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JCTarheel82
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Good on Brazil for taking care of their authoritarian insurrectionist problem via the courts.
If only America had done the same.
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Doesn't Brazil's supreme court understand that a president needs immunity for all of his official acts in order to run a country properly?
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U.S. warns of response to 'witch hunt' after Brazil’s Bolsonaro sentenced to 27 years
The chances of a near-term de-escalation between the U.S. and Brazil are low, Morningstar analysts said, adding the bilateral relationship is likely to deteriorate further.
The U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Thursday said the U.S. will "respond accordingly" to what he called a "witch hunt" against former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, without specifying how.
The remarks came shortly after Brazil's Supreme Court sentenced Bolsonaro to 27 years and three months in prison after being convicted of plotting a coup to overturn the 2022 election.
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Another move by a party that doesn't seem likely to voluntarily give up power.
www.nytimes.com
Senate Republicans on Thursday bulldozed past Senate precedents and changed the rules to break a Democratic blockade of President Trump’s nominees, in an extraordinary move that is likely to undercut Congress’s future role in vetting executive branch officials.
The change, pushed through along party lines, lowered the existing 60-vote threshold for considering a group of presidential nominees to a simple majority, weakening the ability of individual senators to block nominees they find objectionable. It was the latest step in a yearslong back-and-forth between the two parties that has eroded the filibuster, a once-potent Senate tool to protect the rights of the minority and force consensus.
In this case, Republicans resorted to the move in an effort to steer around Democratic obstruction of Mr. Trump’s nominees, which has created a backlog of more than 100, angering the president and frustrating his allies in Congress. They framed it as a necessary step to grease the wheels of a chamber mired in partisan rancor and to return the Senate to its longstanding norm of confirming lower-level nominees without individual votes.
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Now, the party in power will have the ability to unilaterally approve dozens of executive branch nominees with little resistance. And while nominees must still win approval from Senate committees, there will be even less incentive for presidents to choose people who can draw bipartisan support, since members of the minority party will be presented with even fewer opportunities to delay or block anyone’s confirmation.
Breaking Precedent, G.O.P. Changes Rules on Nominees
Senate Republicans used what is known as the nuclear option to break a Democratic blockade of President Trump’s nominees, weakening Congress’s vetting role.
Senate Republicans on Thursday bulldozed past Senate precedents and changed the rules to break a Democratic blockade of President Trump’s nominees, in an extraordinary move that is likely to undercut Congress’s future role in vetting executive branch officials.
The change, pushed through along party lines, lowered the existing 60-vote threshold for considering a group of presidential nominees to a simple majority, weakening the ability of individual senators to block nominees they find objectionable. It was the latest step in a yearslong back-and-forth between the two parties that has eroded the filibuster, a once-potent Senate tool to protect the rights of the minority and force consensus.
In this case, Republicans resorted to the move in an effort to steer around Democratic obstruction of Mr. Trump’s nominees, which has created a backlog of more than 100, angering the president and frustrating his allies in Congress. They framed it as a necessary step to grease the wheels of a chamber mired in partisan rancor and to return the Senate to its longstanding norm of confirming lower-level nominees without individual votes.
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Now, the party in power will have the ability to unilaterally approve dozens of executive branch nominees with little resistance. And while nominees must still win approval from Senate committees, there will be even less incentive for presidents to choose people who can draw bipartisan support, since members of the minority party will be presented with even fewer opportunities to delay or block anyone’s confirmation.
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Well lets win the Senate backAnother move by a party that doesn't seem likely to voluntarily give up power.
Breaking Precedent, G.O.P. Changes Rules on Nominees
Senate Republicans used what is known as the nuclear option to break a Democratic blockade of President Trump’s nominees, weakening Congress’s vetting role.
Senate Republicans on Thursday bulldozed past Senate precedents and changed the rules to break a Democratic blockade of President Trump’s nominees, in an extraordinary move that is likely to undercut Congress’s future role in vetting executive branch officials.
The change, pushed through along party lines, lowered the existing 60-vote threshold for considering a group of presidential nominees to a simple majority, weakening the ability of individual senators to block nominees they find objectionable. It was the latest step in a yearslong back-and-forth between the two parties that has eroded the filibuster, a once-potent Senate tool to protect the rights of the minority and force consensus.
In this case, Republicans resorted to the move in an effort to steer around Democratic obstruction of Mr. Trump’s nominees, which has created a backlog of more than 100, angering the president and frustrating his allies in Congress. They framed it as a necessary step to grease the wheels of a chamber mired in partisan rancor and to return the Senate to its longstanding norm of confirming lower-level nominees without individual votes.
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Now, the party in power will have the ability to unilaterally approve dozens of executive branch nominees with little resistance. And while nominees must still win approval from Senate committees, there will be even less incentive for presidents to choose people who can draw bipartisan support, since members of the minority party will be presented with even fewer opportunities to delay or block anyone’s confirmation.
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Little Rubio has fallen so far so fast. A hundred bucks says Trump made him do it.U.S. warns of response to 'witch hunt' after Brazil’s Bolsonaro sentenced to 27 years
The chances of a near-term de-escalation between the U.S. and Brazil are low, Morningstar analysts said, adding the bilateral relationship is likely to deteriorate further.www.cnbc.com
The U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Thursday said the U.S. will "respond accordingly" to what he called a "witch hunt" against former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, without specifying how.
The remarks came shortly after Brazil's Supreme Court sentenced Bolsonaro to 27 years and three months in prison after being convicted of plotting a coup to overturn the 2022 election.
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As Trump goes on about how China has “quick trials, I call them quick trials” but the USA takes years, the Fox idiot Brian Kilmeade chimes in “yeah, you start out guilty, you end up guilty in China”
Trump: “oh it’s terrible. What happens here, what happens here is you go through seven, eight years and by the time it ends and then they say well you know he had a reason to do it cause he wasn’t treated right in grade school and it’s his teachers fault and it’s the government’s fault. That guy should be — they should have a trial the following day as far as I am concerned [cross talk] I mean when you have somebody on tape here’s a guy on tape getting ready to [mimes stabbing] and then he did his thing, the whole thing is on tape this should not be going on this trial will go on it’ll start in two three four years we have to have it it in in certain places that do it differently they have what’s called quick trial.”
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“I had one the other night, I went into a restaurant and this woman stood up. I looked at her immediately. she had money she was a, she wasn’t, she [mumble] they get paid for it their profession they get paid for it from Soros and other people. And we’re going to look into Soros because I think it’s a RICO case against him and other people because this is more than like protests this is real agitation this is riots in the street and we’re gonna look into it.”
The “paid agitators” that have Trump worked up:
[Watch him back up against the column toward the end — it looks like he could hear what they were saying at first, then waves to get them removed then looks genuinely worried as he presses against the column and more agitatedly waves for their removal]
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“The radicals on the right oftentimes are radical cause they don’t want to see crime. They don’t wanna see crime. [Kilmeade: they’re worried about the border] They’re saying [yelly voice] ‘We don’t want these people coming in! We don’t want you burning our shopping centers! We don’t want you shooting our people in the middle of the street!’
The radicals on the left are the problem and they’re vicious and they’re horrible and they’re politically savvy — although they want me to in women sports, they want transgender for everyone, they want open borders.”
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“My little communist mayor … I was so surprised by this. Even the other two candidates I mean you know you look at the candidates now maybe one on one they could beat him and I’m not looking at the polls too carefully but it would look like he’s gonna win. And that’s a rebellion. It’s also a rebellion against bad candidates Ok? It’s a rebellion they’re tired of it they’re seeing things happening. We have things we have taxes being put on us in New York by Democrats that are so bad that even the Democrats are revolting it’s not possible for a Democrat to lose”
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