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@CritEngineering

Engineer in energy, defense, construction, and nuclear power.

Tennessee, USA Beigetreten Şubat 2009
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Kate
Kate@kate_p45·
Let’s be clear: they know exactly what’s coming. @LeaderJohnThune knows the SAVE Act is getting stripped by the Senate Parliamentarian and every Republican standing behind him knows it too. And yet—they’re trying to sell it anyway. Why? Because all of them refuse to do what is necessary to stop the radical democrat party and save America. That’s not leadership. That’s deception. Maybe we should unseat them all. @SenJohnBarrasso @SenCapito @SenatorLankford
America@america

Leader John Thune suggests he’s open to including the SAVE America Act in Reconciliation, which would only need a simple majority “This was discussed, there is a lot of support... that's an option. If that's what it takes to get it across the finish line”

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criticalcircuit@CritEngineering·
@KayleeDMcGhee It's not an option. You can't pass legislation through reconciliation. He knows this. The parliamentarian knows this. He knows the parliamentarian knows this. Everyone in politics knows this. He's just a disgusting liar.
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Kaylee McGhee White
Kaylee McGhee White@KayleeDMcGhee·
If there is enough support to pass the SAVE Act via reconciliation using only a simple majority, then there should likewise be enough support to pass the SAVE Act via a talking filibuster using only a simple majority. The problem, of course, is that there is not enough support for either option. But only one allows Thune to hide that fact and protect the Republican hold-outs. I’ll let you guess which way that is.
Eric Daugherty@EricLDaugh

🚨 BREAKING: Senate Leader John Thune floats a RECONCILIATION bill for the SAVE America Act, needing only 50 votes and JD Vance "This was discussed, there is a lot of support...that's an option. If that's what it takes to get it across the finish line!"

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criticalcircuit@CritEngineering·
@USA_Polling One of the best outcomes of X adding account country of origin was outing this lunatic. He immediately pivoted from pretending to be a legitimate pollster to just spewing absolute nonsense. Similar career arc to Nate Silver, but with an anti-American bent.
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criticalcircuit@CritEngineering·
@Kiradavis Genuinely cannot tell is this is satire. Republicans ONLY opportunity to win is to finish top 2 due to a crowded Democratic field.
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criticalcircuit@CritEngineering·
@RealHickory New legislation cannot be passed via Reconciliation. Thune is a lying pig.
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Eric Daugherty
Eric Daugherty@EricLDaugh·
🚨 BREAKING: Senate Leader John Thune floats a RECONCILIATION bill for the SAVE America Act, needing only 50 votes and JD Vance "This was discussed, there is a lot of support...that's an option. If that's what it takes to get it across the finish line!"
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Tim Miller
Tim Miller@Timodc·
This is crazy. Trumps 1st endorser Jeff Sessions appointed Mueller!! He indicted 25 Russians. The report was so straightforward the GOP senate report echoed it. Then he retired and went back to private life. For this he deserves the president grave dancing on him? Trash.
Brit Hume@brithume

Quote: "Mueller’s family didn’t deserve the president’s grave dancing. None of Trump’s many enemies do. But Trump also didn’t deserve Russiagate. Nearly a decade after that phony scandal, our republic is still trying to recover." thefp.com/p/robert-muell…

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criticalcircuit@CritEngineering·
@cturnbull1968 False. Overseas military ballots remain protected under the 1986 UOCAVA, which mandates states count them if postmarked by Election Day and received within seven days.
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criticalcircuit@CritEngineering·
@Kasparov63 Did you know that modern medicine has developed a number of very effective treatments to paranoid hallucinations?
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Garry Kasparov
Garry Kasparov@Kasparov63·
When mail-in voting is limited or eliminated, then selected polling stations are closed or surrounded with "security checks", when poll workers are replaced by ICE "for security", when ballots are confiscated for "fraud", maybe you’ll take it seriously. Too late.
Garry Kasparov@Kasparov63

Anyone who thought creating the largest internal security force in the country, answering only to the president, was for anything else hasn’t been paying attention.

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criticalcircuit@CritEngineering·
@JohnCleese This would accomplished absolutely nothing when ballots can just be dropped in the mail without ever approaching a polling station.
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criticalcircuit@CritEngineering·
@Tribunul1 You're using words you don't seem to understand the meanings of.
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Tribune of East
Tribune of East@Tribunul1·
@CritEngineering >faithful Catholic who understands the history and teachings of the Church better than the magisterium it seems...
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criticalcircuit@CritEngineering·
@Tribunul1 Who am I? I'm a faithful Catholic who understands the history and teachings of the Church. Who are you to sling insults without, apparently, an elementary understanding of Canon Law?
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Tribune of East
Tribune of East@Tribunul1·
@CritEngineering >who critiques church messaging who are you to make the difference between messaging and church authority? at least the protestants are honest about it
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Tribune of East
Tribune of East@Tribunul1·
@CritEngineering @ArtemisConsort >The Vatican increasing preaches European globalism over Catholicism y'all sedevecantists are such subversive weasels and funny enough , more protestant/anti-pope than the actual protestants
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Dan Burmawi
Dan Burmawi@DanBurmawy·
Muslims and their useful idiots keep repeating this “Greater Israel” fantasy as if saying it enough times will make it real. It won’t. If Israel were truly driven by a grand expansionist vision, it would be the most incompetent empire in history. Decades of military strength, repeated battlefield victories, and yet no lasting expansion. That’s not how conquest works. In 1947–48 The United Nations proposed a partition plan, two states, one Jewish and one Arab. The Jewish leadership accepted. The Arab states rejected it and chose war instead, launching a coordinated attack through the Arab League. Israel’s first war was not a war of expansion, it was a war of survival. From 1948 to 1967, twenty years, Israel did not expand. No “Greater Israel,” no creeping conquest. Just a small country under constant threat. Then came 1967. Gamal Abdel Nasser openly called for Israel’s destruction, massed troops, and closed the Straits of Tiran. Facing annihilation, Israel struck preemptively and took control of the West Bank (then under Jordanian control), Gaza (under Egyptian control), Sinai, and the Golan Heights. That was a security response to an existential threat. And here is where the “Greater Israel” myth completely collapses. 1979: Israel signs peace with Egypt under Anwar Sadat. It returns the entire Sinai Peninsula, territory several times its own size. In 1994, Israel and Jordan signed a peace treaty, and Israel returned disputed lands as part of that agreement. A Lebanon: In 1982, Israel entered southern Lebanon not to expand, but because Palestinian militias had effectively taken over parts of the country and were launching constant attacks across the border. Lebanon had become a base of operations against Israel. Israel pushed in to remove that threat. And then in 2000, it withdrew. No annexation. No “Greater Israel.” Just left. Gaza: In 2005, Israel withdrew completely. Every soldier, every settlement removed. That territory was not kept, not annexed, given up. The Golan Heights: Strategic high ground overlooking northern Israel, used repeatedly to shell Israeli communities before 1967. Its control is about preventing that from happening again. Security, not hegemony. Yet still, according to the testimony of former Egyptian President Muhammad Hosni Mubarak, Israel offered Hafez al-Assad a withdrawal in exchange for peace, but he refused. Every territorial move Israel made was driven by security threats, not expansionist ideology. And when those threats were credibly reduced, Sinai, Lebanon, Gaza, Israel withdrew. So where is the “Greater Israel”? Where is this supposed empire? It exists only in propaganda. Israel has repeatedly traded land for peace, withdrawn from territory, and avoided permanent expansion even when it had the power to do so. Meanwhile, the same voices pushing this myth ignore the actual history of conquest and domination in the region, where expansion was not defensive, but ideological. Withdrawing from the West Bank today, under current conditions, would not be peace, it would be suicide. It would mean creating another Gaza overlooking Israel’s core population centers. No serious country does that. No nation hands strategic ground to forces committed to its destruction. So again: where is the “Greater Israel”? It doesn’t exist. It’s a narrative, useful, repeated, and detached from reality.
Mehdi Hasan@mehdirhasan

Greater Israel

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criticalcircuit@CritEngineering·
@WhitePapersPol I agree with your general point, but comparing Mexican culture and Muslim culture is like comparing the COVID vs Ebola.
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White Papers Policy Institute
We should ban Islamic immigration, however Mexico has as many child brides <15 as Iran. Mexico has more violence against women (incl murder & rape) than the Middle East. And Mexico is - literally - our back yard. There are ~4.5 million Muslims and 40 million Mexicans in America. Banning Islamic immigration is necessary but a mere band aid on the third world cultures we have been importing for 60 years.
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Coach Tommy Tuberville@SenTuberville

Radical Islam isn’t just an issue in the Middle East…it is in our own backyards, just waiting to ATTACK. I refuse to sit down and watch our great country turn into the “United Caliphate of America.” We need to WAKE UP and FIGHT BACK.

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criticalcircuit@CritEngineering·
@cabsav456 @BradSanJuan @Sroneous You didn't answer the question. Either you don't understand what a chokepoint is or you're evading the question. Explain how submitting voter rolls - something the states already maintain - creates a "chokepoint".
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Lauren
Lauren@cabsav456·
The SAVE Act has gotten even worse since this post. It now faces even more constitutional challenges, especially with the requirement that states turn over their entire voter rolls to the federal government via DHS. "Each State shall submit each individual in the official list of eligible voters for Federal office in the State to the Department of Homeland Security through the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (‘SAVE’) system for the purposes of identifying individuals who are not citizens of the United States and taking the necessary steps to remove such individuals who are not citizens from the official list." This is a massive step toward federalizing elections and centralizing power in D.C. This is federal overreach and is exactly what conservatives have always opposed. Hard pass.
Lauren@cabsav456

People don't seem to understand that the SAVE Act wouldn't just automatically take effect. It would be challenged immediately and tied up in court for years, and it's not at all guaranteed it would survive. The 24th Amendment and Supreme Court precedent are very clear that you cannot condition the right to vote on a financial burden. Passports & birth certificates are not actually free, and they are not universally paid for or provided by the government. Without truly free, automatic, universal IDs, an ID mandate raises serious constitutional problems. Regardless, this is not worth touching the filibuster over. I'd argue that nothing is, but certainly not a single bill that faces serious legal questions. Imagine nuking the filibuster and then having the law blocked or struck down anyway...

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