The Constitution has had additions, and one subtraction, but it’s never been rewritten. Also, Ms Hill, prior to the 13th Amendment, the word “slavery” had not appeared in the document. There’s also nothing in there preventing any sex for running for office.
Everyone is being so mean to Sonny and it’s making my heart so sad. I don’t understand why Lisa is being so cold. And he didn’t even have anybody to sit with at lunch! I wouldn’t blame him for wanting to hightail it back to Hannah as fast as possible!
Pippi Blondstocking- who comes up with these?!
This woman playing Samim’s wife is AMAZING.
Dita!! Save the day you good girl!
I feel like Mandy is lying about her feelings…
That was a cool shot of Dita running through the tunnels.
CLAYMATION- The writers are working so hard to make up the lost nickname time
Sonny talking to himself while he works on this trip wire is SO SONNY.
Well by the grace of God we got another Savis scene. It sucked. But at least we got it.
Sonny says he’s not going to cry when Clay goes but, he is. He’s going to cry a lot.
Um. Jason. WHAT. ARE. YOU. DOING?! I did not see that coming.
Thank goodness we have a Season 4 and it’s not going to end like that. Can you imagine?
I don’t get why Davis is being cold to him either. The fact that she referred to him as just some operator was so odd. I disagree with Sonny that she’s acting like this just because she has a new guy. Something else is going on there.
Something is definitely doing on with Davis. The way she snapped at Ray in 3x18, then was cold to Clay and brushed off Mandy’s concerns about Samim in 3x19 was really OOC. Plus when the entire team got ambushed and almost killed, she only cared that CIA guy was okay.
Remember during S1 deployment when she’d be hanging out with the guys every chance she got? I miss that...
I guess we can't put that beef hold even for a second.
"This is a total failure of Democratic Party leadership."
Progressives erupted with frustration and anger Wednesday over days of reporting that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi would not consider cash payments for Americans without means-testing despite the ongoing coronavirus outbreak that has ground the U.S. economy almost to a standstill.
President Donald Trump and his fellow Republicans have taken the opportunity to outflank Pelosi and House Democrats on the payments, leading to anger from the left.
"I truly don't know how to describe how maddening it is that Republicans and Trump officials are to the left of Congressional Dem leadership on this issue," tweeted activist Jordan Uhl.
Direct cash payments would be a salve to the gaping wound left in the U.S. economy by the pandemic.
"We are the wealthiest nation in human history, and have the lowest borrowing costs of any major government on the planet, and thus, can easily afford to contain the pandemic and keep our people well provisioned simultaneously," Eric Levitz wrote Tuesday for New York Magazine. "All we need is for Congress to overcome its superstitions about deficits, and supply the economy with the many trillions of dollars in stimulus that even many center-right economists say we need."
As the crisis has deepened, the political ground on cash payments has shifted substantitally, with bipartisan Congressional support for the proposal.
As the Washington Post reported, proposals from the White House and Pelosi both have some restrictions, though the California Democrat's plan appears more complicated:
On Tuesday, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin told congressional Republicans that the White House was putting together a package that would send out $250 billion in checks by the end of April, though they would be means-tested to some degree, meaning wealthier families wouldn't get them.
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Separately, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) supports a more targeted approach to those hit hardest by any economic downturn, as opposed to money sent to every American, and Pelosi wants this done via refundable tax credits, expanded unemployment, and possibly direct cash payments as well.
"Nancy Pelosi is officially to the right of Tom Cotton on economic support for American families," HuffPost reporter Zach Carter tweeted on Sunday. "This is a total failure of Democratic Party leadership."
Pelosi's deputy chief of staff Drew Hammill on Twitter Tuesday emphasized that any aid "MUST be targeted" for the Speaker to approve it, drawing further anger from the left.
"Why?" asked New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie. "If we agree that the crisis is stark and immediate, and we know that precise targeting takes time and administrative effort, why make that a requirement when you can simply disburse the funds *now* and collect from high-income recipients *later*?"
New Consensus president Saikat Chakrabarti was flabbergasted at Pelosi's resistance to payments for all Americans.
"This crazy obsession in Dem leadership with looking 'reasonable' by not 'doing too much' is about as impractical and insane as you can get in the face of a pandemic," Chakrabarti tweeted.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), a candidate for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, has proposed a $2 trillion package including direct payments to Americans. Journalist Walker Bragman on Wednesday noted the absurdity of Trump being closer to Sanders on relief than Democratic leadership.
"Trump, who bungled the early response to coronavirus, is starting to take actions resembling Bernie Sanders' proposals—monthly checks, ramping up production via the Defense Production Act, freezing foreclosures and evictions," said Bragman. "All while Dems push things like tax rebates. Baffling."
U.S. Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer on Wednesday warned of an economic r...
Senate Democrats on Sunday blocked a coronavirus stimulus package from moving forward as talks on several key provisions remain stalled.
Senate Democrats on Sunday blocked a coronavirus stimulus package from moving forward as talks on several key provisions remain stalled.
Senators voted 47-47 on advancing a "shell" bill, a placeholder that the text of the stimulus legislation would have been swapped into, falling short of the three-fifths threshold needed to advance the proposal.
Hopes of a quick stimulus deal quickly unraveled on Sunday as the four congressional leaders and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin failed to break the impasse. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) also delayed the procedural vote for three hours as they tried to get a deal.
Democratic senators argue that the GOP bill includes several "non-starters" and walks back areas of agreement, such as expanding unemployment insurance, they thought they had reached with Republicans.
They emerged from a closed-door lunch fuming over the bill circulated by Republicans and called for McConnell to hold off on the 3 p.m. cloture vote.
"We are pleading with McConnell not to call this vote," Sen. Dick Durbin (Ill.), the No. 2 Senate Democrat, said after the lunch. "It's a serious mistake. We have not negotiated this to the point of agreement yet."
Sen. Doug Jones (D-Ala.), who is up for reelection in a deeply red state, said that the Senate needed to be "as unified as possible."
"We don't need split votes," he said.
Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) added that the proposal put forward by Republicans was "totally inadequate."
That resulted in McConnell delaying the vote to 6 p.m.
The vote eventually moved forward with five GOP senators absent. Sen. Rand Paul (Ky.) announced Sunday morning he had tested positive for the coronavirus and would self-quarantine. That led to two Republican colleagues he had interacted with, Utah Sens. Mitt Romney and Mike Lee, announcing they would also self-quarantine and miss the vote.
Republican Sens. Cory Gardner (Colo.) and Rick Scott (Fla.) had previously said they would self-quarantine as a precaution that was unrelated to Paul's announcement.
Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said the bill includes "problematic" provisions and that McConnell should have made the negotiations include both chambers and the White House from the beginning.
"Unfortunately, the legislation has not improved enough in the past three hours," he said.
McConnell appeared visibly angry as he spoke from the Senate floor after the bill failed, pledging to force the vote again.
"The American people are watching this spectacle. I'm told the futures market is down 5 percent. I'm also told that's when trading stops. So the notion that we have time to play games here with the American economy and the American people is utterly absurd," McConnell said.
"The American people expect us to act tomorrow, and I want everybody to fully understand if we aren't able to act tomorrow, it will be because of our colleagues on the other side continuing to dither when the country expects us to come together and address this problem," McConnell added.
Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) said that they had not formally been told that Democrats would block the bill but acknowledged that individual members had indicated their opposition.
"Hopefully we can get everybody on board with this thing today and get it out of here," he told reporters.
He added that if Democrats blocked the bill "they better have a plan ready to go because we don't have plenty of time."
But the outcome appeared all but guaranteed, as even members from across the Democratic caucus indicated that they would vote against advancing the bill unless leadership could work out an eleventh-hour deal.
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) called the bill the "same old repeated story from Mitch McConnell."
"I'm not going to vote yes then no and this and that. ... If they can work out something between now and 3, then that's fine," he added.
Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) called the GOP bill "bad news" and said it was focused on "bailing out the biggest corporations." He added that blocking the bill over the procedural hurdle could force both sides back to the negotiating table.
"In my view, right now it would be giving people unrealistic hope to proceed now. We should let people know immediately that Republicans have taken a U-turn," he said.
why can’t people accept “the media is over-hyping coronavirus” and “coronavirus is concerning given the lack of knowledge surrounding it” are both true? like can I order some nuance
and also "stop panicking about dying because most deaths will be due to previous immunocompromisation" and "we should work to reduce the spread as much as possible to keep those immunocompromised safe" are both true
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