This strikes me as an example of something Trump does often - he hears someone complain about something, and then, working from a position of complete and total ignorance on the subject, decides that he’s going to get rid of the thing entirely (because obviously it must have been done for no reason whatsoever in the first place, and no one will object). Then lobbyists for that thing get to him, and he subsequently either does the opposite of what he pledged or ignores the issue entirely.
I expect if the charcoal briquette lobbyists can get to Trump, we’ll never hear about this proposal again (or DST will be extended some more, instead).
I got an email about resistance action. Two of the easiest were to do the media blackout for 100 hours around the inauguration and get tons of people to request tickets to it and not show up.
How do you get tickets to the presidential inauguration?
The Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies makes a limited number of inauguration tickets available to the public through members of Congress. Tickets are free and allow you to watch in person on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol as the president and vice president are sworn in on January 20, 2025.
Tickets will be available from your members of Congress in the weeks leading up to the inauguration. Some members may begin accepting requests for tickets before then.
The word the reporter is seeking and failing to find is Kakistocracy.
Turns out spell check doesn’t like any of these words that accurately describe the state of governance in countries that were, by every definition, democracies at the start of this cursed century.
I’ve got no idea who will be elected as the next Speaker of the House, but it’s safe to say that the vote is going to be another shit show, maybe even worse than the chaotic multi-round elections of the last couple of Speakers since a party-line vote would require a near-unanimous agreement of the 220 incoming Republican House members. So it’s hard to imagine them agreeing on an outsider who is promising to punish some of the very Republican members who would need to elect him. But who the hell knows.
Best case scenario is that the Republicans never do reach an agreement and eventually out of frustration a couple of them join with Democrats to elect someone reasonable.
Holy heck, mixed in with all his crazy rambling Trump just accidentally said something that halfway makes sense.
Make no mistake: this current manufactured crisis and possible government shutdown is all kinds of stupid, especially since a bipartisan agreement was already in place. It’s ridiculous that Musk and Trump are derailing that process (Trump’s not even in office yet!) and these antics are going to cause tons of harm.
But the debt ceiling in general? That shouldn’t be a thing. Anyone who is concerned about the size of the debt/deficit should focus on the budget, tax and spending bills where congress is committing to spend the money and deciding on how much tax to collect. Threatening to not pay back debts that Congress already incurred and is legally obligated to pay is a 100% stupid pointless grandstanding move that never served any legitimate purpose at all. It just gives assholes like Ted Cruz way too much power to hold the country hostage.
A few Democratic congressmembers like Warren, Derbin and a lot of Representatives have pushed for the abolition of the debt ceiling so maybe we can make that happen while the Democrats are still in control of the Senate.
let’see that’s off by 1776 - 476(Gibbon) → 1300 years, whereas the whole “Revolutionary War Troops 'Took Over the Airports’” is oh… 1930(Cleveland) - 1776 → ~150 years. He’s widening his moronic view of reality nicely. (occasionally wonder how far back, if ever, rich man’s son ever really had to learn anything of class work) -sigh-
