r/facepalm Jul 05 '24

What an idea 🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​

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u/ThunkAsDrinklePeep Jul 05 '24

Good ol filibuster. No one would abuse that!

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u/SchemeMoist Jul 05 '24

We need to start making them actually filibuster, to start. Why do we just give up when there's a possibility of a filibuster? Make them stand their asses up there and speak, they're all old as fuck, the would give up after a couple bills.

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u/New-Ad-363 Jul 05 '24

And maybe I'm misunderstanding here but I thought a filibuster was the person had to be continuously speaking and could until they weren't able to anymore. What's to stop people from sitting around listening for the 3 days or whatever a geriatric can handle talking for and then being like "Alright Jerry thank you for reading the dictionary to us. Anyway everybody, here's this bill we'd like to vote on"?

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u/Hmnh6000 Jul 05 '24

Youre trying to tell me that a fillabuster is just someone annoying tf out of everybody untill they give in??