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Karl Rhoads

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Represents District 13 in the Hawaii State Senate (Chinatown, Liliha, Nu’uanu, Pauoa). Note: This is a campaign account.

Honolulu, Hawaii
Joined January 2018
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3 years
Hawaii is officially out of ICU beds, 224 patients & 223 beds. Don’t get sick. And you might want to think about getting vaccinated.
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3 years
CDC confirms 9 deaths attributable to bad reactions to covid vaccines. That’s after 529,000,000 does have been administered. Meanwhile, 861,000 Americans have died, the vast majority unvaccinated.
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5 years
Max Boot doesn’t hesitate to criticize Democratic ideas, but he is so right about this. Lock him up!
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3 years
Hawaii is right on the verge of rationing care. Apparently those who have the the lowest chance of survival will be the ones who won’t get care which often means seniors. This seems totally unfair to me. Shouldn’t those who are unvaccinated be the ones who don’t get care?
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3 years
2205 cases today. So much for “personal responsibility.”
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3 years
I’ve been vaccinated for a number of diseases including mumps, measles, chicken pox, diphtheria, rubella, flu, covid, typhoid, polio and hepatitis A. I could still get these diseases & die from them, but it stacks the deck in my favor. That’s the way vaccines have always worked
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5 years
I realize airlines are getting hammered by the coronavirus, but Delta alone had net profits of $4.8 billion in 2019, $3.9 billion in 2018, $3.6 billion in 2017 & $4.4 billion in 2016. Why are we even talking about a bailout?
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3 years
The US is now ranked 44th in % fully vaccinated. Free for anyone who wants it. Unbelievable. If Hawaii was a country we’d be 15th.
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7 months
Trump says Presidents have total immunity. So if Biden has Trump assassinated, that’s ok?
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4 years
Part of the reason people believe these crazy QAnon theories is that most people have never worked in government. If you had, you’d know that the real scandals are really obvious, like the wealthy have disproportionate influence on policy.
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5 years
Like I said why are even considering a bailout for airlines?
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2 years
Why do we have to have a gun policy from 1791? Why not have one that makes sense in 2022?
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6 years
If Democrats aren’t mad enough to stand in line in the rain for two hours to vote this year ... well we never will be & next time the Trumpites may have figured out a way to make it illegal to vote. Just ask the first peoples in North Dakota.
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4 years
I wanted to say mahalo nui loa to all essential workers again. I’m sure you’re afraid too. I admire your courage & your willingness to risk so much for all of us.
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2 years
I’m thinking the GOP will be introducing its healthcare plan any day now. You really need a decade to formulate a good plan. I’m sure that’s what the delay has been.
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5 years
All this talk about hearsay. According to my evidence textbook, there are 37 exceptions to the hearsay rule. One of those is an admission. POTUS has already admitted he extorted help for his campaign. Legally, that’s game, set & match.
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5 years
I want to publicly thank those who are essential workers & are still out there doing their jobs. Healthcare workers, rubbish collectors, police, fire, EMS, grocery store workers, pharmacy workers, bus drivers. There are others I’m leaving out. Mahalo nui loa to all of you!
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6 months
I wonder how much of the nonsense on X is Russian bots.
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3 years
After months & months of having the fewest per capita cases by state, Hawaii has dropped to #2 . Vermont, not coincidentally, the state with the highest vaccination rate, has moved into #1 .
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2 years
Have I mentioned recently that Trump pled the 5th over 400 times? Sounds like consciousness of guilt to me.
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4 years
Trump should probably get used to being escorted out of rooms in the White House.
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3 years
Everybody’s blaming Gov for no fans at the UH game this week. If everybody who was eligible to take a vaccine had done it … just sayin.
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6 years
I’m tired of wondering whether my President is a Russian agent. I thought George W made some really bad mistakes, but there was no evidence he had any other loyalties.
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4 years
The next bill Congress should pass is one repealing the Trump tax cut for millionaires. If their businesses are crashing, they won’t be paying any taxes anyway. If they are still thriving, we need to stop the federal deficit from completely blowing up as we deal with covid.
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4 years
I’m sick of being treated like the enemy. I just think people should have healthcare & crazy people shouldn’t have guns.
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2 years
Explain to me again how the election was stolen from Trump, but ON THE VERY SAME BALLOTS, the GOP won 50 Senate seats & 208 House seats.
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2 years
What’s the over/under on how many hours it will be before the GOP starts claiming the abortion vote in Kansas was rigged by pedophile zombies controlled by George Soros after being groomed by Hillary’s emails while operating under a false flag using crisis actors?
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3 years
Most Republicans in Congress who say the 2020 Presidential election was stolen were elected ON EXACTLY THE SAME BALLOTS.
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2 years
Why do Trump supporters think he’s always right? Even when everyone else in the world thinks he’s wrong, they still believe him. And he rarely is right about anything. Most of what he says is a fantasy, but his supporters believe him even after he’s been proven wrong. Strange.
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5 years
I believe that elected leaders at all levels should have at least a handful of core issues where you vote your conscience no matter the political consequence. If you lose you lose. It will hurt, it won’t be the end of the world.
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2 years
Trump ran the Justice Department for four years & she was never indicted. Why is that? Because there was no reason to indict her.
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2 years
Trump lost. Why do 80% of Republicans want WANT to believe otherwise? What happened to the concept of the person who has the most votes win?
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3 years
So people are taking ivermectin to cure covid. There has been research done on it to see if it works on covid. The results have been inconclusive. The vaccines, on the other hand, have been researched too & conclusively shown to work. But these same people won’t take them.
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6 years
Why does POTUS feel that it’s necessary to attack someone who’s already dead? McCain was a war hero. Trump was a draft dodger. It’s as simple as that.
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4 years
You know, before we test another house cat or other feline for covid, I’d like to be tested.
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3 years
Let me guess. Because the Republican won, there was no voter fraud in the Virginia governor’s race.
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5 years
The coronavirus pandemic is a prime example of why we shouldn’t run $900 billion deficits during periods of economic growth. If we were running a $200 billion surplus like we should be, a one time spend of $2 trillion would be so much more manageable.
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3 years
All 20 of the states with the highest vaccination rates voted for Biden. Of the 20 states with the highest infection rates, 15 voted for Trump. It’s not a coincidence.
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5 years
Normally once you’ve admitted to a crime (as the President has), plea negotiations begin. I would say at a bare minimum the President should offer to resign. What should we offer in return? No jail time for that particular crime seems like a good place to start.
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3 years
@KHONnews Pope Francis urges people to get vaccinated against Covid-19 Pope Francis launches a powerful appeal for people to get vaccinated with approved Covid-19 vaccines, calling it “an act of love.”
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5 years
We just recessed the Legislature indefinitely. Historic, but not in a good way. We will get through it. Hang in there everyone.
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6 months
I find it amusing that all these former Trump employees say he’s unfit for office. That fact has been immediately obvious to the most casual observer since he first ran.
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3 years
If Trump is President now, that means he can’t run in 2024. Well, too bad.
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4 years
As a chemistry minor, I have more suggestions for ways to kill CV. Hydrochloric acid: take intravenously or just pour it on your chest. Ammonia: repeated deep breaths will kill just about anything. Polonium-210: just stand near some & all the virus will be dead (& you too).
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4 years
There are so many things about this letter that are ludicrous. Confiscation: even the assault weapons “ban” from the ‘90’s didn’t take guns away. BTW, the NRA has declared bankruptcy, apparently fraudulently. They say they aren’t bankrupt.
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4 years
The only logic I can see in Trump’s performance is that he’s trying to turn people off of politics so much that only the hardcore will vote. He wants everyone else to throw up their hands in disgust & toss out their mail in ballots & not go to the polls on Election Day. Vote!
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2 years
A majority of Americans don’t think Biden is being tough enough on Putin. So they will vote Republican in November. The GOP will withdraw aid from Ukraine & let the Russians take over.
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2 years
What is wrong with Mike Pence? Trump refuses to lift a finger while his supporters chant, “Hang Mike Pence,” but Pence refuses to testify in the Jan 6 investigation. Have a little self respect!
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2 years
Republicans complain that we have a one-party system in Hawaii. There’s a reason for that: white nationalism doesn’t sell in Hawaii & that’s exactly what the national GOP is offering.
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6 months
BTW, MAGA’s don’t really believe the system is rigged. If they did, they’d stop voting because it’s pointless.
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4 years
Warnock & Ossoff are ahead with 20% of the vote in. By Trump’s standards, we should stop counting & declare the Democrats the winners.
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4 years
Do you remember Hillary complaining about losing the election for weeks afterward? That’s because she didn’t.
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4 years
To all my liberal friends, please vote for Biden this year. If you want to vote against him in 2024, fine, but not this year.
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3 years
The irony is that Democrats are being responsible, getting boosted & wearing masks & the party of “personal responsibility” won’t lift a finger to help themselves or anyone else.
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5 years
Have I mentioned recently that I miss no drama Obama?
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1 year
Investigating Biden’s response to the Maui fire? What a ridiculous exercise. This is Benghazi the Sequel. It worked with Hillary so if you have no morals, why not make up another scandal? Apparently attacking his children isn’t enough.
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4 years
So what’s it called when a Supreme Court position is intentionally left open? Court unpacking?
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3 years
Donald Trump: The real enemy of the people.
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2 years
If we as citizens of the United States decide we want to keep Social Security & Medicare, we can do that. It makes millions of lives better & easier & BTW everybody who works pays into them both.
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2 years
The GOP decided a long time ago that opposing everything except tax cuts for the wealthy was their strategy. And you know, it’s worked pretty well politically. If people don’t vote this year, it will keep working.
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4 months
Seriously, Trump should withdraw from the race. Anyone who cared about the future of America would.
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5 years
It’s a sad state of affairs but there’s no point in listening to the President until this crisis is over. He’s not providing useful information, much of what he says is delusionally incorrect & his story changes by the hour. Time for the press to cover more credible sources.
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4 years
Donald Trump is Biff Tannen. The dystopian future of Back to the Future II is now reality. Trashed neighborhoods, cars burning, corrupt police officers, people running amok & Biff doesn’t care because he’s rich & he’s safe & warm & dry in his well-guarded tower.
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6 months
The GOP finally released their new healthcare plan. Oh, sorry it’s not April Fools day just yet.
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2 years
WSJ & NY Post finally throwing Trump overboard. It might not have been obvious in 2016 that he was a wannabe dictator, but it was crystal clear to the most casual observer that he would be a disaster as President. And he was.
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1 year
Part of me wants to play politics the way the GOP does, attack, attack, attack even when there is no basis. The better half knows democracy can’t last when compromise is viewed as a dirty word. Unfortunately, Trump & many of his supporters don’t care whether democracy survives.
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2 years
Sick of hearing about how mail in voting helps Democrats cheat. In Hawaii, it helped Trump significantly. He got 29% in 2016 & 34% in 2020, the year we went to all mail.
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4 months
Trump should withdraw from the race.
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7 months
Why do Republicans vote if elections are rigged?
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2 years
Before you write off Biden in 2024, note that Reagan’s approval ratings at the same point in his Presidency were BELOW where Biden’s are now. Reagan beat Mondale in a landslide two years later.
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4 years
I wonder if the people who tested positive in the White House are undergoing intravenous Chlorox treatment.
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4 years
Why doesn’t Trump have one of those stupid nicknames for Putin?
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4 years
Reason #3 to vote even if you don’t live in a swing state. If Trump does win by a fluke of the electoral college, he needs know that he never had & never will have the support of a majority of the American people.
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5 years
All you Republicans who are covering for Trump, you realize he will toss you overboard without a second thought, right? That includes anyone with “Vice President” or “U.S. Senator” in front of their name.
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5 months
The fact that the judge in Trump’s first criminal case is keeping the names of the jurors secret speaks volumes about the defendant.
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4 years
Texas had 49,000 new cases in the last week (a 27% increase) & they are dropping their mask mandate. Do they have an office where they try to figure out the worst possible course of action? I guess next will be to stop vaccinating & after that start injecting people with covid.
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4 years
The irony of telling states, “you’re on your own” & then saying, “but I can order you to reopen whenever I want” seems to be completely lost on Trump.
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2 years
You know, I pay my taxes. I want the IRS to collect from people who cheat on theirs so my rates don’t go up.
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4 years
I can’t honestly say I never swear, but I do my best not to swear in public. But it’s very difficult to describe anything Trump is doing without resorting to expletives.
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4 years
Trump has me thinking that smoking & drinking might be good things after all.
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4 years
Have you noticed how all the red states are rejecting the Biden money? Yeah right.
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4 years
Yeah, Biden stole the Presidential election - by getting 6 million more votes.
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2 years
So Trump supporters know he’s a criminal & they don’t care. K den.
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4 years
The Don never reads his daily intelligence brief, so why would he care if Biden reads it?
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2 years
GOP leaders need to prepare the rank & file for the possibility that Trump will be justifiably indicted. Instead they are making thinly veiled threats that if he is indicted, violence will ensue.
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4 years
I’m thrilled that Biden has already mandated masks where the feds have jurisdiction. I hope the CDC will start tracking mask compliance by state & compare it to case numbers per capita. I bet we’ll find the covid lowest rates in states with the highest mask compliance.
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5 years
Republicans do so much projecting that I found myself googling whether they had ever asked for Obama’s tax returns. Half way through I realized. Of course they didn’t. Obama released his VOLUNTARILY because he had nothing to hide.
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6 years
After all this hoopla about non-citizens voting (with virtually no evidence), the first serious allegations of systematic voter fraud in years is being leveled against ... wait for it ... Republican operatives in North Carolina.
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@politico Does he really have a good chance to reverse? I doubt it. He’s not going to win on the facts. The process was more than fair. The law is the only place he has a chance because no deference is required. The judge knew it would be appealed & wrote jury instructions accordingly
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6 years
Republicans have been complaining a lot on how we Democrats aren’t giving Trump a chance. I mean I really want to have civil conversations with my political opponents, but did the Republicans give Obama a chance? Not that I recall.
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2 years
I’m torn. On the one hand I want Trump to run again because I know Biden can beat him. On the other, I’m sick of having to listen to his constant lies & general nonsense.
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6 years
POTUS is linking the terrorist attack in France to the border wall. One tiny problem, a 2017 State Department report says no terrorists crossed from Mexico during the reporting period and no terrorist organizations are operating in Mexico. Could we try to solve actual problems?
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4 years
“We’ve all seen the encouraging news as we open up America again.” Mike Pence, Friday, June 26. Other than the 45,755 new cases (a record) & 13.3% unemployment (the worst since the Great Depression) things are just peachy.
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4 years
Had to stay up to 11 to see what a curfew looks like. I’ve seen 2 cars on Beretania in 5 minutes. Amazing.
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2 years
GOP always beating up Dems on crime. Eight of the ten safest states voted Biden. Seven of the most dangerous states voted for Trump. Sounds like it’s the GOP that doesn’t care about crime.
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3 years
What started as a pandemic that killed both R’s & D’s, for months killed mainly R’s because they wouldn’t get vaccinated, looks like it’s about to become bipartisan again. Get your boosters!
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4 years
When Trump said he’d run the country like a business people assumed he meant cut fat & be nimble & efficient. Instead he has run the federal government like a subsidiary of the Trump Organization with the same goal, to make money for himself.
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North Carolina certified its results today. They claim that Trump won. Totally fake news. It’s clearly a plot set in motion by deceased Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha who hated Biden because Biden called Enver pro-Russian in 1984 a year before Hohxa died. Source: RAnon.
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We’re doomed if we can’t talk to members of another party.
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Oklahoma GOP votes to censure Sen. James Lankford over Senate border talks
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5 years
If the long-time cloture rules can be abolished to confirm judges, surely voting remotely in a time of pandemic can be done too.
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