The Trump wannabes are hoiking up their posturing pants whilst we wonder if Biden can achieve an FDR-style presidency (Biden-Trump Thread #127)

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We're still here.

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amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/05/18/politics/kevin-mccarthy-opposes-1-6-commission/index.html

McCarthy won't support January 6 commission and sides with Republicans downplaying the insurrection

'NY attorney general says Trump Org probe is now criminal.'

apnews.com/article/nyc-state-wire-new-york-attorney-generals-office-cyrus-vance-jr-manhattan-new-york-5ef3064093fd97cdc37fa2a6ebf9b271?utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=SocialFlow

www.axios.com/new-york-ag-trump-organization-criminal-investigation-bd66aba7-e357-4221-9e53-cae8a584238d.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=onhrs

CHUCK SCHUMER: “I will put the Jan. 6 commission legislation on the floor of the Senate for a vote, period. Republicans can let their constituents know: Are they on the side of truth or do they want to cover up for the insurrectionists and for Donald Trump?"

Here he is talking in more detail...

twitter.com/RiegerReport/status/1394750145686814729

Texas governor signs extreme six-week abortion ban into law.
Senate Bill 8 bars abortion at six weeks with no exception for rape or incest, amounting to a near-total ban.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/may/19/texas-abortion-ban-law-greg-abbott?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

These anti-choice zealots are just grotesque. They're actually fine with rape victims being forced to bear their rapist's child. Pure evil.

Yes.

Horrible and inhumane

This makes me feel sick, it really does. A womans body is not her own

This is good.

Eric Swalwell
@ericswalwell
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'We just voted 252-175 to create an independent, bipartisan Jan. 6 commission.
35 Republicans had the courage & decency to join us.
175 Republicans voted for chaos over our Constitution, & turned their backs on the police who protected us.'

www.newsweek.com/eric-trump-calls-joe-biden-kamala-harris-lazy-asks-where-are-these-two-1592417

I saw Eric Trump calling Biden & Harris lazy. I LMAO at that, given his father spent 5 hours watching cable TV before he started the odd bit of work.

And then his schedule would be....
The POTUS has lots of meetings and lots of phone calls
🤣

@lionheart

This is good.

Eric Swalwell
@ericswalwell
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38m

'We just voted 252-175 to create an independent, bipartisan Jan. 6 commission.
35 Republicans had the courage & decency to join us.
175 Republicans voted for chaos over our Constitution, & turned their backs on the police who protected us.'

The bill looks unlikely to pass the upper chamber. Top Senate Republican Mitch McConnell called it "slanted".

www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-57180679

@lionheart - yes, that is so good, and is cheering me up, I had been so disheartened reading Twitter yesterday. I had got the wrong impression, namely that all the GOP would be voting along party lines on this. Perhaps I'd better adjust my Twitter feed!

Oh. And then I read your post, @DuncinToffee

I know, sorry. I just can't wrap my head around it, it was there for all to see and still.

edition.cnn.com/2021/05/19/politics/ny-attorney-general-trump-org-cfo-weisselberg/index.html
(CNN)The New York attorney general's office has opened a criminal tax investigation into top Trump Organization officer Allen Weisselberg, increasing the legal pressure on the long-time aide to former President Donald Trump, people familiar with the investigation say.

NY Post, breitbart et al are now going after Jill Biden. I won't link but just share David Weissman's tweet

Because conservatives know that Republicans are about to face justice for inspiring the January 6th insurrection, they are making crap up between Dr. First Lady Jill Biden and VP Kamala Harris. Don't take the bait.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/05/20/sen-bernie-sanders-introduce-resolution-disapproval-735-million-us-arms-sale-israel

The resolution aims to halt the planned sale to Israel by the Biden administration of JDAMs, or Joint Direct Attack Munitions, and Small Diameter Bombs, as the worst hostilities in years continue between Israel and Hamas. The resolution needs only a simple majority to pass the Senate; but if it were to be vetoed by President Joe Biden, it would need a two-thirds majority in both chambers to take effect.

@DuncinToffee

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/05/20/sen-bernie-sanders-introduce-resolution-disapproval-735-million-us-arms-sale-israel

The resolution aims to halt the planned sale to Israel by the Biden administration of JDAMs, or Joint Direct Attack Munitions, and Small Diameter Bombs, as the worst hostilities in years continue between Israel and Hamas. The resolution needs only a simple majority to pass the Senate; but if it were to be vetoed by President Joe Biden, it would need a two-thirds majority in both chambers to take effect.

I think there is too much history involved. The deal seems to have been "we send you financial aid which you then spend in our country on arms" for so long that it might be hard to get out of.

Yes, not expecting it to get very far but it will put more pressure on Biden, I guess.

www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/why-texas-republicans-new-abortion-ban-different-most-n1268003

The resolution needs only a simple majority to pass the Senate; but if it were to be vetoed by President Joe Biden, it would need a two-thirds majority in both chambers to take effect.

The article says it is likely to pass in the Senate, so this will be an interesting test for Biden.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/may/21/israel-gaza-conflict-biden-palestine

'It just so happened that Joe Biden was due to visit Detroit, home to the biggest Arab American community in the country, at the height of the latest upsurge in Israeli-Palestinian violence.

The sight of the presidential motorcade on Tuesday passing through a protest bedecked with Palestinian flags – and of Biden himself in heated discussion with Rashida Tlaib, the first Palestinian woman to be elected to Congress, on the Detroit airport tarmac – vividly illustrated the rapid shifts under way in US politics.'

David Fahrenthold @fahrenthold
NEW: Trump charged the Secret Service $40,000 for space they used at Mar-a-Lago this spring — making the US govt pay him to protect him. t.co/1V0blLatVz

www.wsj.com/articles/rep-kevin-mccarthy-struggles-to-move-republicans-past-trump-11621540163