7 responses to “SaturTabs”

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   Michael Cain

   March 14, 2026 at 12:22 pm

   Re the SAVE act… The SAVE bill that has been passed by the House and sent to the Senate affects only registration. Trump’s social media rants, such as greatly restricted use of mail ballots, are not included. The bill also allows states to accept attestations of citizenship along with unspecified “other” documentation. It is unclear whether the situation here in Colorado, requiring an attestation subject to perjury but no other actual papers would be acceptable under the bill. I assume that North Dakota’s Senators will vote against the bill, since North Dakota has no registration system and would have to create one.

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   gVOR10

   March 14, 2026 at 12:44 pm

   Krugman’s conclusion:

   So if you want to understand how this country has degenerated to such a state, how we can be spending nearly $2 billion a day attacking Iran without a clear endgame in sight, while children go without healthcare, nursing homes are understaffed because their workers have been deported, home electricity bills skyrocket due to data centers, consider who benefits and who isn’t hurt.
   This is a billionaire’s war, waged at everyone else’s expense.

   Republican “populism” – government of the oligarchs, by the oligarchs, and for the oligarchs. But how do we get the MAGA to see this?

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   drj

   March 14, 2026 at 1:27 pm

   @gVOR10:

   Republican “populism” – government of the oligarchs, by the oligarchs, and for the oligarchs.

   Biggest con of the last generation (or so) is to paint academics/experts as “the elite” and the wealthy as “men of the people.”

   Worked like a charm, though.

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   Mr. Prosser

   March 14, 2026 at 2:20 pm

   If a bill is not signed within 10 days, not counting Sundays, and congress is in session then the bill becomes law. Seems like an empty threat unless congress is within 10 days of adjourning or can the speaker or majority leader adjourn any time he wants to?

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   Gregory Lawrence Brown

   March 14, 2026 at 4:05 pm

   @Mr. Prosser:..If a bill is not signed within 10 days, not counting Sundays, and congress is in session then the bill becomes law.

   If I am reading this correctly the President can return bills (veto) before the 10 days pass so that they would not become law unless the Congress of the United States (that would be the Senate and the House of Representatives) votes to override the veto.

   United States Constitution
   Article I Section 7 Par. 2
   Every Bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it become a Law, be presented to the President of the United States; If he approve he shall sign it, but if not he shall return it, with his Objections to that House in which it shall have originated, who shall enter the Objections at large on their Journal, and proceed to reconsider it. If after such Reconsideration two thirds of that House shall agree to pass the Bill, it shall be sent, together with the Objections, to the other House, by which it shall likewise be reconsidered, and if approved by two thirds of that House, it shall become a Law.

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   Kathy

   March 14, 2026 at 4:37 pm

   @Mr. Prosser:
   @Gregory Lawrence Brown:

   It’s hard to know what El Taco means, because he has no idea himself. He still didn’t threaten to veto all bills until the Massive Voter Suppression Act* is passed.

   *Truth in advertising.

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   Mr. Prosser

   March 14, 2026 at 7:04 pm

   @Gregory Lawrence Brown: @Kathy: Correct, he didn’t say he would veto the bills, just not sign them. I think I need to quit reading the news and keep on doing nature walks no matter what the weather and watching Corner Gas and Northern Exposure series on repeat.

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