My guess: because he can.
I think his stated reason is that it doesn’t strip social media companies of their liability protections and…CHINA!
They wouldn’t back him up in retaining the throne staying in office?
It looks like both chambers are meeting next week to override his veto. I hope they do it just as a smack in his face on his way out the door.
Voted out, impeached and overridden.
I believe it has the renaming of Confederate Traitorous General Forts clause. Why this Yankee, East Coast Elite, Military Service Ducking, Junk Food Eating, Well Done Steak With Ketchup Favoring, gelatinous bag of orange tainted waste would fake caring about that is beyond me!
I lied, it’s not beyond me. He’s a suck up Racist Shitbag White Supremecist, Megalomaniac, Narcissistic wannabe dictator, . Still going for the Southern Rural Yahoo Strategy. You know, salt of the earth, honest, hard working; morans.
He is finally clusterfucking the clusterfuckers.
Looks like he really intends to make his last month even more tumultuous than the previous 3 years and 11 months.
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Government officials and even some presidential aides are reportedly bracing for what might come next. The possibilities include strange orders to the armed forces, mass firings in key national security departments, more bizarre pardons, demands to prosecute Trump political enemies or the appointment of one or several special counsels to force the Justice Department to investigate bogus claims of election irregularities and other Trump obsessions.These possibilities have led senior government officials to deliver extraordinary public statements. Attorney General William P. Barr, whose last day is Wednesday, has said that he saw no evidence of “systemic or broad-based” election fraud and no basis for seizing election machines, appointing a special counsel to investigate voting irregularities or tapping a special counsel to examine President-elect Joe Biden’s son Hunter. Meanwhile, responding to suggestions of martial law from some of those in Mr. Trump’s orbit, the Army chief of staff, Gen. James C. McConville, and Army Secretary Ryan D. McCarthy declared Friday that “there is no role for the U.S. military in determining the outcome of an American election.” Americans can appreciate these statements — while feeling horrified that they are necessary. Necessary for Army brass to say that the military will not help stage a coup. Necessary for the attorney general to make clear that federal law enforcement authorities will not help the president overturn an election he lost.
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I can only hope that this is a harbinger of things to come, and he will clusterfuck the GOP as much as possible in revenge for not having helped him enough in stealing the election.
My favorite line: “I built a broad coalition of white people in militias…and white people NOT in militias!”
I hope he vetos everything until he is booted out.
And I hope he encourages his members of the Trumpocrats to join him in his new party.
Remember - Everything Trump Touches Turns to Shit. And he has touched the Republican Party a lot lately. I believe he has grabbed the Republican Party by the pussy.
I hope there are enough Trumplicans in Congress to uphold his veto, and this spits the Republican Party into shards. Bitter, bitter shards lying on the ground in an unruly heap of sadness.
This was his call to arms to the literally dozens of wannabe South-will-rise-again hardline militia types, to join his Election Overturn Army?
My favorite development from a couple of weeks ago, which was instantly swamped and lost in the avalanche of other news, is that Don Trump Jr and girlfriend Guilfoyle are attempting to displace the current chair of the Republican party and maneuver themselves into the seat. I wouldn’t bet a dime on their being able to pull it off, because they’re even dumber and more inept than the senior buffoon, but just the attempt will be hilariously disruptive and destructive.
Just pardoned Manafort and Roger Stone plus Kushner’s dad.
Army for the Destruction of Democratic Elections Repudiating America’s Lopsided Liberalism
Soooo…is this draining the swamp? It’s like an all-star of white collar criminals. Does Topps, Donruss, or Fleer have a set of cards?
Very clever.
It’s catch-and-release. You have to throw them back.
Ah, well at least we ain’t gotta get up before sunrise…