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[Armada]

This **** sucks

 

[dacomeup]

So is Manchin going to relent on the filibuster or what? He co-opts this bill if he allows the John Lewis act to die in the senate.

Yea, he’s going to cave. Everything else leading up right now is “bipartisan” posturing theatrics IMO.

 

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[rexanglorum]

Yea, he’s going to cave. Everything else leading up right now is “bipartisan” posturing theatrics IMO.

I sure hope so. These next few weeks and months in the Senate are absolutely pivotal and national politics have been barreling towards this moment for over a dozen years.

The GOP has adopted a practice of total obstruction, and Democrats have been a step behind through out this process. Democrats have been, correctly hardening along partisan lines but always a little more slowly than the GOP. The more centrist Democrats caused the party to be less ruthless, less unified in key votes and, above all, far less willing to use political power to build more political power.

The GOP in not casting a single vote for the ARP plan made it clear that a Democratic President and Democratic majority cannot expect GOP help on anything good, least of all legislation that helps Democratic voting blocs vote more easily.

It all comes down to Manchin and Sinema willing to be as hardball as their GOP counterparts: Collins, Murkowski, Romney. The most “moderate” GOP senators are holding the line and won’t budge, it’s time for Manchin and Sinema to do what they need do to get the John Lewis VRA done and stop this slide into GOP minority rule.

 

[Mark Antony]

GA just really did this openly in front of everyone.

 

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[dacomeup]

I sure hope so. These next few weeks and months in the Senate are absolutely pivotal and national politics have been barreling towards this moment for over a dozen years.

The GOP has adopted a practice of total obstruction, and Democrats have been a step behind through out this process. Democrats have been, correctly hardening along partisan lines but always a little more slowly than the GOP. The more centrist Democrats caused the party to be less ruthless, less unified in key votes and, above all, far less willing to use political power to build more political power.

The GOP in not casting a single vote for the ARP plan made it clear that a Democratic President and Democratic majority cannot expect GOP help on anything good, least of all legislation that helps Democratic voting blocs vote more easily.

It all comes down to Manchin and Sinema willing to be as hardball as their GOP counterparts: Collins, Murkowski, Romney. The most “moderate” GOP senators are holding the line and won’t budge, it’s time for Manchin and Sinema to do what they need do to get the John Lewis VRA done and stop this slide into GOP minority rule.

They’ll get in line. There’s a lot of posturing going on publicly right now for Manchin to give this bipartisan thing the Ole college try and then bend. Sinema is a clown, but don’t think that she wants to be the one who holds the VRA up.

An Unusually Optimistic Conversation With Bernie Sanders

Podcast Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 03/23/2021 · Subscribers Only · 29m

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Bernie was really good on the Ezra Klein show today and his energy was also a signal to me. He also said something that Biden said earlier in the presser about not discussing their strategy publicly. The energy is palpable and I think that even centrists realize that these policies are popular across both aisles. The actual politicians are obstructing. Just pass popular policies and let the Republicans explain how the Democrats are ruining the country by passing policies that the voters like.

 

[wavycrocket]

Accurate

 

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[don ramon]

it's all so exasperating

this country and most of its people are garbage

i need to get out of here

 

[gry60]

They’ll get in line. There’s a lot of posturing going on publicly right now for Manchin to give this bipartisan thing the Ole college try and then bend. Sinema is a clown, but don’t think that she wants to be the one who holds the VRA up.

An Unusually Optimistic Conversation With Bernie Sanders

Podcast Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 03/23/2021 · Subscribers Only · 29m

podcasts.apple.com

Bernie was really good on the Ezra Klein show today and his energy was also a signal to me. He also said something that Biden said earlier in the presser about not discussing their strategy publicly. The energy is palpable and I think that even centrists realize that these policies are popular across both aisles. The actual politicians are obstructing. Just pass popular policies and let the Republicans explain how the Democrats are ruining the country by passing policies that the voters like.

Fingers crossed.
There are a lot things I want to say about the GA situation, but I'd rather keep my mouth shut for now.

 

[blastercombo]

That’s why the riot should of just been let lose. Those idiots would of ended up killing themselves.

 

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[frink85]

when your teacher says you can use one 5x7 index card cheat sheet during your exam

 

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[Mark Antony]

At what point as a human being going into politics do you just decide to not serve the people?