Happy 10th Anniversary to Doug and Kamala! Now that he’s opened that particular door, there is a non-zero chance that voicemail gets played tonight. ;)
Speaker list:
Vice President Kamala Harris
Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey
Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper
Former Illinois Republican U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger
Wisconsin Sen. Tammy Baldwin
California Sen. Alex Padilla v
Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren v
Former Secretary of Defense & former CIA Director Leon Panetta, along with a number of veterans
Former Rep. Gabby Giffords
Georgia U.S. Rep. Lucy McBath
Tennessee State Reps. Gloria Johnson, Justin Jones and Justin Pearson, known as the “Tennessee Three”
Massachusetts U.S. Rep. Katherine Clark
Colorado U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse
Florida U.S. Rep. Maxwell Frost
Secretary Deb Haaland
Secretary Marcia L. Fudge
Michigan U.S. Rep. Elissa Slotkin
Texas U.S. Rep. Colin Allred
California U.S. Rep. and Democratic Caucus Vice Chair Ted Lieu
Streaming info:
I am still not the biggest fan of Kamala (she did a lot of good work but she was still basically a cop) but she is kicking massive amounts of ass. Hitting all the high notes and making it clear she is perfectly willing to “go low”.
It is just so fucking refreshing after decades of Democrats talking around issues and evil and… Kamala is straight up talking about how this is about basic human rights and that trump led a violent insurrection.
[edit] And yup. there we go. Lock down that border! Still hopeful that the immigration reforms actually come through but… cops gonna cop[/edit]
If the dems run the table the fillabuster can be ended, and the Supreme Court can be expanded and fixed.
They will do a real border bill not the draconian one.
It could have ended when we had a supermajority under Obama. It could have ended with a simple majority under Biden.
It will never be ended.
Look, I was skeptical too, especially when she ran in 2020, but look into her actual record. Or at least watch DL Hugelys speech from last night if not. There is a lot of misinformation about what she actually has done in her career.
Additionally, it’s important to recognize that there are people who are approaching our border seeking anmnesty because they fear for their lives and at the same time people who are trafficking our fellow humans and leaving them in trucks to die.
The bipartisan deal was supported by everyone because there is a legitimate crisis. The crisis is not the people seeking amnesty, as Trump would have you believe, but people trying to take advantage of the fact that we are so busy screening legitimate asylum seekers that we cannot catch the bad actors.
That’s why it’s important to have the option to close the border before our border agents are at a level that they can no longer effectively do their job because there are whole semi trucks worth of people who have died being trafficked across the border.
Additionally, that’s is just one piece of the border bill, which also includes things like more jobs for people so that more asylum seekers can be processed, better use of technology to detect people trying to traffic others across the border at non official ports and actual things that WILL improve the situation we have unlike that stupid wall.
This bill has the potential to save the lives of migrants. Trump killed it for political reasons.