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SuprstitionAintthWay

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17. This is like the flip side of 90+% of Americans wanting universal background checks

Reply to PunkinPi (Original post)

Wed May 15, 2019, 10:46 PM

May 2019

as a prerequisite to buying a gun, but Republicans in Congress just say Fuck You, America and gun violence victims, we're doing what our NRA donors and hardest hardcore primary voters want anyway.

Edit: Only one egregious example of many. There's such a long list of things America at large wants to happen but Republican politicians and their special interest paymasters don't care, and where they have the power to they're blocking anyway.

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There is no state in the country where support for banning abortion reaches even 25% [View all] PunkinPi May 2019 OP

They don't care Freddie May 2019 #1

agreed - they don't care and they use it to rally their evangelical base NewJeffCT May 2019 #6

Also, those monsters want this horror getting to the Supremes before the next election. sarge43 May 2019 #8

Doesn't matter if it is before the election. Which SCJ is retiring? MH1 May 2019 #11

+1 superpatriotman May 2019 #15

gop has no interest in governing, only ruling. one party minority rule has been Kurt V. May 2019 #2

Question Traildogbob May 2019 #9

No, but there is plenty of support for restrictions and burdensome regulations, which are just as WhiskeyGrinder May 2019 #3

burdens like "don't poison the air and water" ? ProfessorPlum May 2019 #4

Is that an abortion regulation? WhiskeyGrinder May 2019 #5

ah I see, I misunderstood your post ProfessorPlum May 2019 #7

Let's all make a pact then to get out and vote in 2020 NO MATTER WHAT. PatrickforO May 2019 #10

As the saying goes, "we are the ones we've been waiting for." GOTV PunkinPi May 2019 #12

authoritarian governments don't care what the people support....governments like the one we have spanone May 2019 #13

and that 10-20% turns up at the polls every election 0rganism May 2019 #14

That's accurate, as far as it goes. Mariana May 2019 #16

This is like the flip side of 90+% of Americans wanting universal background checks SuprstitionAintthWay May 2019 #17

It's not who gets polled. It's who votes. Yavin4 May 2019 #18