• Neuromancer@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    Or you just wait them out. You do nothing until they relent.

    Politics sometimes has to be ugly. What you don’t do is make sad excuses as to why things don’t get done. You just shut things down till they go for a vote.

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      10 months ago

      You can’t wait out an indefinite filibuster. And it gets to become indefinite because they don’t actually need to talk at all.

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        10 months ago

        They’ll get pressure from their party to stop it. At some point they’ll need to move to other business. It’s a battle of the nerves. Politicians have lost the guts to play chicken.

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          They actually get the opposite, support from their party. Because if you’re the minority party and you’re able to kill legislation that the majority party wants, it’s seen as a victory.