Meh. Gotta take the wins. Considering a 48+2 senate it was a very good week when adding in the Kansas vote.
SCOTUS is a big greased pig to catch. Also a pretty monumental ask of institutional Joe. But concur, no reason not to be highly skeptical it will get fixed.
Itâs a win but a short lived one. It will all be reversed by SCOTUS and the MAGA crowd when they take both houses.
Lol theyâre still giving a fuck what the god damn parliamentarian says
https://twitter.com/escochrane/status/1555909048092037120?s=21&t=Fe49qB-N8lsMtxjIV8SM2g
Blah blah blah FIRE HER THEN
https://twitter.com/escochrane/status/1555916802605064195?s=21&t=Fe49qB-N8lsMtxjIV8SM2g
If you were given a billion dollars, ten years, and the full time services of the worlds most knowledgeable political scientists with the sole goal of designing the worst democratic political system they simply couldnât come up with anything worse than the US one.
It sounds suspiciously like a right wing talking point, but it does seem nonsensical to assign this much power over the countryâs future to an UNELECTED BUREAUCRAT.
On the other hand, itâs only because of reconciliation to get around the filibuster, so maybe change the rules to prevent the minority party from paralyzing the whole system?
Or how about getting rid of the filibuster altogether?
Well weâre going to be the minority party soon. At least thatâs the argument anyway.
I donât think Dems have ever, or will ever, use the filibuster as vigorously as Rs have in recent decades. Theyâll resist because itâs unseemly, because of ânormsâ, because theyâre afraid republicans might call them mean names. âWhen they go low, we go highâ still has traction in many Demâs hearts.
Plus obviously McConnell wonât hesitate for a second to change the rules if it gives him the slightest advantage. WAAF
Btw, it took me like 10 tries to spell âbureaucratâ. Fuck that word.
LOL wtf is this shit
https://twitter.com/lisadnews/status/1555936618200141824?s=21&t=Fe49qB-N8lsMtxjIV8SM2g
fuck it, if weâre gonna do it this way, letâs make a reality tv episode out of it, complete with a real time counter of hypothetical deaths caused by the decisions made in there, and weâll keep track of high scores and shit
They should do quick time events. If you can press Up and A at exactly the right moment then you get your life saving medicine.
Fuck it we are going to do it live?
LOLBETTINGMARKETS, but they have it as 97% at being paused. Of course itâs still absurd we donât know.
It is getting extended, would guess that the delay is Biden wants to announce a means based partial forgiveness solution thst makes this the final pause.
Thatâs cause billions of dollars over decades have been spent turning this one into the gem we enjoy today.
so much could be fixed if they just reversed that terrible decision I forget how long ago or what exactly it was that allowed politicians to effectively take unlimited donations from people without consequence or oversight. Thatâs at the root of almost everything here. Lots of the shittiest ones would just disappear in a term or two if they were knee capped on these money faucets.
money is what wins elections, and corporations have literally all of the money. hence, it should not be a surprise that everything that happens in government is at the benefit of corporations.
this sounds correct and if you looked at hard data it might even fit, but itâs almost certainly wrong if you go beyond level 1.
the modern filibuster basically isnât âusedâ in the sense that people think of it, itâs just the mere idea that keeps legislation from even being brought up. Most bills never even get to the part where the fillibuster would actually grind their progress to a halt because everyone knows that someone would use it.
Republicans donât really need to pass any bills to get what they want, they can do tax cuts through reconciliation and judges are exempt from fillibustering. Theyâve just adapted to the reality that if they did want to pass a bill it would get fillibustered. If they actually thought democrats were reluctant to use it they would have passed a lot more shit in 2017/18.
