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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWell in the last three hours the country gets this..............
Trump bizarrely claims the United States is a developing nation in confused anti-China rant
Published 1 min ago on April 15, 2020
By Matthew Chapman
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/04/trump-bizarrely-claims-the-united-states-is-a-developing-nation-in-confused-anti-china-rant/
Trumps anti-impeachment law professor urges him not to try to forcibly adjourn Congress
Published 1 min ago on April 15, 2020
By Sarah K. Burris
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/04/trumps-anti-impeachment-law-professor-urges-him-not-to-try-to-forcibly-adjourn-congress/
Internet explodes at Trumps transparently dictatorial threat to forcibly adjourn Congress
Published 1 min ago on April 15, 2020
By Matthew Chapman
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/04/internet-explodes-at-trumps-transparently-dictatorial-threat-to-forcibly-adjourn-congress/
Trump claims not to know anything about his name on stimulus checks but that people will be very happy
Published 1 min ago on April 15, 2020
By Matthew Chapman
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/04/trump-claims-not-to-know-anything-about-his-name-on-stimulus-checks-but-that-people-will-be-very-happy/
US Covid-19 single-day deaths hit new record of 2300 as Trump says US is past peak
Published 2 mins ago on April 15, 2020
By Agence France-Presse
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/04/us-covid-19-single-day-deaths-hit-new-record-of-2300-as-trump-says-us-is-past-peak/
I know its all from Raw Story, but this fucker is running this country and we still have no reliable test or vaccine ................
November 3, 2020 cannot get here fast enough................
Under The Radar
(3,401 posts)PufPuf23
(8,755 posts)Each day there are new Trump insults to right and wrong.
Each day more die because of Trump.
Each day our relations with global community are damaged.
November 3 may well be too late.
turbinetree
(24,685 posts)he saw what #Moscow Mitch did with Garland, then he saw what happened in Wisconsin, and if there is no Congress in session, then how can there a seating of the electoral college............if #Moscow Mitch can't agree with Pelosi.................maybe I am just paranoid, but I put nothing past this traitor..............nothing, he knows he is going to lose the election and Wisconsin was just a harbinger of what is coming next...........is ass in jail along with some others..............
dsharp88
(487 posts)Without a national election, he and Pence are out and the number three in line, Nancy Pelosi, becomes president. If no place has its election (and Nancy Pelosi is not elected by her district), number four in line is the Senior Majority Senator who didn't face an election. Because so many Republicans are up for election, the Democrats would become the majority party by default and Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) would become president.
Thekaspervote
(32,713 posts)In It to Win It
(8,225 posts)Not accounting for what happens to the power dynamic once outgoing senators are gone, it would fall to Senate President Pro Tempore if state governments don't appoint representatives who would then choose a new Speaker before January 20, 2021 in the event that there is no election.
Celerity
(43,130 posts)from Vermont and it IS NOT Sanders!
I think they would pick a different President pro tempore though (they can vote for any Senator and Vermont has a Rethug governor), probably Harris or the Senator (if it is a Senator) who Biden picked to be his VP (if it is not Harris)
Tommymac
(7,263 posts)Response to Tommymac (Reply #10)
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George II
(67,782 posts)MerryBlooms
(11,757 posts)mentalsolstice
(4,459 posts)Im thinking his staff monitor him throughout the day. And in the afternoon its a mad scramble to determine the right mix of uppers and downers to give him.
MerryBlooms
(11,757 posts)OMGWTF
(3,943 posts)I just finished a pissing match with a MAGAt on FB to which she could only insert a LOL emoji to my reasoned, fact-based arguments. All I get is "You're such a libtard, etc." I FUCKING HATE THIS FUCKING COUNTRY RIGHT NOW!!! We are doomed.
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Tommymac
(7,263 posts)gordianot
(15,234 posts)As long as a camera is put on his face it will get worse.
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Cosmocat
(14,559 posts)jackasses across the country are protesting, fully strapped, against the shutdown, including blocking people from getting access to hospitals.
Thekaspervote
(32,713 posts)Response to Thekaspervote (Reply #16)
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Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)202 days, just 202 days...
wnylib
(21,346 posts)England' s Charles I claimed that, as king, he had absolute power and authority. The English people did not agree. Charless I disbanded parliament, more than once, which also did not set well with the people.
It did not end well for Charles.
DFW
(54,302 posts)Or, "running" it in this sense:
Grasswire2
(13,565 posts)It reportedly happened at the beginning of the Wednesday press conference.