https://www.reddit.com/r/CuratedTumblr/comments/1gcvh31/why_is_every_tankie_like_i_dont_understand_the/

Because the government is a terrorist state that sponsors genocide and the branches of that terrorist state sponsor terrorism globally.

"UWU the dems are just so powerless UWU!"

  • regul [any]
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    19 hours ago

    I remember reading about the Parliamentarian in the Constitution and civics class. What's wrong with you tankies?

    • Hexboare [they/them]
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      19 hours ago

      The parliamentarian just provides advice on the consistency of procedures - they can just make amend the procedures.

      • regul [any]
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        19 hours ago

        Actually, the Parliamentarian has a veto in Congress, you just fell asleep in civics class:

        https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/25/politics/minimum-wage-covid-relief-senate-parliamentarian/index.html

        • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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          18 hours ago

          Is this a bit? I cannot stress this enough, per the SCOTUS Biden could legally take a bust of John Kennedy and beat the Parliamentarian to death on the floor of Congress. The Parliamentarian can also be easily replaced if they won't play ball, which as been done before. Or congress could just ignore them.

          But the ruling likely makes it easier for Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to get his members in line behind the bill since the rise in the minimum wage had been a key sticking point for moderates like Sens. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona and Joe Manchin of West Virginia.

          Lol

          White House officials, cognizant of the potential math problem with Senate Democrats if the minimum wage increase were in the final package, had been counting on the provision being stripped, the administration official told CNN.

          Also, lol

          “I strongly disagree with tonight’s decision by the Senate Parliamentarian,” Sanders said in a statement Thursday evening. “The (Congressional Budget Office) made it absolutely clear that raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour had a substantial budgetary impact and should be allowed under reconciliation. It is hard for me to understand how drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge was considered to be consistent with the Byrd Rule, while increasing the minimum wage is not,” Sanders added, referring to the rule – named after the late Sen. Robert C. Byrd – that prohibits including “extraneous” measures as part of the budget process that Democrats are employing to send the Covid-19 relief package to Biden’s desk by early March.

          It would have been nice if Sanders had died at some narratively significant moment when we still believed in him.

          • regul [any]
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            10 hours ago

            It's a bit about how the Democrats constantly invent new and exciting reasons to explain why they can't do anything useful.

          • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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            18 hours ago

            “Let’s be clear: raising the minimum wage is COVID-19 relief,” Washington Rep. Pramila Jayapal, the chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, said in a statement responding to the ruling. “We simply cannot go back to the Black, Brown, AAPI, Indigenous, poor and working class voters who delivered us the White House and the Senate majority and tell them that an unelected parliamentarian advised us – based on arcane rules – that we could not raise the minimum wage as we promised,” she added, calling on the Senate to reform the filibuster “to allow populist and necessary policies like the $15 minimum wage to pass with a majority of the Senate.”

            It's such a beautifully fine-tuned machine. Almost makes me weep.

        • Hexboare [they/them]
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          17 hours ago

          I can't tell if this is a sarcastic bit or not?

          I haven't read the article because it's CNN so I assume they never actually say something like "the Parliamentarian is elected for life and has an unbreakable veto", they just allude to it to make the reader draw that conclusion themselves.

          If it's not a bit I can dig up some more info on the role of the Parliamentarian.

          I'm not American so the closest the civics-equivalent class came to this process is where, if the Senate fails to pass a House bill twice, the government can dissolve parliament and hold an election immediately. Then after an election, if the Senate still refuses to pass the same House bill, the government can essentially merge the upper and lower houses for a voting session to get stuff through.

          • regul [any]
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            10 hours ago

            It's a bit about how the Democrats constantly invent new and exciting reasons to explain why they can't do anything useful.