build for much larger change we need

A lot of activists put work to make those changes. I am defending the activists and people who put the work in and got wins that no one acknowledges

In history, it's almost always been the people like that who get change through even with imperfect and flawed people. Lincoln didn't decide to free enslaved people on his own. He only opposed its expansion and even at that he was quite weak on it. He was willing to give much of that up to stop the civil war at first. But he was closer to the goal of abolitionists and they worked hard to get him to change his tune. Fredrick Douglas is often the classic example of that. He was pissed by Lincoln, called him the "white man's president" and kept speaking with him in the hopes that he'd actually do what he said he would do and go beyond it

They eventually started to get concessions even if for frustrating reasons. They needed more union soliders and so they convinced to make a mostly symbolic gesture of the emancipation proclamation. It only freed enslaved people when the union regained land. It didn't free any of the enslaved people behind union lines

But it got the ball rolling, now the union was in a more of a moral fight rather than just trying to keep the union together. Even though the win was small and nowhere need what needed it started shifting how the Union had to appear to itself and to other countries. It eventually ended up leading to the 13th, 14th, and 15th ammendments

It's easy to find fault in anything. It's much harder to build that change. I encourage you to find some route to change that's productive and build something with it

2y ago

Texas governor buys billboards warning migrants they'll be raped if they illegally cross border

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usernamesAreTricky @lemmy.ml 2y ago

We just had 38 house republicans publicly vote for a funding bill that Trump publicly supported. He can only lose 3 on future bills.

We've had his pick for attorney general already withdraw from consideration after he knew he wouldn't get the senate confirmation votes

They aren't in lockstep in the way they need to be to be invincible

The US has managed to recover from the brink before so long as people fight

The very second US president, John Adams, threatened to be an all powerful leader after he passed the Sedition act. He used it to prosecute his political opponents for their speach. People fought against it, even if they had to write anonymously out of fear of persecution.

But the Federalist party that Adams was a part of was still only mostly on board. Took multiple votes despite them having control of congress. One of the provisions they ended up adding to get it through was one to make it expire in 2 years and soften the language a little. People fought it hard and eventually they let it expire once adams had lost the very messy elections of 1800 in part because of it

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President Biden: My Legacy Is "I Kept My Word," "When I Said I Was Going To Do Something, I Did"

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usernamesAreTricky @lemmy.ml 2y ago

Joe Manchin is barely a democrat - though he's probably the best you'd get out of West Virginia. In other parts of the world, he'd be a different party and he's already left the Democratic party

Look, Biden could have just gone home, blamed Manchin, called it a day on so many issues but he didn't. He actually tried to do what he could via executive action in many areas. He got zero credit for quite significant legislation and executive action

He managed to get one of the largest US climate bill through (Inflation Reduction Act), large infrastructure investments, etc.

Biden has many many faults. You don't need to claim there's ones in the areas where he did really try and got only shit on for it

2y ago

President Biden: My Legacy Is "I Kept My Word," "When I Said I Was Going To Do Something, I Did"

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usernamesAreTricky @lemmy.ml 2y ago

The filibuster, which Biden did try to push for removal in certain areas. Joe Manchin and Sinema wouldn't budge on it

2y ago

Texas governor buys billboards warning migrants they'll be raped if they illegally cross border

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usernamesAreTricky @lemmy.ml 2y ago

Not true that it was a huge margin. Don't let their claims of mandate fool you

They won the popular vote by one of the smallest margins in recent history. Smaller than hillary did in 2016. They didn't even get 50%, they got 49.9% of the popular vote

They lost a seat in the house. They will have a 3 seat majority vs their much larger majority in 2016. They have already infighting and struggling with less than that today. They'll be down to a one seat majority for a couple of months too with their plans to pull people from the house into the admin

State and local dems did generally decently. Certainly much better than they did in 2016 where republicans had much more control of state legislature

For an example, north carolina republicans had their super majority broken up

Don't let apathy consume you. There are winnable fights. There are even people who've already regretted there vote before he's taken office. Was talking with people working with those hit by Helene in rural North Carolina who mentioned they heard a notable number of people with that exact sentiment

2y ago

President Biden: My Legacy Is "I Kept My Word," "When I Said I Was Going To Do Something, I Did"

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usernamesAreTricky @lemmy.ml 2y ago

Going to copy paste my comment from elsewhere

He started the process for medical marijuana legalization in 2022 via rescheduling to schedule 3 (Harris had called for full legalization, Biden only called for medical). It's not as simple as a singular executive order when done without congressional action alone. The existing law makes the process very convoluted to reschedule. Lots of steps inbetween with people that have actively tried to slow it down

The formal rule for it ended up being fully proposed in May 2024, and the DEA has dragged it out and kept delaying it. The DEA managed to push the inital first hearing out until Dec 2nd and there keep being legal challenges from outside groups to push it back further and further

Dems also tried getting it through via legislation which is much faster. Passed in the house but it died in the senate

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/3617

2y ago

President Biden: My Legacy Is "I Kept My Word," "When I Said I Was Going To Do Something, I Did"

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usernamesAreTricky @lemmy.ml 2y ago

Or he tried getting through via legislation because he knew that'd be much faster, but only once he knew he didn’t have the votes for it, he then pivoted to the slower executive action

There was a bill passed in 2022 in the house to do exactly that which ran into roadblocks in the senate

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/3617

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President Biden: My Legacy Is "I Kept My Word," "When I Said I Was Going To Do Something, I Did"

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usernamesAreTricky @lemmy.ml 2y ago

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Trump’s wake-up call: Republicans are willing to defy him | 38 House Republicans rejected the stopgap spending bill that the president-elect publicly threw his weight behind

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usernamesAreTricky @lemmy.ml 2y ago

When they have even fewer seats. They actually lost a house seat this last election. They'll have just three seat majority - and a one seat majority for some of it too because they plan to pull people from the house

Trump also threatened to primary anyone who voted for a bill without raising the debt ceiling. 170 republicans voted for a funding bill without a debt ceiling increase. He's managed to weaken his future threats because he doesn't seem likely to primary that many

On the senate side, he's already had to pull Gatez because they didn't have the senate votes for it. They're not in lockstep about everything

Don't get me wrong, they'll probably still get plenty of terrible stuff through, but they are not all in agreement about everything and there are still plenty of winnable fights here. They had larger house majorities after 2016