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Republicans are projected to keep control of the House of Representatives, handing the party total control of Washington with former President Trump back in the White House in January.
Decision Desk HQ projected the GOP would hold the House by winning its 218th seat on Monday, the number needed for a majority in the lower chamber.
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its fine im sure the parliamentarian will prevent them from doing anything nefarious
Death to America
I have no idea what the “parliamentarian” is, so every time I read a post about it I’m imagining some anonymous figure with a Mandalorian helmet sitting in congress looking serious.
nobody else did either, until they trotted her out to put the kibosh on… I think it was student debt relief?
i think it was minimum wage increase
It’s some rules lawyer shit the democrats used to block progressive legislation. They can literally fire the parliamentarian as many previous majority holders have
I think it’s some rules lawyer expert like people are saying. IIRC they brought it out because they were making a Reconciliation Budget Bill, which they do like only once or twice a year, and the rules are that bill has a lower threshold to pass (since everything is filibustered now you need 60% to basically do anything else) but it has to be budget related stuff. When there was a question on whether some progressive legislation counted, the parliamentarian came out to read the ancient scrolls and divine from the stars that it didn’t count and couldn’t be put in the bill.
welp, it was nice knowin y’all, here’s hoping the rest of the world can put down the rabid corpse of the dead fascist empire that is our country after they purge us all, and build a better world once america is dead and buried
(unless they somehow manage to fuck this up and accomplish nothing by catching biden and the dems’ brain disease, not exactly unlikely considering that this would be a more stable path for capital than letting the chuds go hog wild)
The GOP is just as much a big tent as the Dems but there’s a bigger fraction of rabid hogs that can’t cooperate on anything but blocking actions, so we’ll see
President Xi, please come to the US and give us freedom and democracy
damn if only the campaign had held one more Beyoncé concert
If only more people would have walked tuah a poll booth and vote on that thang 😭
Fuck the Democratic Party. That is all I really have to say.
Good thing we got that parlementarian
A parliamentarian is appointed by the majority and their opinions are advisory. So if you want to kill the $15 minimum wage increase, first you have to appoint a parliamentarian who disagrees with the $15 minimum wage and then you have to pretend like they are an expert (and not just a political appointment) and that their opinion is somehow binding. So much circular bullshit “clever politics”, just to lose to Trump ANYWAY.
Bluesky libs are so shell-shocked that there are hardly any threads on the GOP winning the House. And the threads that exist don’t have many likes. Most of the comments aren’t worth mentioning but I did like these two.
Can’t blame Dems when you’ve got a trifecta.
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Honestly, good. Let them pass their destructive agenda. Buyer’s remorse will kick in in a few months.
It will ruin many others before it ruins them.
I wonder how many democrat politicians vote republican.
You are now entering the Cool Zone
When will Xi Jinping liberate us from our oppressors?!
Damn I wish I could care
Will they do shenanigans with leadership?
