holy fuck
Republicans will filibuster it, and Democrats will say they can't just scrap the filibuster and pass shit with a simple majority because what if that leads to Republicans playing hardball in the future???
Extremely — simple majority. It’s a bunch of parliamentary procedural nonsense but the quick details are here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_option
"It was already blocked and it would set a bad precedent to just immediately overturn the resolutions of the previous government"
I don’t think they need Manchin because Josh Hawley supports it.
Lindsey Graham claims to but I don’t buy it.
They won't lol. it's a narrow majority. they'll make bipartisan compromises with the republicans in their own party.
We can't alienate moderate RepublicansWe have to compromise with RepublicansWe can't abolish the filibusterLiebermanBut Ted Kennedy diedIts McConnell's faultThe youth just didn't turn out to voteWe need to keep the Supreme CourtJust vote in the next electionThe President/Speaker/Senate Majority Leader is actually powerless, you knowManchin <======= YOU ARE HERE ON THE DEMOCRATIC LITANY OF EXCUSES
Its the Supreme Court's fault
Zoomer turnout is why the Republicans now have a Senate supermajority
They will always have the republican supreme court to blame.
And libs love compromise, bipartisanship and sucking up to the far right so lots of them will fall for bullshit like "We can't just stop putting children in cages, we need to reach across the aisle to reach a compromise if we are to heal the division in the American soul"
Wow, They’re shooting themselves in the foot as good as the libs do now
the final death throws of american politics will just be dems and repubs tripping over themselves to do fuck all
Hahahahaha Oh man. I hate when dems win but I love when chuds loose. It's a weird feeling.
I find it easy to support the (slightly) lesser evil, especially in elections I can't personally vote in.
(When I do have a vote it's much harder because the internal struggle session of voting 3rd party or tactical voting for the lesser evil is constant and uncomfortable.)
leftists are lucky. no matter the results we get to lose our fucking minds with despair/schadenfreude 😎
themselves
we've flailed around pretending to support the working class for hundreds of years, hundreds!
wow i actually cannot believe both dems are leading. that's pretty funny actually
He seems so cool in the attack ads from when he was a preacher but now he's kinda mellowed out :/
We need more representatives that just fucking hate America, no qualifiers
I knew weird Qanon shit would eventually fuck the Republicans but holy shit I didn't expect it this soon.
Joe Manchin is going to make Joe Lieberman look like Bernie Sanders.
Idk. Joe Lieberman was really, really, really bad. Still is actually
guess people's predictions that the dems will never ever retake control were shit. power will always go back and forth between the parties.
