Saagar Govil

CEO of $CETX, entrepreneur, investor, also knicks; (views are my own)

[Saagar Govil @SaagarGovil]

this is jaw dropping

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Can you, the people, “vote your way out of this?”

Honestly, not if you get your news from these folks.

The swamp has tricks for deceiving the public, and most even work on congressmen. Here’s an example of how Laura and Greg played along as happy tools of the swamp.

Please ask yourself why your own congressman has never talked about this. He either hasn’t gotten this far in the game (80% chance), or he likes the way the swamp obscures what’s going on (10% chance), or he dislikes the system but the price he’d pay for telling you is too high (10% chance). If a congressman sees this post and wants to debate me, I accept!

The House has rules we adopt at the beginning of each Congress. Honestly we should just use those - some go all the way back to Thomas Jefferson. Some are like Robert’s Rules of Order which branched from House rules a century ago. But we have a rules committee that modifies the rules every week. I served on the rules committee for two years. When I was on the committee, I refused to vote for rules changes if the purpose was to mislead or obscure. Every week, the rules committee bends the rules to suit the Speaker, but you can’t place the blame just on the committee or the Speaker. Every rules change must be approved by the whole House with a majority vote.

Rank and file congressmen are told to vote for these rules modifications each week for the sake of party loyalty because the rules are temporarily modified by the majority to keep the minority from using the permanent rules against us. This is partly true, so most congressmen never question beyond this.

Typically, every week the rules committee meets before other committees and writes a rules package to protect bills that will come to the floor that week. Then the whole house votes on this rules package early in the week before significant legislation comes to the floor. The vote is typically on party lines. Sometimes a block of congressmen in the majority will take the rules package hostage and withhold their vote to get something else that has nothing to do with the rules. I’m not a big fan of this, but after 13 years, my hands aren’t completely clean of this tactic.

The high-road position that I try to maintain is that if the rules package is bad, you shouldn’t vote for the rules package, and in general you shouldn’t withhold your vote from a rules package if there’s nothing wrong with the rules package… even if you disagree with the policy that is enabled to come to the floor by the rules package.

There are more details, but that’s all you need to know to understand what I’m going to explain next.

This week the Speaker wanted to do two things outside of our base rules, so he put those inside of the rules package that also had the rules for bringing bills like the popular SAVE Act to the floor, knowing members would be afraid to vote against something associated with SAVE. THIS IS INTENTIONAL.

The Speaker wanted to circumvent the National Emergencies Act of 1976 to avoid voting on tariffs and he wanted to turn off the ban on bringing a spending bill to the floor the same day it’s introduced.

The first rules package that came to the floor this week failed because myself and other republicans objected to it. The rules committee met again, wrote a new rules package without the tariff-trick, and we voted on the second rules package. I voted no but internet goons, like clockwork, characterized this as a vote against the SAVE Act.

The swamp used that second rules package to give them authority to pass a bill before anyone could read it. They hid that authority inside the rule for the SAVE act because they knew people like Laura and Greg would help them disparage anyone who didn’t go along.

If you fell for Laura and Greg’s slop you were cheering for the Pelosi doctrine that we should pass bills to see what’s in them. If the rules package had failed, the rules committee would have written a better one and SAVE Act would have still come to the floor.

[Josh Hart @joshhart]

Build him a statue 🥲

[Empire State Building @EmpireStateBldg]

Joel Embiid has been banned from the Empire State Building

[Jerry Ferrara @jerryferrara]

Imagine not having Brunson 3rd or 4th in your MVP ballot. Dude been without his other all nba teammate since end of January and they’re a 2 seed.

[Saagar Govil @SaagarGovil]

@SenWarren This country is in a disaster situation if this is how our Senators think about their priorities... utterly out of touch with what matters.

#freemarkets #TermLimits

[Saagar Govil @SaagarGovil]

In Brunson We Trust #knicks

[Saagar Govil @SaagarGovil]

@brock_aller 🤯

[Saagar Govil @SaagarGovil]

Yea this sums it up perfectly 🤡 @stephenasmith

Only forgot “some dude named Hartenstein”

He’s not a real fan

[New York Basketball @NBA_NewYork]

12 months of Knicks fan Stephen A Smith:

Last January: “You're going home in the 1st round b/c you don't have what Brooklyn has"

February: "Donovan Mitchell better not send the Knicks home"

March: “Let me say something to the Knicks fans out there…You don’t get to disown me”

April: "RJ might need to sit down for this series"

May: "We're going to the Finals"

3 days later: “I’m very disgusted”

August: "I begged Damian Lillard to come to the Knicks"

November: Attends 1st game in years. Knicks down big, leaves early. Knicks come back to win

December: "I told the Knicks to draft Haliburton"

Next day: "Knicks never have the best player on the court"

January 2: "Knicks Raptors trade doesn't work…Go get Donovan Mitchell"

January 5: “Aaaahhhhhhhh!!!!!…excited about my Knicks”

[Teg🚨 @IQfor3]

Start Quickley

[Saagar Govil @SaagarGovil]

🙌🏾 @jalenbrunson1

[Ben Stiller @BenStiller]

Jalen Brunson appreciation tweet.

[Saagar Govil @SaagarGovil]

@jfromflorida1 This is such a terrible take. In the last 20 years the franchise finally has a baseline level of competency.

[Saagar Govil @SaagarGovil]

this is pretty bad ass

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[Saagar Govil @SaagarGovil]

@BenRitholtzNBA Really Randle a C with how many turnovers???

What about Thibs grade?

[Saagar Govil @SaagarGovil]

@rohitkkohli I think it’s still true, we got lucky that Brunson and Quickley took over and Jimmy missed every shot down the stretch.

[Saagar Govil @SaagarGovil]

Spoelstra runs circles around Thibs, it’s pretty astonishing

[Saagar Govil @SaagarGovil]

This is 💯 truth

[Navalism @NavalismHQ]

"You get rewarded for unique knowledge, not for effort. Effort is required to create unique knowledge."

@naval

[Saagar Govil @SaagarGovil]

@BenRitholtzNBA Yea it’s astonishing how much they struggle with this

[Saagar Govil @SaagarGovil]

We are the worst at inbounding. I don’t understand why thibs can’t teach this shit!?!?

[Saagar Govil @SaagarGovil]

@Mr_Derivatives Few!

[Saagar Govil @SaagarGovil]

@ashwingobindram 🙌🏾