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no worries, she will literally never need to vote on a check on donald trump on this issue because none will ever reach the Senate floor
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Adam Johnson made a good summary of how a bunch of mainstream American news outlets recently ran a really lovely quasi-white nationalist story about the government shut down and prisons.
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Has one of the responses says, he's failed that oath since day 1 https://twitter.com/pwnallthethings/status/1083591952048754688 https://twitter.com/pwnallthethings/status/1083593323829432321
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Literally willing to sacrifice their livelihoods for Trump https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1083702592918749186
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Charlz Guybon posted:Literally willing to sacrifice their livelihoods for Trump "Border security" has become this administration's "welfare queen". Shocking that a rural white man from Mississippi would let his hatred of minorities make his decisions for him.
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Charlz Guybon posted:Literally willing to sacrifice their livelihoods for Trump I guaran-loving-tee the gentleman quoted there has immigrant labor working for him.
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Jan 11, 2019 14:26
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Mister Mind posted:Wrap it up, Ocasio-Cortezailures. https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1083579511889973250
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There's a vote to bludgeon them with in the general https://twitter.com/paulkrugman/status/1083717577136836610
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DACK FAYDEN posted:That's actually completely free for her to come out against, right? The constituency who least cares about the southern border has got to be in Alaska. That and her constituency contains a lot of Native Tribes that are not pleased by Kavanaugh being on the bench or of the R platform in general.
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friendbot2000 posted:That and her constituency contains a lot of Native Tribes that are not pleased by Kavanaugh being on the bench or of the R platform in general.
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DACK FAYDEN posted:Yes, but I thought that she'd be a lock to vote actively no on Kavanaugh because of those native tribes... so, you know, I actually kind of want to retract my previous post, because that "present" bullshit sure was cowardly. it doesn't matter if she voted no or voted present and people in this forum get way too wrapped up in symbolic things. i guarantee her constituents in alaska didn't care.
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axeil posted:it doesn't matter if she voted no or voted present and people in this forum get way too wrapped up in symbolic things. i guarantee her constituents in alaska didn't care. Iirc, it was the Alaskan native tribes that put in a lot of efforts to get her to win by write-in when she lost the Republican primary. They are part of her constituents.
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Charlz Guybon posted:There's a vote to bludgeon them with in the general Dems really just need to have a backbone and say outright that the "GOP wants to kill you" in every advertisement. Straight up just have some soccer mom named Karen show up in an ad and say "I was just about to take my four loving children to practice, but instead I died from the carrot and celery sticks I packed for their snack because the GOP cut funding to protect the quality of our food".
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axeil posted:it doesn't matter if she voted no or voted present and people in this forum get way too wrapped up in symbolic things. i guarantee her constituents in alaska didn't care. Yes it does. The reason she voted present was so that McConnell didn't have to postpone the vote by two days until Daines got back from his daughter's wedding, for fear of more evidence coming out and potentially losing more support. If her anti-rapist principles don't even extend as far as "putting even the slightest road hump in the way of a rapist judge" then they are purely political theatre. She took a hall pass and was permitted to vote present for political gain in exchange for not offering any tangible opposition. How often do politicians have to do this over and over, and even say they do things like this before we can identify patterns? Since when in the hell have Republican senators of all people had any principles at all?
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Nemo Somen posted:Iirc, it was the Alaskan native tribes that put in a lot of efforts to get her to win by write-in when she lost the Republican primary. They are part of her constituents. But that's enough of me pooping up the news thread. Sorry all.
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DACK FAYDEN posted:That's actually completely free for her to come out against, right? The constituency who least cares about the southern border has got to be in Alaska. I have bad news for you about both Murkowski and the Alaskan people.
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:Until she has to vote on it, then she’ll support it. naw, that's Susan Collins Murkowski has poo poo conservative views and usually votes that way, but she doesn't always toe the GOP line. For example, she voted to save the ACA, she voted against the Betsy DeVos nomination, she voted against defunding Planned Parenthood, and she didn't vote to confirm Kavanaugh.
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predicto posted:naw, that's Susan Collins She's Joe Manchin for Republicans
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The Glumslinger posted:She's Joe Manchin for Republicans Not really. Manchin will never actually be the deciding vote on anything that hurts the Democrats. He stays quiet, and then casts a chud vote the minute Chuck Schumer tells him that his vote no longer matters and there is no way the Democrats can win. I'm pretty sure Murkowski actually was the deciding vote that killed the GOP's effort to repeal the ACA. she still sucks of course
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Notinh to see here https://mobile.twitter.com/nytimes/status/1083897477940563969
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predicto posted:Not really. Manchin will never actually be the deciding vote on anything that hurts the Democrats. He stays quiet, and then casts a chud vote the minute Chuck Schumer tells him that his vote no longer matters and there is no way the Democrats can win. Yeah it's mostly a matter of her not being afraid of being primaried by the tea party wackadoos because they have already tried and failed. Also she's from Alaska and I think that it is worth remembering that it's the only state in the union that actually has a UBI pathetic as it may be speaks to a different cultural understanding of the role of government than exists in the rest of the country. That said the "there are no good Republicans" stands it's just that some are objectively worse than others.
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(local news) "The wall will come in whatever form is deemed most effective, a concrete wall, a steel wall, a virtual wall.." a virtual wall a virtual wall We can just have a bunch of wireframe galaga ships whizzing around the border and that will be all well and good, right? Mercury_Storm fucked around with this message at 23:42 on Jan 12, 2019 |
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Mercury_Storm posted:(local news) "The wall will come in whatever form is deemed most effective, a concrete wall, a steel wall, a virtual wall.." Picture 10 million Tupacs projected standing shoulder to shoulder and one atop each other, 30 feet high along the entire boulder. On national holidays we could have them dance!
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Thaddius the Large posted:Picture 10 million Tupacs projected standing shoulder to shoulder and one atop each other, 30 feet high along the entire boulder. On national holidays we could have them dance! 5 million Boyz II Men singing End of the Road
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Thaddius the Large posted:Picture 10 million Tupacs projected standing shoulder to shoulder and one atop each other, 30 feet high along the entire boulder. On national holidays we could have them dance! gently caress a wall, but wouldn’t it be theoretically more plausible and effective to build an invisible fence sensor type deal, have a gently caress ton of drones patrol it and send out actual agents to investigate alarms? It would cost a lot and we’d have to build a lot of drones and hire a lot of agents, but it seems like it would be more viable than a thing that could bypassed by a loving welder’s kit.
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bloodysabbath posted:gently caress a wall, but wouldn’t it be theoretically more plausible and effective to build an invisible fence sensor type deal, have a gently caress ton of drones patrol it and send out actual agents to investigate alarms? that is exactly what we currently have but the big wet president wants an actual physical wall because he is a child
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luxury handset posted:that is exactly what we currently have but the big wet president wants an actual physical wall because he is a child 50 billion dollars would buy a lot of extra agents and surveillance to shore up the border. Unless you’re gonna have the stupid rear end wall manned by agents who have orders to kill anyone with a blowtorch, it makes no goddamn sense. It’s the IRL version of an Imperial AT-AT being brought down by a cheap rear end tow cable.
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bloodysabbath posted:50 billion dollars would buy a lot of extra agents and surveillance to shore up the border. Unless you’re gonna have the stupid rear end wall manned by agents who have orders to kill anyone with a blowtorch, it makes no goddamn sense. It’s the IRL version of an Imperial AT-AT being brought down by a cheap rear end tow cable. Please stop making the argument that any money should be spent on this at all.
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Lovely https://twitter.com/LOLGOP/status/1084435060395331585
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So, does he think Trump is going to cave, or what? If this tanks the economy, his stock portfolio tanks with it. https://twitter.com/SenWhitehouse/status/1084439076638547968 https://twitter.com/SenWhitehouse/status/1084443902025891841 Charlz Guybon fucked around with this message at 14:39 on Jan 13, 2019 |
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Has Trump blamed McConnell for the shutdown yet? That looks like his only way out.
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superjew posted:Has Trump blamed McConnell for the shutdown yet? That looks like his only way out. The turtle has withdrawn into his shell and is actively avoiding press or any situation that might have the public. He's a scum sucking poo poo stain on the underwear of humanity but he is also smart enough to see that coming.
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superjew posted:Has Trump blamed McConnell for the shutdown yet? That looks like his only way out. His only way out is an emergency declaration, followed by funding the government before the courts strike it down.
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evilweasel posted:His only way out is an emergency declaration, followed by funding the government before the courts strike it down. That’s basically what every Republican is telling him but what if he doesn’t listen? At this point he’s more concerned with winning the staredown in Congress than actually getting money for The Wall.
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