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JustAnotherGen
(31,823 posts)Who gets to decide which votes can get counted.
LenaBaby61
(6,974 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
(31,823 posts)If it is - the retaliation will be awful in a 5 years / a decade.
LenaBaby61
(6,974 posts)Look at Russia. That's what the treasonous GQP US Taliban Party wants over here in this country and worse.
JustAnotherGen
(31,823 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
(36,851 posts)Botany
(70,504 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
(18,123 posts)I'm sure the Founders didn't mean for that to mean "minority rules."
Hekate
(90,681 posts)
if we actually had power.
Freddie
(9,265 posts)The Founding Fathers meant to protect minority interests, not ensure complete minority rule.
Poiuyt
(18,123 posts)InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)Eid Ma Clack Shaw
(490 posts)these people know what theyre doing.
Rhiagel
(1,676 posts)Make these 2 showboats irrelevant. Then, make DC the 51st state, which will add 2 more for the good guys.
agingdem
(7,849 posts)Last edited Thu Jan 13, 2022, 06:08 PM - Edit history (1)
Rhiagel
(1,676 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
(90,336 posts)kimbutgar
(21,147 posts)How much money does this cretin need to not destroy our democracy?
pwb
(11,263 posts)That needs more attention election time.
Docreed2003
(16,858 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
(15,611 posts)PortTack
(32,767 posts)budkin
(6,703 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
(7,813 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
(1,234 posts)So tired of hearing about these two! Democracy is dead!
iemanja
(53,032 posts)DetroitLegalBeagle
(1,923 posts)They have zero reason to support this bill.
Crunchy Frog
(26,582 posts)Should that be the new name for our country after 2024?
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kacekwl
(7,017 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
(7,866 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.