No joke, if you listen back to Schumer, he does say the word norms so many times it's like someone is trying to literally snatch his favourite thing straight from his hands.
The most powerful democratic leader has imaginary friends that he talks to in order to guide policy for the "middle class". Yes, it is dumber than anyone could ever imagine.
Republicans are doing exactly what everyone who isn't a congressional Dem said they would do to get their agenda when Dems said they had to maintain "norms"? Dems aghast that they're losing based on made up rules in their made up game?
I would have been gobsmacked if Republicans deferred to the Parliamentarian. If Dems didn't anticipate this & have a messaging strategy at the ready, then that's just negligence.
Mark my words if dems ever get a majority again they will bend over backwards to go back to norms and fuck any progress they could make for working people.
Listen to all of you.
Wanting to become the thing which should be despised.
More important is the idea a simple majority of bat shit crazy people will be able to do whatever tf they want now.
This isn't even new. Trent Lott fired the Parliamentarian in 2001 because he didn't like his ruling. Republicans never gave a shit about the Parliamentarian. If Schumer legitimately believed the Parliamentarian would stop the Republicans he's even more delusional than everyone thought.
This party is so deeply corrupt they don't care what they do how they look who it hurts or what laws they break. They're going full force to corrupt our government to form their dictatorship and an oligarch party so when he steps down they will have billions put away from looting our government.
“Next time around” the Dem leadership will once again take pride in the fact they they, unlike Republicans, respect “norms, rules, and traditions” as long as it sandbags their progressive members
Democrat's gazan genocide was.......a PREVIEW of what was to come.
-naomi klein
nothings broken....it was just FAKE.
schumer is a zionist supremacist...he would gladly be McCarthy for maga.
i would not be surprised if schumer HELPED with the gop plan.
No no no, we were tols that the almighty parliamentarian was undefeatable in battle and we had no choice. How is it possible to just sidestep this unelected, unheard of position so easily?
I want to be true to principle and say that even though the outcome itself is bad, I support setting a new norm of ignoring the unelected, powerless parliamentarian. Dems should have done it ages ago. If they want it to exist they should damn well write it into law, and I'm glad that nobody has.
You fool! Clearly, you haven't seen the Mighty Parliamentarian. this terrifying, Democracy-destroying monster who fought Biden and Schumer, Darth Maul-style.
I can't believe the only people that would allow the opinion of an obscure functionary to prevent meaningful change would be the democratic party of nerds and hall monitors, I'm shocked
And the Republicans have in the past fired the parliamentarian and replaced them with someone who'd give them their desired rulings when the parliamentarian was digging their heels in on doing otherwise.
1/2 “They don’t care any more about norms, about rules, and even about going nuclear”
No shit, Sherlock. If there’s a Razzie for slowest learner, we’ve got a contender there.
2/2 Late to the party is one thing. So late that the food’s eaten, music and dancing over, lights turned up is a whole other level. But when you’re supposed to be hosting? That’s off the charts. We desperately need to demand better representation, and keep at it until we get it or die still trying.
No way. Booker isn't even really filibustering anything. Republicans know it helps them prevent Democrats passing things far more than it harms them from passing things. "Some decent press for the opposition" is not worth nuking an invaluable tool for them.
Shocking! The republicans are willing to break norms? The same ones who couldn’t put Garland up for nomination at the beginning on an election year? And the rammed through ACB right before the 2020 election?
The senate rules less real than the rules for Monopoly, and yet the Democrats have spent since the Obama administration insisting they were the equivalent of physical laws to the universe.
The Democratic Party should rebrand as the feckless party. They keep trying to play by the “rules” and get fucked every time and just say, “oh well”, while they watch their stocks climb. His is worth an estimated $30 million plus
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There should be a line of you ready to emulate @booker.senate.gov
And be willing to kick some ass
You need to make it so painful for the Rs that the are left wondering whether the imminent pain is going to be worth it… every inch
- the eternal war cry of the elected Dem
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This is shocking stuff.
Therefore, they obeyed the Parliamentarian.
Wanting to become the thing which should be despised.
More important is the idea a simple majority of bat shit crazy people will be able to do whatever tf they want now.
-naomi klein
nothings broken....it was just FAKE.
schumer is a zionist supremacist...he would gladly be McCarthy for maga.
i would not be surprised if schumer HELPED with the gop plan.
'En garde foul henchman! Beware or my sword will run you through!'
Or are we going to hear more tut-tuting with strong admonishments while they're sitting on their hands just blustering to look good to constituents?
It's time to clean the 3 branches of gov't out.
#resist
No shit, Sherlock. If there’s a Razzie for slowest learner, we’ve got a contender there.
#FightLikeCory