"I and my fellow Democratic congresspeople are unable to do anything the Supreme Court. Or ICE. Or DHS. Or healthcare. Or our broken federal healthcare institutions such as HHS, CDC, etc. Or federal science funding. Or NASA. We will not be abolishing the filibuster. The list of stuff we don't do is depressing and very long. It goes on for 3 minutes. My aides timed it. But the important thing is I won! And our democracy persevered!"

But Newsome and his fellow Democratic congresspeople will take bold action on privatizing as much of the federal government as they can as they line their pockets for the good of the American People.

[–] vanDerVaartBlackenedRanch@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

IIRC the filibuster was effectively overturned by a procedural change this session. Bringing it back is so on-brand that your bit is still a good one.

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

IIRC the filibuster was effectively overturned by a procedural change this session.

I haven't been following the filibuster stuff at all but I think the GOP kept it but created a carve out or two. I have no idea what the actual term for "carve out" is.

[–] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

'created an exception'?

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago

There must be a fancy term. This is congress after all.

Ninja edit. Despite knowing that google would only annoy me - I spent a few minutes googling. Some sites use the term "majoritarian exception". I don't know if that's standardized or not.

[–] ThermonuclearEgg@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago

They can just make exceptions when they think it's convenient, been doing that for quite a while now