this post was submitted on 31 Aug 2025
1770 points (99.4% liked)

Microblog Memes

9109 readers
3473 users here now

A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

Rules:

  1. Please put at least one word relevant to the post in the post title.
  2. Be nice.
  3. No advertising, brand promotion or guerilla marketing.
  4. Posters are encouraged to link to the toot or tweet etc in the description of posts.

Related communities:

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
ReadyUser31@lemmy.world
aeronmelon@lemmy.world
needanke@feddit.org
1770
I pay $15k a year health insurance for my family, it only kicks in after I spend $5k, and a doctor can say I require one thing and the insurance can reject it (discuss.online)
submitted 6 days ago by bytesonbike@discuss.online to c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world
252 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It was lieberman and nelson. manchin hadn't rotated in yet.

[–] svtdragon@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You're right, and let's not forget the Franken recount that lasted until June. So a very brief window to get stuff done.

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

They could have completely done away with the filibuster forever with only 50.

I will never accept the "we need 60 to get anything done" excuse. It just means "we don't want to do anything."

[–] svtdragon@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

I don't really buy that. Even the Rs haven't gone that far. Imagine how much worse things could be if they had.