Bahnd Rollard
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14·2 days agoAt the time of posting, he is ~5 hours out from the record.
Edit, 3 hours, I cant read clocks…
Thank you, you are a gentleman and a scholar.
I guess it is in a traditional sense, but they are very infrequent these days due to the senates rules and their collective lazyness.
IIRC the current version of the filibuster is a combination of two rules (procedural rules of the senate, not laws).
- Votes on bills cant be done while a senator is talking.
- You cant force them to give up their speaking time (which is how ever long they want it to be) unless 60 members of the senate vote to get them to stop.
Back in the day, you actually had to be talking the entire time, but in the senate’s lazyness they changed the rules to streamline the entire process. Someone to just say they are going to filibuster something and they have the vote, to see if the matter gets dropped or not. I think its a squares vs rectangles sorta thing, a filibuster is done with the intent to kill a bill by not allowing the voting process to go forward, this appears to be doing the same before they brought anything to vote on. The outcome is still the same, the senate does nothing.
IANAL, but because this was done on a third party encrypted chat app, doesn’t it also violate the federal records act or something? If this was any other administration they would have been launched out of a cannon for that alone, not just the breach in security.
Happy thoughts my dude.
Japan is sending us some new cherry trees for our birthday. (I know its more complicated than that, but take the little moments when they happen)