CNN: COVID Relief Bill is being flown to FL for tRump's signature

[Totally Tunsie]

So I guess they don't have a FAX machine at Mar-a-Loco, or is this tRump's idea of "air mail"?

[rzemanfl]

1. What a fucking jerk

off.

[underpants]

3. Does NORAD have a website tracking its progress?

[rzemanfl]

6. Did you mean to reply to the OP?

I don't think NORAD could pick up Drumpf jerking off, given what Stormy says.

[underpants]

10. No I was just throwing this in the middle

[Corgigal]

36. What?

Santa is gonna deliverer that too?

What a guy.

[underpants]

2. Email and print?

At least the signature page(s)???

[exboyfil]

4. Has the 10 day clock started yet?

Anyone know the rules.

[onenote]

23. It starts the day after the enrolled bill is presented to the President.

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-HPRACTICE-108/html/GPO-HPRACTICE-108-58.htm

[exboyfil]

25. So if he treats it like a subpoena

and avoids it for a day or two, then he can pocket veto it.

[onenote]

26. It's already susceptible to a pocket veto.

As of yesterday, an "enrolled" copy of the bill hadn't been finalized by the clerk which is a predicate step to having the Speaker and presiding officer of the Senate sign the bill, which is a predicate to presenting it to the President. Even if the enrolled bill was finalized, signed, and presented to Trump today, the clock would start tomorrow (12/25). Not counting Sunday, the tenth day after presentment would be January 4.

[JDC]

5. Typical. Blow it up, do nothing, then sign and take credit.

Fuck Trump

[doc03]

7. Does Trump have a personal plane? Maybe he is charging the taxpayers

a few hundred thousand to fly it down.

[Totally Tunsie]

12. We're paying no matter what plane they use.

Our tax $$$ at work...

Moron.

[doc03]

14. But that would be going directly into his pocket just like golf cart rentals

and hotel rooms for Secret Service.

[Totally Tunsie]

18. True, and he could also charge for "Depreciation".

Let's not give him any ideas!

[ProfessorGAC]

20. He's Never Owned A Plane

His planes were leased. His brand went on them, but the cost of that paint job was normal operating costs (marketing & advertising) for the organization. Then, the lease cost is expensed, so no capital invested, fewer taxes paid (if any) & his own plane/billboard.
He was flying in a 737. He has never had the liquidity to buy his own hundred million dollar plane.
And, lenders that might give loans for business expansion, might be far more reluctant to lend for a luxury. Especially in the last 15 years, given the crushing debt load.
The US banks cut him off for a reason.

[treestar]

8. I remember a right winger whining that

AF1 took Michelle and the girls to Hawaii for Christmas earlier and returned to DC to get Obama - two whole flights that rightie insisted was a waste of taxpayer funds!

[Arne]

9. Ho ho ho, I still have a Just the Fax mam.

It's connected to something they used to call
The Land Line.

[Totally Tunsie]

15. LOL - I meant to throw e-mail into the OP, but...

[Ms. Toad]

28. Not a fan of the fax, at this particular moment in time.

I hand carried my FMLA forms to two different doctor's offices - they refused to take them. They would only accept them by fax. We actually have a fax - and a land line. BUT we abandoned long distance on the land line a long time ago - and the doctor's offices are long distance.

In this day and age, limiting functional communication to fax only is not appropriate, since very few ordinary individuals are likely to have access to a fax machine - especially when your clients come from all over the world (the Cleveland Clinic).

[Thomas Hurt]

11. Did the 2K amendment fail?

[Totally Tunsie]

13. Still "in the works".

House will vote on Bill on Monday.

[durablend]

16. Are they gonna drop it down the chimney?

Whoops--it burned up! No one could've predicted!

[Totally Tunsie]

19. Hmmm...

[PSPS]

17. It took one day's ads in Georgia to "change his mind"

His nonsense was absolutely killing the GOP chances for those senate seats, so he caved. Why? It wasn't because moscow mitch was mad at him. It was because, without a GOP senate, trump, through his proxy moscow mitch, can't continue his destruction of the country after he gets the hook.

[pat_k]

24. Did he "cave"? I've been unable to find a report of it.

The most recent thing I can find is the following (PBS article and video of Dems urging him to sign).

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-house-democrats-urge-trump-to-sign-covid-relief-bill

[PSPS]

29. Um, it's in the OP

[Totally Tunsie]

33. Here:

https://www.businessinsider.in/politics/world/news/the-900-billion-stimulus-package-that-trump-bashed-is-being-flown-to-florida-for-his-signature/articleshow/79949031.cms

The $900 billion stimulus package is on its way to President Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, multiple news outlets reported on Thursday.

*snip*

The massive 5,593-page bill, which includes the $1.4 trillion omnibus, is being flown on the plane to Florida, where Trump is staying at his Mar-a-Lago resort for Christmas.

[pat_k]

39. Thanks. . .

I guess I didn't read the fact they are flying it down as a statement that he necessarily plans to sign it. Guess it's a logical extension.

[Zeus69]

21. Is this true?

Can't find anything online

[Totally Tunsie]

32. Here:

https://www.businessinsider.in/politics/world/news/the-900-billion-stimulus-package-that-trump-bashed-is-being-flown-to-florida-for-his-signature/articleshow/79949031.cms

The $900 billion stimulus package is on its way to President Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, multiple news outlets reported on Thursday.

*snip*

The massive 5,593-page bill, which includes the $1.4 trillion omnibus, is being flown on the plane to Florida, where Trump is staying at his Mar-a-Lago resort for Christmas.

[Zeus69]

40. Thanks!

[onenote]

22. It's over 5000 pages long. And he has to sign the "enrolled" version, not a fax copy.

[onenote]

27. Flying a bill to a president isn't unprecedented.

A bill was flown to China so Reagan could sign it. And a bill was flown to Turkey so Clinton could sign it.
Obama got around the requirement by claiming that he could authorize an aide to use an autopen to sign a bill while Obama was out of the country. There is a division of opinion as to whether the Constitution allows that, but the issue hasn't been presented to the courts. (in the Obama situation, I believe that the bills that were signed using an autopen would have become law had they not been signed (i.e., it wasn't a pocket veto situation).

[Arne]

31. Trump's signature could be done by Spirograph.

[Blue Owl]

30. Fuck that fat piece of shit

I hope the grim reaper has a nice big gift in store for Diarrhea Donny this year...

[mucifer]

34. so sick of his effing drama!!!!

[Demovictory9]

35. me too

[Buns_of_Fire]

37. Just in time for a Christmas Day signing by Santa Trump. nt

[Jeroen]

38. A sharpy stuck to a lie detector, same thing n/t