Originally published at: WH Pressures Congress to Stuff Anti-Trans Riders into Sweeping Voter Suppression Bill
‘Best of Trump’ …? President Trump has been flooding Truth Social in recent days with a series of indecipherable posts that appear to outline his interest in stuffing two anti-trans provisions into the SAVE America Act, a disastrous voter suppression bill that passed the House earlier this year and is currently languishing in the Senate…
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Can the Democrats (in theory) grow some stones and just filibuster this bill and let it die? If not, why not?
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“I think you’re going to see a disastrous election.”
Sweet, baby jeebus, I sure hope so.
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(though Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) has increasingly proven himself to be a wildcard)
Fuck John Fetterman!
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It’s likely Trump is so deluded that he thinks the anti-transgender conversion and anti-transgender athlete ban will be “sweeteners” to the bill and get more members to sign on. But he won’t get any Dems beyond poor John Fetterman, and if denying the vote to potential Lefties isn’t enough for your average Republican Senator, there isn’t much more that would motivate them. Other than money, and with Trump, all the bucks belong to him.
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Isn’t that exactly what they’ve been doing? Even the female Democrats?
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The bill, in its House-passed form, appears to have almost no support from Senate Democrats (though Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) has increasingly proven himself to be a
wildcardfornicating traitor).
There fixed it for ya.
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I’ve been trying to support spunky local news via my charitable donations. It would be great if such a device existed for TPM!
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I’ve been giving to “Reveal.” Aren’t most news organizations not valid as “charities”? Some have associated “foundations”, which are. I guess it depends on whether you want a possible tax deduction or not.
Edit: I see the Post’n’Courier has an “investigative fund” that does appear to be “charitable.” It’s in South Carolina, though – way out of my neighborhood.
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Yes. There seems to be quite a bit of investigative journalism that can be supported by 501(c)3 foundations.
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Gotta’ admit, I very much appreciate this statement. It’s ammunition in the battle against “Election Fraud” malarkey Lil’ Donnie Dipshit will be spewing these next few months.
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From what I understand, the Dems aren’t for the ‘suppress the vote’ any more than they are for the anti trans he wants to add. And besides, if that bill passes, it will be in court immediately.
It’s called change the topic and see what happens.
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Can we just say out loud that the GOP won’t say the emperor has no sanity because they have become spineless lickspittles, and the Democrats won’t either because they believe his dementia makes him less effective than a potential successor?
I mean, absolutely every human being across the globe can see he is one pancake short of a pancake, but the issue is that we can’t remove him until 2028!
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She is sputtering out. This was the best she could do? Even she has limits in keeping up with him.
I still think it is going to resolve itself. Well ahead of 2028.
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Yes, they are the ones who just uncovered more abt the girl Trump raped & hit. So they get my $$. Also, I want to support journalism in places it is so desperately needed,
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It’s because Republicans are pushing anti-trans legislation – big government – that Democrats argue for trans rights. Without government butting in, everything would be fine. Idyllic, one might say.
We can all get along, if everyone applies their religious convictions to themself, whatever they would imagine those convictions to be. That’s the freedom and liberty America was founded upon.
E Pluribus Unum. The exceptional idea.
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The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists , ICIJ.org, they do excellent work
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If anyone wants more good journalism to give subscriptions to, may I submit Pro Publica and Mother Jones.
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I’m going to take that as a figurative rather than literal suggestion.
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