Ryan Glasspiegel
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The House of Representatives passed a measure to send $2,000 stimulus checks to Americans, and the matter now rests in the Senate. Responding to a Washington Post story that indicated that Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell blocked the Democrats’ first attempt to get the bill to a vote on Tuesday, President Donald Trump sent a loaded message:
Unless Republicans have a death wish, and it is also the right thing to do, they must approve the $2000 payments ASAP. $600 IS NOT ENOUGH! Also, get rid of Section 230 – Don’t let Big Tech steal our Country, and don’t let the Democrats steal the Presidential Election. Get tough! https://t.co/GMotstu7OI
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 29, 2020
It’s a fascinating coalition of politicians that is pushing for larger stimulus checks than the $600 included in the previous bill. President Trump and Senators Josh Hawley, Lindsey Graham and Marco Rubio are all on the same side of an issue as Sen. Bernie Sanders.
As far as Section 230, this was a piece of legislation passed in 1996 that, according to the Washington Post, “broadly indemnifies tech platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Google for the actions of their users.” Given that these platforms censored the New York Post stories about Hunter Biden’s laptop before the election — and have repeatedly added disclaimers about President Trump’s own tweets — the argument exists that they are indeed publishers who should be held accountable for what happens on their platforms.
Given the upcoming Senate runoff elections in Georgia and the fact that the stimulus checks are popular — whether or not they add unsustainable debt burden for America’s future, people in the present are always going to prefer to be given money by the government, especially at a time where dramatic external factors have crushed the economy for workers — Mitch McConnell is in a very tricky spot here.
Buck Fiden
You signed the bill dumbass. You really thought they were going to keep their word?
Doesn’t matter. They ALL need to go.
Mitch got 6 more years and is trying to distance himself from Trump. Unlikely that is a wise choice. Trump is going to rise out of this mess even stronger than before. Now the Trump movement is pissed.
The RINO’s think they got what they wanted: more seats in the House, keep the Senate, Trump gone. And here we are again with, ‘Well, you have to vote for us or the Dem’s will get power.’ The problem is those dumbass ‘political insiders’ actually think that they will get all his votes going forward. They won’t. Either they’ll be the minority, or they’ll be out at the next primary.
600, 2000….none of it is going to be enough if lockdowns for a fake pandemic keep occuring.
We really have the worst and dumbest in Congress. Outside of Trump…I’d vote them all out.
Want to fix our government enact term limits on Congressmen and Senators, then take away their lifetime benefits. Watch them actually try to get shit done then.
Leave it to the establishment government types to drive a truck into your front door [forced unconstitutional shutdowns] and not lift a finger to help fix it.
Cryin’, again, stay out of the deep end of the pool.
McConnell is generally as POS, career politician who puts the Deep State ahead of America.