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The deal with a pocket veto is that the President has ten days to either sign or veto the bill -- but a veto is really returning it to Congress, unsigned. Congress can then try to get enough votes to overturn the veto.

If he does nothing with it (sign it or return it to Congress) within 10 days, then that counts as having signed it, and the bill becomes law.

However, that last bit only applies if Congress was able to accept the returned bill that whole time. If the Congress had already adjourned, and could not accept the returned bill, then the bill does not become law.

However, in recent years it has been made clear that Congress never really fully adjourns until early January, but then immediately reestablishes itself, so it is never fully adjourned. Even while the House was not in session during the recent government shutdown, they held short mini-sessions to make sure that the body never actually formally adjourned. Furthermore, Congress has made arrangements to accept returned bills from the President even when they are not in session (but have not formally adjourned for the term). So Congress would have to go of its way to adjourn early for the pocket veto to work.

tldr: a pocket veto won't work unless Congress shuts itself down.

No, he did not have a single Senator holding it up it passed with unanimous consent.

Yes, I know, she's a mouthpiece for a horrible administration, and may not deserve any of our empathy (because her political movement devalues it).

But doesn't anyone see the irony of an article that is written talking about how the job of the press secretary is so difficult, because people dissect every single action you take.... In an article which does nothing but dissect her social media posts?

I am imagining that Hitler "Downfall" clip, only in real life

No, I disagree. The reason why ICE can get away with the shit it does is that they go after the powerless, the nobodies. The eyes of the world are on this guy, if he gets illegally diappeared we will all notice.

Besides, if this guy really wants to run NYC, he is going to have to deal with narcissistic, entitled assholes on a daily basis. Why not start with the biggest one?

The sun did not fail to set, it was just hidden by those clouds over there

It's more likely than you think

He fired all the competent legal advisors, though....

A 50 year mortgage is basically renting your house from the bank on a long-term lease. The only advantage is that your rent will never go up.

Look at this 30 year amortization schedule. This payment is $3000/mo on a $500k loan (no money down to lake the math easier), 6% rate. You pay through 10% of the loan in year 7, and 50% in year 21. Through the life of the loan you pay a little more than double what the loan was originally worth.

Now look at the 50 year amortization for the same loan. You save less than 400 a month, but hit 10% paid down in year 18 and 50% in year 40(!!!). Over the life of the loan you are paying triple what the loan was originally worth!

It only makes sense during periods of low interest rates. But what bank would loan out money at a low rate for that long?

I am sure the President will have an entirely reasonable and prudent reaction to this news.

I find it remarkable how much of this Epstein story is paralleling the Pizzagate narrative. Everything about Pizzagate was a lie, except it turns out there really was a shadowy cabal of rich people who were covering up a pedophilia ring.

Have we heard from Q since August 10, 2019?

My point is that they are all self aware enough to know they can't just say "I just won't vote for any woman", so they will give you any other reason if asked. It doesn't have to make sense to us, as long as they can justify it in their head.

And that, in our current political climate, there are just enough of these losers, in the right zip codes, to make a difference.

This is part of the reason I so strongly want AOC to take over Schumer's Senate seat for a term or three. If she runs for President in 2028, she will probably lose. But if she moves to the Senate and is as effective there as she has been in the House, maybe the country will be ready by 2040.