• ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com
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    2 days ago

    Well then how about this, rather than just throwing a book of stuff out and telling us to divine what it is in your mind, you just state what it is that members of Congress, with a minority in both houses, no presidential power, and a screwed SCOTUS, are supposed to be doing at this time then? You’ve said that blocking appointments and filibustering the Senate is useless theater, so what exactly would you propose?

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      1 day ago

      First, booker is not blocking an appointment.

      Filibusters are only useful if they’re blocking legislation and he’s not doing that either; it’s only political theater.

      Republicans use the quorum rules when they’re a minority, but the Democrats won’t do they have decided that decorum matters more that fascism.

      Finally, fascism has been in the pipeline for atleast 40 years and expecting a silver bullet is unrealistic; read the documentation that you demanded.

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        23 hours ago

        The fact that he spoke at length exceeding a record previously held by a segregationist and that people are discussing what happened and why says he did something of note. What have you done to the same effect?

        I can specifically say that the quorum rules where used in MN to deny the Republicans a speakership and they tried to go around them with some theater vote that was shot down. If such is available then I would expect them to use it federally but right now the executive balance is on a tear doing everything they want through unilateral action, you can’t procedure your way out of that, so actions have been focused of court challenges for a large part. Budget matters, yeah Schumer is a vitch and caved, if people had shown up to elect a Dem Congress or President that wouldn’t even be a factor to deal with though, ounce of prevention > pound of cure and all that.

        Personally I would say they should do https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downfall_(2004_film) but that’s a way off… I didn’t ask for a book at any point. I asked what should they, the people in congress, be doing outside of what Sanders/AOC are going around the country, or Booker speaking for a day straight against the current nonsense, what would you propose they do other than to RTFM?