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People really get into a twist over what happens in comic books they don't even read!

Yep. It's called cloture. If they decide to filibuster then the only thing you can do is actually MAKE them do it. And then make use of that in the midterms. Nothing else you can do.

Trust me, you do NOT want that to happen

Sinema would. No doubt. Manchin maybe, maybe not. But I know at least two Republicans will be a yes and maybe as many as four. Collins is a yes and Murkowski is a yes. Romney, Lee, Toomey, & Ernst could go either way. You only need one IF Sinema & Manchin are a "no".

Article 6 in the Constitution contains the "Supremacy Clause". To make a long complicated explanation in to a short and equally true one: Federal Law > State Law. So long as that federal law does not violate previous law without replacing it, or violate the Constitution in some other way, and the Congress actually has the power to do whatever it was they did.

Hey even blind squirrels find nuts occasionally. But a potential upside here is to get voters to take a long overdue interest in who is in their state legislatures.

Right now it would pass 52-48 by my guessing. Maybe even 54-46 depending on Romney. Mike Lee is the other wildcard but will likely vote "no" as long as the vote doesn't matter. It's unlikely the balance of power will change greatly in November but the House is almost certainly going to flip. So if they want to do it and the SCOTUS leak is correct the window to do it is rapidly closing.

Just throwing this out there but Congress could fix the abortion thing once and for all by passing a very simple bill that says something to he effect of "neither congress nor the states nor municipalities shall intercede nor infringe on lawful and consenting transactions between citizens/residents/guests etc and doctors/nurses/etc". Make is simple, clean, don't hide a bunch of nebulous s--t in it so it turns into a 2k page rubber fire that frightened congress critters would feel justified in opposing. Keep all on one page and make it a simple yea or nay vote on permitting abortion or any other medical service offered by a licensed medical professional. Out of the 435 reps in the House I guarantee you 3/4 would be scared s-----ss to oppose it.

I'm really into watching Hell on Wheels these days. One exchange I particularly liked was in season 1 between Bohannaen (one of the the four main characters and a CSA vet) and an Army Cavalry officer. They are discussing the battle of Antietam or Sharpsburg as Bohannen called it. The conversation, including the disagreement over the name and details of the battle, and the fact that they nearly came to blows over it, struck me as very historically authentic. There are a lot of little details like that in the show and I love that stuff when they do it right.

If I had to go to war today with a WW2 weapon it would be the 1903 Springfield. No doubt about it. 2800 fps muzzle velocity with a max range of near 5k yds. With a decent scope it would rival any sniper rifle used today in range. But not kinetic energy and stopping power.

Yes he did he won the Lott-er-ry! The rest of his friends were not so lucky!

I seriously doubt it's real. They wouldn't be allowed anywhere near him without weapons, back up, and an officer to supervise.

LOL a few weeks ago I was looking for the web site for the BBC America cable channel. I couldn't remember what it was so I did a google search for BBC America. Yeah..... don't do that.

I am 100% opposed to MANDATORY voting. But I'm 100% opposed to mandatory anything coming form the government. My automatic reaction is f--k you don't tell me what to do.

Note to self: Never play Trivial Pursuit for money against Amentep

When you love Scooby Doo but shop at Aldi's

The trans example I used was just an example. The lowering of military standards so more women could pass was an entirely different example of a similar mindset. But hardly surprising. To answer your question endurance trumps speed every day of the week and twice on Sundays. But endurance without physical strength is useless. In my own experience every Marine rifleman is carrying their own gear which includes their pack, rifle, several days worth of MRE, six 30 round magazines for their rifle, extra boots and socks and likely one spare set of utilities, shelter half, rubber bitch, poncho and poncho liner. In addition if the Marine is in a rifle squad they will be carrying a spare battery for the radio and a spare drum for the SAW. If they are in a weapons platoon they are carrying 200 rds for the M-60 or two 60 mm mortar rounds of one 81 mm mortar round. That is a hard ask for the average female Marine. And the average female Marine is already in excellent physical condition. The regular PFT (physical fitness test) is already gender normed. Men and women are held to different standards. The combat PFT was not but until combat roles were opened to women they were not required to take it. Now they are and they are failing it at a rate to 10X their male counterparts. Rather than accept that the average female service member cannot perform at the same physical level as the average male service member the WSJWPC mindset says the test is flawed. It's not. If a male soldier or Marine is wounded in the face of an advancing enemy and the only soldier nearby that can render aid is a female, if she cannot pick that man up and fireman's carry him to safety (a part of the combat PFT) he dies. If she had not been there and a male soldier or Marine had been then he lives. I have no problem with women serving in combat roles in general. The idea that they were somehow emotionally ill equipped was as antiquated as it was false. They can be trained to focus on executing their jobs under pressure as well as any man can (incidentally that is the exact purpose of by-the-numbers-drill). If a female soldier or Marine can pass the combat PFT and want to serve in the infantry then welcome aboard. If they can't they have no business being there. But that is not the direction they are going which is sadly no surprise. We've already chased two specific examples too far down the rabbit hole here. The point I was trying to make with all this is that Woke/SJW/PC is not entirely bad until it is. Like Aristotle said this vice is excessive in feeling or in actions. We need to find the mean but Woke/SJW/PC insists its never wrong.

Case in point. Military women can perform just as well as men in combat roles. That is mostly true. Women can serve equally well in armor, artillery, aviation, motor transport, etc. Then they go too far and think military women can serve in ANY role as well as a man. That is patently false. In 2015 the Marines conducted a study that found all male units greatly out perform integrated units. Women in infantry were six time more likely to be injured during training and failed the Combat PFT at 10X the rate of men without "gender norming". That is a nice way to say allowing women lower standards just so they pass. Which is what the Army is doing now. The Marines have, so far, resisted lowering infantry fitness standards but women are failing at such a rate that it is inevitable. This is just one example of woke/SJW/PC taking a good thing too far. I can easily provide others

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This is purely my own opinion here so take it for that. Woke/SJW/PC is all fine and good where it compels us to be more polite to our fellow humans. In that instance it is a positive force. Case in point, a trans man who is obviously male but presents themselves as female. It is perfectly ok even polite to address them as such. Use female pronouns and treat them with the same dignity and respect you'd treat someone who was born female. Or the other way around. But Woke/SJW/PC goes too far when it demands the world acknowledge something true to be false or something false to be true purely because someone "wants" it to be that way. For example that there are no biological differences beyond male and female humans other than their reproductive organs. This is simple false and stubbornly refusing to acknowledge that is obstinance that undermines the whole position of the philosophy, even the positive aspects of it.

Wow, what an impressive body of work he had!