Trump declares that Senate majority candidates should allow him to make recess appointments
Trump declares that Senate majority candidates should allow him to make recess appointments
The president-elect said the next Senate majority leader should be open to bypassing Senate confirmation for administration appointees.
Summary
Donald Trump has publicly involved himself in the race for Senate Majority Leader, insisting that any Republican candidate for the role must support his demand for recess appointments, allowing him to bypass Senate confirmation for cabinet positions.
Trump’s statement on Truth Social emphasized the need for rapid appointments to avoid delays. GOP candidate Sen. Rick Scott endorsed Trump’s call, while opponent Sen. John Thune criticized it as a violation of the separation of powers.
Trump also calls on Democrats to halt judicial nominations during the lame duck session.
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American history in a nutshell: A bunch of people who understand that the oath is a directive to be superceded by no man have done a whole lot of wild shit, leading to us sitting around arguing about how little republicans give a shit about upholding the oath. I think we got a handle on it. Have faith that there's a line that people won't allow Trump to cross because he isn't even in the top 5 worst things we've faced
For your sake, I hope you're right. We're not sticking around to find out.
McConnell right now is trying to push through someone via blind vote to prevent this from happening. You'll see a lot of unlikely allies. We're all Americans at the end of the day
Again, for your sake, I hope you're right.
We’re all Americans at the end of the day
Yes, that's what I'm afraid of.
Do Japan and Finland next. Yeah, our past sucked, but we're trying to learn, as is every other place
I mean, the civil war, we basically forked the constitution and fought over which version was better, hugged it out, no secession. That's what I mean, America is dysfunctional but pulls together, all because we believe that sheet of paper is some divine thing handed down directly from the framers, and as long as we have that we'll get through anything
What the hell are you talking about??? We didn't "pull through". The south tried to leave the union, and we said "oh no you don't, ya little shit!"
Yeah and it only took the deaths of many hundreds of thousands of Americans fighting with muskets and cannons. I dread to think what a civil war would look like today
Well yeah, we need to remove the deprecated version
but we’re trying to learn
I haven't seen much evidence of that. Quite the opposite, in fact.
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2024/nov/08/your-body-my-choice-harassment-toward-women-surges/
https://newrepublic.com/post/188230/donald-trump-maga-violence-threats-girls-rape
https://apnews.com/article/trump-hitler-poison-blood-history-f8c3ff512edd120252596a4743324352
Okay, turn this into a movement and a self-fulfilling prophecy and end it all if that's what your heart of heart desires, but there are people that will stop at nothing to prevent that or Trump from doing such a thing. It'd just be a little easier without.
Unity helped us push the British Empire out. Unity helped us rebuild after Canada torched our capital. Unity pulled us together after the civil war. We were late to WWII but thanks to unity, we outraced Germany. If we don't have unity, what will Trump do? Take a wild fucking guess.
In this context, you're America, and Trump is the adversary.
Like I said, we're not sticking around to find out.
Bye then
Bye. I'll be over on the other side of the Atlantic where they're outlawing conversion therapy.
Strangely, your "it won't be so bad, we're learning" argument doesn't convince me my queer child will be safe in Trump's America.
Not even a little.
Not when Trump's biggest supporters are already calling for trans genocide. The rest of queer America won't be far behind. But you go ahead and tell them "it won't be so bad" as they're getting marched into boxcars. I'm sure they will feel much better about it.
There's a novel by Sinclair Lewis. You should read it.
Your child absolutely WON'T be fine.
San Fransisco is by percentage yhe gayest city in America. The 2nd gayest is Lakewood Ohio, and has been for decades.
Lakewood has always had a very good police response time. It's a very small city. About 6 miles long, and 2 miles wide. If you call the police, even for something minor like littering, the police are there in 2 minutes or less.
Recently I would say gay acceptance had reached an all time high, where gay people no longer should feel the need to be closeted.
I feel the pendulum is about to swing back HARD.
There was a time when a gay man in Lakewood got beaten by 4 men with baseball bats. It happened just after 2:30am. Bars aren't legally allowed to serve alcohol in a bar after 2:30. So they all close at that time.
This man walked out of the bar. He was clearly gay. Lakewood has always been a safe space for the gay community. These 4 men, driving through in a van, saw him walking on the street. They jump out of the van, each with those metalic baseball bats. They beat him until he fell down. Then they took out a pair of handcuffs and handcufffed both wrists to a chainlink fence so he was 100% helpless. They then proceeded to beat him completely to death. Leaving his head completely split open in a pool of his own blood.
But this wasn't recent. In a city where you're only 2 minutes away from cops showing up, this beating went on for 45 minutes. The cops didn't arrive until after sunrise at 7:30am because a parent walking her kid to school screamed. THAT scream got the cops called. Not the 45 minute beatdown screaming in literal murder. Not someone else discovering the body in the 2 hours 45 minutes a corpse sat in its own blood during bar closing rush.
I'm 100% convinced the police had to have been called, multiple times, over this. There is NO WAY a dead body, in a small city as densely populated as lakewood, went totally unnoticed the entire time it sat there, much less the entire struggle and beatdown.
This was at a time when being gay was seen as a cause for physical violence. Where people agreed that gay people were evil and deserved to die.
I'M not saying that. I'm saying what I remember society was when I grew up.
Now it sounds like I'm describing the 1960s or some shit. This was 1994. This was objectively not that long ago.
Where police and public alike ignored a man being beaten to death because he deserved it for being gay.
Where the only reason EMS was called was because a traumatized kid didn't know the body was long dead, and thought there was a chance to save him.
And that mother who screamed, and tried to shield her son from seeing what she saw? That was my mom. I will never forget that sight. Most people never see a real human brain. I have. I saw it in chunks on the sidewalk, and in his head still split in half.
They sent a message that day. Not to him, but to the area around them. Not even Lakewood is safe to be gay.
And I fear we're headed back to that. I'm not even gay, but I'm also not a monster. I feel everyone should have a right to exist, and not be targeted for their identity.
Unfortunitely, it's not a 100% shared belief.
I hope you're safe wherever you go but this isn't really even a thing endemic to America at this point, far right movements based on conspiracies are popping up all over, and at this point I'd not be surprised if it wasn't interference and influence and just a causal thing from social media but I digress, the whole world has a huge problem on its hands, but yeah, especially the US. I just have faith everyone gets a handle on this thing and figures out what's going on, is it late stage capitalism or russia or just social media, who knows?
I thought it was Britain directly, not Canada, that torched it
When you leaving?
Before the end of January. I have the good fortune of dual citizenship.
Good luck, I'm hoping that I can get a worker's visa through my employer to move to the UK myself.
Thanks. Good luck to you too!
Care to list some of the others? I could use some contextualization, cause this feels pretty fucking bad.
