• Mulligrubs@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    Remember, EVERY TIME they complain about that super majority hurdle to “overcome the filibuster”, they can always make it a simple majority vote.

    They call it the “nuclear option” ever since Trent Lott the Republican came up with the term in 2000s. bOtH pArTiEs immediately adopted the term, because it scares the ever-loving shit out of voters.

    Before then, it was called the “constitutional option”, since bills can always be passed with a simple majority vote.

    They’re not even hiding it… because it’s that easy to manipulate the electorate. “nuclear option”, check it out