Democrats won control of the Senate, House, and White House in the last election but STILL can’t get anything done. Why? Because while the Senate filibuster lives, no progressive agenda can survive.
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ReplyInept bureaucracy is the goal of government. Progress for the people must be stopped. Catering to lobbyists is the only action to be made. Hence all of the fiscal stimulus for the past 13 years.
ReplyJan 6 was a glimpse into what actually needs to happen. Democrats and Republicans have destroyed America.
The people have been fooled into hating each other. Shame on us.
Our elected officials are crooks.
So I didn’t know what insurrectionist was until I listened to the news and I realised people running through the White House with cellphone to insurrectionists thanks for educating me
ReplyCould someone please explain the filibuster and how bad it is cause I’m from New Zealand 🇳🇿 but I do like the US 🇺🇲
Reply#KillTheFilibuster
ReplyGuys, why don’t you investigate two years of Antifa violence? Seems to me way more damaging than 6th Jan. Billions of damages, many deaths.
ReplyIs it possible to eliminate the filibuster AND Moscow Mitch?
ReplyI would like to see both AOC and Madison Cawthorn do Hot Ones. Separately, obviously. Mostly because I know that Sean would ask questions about their lives before they were in Congress and not actually about politics. In fact, I think he’d ask them to avoid politics if they could and I’d bet that AOC would, but Cawthorn wouldn’t.
ReplyWatch bulworth
ReplySam Bee would be a hoot at Hot Ones.
ReplyAnd will you still be happy the filibuster has been eliminated when Democrats, through their own incompetence and spinelessness, lose the Congress in 2022 and the White House in 2024?
ReplyActually, I think a better way would be to make the filibuster what it was before; only one Senator gets to do it any he has to keep on talking until his bladder falls out. With Mitch McAnal, that should take about two minutes.
ReplyWhy do we all know this but Washington Dems aren’t doing anything. Maybe we should get this on a ballot and let the people decide.
ReplyI’d be okay if they changed it to a talking filibuster- and they need to stay on topic. That way, if you want to filibuster something, you need to care enough about it to stand there and talk (again: on topic) for hours on end. Does Mitch care enough about any bills to actually put work in?
That way, you can keep the ability for a minority party to filibuster a truly heinous bill, but because it would take actual effort, the number of filibusters would drop significantly. They’d have to pull a Wendy Davis.
I think this is a reasonable compromise.
ReplyI’m glad I’m. At the later years in my life !!! God safe America!!! I’m a democrat ❣️
ReplyI know this is a terrible thing to say, but I will honestly be so happy when Mitch kicks the bucket. What this man has done to this country is just inexcusable.
ReplyTruth spoken!
Reply“Wow me or get the f*** out” Dems!!!
ReplyNow I can see why people like you want to get rid of the filibuster. Because it blocks a high majority vote now I get it 👍✍️🗣️👥📝🗳️📈📉🇺🇸 In other words it blocks majority rules
ReplyMetamucil hose on several occasions tried to help McConnell with his blockage and has never succeeded. Now they’re attempting digital extraction of the blockage
ReplySam… You goin’ on Hot Ones whether you like it or not.
ReplyI want to say death will stop Mitch but first of all that’s not a nice thing to say and secondly I think he is the Grim Reaper.
ReplyThis all sounds great… up until we’re the minority again, and eventually, we will be. If Democrats hate the filibuster so much, then why not try to get rid of the filibuster any time over the past 4 years? I guarantee they could’ve pulled it off then if they wanted it so badly.
ReplyThe retrumplicans are running interference to cover up the fact that the Jan 6th riot was an inside job.
ReplySam, Sean is a really great interviewer and we all know you can handle a few (10) wings! At least you could probably do better than DJ Kalid, he was pathetic! LOL
ReplyYes, it was used to deny blacks the right to vote… by democrats
ReplyGive the liberals unchecked power? Hard pass.
ReplyWell you should not be allowed to say that sexist comment, you are a Democrat, we are better party, the thing that make us diffrenet, is the fact that we call out our party and hold them to higher standards and accountable. We donot enforce laws unless we can lead by example. You support cancel culture, now that cancel culture is being used vs you. You hate it. We have to have decent respect to our enemy. Golden rule Treat them how we want to be treat.
ReplyMy girl Sam!!!
ReplyHehehe….I miss sb. I laughed all thru the swear ones and ur dance teacher. She’s also cruel. Hehehe
ReplyRapists can’t achieve tumescence when fear doesn’t permeate the room.
ReplyEmasculate those animalistic republicans.
i had been waiting for Sam to address the ‘feckless c***’ thing 🙂
Replywhy is it 60 votes to avoid the filibuster not 60% or a like percentage of those voting?
ReplyTHANK GOD YOURE BACK SAM!♥️
ReplyNo really, who the frell came up with the bright idea to give the Senate minority more veto power than the President?
ReplyGo 4 it Sam go on Hot Ones Trevor did it
ReplyThe jehad squad. Communists doing what communists do
ReplyPlan attack destroy deny repeat
I actually like your outfit. I know you wanted to hear this so you don’t need to return it after the show
ReplyMore like 60-Nein!
ReplyFilibuster is just a way for cowards to vote “no” without voting “no”. At least if it required someone to speak (AND stay on the actual topic) the entire time it could be used to what it’s supposedly there for.
ReplyDems need to put their big boy’s pants on and become as ruthless as Republicans.
ReplyYou can’t bring a knife to a gun fight. You’ll lose every time.
How sad that Samantha can’t use her full vocabulary because of TBS and YouTube censorship.
ReplySamB must like the dysfunction/drama of the american socio-political system. How about returning to native Canada and leave it all behind and find some peace in your life? 🤷♂️
ReplyPlease start referring to that pathetic Congresswoman as M T Green. More specifically, MT Green. (Empty Green.)
ReplyI’d say they should at least make the person who proposed the filibuster perform it. Let McConnell get up there and talk as long as he’s physically capable of doing so, then go right ahead and have the vote anyway. As it stands, all a senator has to do is send an email saying he’d like to filibuster and it’s done. There’s no personal cost to it.
ReplyThank you for telling it like it is. Please send a copy to our delusional government who are dreaming that there’s an ounce of bipartisanship
ReplyRepublicans are getting paid a lot of money, from hard earned taxpayer dollars, to do absolutely nothing!
ReplyRepublicans are getting paid a lot of money, from hard earned taxpayer dollars, to do absolutely nothing!
ReplyMaybe the Democrats are still the party of Jim Crow¿
ReplyI would love to see Sam Bee on Hot Ones
ReplyI agree that eliminating the filibuster would be a good idea, but there’s another way to move forward:
ReplyWhile the insanity & cowardice is evident in the GOP, the insanity & cowardice of Democrats needs to be addressed as well. Why are Congressional Dems avoiding defining what constitutes a Domestic Terrorist Organization & the consequences of membership? Wouldn’t enabling (and inciting) sedition, insurrection & treason, as well as expressed dedication to destroying democracy in favor of a dictatorship & authoritarianism qualify as worthy of expulsion from politics, elections & governing?
Don’t completely scrap the filibuster but atleast make it so those Senators actually have to stand and debate till they can’t. That’s called a talking filibuster.
ReplyYou would think the Republicans would want to know who all these antifa members were that attacked the capital
ReplyThe anti-filibuster argument of “But then the Republicans could pass stuff” is bunk. Here’s why: If the Republicans ever had a majority, but not 60 votes, they would without question eliminate the filibuster the moment that it became inconvenient for them.
ReplyJonathan weinzapfel for Senate of indiana 2022
Reply“I don’t want to destroy our government”. So letting a minority stop all legislature is an essential part of your government, but letting people vote isn’t? What utter bull***t!
ReplyAZ resident here – I have written Kirsten Sinema several strongly worded letters on this subject and made it abundantly clear I’ll be voting to primary her if she doesn’t get her act together soon.
Replythe graphics department really came through here xD
ReplyThe Democrats love the filibuster, it gives them cover for not doing what they campaigned on doing while blaming the Republicans. this is not an accident, it is a design
Replythe system works.
I thought the USA was the greatest democracy on the earth…..
ReplyThis is like civics 101 lesson here. In case you haven’t noticed most elections are close to 50-50, meaning The tides sway back and forth on who is in charge A LOT! Dems did this in the house and then complained when they lost the house, and Republicans just sent bills to the senate based on party votes. The next Congress can just I do all that was done, flip flopping one side to the other. It’s a bad idea for BOTH SIDES!
ReplyIf Democratic Senators got three wishes from a genie they’d negotiate it down to one wish and wish for something they think Republicans would like.
ReplyEvery time a Samantha Bee clip is in my feed…I try. But she’s not funny at all.
ReplyWhy can’t they have a fixed amount of filibusters per term of Congress if it’s so important?
ReplyAnd what makes you thing all the moderate, neoliberal Democrats will want to have a progressive agenda even if the filibuster gets abolished. We also need to vote these people out that are blocking progress like Pelosi, Manchin, Sinema and we need to stop Obama from meddling in grassroots movements.
ReplySomebody needs to ask what Biden’s going to do about the average tax payers standard deduction. Under trumps plan it runs out in 2025 but the low corporate tax rate was made permanent. Haven’t heard anyone bring this up.
ReplyIronically, the filibuster used to be where one person just stood up and kept talking for hours or days to prevent a vote from being taken. If we’re going to have a filibuster, then let it be that and only that!
ReplyFillibuster should be retained. taking it away when it works against you is self defeating. Both sides have used it.
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what should be done is to require the RNC & DNC to be required to follow the will of their constituents, and that corporate money must be fully trackable, repeal Money in Govt as “free speech’, remove the “personhood” of corporations, and a bleep-ton of heavier affecting tools remain in the US govt as the will of the majority of middles no matter what party, is largely ignored.
Is Samantha still mocking cancer patients?
ReplyHere it is in a nutshell: the Democrats need to get it out of their head right now, that the Republicans will never agree to anything that benefits the American people in any way!
ReplyLook at everything the Republican Party does! It is all aimed at keeping them in power, and making themselves and their rich corporate buddies richer and richer!
They want the good old white boys club to stay in power, and to continue to grind it down the poor people of this country, and to be able to control the middle class!
The Republicans are deathly afraid of a truly democratic America! That is their greatest fear! They do not want the American people to call the shots! They want to call the shots!
This is news for the scared and ignorant they are just for entertainment thats Why they joke and can twist the narrative with no actual proof you dont need the news you just need to follow the money and all actions will be revealed please yall hear me on this open your eyes whos making everything where is our money going who are we employing why are we not self sustainable already please for your children if not for yourself
ReplySamantha Bee.. you are intelligent, and hilarious.. never go away! I Grew up in Toronto, and I am a Canadian Veteran! lots of love….
ReplyHey beautiful 😍
ReplyFilibuster cost a lot of money to America. It corrupted the senate. Get rid of it.
ReplyHey… Why not go for a total of 100 votes to be able to pass a bill in the Senate?! Wouldn’t that be like making the government live and flourish to the highest level.
ReplyThe desperation of the GOP is Disgusting
Replyso called “progressives” or the ultra-liberals are the ones who naively ran campaigns to topple the gov of iran in the 70s … Just few weeks after Ayotullah took over, they realized their grave mistake, a woman couldnt even walk the streets without a vail on ! Then they came back out to protest against ayotullah, but it was TOO LATE ! They were all crushed, jailed, killed… & forced to flee the country !
ReplyI used to blame the Republicans on but I think the top democrats, those that are in corporate Democrats, hide under the pretense of working for the people but are actually Republicans and sheep’s clothing. I think I will no longer volunteer or give money to in any way support the DNC. Henceforth, I support those Democrats that are progressive
ReplyFilibuster in ANY form is a joke. Absolutely anti-democracy.
ReplyI don’t think there is a snowflake’s chance in hel* of the
Replyparty formerly known as republican
ever holding power
again
3:50 69 has very little pay off? We have not meet in-person
ReplyThe “Filibuster” was amusing 150 years ago, but it is not longer funny.
ReplyKookAnon would be funny if they weren’t so dangerous.💀
Reply🔥Filibuster 🔥
ReplyThank you, Sam.
ReplyMaybe we should ask why politicians almost never vote with their constituents, and the will of the people is not represented by either party. Both parties regularly agree on wars, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, drone bombs, austerity, income inequality, monopolies, militarized police, partisan propaganda, mass surveillance, stifling freedom of speech, locking up whistle blowers, and glorifying a brutal, torturous, unaccountable, “intelligence”/military/police juggernaut.
ReplyBut…. but…. but…. Jimmy Stewart 😟
ReplyYahoo has this article and will blocks comment on “Should the same be said of democrats” to whoever this woman is when she said that republicans are losers and the democrats should not put up with filibusters. She needs to learn how a government works before opening her big mouth.
ReplyIts all down to the MIDTERMS. absolutely. Get them OUT. Their goal is to basically stop the governemnt from getting anything done at all in any way. So no governemnt services. I love how you described q anon. The filibuster never should have been in the first place. Reading the phone book to block any government action. Should nt ever have been legal
ReplyLet’s not try to make this racial. Its blocking anything at all that any official ELECTED to do any piece of their jobs. For years.these guys are terrible people.
ReplyProgress will only be realized at the next election and every election after that . The filibuster needs to be restored , they will not stand and read ” doctor Seuss ” again .
ReplyOne thing to keep in mind . The Constitution is designed to protect me ( the individual ) from you and your crazy friends .
Reply#FilibustManchinsAss
ReplyThe exact opposite is true, the filibuster allows Republicans to NEVER compromise because why would they? They are universally against progressive policy. Without the filibuster, making it more difficult for Republicans to obstruct, WOULD entice them to compromise and actually work on the bills rather than just blocking them.
ReplyWhy don’t they wait and flip one Senate seat in 2022
Reply‘far more work’ with ‘very little payoff’? The number 69 would be being done wrong then 🙂
ReplyAmerican democracy is on its last legs. The rest of us are making peace with our racist histories.
ReplyThe USA preach democracy to other countries but don’t practice it in their own country.
Reply👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿
Reply– “The filibuster has been used more in the past decade than ever before”. (from 2013) – fascist groups are rising – conservatives restricting the right to vote
ReplyIgnoring the optics, and looking at the actual tactics, it becomes clear that the people who are trying to obtain the violence of the status quo are getting desperate. Culture is changing, voters are changing, now even politics are slowly starting to change.
Government is not the answer democrat, Republican whatever , all these people are power hungry control freaks with out your best intention in mind . They team up with business to make you poor, skim from the top and feed you leftovers .
ReplyDems donot want to achieve their goals
ReplyThey donot have ball go bold
Question: why don’t I feel I could ever leave child in the care of one of those Qanon “tourists” that we all saw on January 6?
ReplyJoe Biden cares more about getting Mitch McConnell’s approval than he does his agenda or the working class.
ReplyThe real reason is because President Grandpa doesn’t want progress to happen.
ReplyThe best explanation for filibuster is that neither republicans nor democrats are in charge. The big corporations give Bribe (Campaign Contribution) to both parties and control the agenda. So, the idea that each party would need a vast majority to get anything done is just a sick game to keep a tight leash on both parties. The corporations don’t want either party to have real influence.
ReplyThanks Sam and team! Great piece.
ReplyDems are ballless
ReplyDemocrats loved the filibuster when they were in the minority. Their hypocrisy knows no bounds
ReplyThey had the chance to change the filibuster but balked unsurprisingly.
ReplyWe have to stop voting in CONservative Democrat Trojan horses. They work for the other side, not ours.
ReplyIt’s not that they can’t. They won’t— because they too work for their corporate masters. The mainstream Wall Street Dems are little better than the Republicons— they’re just better at not letting the mask slip to show what they really are— corporate shills. I want to be hopeful for the future of democracy in this country, but it’s pretty obvious we haven’t had one for a long time—if ever, really. We need a party that’s actually for the people.
ReplyThe Democratic Party needs to initiate an infrastructure audit for Kirsten Sinema’s and Joe Manchin’s respective States which would point out every bridge and highway which is a clear and present danger to the health and safety of the public along with other infrastructure problems known to be long unsolved in those States. The audit would be a cogent move being that both of these Senators may be aspiring to the state gubernatorial post in future politics. It is time to fight about these issues and do some perfectly legal political water boarding directed toward individuals holding elective office currently finding themselves unable to help in what has become a battle of democracy and democratic [small ‘d’] values versus what has become the raw and open authoritarianism and patterns of lies being expressed by those in the Republican Party. Compromise in this current context is yielding to forces which have become the @/traitornation minority which has always existed within this Nation.
ReplyI would never have thought of Hot Ones, if Sam hadn’t mentioned it. Now I wanna see what their conversation would look like.
ReplyManchin and Sinema are destroying the gov’t. They don’t want S1 because they have Dark Money.
ReplyTHANK YOU!! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
For actual grounded in reality HISTORY!
ReplyGet rid of it
ReplyNo Liberal agenda should ever see the light of day. Socialist agenda we should say. Stolen Election & you all know it.
ReplyGet rid of philabusters. Fecking republican’ts need to be gone.
ReplyPeople’s will should rule. Not republican’ts disgusting lies.
ReplyCruz is a traitor
ReplyAre we pretending Dems aren’t just as big of corporate shills as the GOP?
ReplyThis woman is not even the least bit funny. She is absolutely idiotic for alienating half the countries viewers as she spills her mis-informed version of Democratic propaganda. I bet we would see a completely different take on the filibuster if the Republicans were in charge. That is what you call a “Political Hack”
Reply1000% agree
ReplyAlso term limits
ReplyItch BcConnell– the septic sire of tronald dumpism.
ReplyKinda makes one consider whether or not the establishment Democrats actually *WANT* change…🤔🤷♀️
ReplyIt isn’t being used for the good of the people, they ar using it as a cudgel to beat the democrats over the head, It’s not even in the constitution. look at the history of filibuster it hasn’t ever done any good.
ReplyPoliticians using the filibuster remind me of *little brats* ignoring their parents by sticking their fingers in their ears and singing, *”La la la! I can’t hear you! La la la!”*
ReplyTime and time again…I get reminded that American democracy was not made for a 2 party system
ReplyGuess who is against eliminating the filibuster?
ReplyNo one with an iota of common sense swallows this swill.
ReplyPeople should understand that no law or legislation that applies to the whole country should be approved or revoked with 51% votes… think on this is the repugnicans wet dream to be able to pass things or even more apt revoke everything the dems accomplish with 51 votes. The democrats have a chance to use this issue to gain many more seats in congress instead they are making the ability to debate a bill before it comes to a vote as the enemy… the filibuster is not the problem the republicans are … vote them out… and if they are too impatient to wait for the next election have each item in a bill have a separate vote and make sure every item is on the record with their constituency.
Replyi just want to say that that representation of the senate in the clip is super inaccurate. the right side should be white with one black person.
Replycripes when i see or hear manchin it is like I hear trump.. what a disgusting weasel manchin is.. between him and Moscow mitch, democracy in the USA hasn’t got a chance. yes the filibuster should be done away with for good.
ReplyMore political theater. They just keep yanking our chains. But what politicians don’t realize a lot of us had cut that chain a long time ago. But it’s a shame that these politicians almost run our lives. By the laws they make.
ReplyGood people?
ReplyThe GOP is nothing more than a perverse amalgamation of the most vile philosophies of Ayn Rand and Machiavelli.
I’m guessing the Dems leadership wrongly assumes they’ll achieve a super-majority in the upcoming races so they’ll wait til then to do anything – either get their super, maintain their same seat number or lose seats and turn Biden into a lame duck by inaction.
ReplyThey should be focused on what they can do now. Not be attempting to conduct politics as if the Trump years didn’t happen.
Gotta be tougher pushing the Dems or they will happily fail.
ReplyTrump A.KA king rockspider
ReplyLobbyists’ money is the main reason why both parties in the Senate are corrupted. Though it’s mostly the gop senators’ desire to cling to this easy money job (though there are Democrats too like manchin & sinema), no laws will be passed that will benefit the American people if gop sentors keep on hampering & hindering everything that will help us real working Americans. And even more important, we will lose any challenge or confrontation with the ccp if we are this disunited since they act as one with the ultimate goal of toppling the current world order led by the US. If we keep on being divided like this, all our advances in technology & military superiority will all be for nothing.
ReplySorry. Not allowed to get anything done. Somebody profits from the divide. ~~~ Need to outlaw corruption. Need ranked voting. Then we might actually get politicians with a balanced view.
ReplyParaphrase: Killing the filibuster will backfire when Republicans invariably retake the majority.
News Flash: Not killing the filibuster is backfiring RIGHT NOW at this moment!!!
ReplyThat brutal Caitlyn Jenner joke tho 😲😯😮
ReplyNot saying that America is a racist country, but America sure does have a lot of racist policies 🤷🏽
Replyso the philibuster is what is keeping us safe until republicans take back over?
ReplyMr. POTUS. Take note please. Stop being the nice guy. The Republicans are ruthless and they need to be treated with ruthlessness. Otherwise your Presidency will be a puppet term dancing to the tune of the do no good Republicans.
ReplyDo left wingers even think this show is funny?
ReplyYeah, no when the Republicans win they will use these rules against the Democrats, and then the white leftists scream racism again.
ReplyAs justification for abolishing or debilitating the Senate filibuster, President Joe Biden said that the practice was grossly overused last year – but, he didn’t mention that it was almost exclusively Democrats who used it.
ReplyDemocrats used the filibuster 327 times, while Republicans used it only once. 🙄
I love Samantha, she really says what I be thinking. Thank you 🙏
ReplyI like you Samantha but your shilling for the Dems. They’ve proven to be just as bad as GOP but in a Pathetic and weak way and I cant but think they’re all in on it. Never voting again.
ReplyGOP is achieving its long term goal of destroying the federal government except for defense and justice.
ReplyThe filibuster is problematic to both parties. They’re delusional in thinking that they’ll ever have a 60 seat majority in the senate, I’ll polarized country is too divide for that
ReplyPrimary the idiotic Sens
ReplyMcConnell Is In Constant Constipation, All Blocked Up!!!
ReplyOh I would love to see you on hot 🔥ones
ReplySamantha – please; it’s NOT the Democrats. It’s just 2 -Manchin from WV and Sinema from AZ. Focus on them; the rest of the Dems want to move forward.
ReplyConsider that the Twimp IS the cabal of pedophiles…
ReplyWV and AZ need to get their Senators inline so the filibuster can be eliminated and the majority can govern. Joe, don’t worry about losing the majority in the midterms, we have your back.
ReplyAmerican democracy is the dictatorship of the minority.
ReplyWonder why he would bother to block something like this . . . 🙃
ReplyIf the right can filibuster the left, why can’t the left turn the tables and start giving them a taste of their own bs?
ReplyOh talk dirty to me blondie … Hahaha sambee you sexy Demon woman. You funny
ReplyYes yes yes !! With the new voter suppression laws and gerrymandering the republicans will be able to put another trump In power if Dems don’t grab this opportunity to balance our democracy !! Grow a pair Dems and #killthefilibuster !!
Reply🍺
ReplyThe reason Manchin is hedging is because he doesn’t want to be blamed for the Progressive Agenda if he gets rid of the FILA…He figures voting rights and everything else is a small price to pay for him to NOT BE CALLED NAMES!
ReplyThe Deemocratic party are not our friends. They love a status quo, not democracy, and certainly not the will or well being of the American public.
It’s time for a general strike.
ReplyOk, how about this? No one in Congress will get paid unless they get a 60% overall approval in their state.
ReplyBlue Dog Democrats are working against the will of the people. Sinema and Manchin need to feel the heat if you are one of their votes contact their offices are make your voice heard. 🇺🇸
ReplyYeah and biden is actually the president. Super legitimate. I mean like no fraud whatsoever lol
ReplyYes get rid the F’en filibuster
ReplySo obviously this lady doesn’t know anything about politics. Majorities aren’t permanent. What happens when eventually the republicans get the government back and there’s no filibuster to stop them from ramming through the entire far right wishlist???????
ReplyGet the Biden Admin to address the border crisis and the GOP Senate will know Joe actually meant his “unity” message and not spend time on the left agenda full time and they may back him
Replybecause dems like to play goody good all the time even when they got power
ReplyHow the republicans have done a lot things . They passed tax cuts. The republicans gave the Wall Street trillion.
ReplyBarack is a scam of the earth
ReplyI think another good idea is to eliminate the 2 party system and first past the post. The Republicans can afford to drag their feet because the election deck is stacked in their favour. They will just wait until the next election. If the system became multiple parties and used single transferrable which prevents the chance for majority then there is no choice but to work
ReplyMoscow Mitch is now officially “Mister Nyet”
ReplyDemocrats need to start punching and hard.
ReplyWe have veto power in the United Nations. Then, we have the filibuster in the US legislative. Some democracy.
ReplyKeep it up
ReplyRepublicans will get rid of the filibuster when/if they control the presidency and senate. Heads up.
ReplyIs this supposed to be funny?
ReplyWe need to end the 2 party monopoly with rank choice voting and the people’s party that is the only way we will get policy people want.
ReplyRay Parker Jr. “Filibuster makes me feel good” 😂
ReplyThe Dems can’t seem to shake a loser mentality, nor exercise the same ruthlessness the Republicans wield like a harvester in a cornfield.
ReplyStill on standby for the revolution
ReplyFilibuster = minority aka GOP rule.
ReplyI’ve started to think the keep filibuster people are less about preserving the government and more about they think it’s less painful than admitting they don’t want to vote for the progressive agenda.
ReplyGod given rights? Shut up, Barrack.
ReplyI wonder what Democrat Senators said on the record about the filibuster back in 2017?
ReplyAnybody?
It really is sad that voting rights is called a progressive agenda in a country that once held itself up as a model of democracy.
ReplyFor all its flaws, mandatory voting, like we have in Australia, is probably the soundest way to produce a democratic will of the people in all elections, and remove most disenfranchisement (and opportunities for political parties to disenfranchise voters). Also an independent electoral commission (AEC in Australia), which if applied properly will remove undemocratic sports like Gerrymandering.
At least go back to the original Filibuster, you must talk on floor continuously to stop voting on the bill. sure nothing would get done in the meantime but nothing is getting done now. And televise the talking so everyone can see how nothing of importance is being said.
ReplyManchin is a POS.
ReplyWe dont have a simple majority, we have POS manchin the closeted republiscum
ReplyDoes Manchin and Sinema truly believe that Moscow mitch and the GOP would not destroy the filibuster with only 50 senators and the vice president!!!!
ReplyThe GOP already stole 2 Supreme Court Justices
Why is Sam out here dragging Sean the future King of Scoville?
ReplySamantha, you seem to miss the point?
ReplyIf The Democrat Party Leadership approved
Progressives among their Caucus,
the money would go away…..
If Democrats were truly a gang of Progressive Socialists
that current GOP Guy’s Rhetoric describes them as,
They would have a Filibuster Proof Majority…..
The obvious issues that things like a filibuster overlook is,
the fact that both sides while claiming major differences,
cling to the concept of their Party as their Team, or their Business…..
Investors can buy better players, or nicer facilities for Party Activity.
Buying better marketing has put Mercer’s into a
major position among politicians……
The illusion that there is a major difference between the two,
has become the venue of Media.
Media like Politics depends on sponsors for their revenue…..
Perez admitted that revenue is the essential element.
Voters can be purchased…..
Good call. Democrats need to sink to the lowest rungs to beat republicans at their own game.
ReplyBtw, where did you dig up your mom’s 80’s padded shoulder power suit? Very intimidating. 😆
Because minority rule is exceptional.
Reply“The legislative filibuster is the most important distinction between the Senate and the House. Without the 60 vote threshold for legislation, the Senate becomes a majoritarian institution, just like the House, much more subject to the winds of short-term electoral change. No Senator would like to see that happen.”
ReplyDemocratic Senator Chuck Schumer, April 2017
Why are so-called liberal comics so unfunny? Bee couldn’t be funny by accident
ReplyWorthless useless Samantha Bee. Go away.
ReplyOr at least force those who use the filibuster to actually debate the issue at hand.
ReplyProof that this whole thing is political theater both parties just follow the instructions of their donor class and say f*** everybody else
ReplyKyrsten Sinema didn’t even show up! Manchin and her need to be pressured to save our Democracy
ReplyBut Manchin you are destroying our Country
ReplyThe U.S Republicans in 2003 did send young American Troops to fight Saddam Hussian in Iraq due to the conclusion of their hearing investigation that Iraqi people had the ‘Weapons of Mass destruction’…And they are, at present, voted to hold the same hearing on China Bio-Weapons shenanigan…So they can’t be all that bad…Greeting From Wuhan, China…God Bless America…
ReplyAnd that explains why gun control wasn’t passed in front of the parents who watched at the Capitol after the shootings at Sandy Hook that took their children’s lives….
ReplyWhy does
ReplySamantha Bee say ‘we’ when talking about the Filibuster? Is she a Democrat politician? Does she speak for the Democrats?
It would require a 2/3rds vote to change the senate rules including getting rid of the filibuster but that’s that’s not going to happen
Reply“Bipartisan” is the Republican word for “sucker”.
Reply“riot” = insurrection; Domestic terror
ReplyAs a political volunteer who devoted many hours to getting Dems elected I am PERSONALLY OFFENDED that the majority I helped get elected is acting like a collective lukewarm limp dishrag. Grow a pair, and get it done!
ReplyWe the people need majority rule. Eliminate the filibuster, eliminate the electoral college. One person, one vote. We vote you in, go to work for US!!!
ReplyWe need a few more D’s. Like St least one fr W Virginia and another from Arizona. It takes 2 to work together, Manchin is in fantasy land.
ReplyThank you for Jenner joke- people forget he murdered someone in that car wreck on PCH
ReplyWhat’s with the censorship?
ReplySick of Dino Democrats mucking up progress!
ReplyFa Q vote blue in 22
ReplySamatha, Imagine if the Republicans had eliminated the filibuster in Trump’s first 2 years when Republicans held all the government?! He would have got his whole agenda passed in 2 years. You would have said goodbye to ACA and everything else you hold dear.
ReplyOh I know, why the democrats can’t get it done? Because they don’t have the testicular fortitude that Moscow Mitch has…
ReplyIf you want to get rid of the filibuster, just tell the Clinton’s that the filibuster has dirt on them. They will Epstien it really quick.
ReplyWow! I just now discovered this channel…not holding back any punches…. *SUBSCRIBED!*
Reply🇺🇸 *GOD SAVE AMERICA* 🇺🇸
Limit Senate terms
ReplyI’m pretty sure MTG had to go to Google to learn what “feckless” means. This is a woman who pronounces “cabal” like “time warner cabal company”.
ReplyDon’t forget this is used by Democrats, as well.
ReplyAll Democrats need to do is show up Midterms 2022 to purge and sweep the GOP swamp rats
ReplyBypass the filibuster by requiring 60 votes and if you can’t get that, just take the legislation to the public for a vote.
ReplyDemocrats have 50 votes and the public will give them the added votes necessary.
Plus, such a rule will get Republicans nothing because their policies will never be approved by the public.
We should also get rid of the electoral college, which also stymies the will of the people.
ReplyWhich is why establishment Democrats will never pressure to remove the filibuster….they don’t actually want popular progressive reforms to pass either.
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