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Fiendish Thingy

(15,548 posts)
9. Without HR1 (which requires killing the filibuster) we won't be electing more Dem senators
Sat Mar 6, 2021, 06:32 PM
Mar 2021

With the new voter suppression laws just passed in GA, Warnock will likely lose re-election in 2022, and Dems picking up any new seats is unlikely as over 500 voter suppression laws in 43 states are in the works.

If HR1 fails to pass this year, the house majority disappears just through the gerrymandering of 6 districts. Republicans are working to rig the system for minority rule for a decade or more. If they take the house, they will impeach Biden and Harris; if they take the senate, they will install their candidate in the White House in 2024, regardless of the actual election results, by challenging and rejecting as many electoral votes as needed to make it so.

People who realize the survival of the Democratic Party, and the survival of American democracy depends on the elimination of the filibuster and passage of HR1, this year:

Adam Schiff
Jeff Merkley
Amy Klobuchar
Bernie Sanders
...and Barack Obama.

2022 will be too late- district lines will be redrawn and voter suppression laws will be in place.

As Schiff put it, this is a “break glass” emergency.

I can only hope that it's a long, hot summer for them both! They deserve this. n/t CaliforniaPeggy Mar 2021 #1
"Interesting tidbit: Bernie Sanders carried every county in WV in the 2016 primaries." comradebillyboy Mar 2021 #2
Manchin BGBD Mar 2021 #12
And then he went on to win re-election by 3%/19,000 votes. Nt Fiendish Thingy Mar 2021 #14
Yup.... BGBD Mar 2021 #15
My point is Manchin loses re-election in 2024 if he pisses off 19,000 voters who are suffering. Nt Fiendish Thingy Mar 2021 #19
Manchin knows what he's doing BGBD Mar 2021 #25
He certainly needs to listen to his constituents, don't you think? Nt Fiendish Thingy Mar 2021 #29
What makes you think he isn't? BGBD Mar 2021 #30
different elections. 2018 when Manchin barely won was that once in a generation Blue Wave Celerity Mar 2021 #22
Against a really poor candidate???? BGBD Mar 2021 #24
This message was self-deleted by its author Celerity Mar 2021 #27
It was a primary...and they hated Hillary. They said when interviewed that they would never Demsrule86 Mar 2021 #3
We do need them for our majority. The best solution comradebillyboy Mar 2021 #4
I do not understand the cult-of-revenge... NurseJackie Mar 2021 #6
Without HR1 (which requires killing the filibuster) we won't be electing more Dem senators Fiendish Thingy Mar 2021 #9
I agree completely. Demsrule86 Mar 2021 #7
DU is being absolutely flooded with this stuff. It will continue. Hortensis Mar 2021 #5
You would think after Trump, they would have learned their lesson...the suggestions in the post Demsrule86 Mar 2021 #8
You certainly would think that. +1000 for truth. Hortensis Mar 2021 #20
Glad they've stopped blaming VP Harris. JNelson6563 Mar 2021 #10
This is not helping our cause, it is hurting it. msfiddlestix Mar 2021 #11
Preserving Democracy and the Democratic majorities is my cause, what's yours? Nt Fiendish Thingy Mar 2021 #13
It's mine as well. msfiddlestix Mar 2021 #26
When your house is on fire, you don't negotiate with the arsonist. Nt Fiendish Thingy Mar 2021 #28
Another post to trash OBrien Mar 2021 #16
IMO the best approach to WV and other red or swing states PufPuf23 Mar 2021 #17
Yup. WV was blue until 2014- voters will respond to substantive change that improves their lives. Nt Fiendish Thingy Mar 2021 #18
Yeah, I don't get Sinema.. Sen Mark Kelly Cha Mar 2021 #21
+1 Celerity Mar 2021 #23
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