Oh goody.
They can filibuster whichever fascist this ends up being for 2 years, at least.
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This is a distracting tactic. He’s announcing that he’s announcing.
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I am not a bad enough dude to rescue the president.
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Thank you. I would like to wake up now.
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I tried to warn Trump about dragon ninjas on Twitter already!
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Yes. You would have to be a bad dude to even want to rescue the President.
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The thing that I’m most scared of right now is resistance fatigue.
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Well, the silver lining is that after Trump is done installing all his picks, we can finally change the acronym to SC®OTUS
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Whatever the fuck this means in practice. Not sure why the GOP needs an EO to strip protections.
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It’s the kind of rule a child would enact.
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Ugh. The Senator least in support of Trump has a score of 41.6% in agreement.
There’s some hope in the House. Many of the Representatives have scores in the single digits. About half are less supportive than the least supportive Senator.
Come on, Resistance, start resisting. It’s kinda important.
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This is an actual thing our President said, albeit three years ago. He’s a prescient guy!
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The Senate are thus far fucking useless.
My congresscritter is doing a great job. But in a city where Trump got <9% and no Republican got through the open primary for congress, she’s got a real mandate to oppose him. Maybe the Senators feel they need to be more balanced? DeVos and SCOTUS will be a real litmus test. Every Dem should oppose both.
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I think you’re misreading that column.
That’s how often, given the margin of Trump over Clinton in that particular district, one would expect the member to vote:
We’re also calculating a metric that we’re calling plus-minus. Plus-minus measures how frequently a member agrees with Trump compared with how frequently we would expect the member to, based on Trump’s 2016 vote margin in the member’s state or district. (The “predicted score” is calculated based on probit regression.) Put simply, we would expect a member in a district where Trump did well to be more in sync with him than a member in a district where Trump did poorly. As members vote on more bills, their predicted agreement score will change.
The actual agreement in the Senate goes as low at 16% (1/6 nominees Trump-supported measures voted for).
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I see it now.
I thought it would at least be based on voting history and ideological agreement, but apparently it’s only Trump’s vote margin. That’s a little disappointing, but it explains the scores a whole lot better.
We will see how this shakes out.
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Talk about burying the lead medium! I had not heard a word about this.
If you’re tracking the “Trump is using terribleness to hide even worse stuff” this might be it.
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From the Russian memos:
“the Rosneft president was so keen to lift personal and corporate western sanctions imposed on the company, that he offered Page and his associates the brokerage of up to a 19 per cent (privatised) stake in Rosneft,” the dossier said. “In return, Page had expressed interest and confirmed that were Trump elected US president, then sanctions on Russia would be lifted.”
Complete coincidence, I’m sure.
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