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@PBSNewsHour @politics-PBSNewsHour Hey #Mitch, don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.
As Trump Turns Against Ukraine, Republicans in Congress Stay Quiet https://www.diningandcooking.com/1908337/as-trump-turns-against-ukraine-republicans-in-congress-stay-quiet/ #DefenseAndMilitaryForces #DonaldJ #Ernst #ForeignAid #Graham #JD #JohnR #Joni #lindsey #lisa #McConnell #Mitch #Murkowski #putin #Recipes #RecipesTopics #RepublicanParty #Roger #russia #Senate #ThomasR #Thune #Tillis #trump #ukraine #UnitedStatesPoliticsAndGovernment #Vance #VladimirV #Volodymyr #Wicker #Zelensky
Senate Majority Leader #Mitch #McConnell issued a stark warning to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and other skeptics of vaccines on Friday
after a new report detailed the Donald Trump nominee’s ties to a lawyer who sought to revoke approval of the lifesaving #polio #vaccine for children.
“The polio vaccine has saved millions of lives and held out the promise of eradicating a terrible disease,”
McConnell, who had polio as a child,
said in a statement.
“Efforts to undermine public confidence in proven cures are not just uninformed
– they’re dangerous.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mitch-mcconnell-polio-vaccine_n_675ca894e4b0890282a00200
Senators are privately (and publicly) saying they hope Donald Trump 
stays out of the internal election to replace #Mitch #McConnell as Senate GOP leader.
Why it matters:
None of them know — or it's a damn good secret — whether the felon-candidate will make an endorsement.
But senators and advisors fear a Trump intervention could turn the secret ballot leader election into a public feud.
"I said, 'Sir, if I was you, I would stay out of the race, because there's no win for you in this,'" Sen. #Markwayne #Mullin (R-Okla.) told us about a recent call with Trump.
"I hope not," said Sen. #Thom #Tillis, when asked if he thinks Trump will weigh in. "I think outside influence could be problematic."
"He's offered some views on it to me,"Sen. #Josh #Hawley (R-Mo.) told us. "It's safe to say he has a pretty consistent prediction of who he thinks it'll be." -- Hawley said he did not know if Trump would weigh in.
Between the lines:
This the first real competitive Senate GOP leadership race of the Trump-era,
and his endorsement still carries a lot of weight with a segment of the conference.
McConnell has had a tumultuous relationship with the pussy-grabber.
The top two candidates
— Sens. John #Thune and John #Cornyn
— each have had rocky relationships with Trump.
However, they have worked to make amends.
After Jan. 6, Thune denounced Trump and initially endorsed Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) for president.
Cornyn has said the GOP needed to move on from Trump.
Senate sources do not talk about Sen. Rick #Scott's (R-Fla.) bid as seriously as Thune's or Cornyn's, though he has a good relationship with Trump.
"Sen. Scott is focused on dramatically changing the way the Senate operates and creating a member-driven process," according to spokesperson McKinley Lewis.
Sources often describe Thune as the likely favorite,
though they say not to discount how much Cornyn's long history of hard-dollar fundraising for Senate campaigns means to people.
Cornyn told us it's been a few weeks since he spoke with Trump about the leadership race.
But he visited Mar-a-Lago a couple months ago "to talk about planning for the future,"
adding they've been "visiting with some of the transition folks."
Mullin said Trump "likes" Thune despite their rocky past.
The Oklahoma Republican has publicly backed Thune.
Some sources suspect there could be a late entry:
NRSC Chair Steve #Daines (R-Mont.) is the most-floated name.
The bottom line:
There's not a lot of incentive for senators benefiting from both Thune and Cornyn's aggressive fundraising efforts to commit too early.
"If one of them felt that they really had a majority, I think they would not be shy about saying that,
but I don't think anybody does," Hawley said.
https://www.axios.com/2024/10/03/trump-senate-republicans-mcconnell-thune-cornyn
Senate Minority Leader #Mitch #McConnell's office has been working behind the scenes to get House 
conservatives to drop their demands that a short-term funding bill include an immigrant voting crackdown,
A GOP showdown is brewing ahead of the 
Oct. 1 government #funding #deadline.
Conservatives have shown a willingness to flirt with shutdowns to push their priorities, which McConnell's team wants to avoid.
In a recent meeting with other GOP offices about a short-term spending bill strategy, top McConnell staffers argued that adding a non-citizen voting bill would 
backfire.
One fear is
such a move would open the door for Democrats to tack on their own voting-related legislation, two GOP aides familiar with the conversation told Axios.
The 
️John Lewis Voting Rights Act, ️a Democrat priority that seeks to restore parts of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, was specifically discussed as a possibility.
The big picture: McConnell staffers have urged conservatives in the Senate and the House to keep the precedent of passing clean short-term-funding bills
and argued that using a #potential #shutdown to try to score political points is dangerous before the election, sources said.
Even if Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) could get a spending bill that includes the immigrant voting crackdown through the House, the measure almost certainly would be dead-on-arrival in the Democrat-controlled Senate and President Biden has said he "strongly opposes" it.
That reality helps explain the pushback from McConnell's team.
Their involvement in this latest push shows he's not taking a back seat in high-level negotiations even though he plans to step down as leader after the election.
The #House #Freedom #Caucus and other conservatives have been pressuring their leadership to attach legislation that requires people registering to vote to provide a proof of citizenship to any short-term spending measure.
Johnson is a big supporter of the measure, known as the 
SAVE Act, and has signaled he's open to attaching it to a funding bill.
He told reporters Tuesday that he was "looking for every way to push the SAVE Act and to get it through the Senate."
https://www.axios.com/2024/08/25/mcconnell-republicans-save-act-immigrant-voting
Joe Biden endorses Kamala Harris to replace him as Democrats begin to throw support behind vice-president
Treason Weasel
#Mitch #McConnell,
echoing his crypto-facist house counterpart, #Mike #Johnson,
Cries in his Chardonnay that the GOP is stuck with
the OLDEST PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE EVER
The Dems, take the longest route, but demonstrate that they can adjust and adapt
#Joe #Biden has given us a solid foundation to Make America Democratic Again
Now the first woman president of the USA, #Kamala #Harris will lead us to restoring the honesty and dedication to the American People we deserve
In the Presidency
in the Senate and House
In the Supreme Court
#VoteForAmerica
#VoteHarris
– live https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2024/jul/21/biden-drops-out-presidential-election?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Chuck Schumer, Top Democrat, Calls for New Israel Election Amid Growing Rift
Chuck Schumer, Top Democrat, Calls for New Israel Election... #benjamin #netanyahu #chuck #schumer #israel #war #joe #biden #mitch #mcconnell #news #united #states #senate
https://www.infoterkiniviral.com/2024/03/chuck-schumer-top-democrat-calls-for.html
On Tuesday the Republican leader in the Senate, #Mitch #McConnell, told reporters ️Johnson should “let the House speak”. ️
Asked about Republican proposals to offer aid to Ukraine as a loan not a grant, 
McConnell said it was more important to act quickly.
“The only way to get relief to the #Ukrainians and the #Israelis quickly is for the House to figure out how to pass the Senate bill,” he said, adding:
“We’ve got a bill that got 70 votes in the Senate. Give members of the House of Representatives an opportunity to vote on it. That’s the solution.”
The Tesla manual has this Warning 
As always, be aware of your vehicle and surroundings before driving. Never rely on Model X to automatically select a suitable drive mode without confirming the selection before you start to drive.
Regardless of whether you or the car did the gear selection, what do you do if the Model X starts moving in the wrong direction?
The manual explains:
Note
To shift from Drive into Reverse or vice versa, the driving speed must be less than 5 mph (8 km/h).
The touchscreen's drive mode strip displays Park and Neutral at all times.
To shift into Park when driving below 5 mph (8 km/h), touch the button on the drive mode strip while pressing the brake pedal.
In emergency situations when driving above 5 mph (8 km/h), press and hold the Park button to slowly bring the vehicle to a stop.
What could be more obvious?
#ux #humaninterface
#designforsafety
#Angela #Chao #Mitch #McConnell #drowned #Tesla #Elon #Musk
How Do You Put a Tesla Model X in Gear?
OVER THE WEEKEND, the Wall Street Journal published a long report on the accidental death of the shipping magnate #Angela #Chao, sister to former transportation secretary Elaine Chao and sister-in-law to soon-to-be former Senate Republican leader #Mitch #McConnell.
News of Angela Chao's death first appeared in shipping trade publications with no explanation, then was vaguely reported as an automobile accident;
McConnell, in announcing his plans to resign from his leadership post, said her dying had prompted him to think about the end of his own career.
What the Journal reported was that Chao had #drowned inside her #Tesla Model X after accidentally backing it into a pond on her Texas estate, on the short drive between the guesthouse and the main house.
According to the story, she called a friend in the guesthouse from inside the sinking car to ask for help:
While making a three-point turn, she had put the car in reverse instead of drive, she said.
It is a mistake she had made before with the Tesla gearshift.
The car had zipped backward, tipping over an embankment and into a pond.
By now, whenever anyone dies in a Tesla, the natural question to ask is whether or not the Tesla killed them, or helped kill them.
How do you put a car into reverse instead of drive?
The online manual for the Model X, has a diagram showing how you put the car in gear
It shows an interface on the Tesla's touchscreen.
It has no label for either "Drive" or "Reverse"; the blue arrows, judging by the diagrams in the rest of the manual, are not part of the display, but the manual's indication of how the driver is supposed to move their finger.
The text explains:
When you press the brake pedal when parked, the drive mode strip displays on one side of the touchscreen. Use the drive mode strip to shift Model X: swipe up for Drive, swipe down for Reverse or touch the P for Park or N for Neutral. The drive mode strip is always available on the touchscreen when you touch Controls.
Even by Tesla's ridiculous design standards, this is a shockingly bad control system.
There is no stable convention around whether swiping up means "go up" or "go down";
notoriously, Microsoft and Apple have completely opposite theories about which way makes sense.
And that dispute is only about manipulating text on your computer screen, not setting a two-and-a-half-ton vehicle into physical motion.
Tesla's choice of direction
—flicking the little car-glyph upward, as if you're pushing the car itself, rather than flicking it down, as if you're pulling the landscape so the car moves forward
—is not only the opposite of the way you advance along the road on a touchscreen in Google Maps, it's the opposite of how you drop a normal automatic-transmission car into Drive with a physical shifter.
The wrist and shoulder rotate down and back, and the car goes forward.
Presumably this had something to do with why Angela Chao had previously had trouble shifting the Tesla into the correct gear.
#Elon #Musk's design team, committed to his adolescent theories of futurism
—and to moving as many controls as possible from physical buttons, knobs, or levers to the much cheaper touchscreen, even in a car that starts at $79,900
—built a system that runs contrary to a driver's muscle memory of how to put a car in gear.
It's also theoretically possible that the Tesla put itself in gear.
The Model X includes a beta feature, which a driver would need to specifically activate, in which the car scans its surroundings and makes a guess on its own as to whether it should shift into Drive or Reverse:
When Auto Shift out of Park is enabled, Model X is designed to automatically select Drive or Reverse. The instrument panel displays the selected drive mode when the driver's door is closed and seat belt is buckled.
To override the selection, press the brake pedal and use the drive mode strip on touchscreen to shift into your desired drive mode (Drive, Reverse, Park; see Shift Using the Touchscreen).
Confirm the drive mode selection and follow the instructions on the instrument panel before you press the accelerator.
With your car rolling backwards out of control, simply turn your attention to the touchscreen
—because there is no physical button to feel for
—stab your finger at the letter P, hit it precisely, and hold it there.
What could be easier?
Justice #Amy #Coney #Barrett’s opinion was just a page long, all of two paragraphs.
But in distancing herself from both blocs in Monday’s nominally unanimous Supreme Court decision rejecting a constitutional challenge to former President Donald J. Trump’s eligibility to hold office, she staked out a distinctive role.
Justice Barrett was the third of Mr. Trump’s appointees, rushed onto the court after the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, arriving just before the 2020 election. But she is viewed as one of the more moderate members, relatively speaking, of the court’s six-member conservative supermajority. At oral arguments, she can convey a mix of intellectual seriousness and common sense.
In public appearances, she is adamant that the court is apolitical, though she sometimes says so in venues that undercut her message.
In 2021, for instance, Justice Barrett told an audience in Kentucky that “my goal today is to convince you that this court is not comprised of a bunch of partisan hacks.”
-- She was speaking at the University of Louisville’s McConnell Center, after an introduction by Senator #Mitch #McConnell, Republican of Kentucky and the minority leader, who helped found the center and was instrumental in ensuring her confirmation. Last year, she was the featured speaker at the annual gala of the #Federalist #Society, the conservative legal group.
“This suit was brought by Colorado voters under state law in state court,” Justice Barrett wrote. “It does not require us to address the complicated question whether federal legislation is the exclusive vehicle through which Section 3 can be enforced.”
Having established that she sided with her liberal colleagues on the #substance of what they had to say, she questioned their #tone, calling it #strident.
Members of the court who disagree with the majority, she said, face a choice, adding that her colleagues had made the wrong one.
US women are now second-class citizens, thanks to Sen. #MitchMcConnell. He stole a #SupremeCourt appointment from #BarackObama, giving it to #Trump, who used it plus two other appointments to overturn #Roe v Wade. So ladies, be sure to thank #Mitch for your loss of sovereignty over your own body, a basic freedom that we men still have. It is now dangerous to be pregnant in red states, as doctors can't properly treat their patients if complications arise. #ThanksMitch
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/mcconnell-leader-trump-dominance-politics-desk-rcna140958