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TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts)
Thu Dec 28, 2017, 05:03 PM Dec 2017

How Long Before The GOP Physically Locks Out Dems From Congress?.

The GOP pretty much locked out Democrats during the ACA repeal attempt and tax bill. At least they let them on the premises. Maybe they want to evict them from their offices and put them in the parking lot. The bipartisan shit is just phony rhetoric.

I know such a thing would not happen really. But the Democrats can only just show up and complain. Cannot really stop anything.

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How Long Before The GOP Physically Locks Out Dems From Congress?. (Original Post) TheMastersNemesis Dec 2017 OP
Seven thousand, four hundred and thirty-three days. LanternWaste Dec 2017 #1
I think democracy will survive. Don't panic yet. nt JustABozoOnThisBus Dec 2017 #2
It wouldn't surprise me if they tried it... mreilly Dec 2017 #3
I bet they would if they could pandr32 Dec 2017 #4
I Am Being A Little Facetious With This OP. TheMastersNemesis Dec 2017 #5
Dont stop, the shit i HATE is normalizing in any way what we are experiencing Eliot Rosewater Dec 2017 #7
I Put Outrageous Stuff Some Times Either To Motivate Or Get Reaction. TheMastersNemesis Dec 2017 #8
Actually things are so messed up that Orange Free State Dec 2017 #14
From the Reporting, Wellstone ruled Dec 2017 #6
What's next? duforsure Dec 2017 #9
those tactics only get used because they work 0rganism Dec 2017 #10
Try living in Koch's Wisconsin jodymarie aimee Dec 2017 #11
A Lock Out Is A Lock Out Whether It Is Virtual Or Real. TheMastersNemesis Dec 2017 #12
Why not just walk out themselves, that is effectively what the Republicans did doc03 Dec 2017 #13
 

LanternWaste

(37,748 posts)
1. Seven thousand, four hundred and thirty-three days.
Thu Dec 28, 2017, 05:06 PM
Dec 2017

Seven thousand, four hundred and thirty-three days. But by then, the apocalyptic civil war in our cities you've predicted consistently will have come and gone and it won't really matter....

 

mreilly

(2,120 posts)
3. It wouldn't surprise me if they tried it...
Thu Dec 28, 2017, 05:08 PM
Dec 2017

... witness Crybaby Moore's little shit-fit down in Alabama and you'll see this is what the GOP is becoming - ALL of them. When they win elections of course it's because everyone loves them. If they lose, of course it was rigged, stolen, cheated, etc. because supposedly everybody loves them. We can expect this every single time. Oh, and lots of screaming threats of violence if they don't get their way 100% of the time, of course. 99% is unacceptable to these assholes. They have to have their way ALL THE TIME now.

If they had their way they'd suspend elections, pass laws that only Republicans can hold office, put women back in the kitchen, blacks in the back of the bus, gays back in the closet, and liberals in concentration camps. I say this without one ounce of hyperbole. Look at the alt-right scum online and how they fantasize about murdering people.

We must be vigilante and stick together. No time to be worn down by their antics or "take a break" from watching them attempt to dismantle our country and formulate a police state Hitler would have drooled over.

Eliot Rosewater

(31,121 posts)
7. Dont stop, the shit i HATE is normalizing in any way what we are experiencing
Thu Dec 28, 2017, 05:15 PM
Dec 2017

I purposely use hyperbole about our situation to try and get people motivated.

NEVER stop what you are doing, it is FAR better than the folks who constantly call you out for doing it.

 

TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts)
8. I Put Outrageous Stuff Some Times Either To Motivate Or Get Reaction.
Thu Dec 28, 2017, 05:20 PM
Dec 2017

The reality is that these GOPPERS are extremely extreme if you follow what their ultimate goal is. And their ultimate goals are really horrible at the very end.

Orange Free State

(611 posts)
14. Actually things are so messed up that
Thu Dec 28, 2017, 06:51 PM
Dec 2017

it’s almost impossible to be so facetious that you say something that couldn’t possibly happen, because anything could.

The Overton window is now the Overton barn door. I keep waiting for Christine O’Donnell to make a political comeback. The stuff that got her in trouble, like the claim that scientists have created mice with fully functioning human brains, wouldn’t make anyone bat an eye now.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
6. From the Reporting,
Thu Dec 28, 2017, 05:10 PM
Dec 2017

it has already occurred. If anything is to change,watch for the opening of Business on Jan 8,that will tell the future.

The day of so called bi-partisanship has long gone and won't return.

duforsure

(11,885 posts)
9. What's next?
Thu Dec 28, 2017, 05:23 PM
Dec 2017

It'll be a crime to be a Democrat, and they'll put us in jail with their phony judges they've installed, like Putin did? I Hear Putin's telling us now not to meddle with their elections. Funny how Putin and Trump using exactly the same tactics, over and over again.

0rganism

(23,971 posts)
10. those tactics only get used because they work
Thu Dec 28, 2017, 05:30 PM
Dec 2017

Putin's regime is the blueprint for Trump and the GOP
given the differences in our governmental structures, i would regard this effort as experimental. i'm sure Putin regards it with interest, but all the expenses are paid for by the American people.
Putin's degree of success so far has been disheartening.

 

jodymarie aimee

(3,975 posts)
11. Try living in Koch's Wisconsin
Thu Dec 28, 2017, 05:34 PM
Dec 2017

we have been locked out for 8 years now. National is following WI example. None of this is surprising to us....

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