Current Affairs 2020 Democratic Primary

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Biden will be furious

 

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Watching Marianne Williamson at this debate feels like a decade ago...and yet I can remember how it was!

 

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Looking back on the thread a year ago about Williamson debate and came across this prophetic post by @Rook

Its early but once again the black vote is up for grabs ignored. I'm a minority at my workplace and I can tell you that the one issue that blacks care about. Its cops gone wild. And predictably not one candidate is even giving it token lip service. Its a pretty easy campaign promise to keep. You don't have to even get any laws passed. You just hammer on the issue that if local authorities are going to protect cops then fine we'll bring in the feds and charge them w/ federal civil rights violations.

 

[Rook]

Yep, there were 4 senators missing and Bernie was one of them.

Senate votes to increase legal protections to targets of surveillance court

The Senate on Wednesday passed an amendment to provide additional legal protections to targets of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrants and nearly approved new restrictions on the federal government's power to search internet history in a sign of bipartisan frustration over surveillance...

www.cnn.com

An amendment from GOP Sen. Steve Daines of Montana and Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon was defeated by the narrowest of margins, falling one vote short of the 60 needed to pass, 59-37. The senators' amendment would have restricted the searches of browser and search history under FISA's Section 215, which grants federal authorities the ability to obtain tangible things under the FISA law in national security investigations.

Of the four senators who missed that vote -- Sens. Patty Murray of Washington state, Bernie Sanders of Vermont, Ben Sasse of Nebraska and Lamar Alexander of Tennessee -- at least one would have voted in favor. Murray's spokeswoman confirmed she backed the amendment, but was flying back to Washington, DC, from Washington state.

if Dems get control of congress the 1st action should be to get rid of the filibuster.

 

[Rook]

Looking back on the thread a year ago about Williamson debate and came across this prophetic post by @Rook

Bernie and Warren had trouble with bringing in black voters in for whatever reason. If either one of them made this one of their central issues I won't say they would have won (Obama would have eventually swooped in and endorsed and/or campaigned for Biden/Harris/Buttgieg) but black voters would have listened and they would have had a better chance.

 

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It is time to lock this thread I guess. Good luck, Joe, you are going to need it.