• @[email protected]
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    1610 days ago

    I don’t understand why literally every Democrat in the Senate didn’t line up to filibuster this bill. Booker’s performative filibuster was toothless. This could actually have done something to change public policy.

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        1410 days ago

        In my imagination there are increasingly desperate actions they could do to stop the bill from proceeding. Pull the fire alarm. Start a fire. Cover all the chairs with honey. I don’t know. I feel like if it looked like a portal to hell was about to open I would break a lot of norms and rules to stop it

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          1010 days ago

          Apparently they’re not even allowed an open floor to talk, but Hakeem Jeffries at least took the opportunity for 08:44

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            610 days ago

            That’s the house, and only because it was a bill passed back to the house, after previous passage, to review senate revisions. Otherwise they would have been allowed to debate much more if this was the first time the house had the bill.

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          It’s not just your imagination. Think back to the last 8 years and how much horseshit has come out that “wasn’t law” but was allowed. That same thinking and action could easily be applied by the opposition, but it turns out the opposition is a wet paper towel.

          I’m not smart enough to steer this, but there has to be a group trying to put together a legitimate third party. Let’s talk about that. Anytime theres a fucking comical issue upfront, talk about that, and don’t relent.

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      410 days ago

      i said this the other day and got downvoted to hell, in addition to people telling me “well they did filibuster it”

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        10 days ago

        Yes. Because it was filibustered for a day.

        “They did the thing i wanted but i said they didn’t and i don’t understand why people don’t agree with me”

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          510 days ago

          Why did it only go on a day, why didnt it go longer? There are no rules stating they can’t.

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            You already know the reason, someone else already said why. I’m not going to get drawn into a circlejerk argument with you just because you refuse reality.

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              310 days ago

              We all knew it was going to get passed. But if they did it for two days… Donald be crying, because he can’t sign it on the 4th. That’s what I was hoping.

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                210 days ago

                I’d rather have people do realistic things than grandstand because it’s entertaining.