US Politics 3

PostRe: US Politics 3 by **Xeno** » Wed Aug 03, 2022 6:20 pm

Moggy wrote:

twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/1554864067508060160

Is Giuliani his lawyer?

Moggy wrote:

twitter.com/klasfeldreports/status/1554855733145079810

strawberry floating hell

I am so happy for him. I couldn't happen to a nicer guy.

PostRe: US Politics 3 by **Tomous** » Wed Aug 03, 2022 6:42 pm

more heat than light wrote:We gonna talk about Kansas?

twitter.com/nprpolitics/status/1554656491038248961

And this is a Republican stronghold.

Did you see the wording on the ballet? It was absurdly complicated and clearly intended to confuse. What I don't get is how they don't realise that confusion works both ways :lol:

PostRe: US Politics 3 by **Monkey Man** » Wed Aug 03, 2022 6:49 pm

twitter.com/goangelo/status/1554876349680173057

PostRe: US Politics 3 by **Xeno** » Wed Aug 03, 2022 8:36 pm

twitter.com/TonyMichaelsPod/status/1554596265643622401

PostRe: US Politics 3 by **Monkey Man** » Wed Aug 03, 2022 8:49 pm

Exclusive: Jan. 6 Committee Prepares to Subpoena Alex Jones’ Texts, Emails

Jones’ lawyers in a Sandy Hook defamation case fumbled three years worth of texts and emails. The committee would like to know more about any contacts with Donald Trump’s team regarding the Jan. 6 Capitol attack

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/p ... a-1392270/

PostRe: US Politics 3 by **Godzilla** » Wed Aug 03, 2022 9:09 pm

twitter.com/Acyn/status/1554875445253812225

Longer version of the one already posted.

Lovely stuff.

When it finally clicks for him and he realises he is finished it'll be interesting to see how far he throws Trump and others under the bus.

PostRe: US Politics 3 by **Xeno** » Thu Aug 04, 2022 10:52 pm

https://www.reuters.com/business/media- ... 022-08-04/

The gift that keeps on giving.

Judge denies Alex Jones request for mistrial in U.S. defamation case.

Aug 4 (Reuters) - A Texas judge on Thursday denied Alex Jones's motion for a mistrial in a defamation case over the U.S. conspiracy theorist’s false claims about the Sandy Hook mass shooting.

The mistrial request came after it was disclosed at trial that Jones's lawyer accidentally sent two years of the U.S. conspiracy theorist's text messages to the plaintiffs.

Federico Andino Reynal, an attorney for Jones, told Judge Maya Guerra Gamble that attorneys for the plaintiffs should have immediately destroyed the records. An attorney for the parents, Mark Bankston, used the texts to undercut Jones’ testimony during cross-examination Wednesday.

PostRe: US Politics 3 by **Moggy** » Fri Aug 05, 2022 9:19 am

twitter.com/acyn/status/1555355482054971392

twitter.com/jonstewart/status/1555381040348336130

And the far right are pretending that was a "homophobic slur"

twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1555457742432763905

Ben there spending time making gooseberry fool up rather than learning how to get his wife wet.

PostRe: US Politics 3 by **Monkey Man** » Sat Aug 06, 2022 1:01 am

US conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has been ordered to pay $49.3m (£41m) in damages after falsely claiming a 2012 school shooting was a hoax.

A jury in Texas ruled the radio host must pay $45.2m in punitive damages, in addition to $4.1m in compensatory damages they awarded a day earlier.

This is the first of three trials against Jones being brought by family members of Sandy Hook victims.

He has already lost a series of defamation cases filed by parents of the victims by default after failing to produce documents and testimony.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-62444302

PostRe: US Politics 3 by **DML** » Sat Aug 06, 2022 4:03 am

Chat gooseberry fool, get bit.

PostRe: US Politics 3 by **Cuttooth** » Mon Aug 08, 2022 7:13 am

The Inflation Reduction Act actually got passed by 50 Democratic senators. They actually did the impossible and used the working majority given to them by their voters!

I don't really understand why the proposal to cap insulin costs needed 60 votes though.

PostRe: US Politics 3 by **Moggy** » Mon Aug 08, 2022 7:21 am

Cuttooth wrote:I don't really understand why the proposal to cap insulin costs needed 60 votes though.

That's the filibuster strawberry floating things up.

PostRe: US Politics 3 by **Cuttooth** » Mon Aug 08, 2022 7:25 am

Right but why does the filibuster affect that vote and not the IRA bill?

PostRe: US Politics 3 by **Moggy** » Mon Aug 08, 2022 7:31 am

Cuttooth wrote:Right but why does the filibuster affect that vote and not the IRA bill?

The filibuster stopped the insulin amendment being added to a bill. The IRA (unfortunate name) Bill was actually being voted on.

PostRe: US Politics 3 by **Memento Mori** » Mon Aug 08, 2022 8:33 am

Cuttooth wrote:Right but why does the filibuster affect that vote and not the IRA bill?

There are restrictions on what can get put in a reconciliation bill. The Senate's parliamentarian ruled that the insulin cap for everyone wasn't allowed.

PostRe: US Politics 3 by **Oblomov Boblomov** » Mon Aug 08, 2022 9:00 am

I know we have the exact same problem here, to an increasingly similar extent, but it is still totally nuts how the Republicans have such a blatant approach to pretty much everything.

"Here is a new thing that will support essential services throughout the country and ultimately benefit everyone across society."
Republicans: "Well obviously we can't vote for that, because... um, freedom!! This is just another step towards stealing my guns so I can't protect myself from the elite Trans Muslim Communists!!"

PostRe: US Politics 3 by **captain red dog** » Mon Aug 08, 2022 9:28 am

I know it happens here too, but why are measures always tucked into other legislation? For example, why isn't the insulin option a separate vote that's pushed through the senate? Is it to do with the time it would take to get it onto the legislative books?

That insulin vote alone should be pretty easy to get through with the working majority if it was pushed through the same as the IRA bill surely?

PostRe: US Politics 3 by **Memento Mori** » Mon Aug 08, 2022 1:31 pm

captain red dog wrote:I know it happens here too, but why are measures always tucked into other legislation? For example, why isn't the insulin option a separate vote that's pushed through the senate? Is it to do with the time it would take to get it onto the legislative books?

That insulin vote alone should be pretty easy to get through with the working majority if it was pushed through the same as the IRA bill surely?

Measures are tacked onto existing bills normally because it takes so long to approve a bill. Specifically for a reconciliation bill, it can pass with a majority only. So you would want to cram as much as you can in a reconciliation bill.

Any other bill needs 60 votes to break a filibuster.

PostRe: US Politics 3 by **Preezy** » Mon Aug 08, 2022 2:27 pm

Wasn't IRA Bill in Patriot Games?

PostRe: US Politics 3 by **Monkey Man** » Mon Aug 08, 2022 7:53 pm

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