What the hell are you talking about? There is no “discharge petition” in the US Senate by which 51 Senators can override the Majority Leader. That only exists in the House. The Senate Majority Leader has full and complete control over what gets scheduled for a vote. There’s no way around that.

And, as you said, those…

If whining equals utter disgust and frustration caused by unprecedented obstructionism, then yes, liberals be whinin’.

If we are going to get into semantics, McConnell said he will let the people decide. People decided Hillary Clinton. McConnell didn’t say “let the electoral college” decide. So there’s that technicality as well.

Yea, I am not one for burning it down for the sake of burning it down, but they are preaching about cooperation and all that shit while simultaneously changing the confirmation proceedings so they don’t have to deal with Democrats.

Mitch McConnell makes a mockery of decency, fair play and the United States Constitution. And, of course, soup.

At this point, the Democrats’ reservations about protecting the integrity of the system are fantasies. The system has already been broken. A respectful retreat to the rules that were in place in 2015 would be meaningless and futile.

You stole this from The Slot post last night, and you know it.

Democrats can’t allow Trump to fill a Supreme Court vacancy during the last year of his presidency.

Only if and when Trump becomes less popular than them. Right now Donald is much more popular with Republicans than the congress creatures, and they’ll carry his water until that changes.

They are using him. The MINUTE Cheeto McStupidHair won’t sign off on one their horrible Randian laws, they will impeach him.

Sounds like he’s on the Eevee of something great.

I think a valid reason would be “because Eevee is sooo cute.”

Good. Break up metas and force players to think on their toes. If there’s anything I hate, it’s whenever competitive games become stagnant and boring because no one ever wants to try a new strategy - just the same thing as always.

It has its niche, which it seems this game belongs to. I see no problem with permadeath, though if the developers wish to reach a broader audience then they should add it as an option and not as a core component.

Exactly! If a game is good, especially an RPG, I’m going to go back and play it multiple times with different characters and do different things anyway. I don’t need the frustration of perma death as a cheap way to make me do it.

Yes. Because he, and by extension the Republican Party, are threatening the very tenets this country has been founded upon. Due to that, it is impacting every aspect of this country. This, for example: https://waypoint.vice.com/en_us/article/game-developers-speak-up-in-the-face-of-obamacare-repeal

Friends, please donate to our charity drive. 100% of proceeds go to buying this kid a blindfold so he never has to look at anything unrelated to video games ever again.

Innocent people’s lives are being ruined for no reason, and you’re whining because you have to suffer the horror of... occasionally being reminded of it by a few headlines?

Newsflash: everything is political. If you don’t like it why don’t you goose-step back to to your right-wing bubble?

CalExit is just as dumb as the tariffs being imposed (or planned) by Trump, and as dumb as Brexit. You are stronger as a larger group, almost always. California doesn’t have a military, a Federal reserve, a national guard, etc. Plus, you think the companies based in California would stay there if a civil war erupted?