It requires a 2/3 majority in both the House and Senate and yes, gridlock would be better than some of the crap they passed by overriding the veto (more restrictions on voting and abortions, anti-trans SB244 bathroom and driver’s license laws, a pay raise for themselves, etc). Not that successful vetoes on stuff like that means there has to be gridlock on regular business though.
Unfortunately, the Kansas legislature is still controlled by republicans, including a supermajority in the Senate (which from what I could find only had one seat up this year–not sure how that works) BUT they no longer hold a supermajority in the House, where Dems flipped 20 seats!
I think the tech broligarchs have convinced Dump that he can live forever if he makes sure they keep getting moar funding and data centers so AI can find the secret immortality sauce or make AI robots and upload their minds to them, or whatever the hell it is they believe they’re going to do. So now he’s got this giant bunker and full hospital and god knows what else in there where he’s planning to live for the foreseeable future.
Wow, I didn’t know this backstory. That’s amazing!
Yeah, so if they’re threatening new members to make them vote for Jeffries in January, just imagine how strongly they’re threatening anyone right now who even thinks about running against him, to make sure he’ll be the only choice.
Notice how these assholes have no problem playing hardball against their own side while meekly going along with the other side. Like on the Hegeth impeachment vote. If they really wanted to get the job done on impeaching him, they’d have made damn sure they had the people there to vote. Which means they didn’t want to, or they didn’t want to do it now when it was a repub who introduced the bill, or some other shit reason. Just shows what their agenda really is, no matter what they pretend it is. At least this guy is brave enough to reveal their duplicity, then the people can be the ones primarying them next time.
From https://www.congresscountdown.com/info/speaker-election
The Speaker of the House is elected by the full House on the first day of every new Congress
If the new members couldn’t vote, there would be no reason for them to be threatening Don Leonard. I had to look up how it works because there’s a lot of confusing statements in different news articles. The process is different between the House (all members vote) and Senate (each party elects their own majority leader), but in both cases the newly elected members will also be voting, once the new session starts in January with the new Congress.
From the article: “Roughly 40 Democrats would need to vote for someone else in order to prevent Jeffries from taking the gavel.”
From another article: “Democrats have now flipped over 40 House seats.”
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Definitely check him out, he got elected the same time as Warnock. Look at his record, watch some of his speeches. He’s great.
Yes, it does look like that! “Talk to the hand, God.”
Re the thumbnail: “Here we observe the christofascist in its natural environment, identified by its unique prayer pose, not seen in other species.” They always hold one hand up like that like they’re making an antenna that channels the god energy down to the earth to complete the circuit that makes the magic spell happen.
That’s good news! Timothy Snyder has just done a whole series of talks with existing and newly elected congresspeople that are really good, called Now We Act. He’s asking all the right questions and pointing out that not only do the people want accountability, affordability depends on accountability and they are intertwined.
Here’s his interview with Chris Van Hollen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kvYxsRiJmE Mark Kelly’s is also good. I’ve just watched a few so far but I’m starting to feel a sense of hope watching this series.
So I’m really glad to hear that Van Hollen may come around and be willing to do it, after saying he wasn’t considering it earlier. Not only would he be good at the job, but hey it’s the ones who are reluctant that make the best leaders since they’re not doing it out of ambition but out of a sense of duty.
Are you kidding? Dump loooooves to spotlight any POC on the side of MAGA that he can get.
Do you fuckers understand that you can’t have affordability without accountability? How do you think we got to this point in the first place? From letting the billionaires fuck us over from every direction with impunity for decades.
Yeah I don’t know as much about how Medicaid works, but from my limited knowledge the Medicaid model probably gets us closer to what we need.
We got a bunch of good Dems elected this year and we’ll get a bunch more in 2028, replacing more of the useless ones. This is gonna take a few cycles but we’re going to change the Democratic Party into something useful.
Abolishing having an army of armed masked thugs roaming our streets beating, killing, and disappearing people is a “left-wing” priority?! Are you fucking kidding me?
Side note: I am so sick of the term “kitchen table”! 🤮 Why is this what they always use to refer to cost-of-living issues? It’s so stupid. Besides, how many people actually have kitchens big enough to put a table in? Not me, not people who live in most regular apartments or smaller houses. I guess they can’t even imagine that people who don’t have a kitchen table exist.
The funniest part is that the actual Dana White who was recommended to him can now never ever be offered the job.
I think they could and should come up with something better than “Medicare for All”, which is still pretty expensive so it’s not like we would have what all the countries everyone envies have, where you pay almost nothing.
Medicare is very convoluted, there are parts A, B, and D. You need to have a supplemental plan because Medicare on its own only pays 80% after a deductible. You also have to pay for a separate prescription drug plan, and there’s no dental or vision coverage at all. So the Part B for this coming year is $209/mo. for a single person if you make less than $109K/year, and there are no discounts/subsidies if you’re poor. Then the supplemental plans are variable, around $150-$300/mo. or more.
Then the Part D (prescription drug plan) premiums could be from $0- a couple hundred more/mo. and they are all different and cover different sets of drugs (and which drugs can change each year), plus you also have to pay for each prescription–the amount varies wildly and also depends on which pharmacy you go to! It’s insane. It’s so complicated that you need to go to one of those Medicare advisors each year to figure out which Part D plan to switch to, since the older you get the less able you are to deal with the complexity.
So I’m just saying, I hope they can do a hell of a lot better than just switching everyone onto the existing Medicare system.
Fetterman is going to switch parties regardless of who becomes majority leader. This would just be an excuse.