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Elephants and Jackasses...

Discussion in 'Permanent Threads' started by Nettdata, Oct 14, 2016.

  1. xrayvision

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    Even if they went back to forcing it to be a speaking filibuster, the 60 vote rule would still be in place, right? So it’s all meaningless when any and all progress can just be stopped if one half doesn’t want to even play ball.
     
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    It takes 60 votes to break a filibuster in any circumstance. A speaking filibuster would require them to keep speaking or the filibuster would naturally expire (regardless of whether it was broken by vote or not).
     
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    I guess I was just talking about the ability to pass fucking anything.
     
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    So the anti-CRT bill proposed in Virginia includes in its requirements the teaching of the debates between Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. Just in case you needed a really on the nose example that the anti-CRT stuff is not about history, but about white grievance politics.
     
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    Okay, were schools NOT teaching about slavery and civil rights?
    Because I heard about that stuff in every history class I ever had.

    Isn't the whole backlash on CRT because the proponents want to punish white people?
     
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    The Lincoln-Douglas debates were between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas, not Frederick Douglass.
     
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    But technically, if Lincoln was debating Frederick Douglass, wouldn’t that be something completely in line with CRT?
     
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    Frederick Douglass calling Lincoln a cracker on the debate stage was a seminal moment in US History.
     
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    +50 SYSTEMIC!
     
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    My new favorite insult is "Kristen Sinema's dick and balls look like Joe Manchin's face."

    Apparently, a functional government that does....anything is another part of the American Dream that's evaporating.

    What a cock of twats.
     
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    So does Kyrsten Sinema actually have a dick and balls or does Joe Manchin not have a face? I don’t understand.
     
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    Why must you two be so fucking racist?
     
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    If Sinema had balls she would have hosted at least a town hall even once in her district since “my one primary concern is my constituents”. Weird, because she doesn’t seem to do anything. It’s as if Arizona elected a social media influencer to teach them good work habits.
     
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    It’s hard out there for white guys.
     
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    Sinema may be a cunt of the highest order, but I would totally hit that.
     
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    Is she even gay anymore? That last picture had her looking very Norma Jean conservative with what looked like a cross necklace.

    And, yes. If there's one thing conservatives do well, is know how to pick'em.