Fucking assholes
Assholes can actually pass shit unlike these guys.
This is my new favorite analogy.
can the democrats please stop playing by the fucking rules or acting like they’re bound by the rules or by honor in any meaningful way? the other side doesn’t give a shit, by not actually competing you’re fucking losing and making things worse for everyone
The current goal of the right is the erosion of state power to cede control to a corpo-feudal model. It would be playing into their hands.
What they need to do is enforce the fucking rules. Literally just letting Reich wankers get away with anything because they’re scared of retaliation or don’t want to set a precedent of enforcing the law on the political class.
Edit: Ok so Jamal Bowman (D-NY) might have read your post.
When they don’t play by the rules, they make it a game where nobody else should play by the rules.
“MAGA is not a government of, by, and for We the People: instead, it is a government of, by, and for the most wealthy individuals and powerful corporate interests in the nation, seizing power by pitting the people against each other, inflaming political, racial, and religious conflict for political gain.” - https://hartmannreport.com/p/can-biden-take-on-trump-and-the-maga-310
The main reason why is because the democratic base want their representatives to have the moral high ground, even if it means losing major bills in Congress. It’s deeply frustrating because many of these people would rather Democrats “meet in the middle” and “negotiate”. What has made the right, and to a larger extent the alt-right, so powerful is that they know this about Democrats.
So Republicans can say with a straight face “I’ll put in just the tip” and then when push comes to shove, go in balls-deep and say, “mEeT Us iN ThE MiDdLe!”
Republicans have a base that doesn’t care about decorum. Democrats do.
If we could just pass some form of term limits, we should see less of this.
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Let’s burn the world to the ground, we offer free marshmallows to anyone who join us.
Will there be punch and pie?
Let’s make it a potluck bonfire.
I’ll bring the chocolate bars and torches.
Oooh s’mores
I’ll get the graham crackers then
If anyone is interested in the bill
Edit: i dont see anything on any adjustments to congressional compensation. Let me know if you see anything.
They omitted language blocking an automatic cost of living increase which was present in the Senate bill. This is explained in the article.
Uhhh… is that how that works? I would imagine you cant do a bait and switch where you pass one bill and propose another when it gets to the senate.
The bill already passed through the house.
The Senate produced their own bill, which McCarthy did not bring to the floor for a vote. This bill from the house now goes to the Senate to die.
The senate had been working towards voting on (because a group of republican senators were delaying it) a bill that was almost identical to what just passed the house.
You could just read the article, it says so in it!
What The Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 13 2023 (division I of Public Law 117–328) actually says:
SEC. 6. ADJUSTMENTS TO COMPENSATION. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no adjustment shall be made under section 601(a) of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 (2 U.S.C. 4501) (relating to cost of living adjustments for Members of Congress) during fiscal year 2023.
As far as I can tell, they didn’t sneak anything in.
A cost of living increase automatically happens unless there is language to block it. The House GOP’s version removed that language.
They just hate everyone and everything don’t they?
This issue was quickly raised by Democratic Rep. Rosa DeLauro, ranking member of the House Appropriations Democrats. In a text to House GOP lawmakers, Republican House Majority Whip Tom Emmer denied the accusation, writing, “That is NOT TRUE.” He did not comment about the actual text of the bill, which says otherwise.
Of course they did. Shameless bastards. Every single one of them.
Isn’t that against the 27th amendment to the consitution?
I was wondering the same thing. But it appears that cost of living adjustment is not considered a pay raise in the context of 27th amendment.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-seventh_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
Conservatives can’t count that high.
I’m not fully sure how this should be set up but they shouldnt be able to vote on their own pay.
I’d love to be able to vote on my own pay. When do we all get that privilege?
I was dumb and didn’t proof read and had should instead of shouldnt
Unfortunately the tally was 1 for and ~300 million against.
Optics anyone?
In case anyone is wondering, Meidastouch is DNC backed propaganda bullshit along the lines of Sean Hannity.
Interesting. How does that change the fact that republican assholes snuck pay raise for themselves while they shut down the government?
Go and shill somewhere else.
EDIT: u\K1nsey6 appears to be a troll. Do not engage in good faith debate. Check their post and comment history.
Love a good /block.
100% pointless to talk to him.
He has brainworms.good faith debate
Only exists among liberal circles if the discussion aligns with the rest of the echo chamber.
No one was wondering. Did that somehow make the fact that they tried to get a cola raise that was previously and deliberately blocked before not true? Does it make it not true that the Republicans tried to VERY quickly force a vote on the bill, even though they had said all new bills would get 72 hours to review first?
Who the fuck cares where the article is coming from? It didn’t lie and it’s easily verifiable information.
You are concerned about pay raises, which are automatic unless they vote to decline and they haven’t taken in over 10 years, while they dont do shit about wage stagnation, the unhoused, Ukriane money laundering, etc. If fucking liberals actually got outraged about things that mattered AND held their party accountable we might actually get stuff accomplished.
betterhelp.com is very affordable FYI.
You assume ignorance = Happy?
You are the one that just made an assumption, not me.
Your mental illness has been on full display however.
Gee, that’s funny. One of those two entities uses credible sources and facts to inform its audience and the other one spews lies, bigotry, and hate every time the shitbag opens his mouth to keep his viewers raging about made-up bullshit. They sure are the same…
They use a pattern of truth with biased propaganda to keep the working class divided.
Is it true or is it not?
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