The 119th United States Congress

[gehringer_2]

Johnson apparently facing another discharge petition movement on a bill to ban Congresscritter stock ownership - some alliance between the far left and the far right on this one.

[CMRivdogs]

 

[Motown Bombers]

1 minute ago, CMRivdogs said:

 

Funny thing is, this would hurt red states like Texas and Florida. 

[gehringer_2]

33 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

Funny thing is, this would hurt red states like Texas and Florida. 

but they are really after CA. 

[Motown Bombers]

10 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

but they are really after CA. 

I know. They’re going to cut off their nose to spite their face. 

[gehringer_2]

well, Google tells that the estimate for undocumenteds is:

CA   2.3M

TX   2.1M

FLA  1.6M

NY   0.825

IL    0.55M

So calculator says that's 3,67 for Blue states and 3.7 for Red states.

Pretty much a wash. I suppose if the theory is that the losers are all big states then the winners would be disproportionally small states and maybe they run more red, but if you have to reach down to 2nd tier effects the whole effort is probably a waste of everyone's time - particularly the courts -- who have already ruled on this haven't they?

This is a Chuck Edwards bill, and he introduced the same bill in 2024 also.

[chasfh]

19 hours ago, Motown Bombers said:

Funny thing is, this would hurt red states like Texas and Florida. 

Easy: all they have to do is specify excluding the counting of non-citizens only for certain states and count non-citizens for certain other states.

They can also specify excluding non-citizens of certain countries (Americas ex-Canada; Middle East; most of Africa) while counting non-citizens from other countries (Canada, Europe, Russia/satellites, South Africa).

What, you don't think they can do that? Who's going to stop them? You? You, Lieutenant Weinberg?

When it comes to breaking the Constitution, might as well be in for a penny, in for the whole pound.

Edited Wednesday at 03:25 PM by chasfh

[Motown Bombers]

 

[chasfh]

I am wondering whether there’s something more to all these Republicans suddenly threatening to retire mid-term than just they think they’re gonna get smoked in the election. There’s money to follow somewhere here and I’m interested in finding out what that is. The proposed ban on insider trading that might well pass very easily could be part of it, since no MAGA* in their right mind would voluntarily abandon that gravy train.

 

 

* This is not to say only the MAGAs in Congress engage in this, but as soon as they started hammering Pelosi on it, I knew that was telling us what one of their primary goals of getting elected was.

[CMRivdogs]

That didn't take long...(Has the Gentle Lady from Arizona been sworn in yet?)

 

[RatkoVarda]

clueless institutionalists are going to blow this in 2026

 

[Motown Bombers]

It’s not the institutionalists. It’s the leftists who ran an uncommitted campaign against the only person to defeat Trump and running a Nazi in Maine. 

[chasfh]

Yes, teh leftists. That's why Trump won and America is falling apart. 🙄

[CMRivdogs]

I guess we can write of a continuation of ACA. Just hanging around to see how much more $$$ my Medicare Part D and the new drug plan is gonna cost me.

May have to start my own YouTube Channel

 

[Motown Bombers]

33 minutes ago, chasfh said:

Yes, teh leftists. That's why Trump won and America is falling apart. 🙄

Yeah one “institutionalist” saying Trump secured the border is why Dems are doomed. 

[Screwball]

30 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said:

I guess we can write of a continuation of ACA. Just hanging around to see how much more $$$ my Medicare Part D and the new drug plan is gonna cost me.

May have to start my own YouTube Channel

 

More than the increase the SS COLA adjustment will give you like every other year since forever. Think that's a rip-off? Wait until the pukes start to really "fixing" social security.

[CMRivdogs]

6 minutes ago, Screwball said:

More than the increase the SS COLA adjustment will give you like every other year since forever. Think that's a rip-off? Wait until the pukes start to really "fixing" social security.

I have a med that costs $12,000 a month retail. The last couple of years I hit the limit ($2,000) in the first month. Unfortunately that particular plan is no longer available. Fortunately Duke Pharmacy is in the system for the new plan. Just waiting around to see what the premiums are, otherwise out of pocket costs are still the same (knock on wood)

[Tigerbomb13]

1 hour ago, chasfh said:

Yes, teh leftists. That's why Trump won and America is falling apart. 🙄

Always “the leftists”

[chasfh]

1 hour ago, Tigerbomb13 said:

Always “the leftists”

You misspelled "teh".

[pfife]

Bummers thread

[Motown Bombers]

2 hours ago, Tigerbomb13 said:

Always “the leftists”

Always the establishment aka institutionalists. 

[pfife]

Nah its always the Republicans responsible for Republican victories