Okay, so a very strong probabilistic argument! Well, good. I’m provisionally happy.
Yeah, but I have a feeling the GOP would dismiss that the same way they did Merrick Garland. I think to have full legitimacy it would need to be very fresh. But you know what? If they can pull it off I won’t be complaining.
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If the Democrats control both houses and the presidency and kill the filibuster (which is the hypothetical we’re talking about), it doesn’t matter if the GOP dismisses it.
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Hmmm…sounds pretty overt to me.
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This is the most frustrating thing about the last 4 years. My father, stepmother, grandfather, and parents-in-law are all Trump supporters. I remember when my grandmother was still alive in 2015, and she and my GF shuddering at the Thanksgiving table at the thought of Donald Trump (“ugh, that man”, she said) winning the nomination. A year later, and they had convinced themselves they couldn’t vote for anyone else. On the day after the election, my dad was all, “Wow, that was something, I don’t think anyone expected that,” as if he had resigned himself to Hillary winning, but still voted for Trump because reasons (read: racism and fear) and was happy with the results. And now I have to deal with the fact that they all likely did it again, after 4 years of seeing exactly who Trump is as president. I can’t think of my anyone in my family as supporting fascism, but there it is. I am cheered to some degree that it appears Biden has won, but I’m still heartbroken.
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How can be racists when they can say, “my black friend” and there’s no question who they’re talking about because they mean singular?
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“Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger… anger leads to hate… and hate leads to suffering.”
– Jedi grand master Yoda.
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i wonder if he’s steve schmidt.
which makes me wonder why you can’t seem to stop repeating it to no good purpose. seriously, are you with lincoln project?
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That’s not looking great right now and changing Senate rules require a 60 vote majority or Supermajority in various cases (there are several procedural steps required). Also, the filibuster has been supplanted in many ways by simple cloture (this is how ACA was finally passed iirc). Point is, it would take broad bipartisan agreement and I’m not sure that will happen anytime soon. Many Dems have even come out against eliminating it in the past.
However, there is some bipartisan support for statehood. That would also dramatically shift the balance of power back to something balanced. But again, I’m happy with any and all of the above.
ETA: Some context:
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That would be amazing. Same for Katie Porter here from my neck of the woods.
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I can imagine (with something like reasonable assurance) what Mary Trump is feeling right about now… but not the magnitude of that feeling. She’s been “living” with Uncle Donald her whole life. (Has anyone interviewed her yet?)
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I would definitely call people who put the “lives” of zygotes above the lives of actual full-grown people of color racist. In fact, I will. Your family, or at least those 20 people in it, are racist. Sorry. If they voted for a man who encourages white nationalist violence and lets a pandemic run out of control, they’re also clearly not pro-life, merely anti-abortion.
EDIT: Did I say full grown people of color? I meant any that are out of the womb. Let’s not forget the children separated from their parents and put in camps or the Black kids murdered by cops.
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She was on MSNBC last night. Honestly, she looked drunk to me. but that is pretty understandable. I can’t say I was any different.
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“Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.” - John Stuart Mill
This is why I’m hoping the Biden administration shakes up some of the people who’ve been sitting on the sidelines, letting the current administration get away with derailing decency and democracy.
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(1) I understand that nobody actually filibusters anymore in the sense of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. When we say “kill the filibuster,” we’re talking about what it takes to invoke cloture.
(2) AS THE ARTICLE YOU LINKED POINTS OUT, a simple majority has twice used the nuclear option to kill the filibuster (or the 60-senator-threshold cloture vote) on judicial nominations. A simple majority could do so again for legislation.
(3) There is not useful bipartisan support for either D.C. or Puerto Rico statehood.
Dude, scroll back up to the thing you’re responding to:
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I’m not disagreeing with you. As I understand it, permanently changing the rule would require a number of procedural hurdles that would require bipartisan support. I’m not a Senator, so if I’m wrong, fine.
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