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[–] 79 points 1 year ago

Fuck Off you Mormon nazi

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  • [–] 67 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    See, if this kind of tactic had some sort of compelling penalty, maybe we'd see it less often

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    Best we can do is some stern disapproving looks. If you get enough support, though, we can form a committee to look into the issue, determine that it is indeed a genuine problem, and then decide not to do anything about it.

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  • [–] 36 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Why does it have one big bill at all? Is the American legal system incapable of splitting those bills into reasonable parts?

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  • [+] 63 points 1 year ago (6 children)
  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    I agree that the process of shoehorning everything into one big bill is crazy, but it wouldn't be as big of an issue without the filibuster. Then it would be possible to pass non-budget bills with a simple majority (50 votes) instead of needing a supermajority (60 votes) for everything.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    And the filibuster wouldn't be as big of a deal if they were required to actually filibuster. For a while now, they've only needed to send an email stating that they were filibustering. This would also probably force some senators who have no business making laws that they won't be alive to see the consequences of to retire. For example, there's no way that McConnell has been physically capable of a filibuster for the last decade at least - he should be enjoying retirement (as much as one can wish him well), not enjoying causing harm to current and future generations.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Absolutely. I want to keep the filibuster, but I want them to have to stand and talk the whole time. Cloture could still stop it. It would show who is really committed to a cause and who is just doing whatever is politically expedient.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Indeed! Would be necessary to ensure that it walks a line that is not ableist, while still preventing obstructionists from having undemocratic power to kill legislation with a "nuh-uh".

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    That's a very good point that I hadn't considered. I'm not sure what to do to provide necessary modifications fairly without favoring folks who are 9000 years old due to being cursed by a witch, but I'm sure someone out there has a good idea.

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  • [+] 32 points 1 year ago (4 children)
  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Hell I'd even settle for just penalizing empty properties heavily. Would force them to lower rent if it's not filling.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Tax unoccupied homes at 150% of their value annually.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago

    Politicians pulling shit like this, this cheating , should quite literally be tarred and feathered and be put on in a no-government-hire list for life.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago

    Fuck Mike Lee. Mormon fascist twat.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    LDS wants to expand Utah that's why. Billions in their warchest.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Do you mean expand in Utah? Or is the Utah National Guard about to invade Colorado?

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago

    Same guy who just introduced a bill to pull out of NATO. He's a MAGA Nazi Traitor.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago

    What a garbage human being.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago

    He is 100% a gun nut (although probably the only genuinely universal second amendment guy out there) but Karl over at InRange actually has a ridiculously good video that should be spread to all the right wing loonies in your life:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nppYglaJKa0

    Yes, there is a lot of "great' stuff for the fascists and isn't it great to repeal all those nasty gun laws? And... we can argue about that later.

    Selling off all the public and BLM land? Great, you can now put a silencer on your gatling gun you bought at Walmart. Where are you going to use it? You can now hunt deer with your Barrett but there is nowhere left for you to go hunting. And so forth.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago

    This guy's life purpose could be served if only he was buried in the ground.

    What a rotten human being.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago