US Senator Michael Bennet is having none of Ted Cruz or this government shutdown

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Since the election, the temper tantrum goal posts have been moved.

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Gonna click this blur thingy… check it out…
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…FUCK!! MY EYES!! MY FUCKING EYES!!!

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Bennet has seemingly been fired up about this for a while (as he should be), 'cause this is apparently the second time he’s done a floor speech. In addition to the one you linked, which is from the 14th, this is the one he gave today, which is what BB posted the YouTube video for:

That should be keyed to the right starting point (02:36:59), and the closed captioning transcript is beneath it. Thanks to you and @gracchus for saving my fingers :slight_smile:

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I love how he kept calling it a medieval wall; harping on how archaic such an idea is in the freakin’ 21st Century.

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Damn. You did the eye thing before me.

MY EGO!!! MY FUCKING EGO!!!

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Cosplaying Mir and Progress?

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We need to be clear that this video correctly attributes the faults in Congress:

  1. Bennett spends at least half the time talking not about Trump, not about Cruz, but about the Freedom Caucus and the Randian push to disable and break apart the government from the inside.
  2. How the fiscally responsible right has resulted in the worst fiscal responsibility the government has seen since Vietnam.
  3. Cruz is his number two mark and his bald-faced lying and hypocrisy. He also talks about the corruption so many individuals in congress are guilty of.
  4. Infrastructure crumbling; things like not building new airports, abandoning future research, etc.
  5. Trump’s wall, inability to accomplish his knowingly false promises, etc.
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Caption: OMG its like being kissed by a blobfish!

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He always reminds me of this

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It’s not falling apart. The GOP has been actively working for over 40 years to tear it apart.

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Except the foam+fabric puppet is smarter.

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I could tell just from what you posted it had to be Bouie.

He’d actually fit in fairly well, here, from what I can tell from his twitter.

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No, siree! No he is not!

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Sometimes love don’t feel like it should…

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How did Colorado get America’s Dad as one of its US Senators?

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Usually there are elocutions like “the constitution recognizes rights,” but ultimately this is sophistry, different professional castes bumping chests over who has the last word, whether it be politicians, or philosophers, or priests.

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it has practical results – the government hasn’t granted rights, instead it’s proscribed in its ability to take those rights away. that makes it much more difficult to pass restrictions involving those rights.

for all of the problems we have, the good stuff has come from that.

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You still have to go in the courtroom and argue about it. You’re just adding an extra layer where you have to argue about God in addition to legislative intent. I’m not sure I want to know which rights Brett Kavanaugh believes God meant to endow me with.

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Beer, of course. Ben Franklin would agree with that one, at least.

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This was literally my first thought hearing Bennet speak.

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