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John Thune - Democracy Greatest Hope

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by G8trGr8t, Nov 13, 2024 at 1:12 PM.

  1. CHFG8R

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    Won't matter. Senate is it's own thing and this election was meant to preserve that.
     
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  2. G8trGr8t

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    it is the first time that one person has demanded the kind of fealty that djt demands, the first time that the senate twice abdicated their responsibility of a fair and impartial judge, the first time a man has been re-elected after encouraging a violent storming of the house to stop the transition of power and then sat and watched and glowed in it..do I need to keep going with the firsts?

    let me ask you, post purge of military and civil servants in sr positions, who is going to tell him no and what he is proposing to do is illegal? what would it take to get the house t impeach him and the senate to convict him? are you really that oblivious to what is happening here or in full support of one man dictating the entire gubmnt out of fear of losing their jobs?
     
  3. CHFG8R

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    Interesting how MAGA and the Old Left have come together on the "endless wars" trope. You and Marjorie Traitor Chomsky, arm and arm in their fight against the great white whale known as "endless wars". Big bad mean America.
     
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    Scott only looks out for his own interests ask me how I know…
     
  5. GrandPrixGator

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    I remember the days when Congress wasn't just a wing of the executive branch.
     
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  6. G8trGr8t

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    they aren't though. they had more than sufficient evidence to convict on both impeachments and vacated their oath both times. they could have convicted and censored and established boundaries but they didn't. they told him he has free reign
     
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    Maybe he's a Curtis Yarvin fan.
     
  8. G8trGr8t

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    but recess is a different story. that is eliminating the fillibuster rule by a different name
     
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    Still, they weren't total simps like the fools in the House. My understanding is they don't want a chump yes man like Scott who will just bow to Trump on everything. They at least want to maintain a semblance of independence. And Scott sucks and is hated by literally everyone.
     
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    Get off my beach law? What self respecting governor of Florida would sign a bill like that?

    A carpetbagger, that's who. Guy and his Marco buddies embody the term.
     
  11. G8trGr8t

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    here's hoping

    Navarro: ‘We’re not going to have a Trump Cabinet’ with Thune or Cornyn leading Senate GOP

    Former White House aide Peter Navarro questioned whether President-elect Trump’s nominees could get confirmed if either Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) or Sen. John Cornyn (R -Texas) is elected as Senate majority leader.

    Navarro argued some Trump supporters who have been mentioned as potential Cabinet nominees, such as Kash Patel, a former Defense official in the first Trump administration, would not make it through the confirmation process if Thune or Cornyn were in charge of the Senate.

    “If John Thune or John Cornyn get control of the Senate, like Mitch McConnell did, we’re not going to have a Trump Cabinet,” Navarro said. He also said having one of those men as majority leader threatens the productivity of the Senate in a Trump term.

    “There’s 4,000 appointments that have to be fulfilled. A thousand of those are Senate-confirmed … and four years of Mitch McConnell, who was just the puppeteer for Thune and Cornyn, we didn’t get half of those,” Navarro told NewsNation’s Dan Abrams on Tuesday.
     
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    I'm sorry, is anyone in MAGA world agitating to stop sending arms to Israel? Because your whole premise falls apart under the lightest of scrutiny lol.
     
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  13. wgbgator

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    There isnt a filibuster on cabinet appointees anymore. If they recess appoint, its guys that cant be confirmed via the GOP senate majority vote.
     
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    The third branch is the judicial (Supreme Court)
     
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    This is life. This is how humanity works. If you think curling up in a ball would make for a better world, I've got news for you. And, again, last 75 years are the best in human history in about every metric that matters . . . and it isn't even close.

    Hey, at least your side is consistent. MTG is just a cynical, moron Bulldog who hasn't had an original thought in her life. Business Administration from UGA. Is there a more useless degree on Earth. Like, what real business gives a rat's ass what your hack UGA "business" professors think?
     
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    MAGA won the election and did so convincingly. You might not like what they are doing, but they told us this was what they’d do. The people gave them the will and the power to do it.

    I didn’t vote for MAGA, either. But, I was in the minority. And so I am giving the benefit of watching to see if there is good to come of it. Maybe I was just wrong. At this point, there is nothing for me to do other than watch and see.
     
  17. ajoseph

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    How do you know?
     
  18. wgbgator

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    He's Rick Scott
     
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  19. G8trGr8t

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    the only thing we can do is be vocal about out of line proposals such that hopefully someone with a conscious in the house and/or senate stand up for the rule of law. if not, this country is screwed. MAGA thinks people voted for their polices, people voted for economic change, not MAGA zealots. Sadly, they are going to find out what they are going to get in exchange for voting for change if this continues down this path.
     
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  20. G8trGr8t

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    when the Senate actually listened to the evidence and made a decision based on the evidence and not what the emperor decreed?
     
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