U.S. Senate
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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.

    • 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?

        • 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.

            • 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.

            • 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

          • 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?

        • 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.