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Posted on 10/15/25 at 10:38 am to Riolobo
Please say you don’t vote.
This is why there needs to be a poll test and poll tax.
This is why there needs to be a poll test and poll tax.
Posted on 10/15/25 at 10:38 am to FreddieMac
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Our system is not designed to work with this quasi super majority in the Senate to get anything done.
I get what they were going for, you needed to at least have some agreement between both sides to get major legislation passed but at this point the two sides are too different for this to really work anymore. You can't have one side that wants to preserve the country for its citizens and the other that wants to tear everything down and favors noncitizens and foreign countries and expect the two sides to ever compromise.
Posted on 10/15/25 at 10:39 am to jrodLSUke
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The Senate requires 60 votes to pass legislation, including the CR that will fund the government.
It requires 60 votes to end debate, but 50%+1 to pass.
Posted on 10/15/25 at 10:40 am to BuckeyeGoon
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I get what they were going for, you needed to at least have some agreement between both sides to get major legislation passed but at this point the two sides are too different for this to really work anymore. You can't have one side that wants to preserve the country for its citizens and the other that wants to tear everything down and favors noncitizens and foreign countries and expect the two sides to ever compromise.
Exactly, the filibuster is a relic of by-gone era, it needs to go. Yes, when they have a majority they will do stupid things, but you get the majority back and fix it and change it yourself, that is how the system is suppose to work.
Posted on 10/15/25 at 10:41 am to tigersandsaints
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how can you be a functioning adult and not know basics?
They stopped teaching civics en masse about 25 years ago.
Posted on 10/15/25 at 10:41 am to Riolobo
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Riolobo
Posted on 10/15/25 at 10:41 am to Riolobo
Because you do not know how the senate works.
Posted on 10/15/25 at 10:45 am to tigersandsaints
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how can you be a functioning adult and not know basics?
Because its not the basics. The filibuster is a made up rule in the Senate and not part of the system designed by the founders. It was created almost 30 years after the founder. The founders had disagreements and figured out a way to still get stuff done. The filibuster as it exist today is an invention of the 20th century.
Only one Founding Father, Abraham Baldwin of Georgia, was still serving in the United States Senate in 1806. 1806 was when the filibuster rule conceptualized.
This post was edited on 10/15/25 at 10:50 am
Posted on 10/15/25 at 10:48 am to Riolobo
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Republicans have house and senate majority. How does the shutdown vote keep getting blocked?
A certain level of intelligence should be required to vote. This woukd be an example of that intelligence.
Posted on 10/15/25 at 10:50 am to Riolobo
NAPA Valley is where they'll be. You think they will give up a free junket
Posted on 10/15/25 at 10:52 am to jrodLSUke
Riolobo didn't take basic Civics in school
Posted on 10/15/25 at 10:59 am to Riolobo
How old are you and how many times did you fail civics?
Posted on 10/15/25 at 11:00 am to Riolobo
Because the Republican majority was too lazy to craft an actual budget over the summer, so now we're stuck with continuing resolutions - AGAIN.
I was told we were going to get a budget. This is NOT what I voted for.
I was told we were going to get a budget. This is NOT what I voted for.
Posted on 10/15/25 at 11:02 am to Houag80
They need to kill the filibuster on spending or they’re going to get annihilated in 2026. This will increasingly become a Republican shutdown the longer it goes. And for those that want to keep the filibuster intact, remember if the GOP loses the Senate, the Dems will get rid of it anyway.
Posted on 10/15/25 at 11:05 am to Riolobo
quote:Do you understand parliamentary rules in the Senate? You need sixty votes. The Republicans have fifty-three right now. The Democrats are refusing to provide the seven votes needed to pass the measure.
Riolobo
Posted on 10/15/25 at 11:06 am to Harry Boutte
When was the last time we passed an actual budget?
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The last time Congress—including the U.S. Senate—passed a full congressionally-adopted federal budget resolution (not just a continuing resolution or omnibus appropriations bill) was for Fiscal Year 2009, passed in June 2008.
ETA:
The last time Congress—including the U.S. Senate—passed a full congressionally-adopted federal budget resolution (not just a continuing resolution or omnibus appropriations bill) was for Fiscal Year 2009, passed in June 2008.
This post was edited on 10/15/25 at 11:10 am
Posted on 10/15/25 at 11:06 am to Riolobo
quote:Try to keep up.
Riolobo
Posted on 10/15/25 at 11:13 am to FreddieMac
Getting rid of the filibuster can come back to bite when no longer the majority. The democrats could then force feed us anything they’d like to. The filibuster sucks until it doesn’t.
Posted on 10/15/25 at 11:13 am to Riolobo
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How is there a shutdown with Republicans having majority?
Because Trump is President.
If anyone not named Trump was president the devil democrats would have approved the CR.
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