• wheezy@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    When the Republicans vote to end the current fillabuster rules to pass stuff that hurts Americans all power will be given to the Republicans. They will go nuclear and have no one to stop them short of rewriting the constitution. And you know who defends against laws that violate the Constitution? The supreme court does. The same supreme court that overturned the “superprecident” of Roe v. Wade. This will all happen before the elections in November.

    When that happens; I hope you remember it and think “hmmm, maybe that guy knew what he was talking about”. The Democrats could have done this when they had majority in the Senate. And now the Republicans are doing it to literally nationalize elections and fund ICE standing outside every polling station.

    The only reason the Republicans haven’t ended the fillabuster yet is because the Democrats literally keep passing all the shit they want. Hell, they might not even need to end the fillabuster because the Democrats are so submissive to them.

    Now the Democrats could have ended the fillabuster. They could have passed the Green new deal, student loan forgiveness, and things that were actually good. Instead, they use it as an excuse to get nothing good done and try to go other routes like Biden did and got blocked by the supreme court.

    Because I do know what I’m talking about. The Biden administration could have passed student loan forgiveness day one and a massive infrastructure bill. They could have had 4 years of helping the working class and solidifying their support like FDR. They didn’t. They spent all their time funding a genocide instead.

    When you get so use to nothing good being done you’ll defend 0.85% of something being done as if it was 100%.

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      What the fuck are you even talking about, the student loan forgiveness stuff has NOTHING to do with the filibuster.

      I’m not defending shit, you literally have no fucking idea how this country works, so you might want to sit the fuck down and shut the fuck up and let the adults talk.

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        You realize Biden did an executive order for student loans because he couldn’t get the votes in Congress right? This is what the supreme court blocked.

        Removing the filibuster rule (something they CAN do with a 51 vote majority) would have made it possible to pass laws with a simple majority of 51 votes. They had 53 Democrats sitting in the Senate and a majority in the House when Biden took office.

        It’s funny that you needed this explained to you to understand why I was talking about the filibuster. You are so uneducated that you couldn’t even understand what I was talking about. So instead of using your brain you instead concluded “what does this have to do with student debt? Am I stupid? No! It must be him!”

        Here, you might need to watch this while the adults talk.

        https://youtu.be/Otbml6WIQPo

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          5 hours ago

          You’ve lost the plot, you literally blamed the student loan forgiveness stuff on Biden. Go back up and look for yourself.

          Wait that’s too generous. Just moving the goalposts.

          Biden attempted to forgive $20k through Congress, and they shot it down.

          His Executive Order was complete forgiveness, so it was much better anyway.

          So you’re blaming Biden for the Senate not using the filibuster to forgive 20% of student loans, but then mad at Biden for not doing enough for doing an E.O. to forgive ALL OF IT after that failed?

          And nothing to say about the people and groups who fought that tooth and nail, bringing in entities like MOHELA who stated themselves they wanted nothing to do with it, so they could claim standing.

          Nothing to say about the corrupt Supreme Court.

          No, this is on Biden.

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      2 days ago

      So, your argument is the Dems should throw out the rule book to show them magas what’s right?

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        2 days ago

        The fillabuster is a procedural rule invented by the Senate. It’s not law mate.

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            1 day ago

            Eh, I have dyslexia and trust my autocorrect too much. But I do know what it’s actually referring to and how it can be removed in the Senate. I’ll take misspelling a word I don’t commonly type over being ignorant of how it works to block progressive laws from being passed.

            If I’m wrong about something other than a spelling feel free to point it out.