Senate Filibuster ... is it time for it to go?

[LuFins Dad]

Yes, I want the 60 vote cloture to stay. It will be anarchy without it.

[jon-nyc]

Yeah it’s a bit of small-c conservatism that has served us well overall.

[Axtremus]

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/us/politics/trump-filibuster-shutdown.html

Trump Calls on Republicans to End Filibuster in Shutdown Fight

[NobodySock]

those are words I'd rather not hear from Trump. He wants to begin testing them now. No lie.

[Doctor Phibes]

I'd rather they eliminated the use of ALL CAPS and inappropriate "quotation" marks in official communications, but maybe that's just me.

[89th]

Random, but how nice will it be one day to return to this type of normalcy. 6 days after 9/11, Bush speaking at an Islamic center.

Link to video

[Mik]

From your lips to God's ear.

[xenon]

I think we're past this. Culturally we don't have much respect for authority anymore, so why would we have respectable authorities?

[Axtremus]

@xenon , which is the cause, which is the effect?

[Horace]

@Axtremus said in Senate Filibuster ... is it time for it to go?:

@xenon , which is the cause, which is the effect?

The most recent and striking evidence that the expert class often oversteps, was Bill Gates' open letter that climate change isn't really the existential threat we were all supposed to believe it was.

[Klaus]

@89th said in Senate Filibuster ... is it time for it to go?:

Random, but how nice will it be one day to return to this type of normalcy. 6 days after 9/11, Bush speaking at an Islamic center.

Wow, to think that back then we made fun of GWB as a kind of wild cowboy who doesn't know how to behave...

[jon-nyc]

Yeah which leaves open the theoretical possibility that there’s some future hellscape scenario where the GOP could choose someone even worse to the point where we’d be waxing nostalgic about Trump.

[Horace]

Even the most strident Trump haters generally admit that he's not clever enough to be a worst-case scenario.

[Mik]

I've been quite pleased with some things he's done. It's clear he learned a LOT from his first term and the four Biden years. Not everything, particularly shooting off his mouth, but policies are by and large pretty sound, if implementation is heavyhanded.

[jon-nyc]

His trade wars seem objectively unsound. I can see how many other things are a matter of opinion.

[Mik]

Perfect example of heavyhanded

[jon-nyc]

It depends on who when you ask.