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I can't remember off the top of my head what the legal issues with that case were, and I was told that by people on both sides of the aisle. There was something about the way it was done and the business implications that were on very very questionable ground. I can't remember what it was, but I remember hearing people talk about it.
I need to look into this more because this would be a pretty interesting issue to follow that would 110% end up in the Supreme Court.
An issue I see with this idea just right off the top is in the states you mentioned esp. Wisconsin and Pennsylvania actually following through in awarding your votes to a person that could have lost the vote in your state is a hard pill to swallow. South Carolina is another one that is currently in the pending category with 9 votes.
This is something I could see go into effect and then absolutely blow up in the face of a state or several who do not vote for someone but their votes go to them. The unrest and outrage that could spark would be well wild.
Just off the top of my head to I wonder if this started to gain traction and actually hit the 270 if some of the states in it would leave. Swing states would lose a significant amount of power if this went into effect which would result in some economic loss.
So the issue with that is, well, several of those 7 are lost, and so the number doesn't work anymore. The seven were
- Sen. Burr - he is in office
- Sen. Cassidy - was primaried and will be replaced by Rep Letlow
- Sen. Collins - lost in 2026 to Dem Troy Jackson
- Sen. Murkowski - still in office, so she could
- Sen. Romney - Retired in 2022; replaced by Rep Sen. Curtis
- Sen. Sasse - resigned to become President of the University of Florida and was replaced by Rep. Sen. Pete Ricketts, who won reelection in 2026
- Sen. Toomey - retired in 2022; replaced by Dem Sen. Fetterman
So only two are left of the seven, and of those seven, two of them are part of the 54-56 Democratic Senate Seats. Senator Elect Letlow is a big Trump ally so I would be stunned if she burns that bridge so quickly. Senator Curtis is a moderate Republican, but if I remember right, he is thinking about running for another office, maybe Gov. of Nevada, and so there are more significant considerations there. Senator Ricketts, I guess, could, since he just won re-election, so he wouldn't have to deal with it for 6 years, but I'm not sure.
Yeah those died when the Supreme Court made the Feds return on the money.... notice how none of those companies ever passed that money on to their customers though.... the only company I can think of that even sort of did anything was Nintendo, who did the first sale in forever with the discount coming from the money they had gotten back.
I will just remind you again.... Mamdani cannot become President because he does not meet the Constitutional requirements. He was born in Uganda; you can't run for President if you are not a "natural-born citizen," and he became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2018. He wasn't born to U.S. citizens or in the U.S., which means he isn't a "natural-born citizen."
He has talked about it himself and has been asked if the U.S. Constitution should be amended to allow naturalized citizens to run, Mamdani stated, "I think the Constitution looks good the way it is"
Well at the beginning of my career we were in the minority, gained the majority, kept the majority, and then lost it this time around. As dysfunctional as the House is there was still a lot of really good legislation that passed out of it. Yes, some of the bills are going to die in the Senate, but others have passed and become law and do address a lot of priorities that the 2022 and 2024 Republicans were elected on.
Just to name a few, each of these were passed in separate legislation: no taxes on tips, overtime, and Social Security; the Laken Riley Act (an immigration bill directly run on in 2024); the GENIUS Act (for better or worse, was a significant crypto industry promise); and, more recently, the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act (the most comprehensive housing legislation passed in decades).
There was also some stuff done to address SNAP and Medicaid waste, fraud, and abuse, but to be honest, since that isn't what I work on, I have no idea how what has been signed into law addresses or fails to address those issues.
I am hopeful that there is a ton of compromise over the next 6ish weeks to get even more finished up this Congress for the American People, as that is what normally happens, and will only be supercharged with the election results
While that is always an option, the rule of thumb as a staffer is that you get one party switch in your career, and with the likely priorities of the next Congress, they are not something I really support. Sure, there are some things they will work on and likely pass that I think are good ideas, but at least in the type of legislation I do, the money printer is going to be open at full throttle.
Not a single thing? I think no taxes on tips, overtime, and Social Security were pretty amazing for those in the service industry. The Laken Riley Act was a basic, common-sense immigration bill that was passed and signed to keep the public safe. Whether you like it or not the GENIUS Act was something that Republicans ran on, won on, and passed into law. The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act was the most comprehensive housing legislation passed in decades.
Those are just some off the top of my head that cover a wide swath of issues and were each done in separate packages.
I would bank on them working to pass an extension of the CHIPS and Science Act tax credits for building semi's in the U.S. as those expire at the end of this year.
Another big thing is they are likely to try to find a workaround to clamp down on data center on-site generators. The emergency backups will likely avoid it, but the data centers that have built or are building on-site gas-fired generators w/o paying for grid upgrades or anything of that sort are likely to get swept up in something.
It will be VERY VERY interesting to see how far the Dem Party as a whole pushes DEI like stuff. It blew up in their faces last time around, so do they learn a lesson or go with a good old self-inflicted wound?
Lol now that the checks are dead I want to believe (in my little bubble of course) that those checks would have easily gotten Congressional support so voters cost themselves a whole $5k!
To convict in an impeachment trial, the Senate would need 2/3 of the vote. At this time, that's not even remotely possible; maybe the investigations will uncover something, but as is, the numbers aren't even there to break a filibuster.
Oh yeah, I'd say easily 75% of the cuts are easily reversed if a Dem Admin takes over because nothing was permanent. Even the reorgs and renames are not permanent and could immediately be undone by the next person. For DOGE to work, it would have to be codified, and the brute force approach to firing a bunch of people hurt a lot of districts across the U.S., which alone dealt the Republicans a huge blow. Then we factor in how we fired people who never should of been, like those at the NNSA, it became a bumbling mess. DOGE sounded good in theory to the public, but those of us on the Hill knew it would be a disaster, and we were proven right.
I didn't mention him, but he is just as guilty as the rest is Russell Vought, the head of OMB, who, putting it nicely, is a bumbling idiot. He slashed and burned areas like, idk, our freaking nuclear security workforce because he was so stupid; he either A) can't read or B is so stupid he refused to even do a simple Google search.
You think a 3-seat House Majority is a mandate? That was the biggest joke in the world because we were never going to have the votes to do any sort of thing he talked about. If anyone has a mandate, it's the Dems, just like it was the Republicans in 2010.
The issues you said he should of done was going to require legislation esp. when it came to DOGE and a ton of regulation trimming would have needed it as well.
If JD wanted to remove him, he wouldn't need to deal with impeachment; he could invoke the 25th and get the Cabinet to do so.
Lol, I got a crack out of all that descriptive language in a single sentence!!!! My English teachers would throw up if they read it hahaha
To me, this was brutal, but honestly, hopefully it causes the party to change and get their shit together.... It's been getting wilder and more unhinged since 2020. We've got to be honest with ourselves and, really, the American people, about what was wrong and how we are going to address that.
Oh yeah, I am sure the Dems are going to have issues. Even with the Senate flip, those senators who won aren't really part of the far left (with the exception of El-Sayed) so when the House, which has those much further to the left DSA members find out that the Senate will not go as far as the House, there is going to be infighting and issues.... same with what we have seen this Congress
Rumor was accusations have flown for years way before AI was the case but I get what you are saying.
I would say though it’s likely that hacking in and doing it would leave evidence of a new file. If it’s been there for years I’m not sure it’s possible to cover that up without messing up the whole system