Sawbonz
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3 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:When Trump carried the country in '16, there was countless posts about: IQ requirements to vote, mandatory education and civil courses to vote etc. People loved talking about all the idiots that lined up to vote for that MF and how they could/should be limited since their decision making is all so flawed. Was it serious, you tell me. But the sanctity of the right to vote rings a bit hollow after many of the opinions on this board.
11 minutes ago, Sawbonz said:This makes absolutely no sense. Show me one piece of proposed legislation to limit anyone’s ability to vote based on any of those criteria
The mainstream of your party wants people to have to stand for in long lines with no access to water or restrooms in order to exercise their constitutional right to vote. They want partisan elected officials to be able to override those votes if they don’t agree with the outcome. And they want women (even 11 year olds raped by a family member) to have to carry a fetus to term if there is cardiac electrical activity visible on US. That is mainstream GOP. These are laws in place or soon to be in place. This is what you stand for
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5 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:
You can very easily disagree with the strong outliers of each party.
Do you disagree with heartbeat laws for abortion and states being able to reject the choice of their voters for president? Because if you disagree with those you are disagreeing with the mainstream of the GOP. You are in denial
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Just now, fattyflattie said:
Outside of message board hyperbole, neither are the R's.
This is absolutely not true. Several states have enacted more restrictive voting laws. A few states have Republican candidates running for SOS on a promise to overturn the will of the voters of their state if their preferred candidate doesn’t win. I mean these people are saying this stuff, go watch their campaign videos. Many will win their primaries and some will get elected. These are your people
If one of my daughters is raped, she may have to carry her rapist’s child to term here in Texas. Your mainstream GOP legislators passed this bill and your mainstream GOP governor signed it. And these mainstream elected officials are facing primaries from their right. It’s going to get worse. Open your eyes. This is not hyperbole
I have a lot of problems with an overly broad social safety net. I’ll take a Medicaid expansion and prolonged unemployment benefits any day over what we are seeing from the current GOP
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1 minute ago, fattyflattie said:When do I not post in good faith? I can easily post how I used to be a Democrat over and over, if that would change your mind about how in tuned I am to politics.
And yeah, much better to be making promises to your constituents of color only to fuck them over decade after decade. But this time we're super cereal guys, just make sure you keep us in office.
I think you post in good faith. I think you are in denial about where the mainstream right currently is.
I’m not sure when you joined this community, but I’ve been posting in one form or another on longhorn message boards since mid 90s. The vast majority of the posters on this board that you are calling leftists are actually center/right pre-trump. We realized there is no room for us either as Republicans or independents who vote Republican more often than not in the present GOP. In the last 8 to 10 years what you think you identify with has gone off the rails. What you think you are identifying with as someone who is for limited government and low spending is long gone and is not coming back to the GOP. You are going to be either pushed towards where we are or you’re going to be sucked into the far right insanity. This isn’t what we want. The purity tests have already started. If Mitt Romney and Liz Cheney (and now Mitch McConnell!) are vilified as the left, the party is dead.
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1 hour ago, Beau Vine said:
I’m not falling for the banana in the tailpipe
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31 minutes ago, Harrison Bergeron said:
Someone predicted this: https://www.huffpost.com/archive/ca/entry/trudeau-dictator_b_6314494
"The leader of that party does what he wants, when he wants, and no one dares question him. Would a Prime Minister Trudeau arbitrarily whip the vote and outlaw certain moral questions? Could Prime Minister Trudeau be trusted to make decisions for the good of the country, not just for his personal self-worth? Would Trudeau call in the police to enforce his vision? Let's hope we never have the opportunity to ask those questions."
2 hours ago, Sawbonz said:Do you know what a prime minister is or how one is chosen?
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5 minutes ago, maninblack said:
This guy knew
Do you know what a prime minister is or how one is chosen?
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On 2/17/2022 at 7:44 PM, Immaculate Vibes said:
A western democracy and our closest neighbor opting for fully authoritarian policies is concerning even if they’ve always been more left leaning than us and thus closer to that anyway. Invoking emergency powers in response to non violent truckers being parked downtown is absurd. The question is why is he so against even meeting with truckers to discuss dropping mandates when his own provinces and the rest of the world are moving in that direction?
Next thing you know they’ll be gassing citizens to clear a path for JT to do a photo op. It’s a slippery slope
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Russia and American elections, now featuring radical republicans as co-stars
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Ironically, here in Texas this will likely disproportionately harm Republican candidates, because mail in isn’t available to everyone. The elderly (and maybe military living elsewhere?) are much more likely to vote this way, and in Texas more likely to vote republican