Senators finally discovered that there was a ridiculously small amount of fentanyl coming to US from Canada & that Canada's "giant secret fentanyl labs" were fake news? Canada might want to declare a state of emergency, though, considering the amount of drugs & firearms coming to Canada from US.
All 4 GOP Sens could be voted out if pressures on ppl in their states get to be too much. McConnell & Paul are fr KY. It's facing mass Canadian boycotts of liquor. Maine is also being decimated due to Canadian boycotts & world tariffs. AK is extremely reliant on fed spending.
KY whiskey: off the shelves in Canada.
Maine: most Quebecers used to go there during Summer holidays. Tourism will suffer B$ in losses.
AK: chickens, cows, fields & Ozarks Mountains. Farmers will be hit the hardest.
The vote was on the Canadian tariffs because no one likes that shit. Now it has to go the house and they have to pick it up or it dies. Guess what happens next.
It would truly be nice if they could, but as senate leader I mistakenly said house earlier i think) probably not. Even if they did, he alone isn't even the whole problem anyway.
Yes, but it's still March 14th in the house until Dec. 31st. Johnson froze the day when House Dems tried to force a vote on the "Emergency," causing the tarrifs. There is a 15 day period that had to elapse before the vote could take final vote could take place.
It’s better to make a statement than stay quiet and do nothing.
Every time a bill is put forward identifying the stupidity and general evil of Trump’s poilicies, the Republicans who vote against it will need to own it when trying to get re-elected in a country failing due to Trump.
WE might just get a government to replace this regime with. Too bad it will be filled with the morons who allowed the mango mussolini in power in the first place.
But it is only for Canada. The Canadians really couldn't care less. They've already hit back. Tourist visits canceled, American goods taken off their shelves. I don't think they are going to reverse any of their trade choices are going to come America.
There is a "chance" that it'll help if DJT ever signed it.
It does take a while to re-direct a country's trade, kind of like tourism...
Some will go back in the summer.
Some will wait until next summer.
Some will wait until the MAGA era ends.
Some may never go back. (Me unless it's VERY important.)
McConnell, writhing in self-pity and torment from his refusal to prevent all of this from happening when he had the chance, is now casting token votes for a measure that he knows will never reach the House floor in the next 20 months. This wretched codger deserves endless, overwhelming guilt.
Tax breaks and tariffs they want to bankrupt the working and middle class the extort our work and assets. Economic terrorism. Their greed will not end. This weekend they vote on the budget. Hands off protest April 5th.
It's not new legislation and can't be vetoed. The Act that Trump is acting under says that Congress can void the emergency. If the House passed this as well the Canadian tariffs would end.
I'm definitely going to build billion dollar factories on the strength of a one-vote margin reeling in the loony who otherwise gets his way on trade with every other nation.
Tune in next week for the stunning reversals and divagations
3/11; R. Maddow: Trump National Emergency Law for tariff power lets Congress, Dems, introduce procedural measure to vote on it; requires a vote in 15 days. GOP doesn't want recorded votes; changes language: each calendar day of 119th Congress is just one long day - 15 days will never elapse. #dead 🐔
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The defining statement of 2025.
Unfortunately, I don’t think Americans have it in us. While many of us despair at the death of democracy, 77 million are celebrating their “ liberation”.
We are terminally stupid.
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People are saying that this won't pass the House.
I wouldn't be so sure about that
Could well be tRUmp's first veto, and it will definitely be noteworthy when the economy burns
If the Senate is terminating the national emergency, which gives Trump authorization to an act tariffs then everything he’s done today is void, correct?
The world against America in trade and the alliance against America as an ally. The people of the world boycotting American products and tourism. Happy Diversification Day America
The total US trade defecit is nearly a billion dollars. To eliminate that they need to either increase the value of their exports by over 900 millions dollars or persuade everyone else to lower their prices by the same amount. I'm not sure how this policy of pissing off your customers will help...
The world is uniting in a tariff response. A standard rate based on American arrogance and raised every time Trump opens his mouth. The initial rate is based on a small percentage of American arrogance and will start at 100%.
It's so embarrassing though, like you can just feel the second hand embarrassment beginning to rise up, but yes...any small act of rebellion is better than none right now, they've lost all muscle and will need to gain it back as everyone else suffers from their incompetence
It has to go to the House now, where Mike fucking Johnson will kill it. I heard that the orange bitch will veto it anyway. At least some GOPers found some cojones.
I called my piece of shit representative, Mike Lawler, to tell him to support the bill. He won't because he's a racist, moron with no spine and no brain. But I called him. And then each $500 dollars I've lost today, I call back.
ask yourself if literally anyone in the GOP now seems the type to say "oh wow I got defeated handily at the ballot box, my bad" and steps down without further issue
Correct, instead they will double down, fire more people, burn soc sec and every social program to the ground, raise unbearable tarriffs. They dont care. So im not calling them anymore. Just going to help my neighbors.
I'm genuinely stunned that the Senate and MITCH FUCKING MCCONNELL told Trump to shove his Canadian tariff crap up his ass. Hopefully, they can do this with all of his idiotic tariffs.
Moscow Mitch's job is done, so he has no bull in the fight. He is to blame for most of the mess we're in. He lit the fire. I loathe him with every fiber of my being.
They had the chance to put him to it to pasture, Mitch included amongst they. Now he can finally finish the job Putin wants him to do. Destroy America. That’s what the Russians meant when they said America will be destroyed from the inside. What other reason is there? With 2 addicts @ the helm.
Gooey, dusty, and then hopefully you get to contribute to being soil provided you arent in a nearly airtight box or on someone's mantle. With Mitch? Who knows? He passed gooey by in the 90s.
Only because they know it won’t make it to the floor of the house so they did it to help their colleagues who are up for reelection or whose constituents are suffering because Canada doesn’t want to buy their products. They do nothing for you nothing has changed.It’s a magic trick. Wake up
Will die a quiet death unless some republicans in the House vote out a discharge petition, 'cuz Moses Mike Johnson will never put the bill on the floor for a vote.
I agree that JustDumb has more going cognitively, but the orange turd has this mob-boss thing that JustDumb doesn't have. Take away the intimidation tool, and they crumble. If that orange monster died tonight, things would get better within weeks.
Have ppl finally figured out (just like ppl from WW2 Nazi Germany) that Nazis are fucking batshit evil & their policies are inherently shit?
I suspect ppl're still ("Oh, stop exaggerating it's not that bad; We'll survive this, Stop being negative it's not affecting me; He said it wouldn't happen)
Yesterday I had a 'Blue, hates MAGAts' person defend fascism and insult my ancestors here on Bluesky, so yeah, I think the US is going to have to suffer a lot more before it begins to understand what civilisation means.
Some of us understand. Unfortunately there is a HUGE portion of the population that is dumb as rocks and gullible to a fault, and will blindly follow as der leader marches them right off a cliff like the lemmings they are. But magats only make up A THIRD of America's population.
I think that's what this would do, at least towards Canada, if the House were to also pass it and the President signed it, neither of which seems likely.
Meanwhile, Canada sidles up to EU politely and says,
"Welcome to the party, Europe. Can I get you a shot of 'sirop d'érable' to start with?"
"UK, you good?"
(discretely opening parka)
"Perhaps you'd also be interested in some of this that our erstwhile BFF no longer appears to want or need..."
Just first procedural vote I believe, so that it goes to committee.
The CR did prohibit auto-expiry of the "economic emergency" and prevented GOP from introducing stuff to get rid of it.
Do I understand correctly that this only applies to tariffs on some Canadian exports? And it is meaningless unless the House also takes up the resolution? Whereupon Republicans would tank it...
We need to bombard them. I’ve decided I will NEVER vote for another democrat that holds office at this time except Cory. The rest of the are wringing their hands afraid someone will be mean to them. I’m tired of them.
The House has to take it up next week and pass it in a supermajority.
I think that, even if the House does pass it as a supermajority (doubtful), that #Felon47 can veto it b/c the Senate did not pass it w/a supermajority.
If Republicans who voted for this resolution are serious about stopping Trump, they would give him an ultimatum: back off these insane tariffs, or they will switch parties and caucus with the Dems.
The problem is that it now has to go back to the House and they passed a resolution that the rest of the year counts as one day only
The rule is that the Senate’s resolution can not be brought up unless he approves it or it has been brought up enough days in a row
2025 now only counts as one day
The 51 to 48 ratio is why America MUST CREATE a THIRD political party, the two party system is idiocy every year,or every 4 years. Free Thinkers of both parties coupled with the non voters would create power - hopefully for good this time - what does America have to lose?! Trump is terrible for USA
The senate voting to protect their own wallets before they vote to help people falsely imprisoned against their will with no trials or rights is probably not the move people are thinking it is.
Can the house come back without Johnson and vote to remove him? Gaetz and those other magat fools put that one person can put forth a vote to remove him.
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Maine: most Quebecers used to go there during Summer holidays. Tourism will suffer B$ in losses.
AK: chickens, cows, fields & Ozarks Mountains. Farmers will be hit the hardest.
This is the reason why 4 GOP senators voted for it, a proforma act with no real impact.
Every time a bill is put forward identifying the stupidity and general evil of Trump’s poilicies, the Republicans who vote against it will need to own it when trying to get re-elected in a country failing due to Trump.
They are the same who enabled Trump, and now they voted this motion just because they know it will never be voted by House of Representatives.
I hope someone is writing all this down.
This madness needs to stop!
#GOPRecession
It does take a while to re-direct a country's trade, kind of like tourism...
Some will go back in the summer.
Some will wait until next summer.
Some will wait until the MAGA era ends.
Some may never go back. (Me unless it's VERY important.)
The only real national emergency the US is facing is how to deal with the insane person one currently occupying the White House.
Still... nice to see some GOP turds floating to the top of their bowl, even if it won't actually matter.
Tune in next week for the stunning reversals and divagations
Hope this goes all the way through and these tariffs get canceled
Johnson made it that one day can be a year. (Check it yourself). It will die on the floor.
Americans will have to take matters into their own hands to save their democracy.
The defining statement of 2025.
Unfortunately, I don’t think Americans have it in us. While many of us despair at the death of democracy, 77 million are celebrating their “ liberation”.
We are terminally stupid.
b) NO it will not get a vote in the House
I wouldn't be so sure about that
Could well be tRUmp's first veto, and it will definitely be noteworthy when the economy burns
This is exactly why we must keep working to bankrupt TSLA.
The only consequence they understand is seeing their wealth vanish.
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they know it will never pass in the house
That's the only emergency most of us see.
That'd be a nightmare.
I suspect ppl're still ("Oh, stop exaggerating it's not that bad; We'll survive this, Stop being negative it's not affecting me; He said it wouldn't happen)
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"Welcome to the party, Europe. Can I get you a shot of 'sirop d'érable' to start with?"
"UK, you good?"
(discretely opening parka)
"Perhaps you'd also be interested in some of this that our erstwhile BFF no longer appears to want or need..."
The CR did prohibit auto-expiry of the "economic emergency" and prevented GOP from introducing stuff to get rid of it.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-joint-resolution/37
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I think that, even if the House does pass it as a supermajority (doubtful), that #Felon47 can veto it b/c the Senate did not pass it w/a supermajority.
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Coverage of it by The Hill: https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5189410-house-gop-democrats-repealing-trump-tariffs/
However, Mike Johnson has done a weird procedural thing to prevent it from ever coming up for a vote in the House.
I want to see how many Americans will be turning out this weekend.
The last good republican was late John McCain after that it is a trash party.
And Dems shouldn't allow any republican in their party.
Keep that filth out.
The rule is that the Senate’s resolution can not be brought up unless he approves it or it has been brought up enough days in a row
2025 now only counts as one day
He should go back in time with the Greeks, I'm sure they'll love him