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I agree - and the problem stems from a general lack of US civics in the US population. It's staggering how many US citizens these days have little to no meaningufl understanding of how are 3-branch system works both locally and nationally. What is really needed is a clear statute enacted to codify rule making in the Senate (and ideally not a mob-rule simple majority vote rule). It's the case that the concept of 'filibuster' has been with us all along and started in the Senate congress in 1789.... the 17th amendment in 1913 has been a century long slow drip toward where we are at presently - periously close to a mob rule government that our Founding Fathers worked so hard to build a system to prevent. I suppose it's fitting that it all be happening, the way it is around the 1 Vote = 1 citizen legislation in a nice round number like 250th year.

@Ami_Marisol That’s what I think has driven the base so insane. They know the Dems will blow up the 60 vote option the minute they get power back and there seems to have been more concern from GOP senate leadership about defending their non-existent feifdiom than winning.

Harry Reid nuked the filibuster on nominees because he wanted to win. He understood the impact of having left-leaning judicial nominees to the left’s long term agenda. Groups on the left have been working on their side since then to get rid of the legislative filibuster. The problem isn’t Thune per se, it’s the 60 vote threshold.

This is the true existential battle for the Republic. The Marxist-Leninist takeover the D party craves nothing but acquiring political power, and they will drag the rest of us over the inevitable cliff if they're allowed to. It will take a policy that is overwhelmingly supported by the American public to do it.....and potentially (ideally) work toward reversing the Harry Reid judicial mess. Luckily - we have that policy in Voter ID. Let's all hope and pray that this process works it's way out successfully. I have faith in our systems, they are robust and time proven, but they have been pushed and limits are being tested.

It's a fascinating discussion and interaction to observe. No one can know what the future holds, but as things are tracking long term, Harry Reid has the potential to become the most single damaging figure to the Republic of the United States of America of all time. The three branch system, and it's delicate network of checks and balances was established for the single minded purpose of abolishing both feudal nobility birthright authoritarianism - and more importantly (and herein is the brilliance of it) to avoid the same authoritarianism that comes with mob rule. (simple majority). @DataRepublican is clearly of a generation of Americans that has no understanding of what Harry Reid (and the supporting D party of the time) did to the U.S. Constitution.

@Saint_Mikal_13 @DataRepublican what’s crazy is I didn’t even disagree with the end point, just the means of how we get there. Ultimately we will need to shake things up to get rid of the filibuster. She’s undermining that argument with this messaging, bc she doesn’t understand how to get anything done.

John Thune has destroyed every single Senate norm that he claimed to cherish. He set a far bigger and more dangerous precedent than abolishing the filibuster.

@Roy_Cam @McSev @JackJolis @gottlieb_c13952 @DainEhring44 @TankiesFTW @KellyRek

@McSev @JackJolis @gottlieb_c13952 @DainEhring44 @TankiesFTW @KellyRek @_William_Alfred Thank you thank you and once again thank you!

@JackJolis @gottlieb_c13952 @DainEhring44 @TankiesFTW @kellyrek and all the others sorry can't bring them to mind

@Ami_Marisol Thanks for the link!

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the fact that folks on both sides of the aisle aren’t screaming this is confirmation that nobody actually cares about corruption so much as they care about scoring internet points with clicks

This seems like its important to learn from.....

@McSev @realErikDPrince @weare_unplugged LOL.

@_William_Alfred @realErikDPrince @weare_unplugged Whut? Was it something I said? ;-) None of that is a secret.

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@_William_Alfred @realErikDPrince @weare_unplugged Hong Kong and China are both locations of concern (LOC) for corporate/gov foreign travel. Back in my day, they used to pop hard drives out of computers left in hotel rooms, ghost them, and then put them back. Surprisingly, France and Israel are LOC, too.