Will He Or Won’t He?
The question tonight is whether Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will cave into Trump’s blackmail or not.
In separate measures, the House Voted to Increase Stimulus Checks to $2,000 and Override Trump Veto of Defense Bill
The House on Monday voted to override President Trump’s veto of a $740.5 billion defense policy bill, sending the bill to the Senate and putting it on track to be the first legislation to become law over Mr. Trump’s objections.
Mr. Trump had rejected the bipartisan National Defense Authorization Act over provisions that remove base names that honor Confederate officers and set troop levels abroad, as well as the legislation’s lack of language revoking internet platforms’ broad immunity for the content they publish from users on their sites.
The override vote, which required a two-thirds supermajority, was 322 to 87, with a majority of Republicans joining most Democrats in breaking with the president. The GOP-controlled Senate is expected to consider the bill as soon as Wednesday. The White House didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
In a flurry of last-minute legislation, the House also approved sending $2,000 stimulus checks to many Americans, a day after Mr. Trump signed a Covid-aid bill into law but said that the $600 payments in that package were too small.
The House passed the stimulus-checks bill 275 to 134, with 44 Republicans joining almost all Democrats in support, exceeding the two-thirds required under fast-track procedures. The legislation increases the amount of the checks to $2,000, up from $600 per adult and per child for individuals with adjusted gross incomes under $75,000. A family of four that qualifies for the payments would get $8,000 under the proposal.
Trump’s Objections
Trump objects to the NDAA defense bill because it renames bases with Confederate names, because it does not repeal section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, and because it limits how much money can be used on emergency military construction.
Trump used an alleged emergency to fund a portion of the wall.
He is upset at section 230 because he does not like how Twitter and social media have blocked or commented on his repeated election lies.
McConnell Is At Bat
There are two issues in play, the NDAA and the stimulus checks.
The first is an override setup, the second is new legislation.
If the Senate caves in, Trump will own McConnell and the party in general.
For that reason, I suspect Trump will strike out on both.
This is despite threats from Trump and supporters to field candidates against any Republicans who refuse to go along with Trump’s demands.
Mish
Similar reasoning: Victims were stabbed by knife, so any one with knife in hand can be murderer !
“He is upset at section 230 because he does not like how Twitter and social media have blocked or commented on his repeated election lies”
That’s a shortsighted and one sided spin to put on this topic. Perhaps he is upset that his lies were blocked. And rightly so. Because a large part of the media social and otherwise does not similarly critique or block the lies of their own team. The problem is that the social media sites clearly manipulate blocks and shadow bans to promote their own political agenda. If they were a an interference free platform then fine; when they start to ‘curate’ and edit then they should no longer be subject to any protections.
You are a sell out piece of sh*t that I hope to encounter in person one day.
Why not make it $10,000!!! These bailouts are like those magic fire bricks Doc used in the locomotive to make it burn hotter and speed it up to 88mph. There is no doubt the end of the tracks are ahead, the question is how long will it take to get there. This train ain’t stopping!!!
But if we get up to 88mph we can travel back in time to 1971 … or 1913.
I will pack my bags, 1972 was a very good year.
How about you do a write up on this one, Mish? Won’t be the first time I gave you a story. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/ukraine-press-conference-explicitly-ties-hunter-joe-biden-corruption
Trump is no Republican; he’s always been a Democrat. He’s used the party to get what he wanted, and now he’s tearing it apart.
Can’t wait to see Mish trash Binden and the tramp like he does Trump.
Wow, LMAO, Mish you are really salty over Trump…. By the way I have seen over 400 miles of the of the border the walls work ask any border patrol agent like I have. It would be very easy to prove Trump was a liar by actually counting the legal votes. You know the ones that you can verify a signature. Could have been done weeks ago, but it’s alright for guys like you to country suitcases of votes with just corrupt liberals over seeing it, right Mish? You certainly have changed over the years.
I don`t see the political benefit for GOP members to cave in to a lame duck president. I see it as a liability.
They should name the bases after their location and be done with it.
I think it’s too late for any politician to give a rats behind if they agree or disagree with Trump.
I think I will just refer to Donald Trump as “Bernie” from here on out…
Diaper Don, the incontinent con
Thinks his means were justified by his ends
So much depends on his Depends
Out, damned spot! out, I say!–One: two: why,
then, ’tis time to do’t.–Hell is murky!–Fie, my
lord, fie! a soldier, and afeard? What need we
fear who knows it, when none can call our power to
account?–Yet who would have thought the old man
to have had so much shit in him.
The Scott Tissue Play
Lady Macbeth was a real bitch for sure.
Mo’ money is closer than you think.
The GA candidates really cannot afford to say no.
There were a few GOP senators previously pushing for more.
There are GOP senators that are still trying to push their nose further into the POT (Party of Trump).
“He is upset at section 230 because he does not like how Twitter and social media have blocked or commented on his repeated election lies.”
Perhaps. But every American should be upset that social media decides what Americans can write and what other Americans can read. (The burying of the Hunter Biden story comes to mind. There are others.) SM behaves as a publisher by regulating content. Why the 230 protections, then?
He’s also very unhappy with the “diaperdon” hashtag
“Trump declares Twitter national security threat after #DiaperDon trends following meltdown at miniature table”
SM would likely collapse without 230 protection. If they need to pay content moderators/managers, everything goes through filters = added cost = FB goes to a pay model and we are just paying for a “level playing field” but in actuality our SM experience will get a lot less enjoyable.
The collapse of SM would be among the best things to come out of the Trump presidency. Let it fall.
Liberals have no problem with the Biden crime family I wonder why?
“ But every American should be upset that social media decides what Americans can write and what other Americans can read”
Making these companies liable for what their uses publish is going to help this how, exactly? This would destroy free speech on the internet. Trump would have been banned by Twitter as soon as he started spreading lies and inciting violence.
Typical tech illiterates, trying to make laws with absolutely no clue how things work.
Stupidity writ large.
The social media companies are already destroying free speech and the free exchange of information. In my book nobody gets the right to censor but in a few limited ways. There are plenty of examples of censorship being done for political reasons. They deserve to have section 230 protection stripped so they can be sued or be regulated by a strict definition of the limited ways they can censor. What has gone on over the last 9 months is unnacceptable.
The big companies would be destroyed but companies with a better business plan would pick up the pieces. The big companies can only exist if they have section 230 and total government support. Lose that and they are dead which is a good reason for them to put their people in place with Biden. Europe is already starting to take them down. Eventually the US will follow because in the end they contribute nothing and are harmful. If you work for one of them I would suggest looking elseward because the sands are shifting under their feet.
Did the same liabilities destroy free speech in the cable news or newspaper industry? Selective promotion/demotion of users’ comments is no different from editorial opinion. Perhaps you don’t mind that “bounties paid for US soldier deaths” stories are permitted while Hunter Biden laptop stories are not.
How was it buried? I read about Hunter Biden and so did most Americans. Most people just didn’t buy that it mattered. And given how thoroughly corrupt the Trump family is, Hunter’s transgressions, even if true, seemed pretty tame by comparison.
The House did not cave to Trump’s demands. They were always in favor of the larger checks. They simply called Trump’s bluff. I doubt the Senate will agree because their members were never in favor. Whatever happens I don’t buy that if McConnell gets the 2,000 passed Trump owns him.
How could Trump own McConnell, anyway? Trump lost his re-election bid, and Mitch won his!
This is only the beginning of the end of the hegemony of the duopoly in DC. The GOP are leading the way on it but both cheeks of this butt will take it all down with them in time.
Seems unlikely. What’s going to replace it?
Trump IS the Republican party now, there are just a few swamplicans that don’t realize it yet. He’s put Mitch on the spot with the entire nation watching. He and the Senate GOP will face a blowback from the American People like nothing before seen if they refuse to send real help to us while sending billions to foreign nations. I don’t believe they are that stupid. Thank you President Trump for making this happen!
Billions to foreign nations, you say? What about the tens of trillions we’ve given to the banks since 2008? Nobody seems to have a problem with that, including the orange guy himself.
Everything else is chicken feed by comparison.
Everyone has their price. Most will be temporarily happy with a couple grand, but those extra-special enlightened intelligentsia who command the most stalwart financial ships in the world require that little extra hand, lest they find hardships that will undoubtedly trickle down to ‘Main Street’ and doom us all!
The republican party as we’ve known it is dead. Just like the democratic party died in 2016. The democratic party of today is nothing like it was 4 years ago. The republicans will have the same fate.
The real question is how will Perdue and Loeffler vote?
Will they vote yes for the $2k to take that issue off the table and not go against Trump? Or will they vote no in alignment with the Senate GOP?
I can’t see them voting no for political reasons, but I could be wrong.
Both have now announced that they will vote yes for the $2k checks.
This takes it off the table as a campaign issue, and appeases Trump supporters.
Honestly they really don’t have much of a choice, their seats and the control of the Senate hangs in the balance.