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TX State Senator leads 11 hour filibuster that successfully beats anti-abortion bill
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daaaaAaaAaAaamn.
Well, duh.
...ummm its pretty clear what I said. Is english not your first language?
If I was calling the pack small, the small would be before pack, not after pack and before rodent. How do adjectives work?
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Thank you!
perfectchaos007
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I work at a printing company and we can't recycle. We want to recycle, but there is no city or private infrastructure set up for paper recycling so we throw out hundreds of pounds of paper every month. This needs to be changed.
So to be a Democrat I have to be on board and associated with everything stated in the party platform?
Devolution
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None of them really have, the closures, the forced ultrasounds, but not enough people care.
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Given that they provide no time stamp, maybe. But the judicial system isn't exactly going to care or understand the intricacies of things like computer programming.
The President himself said it was after midnight, didn't he? The fuck?
The chair at one point said that the sustaining of the third violation automatically ended the filibuster based on the earlier outline, no vote or ruling required. This was around when he started shutting off mics and stopped caring about rules at all.
Unknown Soldier
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I wonder how the Republicans are going to claim they successfully passed the bill when 180,000 people watched them apparently fail to do so on Youtube.
They aren't really meant to. The idea is if they get appealed to SCOTUS, then Roe V Wade will be thrown out
cartoon_soldier
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The bill itself is constitutional, it doesn't restrict abortion completely (already enacted in other states).
Triggered too many 9/11 memories. No wonder he didn't become president.
On a serious note, Twitter is great right now, and I'm loving Joss Whedon's tweet.
This is crazy.
All proceedings on the floor are recorded. How do they NOT know what time things happened?
The whole session is recorded. Why would this even be a question?
They're going to claim exactly that and those 180 000 people aren't going to matter in the slightest.
Officerrob
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Statesmanmike ‏@mikestatesman 1m
Hearing that Senate GOP leaders plan to count SB5 vote. Dems say they didn't vote on bill, even though their votes were counted. #txlege
Hearing that Senate GOP leaders plan to count SB5 vote. Dems say they didn't vote on bill, even though their votes were counted. #txlege
Right, he said that, but it was contrary to his earlier rulings. Again, they have no obligation to follow the rules since they're only enforced by majority vote, but the AP shouldn't be covering for them
Also, it was later pointed out that there were only 2 relevant violations -- the assistance violation should not be counted towards the 3 so the original ruling by the Chair really was wrong, but it doesn't really matter anyway since they could've raised 3 germaneness point of orders at the start of the day and sustained them all
I could be mis-remembering, but I believe that the president responded (rightly or wrongly) to a procedural question that a vote on the appeal of the Lt. Gov's ruling that Davis had received her third warning was--effectively--a vote to end the filibuster.
Whether that is correct I sure as hell don't know, but I wouldn't simply accept the president or even the parliamentarian's word on it without reading the relevant rules.
cr_blah_blah
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eric struble ‏@struble_eric 13m
Tx to prove its pro-life bona fide by executing its 500th citizen this week #standwithwendy #txlege
Tx to prove its pro-life bona fide by executing its 500th citizen this week #standwithwendy #txlege
That's certainly not the case everywhere. I live in SE Texas, and no body around here recycles. I didn't even realize it was a thing in Houston, but I don't go to Houston often. It could just be that SE TX is lazy. lol
Yeah like did the democrats even cast a vote? Or did they just assume they said no? What if they were like I wanted to vote yes on the bill but I wasn't even asked.
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What a fucking embarrassment.
crackhead_bob
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The thing is, I don't think that most of these lawmakers care about the religious right's moral agenda to the point that they would personally adhere to these laws. I don't believe for one second that if they had a daughter with an unwanted pregnancy, they would be denied a safe and legal one outside the public eye. They just want to keep the issue because they know it moves numbers among the religious brain dead drones. They rode the anti-gay canard for decades. Now that it's running out of steam, they're shifting their attention onto the abortion issue. The GOP's "autopsy" report addressed everything except for the elephant in the room. They blame the "war on women" meme, but they refused to address their policies over the past decade alone. Interestingly, they acknowledged that they need more positive outreach to gay people, and for conservatives to disengage on the whole gay marriage issue. I personally believe that if they are going to eventually abandon the gay marriage issue, they won't do it without ratcheting up on another social issue -- i.e. abortion.
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Statesmanmike ‏@mikestatesman 1m
Gallery cleared by troopers. Senate plans to reconvene in a while. West plans to question validity of SB5. Senate has not adjourned. #txlege
Gallery cleared by troopers. Senate plans to reconvene in a while. West plans to question validity of SB5. Senate has not adjourned. #txlege
The issue comes up when there was some question as to which motions were being voted on and when. The entire time line of the last 45 minutes of the session was completely shady, filled with rules violations, and roll call votes without clear indication on what the votes were on.
The plot thickens.
Summit, I think the issue here is they're talking about elected republican officials, of which there are essentially no moderates at the federal level, and only a tiny percentage at the state level.
You seem to be talking about the electorate. The problem is, it doesn't matter how moderate an individual is, if they keep voting for the party that doesn't allow moderate voices, then their voice is far-right by proxy.
Eh, that probably varies from lawmaker to lawmaker. Some drink the koolaid, some just use the koolaid to attain power.
Hilarious idea of democracy: One party gets the privilege of voting and the other the privilege of watching.
Fuck yes.
encephalon
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See you on the 4th. America, fuck yeah! Wooooh!
Hush, you don't know what you're talking about, remember?
The party platform is an expression of the party's constituency. If you disagree with its central tenets then it is self evident that you're not really a meaningful member of that party and should probably look into being independent. Every reasonable Republican went that route or Libertarian. There is no moderate faction within the GOP. It does not exist. Period.
Black Mamba
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lol
SNAP!
phosphor112
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Welp, I'm out for the night. Fuck the GOP. Nuff said.
Don't get too excited until it's official.
DoctorButt
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look at these two dorks in front of the camera
That seems unintuitive if not absurd.
Unknown Soldier
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Looks like we're going into extra innings.
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