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Senate rules are Calvinball. Okay, I'm done.

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Can we still be mad at Sinema for other things, or do we have to forgive her now?

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How does she feel about guns?

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"Senate rules are calvinball" there are no adults in the room are there? . They're making the rules up as they go.

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Ya'll need some joy division and new order man...

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I object to calling it a 'vaccine mandate'. No one is mandated to get vaccinated. It's a testing mandate. Stop buying into the right wing propaganda narrative.

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Yes and no.

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She is an enigma...

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Actually I am such a political junkie nerd screaming bore that I said “wonder who it was? Oh, John Tester, I bet.” I deserve no credit for this humble brag.

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funny, enigma is almost an anagram of Sinema.

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I plan to continue being mad at her with or without permission.

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He’s got a book out about Senate Calvinball called Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy. It’s on my list of things to read and/or listen to. I think he was on Chris Hayes’s podcast awhile back talking about it.

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And the antivaxers say "If the vaccine is so good, why do they have to offer incentives?", even when the incentive is a donut.

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anti-vaxxers and logic have never been on good terms.

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Mandated?

That's crazy talk!

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I love you, Wanda.

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