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Tang Dynasty emperors to their advisors:

@SeattleFanGZ @JomboyMedia If its a cool/fun object yea

@JomboyMedia So you can just bring foreign objects out and set them down in the field of play now?

UCLA pitcher Angel Cervantes keeps a mini dinosaur named Jerry on the mound with him every time he pitches

@SCVotersCo Appreciate your time

@NotLeeam I said with amendments. The senate removed the OTC portion of the bill which is what it was and gave the pharmacist the unilateral discretion to sell, also meaning they killed the bill. I’m done arguing like I said earlier you’re wrong.

If in the era of the modern internet you cannot research a candidate in a day or two I question whether you really care. Also, it’s for the freaking primary, not the general election. It will impact nothing in the general election. Blame the 2 party system for primaries. They shouldn’t even exist. Just let everyone run and the top 2 candidates runoff. Then you don’t even have to close the primaries.

@SCVotersCo At a brief look it seems like the OTC Ivermectin bill passed the senate with no Republican defections. It was 38-3 with only Dems voting it down. It still doesn’t seem to me like Republican leadership in the Senate is predominantly obstructionist.

Not 7 Chairmen, 7 senators, 5 are chairmen who voted against or heavily amended multiple. Rankin, Massey, Davis, Bennett, and Campsen all voted against redistricting and I believe voted to remove OTC from ivermectin, and I believe they all voted to raise pay without looking at the vote again. Several of them stalled constitutional carry, but eventually voted for it I believe.

@SCVotersCo I dont think you need to name them, I’ll take your word for it. But you’re saying of the 15 senate committee chairmen, 7 voted against multiple of those bills?

@NotLeeam I misunderstood your question then. I can name all seven senators and their positions and the same for the house committee chairs who screwed some of those bills. Do I need to? I use to work in the statehouse.

@SCVotersCo But you didn’t list leaders like Massey, Climer, Cash, Campsen, or Peeler? And Massey and Campsen are at the heart of the redistricting battle.

They aren’t RINOs that’s my point. But I think even Neal Collin’s would qualify for this. Possibly even a liberal like Bamberg would qualify. He’s voted against his party several times. It’s the leadership in the house who are the RINOs most of the regular members are much more liberty minded, conservative. The senate has about 7 RINOs which is enough because of their leadership positions to also screw with things.

@SCVotersCo Edgerton, Kilmartin, Pace, and Beach all have lifetime Freedom Index scores of 70% or better. Terribile wasnt on there, but got a 90% from the SC Liberty Scorecard. I’ll admit I was wrong there, but with scores this high, I find it hard to believe they’re RINOs as you say.

@NotLeeam Jay Kilmartin, Jackie Terribile, Sarita Edgerton, Jordan Pace, Thomas Beach, there are many others. There were even some none Freedom Caucus members who did.

@SCVotersCo Can you name even one Republican who voted against the majority on more than one of those issues this session? Cutting the gas tax wasnt even a settled issue among Rs until recently. Ralph Norman supported raising the tax in 2017.

They made the OTC ivermectin bill not OTC. They fought Constitutional Carry multiple years, some of them fought the fetal heartbeat bill in different phases, redistricting, sharia law ban, suspending the gas tax, increases their pay…….. half of that or more was this cycle. I’m sorry you’re just wrong.

@SCVotersCo Voting against 1 bill originating in your party doesnt make you an obstructionist, it means you disagree on an issue. Rankin has rarely voted down a bill that has broad republican support, especially this session.

@NotLeeam In state politics I don’t necessarily want right wing populists. I just don’t want do nothing obstructionists. They are supposed to represent our ideals.

@SCVotersCo I understand the difference. But if you prefer right wing populist politicians in power, why bother calling out those you feel arent acting republican enough? Why not simply say they arent right wing populists, and therefore need to go?

No Trump is a populist reforming the Republican Party. The people I call RINOs are usually uniparty members who obstruct changing the status quo in any meaningful way, but there’s a huge difference in state politics vs national politics that I don’t quite frankly want to take the time to explain.

@SCVotersCo so is Trump a RINO?

@NotLeeam News flash: Trump isn’t conservative or limited government.

@SCVotersCo So are we measuring RINOs by their adherence to limited government? And what does “right-woke” even mean? CPAC is endorsed by the literal leader of the Republican party, Donald Trump.

@NotLeeam Mace cares about Mace. I would say look at the Freedom Index. That’s a better measure of limited government. CPAC went right-woke awhile back.

@SCVotersCo Since Rankin become a Republican (22 years ago) has a lifetime 85% conservative rating from CPAC. Is that a RINO? Nancy Mace is 77% is she a RINO?

It’s not a pointless issue to the base. If they weren’t RINOs they would just pass it to shut us up. And no they wouldn’t vote for straight up Dem issues because then they would fully expose themselves. What the do is limit how far the Conservative ideas can go. One example is Rankin. He was literally a Dem who changed Parties.

@SCVotersCo Because its a pointless issue. If there were all these RINOs in power, why isnt abortion more accesible? Why isnt medical marijuana legal? Why hasnt a single democratic issue even passed in the House in the last 10 years? By RINO do you just mean Rs who dont vote 100% with MAGA?

@NotLeeam Then why are the RINOs refusing to close them. If there was no there, there this would have been done a decade ago when they first said they would do it. There’s something there.

@SCVotersCo The amount is inconsequential. Especially when you look at the voting numbers of dems in SC and the numbers of votes cast in democratic primaries.

@NotLeeam They don’t help.

@SCVotersCo The idea that democrats voting in republican primaries are somehow responsible for “bad” republican incumbents makes no sense. You can only vote in one primary in SC. Closing the primaries would have no effect if you believe that.

@NotLeeam Not necessarily. It would give us more time to primary bad incumbents. The better short term answer is closing the primaries, but the Founders wrote frequently of avoiding not having modern day parties.

@SCVotersCo States that are a solid single party voting demographic support that because politicians have no incentive to appeal to the other side at all. South Carolina, or any solidly red state, would have a similar outcome as California.

@NotLeeam Only if the population of a state supports that. California is the worst example you could cite .

@ah_pod This team is not making the playoffs LOL

it's crazy that any team that faces the phillies in a playoff series can just start all lefties and be guaranteed the series win.

SCOTUS literally upheld the SC GOP argument that the current South Carolina map was *not* drawn based on a race. The case was Alexander versus the South Carolina NAACP, and it is publicly available for you to read.