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brush

(53,788 posts)
1. You're absolutely right. The repugs know Sessions is a long-time racist. He's who they want as AG...
Thu Feb 9, 2017, 01:29 PM
Feb 2017

who will enforce all of Pres. Bannon's executive orders and whatever will come out of the Supreme Court once they fill Scalia's vacancy (please oh please, Dems, filibuster that nomination and don't cave even if they do threaten and use the nuke option).

world wide wally

(21,744 posts)
7. Doesn't a filibuster require just one Senator to state it?
Thu Feb 9, 2017, 01:51 PM
Feb 2017

And, of course, 40 more to back them up so it can't be overruled?

KPN

(15,646 posts)
2. What's that saying, just because you're paranoid doesn't mean
Thu Feb 9, 2017, 01:31 PM
Feb 2017

they're not out to get you?

We are in a very scary moment of our history. As days bleed one into the other since Jan. 20th, they get increasingly scary.

We are already complacent in that we are already not doing enough to register our opposition. I'm not sure there is an "enough" that doesn't involve the loss of human lives. To me, it is that scary.

There is a relatively small push for a national strike on February 17th. Not enough people are embracing that -- understandably so. We all have other responsibilities, other things going on or needing our attention in our lives. Many of us have limited resources.

How do we fight off and defeat this evil thing?

 

TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts)
5. I Do No Know. I Do Not Believe They Are Coming To Get Me.
Thu Feb 9, 2017, 01:36 PM
Feb 2017

We did this to ourselves in so many ways since Reagan. I always thought that enough people would wake up. Instead the voters got more stupid.

jumptheshadow

(3,269 posts)
3. Norman Bates Redux and the disgusting Steven Bannon want us scared
Thu Feb 9, 2017, 01:34 PM
Feb 2017

They want us paralyzed. Instead, they are planting seeds for their own resounding defeat.

Orrex

(63,216 posts)
4. Yes, you're being paranoid. You have nothing to worry about.
Thu Feb 9, 2017, 01:35 PM
Feb 2017

Assuming, of course, that you're an obscenely wealthy white septuagenarian male.

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