Satire roundup, happy insurrection day
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BBB looks dead. Manchin is a hard no, not even talking to Biden anymore on this,
This is wonderful news for our country. Sure hope Manchin and Sinema remain firm in their opposition to the Biden “destroy America ASAP” agenda.
Dear Leader’s latest threat to our Democracy, or Republic I suppose. In classic dictatorial style, any law or constitutional impediment to what he wants needs to be changed.
On the bright side, Dictator for Life won’t last too long in his case. Hopefully we don’t get the kind where his son in next in line.
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. . . or, in his case, also not his (political) daughter.
Here’s the quote:
So far, Democrats have been unable to agree among themselves over potential changes to the Senate filibuster rules to allow action on voting rights, despite months of private negotiations.
So his plan is to ‘preserve democracy’ by forcing through changes even his own party cant agree on, simply because he cant get his way under the current rules. I’m surprised he didnt get a lot of dictionaries for Christmas, because that’s the definition of autocracy, no matter how much lipstick he tries to put on it. Hitler was doing what he truly believed was best for his country, too…
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Quite true. Word on the street is that, by forcing a vote on this, Schumer will be placing on the spot Democrat Senators not named Sinema or Manchin.
However, the Democrat radicals will be served. Period!!
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Time to lock up those conservative parents for hassling their school boards. I’m sure they can expand it to cover any conservative political action groups too, probably a bunch of white supremacists after all.
U.S. JUSTICE DEPARTMENT CREATES NEW DOMESTIC TERRORISM UNIT
“we face an elevated threat from domestic violent extremists — that is, individuals in the United States who seek to commit violent criminal acts in furtherance of domestic social or political goals.”
Of course, BLM will be exempt, just like the Black Domestic Extremist who ran down dozens of innocent victims isn’t facing any terrorism or hate crime charges.
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Democrats boycott Biden’s Georgia voting rights speech. Even Stacey Abrams will NOT be there!
Biden is simply insufficiently radical for these people.
And the fact Kamala is tagging along will not be enough to change their minds.
From CNN: Georgia voting rights groups boycott Biden’s Atlanta speech
Even sweet Stacey has “other plans”
Is it possible Biden is expecting Republicans to show up for this event? Could he be that far gone!?
it will be interesting to see what changes to the filbuster Biden actually proposes. It might give an indication of the state of play of Sinema and Manchin.
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Check out the Schumer vs Schumer video mashup on the filibuster included in the article. Of course he was for it before he was against it, based solely on whether his party was in power or not.
Looks like Biden’s big pitch in Geogia did not go well. From leftist New York Magazine
He also retroactively explained his prior silence, saying: “I’ve been having these quiet conversations with members of Congress for the last two months. I’m tired of being quiet!”
That this gesture may have come a little late to satisfy Biden’s critics was made clear by the fact that a number of voting rights activists located in Atlanta conspicuously boycotted the speech,
“There’s no sense in having 40 years of Senate experience only to tell us that you can’t whip two votes,” meaning Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, the stubborn Democratic opponents of filibuster reform.
It goes beyond just Manchin and Sinema. I am hearing Tester and Kelly as well, and there might be even more Democrats opposed to this change in Senate rules.
Also am hearing Romney, who isn’t one, will vote with the Republicans.
Difficult for me to understand why Schumer will go forward with a vote beneath these circumstances.
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More hospitalization and more death as the Brandon administration sets new records in pandemic leadership.
Why aren’t we seeing this on every TV news station sidebar? All pandemic all the time.
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Easy one:
Trump is no longer POTUS
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The below is shamelessly stolen from the WSJ:
By Douglas E. Schoen and Andrew Stein
Jan. 11, 2022 12:28 pm ET
A perfect storm in the Democratic Party is making a once-unfathomable scenario plausible: a political comeback for Hillary Clinton in 2024.
Several circumstances—President Biden’s low approval rating, doubts over his capacity to run for re-election at 82, Vice President Kamala Harris’s unpopularity, and the absence of another strong Democrat to lead the ticket in 2024—have created a leadership vacuum in the party, which Mrs. Clinton viably could fill.
She is already in an advantageous position to become the 2024 Democratic nominee. She is an experienced national figure who is younger than Mr. Biden and can offer a different approach from the disorganized and unpopular one the party is currently taking.
If Democrats lose control of Congress in 2022, Mrs. Clinton can use the party’s loss as a basis to run for president again, enabling her to claim the title of “change candidate.”
Based on her latest public statements, it’s clear that Mrs. Clinton not only recognizes her position as a potential front-runner but also is setting up a process to help her decide whether or not to run for president again. She recently warned of the electoral consequences in the 2022 midterms if the Democratic Party continues to align itself with its progressive wing and urged Democrats to reject far-left positions that isolate key segments of the electorate.
In a recent MSNBC interview, Mrs. Clinton called on Democrats to engage in “careful thinking about what wins elections, and not just in deep-blue districts where a Democrat and a liberal Democrat, or so-called progressive Democrat, is going to win.” She also noted that party’s House majority “comes from people who win in much more difficult districts.”
Mrs. Clinton also took a veiled jab at the Biden administration and congressional Democrats in an effort to create distance: “It means nothing if we don’t have a Congress that will get things done, and we don’t have a White House that we can count on to be sane and sober and stable and productive.”
Even Bill Clinton recently set the stage for his wife’s potential 2024 candidacy, referring to her in an interview with People magazine as “the most qualified person to run for office in my lifetime, including me,” adding that not electing her in 2016 was “one of the most profound mistakes we ever made.”
We can infer based on these recent remarks that Mrs. Clinton would seize the opportunity to run for president again if an opening presents itself. But what are the odds that an opportunity will arise?
The Democrats’ domestic agenda is in disarray given the failure of Mr. Biden’s Build Back Better plan in Congress. Senate Democrats’ latest desperate push to repeal the legislative filibuster to pass their secondary legislative priority, voting-rights reform, will likely weaken their agenda further.
Mr. Biden’s overall approval rating is low (40%), as is his rating on issues including the economy and jobs (38%) and taxes and government spending (33%), according to a recent Economist/YouGov poll. Nearly two-thirds of independent voters disapprove of the president.
Barring a major course correction, we can anticipate that some Democrats will lose important House and Senate races in 2022—in part for the reasons Mrs. Clinton identified—giving Republicans control of both chambers of Congress.
Polls generally show the GOP with a solid lead of at least 2 or 3 points in the 2022 generic congressional vote—a margin that likely would be enough to take back the House, given the narrow Democratic majority and the anticipated outcomes of redistricting in several states that could affect key races.
Given the likelihood that Democrats will lose control of Congress in 2022, we can anticipate that Mrs. Clinton will begin shortly after the midterms to position herself as an experienced candidate capable of leading Democrats on a new and more successful path.
Mrs. Clinton can spend the time between now and midterms doing what the Clinton administration did after the Democrats’ blowout defeat in the 1994 midterms: crafting a moderate agenda on both domestic and foreign policy. This agenda could show that Mrs. Clinton is the only credible alternative to Mr. Biden, Ms. Harris, and the entire Democratic Party establishment.
Hillary Clinton remains ambitious, outspoken and convinced that if not for Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey’s intervention and Russian interference that she would have won the 2016 election—and she may be right.
If Democrats want a fighting chance at winning the presidency in 2024, Mrs. Clinton is likely their best option.
Typical - cant get people to do what you want, so the solution is to yell louder. How is this being considered anything except throwing a tantrum?
There’s also no sense in maintaining the facade of democracy when in the backrooms you are demanding everyone to just do what you tell them to do.
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A vote should be happening now. I’ve never understood how they keep getting away with withholding a vote until they know it’ll pass. I know it’s a lond-standing practice of both parties, but it’s a rather stupid way to legislate.
Perhaps Schumer himself wants to avoid being accused of having no power to whip a couple of votes? If there is an actual vote, it’d be evident they’re short more than just two.
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It’s all Republicans in legislatures, without a single Democrat, in a highly partisan move, taking away the voting rights of people of color, of young people, of older people, of people who live in urban areas.
Man, talk about creating a “big lie”… That’s right up there with the notion that when someone’s culture is to play video games all day, it’s unfairly discriminatory to expect them to pass a test to get into college.
“Can you imagine the anger that would be ignited if they see Democrats alone rewrite, with no Republican involvement whatsoever, the voting laws of the country? If you want to see division and anger, the Democrats are heading down the right road,” he said.
…and them having done so in 2020 under the guise of “covid precautions” is what created all the skepticism in the first place. I know giving credit will make Shinobi’s head explode, but this Romney quote is quite wise.
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