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Ongoing US GOP Debacle Thread: Seditious Republicans march toward authoritarianism

PhDeac said:
Yes. I thought that was clear. He wouldn’t have felt the need to spark a race war if he was already winning one under Trump.
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apparently not clear to someone from WYOMING
 
It is an interesting exercise to think about how people would react if a young white guy slaughtered black churchgoers during Bible study and his social media pages had a bunch of pictures of him with the confederate flag and MAGA hats and pro-Trump memes. The bomb threats and Nazi cops don’t seem to move the needle.
 
PhDeac said:
It is an interesting exercise to think about how people would react if a young white guy slaughtered black churchgoers during Bible study and his social media pages had a bunch of pictures of him with the confederate flag and MAGA hats and pro-Trump memes. The bomb threats and Nazi cops don’t seem to move the needle.
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they would find some instance of him liking a Bernie tweet or something as evidence that he's actually an unhinged leftist. see the El Paso shooter.
 
PhDeac said:
Yes. I thought that was clear. He wouldn’t have felt the need to spark a race war if he was already winning one under Trump.
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Got it. Thought you were saying that his actions would have been applauded so much that he would have actually gained popularity during a Trump presidency. Though I might still disagree with your point, I'm glad that's your take.
 
Conservative Grounds coffee shop making coffee great again, owner says

https://www.fox13news.com/news/conservative-grounds-coffee-shop-making-coffee-great-again-owner-says

Cliff Gephart, one of the “founding fathers” of Conservative Grounds, says the idea was born out of past allegations of mistreatment of police at other major chain coffee spots.
“It is a place where conservatives can feel welcome. There's not going to be anybody throwing a drink in your face if you have a MAGA hat; we're not going to ask police to leave,” Gephart said.
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So to sum up, snowflake cops who can't handle not being able to harass people at coffee shops inspired this dude to create a safe space coffee shop.
 
Anyone who still thinks the Trump isn’t the leader of the GOP should listen to the ads for the primary candidates looking to replace Mark Meadows. Every one talks about how much they support Trump and that we need someone in Washington to stand for him and pass his agenda.
 
And one of the Dems in that race is a diehard Republican who was basically pushed out because she’s a “Rational Republican.”
 
Oregon Republicans are subverting democracy by running away. Again.

In Oregon, a quorum is two-thirds of the legislative body — 40 out of 60 representatives or 20 out of 30 senators. Is there some governing rationale for this higher requirement? Not really. It’s just something the fledgling state of Oregon copied from Indiana when it was assembling its constitution.

As of 2018, Democrats have supermajorities in both houses of the state legislature, with 18 out of 30 Senate seats and 38 out of 60 House seats. This needs emphasizing, since much of the media coverage of this story bizarrely omits it: Democrats represent a large majority of Oregon voters. They have much more public support than Republicans in the state.

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However, even given their small minority, if every Republican chooses to walk out of the Senate — literally refuses to show up and do their job — they can prevent a quorum, thus preventing any legislative business from being done in the Oregon legislature. (It’s especially effective in even-numbered years, when the session is only 35 days long.)

Of course, either party could have done this at any time in Oregon history when it was in the minority. They just didn’t. It was commonly understood, without needing to be stated, that walking out on the job would be a gross dereliction of duty and an insult to Oregon voters. If both parties made a practice of it, governance in the state would become completely impossible.
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members of Congress threatening other politicians is bad, right?

 
will junebug consider this a threat or no because he didn't use an action verb traditionally associated with physical violence
 
Would he get a ban on these boards for that? Probably not, unless he was RJ.
 
so did he just walk into the whatever House Office Building his office is in with his gun and they let him in, or did he need special permission?
 
BarcaDeac said:
so did he just walk into the whatever House Office Building his office is in with his gun and they let him in, or did he need special permission?
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Definitely the latter. Security is tight there
 
BarcaDeac said:
that's what I thought. I've been in plenty of 'em but you see those videos of random people going in state capitol buildings fully armed and them just letting them in.
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It just adds to the toolish nature of these tools
 
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