Vice President JD Vance traveled to Capitol Hill late Wednesday to cast a tie-breaking vote in the Senate that killed a bipartisan effort to rebuke President Donald Trump’s trade policy.
Earlier in the evening, the Senate rejected the resolution that would have effectively blocked Trump’s global tariffs by revoking the emergency order the president is using to enact them. Two senators who were set to vote for the resolution, Republican Mitch McConnell and Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse, were absent, allowing the resolution to fail 49-49.
Wow, like usual just a vote or two away…
I’m starting to think it’s not an accident.
Because it isn’t.
That’s obviously because deep state shadow government reptiles. Afterall, all maga believes that, and there is so many of them, they can’t all be mistaken.
This is what happens when people vote blue no matter who.
You remind me of those “capitalism is socialism” memes. “this happens when we vote blue!”, points at a situation where everyone explicitly didn’t vote blue.
Still better than giving the MAGAts larger margins. We need to get better at primaries though.
Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives
WTF?? The 2 f*cking assholes missed the most important vote of their entire senate careers. Either one of them could have stopped Trump’s destruction of our economy with his illegal tariffs and gigantic tax increases just by showing up at their job. Now inflation is going to skyrocket, unemployment is going to skyrocket, the stock market will continue to crash, Traitorapist Trump is going to stick us all with gigantic tax increases, and a possible Great Depression II is around the corner, all because neither of these 2 people could be inconvenienced to show up and do their jobs.
- the ones who skipped it are republicans (read: fascists)
- if you believe it was anything other than a completely intentional bit of political smokescreen, I’ve got a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.
Edit: fuckin… Sheldon Whitehouse skipped it…? What the fuck. I had missed that. Welp; this is America, and betrayal of principles is the new black nowadays
Republican Mitch McConnell and Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse, were absent
The rotating villain strikes again! https://bpr.studentorg.berkeley.edu/2023/05/05/the-democratic-party-is-untenable/
Edit: fuckin… Sheldon Whitehouse skipped it…?
Yeah, this was shady as fuck.
The bond market is failing. If that reaches fruition the economy collapses, including the banks.
Either Trumps own people turn against him or this horrific outcome may happen.
The collapse of horror is not inherently horror.
That’s some fine hyperbole amigo! But yes, the market had a minor shudder, in a market that should never blink, and in times where it should historically start getting pumped.
Economist chatter isn’t pleasant right now. I didn’t pull this idea out of a black hole.
https://www.whitehouse.senate.gov/contact/email-sheldon/
Tell the useless fucking sack of shit Sheldon how you feel about him abandoning his post and choosing to support Nazis instead of his constituents.
The two senators were not absent, they voted no.
Oh and a reminder to contact your senator, especially if they’re Democrats, and let them know this intentional absence to kill the bill is absolutely unacceptable.
What do you mean?
They’re implying that they were purposefully absent to avoid actually voting no on paper, but to accomplish the same goal of voting no and making sure the bill failed
Oh right. That’s basically what absent is, at least in practice right? Not exactly I know.
From another article on the matter.
Andrew Desiderio of Punchbowl News reported Wednesday night that there was “some consternation” among rank-and-file Democratic senators at party leadership, which had scheduled the vote for Wednesday evening despite apparently knowing Whitehouse would be absent.
This was intentional by Democratic leadership under the ineffective, incompetent, and corrupt Schumer.
But ItS tHe RePubIcAnS guys. Ignore the other half just nodding and shrugging. It’s the Republicans guys, inaction is not complicity. (Unless it’s tHe OtHeR GuYs)
It fucking literally is though.
I don’t understand your sarcasm in this contextOh. I see it now.
They think they sent a message. They are too stupid to know that no one is home.
