Abolish the filibuster!

[TheStoicPaisano 9,904]

@Hugo Stiglitz

 

[sidis 9,754]

8 hours ago, Bruh Man said:

Manchin & Biden are revealing their infrastructure proposal next week.

 

Sooooooooo...infrastructure week?

[Hugo Stiglitz 23,356]

Waste of time but at least there is a plan. 

[DonkeyCigars 144]

1 hour ago, hobbes2702 said:

Hey, I said arguably. It's how I grew up learning about FDR, but I also didn't go to public school where nanny/welfare state was celebrated. It wasn't until college that I realized people actually liked JFK and FDR and didn't think they were clowns.

[Mrs Whiggins 13,049]

Sounds like you ought to start a thread on welfare and share your opinions. Back to the filibuster:

Here are a few recent airings, the last one is my fave:

About the assertion regarding whether the filibuster began in response to events in history:

An illustration of the more recent past:

And finally:

Sorry if any of these were already posted....

 

[DonkeyCigars 144]

Good point Mrs. Wiggins, sorry to digress. I agree we need the reform and need a talking filibuster. Those are cool. Also the whale pod tweet was funny. 

[Mrs Whiggins 13,049]

If there were to be any compromise at all, it would have to be returning to the original, but I'm not sold that there needs to be any compromise, given the recent past and the disingenuous nature of the current politicians urging for it to stay.

[DigglerontheHoof 21,065]

27 minutes ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

Sounds like you ought to start a thread on welfare and share your opinions. Back to the filibuster:

Here are a few recent airings, the last one is my fave:

About the assertion regarding whether the filibuster began in response to events in history:

An illustration of the more recent past:

And finally:

Sorry if any of these were already posted....

 

[Hugo Stiglitz 23,356]

Talking filibusters are dumb too and have never been used in the way depicted in “Mr Smith goes to Washington”  

[Ghost of LL 15,492]

12 hours ago, DonkeyCigars said:

That's interesting context I've never heard. I'll do some googling, but if you have a bookmarked source you got this from, that would be great.

And to JS1's teary, mascara-stained troll accusation (every accusation is a confession, my bad on taking the bait), it's pretty widely known and held that FDR arguably prolonged a recession and absolutely created a welfare state.

I don't have a single source.  That's me synthesizing a whole bunch of reading on the Depression and the geo-ideological environment of the 1930's.

[GopherRock 1,765]

1 hour ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

Talking filibusters are dumb too and have never been used in the way depicted in “Mr Smith goes to Washington”  

Hence the need for 40 present and voting to continue said filibuster, instead of 60 to stop.

[kevwun 15,653]

Next the troll will lecture us on the unappreciated greatness of the Hoover Presidency.

Edited March 25, 2021 by kevwun

[Js1 85,112]

12 hours ago, DonkeyCigars said:

And to JS1's teary, mascara-stained troll accusation

You really are gunning for biggest shitstain on this website of degenerates, aren't you? 

And you are and have been a troll.  Or you're 14 and think you know everything about everything. 

Also nice homophobia there. 

[NWBuck 8,548]

2 hours ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

An illustration of the more recent past:

Hmmmm.... Interesting spike right about the time that the secret Kenyan Muslim started stretching out his tan trousers and putting his shoes up on the Resolute Desk.

Good thing ol' Fill and Buster were there to thwart his evil machinations.

[bad_teammate 13,132]

3 minutes ago, NWBuck said:

Hmmmm.... Interesting spike right about the time that the secret Kenyan Muslim started stretching out his tan trousers and putting his shoes up on the Resolute Desk.

Good thing ol' Fill and Buster were there to thwart his evil machinations.

I say well I say that's a coincidence son, a coincidence!

[Longhorn_Fan68 33,843]

so the senate decided to adjourn for 2 weeks. could the dems just stick around and pass shit without the R's present? I've forgotten so much about how our gov't actually works. lol

[DonkeyCigars 144]

2 hours ago, Js1 said:

You really are gunning for biggest shitstain on this website of degenerates, aren't you? 

And you are and have been a troll.  Or you're 14 and think you know everything about everything. 

Also nice homophobia there. 

are you insane? what homophobia? I'm calling you a hysterical woman. Maybe I'm guilty of misogyny. And if you are gay, I'm sorry you took it that way, I can't keep up with everyone's status around here. I just know you as a pathetic, dyed-in-the-wool Democrat, whether you are straight, gay, black, white, woman or man.

Edited March 25, 2021 by DonkeyCigars

[wildcat09 29,258]

14 hours ago, DonkeyCigars said:

That's interesting context I've never heard. I'll do some googling, but if you have a bookmarked source you got this from, that would be great.

And to JS1's teary, mascara-stained troll accusation (every accusation is a confession, my bad on taking the bait), it's pretty widely known and held that FDR arguably prolonged a recession and absolutely created a welfare state.

It's actually not. 

[kevwun 15,653]

It is in the alternate reality in which he resides.

[SydneyCarton 47,884]

Just now, wildcat09 said:

It's actually not. 

Yeah, it's hilarious watching the Troll at work. But I mean, he's absolutely an Aggie, so you have to understand that saying shit like "It's widely known that Texas aTm won the Big 12 Championship in 2010 and are three time national champions" is literally part of their indoctrination as adults.



 

[Sawbonz 27,436]

2 hours ago, kevwun said:

Next the troll will lecture us on the unappreciated greatness of the Hoover Presidency.

Boy the way Glenn Miller played

[wildcat09 29,258]

 

This fucking idiot.

[Longhorn_Fan68 33,843]

21 minutes ago, DonkeyCigars said:

are you insane? what homophobia? I'm calling you a hysterical woman. Maybe I'm guilty of misogyny. And if you are gay, I'm sorry you took it that way, I can't keep up with everyone's status around here. I just know you as a pathetic, dyed-in-the-wool Democrat, whether you are straight, gay, black, white, woman or man.

hey guys, chill. it wasn't homophobia. it was just casual misogyny. we all know women aren't people, so it's all good.

[Huckleberry 32,704]

18 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

It's actually not. 

It's amazing that so many knuckleheads simultaneously want to take America back to the 1950s but without any of the things actually in place in the 1950s (tax rates, social programs, etc.).

Basically without anything except the, you know, government-sanctioned racism. 

[SydneyCarton 47,884]

7 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

 

This fucking idiot.

No doubt.  We're going to have to hope for a hell of a fucking candidate to primary her. Like Phil Mickelson or Charles Barkley. Maybe Linda Carter?

[TwiceHorn 31,283]

12 hours ago, DonkeyCigars said:

Hey, I said arguably. It's how I grew up learning about FDR, but I also didn't go to public school where nanny/welfare state was celebrated. It wasn't until college that I realized people actually liked JFK and FDR and didn't think they were clowns.

This is revealing.

I went to a public high school, but in a very conservative district.  Judgment was not passed on FDR, or JFK for that matter, but the controversial aspects of their administrations or philosophies were discussed, as one might expect in an institution of education.

[SydneyCarton 47,884]

2 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

This is revealing.

I went to a public high school, but in a very conservative district.  Judgment was not passed on FDR, or JFK for that matter, but the controversial aspects of their administrations or philosophies were discussed, as one might expect in an institution of education.

Good catch. I missed it the first time. Of course he's some rich, casually misogynistic dipshit named Davis who grew up in private schools and probably had a black nanny and wants to whine and moan about the lack of person responsibility those colored folks have and why their real problem is they don't have a good family structure or fathers that stick around, as he saw his parents once or twice a year from boarding school where they shipped him off to because they couldn't stand to see the mirror reflection of themselves in the arrogant little prick they spawned. Suddenly this makes a lot more sense. 

[Js1 85,112]

15 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

hey guys, chill. it wasn't homophobia. it was just casual misogyny. we all know women aren't people, so it's all good.

Oh and also, if you don't agree with him or try to challenge him, you're a pathetic person.

[TwiceHorn 31,283]

15 hours ago, DonkeyCigars said:

That's interesting context I've never heard. I'll do some googling, but if you have a bookmarked source you got this from, that would be great.

And to JS1's teary, mascara-stained troll accusation (every accusation is a confession, my bad on taking the bait), it's pretty widely known and held that FDR arguably prolonged a recession and absolutely created a welfare state.

There's no question that communism and fascism were gaining traction worldwide, and in the US, too.  That's historical fact.

Now, continental Europe may have been more susceptible due to the devastation of WWI, but the fact of the matter is that it was close everywhere.

FDR did socialism lite, by central planning aspects of the economy without taking control of the means of production. Capitalism rose to the occasion.

[Fudge Nuggets 19,151]

14 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

This is revealing.

I went to a public high school, but in a very conservative district.  Judgment was not passed on FDR, or JFK for that matter, but the controversial aspects of their administrations or philosophies were discussed, as one might expect in an institution of education.

They couldn’t work that in at Donkey’s honkey madrasa due to all the time required teaching creationism and how white Jesus rode dinosaurs.

[bad_teammate 13,132]

30 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

They couldn’t work that in at Donkey’s honkey madrasa due to all the time required teaching creationism and how white Jesus rode dinosaurs.

Elite posting.

[Mrs Whiggins 13,049]

Can we all just agree that there is nothing wrong with having long beautiful lashes the way Maybelline intended? And there is waterproof mascara in one is so inclined. 
 

 

[DonkeyCigars 144]

12 minutes ago, bad_teammate said:

Elite posting.

Deleted. 

Edited March 25, 2021 by DonkeyCigars

[bad_teammate 13,132]

Just now, DonkeyCigars said:

Wai

"Donkey's honkey madrasa" is funny come on dude

[DonkeyCigars 144]

1 minute ago, bad_teammate said:

"Donkey's honkey madrasa" is funny come on dude

Yea it is. I was going to say “wait, you don’t believe in creationism?” As a joke but then sensitive people won’t let me have a sense of humor and I have to be 100% earnest all the time because otherwise I’m a troll.

[bad_teammate 13,132]

2 minutes ago, DonkeyCigars said:

Yea it is. I was going to say “wait, you don’t believe in creationism?” As a joke

eagle-eyed viewers who have seen my journeys among the Aggies recently will have learned something about me they might consider shocking

[Captainant 27,467]

2 minutes ago, DonkeyCigars said:

Yea it is. I was going to say “wait, you don’t believe in creationism?” As a joke but then sensitive people won’t let me have a sense of humor and I have to be 100% earnest all the time because otherwise I’m a troll.

Oh poor liddle victimcigars, everyone is soooo mean to his overly privileged misogynistic ass

[DonkeyCigars 144]

5 minutes ago, Captainant said:

Oh poor liddle victimcigars, everyone is soooo mean to his overly privileged misogynistic ass

Oh my goodness; please don’t take that as a lament. It was why I originally deleted it but ole BT is too fast on the draw and quoted me. I 100% could not care any less what you or anyone else’s treatment or opinion of me is. I just enjoy the discussions and sharing of point of views, and I enjoy learning something new from time to time. But hey, if it makes you feel good to imagine me as someone who is upset and bothered, by all means. I consider us friends and what else are friends for?

[DonkeyCigars 144]

16 minutes ago, bad_teammate said:

eagle-eyed viewers who have seen my journeys among the Aggies recently will have learned something about me they might consider shocking

Okay, I’ll bite. What the heck are you talking about? Or link me your escapades to read?

[Bama Chick 28,596]

I officially hate her.

[bad_teammate 13,132]

1 minute ago, Bama Chick said:

I officially hate her.
 

we need a ban on all white women until we figure out what is going on

[Longhorn_Fan68 33,843]

7 minutes ago, bad_teammate said:

we need a ban on all white women until we figure out what is going on

send them my way. I can judge who can stay and who has to go.

[StassneyHorn 6,540]

Please post your freshmen year essays on the whether the New Deal was a success. Bonus points for Great Society 

[softlynow 1,783]

FDR did prolong the Great Depression . . . when he insisted on a balanced budget in 1937 and a mini-recession within the GD ensued.

[Hugo Stiglitz 23,356]

 

[JimmyJames 12,271]

2 hours ago, softlynow said:

FDR did prolong the Great Depression . . . when he insisted on a balanced budget in 1937 and a mini-recession within the GD ensued.

I  can’t really speak to this part but the great depression was caused by the fed in the early 30s raising interest rates substantially during a severe economic retraction on behalf of the interests of the New York banks. Caused a severe recession to become the great depression.

Somewhat ironically I guess the fed did the complete opposite in 2008-2009 and prevented the Great Recession from become the second Great Depression.

So all hail the fed?

[Longhorn_Fan68 33,843]

17 hours ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

 

so will you stop bitching now? probably not

[Hugo Stiglitz 23,356]

4 hours ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

so will you stop bitching now? probably not

Hell no, I will continue voice my skepticism and push for more swift action.  
 

meanwhile...

 

[Longhorn_Fan68 33,843]

what does than have to do with abolishing the filibuster?

[Hugo Stiglitz 23,356]

You serious Clark?