Is the US really heading for a second civil war?

LV426 said:
I think 2 years for everyone in the same chamber makes sense.

Everything is done with majority vote, no special rules or exceptions for anything.

That way, if something is passed that is really bad, then they can repeal it in the next session with ease.

Likewise, if something is passed that is really good, then repealing it out of partisan revenge will not benefit you electorally when you have to defend that choice while campaigning.

That's why I'm always wanting to call the GOP's bluff on that point; we'll pass voting rights legislation and then you can campaign on taking it away from people...we'll pass universal health care and UBI and then you can campaign on taking it away from people.

Were they successful in taking Medicare and Social Security away? No...they paid an electoral price for messing with both.

Good luck to whoever tries.
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Consider the quality of House members. They're mostly trash; and they never exit the campaign cycle. We want every federal legislator to be like that?
 
The Republicans are already at Civil War- with themselves!

It's been like that since Donald Trump turned out to be an habitually lying criminally insane clown unfit to be a president- even unfit to be the president of the Hair Club For Men!
 
Geeko Sportivo said:
The Republicans are already at Civil War- with themselves!

It's been like that since Donald Trump turned out to be an habitually lying criminally insane clown unfit to be a president- even unfit to be the president of the Hair Club For Men!
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TRUMP!

Don't you fucks ever get tired of bitching about Trump? He ain't president any more, if you haven't noticed...
 
LV426 said:
Slow down debate to what end and for what purpose?

Can you please provide an example of a debate that was slowed down that resulted in better legislation?




Slowing down debate for the sake of slowing down debate only exacerbates the problems the legislation being debated would solve.




I totally agree...there shouldn't be a filibuster for anything in a chamber where, Constitutionally, you only need a majority to pass legislation.

But the representation problems of the Senate remain, which is why it's a dysfunctional chamber that only magnifies partisanship.

There is no benefit to democracy or the Republic by giving every state, regardless of population and whose borders are arbitrary, the same level of representation in our federal government.
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Your posts remind me of this article. Both represent a good point of view. https://rollcall.com/2020/09/23/the-cooling-saucer-and-other-senate-hooey/
 
RB 60 said:
TRUMP!

Don't you fucks ever get tired of bitching about Trump? He ain't president any more, if you haven't noticed...
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Dude! I hate to be the one to advise you- BUT TRUMP IS THE ONLY PERSON WE KNOW FOR SURE THAT IS RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT RIGHT NOW!

Don't you fucks ever get tired of TRUMP owning you Republicans!

I think my question is better than yours!
 
Geeko Sportivo said:
Dude! I hate to be the one to advise you- BUT TRUMP IS THE ONLY PERSON WE KNOW FOR SURE THAT IS RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT RIGHT NOW!

Don't you fucks ever get tired of TRUMP owning you Republicans!

I think my question is better than yours!
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The presidential election is 3 years away.

I'd say Trump owns you. You're the ones still bitching about him. TDS is very real...

I sometimes believe some of you cannot get Trump out of your heads, funny as it is.
 
RB 60 said:
You ain't man enough to fuck with us "toothless country fucks."

BTW, do you freaks of nature get down on your knees and lick a man's ass to relax it before you stick your penis in it?
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Aaaannnndddd right on cue, this closet case slips back into his gay fantasies. Blech.
 
RB 60 said:
I just asked a simple question that you most likely have experienced.
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This statement wasn't clear to you, bitch?

"I'm not a provocateur. But if you toothless country fucks try to overthrow our democracy again, I'll do what I have to do."
 
signalmankenneth said:
[FONT=&]Joe Biden had spent a year in the hope that America could go back to normal. But last Thursday, the first anniversary of the deadly insurrection at the US Capitol, the president finally recognised the full scale of the current threat to American democracy.
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[FONT=&]“At this moment, we must decide,” Biden said in Statuary Hall, where rioters had swarmed a year earlier. “What kind of nation are we going to be? Are we going to be a nation that accepts political violence as a norm?”
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[FONT=&]Related: Trump has birthed a dangerous new ‘Lost Cause’ myth. We must fight it | David Blight[/FONT]
[FONT=&]It is a question that many inside America and beyond are now asking. In a deeply divided society, where even a national tragedy such as 6 January only pushed people further apart, there is fear that that day was the just the beginning of a wave of unrest, conflict and domestic terrorism.
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[FONT=&]A slew of recent opinion polls show a significant minority of Americans at ease with the idea of violence against the government. Even talk of a second American civil war has gone from fringe fantasy to media mainstream.
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[FONT=&]“Is a Civil War ahead?” was the blunt headline of a New Yorker magazine article this week. “Are We Really Facing a Second Civil War?” posed the headline of a column in Friday’s New York Times. Three retired US generals wrote a recent Washington Post column warning that another coup attempt “could lead to civil war”.
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[FONT=&]The mere fact that such notions are entering the public domain shows the once unthinkable has become thinkable, even though some would argue it remains firmly improbable.
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[FONT=&]The anxiety is fed by rancour in Washington, where Biden’s desire for bipartisanship has crashed into radicalized Republican opposition. The president’s remarks on Thursday – “I will allow no one to place a dagger at the throat of our democracy” – appeared to acknowledge that there can be no business as usual when one of America’s major parties has embraced authoritarianism.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-really-heading-second-civil-070014808.html

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