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JustAnotherGen
(31,874 posts)Who gets to decide which votes can get counted.
LenaBaby61
(6,977 posts)Looks like the treasonous fools from WV & Az have WON, on helping the GQP US Taliban Party FINALLY get RID of what little bit of democracy we had left. The GQP will get hold of this country, and turn it into something WORSE than what happened on January 6th.
JustAnotherGen
(31,874 posts)If it is - the retaliation will be awful in a 5 years / a decade.
LenaBaby61
(6,977 posts)Look at Russia. That's what the treasonous GQP US Taliban Party wants over here in this country and worse.
JustAnotherGen
(31,874 posts)I was in DC as an intern during Rwanda - and my work ostensibly was focused on the VAW - but I was there because of a paper on Genocide working for a congress woman.
I suspect people that look like me, other minorities, the GLBT communities and religious minorities -with some cisgender white LIBERAL christians -
Might go Hutu. Give it 5-10 years. Max.
demmiblue
(36,879 posts)Botany
(70,570 posts)... up to Joe's yacht or house. The fossil fuel industry as it is now operated is worth > 1 trillion $s and
it will pay anything to keep the gravy train running.
Poiuyt
(18,130 posts)I'm sure the Founders didn't mean for that to mean "minority rules."
Hekate
(90,779 posts)
if we actually had power.
Freddie
(9,273 posts)The Founding Fathers meant to protect minority interests, not ensure complete minority rule.
Poiuyt
(18,130 posts)InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)Eid Ma Clack Shaw
(490 posts)these people know what theyre doing.
Rhiagel
(1,677 posts)Make these 2 showboats irrelevant. Then, make DC the 51st state, which will add 2 more for the good guys.
agingdem
(7,853 posts)Last edited Thu Jan 13, 2022, 06:08 PM - Edit history (1)
Rhiagel
(1,677 posts)But he can only do so much. It's more up to the states and our dysfunctional Congress.
Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)It's why Harry Truman could desegregate the army with an executive order, since the army is federal.
Elections, however, are not. He's limited in what he can do. Since elections are held at the state level, an executive order would not cover state election laws.
uponit7771
(90,359 posts)kimbutgar
(21,181 posts)How much money does this cretin need to not destroy our democracy?
pwb
(11,287 posts)That needs more attention election time.
Docreed2003
(16,871 posts)...the first chance the GOP gets to make that change if they gain a majority in the Senate.
The writing is on the wall.
Fiendish Thingy
(15,651 posts)PortTack
(32,790 posts)budkin
(6,713 posts)Enough is enough.
BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)Time to strip the filibuster fig leaf off these traitors and bring Voting Rights and each individual piece of the Build Back Better act to the floor and force votes. Dozens of votes Hundreds of vote if necessary. Its time to cut the crap and put these DINOs on record. Enough is enough.
wiggs
(7,817 posts)that he'll work day and night to get some gop senators to back election and voting law reforms which are badly needed.
Did he say that?
LW1977
(1,236 posts)So tired of hearing about these two! Democracy is dead!
iemanja
(53,056 posts)DetroitLegalBeagle
(1,926 posts)They have zero reason to support this bill.
Crunchy Frog
(26,629 posts)Should that be the new name for our country after 2024?
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kacekwl
(7,021 posts)want to legislate and do their job get the fuck out and stop holding EVERY GOD DAMN THING UP. Call it a hung jury and bring replacement legislators. This is total nonsense already. Yes I'm talking to the two assholes from WV and Arizona and any other "Democratic party" members who won't get it together.
W_HAMILTON
(7,871 posts)Let's get some more Democrats from the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party in the Senate so that we never have to give another damn what Manchin says or does.