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Just A Box Of Rain

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11. Be careful what you wish for.

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Thu Jun 30, 2022, 10:56 AM

Jun 2022

Having a Senate that could end up in GOP hands w/o a filibuster to check their extremism is a scary prospect.

The GOP could use the same tool to make abortion illegal nationwide. And that would hardly be the end of the destruction they could unleash.

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BREAKING: Biden supports changing filibuster rule [View all] brooklynite Jun 2022 OP

SENATORS! Do your duty! Take the lead on this question. Don't leave Joe Biden hanging! In It to Win It Jun 2022 #1

Great! Now let's do voting rights, too! Trailrider1951 Jun 2022 #2

Have a carve out for human rights and do both abortion and voting rights. OrlandoDem2 Jun 2022 #3

I like the way you think! Trailrider1951 Jun 2022 #5

+1, uponit7771 Jun 2022 #6

I don't see any downside to it. SergeStorms Jun 2022 #7

Of course he does. Srkdqltr Jun 2022 #4

Why "of course"? brooklynite Jun 2022 #8

Well ... I don't know him personally, but my thought is Srkdqltr Jun 2022 #9

Are you sure? Polybius Jun 2022 #16

Never happen: You need Manchin and Sinema to vote for it. They. Will. Not. BComplex Jun 2022 #10

Be careful what you wish for. Just A Box Of Rain Jun 2022 #11

It should be a major civil rights act Buckeyeblue Jun 2022 #12

I like going back to the standing Filibuster. What we have now is just mitch96 Jun 2022 #13

It doesn't matter Novara Jun 2022 #14

That and $5.50 will get you a cup of coffee at Starbucks bottomofthehill Jun 2022 #15

Joe's got this! Celerity Jun 2022 #17