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Redditors questioning basic political theory (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 7 months ago by 666@lemmygrad.ml to c/the_dunk_tank@hexbear.net

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https://www.reddit.com/r/CuratedTumblr/comments/1gcvh31/why_is_every_tankie_like_i_dont_understand_the/

Because the government is a terrorist state that sponsors genocide and the branches of that terrorist state sponsor terrorism globally.

"UWU the dems are just so powerless UWU!"

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[–] regul@hexbear.net 25 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I remember reading about the Parliamentarian in the Constitution and civics class. What's wrong with you tankies?

[+] Hexboare@hexbear.net 25 points 7 months ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

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[–] regul@hexbear.net 12 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Actually, the Parliamentarian has a veto in Congress, you just fell asleep in civics class:

https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/25/politics/minimum-wage-covid-relief-senate-parliamentarian/index.html

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 28 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Is this a bit? I cannot stress this enough, per the SCOTUS Biden could legally take a bust of John Kennedy and beat the Parliamentarian to death on the floor of Congress. The Parliamentarian can also be easily replaced if they won't play ball, which as been done before. Or congress could just ignore them.

But the ruling likely makes it easier for Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to get his members in line behind the bill since the rise in the minimum wage had been a key sticking point for moderates like Sens. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona and Joe Manchin of West Virginia.

Lol

White House officials, cognizant of the potential math problem with Senate Democrats if the minimum wage increase were in the final package, had been counting on the provision being stripped, the administration official told CNN.

Also, lol

“I strongly disagree with tonight’s decision by the Senate Parliamentarian,” Sanders said in a statement Thursday evening. “The (Congressional Budget Office) made it absolutely clear that raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour had a substantial budgetary impact and should be allowed under reconciliation. It is hard for me to understand how drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge was considered to be consistent with the Byrd Rule, while increasing the minimum wage is not,” Sanders added, referring to the rule – named after the late Sen. Robert C. Byrd – that prohibits including “extraneous” measures as part of the budget process that Democrats are employing to send the Covid-19 relief package to Biden’s desk by early March.

It would have been nice if Sanders had died at some narratively significant moment when we still believed in him.

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 26 points 7 months ago

“Let’s be clear: raising the minimum wage is COVID-19 relief,” Washington Rep. Pramila Jayapal, the chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, said in a statement responding to the ruling. “We simply cannot go back to the Black, Brown, AAPI, Indigenous, poor and working class voters who delivered us the White House and the Senate majority and tell them that an unelected parliamentarian advised us – based on arcane rules – that we could not raise the minimum wage as we promised,” she added, calling on the Senate to reform the filibuster “to allow populist and necessary policies like the $15 minimum wage to pass with a majority of the Senate.”

It's such a beautifully fine-tuned machine. Almost makes me weep.

[–] regul@hexbear.net 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's a bit about how the Democrats constantly invent new and exciting reasons to explain why they can't do anything useful.

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 2 points 7 months ago

Cool cool. Thank you for letting me know.