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I've never visited Asheville, but I know it by reputation as the Austin of NC—a liberal enclave. Is that inaccurate? If not, that doesn't seem to signify anything.

"If people starve to death because we have no post-disaster emergency services, that's God's will."

Moral high ground. "They go low, we go high".

The biggest issue with liberals are them taking their opponents in good faith, while their opponents exploit this fact.

Except on the republican side it goes like "We go low, you go high", and the republicans are not the only ones using it. In fact, the nazis used it to get into power, and so is Putin, Orbán, etc.

He doesn't need that. The constitution already gives the president the permission to summon Congress for emergencies.

he may, on extraordinary Occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them

The GOP will kill as many people as is necessary to retain power. They've been doing this for many years now.

I think Desantis and the phone call thing is mostly political theatre. She wants to look presidential. It's understandable she wants to pursue this "opportunity," but she's just VP. Not a key role in this kind of thing.

But Johnson refusing to fund disaster response is intended to prevent the Biden-Harris admin from doing it's job and helping people in desperate situations. That's fucked.

Kamala’s addiction to thin mints

Relatable.

The President can call a special session of Congress. Now, they can gavel straight out if they like, but when shit hits the fan, that's going to put the media narrative against them.

I'd like to step back for a moment and remember something: people are going to be hurt by this in just the next couple of days. I detest the fact that we have to play these games with media narrative. I also don't really like making fun of GOP politicians who are actively working against helping their own constituents. But apparently, that's what we have to do to get people in charge who aren't goddamn fucking children.

They need to target the Republic house members down the ballot who voted against the funding when they had the chance.

A REPUBLICAN HOUSE AND SENATE WILL KEEP STRANGLEING PROGRESS AND SUPPORTING RUSSIA.

VOTE LIKE YOUR LIFE AND THE RIGHTS OF THE WOMEN YOU LOVE DEPEND ON IT.

Thanks, sometimes I get a little bit excited.

And the media reinforces their narratives as well. I watched a portion of the 60 minutes interview and Harris might as well have been interviewed by Mike Johnson or Ted Cruz or something.

They do all of this posturing and pandering to the audience to try to pretend that they're asking the tough questions, and Trump picks the easy route and faces zero scrutiny his entire campaign by practically hand picking every interviewer and interview question and they give him a complete pass.

Lol they aren't offering themselves to the altar, because they don't think they're the ones being sacrificed.

They just want to be seated in the splash zone.

And it's all about the upcoming election. They can't allow Biden Admin to appear to have any kind of "win" prior to November.

If people actually gave a shit...

The Speaker leads the House. The House is in charge of the budget. This is it's main function, the House is supposed to be the voice of the majority but of course it's been broken due to gerrymandering.

The speaker of the house is second in line to assume the presidency if both the president and vice president die, and they run the house of representatives. It's a rather powerful position.