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3 Mar, 4 tweets, 3 min read
"The filibuster gives the Democrats a way to avoid accountability for their own actions and leadership. As long as it take 60 votes to do anything in the Senate, they have an excuse." -- @AJentleson on @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/kill-fil…
"'We need 60 votes' is the most common excuse the Dems use for things failing to get done. Removing the filibuster will take that excuse off the table. They won’t be able to say it’s the GOP’s fault." -- @AJentleson on @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/kill-fil…
"Getting rid of the fig leaf excuse of the filibuster will be very healthy for our democratic process because we will be able to see which representatives will actually stand up for the principles they claim to believe in." -- @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/kill-fil…
"Getting rid of the filibuster has a clarifying effect. Dems holding majorities can’t blame anyone else. Dems in the Senate can’t blame the GOP, and Dems in the House can't blame the Senate." -- @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/kill-fil…

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3 Mar
"All it takes to changes the Senate rules is a vote of the majority of Senators. That’s 50 Senators plus the VP, which is exactly what the Democrats have now. The Democrats could kill the filibuster tomorrow." -- @AJentleson on @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/kill-fil…
"If Biden wants to have a successful administration and the Democrats want to deliver the results that were made on the campaign trail, they have to face up to the fact that filibuster reform is a necessity." -- @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/kill-fil…
"Most of the Democratic caucus feels the urgency of filibuster reform. Voting rights will be the issue that brings it to a head. If the Dems do not pass voting rights, any good the Biden admin does will be quickly undone." -- @AJentleson on @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/kill-fil…
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3 Mar
"The framers wanted a Senate to counterbalance the rough-and-tumble House. But the Senate that we have today has become far more of a generator of gridlock than the framers ever intended." -- Adam Jentleson on @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/kill-fil…
"Madison thought that giving Delaware the same representation as Virginia was injustice. He certainly would think that California, which has 70 times more people than the smallest state, getting the same number of Senators is injustice." -- @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/kill-fil…
"The Senate was designed to amplify the elite. The forces who have desired to oppress black Americans throughout history took that Senate and made it amplify the Southern white planter elite specifically. That's how we got the filibuster." -- @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/kill-fil…
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"Alongside the Chuck Todd Industrial Complex, you've got the Legal Fantasy Cosplay on cable news where lawyers and former prosecutors tantalize people with justice that never comes." -- @AndreaChalupa on @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/texas-re…
"Cy Vance is also teasing people with the promise of justice, despite his long history of streamlining elite criminal impunity and letting (among others) Epstein, Weinstein, Ivanka, Don Jr, and Manafort off the hook." -- @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/texas-re…
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"The pandemic was preventable. Trump knew early how bad it was and admitted to downplaying it. He, Kushner, and others not only failed to stop it, but deliberately withheld aid and leveraged a deadly virus as a weapon." -- @AndreaChalupa on @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/texas-re…
"The Trump admin turned protecting oneself from the virus into a culture war. Nurses reported patients dying in denial. Trump incited the mass murder of Americans just like he incited the attack on our Capitol." -- @AndreaChalupa on @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/texas-re…
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"Biden's handling of covid-19 has been a vast improvement. But the material suffering remains and is not being adequately addressed. The most obvious example is the broken promise over $2000 checks. $1400 does not equal $2000 any more than 2 + 2 = 5." patreon.com/posts/texas-re…
"Pretending $1400 was what was promised instead of $2000 is abusive, and it shows how disconnected officials are from the reality of American life. If you've ever struggled to survive, to pay your rent, to feed your family, $600 is everything." patreon.com/posts/texas-re…
"Every voter who was struggling will remember how they felt when the Democrats promised them a $2000 relief check. And every voter will remember how they felt when that check came for $1400, assuming it comes at all." -- @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/texas-re…
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"We are at 500K Americans dead from covid. How do we even process this? How do we grieve this, especially when both the virus and the response to it often seem to bring out the worst in people?" -- @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/texas-re…
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"Americans aren't exceptional. We're suffering. And we're exceptionally bad at acknowledging each other's suffering. There's fear that admitting any vulnerability will cause you to be rejected or even cost you your job." -- @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/texas-re…
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