The Peanut Gallery: Discharge Watch and a Lazy Friday
March 15, 2024
Welcome to the Peanut Gallery! Today’s a short one ‘cuz I’m sleepy.
Please remember that I know nothing.
Special thanks to /u/Stirly80 for givin’ us the rundown on the House’s whole discharge petition requirements.
What's the signing process for a discharge petition? Why haven't any new signatures come in for days? We called the House Clerk's Office today to ask.
ANSWER: A discharge petition is a specific physical document. The members have to go up in person to sign it on the floor of the House. They can only do this while the House is in session.
It’s literally a piece of paper. Of course. We stand on the cusp of the singularity, and these fuckers are still putting quill-to-parchment like it’s 1776.
Turns out I may have been a bit over optimistic when I assessed the lack of signatures yesterday. The House is apparently not in session. Again. Conveniently. Those mother fuckers always seem to be on break. Why the fuck is the US Congress the only governmental organizations which fails to keep standard business hours? Them and the Supreme Court, honestly. The two branches are never doing their God damn jobs.
9-5. If it’s good enough for America, then it’s good enough for Congress. Let our leaders enjoy all the same vacation-time, sick leave, and health insurance they allot to the rest of us. Fuckin’ ridiculous. I feel ashamed of my country.
Look at this shit,
Speaker Mike Johnson told POLITICO that he expects to pass a future Ukraine assistance bill with Democratic votes, an acknowledgment of the persistent resistance to any new aid within the GOP.
Johnson said in a Thursday interview at the House Republican retreat that aid to both Ukraine and Israel could come up as one or even two separate bills. He said he anticipates it would happen using the House’s suspension calendar, which he’s used often in recent days to overcome pushback from his own party.
Holy fuck just pass the mother fucking thing and be done with it! People are dying, Johnson. Good people. We can help, we need only act.
Fortunately, the pressure seems to be getting to ol’ Johnson. Bipartisan intent? That’s friggin’ remarkable. McCathy lost out specifically because he compromised with the Democrats, so you just know this is pissing the Freedom Caucus off. Johnson is even talking about amending the rules of the House to nix the universal veto, that dumbass one-vote for speaker recall nonsense. You know, the self-inflicted shackles which paralyzed the GOP (and therefore our entire government) for two years straight? He’s talking about getting rid of it.
Great! Wonderful! Now what about the aid bill? Why is it still moldering in the docket? Is it because Johnson still hasn’t finished negotiating his surrender? I swear this man is like a child at bedtime, forever finding excuses to avoid going the fuck to sleep.
The House will return to session this coming Tuesday. That is the soonest our government can put something on the floor.
Russian authorities in Moscow Oblast created “training programs” for people potentially considering adopting illegally deported Ukrainian children in Russia.[80] The program reportedly falsely conflates Ukrainian and Russian culture. The program reportedly tells participants that their main objective is to create a “second homeland” for Ukrainian children in Russia and that they will need to overcome “difficulties in international differences.” Participants of the training program must undergo interviews in which Russian authorities ask if they have Ukrainian friends and relatives. ISW continues to assess that the forced deportation and adoption of Ukrainian children likely amounts to a violation of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
Please give Ukraine what they need to bring this war to an end.
‘Q’ for the Community:
Y’all come here from across the world. Each of you lives in a country, a country ruled by imperfect people doing the best they can...or the worst they can, in Russia’s unfortunate case. What’s someone you feel your government does right? And what’s something you feel it does wrong?
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