The outflankening of the outflankening
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Trump is threatening to veto the $900 billion deal unless the checks get bumped to $2,000 (and the three-Martini deduction gets extended indefinitely, which is a particularly weird fetish for a man who doesn’t drink, but our Donnie is nothing if not a bottomless well of weird fetishes. ETA: A couple of commenters pointed out immediately that this is just a perk for his hotel business — even after four years I have trouble remembering just how incredibly venal Trump is).
Who knows if he’s serious, but Pelosi and Schumer are calling his bluff:
It’s a little hard to imagine at the moment how Rose Twitter will turn this into proof that the Democrats are blocking economic relief to the Working Class (the working class turns out to be an under-employed documentary filmmaker in Slope Park by the way), but I’m confident they call pull it off somehow or the other.
. . . I just realized that Trump probably thinks he’s buying some Democratic votes here in regard to the January 6th certification. Yes he is that stupid.