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they almost used their political power (lemmy.ml)
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[–] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

did you catch how they improved the revolving door strategy this time around? all of the democratic senators that caved this time weren't up for elections next year; they ended their careers by falling on their swords to protect the filibuster.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    Yuuup. Couple of them were retiring, a few of them aren't up until '28, a couple of them aren't up until 20-fucking-30! But yeah, the more I think about it the more the only thing that make sense is that Schumer was getting worried that Thune was close to caving on the filibuster.

    I think that limp dick offer Schumer made the other day was probably lobbyist money stuff. But I think that the full on caving was about protecting the filibuster.

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