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    The Kavanaugh Confirmation Charade Thread

    in The Political Re-Education Camp

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    3 minutes ago, Chairslinger said:

    I mean, to me it really depends on whether or not the vote is symbolic or not.

     

    As Jentleson was saying, if you have Democrats saying they'll vote for the replacement it takes the heat off the GOP. Whereas if you have 49 guaranteed no votes, and McCain isn't around, then it really puts the heat on McConnell to keep everyone in line.

     

    So basically by not locking down 49 you're guaranteeing that it'll be symbolic.

    ~*Official Utterly Useless Old Woman, AOC, and UBI Thread*~

    in The Political Re-Education Camp

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    7 minutes ago, Massdriver said:

    Where did you read that? That's interesting and pretty fucked up.

     

    The OK governor did everything to try to stop this thing. They lined up big cash, law enforcement, religious officials, and party leaders. They failed. To me Oklahoma signals the end of marijuana prohibition since they can't even stop it in a deeply red state during a primary vote. Yes it's medical, but it's loosely written medical not unlike the original California medical law in 1996. Every Republican in the country is looking at this and realizing it's over.

     

    I'm having trouble finding follow-up about this, but here's something from yesterday: http://www.news9.com/story/38512104/sq-788-advocacy-group-claims-ballots-being-withheld

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    ~*Official Utterly Useless Old Woman, AOC, and UBI Thread*~

    in The Political Re-Education Camp

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    4 minutes ago, Massdriver said:

    https://www.marijuanamoment.net/how-oklahoma-legalized-medical-marijuana-and-what-happens-next/

     

    Apparently there was also fuckery with making people specifically request a second ballot to vote on this? If that's true I'm thinking what likely happened is that it backfired on them due to the side in favor of it being way more likely to care enough to request the second ballot. 

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    The Kavanaugh Confirmation Charade Thread

    in The Political Re-Education Camp

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    4 minutes ago, CastlevaniaNut18 said:

    I have little faith that Manchin, Tester, McCaskill are going to buckle down and vote "no" when they're fighting for their lives to keep their seats in Nov. 

     

    And a bunch of Democrats are going to make excuses for them selling us out to keep their seats. Despite the fact that having red-state Democrats who vote with you some of the time instead of Republicans who vote with you none of the time doesn't do any good if they've helped the GOP stack the court with justices who will just overturn their better votes anyhow. 

    The Kavanaugh Confirmation Charade Thread

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    6 minutes ago, osxmatt said:

     

    I know it’s been this way for a while, but I recently had a realization that Donald Trump, on most issues, is in a no-lose situation.

     

    If he does something that people like, well, the ramifications of that are pretty obvious. 

     

    If he does something that people don’t like, it excites Republicans and his base more than if he did something they liked in the first place.

     

    He literally can do anything, and nothing matters.

     

    "If it triggers the libs that the president just grabbed me by my pussy then that's good enough for me!"

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