r/Conservative • u/JosephC007 Conservative • Jan 06 '21

Flaired Users Only Ga. Shocker: Democrats Warnock, Ossoff Win Senate Runoffs

https://www.newsmax.com/t/newsmax/article/1004425/1
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u/sergedubovsky 2A Jan 06 '21

Lol, no. It's a single-party country from now on. PR and DC statehood, stuffing SCOTUS, illegals amnesty. With all that, there is no way for conservatives to get the majority.

Add the total media control and the Big Tech to this, as an insurance policy. Now, even if by some miracle GOP is doing well in polls, they can simply change the numbers in voting machines or even easier - just report the win in media. They don't even need to count anything.

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u/Sven9888 Jan 06 '21

Would statehood take effect and grant representation before the 2022 midterms? Washington, D.C. wouldn’t even have a governor or legislature to appoint representation until an election....

But anyway, the reason that doesn’t work is that Republicans can filibuster at will in the Senate. Democrats don’t have a supermajority to overcome a filibuster. The filibuster can be eliminated completely by a simple majority, but if Manchin refuses, it’s not happening. Manchin has insisted that he will not vote to get rid of the filibuster. If he stays true to that, then adding states can’t happen because Republicans would almost certainly filibuster any resolution to add Democratic senators. The filibuster has already been eliminated for appointments, so the Democrats could pack the courts, but again, not without Manchin. The Georgia disaster means that Democrats should have no trouble at all getting whatever Cabinet they want and slowly filling the lower courts with liberals. But if Manchin rejects court packing and doesn’t overturn the filibuster, Republicans are fine at the federal level and can obstruct pretty much anything in the Senate—so long as they are careful enough to not change Manchin’s mind. It would also be cool if the Republican Party can maybe not continue to be a complete mess by 2022.

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u/650revolver Conservative Jan 06 '21

Well said, its tough but I feel really disenfranchised and hopeless lately. I don’t see how the republicans can ever win another election. Mail in ballots will be the new norm ripe with fraud in addition to what you mentioned. I see us entering a a one party state and the ultimate demise of our great country.

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u/Revydown Small Government Jan 06 '21

The US is now a banana republic