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Senate votes 65 to 34 to break GOP filibuster clearing passage for bipartisan gun control package
https://www.dailymail.co.uk ^ | 23 June, 2022 | By NIKKI SCHWAB, GEOFF EARLE

Posted on 06/23/2022 11:51:58 AM PDT by Red Badger

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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

There is no GOP versus ‘Rats anymore. That notion has been dead for awhile now, folks are catching up though.

There are ONLY 2 parties - Deep State and Patriots.

If one wants to dig to next lower layer, Deep State includes ‘honest’ ‘Rats that tell us what they do and dishonest ‘Rats that hide what they do (McConnell, Cheney, Cornyn, Romney, etc).

Next layer Patriots would be those awake, those awakening, and those still asleep. The balance between these folks improving all the time.


61 posted on 06/23/2022 12:33:49 PM PDT by C210N (Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.)
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To: Jane Long

“I will work very hard to prevent Cornyn from any public office.

He doesn’t want any other public office, than the one he has....which, btw, he recently won re-election for, with the help of his pimp, McYertle. His term expires in 2027.”

Just do like the left and create or find a juicy scandal.


62 posted on 06/23/2022 12:34:02 PM PDT by Pirate Ragnar (Hope coming from Florida)
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To: Spktyr

Reconciliation won’t work. Do you know why? I do. Do you?


63 posted on 06/23/2022 12:34:20 PM PDT by TexasGurl24
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To: Tommy Revolts

19 States have them already. Is that what has happened in those States?

Red flag laws are bad. However, 1. This doesn’t create a single red flag law anywhere and if you actually read the bill, the funding isn’t even tied to red flag explicitly. 2. Red flag laws in every locale are actually more difficult to implement than people thing. They don’t work like the average non-lawyer thinks.


64 posted on 06/23/2022 12:36:25 PM PDT by TexasGurl24
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To: Spktyr

I agree, he is probably a short-timer now.


65 posted on 06/23/2022 12:36:55 PM PDT by matthew fuller (Murrill McLean Award, for cowardice by a Policeman, shooting of 12 lb. Mini-Dachshund. Danville, VA)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

I won’t vote for RINOS but I will never vote for a Democrat. I will leave that place on the ballot blank and no you RINO loving FR GOP groupies I am not helping the Democrats.

Your simple minded, purist-yeah you are the purist who demand total obedience to the Party that we always vote for these leftist Republicans regardless of what they have done, said or voted brought us to this point with this SFB RINO’s continually stabbing us in the back. At least with the Democrats they are up front about being liberals.

You all are either liberals or you like the lash. They stab you in the back and back you come for more, you’re like abused partner in a marriage, you get the crap beat out of you and told it’s your fault. You cry and sling snot and then when the liberal Republican Party needs you again they come winking and blinking telling you that you made them do that to you and if you would just do as they said this will never happen again and back you go to get the hell kicked out of you again and again and again by these leftist POS called RINOS.


66 posted on 06/23/2022 12:41:48 PM PDT by sarge83
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To: Red Badger

Joni pulled an amber


67 posted on 06/23/2022 12:45:41 PM PDT by redgolum (If this is civilization, I will be the barbarian. )
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To: TexasGurl24

Reconciliation as in the legislative process.

The Congress under Pelosi has done this before. Despite it being improper, they did it anyway.


68 posted on 06/23/2022 12:46:25 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Red Badger

what else is in the bill


69 posted on 06/23/2022 12:46:40 PM PDT by blueyon (God, is who we need)
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To: TexasGurl24
It contains all manner of infringing second-steps, e.g. "red flags," to disarm the citizenry, now declared unconstitutional by SCOTUS via Thomas.

"Since Heller and McDonald, the Courts of Appeals have developed a “two-step” framework for analyzing Second Amendment challenges that combines history with means-end scrutiny. The Court rejects that two-part approach as having one step too many."

IOW, it's DOA, even before Soros-DA's work their prosecutorial "black magic." At some risk to life and limb for possibly making interpretations that wouldn't be reflected by current laws to be upheld by SCOTUS, or in regions where Soros prosecutors "reign free [terror]," the citizenry should disregard laws that are clearly unconstitutional.

70 posted on 06/23/2022 12:46:47 PM PDT by rx
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To: ConservativeInPA
"I hope Texas wakes up after this one."

Given the "greeting" he got from the Texas state GOP convention, I would say that they have. At the end of this term, he is done....and I think he knows it.

71 posted on 06/23/2022 12:48:49 PM PDT by Wonder Warthog (Not Responding to Seagull Snark)
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To: Wonder Warthog
Given the "greeting" he got from the Texas state GOP convention

That was one beautiful greeting. He should receive that everywhere he goes to publicly speak the rest of his life.

72 posted on 06/23/2022 12:51:26 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA (Scratch a leftist and you'll find a fascist )
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To: Spktyr

Budget reconciliation bills can deal with spending, revenue, and the federal debt limit, and the Senate can pass one bill per year affecting each subject.

That’s the only way around the filibuster.

This bill doesn’t fit any of those and the parliamentarian has already ruled on other non-budget bills.

They’d need a supermajority in the senate if they make substantive changes.

It won’t work.


73 posted on 06/23/2022 12:51:40 PM PDT by TexasGurl24
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To: Semper Vigilantis; ProgressingAmerica
REPEAL THE 17TH AMENDMENT!
I consider that one of the most important FR stances of all, which I've been calling for since I joined in '99. Apparently "saner" voices say the 17th was a necessary remedy for corrupt state legislatures and over-representation of rural districts. Doh -- but it merely moved the corruption from one place to another and, worse, entrenched it in urban centers with no structural framework to get around that.

My logic has always been that the direct vote of Senators distances voters from their state legislators, which creates less accountability for them than anything ever before. At-large Senators have zero accountability to minority opposition. My D senators don't have to care about my voice, but they'd have to listen to my representatives who do have to care, even in a D-majority district. I know this from personal experience, btw.

But the 2020 election has demonstrated an even greater need for removal of the 17th: Senatorial elections are just as compromised as the national election, since all they need to do is pump urban votes to win the state EC votes. D's will cheat in '22 as bad as in '20 in order to keep the Senate.
74 posted on 06/23/2022 12:53:02 PM PDT by nicollo (the rule of law is not arbitrary)
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To: Red Badger; P-Marlowe

This scotus just might overturn any unconstitutional bill that makes it through


75 posted on 06/23/2022 12:57:37 PM PDT by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Support our troops by praying for their victory. )
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
This is the political equivalent of the 2004 ALCS series when the Yankees were up 3-0 and then completely choked on their vomit.

Remember it well.

76 posted on 06/23/2022 12:59:11 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

I really do not expect the GOP do get some magic red wave in the midterms. They are nauseating losers.

They have destroyed the chance of a big turnout. What this will do is make a simple steal for the democrats look legit.


77 posted on 06/23/2022 1:07:58 PM PDT by dforest (We have to put a stop to this now.)
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To: JD_UTDallas

They’d make them private or something, but yeah.


78 posted on 06/23/2022 1:08:18 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( I make airplanes fly, what's your super power?)
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To: Red Badger

Lets hope some of those votes were for the opportunity to vote no. But I doubt it.


79 posted on 06/23/2022 1:11:32 PM PDT by NonValueAdded ("hold my phone; I'm from Alaska")
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To: Wonder Warthog

“Given the ‘greeting’ he got from the Texas state GOP convention...”
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God Bless Texas!


80 posted on 06/23/2022 1:18:34 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (My body, my choice....but not when it comes down to unconstitutional "vaccine" mandates.)
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