it's not at all like a presidential veto

by Jay, San Diego, Friday, May 01, 2026, 12:47 (24 days ago) @ MattG

I'm all for banging on Jeffries and Schumer but to me this isn't a good brickbat.

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gas price anecdote - Jay, 2026-04-30, 07:51
- Who cares? - Grantland, 2026-05-01, 08:12
  - Pretty simple. Based on the Prosperity "Gospel," this - BillyGoat, 2026-05-01, 09:45
- Heading back to Eswatini Tuesday with another class - ndphilo, 2026-04-30, 08:36
  - The Dems really need to start screaming from the rooftops - BillyGoat, 2026-05-01, 06:41
    - I filed my taxes 6 weeks ago - terribletr, 2026-05-01, 13:52
    - Schumer and Jeffries need to go. - Bryan (IrishCavan), 2026-05-01, 07:13
      - Absolutely useless - MattG, 2026-05-01, 09:13
        
        I survived on rotisserie chicken in law school. - San Pedro, 2026-05-01, 09:24
        
        I hadn't heard about that - Aaron (Shakespeare), 2026-05-01, 09:21
        
        He says it should be broader & allow all hot food - MattG, 2026-05-01, 09:26
        
        hang on - Jay, 2026-05-01, 09:39
        
        It had overwhelming bipartisan support. - MattG, 2026-05-01, 09:42
        
        not a big Jeffries fan, but this seems calculated - Jay, 2026-05-01, 09:46
        
        You're correct. - domer.mq, 2026-05-01, 12:04
        
        I don’t see the point - MattG, 2026-05-01, 12:45
        
        it's not at all like a presidential veto - Jay, 2026-05-01, 12:47
  - good luck, safe travels - Jay, 2026-04-30, 10:15
    - Definitely, will do. - ndphilo, 2026-04-30, 10:57
- Read an article that this crisis will electrify the world - irishoutsider, 2026-04-30, 08:11
  - His attempted retreat to the 1950's hits another snag - Jack, 2026-04-30, 11:17
    - No offense to Fordham… - atxND, 2026-04-30, 11:33
      - He paid a smart kid to take the SAT for him -- - omahadomer, 2026-04-30, 20:56
        
        What offends me about this - Mark, 2026-05-01, 08:58
        
        Is it possible that James Bond movies helped lay the - BillyGoat, 2026-05-01, 09:50
        
        We should call it what it is - ndphilo, 2026-05-01, 09:34
        
        It is fucking bananas what has been normalized by this - BillyGoat, 2026-05-01, 09:37
        
        I see what you did there and its getting there. - Grantland, 2026-05-01, 10:08
        
        Companies partially owed by his sons were recently awarded - Bryan (IrishCavan), 2026-05-01, 10:02
        
        And to add insult to injury - Mark, 2026-05-01, 13:39
      - That's kind of stepping on the point I was making - Jack, 2026-04-30, 13:34
        
        Both points are true - atxND, 2026-04-30, 14:37
  - Wouldn't that be something? - BPH, 2026-04-30, 08:56
    - You mean gravity is undefeated? - atxND, 2026-04-30, 10:37
    - He'll also be responsible for our retreat - KGB, 2026-04-30, 09:38
      - The super power suicide is progressing - Mark, 2026-04-30, 09:56
        
        The problem for Putin - Jeff (BGS), 2026-04-30, 19:04
        
        Yeah, I saw some data - Mark, 2026-05-01, 08:52
        
        The Cold War - Bryan (IrishCavan), 2026-05-01, 10:06
    - And Musk supported him. - domer.mq, 2026-04-30, 09:28
    - UK today was 95% renewable and had "negative" daytime rate - irishoutsider, 2026-04-30, 09:10
- The tragic idiocy and evil of one man - BPH, 2026-04-30, 07:56
  - No kidding. And the idiocy of the folks who elected him. - oviedoirish, 2026-04-30, 07:59
    - Hard not to be mad at the NYT piece with the disaffected - atxND, 2026-04-30, 11:39
      - I would like to know what promises he made... - domer.mq, 2026-04-30, 13:19
        
        I would like to know why anyone would think he is capable - Grantland, 2026-05-01, 07:24

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it's not at all like a presidential veto