+1. Republicans fight dirty (Reply #61)

In the discussion thread: Is there an option, no matter how outlandish, to avoid Sinema's opposition to avoid filibuster? [View all]

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Thu Dec 16, 2021, 12:53 AM

radius777 (3,406 posts)

61. +1. Republicans fight dirty

and we can't continue to play by standard rules when they've thrown out the rulebook.

If they throw out democracy to attain power then we'll have no choice but to fight fire with fire.

Authoritarians always depend upon other people following norms while they don't - that is their biggest advantage.

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72 replies	Author	Time	Post
Is there an option, no matter how outlandish, to avoid Sinema's opposition to avoid filibuster? [View all]	Stinky The Clown	Dec 2021	OP
The problem is she may not be the only democrat opposed to a filibuster carve out	PoliticAverse	Dec 2021	#1
My thought as well, I doubt she is the only one	Amishman	Dec 2021	#10
Tester is among those leading the charge to convince Manchin.	tritsofme	Dec 2021	#15
Well, I'll be... Definitely missed that somehow	Amishman	Dec 2021	#16
If Manchin agrees, then Sinema will fold. She is a coward not able to stand alone. Nt	Fiendish Thingy	Dec 2021	#19
No matter how outlandish?	bucolic_frolic	Dec 2021	#2
Use the Republican Playbook	Mary in S. Carolina	Dec 2021	#3
no martial law	iemanja	Dec 2021	#4
A "party of democracy" that doesn't protect voting rights	leftstreet	Dec 2021	#6
👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻	onecaliberal	Dec 2021	#7
how about a 'party of democracy'	SCantiGOP	Dec 2021	#11
Thank you leftstreet	Mary in S. Carolina	Dec 2021	#26
What makes you think I don't want voting rights protected?	iemanja	Dec 2021	#29
Sigh. You can exercise power without using authoritarianism	leftstreet	Dec 2021	#31
I was referring to the point about Biden's declaring martial law	iemanja	Dec 2021	#33
By the way, Michael Flynn's soldiers were	Mary in S. Carolina	Dec 2021	#47
I understand the threat very well	iemanja	Dec 2021	#50
OK	Mary in S. Carolina	Dec 2021	#51
Exactly. Biden won mainly due to PoC and suburban moderates.	radius777	Dec 2021	#58
Martial law is a step too far, at this point, but might be necessary at a later point.	Yoyoyo77	Dec 2021	#22
Thank you Yoyoyo77	Mary in S. Carolina	Dec 2021	#24
You should read this and learn the very, very narrow conditions for Martial Law to be declared.	MarineCombatEngineer	Dec 2021	#55
Mary in SC:	SCantiGOP	Dec 2021	#12
I disagree	Mary in S. Carolina	Dec 2021	#23
If the Democrats ever pull that shit	iemanja	Dec 2021	#32
Either they win or we win, which would you like?	Mary in S. Carolina	Dec 2021	#34
I want nothing to do with your fascism	iemanja	Dec 2021	#35
Okay, I will say it again,	Mary in S. Carolina	Dec 2021	#41
This message was self-deleted by its author	SCantiGOP	Dec 2021	#46
OK????	Mary in S. Carolina	Dec 2021	#62
I don't think you get it. She posed a hypothetical	radius777	Dec 2021	#70
It's Martial Law, not Marshall Law,	MarineCombatEngineer	Dec 2021	#14
Something smells off to me.	iemanja	Dec 2021	#36
Like what?	MarineCombatEngineer	Dec 2021	#39
martial law.	iemanja	Dec 2021	#42
Ah, ok, I got it now.	MarineCombatEngineer	Dec 2021	#44
Aside from being a terrible, illegal, and scarily authoritarian idea.	tritsofme	Dec 2021	#17
There is nothing scarier than living	Mary in S. Carolina	Dec 2021	#25
I'd just as soon not live under the authoritarian dystopia you've dreamed up either.	tritsofme	Dec 2021	#27
Who said I want to live under	Mary in S. Carolina	Dec 2021	#28
Then why are you advocating for just that?	iemanja	Dec 2021	#37
Ok, I will say it again	Mary in S. Carolina	Dec 2021	#38
You advocated destroying democracy	iemanja	Dec 2021	#40
Ok, let's do it your way and not	Mary in S. Carolina	Dec 2021	#45
fight back by ending democracy	iemanja	Dec 2021	#49
Why would I want DU to look bad?	Mary in S. Carolina	Dec 2021	#53
Restore voting rights legislatively	iemanja	Dec 2021	#54
The whole purpose of this thread	Mary in S. Carolina	Dec 2021	#57
It certainly isn't declaring Martial Law, which, BTW, cannot be declared on a whim.	MarineCombatEngineer	Dec 2021	#59
I understand that	Mary in S. Carolina	Dec 2021	#60
...	MarineCombatEngineer	Dec 2021	#63
What is your suggestion?	Mary in S. Carolina	Dec 2021	#68
My suggestion?	MarineCombatEngineer	Dec 2021	#72
I gave you mine	iemanja	Dec 2021	#66
Yes I dream all day and all night about	Mary in S. Carolina	Dec 2021	#67
It doesn't seem to matter how often martial (not Marshall) law is explained here	onenote	Dec 2021	#21
Isn't what you're proposing basically what we have all been hyperventilating...	SKKY	Dec 2021	#43
Yes	Mary in S. Carolina	Dec 2021	#48
that requires us to hold the Senate and the House in 2022 and 2024	Celerity	Dec 2021	#52
What is your suggestion Celerity?	Mary in S. Carolina	Dec 2021	#64
Get Sinema and Manchin to cave and accept the carve outs, if not, we are basically well fucked,	Celerity	Dec 2021	#69
+1. Republicans fight dirty	radius777	Dec 2021	#61
Thank you radius777	Mary in S. Carolina	Dec 2021	#65
Surely	Delphinus	Dec 2021	#5
They're opposition is repping someone.	onecaliberal	Dec 2021	#9
So what's the good news here?	PlanetBev	Dec 2021	#8
The Executive Order applies only to the Executive branch of the Govt.	MarineCombatEngineer	Dec 2021	#13
Hound her in public and make her life miserable	Fiendish Thingy	Dec 2021	#18
Have the FBI plant evidence and blackmail her?	MichMan	Dec 2021	#20
Well, if she's for the Voting Act, let the POTUS explain to her...	Justice matters.	Dec 2021	#30
They've got to strong arm Sinema	iemanja	Dec 2021	#56
No. She's a traitor, playing a long game in service of a conservative religious organization. nt	Roisin Ni Fiachra	Dec 2021	#71

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