Democrats keep the Senate

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  1. apexofpurple

    apexofpurple Well-Known Member

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    That was my answer. I don't think progs should control the SCOTUS because of what we've seen for years from the all prog 9th. That's my answer.
     
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    Oh, god..."the great Kari Lake"....:roflol:



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    I assume everyone is watching

    November 14, 2022 / Posted on Truth Social, Statements by Donald J. Trump
    “I assume everyone is watching Arizona as the great Kari Lake’s easy election win is slowly, yet systematically, being drained away from her, and from the American people. This is a very sad thing to watch. Mail in Ballots, long election counts, many day elections, machines that very few people understand, massive counting centers, and more, are an American disaster. Our elections have become an unreliable joke, and the whole world is watching!”
     
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    cd8ed Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I disagree. We need people as close to the center as possible instead of people that have been forced there by a party that lost the popular vote with the intention to push their religious narrative
     
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    And then 4 SCOTUS justices be seated at a banquet table hosted by The Heritage Foundation.
     
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    apexofpurple Well-Known Member

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    I'm with you in concept but lets be super honest here; progs are as far from center as Proud Boys, they just tilt the opposite direction.
     
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    Progressives do have some extreme ideal but are rarely violent. The individuals you are burning buildings and commuting arson are usually apolitical and do not vote — they are just there to destroy. Their policy would cause more economic damage if implemented like they want.

    Whereas the proud boys look forward to violence and are typically doing so in the name of specific individuals and ideologies.
     
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    apexofpurple Well-Known Member

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    You did not just say that...

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    cd8ed Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Can you show me some major mainstream progressive violence examples done in the name to push a party narrative?

    The green new deal is the big one y’all seize on. I guess greenpeace and similar could be concerned but those are not really American.

    BLM riots are mostly individuals that don’t vote and are not connected to a political party although the protestors that were not violent (about 70-80% of the total) are.

    Enlighten me, show an organized group that is similar to the Proud Boys and other similar domestic terrorist organizations.
     
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    apexofpurple Well-Known Member

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    Not accepting your premise about BLM; those thugs are a nationally recognized group with the full and complete cooperation/funding of the DNC, their media allies, and their corporate interests. Their demands echo through the halls of our Congress where our members have proudly gotten down on one kneed and raised the racist fist in solidarity. Their summer(s) of rage racked up $4+ BILLION dollars worth of damage, resulted in thousands of serious injuries, and over a dozen deaths. They absolutely count not only as a dominant political entity but also as the #1 domestic terrorist group in US history.

    After them would come ANTIFA, I need not chronicle their excessive history of violence.

    Jane's Revenge attacked 30+ churches, pregnancy/family centers across the country with firebombings and misc destruction this year alone.

    Yea, sure, we could go farther back and mention Greenpeace or Weather Underground or the Black Panther Party or dozens of others but I'm limiting myself to the last decade.
     
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    Being deceptive is the name of the game when fundraising.
    Both parties, but seeing the blatant greed when it's about such an important Senate run-off for the GOP is amusing.
    They just can't help themselves when it comes to $$$$$$$$


    'Walker's campaign tells Republicans to stop 'deceptive fundraising' in Georgia runoff'

    "At least four committees, one of them associated with former President Donald Trump, have kept 90% of contributions solicited for Senate GOP candidate Herschel Walker.

    Republican politicians and associated committees are sending out desperate fundraising emails begging the GOP faithful to help save America by getting behind Herschel Walker in his Dec. 6 runoff against Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock in Georgia.

    But what’s not immediately clear to recipients is how little of that money is going to Walker's campaign: just a dime for every dollar given by small donors.

    Walker’s campaign, which has trailed Warnock’s in fundraising throughout the election, is asking fellow Republicans to stop their fundraising practices — or at least to start sharing more with the candidate.

    "We need everyone focused on winning the Georgia Senate race, and deceptive fundraising tactics by teams that just won their races are siphoning money away from Georgia,” Walker campaign manager Scott Paradise said Monday".

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    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/20...-deceptive-fundraising-georgia-race-rcna57136


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    Yes, Donald. The whole world is watching................you being a dumbass!
    What patriotic American undermines America (with no cause other than ego)?
    I would submit that Donald Trump is the most unpatriotic American president in history.
    Those of you who can't figure out why some people consider Trump an authoritarian, and those who support him supporting authoritarianism, need look no further than this simple scenario.
     
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    It’s true. The Democrats officially now have 50 seats with Georgia runoff upcoming. But as of 1000 hrs today, the Republicans have 217 house seats vs. 205 for the Democrats with 13 undecided. All the GOP needs is 1 of those 13 undecided seats to take control of the house.


    Which simply means gridlock. House in republican hands, the senate and presidency in Democratic hands. But Obama proved having the house in Republicans hands didn’t stop him in his last six years. In quite a lot of things, policy, Obama bypassed congress by using executive orders. I expect Biden to do the same. The problem with that is any future president can repeal, cancel, change any executive order. Some will also be ruled unconstitutional under the reason that the executive order was legislation which belong to congress, not the president. Obama had several of his executive orders ruled unconstitutional.
     
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    Sinema voted 95% with Biden. Not sure you can count her as a Republican. She only voted 29% with Trump. Now that Kelly won, she may not fear as much backlash.
     
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    Is THAT supposed to be Biden?? That's a horrible cartoon effort... Looks more like Orrin Hatch.... or Thurston Howell III

    He got T****'s tiny hands perfect though...
     
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    You have the Biden number correct, but only 4 D Senators were worse...

    But she (and Manchin) were both over 50% with Trump. And her Trump Plus Minus was +10, the highest D in the Trump era

    https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/congress-trump-score/

    I don't (yet) count her as a Republican, but the seeds are there and she has the showmanship gene that would push her over the edge...

    Stone cold lock she's at least in a primary race in 2024....
     
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    Quite telling just who she didn't want to offend.
    And a 'no" go for $15.00 min wage
    2 biggies

    Sen. Sinema says she missed Jan. 6 commission vote for "family matter"
     
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    OMG!
    Hilarious & Pathetic
    Ted Cruz trashing GOP' for its loses
    Ted Cruz mid-term predictions
    Ted Cruz campaigning for 8 Republicans who all LOST.
    Ted Cruz takes no responsibility.
    Enjoy!

     
  20. dairyair

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    Yep, in our political environment, grid lock is the best we can get.

    EO's has been how much of the country has been run since the Obama days.

    We the people need to keep the country in grid lock until the politicians can learn to work on compromise.
     
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    It hasn’t always been this way. I can remember when straight party line votes were rare to non-existent. I can also remember a power sharing agreement the last time the senate was tied 50-50 prior to 2020.


    https://www.cnn.com/2001/ALLPOLITICS/stories/01/05/senate.powershare/index.html


    This shows you how far this country has sunk since the days of Lott and Daschle, Mitchell and Dole, Baker and Byrd. Once Reid and McConnell took over, party meant everything. Partisanship rose to unprecedent high levels. Compromise and the old game of give and take went out the window. My way or the highway became the way both parties ran our government.


    Today, in our modern political era of polarization, the great divide, the super, mega, ultra-high partisanship, I greatly welcome divided government. I’m old fashioned in I believe both parties should govern for all of America, not just their party’s base.


    Nostalgia – Here’s something else.


    Reagan and O’Neill: A political friendship worth recalling


    https://www.ajc.com/news/opinion/re...dship-worth-recalling/sjbyaGCQcropVcAwYk0GBI/
     
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    The bolded. Absolutely.
    What happened to the UNITED States of America?
     
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    I’m not sure, but what ever it was happened slowly over a long period of time.
     
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    I guess we have been in worse times. We did have a civil war once upon a time.
     
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    how when and by whom we learned our news changed,
     
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