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Filibuster ends. Trump adds 7 new justices to the Supreme Court. The next democratic president adds 14 justices to offset Republican picks. The next Republican president adds 28 new justices and on and on...
Within 40 years the entire population of the United States is on the Supreme Court.
Maybe then at least we will get some say in how this country is ran. 🙃
So then we'll become a true democracy? Right now, land is getting more equal representation than people are getting.
Soon: "In a 200M to 130M decision, the SCOTUS has ruled that abortions, sex work, and weed are legal, student loans are predatory and hereby forgiven and future interest rates capped, and income over $1M in a year is taxed at 100% while corporate tax rates have been raised to 70%. The increased revenue will fund healthcare, social safety net programs, and boost infrastructure programs. In other news, the execution of the traitor in chief will be at the Capitol at noon and be televised live to deter future attempts at fascist takeover. Thankfully he was stupid enough to accidentally give power to the people."
You need to run for public office on this platform! Lol
It will take 26 cycles to meet the current population of the United States. That is 104 to 208 years from now. Supposedly our population has peaked and is slowly declining.
I think we got 5-10 more years of growth, then the decline comes. Can't come soon enough honestly. Planet needs a break and most humans around the planet are moving to right wing extremism.
I don't believe in god, but if that mf does exist. I hope he comes soon and takes all these religious Christian nationalist with him. That would solve a bunch of problems on the planet.
Look, I do believe in God:
If only we were like Switzerland.
Sounds a bit like some smaller US states. Which makes sense when you consider that Switzerland isn’t much bigger Massachusetts or New Jersey geographic and population wise.
I'm not sure but that sounds like a movie I've seen before.
“The Democrats are far more likely to win the Midterms, and the next Presidential Election, if we don’t do the Termination of the Filibuster (The Nuclear Option!),” Trump wrote.
trump doesn't understand it's called "the nuclear option" because it blows up the sham system the oligarchs put in place.
As long as there's a threat of a filibuster, both sides have an excuse not to do anything productive.
Right now all it it takes is someone saying "I heard someone might filibuster" and that prevents a vote. That's why it feels like nothing has been done for over a decade.
Without a filibuster, votes are going to have to happen. Politicians stop being able to claim they would vote for something, and actually have to cast a vote.
trump just assumed "the nuclear option" has to mean it's the biggest possible move, and no one is going to be able to convince him to drop it because of that nickname.
Look, having nuclear—my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart—you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I'm one of the smartest people anywhere in the world—it’s true!—but when you're a conservative Republican they try—oh, do they do a number—that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune—you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged—but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me—it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are (nuclear is powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what's going to happen and he was right—who would have thought?), but when you look at what's going on with the four prisoners—now it used to be three, now it’s four—but when it was three and even now, I would have said it's all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don't, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years—but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us.
No. Stop. Don't.
Never interrupt an enemy when they are making a COLLOSAL mistake...
Well, yeah. Without the filibuster, Republicans would be able to completely rewrite election laws, giving them total control over the outcomes.
The only way they can win, is to cheat.
Its a ruse to make mercans believe their vote matters anymore.
The "positive anymore" is a blight the Midwest has wrought on the English language.
Midwesterners are a blight.
If that's how you feel then I won't be sharing any casserole with you, thank you very much!
— Russia