Trump finally signs the COVID relief bill,
and hallucinates a line-item veto.
Trump’s staff may have tricked him into thinking he has a line-item veto. Attention-seeking becomes purer for the desperate POTUS*. Trump dithered because he thinks that improves an “unpredictability” brand that shines the turd of incompetence. Trying to make indecisiveness a fashion statement only works when horseshoes are hand grenades.
One of the glaring lies is that “the House and Senate have agreed to focus strongly on the very substantial voter fraud…” from the election. (Not true)
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LOL Trump apparently thinks he has a line-item veto. How precious!
Trump says he signed covid relief package in a statement that includes the kind of lies we would hear in his photo ops. One of the glaring lies is that “the House and Senate have agreed to focus strongly on the very substantial voter fraud…” from the election. (Not true) pic.twitter.com/ppzauuvFmK
Trump played games with Americans’ lives, ruined an already difficult Christmas for millions and got nothing in return for his cruelty. He is the worst deal maker of all time and the Republican Party is complicit in his assault on our country. Vote them all out!
This warning by @IgnatiusPost is notable because of its sources, identified as “senior officials,” “government officials,” and “State Department and Pentagon officials.” In other words: Senior national security officials in government are alarmed. https://t.co/zvHH8BhxIj
I am horrified that the President of the United States is attacking our free elections. Democracy means sometimes your candidate loses. Defending voting rights is more important than winning. All Americans should be speaking out to condemn this betrayal of our democratic values. https://t.co/1HAcoDdgr1
In anticipation of the signing, the smaller of Mar-a-Lago's two ballrooms was prepped for a 7 p.m. ceremony, complete with a desk and chair for Trump to sit, and his customary pens at the ready, according to the source.
However, as the hour approached, aides were informed the President would not be signing the relief bill that evening. One source told CNN that Trump had “changed his mind.”
The country, Congress and many of Trump's closest aides and advisers remain in the dark as to what he intends to do. He has not offered any clarity since posting the video objecting to the bill on Tuesday night.
Unemployment benefits for millions of Americans lapsed Saturday night, and the government is poised for a shutdown Monday at midnight.
As President Trump rapidly approached a Monday deadline to avert a government shutdown, aides and lawmakers appeared flummoxed about his strategy, left to interpret musings from his Twitter feed while he golfed and otherwise remained out of public view.
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Senior White House officials do not know if Trump's apparent veto threat is real or not
1 person briefed: “Everybody in the White House is trying to figure out what’s in Trump’s head, if this is a bluff or if he’s going to carry this out …Nobody knows”https://t.co/N4WSYPUE57— Jeff Stein (@JStein_WaPo) December 27, 2020
A large spending bill that Congress passed last week must be signed into law by midnight on Monday to prevent many federal agencies from dramatically scaling back their operations. After Congress passed the bill,Trump posted a videoon Twitter announcing his objections to it, claiming the stimulus payments in the legislation were too small and that foreign aid was too excessive.
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Starting Tuesday, hundreds of thousands of federal employees would be sent home without pay. And even the many federal employees who continue to work because they are deemed “essential,” such as members of the military, will not be paid until a new funding bill is authorized.
In addition to a government shutdown on Tuesday, eviction protections for millions of Americans would lapse later this week; more than 14 million people are losing unemployment benefits; and no stimulus checks would be issued. Failing to sign the bill into law would also freeze new money for vaccine distribution, small business aid, the ailing airline industry, and school aid, among other things.
“I understand he wants to be remembered for advocating for big checks, but the danger is he’ll be remembered for chaos and misery and erratic behavior if he allows this to expire,” Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) said on Fox News on Sunday. “So I think the best thing to do, as I [said], sign this and then make the case for subsequent legislation.”
Trump’s rent-seeking occurs in the media production of false messages, either misinformation or disinformation.
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…while capital is unproductive, it appears to be productive as if through a miracle and thus masks the real productive processes. This second aspect of capital as the body without organs is precisely what Marx calls commodity fetishism: the fact that the production process is masked or eclipsed.
