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Celerity

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10. He is not going to agree to a mini nuke, and he is going to block a nice chunk of Biden's agenda, as

Reply to Demsrule86 (Reply #7)

Tue Feb 2, 2021, 01:21 PM

Feb 2021

will, more than likely, Sinema and perhaps others (Feinstein is a sold never on doing away with the filibuster and SCOTUS expansion etc).

The system is broken. We have to rely on the support of people who would be straight up centre right to solid right (in some nations) in most any other advanced western nation, due to the the US being so artificially so skewed to the right and gamed out by the Rethugs and the gaslighting RW media hate machine.

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Power-sharing agreement. Worried. [View all] Politicub Feb 2021 OP

as near as i can tell rampartc Feb 2021 #1

Democrats can execute the so-called "nuclear option" servermsh Feb 2021 #2

Manchin said 100% no way to that a couple weeks ago and has not changed at all. nt Celerity Feb 2021 #3

Manchin would be a committee chair. servermsh Feb 2021 #4

he ruled out the mini nuke, he's never going to vote to blow out even a millimetre of the filibuster Celerity Feb 2021 #5

Manchin is a political creature. He will do what he has to in the end. This is why McConnell Demsrule86 Feb 2021 #7

He is not going to agree to a mini nuke, and he is going to block a nice chunk of Biden's agenda, as Celerity Feb 2021 #10

I could see him stonewalling the entire time. He won't need to vote for or against Politicub Feb 2021 #11

We can go nuclear if need be. Demsrule86 Feb 2021 #6

No... we can't. FBaggins Feb 2021 #9

I knew the trial would impede progress on really important stuff...I think it should have been Demsrule86 Feb 2021 #8

A mindset change that you have to come to accept FBaggins Feb 2021 #12

Oh, I'm ready to accept that things are different with a divided senate. Politicub Feb 2021 #13