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Here:

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Maybe sometime can explain this to me…

So, right now, the GOP is adorable filibustering… The notion of debating the voting rights bill?

How can you filibuster OPENING debate?

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I don’t know what your autocorrect meant, but this is just precious.

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Yeah that’s a keeper.

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Adorable filibustering is the best kind.
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Timex’ autocorrect has me at 2 on the Collins Scale.

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I’m just gonna assume Baptist Calvary Church in Florida is just like it is here. All Republican.

and of course…

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You should be more concerned. It’s gonna decide our fate in a microsecond.

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As expected, 100% of the GOP senate members voted against even opening debate on HR1.

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I seriously don’t understand how they can communist opening of debate. I thought filibustering was done through refusing to end debate.

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Autocorrect doing the Lord’s work.

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Adorable filibustering is for communist opening of debate.

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Comrade.

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I’m guessing “vote against” was the intended verbiage?

But speaking of communist, it’s become clear that the GOP doesn’t give a rat’s ass about democracy. Ideology is all (particularly that of “always be making the rich richer and less responsible for anything, but con the rubes into thinking we care about their shit in order to get there”), so any power/procedural trick they can wield, they will.* They’re basically a curious form of Bolshevik/Leninist party now.

*All this handwringing by Sinema (AKA Flouncy McThumbsdown) about what the GOP is going to do if the Dems kill the filibuster is truly precious, because I GUARANTEE you that once McConnell gets the majority again, he’s gonna kill it with prejudice the moment the Dems try to stop anything they really care about that they can’t do with budget reconciliation.

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Shit, Communist? I’m upgrading to 8.5 on the Collins Scale.

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The Democrats have to up their rhetoric. They have to get out the message that all Republicans are lowlife scum who want to destroy, not build. This has to be a constant and unwavering attack on the shitheels that want to destroy democracy.

I think McConnell said that Democrats want to make it so that they never lose an election.

Well, no shit. Because if everything is fair, they should not win another election, just because of the numbers involved.

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And since Discourse hates me. The rest of what I wrote.

Well, no shit. Because if everything is fair, they should not win another election, just because of the numbers involved.

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Seriously, this has frustrated me since the Obama years, maybe even before. Just open the floor for debate. Who knows? Maybe Manchin won’t vote for the bill, perhaps Romney will (or some other imaginary bullshit in my mind). The point is, let the bill pass or fail on its merits. And I would much rather it fail than not be brought up at all.

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Wrong thread probably but close enough. This veto sparked a bit of a backlash (well, I don’t know how much it counts if it’s on Twitter, but it’s something at least.)

Protection for Dogs

Another bill that fell victim to Abbott’s veto was Senate Bill 474, known as the Safe Outdoor Dogs Act. The bill would have made it illegal to chain up dogs and leave them without drinkable water, adequate shade or shelter. It also called for a ban on tethering dogs with heavy chains.

“I’m disappointed in the governor,” said Sen. Eddie Lucio Jr., D-Brownsville. “I don’t agree with everything he does, but I respect him when it comes to quality of life and protecting life. I want to include dogs in that issue.”

Abbott said Texas already has the statutes in place to protect dogs from animal cruelty, and the penalties proposed in Lucio’s bill seemed excessive.

“Texas is no place for this kind of micro-managing and over-criminalization,” he said in the veto statement.

Shelby Bobosky, executive director of Texas Humane Legislation Network, a nonprofit that lobbies in support of animal rights, said the organization’s members are devastated by the veto, and the bill would have “clarified the vague language that makes the statute completely unenforceable.”

“All the elements Governor Abbott cited as ‘micromanagement’ were carefully negotiated compromises that addressed concerns from lawmakers in both parties to strike the right balance for our diverse state,” she said in a statement. “The passage of the bill in both chambers with overwhelming bipartisan support from rural, urban, and suburban members was the result of six years of tireless effort by THLN and all stakeholders who care for dogs inhumanely restrained outdoors.”

Animal-loving Texans created the hashtag #AbbottHatesDogs on Twitter to express their disdain for the veto.

“It’s not a political issue with me — it’s a humane issue,” Lucio said. “We need to do our best to take care of them.”