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StratGoatCom: Aug 6, 2019; Our security is guaranteed by being able to melt the eyeballs of any other forum's denizens at 15 minutes notice

Kavros posted:

I think the texas abortion ban might have been designed intentionally to send to the supreme court, based on a strategy of purposefully including extremely horrible parts as sacrificial buffers.

If the abortion ban was just the 6 week/heartbeat thing, they would just have to up or down the process and the news would be "Supreme court allows/denies abortion ban"

Instead they can now ever so graiously strip off entire wads of the whole blatantly unconstitutional abortion bounty hunter / citizen deputizing bullshit, carving down the majority of the bill

... but, of course, leave the actual abortion ban in place in service of their demented ideology.

The reason why I think they're playing these games is because they're at least aware that they have to play it carefully with the legitimacy of the supreme court. Like, they know they can't just go all-in on the process of restructuring american law in service of a narrow right-wing dominionist attitude.

The point is to slather up the chuds for the midterm - they're getting pretty close to achieving their objective of locking the dems out for good, or they think they are, if they're trying this strategy and cashing a valuable chip like Roe, even in a conservative fashion. They can go hog wild in 3 years.

In related news:
https://maristpoll.marist.edu/polls...-november-2021/

More folks think the dem's chances are better with someone else then biden then do, among other things.

StratGoatCom fucked around with this message at 18:42 on Nov 1, 2021

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Sanguinia posted:

Reading this thread today feels like I'm in a room full of teenage libertarians who listened to Armstrong's speech from Metal Gear Rising and nodded along with every word. Yeah, gently caress off Rule of Law! The Law SHOULD change to suit the individual, countries SHOULD be ruled by strength not committee, and we SHOULD all have the ability to fight our own wars! NANOMACHINES, SON!

The rule of law cannot be a suicide pact.

# ¿ Nov 4, 2021 03:00

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a.lo posted:

https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins/status/1456237510707798018?s=21

says the person blocking everything

LBJ is laughing from his grave at him.

# ¿ Nov 4, 2021 16:12

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ex post facho posted:

Yeah, they showed that they can be safely ignored. They sacrificed all their leverage after months of insisting they'd only vote on the bills in tandem.

I'm expecting that the Dems will likely lose both houses in 2022 now, and then the White House in 2024 to Pence, DeSantis or worse. VA gov was just a sneak preview.

Completely from their own doing.

Unironically, with the games the repubs have played with voting, this act of impotence has a very good chance of ending the dems as a meaningful political entity.

# ¿ Nov 6, 2021 05:36

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VH4Ever posted:

I don't post anymore. I banned myself from this place. But I wanted to emerge from the shadow realm to say I'm just....still amazed at the CPC and its weakness and stupidity last night (I know, not all of them were in favor of caving but I'm speaking generally). It was clear to everyone what would happen if the bipartisan bill got voted on first and they let it happen anyway and didn't even get a handful of magic beans back for it. This is all Manchin wanted so whatever thin shred of leverage anyone had over him is history. Kiss BBB and all the actually good things that may have even remained in it goodbye, it's historical dust consigned to the land of Never Was. And in '22 and '24 the Democrats will get rolled hard (no voting rights bill anywhere on the horizon!) and they'll deserve it. And that's basically it, CHUD minority majority rule forever. So I hope y'all are all white, straight, Protestant, cisgender and male, because if not, poo poo's gonna get real tough for you from basically here on in this country.

The country is dying. Let the record reflect the Democratic Party of these United States helped it along towards the grave. It is as it always was.

With the spike in fertilizer prices in the tube... we are likely heading for an abyss.

# ¿ Nov 6, 2021 14:29

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Vorik posted:

https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1457041536772976643?s=20

Will be interesting to see if the GOP yes voters will face any backlash from their base for voting for this bill. A lot of hoo-hawing from online repubs calling them the 12 RINOs but it remains to be seen if the average voter feels the same way.

Means they'll be replaced with omegachuds

# ¿ Nov 6, 2021 19:15

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LionArcher posted:

I'm still taking a break, but here's his gloating video.

Everyone in these threads in general are online too much, think their opinion is more popular than it actually is, but the reality is, the buzz around this is that Biden won.

https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1457090628672757773?s=20

They're not gonna openly admit they clowned on themselves bro.

# ¿ Nov 6, 2021 22:18

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Zophar posted:

The extremely online left have a deep investment in Democrats loving everything up and losing the midterms. It has been prophesied from the nanosecond the 2020 election results were called.

Largely as we know the past behavior of all entities involved and could easily extrapolate.

# ¿ Nov 6, 2021 22:33

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https://twitter.com/Taniel/status/1456100839576252417
https://twitter.com/Taniel/status/1456103505358430214
https://twitter.com/Taniel/status/1456108412241129472
https://twitter.com/Taniel/status/1456064321499320324

If it wasn't for the overall signs of the party loving around and dragging the progressives down I'd be fairly happy with the outcome, but... well, we're liable to be dragged down to death with Biden and the rest of his dinosaurs.

# ¿ Nov 7, 2021 00:06

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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:

My gut reaction after looking at that polling is to go big. Pass the biggest, most expansive infrastructure bill you can possibly manage (pretend for a moment that ""moderates"" like Manchin and Sinema don't exist), don't give a single gently caress about "expanding government". The programs fall into place, people's lives get better. Suddenly, voters don't give so much of a poo poo about "expanding the role of the government" when it is demonstrated that - surprise, surprise! - the government can work for the people instead of against them.

This is the only play they have, and they are completely psychologically incapable of it.

# ¿ Nov 14, 2021 19:17

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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:

International Space Station evacuated.

The debris from the weapon test will likely last "years" and there is no way to track the long-term trajectory of all of the pieces. As of now, they have confirmed ~1,500 pieces in orbit.

https://twitter.com/18SPCS/status/1460388384078139399
https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1460387353768382465

"Actually, the treaty only prevents WMDs from being positioned in space, but we could also launch nukes into low orbit if we wanted" is not a super reassuring statement from Russia.

please god no.

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https://twitter.com/QasimRashid/status/1463501891283869698?t=HEIiP4xuXQ4HSGGGFQZW0A&s=19

Posted without comment because holy shite.

:allbuttons:

# ¿ Nov 24, 2021 19:30

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