Originally published at: Trump Wants to Scrap the Filibuster Because He Doesn’t Care About the Republican Party
Fine! Scrap it! President Trump has become an unexpected ally in the progressive quest to eliminate the filibuster, deciding that anger over the government shutdown catalyzed Tuesday’s blue wave. “TERMINATE THE FILIBUSTER, NOT JUST FOR THE SHUTDOWN, BUT FOR EVERYTHING ELSE,” he posted. It’s become a nexus of consternation between him and Senate Republicans. Senate…
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okay, yeah right. Discuss and then reject I’m guessing. NO DEAL NO WAY NO HOW WITH THESE SNAKES
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Snakes are biologically driven to do what they do (and got a bad rep from the whole Adam/Eve/apple story). Republicans in 2025 aka the MAGA GOP lie because they believe it is effective tool to get what they want.
Tell them to go f–ck themselves. Restore the subsidies and Medicare cuts or nothing. I’m sure they will be real popular if the shutdown continues.
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They didn’t fire them trump This is BULLSHIT
Also NOW WHAT?
Judge orders Trump administration to pay full SNAP benefits for November by Friday
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From msn…
Judge orders Trump administration to pay full SNAP benefits for November by Friday
A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to pay full SNAP benefits for November by Friday.
Judge Jack McConnell rejected the administration’s plan to partially fund that food stamp program for 42 million Americans.
“People have gone without for too long,” McConnell said during a hearing in U.S. District Court in Rhode Island.
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Trump’s chosen method is to ignore inconvenient orders from federal judges.
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What would be, to quote Artie Johnson from Laugh In, “very interesting” is how many of the 47 Senators who caucus with the Democrats vote for ending the filibuster if Thune were to allow a vote.
As a rules change to end the filibuster would only need 50 votes, to pass it should need no more than 10 Republican votes.
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Republicans are now saying they would be willing to discuss rehiring federal workers who have been laid off during the shutdown as part of a deal that would reopen the government, Politico reported.
Oh really? This is putting the quiet part out loud. They are essentially saying that if Democrats make a deal now, they’ll only shoot half the hostages.
It gets even more ridiculous when you realize that shooting a hostage hurts everybody.
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I think we’re finally reaching a point when Trump is past his sell-by date, and his lizard brain is starting to recognize it. So are some of his toadies in Congress. And so is the public. The regime’s fear is starting to show, the defeats are piling up, the aura of invincibility is fading, and all MAGA can do is squabble about just how racist, misogynist, anti-Semitic, and anti-Muslim it wants to be; whether it’s to be the St. Charlie version or the Fuentes version. If we keep fighting and keep voting, we may be seeing, not the beginning of the end, but the end of the beginning of this regime. Maybe.
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Trump Doesn’t Care About the Republican Party
Or anything besides himself. He also seems convinced of his mortality and upcoming death, which he’s alluded to many times with his moronic desire to “get into Heaven”. He’s never been into the “long term” or even “big picture”; but now, more than ever.
If the Republican Party were an actual political party, and not just a money-grubbing personality cult, it would have eased him out of office by now. Every day he commits impeachable offenses! And he’s even turning off many Republican voters lately!
If you have the misfortune of being represented by any Republicans, please let them know that you, as a lifelong staunch Republican (go ahead and lie; they expect it), you want him OUT. As of YESTERDAY. Froth at the mouth a little – they expect it. But please do it.
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Glory me, is the fever pitch of the sick and twisted MAGA grip on the compliant Republican party starting to break? Personally, I need more significant signs that it is so.
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Trump Just Stands There After Man Collapses During Press Conference. One of the guests at Donald Trump’s press conference on weight loss drugs passed out during the event.
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RFKjr was behind trump when the man collapsed. RFKjr’s response was apparently to flee the scene.
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Repubs to Dems here as Lucy to Charlie Brown: “Give me all your Halloween candy and I will be willing to discuss at some later date whether I will pull the football away from you, or not.”
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If Trump manages to bully Thune into letting the filibuster go to a vote … wow! that’d be like the first genuinely good thing Trump’s ever done. It’ll top Pence’s completely unexpected attempt at redemption by doing the right thing on January 6th.
If Trump wants to make a genuinely enduring positive contribution to American history and governance, killing the filibuster as it now works would do it. And, he IS the only one who can.
Heck, that might even warrant a gold statue somewhere prominent … installed before a bipartisan cheering crowd.
Very BIG crowds I dare say. [Maybe a tiny live fire exercise and a tank or two.]
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Rethugliklans best be scared of a systemwide ATC walk-out just before Thanksgiving, whom they’ve previously threatened to fire and replaced with … no one; not to mention the optics of the closing of various mess halls due to privatization and of US soldiers in Germany being referred to German food banks.
Sure will be sad when the so-called lawmakers have to take a bus home.
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Ending the filibuster would probably be a net gain for Democrats since the Republicans are the party that most often wants to stand in the way of progress. Republican success in blocking progress led us to a do nothing era where endless culture wars were fought to raise money from advocates for one issue or another with little being decided. America has stagnated at least since the Johnson administration. We haven’t had an increase in the minimum wage, real healthcare reform or other economic matters since the 1960s or so.
My guess is the MAGA movement and before it the Tea Party movement have been fueled in part by a lot of citizens who tired of Democrats never getting anything done. I would say to the Democratic party that ending the filibuster might be a good thing for them politically and for the country that wants to take care of its citizens. . .
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This is a tension we should expect to see reemerging after Tuesday served as a glaring reminder of Trump’s limited shelf life. If he can’t turn out voters when he’s not on the ballot, and he won’t ever be again, he’s a lame duck whether he wants to be or not. Senate Republicans, some of them decades younger than he is, see a life in the post-Trump world. And they don’t want to spend it caught between the wishes of a rabid, punishing base, and a desire to stay palatable enough to win reelection.
I think this gets things wrong as Trump has actually had very few coattails for other Republicans when actually on the ballot. The GOP obviously won in 2024, but they actually underperformed in both House and Senate races that they probably would have won in earlier eras.
Trump’s actual power over Republican officeholders are:
- His ability to generate MAGA primary contenders that beat or weaken current officeholders
- Activating the rightwing threat industrial complex, which generates an onslaught of death threats and abuse against whoever Trump targets
Trump still can do both even though he’ll never be on a ballot again, so I don’t see his hold on the GOP weakening in any meaningful way. If Trump wants to kill the filibuster to end the shutdown, that is likely what he will get no matter the protests by Senate Republicans.
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On Tuesday, California voters approved Prop 50, which will allow Californai to redraw lines in 10 California congressional districts, giving Democrats an advantage over Republicans in the midterms.
It will allow Californai to redraw lines in 10 California congressional districts?!? Isn’t that like allowing Taxes to redraw lines in Texas congressional districts?
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