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They have a narrow so small that passing tariffs would still be politically difficult even though they control both chambers, and that is not even considering a filibuster.

I hope this judgement stands, however, trade actually works out really well for the US economy and its job market. Yes, we don't often manufacture the thing, but we have huge roles in designing those things and packing them with software. Even China is trying to get in on that while they offload manufacturing to robots and countries that are earlier on in their development.

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Three of the post senior citizen Democratic representatives died in office so far so the margin is actually getting bigger as time goes on, the GOP had room to make multiple mistakes on the budget bill where one GOP rep fell asleep and didn't vote and one rep was present but just missed the deadline to vote. The Democratic senators have not shown the spine to put a hold on any appointments or pull a Tuberman and not let appointments through, let alone a filibuster, and Fetterman has gone off his meds and it shows, he's turned into a GOP senator after his strokes. Chuck Schumer on the other hand appeared earlier to be more interested in going on a book tour to sell his book. The whole thing appears to be on the precipice.

> Three of the post senior citizen Democratic representatives died in office

None of those deaths are in swing districts.

Fetterman was always a right of center politician, the only reason he isn't a Republican is that the Republicans simply do not do moderates anymore.

But the Dems are still down three votes until those seats are filled.

Why would they ever be empty for long? Isn't it already determined who gets to join?

The one in Texas stood out for me when it happened, because the governor is GOP, he put off the special election until November so that a Democratic stronghold will not have a representative for ten months.

Schumer letting a Muslim appellate judge nominee be swiftboated also has to be up there

It would be difficult, but arguably everything has been difficult for the congressional GOP as even when they ran the house during the last cycle they could barely operate.

They struggled to pick leaders among their own party members numerous times.

It has been hard for the judicial system as well, with Trump ignoring injunctions and orders as if they were just advisory. I wonder if he will try that here as well? "Oh, the court said no tariffs, but I'm not even going to bother with an appeal to the Supreme Court and just use an executive order to invalidate...", here is hoping he doesn't do that.

It would be nice if some US marshals put Trump in jail for ignoring the court but we know nothing will come of it.

> some US marshals put Trump in jail for ignoring the court

In chess you never capture the king. Similarly, the way to fight this is have arrested the lower rung players e.g. the tax collectors. (And ICE agents conducting illegal arrests.)

Given how often American "kings" leave the metaphorical playing board, this isn't chess: it is non-euclidian, real-time, penultima, on a continuous board, with hundreds of players and billions of pieces (and any given piece is under the control of potentially multiple players), and where the secret rules for every piece include self-playing behaviours and weird emergent dynamics.

And in penultima, sometimes the king isn't the real target, and attempting to capturing it destroys random other pieces instead.

Sounds like there isn’t support for this agenda, and they’re breaking the law to force it on the country. They could moderate their position to something that would pass congress if they cared about the Republic.

There is no filibuster. Somehow the democrats are to weak to attempt one and completely caved on everything.

Cory Booker's world record fillibuster wasn't real?

He got a record but didn’t actually stop the bill from passing as I remember it.

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