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You are cold. I like you.

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I’ve been solicited many times, and there was never a ballot box involved.

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Very, very, very, very badly. Sinema, Manchin, name your price. What do you want? More than just one of the Four Corners, Arizona? - you got it (sorry, Utah). More west, West Virginia? -which do you prefer, Kentucky or Ohio?

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We can give Manchin those Virginia counties that want to secede.

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And fucking obvious too. Even Judge Coathanger Barrett could see the intent of that one.

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But it's doubtful she would object. When they don't care if you stand in lines to vote for hours during a pandemic, they are not going to worry about people passing out from dehydration. Of course, the courts made special provisions for hearings and deliberations in the courtroom during the pandemic. Their health and lives are important. Voters' health and lives, not so much.

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Hey, hey now, spare a little love for WI, where the GOP controlled legislature is trying to limit absentee voting and mail in ballots, eliminate ballot collection boxes and ban municipal ballot collection in the park events.

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Can't we just pull one from the GOP playbook and threaten to primary Sinema and Manchin unless they fall in line.

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They can afford to stiff rural voters because who are rural voters gonna turn to? The democrats? Pfffft.

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And we did win, so moving forward. That's how it works. If Synema and Manchin don't vote with us, might as well have GOPs.

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No, the whole entire point is that beyond their actual Senate votes, they deliver a host of crucially important benefits that are the exact opposite of "might as well have GOPs."

Because, indeed, that's how it works.

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I expect to be arrested in Georgia in 2022.If I am, as Thoreau reportedly said “Why are you not here?”

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No.Compare Manchin's voting record with Murkowski's.Who would you rather have as the crucial vote.If it isn't Manchin, I have to question your judgement. And if we gain one Democratic senator in 2022, it's Sinema's record vs Manchin we depend on. And two senators it's the next senator to the left of Sinema.Each additional Democrat moves the crucial vote one senator to the left.

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Didn't realize that Perdue was that old. At that age, being a frosh senator is ridiculous.

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Ta, Liz. Republicans: When they can't win, they cheat.

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Yes -- they want Republicans to be the one person and to have the one Republican vote. Non-Republican votes cause issues when they have to be counted, so best to see to it that they're never cast in the first place.

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