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Mitch McConnell THREATENS "Scorched Earth" if Democrats abolish Filibuster
Mitch the bitch needs to step down and go enjoy all those millions he scammed with his Chinese spy wife.
Most evil piece of shit in congress.
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Quote:Republicans would use every rule and option at their disposal to halt the chamber, making the Senate "more like a 100-car pileup, nothing moving," says Mitch.
Originally posted by reaverfan:
Mitch McConnell THREATENS "Scorched Earth" if Democrats abolish Filibuster
Mitch the bitch needs to step down and go enjoy all those millions he scammed with his Chinese spy wife.
Most evil piece of shit in congress.
I think Democrats should call Mitch's bluff. If he is not bluffing, Democrats should go to war with the Republicans as if everything depends on the Democrats winning. If, instead, the Democrats decide they prefer "peace in our time", the next two years won't see anything pass Congress and, on top of that, the GOP will take back control in 2022 because it will look like Democrats do nothing when in power. I hope Mitch is bluffing, but if not, go to war. The worst option is to not fully and brutally test Mitch and the other Republican Senators.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Democrats don't have the authority to abolish the filibuster.
Why are we still talking about this like they do?
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" 'You're like the Nazis' is the new 'I don't like you'. That disqualifies her from marching around planet Who-Gives-a-Shit in a helmet? ~Bill Maher 
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Quote:Keep demonstrating your ignorance. We'll keep laughing.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Democrats don't have the authority to abolish the filibuster.
Why are we still talking about this like they do?
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US Intelligence Cartel: All The Governments We Hate Interfered In Our Election
https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2021/03/17/us-intelligence-cartel-all-the
-governments-we-hate-interfered-in-our-election/
So what the US intelligence cartel is asking us to believe this time around is that America’s democracy has suffered yet another invisible attack, the evidence for which is of course top secret, and that the culprits involved are most of the governments the US intelligence cartel doesn’t like. Also, we’re being asked to believe that US-aligned nations like Saudi Arabia and Israel have had no similar interventions in the US electoral process at all.
And of course we’re already getting reports that this narrative will be used to justify sanctions against many of the accused nations, including Iran (which would necessarily kill the nuclear deal Biden campaigned on re-entering).
“The Biden admin is expected to announce sanctions related to election interference as soon as next week, three admin officials tell me,” CNN’s Kylie Atwood reports on Twitter. “They didn’t disclose details related to the expected sanctions but said that they’ll target multiple countries including Russia, China and Iran.”
So this completely unevidenced narrative is being used to justify support for increased aggressions which have already been long sought by the US intelligence cartel, which has an extensive and unbroken record of lying to us about exactly this sort of thing. The response to this is of course disbelief absent the mountain of evidence required in a post-Iraq invasion world, which (spoiler alert) will never surface. We will never be given any solid evidence for these US spy claims, yet US foreign policy and mainstream news coverage of it will march on as though we have.
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Quote:
Originally posted by reaverfan:Quote:Keep demonstrating your ignorance. We'll keep laughing.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Democrats don't have the authority to abolish the filibuster.
Why are we still talking about this like they do?
Keep laughing all the way until nothing comes of this.
Democrats need to be able to bust the filibuster to remove the filibuster.
I doubt very much you'd ever even get 50 Democrat senators to vote to remove it, let alone the 10 extra votes you'd actually need to remove it.
This issue was dead before they even brought it up.
It's nothing more than a mere publicity stunt to rile up low-info morons like you when it doesn't go anywhere.
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" 'You're like the Nazis' is the new 'I don't like you'. That disqualifies her from marching around planet Who-Gives-a-Shit in a helmet? ~Bill Maher
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Christopher Lasch - The Culture of Narcissism
The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations by Christopher Lasch:
free download https://libgen.unblockit.buzz/search.php?req=Lasch+Culture+Narcissism+
2018
or Amazon https://amzn.to/3vgDcQu
from the first chapter:
Notwithstanding his occasional illusions of omnipotence, the narcissist depends on others to validate his self-esteem. He cannot live without an admiring audience. His apparent freedom from family ties and institutional constraints does not free him to stand alone or to glory in his individuality. On the contrary, it contributes to his insecurity, which he can overcome only by seeing his “grandiose self” reflected in the attentions of others, or by attaching himself to those who radiate celebrity, power, and charisma. For the narcissist, the world is a mirror, whereas the rugged individualist saw it as an empty wilderness to be shaped to his own design.
We live in a time, Lasch observes at another point, when “all politics becomes a form of spectacle.” The narcissist, he argues, “admires and identifies with ‘winners’ out of his fear of being labeled a loser.” No one is more obsessed with “winners” and “losers” than Trump.
Lasch might offer a wry smile at how accurately his descriptions of narcissism fit Trump.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Make President Joe Biden seek War authorization before launching lethal strikes.
“Offensive military action without congressional approval is not constitutional absent extraordinary circumstances,” Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA), a longtime advocate for bolstering Congress’s role in authorizing military operations, said.
In a letter to Congress shared exclusively with Vox, two dozen organizations across the political spectrum — from progressive foreign policy groups to conservative think tanks — are calling on lawmakers to pass a new War Powers Resolution.
What the War Powers Resolution letter says
Under Article II of the Constitution and the 1973 War Powers Act, the signatories write, the president’s legal authorities to take military action without first receiving formal approval from Congress “apply only to a narrow set of situations where the imminent and extreme nature of the threat makes it impractical or impossible to convene Congress in a timely fashion that would enable the necessary defensive actions.”
Kaine and Sen. Todd Young (R-IN) introduced a bill that would repeal the 2002 AUMF and a 1991 measure that paved the road to war with Iraq. “Congress has a responsibility to not only vote to authorize new military action, but to repeal old authorizations that are no longer necessary,” Kaine said in a statement.
More at https://www.vox.com/2021/3/16/22331880/biden-war-powers-congress-lette
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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^ That could just possibly be the first sign of intelligence in Congress in my adult life.
I reserve the right to remain skeptical about the underlying motives.
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" 'You're like the Nazis' is the new 'I don't like you'. That disqualifies her from marching around planet Who-Gives-a-Shit in a helmet? ~Bill Maher
PSA: Don't click on any links in Second's posts. He's trying to fish your private information out of you.
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Quote:What has happened all my life is Congress has deferred to the judgement of Generals. This is probably because the typical Congressman knows he is no damn good at making life and death decisions. That's why the Pentagon keeps fighting wars and losing them. If you know any generals, they aren't that smart. Yes, they can fly airplanes, sail ships, launch missiles, drop nukes, but can they do more than kill? No, they cannot because they are fundamentally only killers, definitely NOT the kind of people who should be deciding who to kill and where. But the White House and, especially, Congress keeps letting Generals make the decisions. Those decisions should be made by people who are NOT fundamentally only killers incapable of doing more than that simple job with very complex and expensive machinery purchased by Congress and designed/built by engineers who are far smarter and less likely to get into rage to kill than most Generals and soldiers.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
^ That could just possibly be the first sign of intelligence in Congress in my adult life.
I reserve the right to remain skeptical about the underlying motives.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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