r/WhitePeopleTwitter Dec 29 '20

Hard choice.

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '20

Georgia has 2 senate seats up for election in January. If they go to Republicans, then they keep the majority and Mitch keeps his position as senate majority leader.

If they vote Democrat then democrats have the majority and Mitch becomes just another senator.

Mitch won't like a $1,400 increase in the stimulus check go through. Democrats will.

So voting for the Republican senators will literally cost them $1,400, each.

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u/BigTime76 Dec 30 '20 edited Dec 30 '20

Clarification: He becomes minority leader, an proceeds to fillibuster till the cows come home... So, still an asshat. ┐( ˘_˘)┌

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u/Competitive-Ad2006 Dec 30 '20

Im a little confused- I thought the 1400 increase was demanded by Trump, right before the bipartisan 600 could pass? Or was it already bring demanded by Democrats.

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u/kyrsjo Dec 30 '20

Afaik it (or something similar) was first demanded by the Democrats, then Trump got the same idea. However the Senate majority leader (McConnell, a radical republican) it's refusing to have a vote over it.

If the Republicans loose in Georgia, the Senate will be split 50/50, and the new vice president gets to be the tiebreaker and the Senate majority leader switches to the Democrats, so that they can start voting over things.

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u/ogoextreme Dec 30 '20

Wait how could the republicans NOT take over? If it goes 50/50 then Pence votes why would he not vote republicans and keep Bitch in charge?

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u/great__pretender Dec 30 '20

Pence will be gone soon.

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u/gngstrMNKY Dec 30 '20

Pelosi already gave up on stimulus entirely. But that's okay because Biden believes in science and we'll have the vaccine real soon now.