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The Senate will vote to advance President Trump's nomination of Matthew Whitaker to be the U.S. Ambassador to NATO. He previously served as Acting Attorney General during the first Trump Administration.

It’s nice to see the senate opposition functioning.

Edit: 18 hours of holding the senate floor, giving voice to the american people. Lots of tears as american suffering is read out loud for the congressional record. Testiment from Americans across the country. This is the voice of the people. Please click the link, share and watch. The media needs to know we care about the opposition more than we care about trump rambling on a plane about fort knox.

  • gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    What progress was obstructed here? He started at 7 in the evening and went through the middle of the night, I doubt Republicans had plans to move some critical legislation at 3am.

          • SaltSong@startrek.websiteEnglish
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            5 months ago

            I’m sure he did, but I don’t know the reason, and the democrats have not impressed me with their brilliance recently.

          • Steve@communick.newsEnglish
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            5 months ago

            So you don’t understand either, and are just assuming it’s the most effective way to go about it.

              • ExtantHuman@lemm.ee
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                5 months ago

                Democrats have been demonstrating they don’t know what the fuck they’re doing to combat this fascist shut for decades now. The benefit of the doubt has passed.

                Sure this was slightly better than rolling over, but this accomplished little

              • Steve@communick.newsEnglish
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                5 months ago

                What if they’re doing it alone, in the middle of the night?
                I’d hope you think that was strange at least.

                  • Steve@communick.newsEnglish
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                    5 months ago

                    One guy.
                    Alone.
                    In the middle of the night.

                    That would be very strange. Just like this guy speaking to an empty room in the middle of the night.

                    It’s nearly as strange, that you don’t think it’s strange at all.

            • Sanguine@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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              5 months ago

              Dude, we all certainly understand this less than a sitting senator. Get off it.

              Maybe 7pm is significant, maybe it isn’t, but we are sitting here from our toilets still wiping the sleep from our eyes while this guy is giving a speech for 12 hours. Can we stop pretending we have any clue?

                • Sanguine@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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                  5 months ago

                  I show no submission to authority. The point of my post, which was meant to be a jab at the armchair politicians / optics gurus / 4d strategists in this chain who were arguing over the effectiveness of starting at 7pm.

            • TronBronson@lemmy.worldOP
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              5 months ago

              Every single minute of time taken away from the republican congress from passing laws for trump is good. It means no one can legislate, hopefully it continues for 2 years.

              • ExtantHuman@lemm.ee
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                5 months ago

                They haven’t been passing laws. All the bad shit they’ve been doing these last couple months has been through illegal executive orders. Congress NOT acting has been the problem.

                • TronBronson@lemmy.worldOP
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                  5 months ago

                  There’s a bill in the house that is going to remove congressional oversight from executive branch. Allow these executive orders to have much more weight. unitary executive theory? So you want more executive over reach or should we fight to keep the power of the people in the halls of congress?

      • SoftestSapphic@lemmy.worldBanned from community
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        5 months ago

        He hasn’t stopped anything from happening.

        The article says he has talked all night which didn’t interrupt anything whatsoever.

        The correct move would be to hold his breath until they are going to vote on something, and then start speaking and don’t stop. Like a filibuster yaknow?

    • TronBronson@lemmy.worldOP
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      5 months ago

      Well friend, what are you and the people you support doing? Are you opposing legislation by holding the floor and not allowing it to get introduced? Are you bringing a voice to all the suffering thats coming for us all?

      Are you still doing the 2024 dems are bad so just let trump win and fuck the world spin?

      • disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world
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        5 months ago

        I’m with you. Either pay attention or hold your criticism of the only people actively trying to stop the Trump administration.

        Democrats voted and spoke out against Trump’s cabinet nominations, forced a 15-day vote against Trump’s executive order, confirmed Biden’s pending judicial appointments when Republican attendance is low, and are the ones bringing these cases to the courts. They are doing everything they can to stop this from the minority.