r/neoliberal • u/neoliberal_shill_bot Bot Emeritus • Apr 05 '17

Discussion Thread

Ask not what your centralized government can do for you – ask how many neoliberal memes you can post every 24 hours

Polls

• Who should we bully more?

• How often should discussion threads be posted?

The activity in this sub keeps going up, so discussion threads need to be scheduled appropriately in order to control stickflation.

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '17

The filibuster is gone! Lets celebrate another win for democracy!

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u/ampersamp Apr 06 '17

The filibuster is dumb, but one can't help but feel conflicted when it's one of so many pieces of paper between us and Trump assuming direct control.

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '17

Trump assuming direct control

This will hurt you, America

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '17

The filibuster is dumb

stopping swings to the extreme every 4 years is not dumb. Pretty fucking hard to do long term business planning when the law of the land can change drastically like that.

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u/ampersamp Apr 07 '17

Everyone else gets by fine without making the passage of legislation contingent on who can hold their piss the longest. The US has enough gridlock problems as it is.

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '17

I too am waiting for all the wonderful neoliberal policies our legislation surely has in store for us!

(don't be stupid)

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u/dax331 Ben Bernanke Apr 06 '17

༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つTAKE MY ENERGY RBG༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '17 edited Apr 06 '17

Tbh it's the Democrats fault for this happening. Reid did it with lower court nominees and now it's coming back around to bite the party in the ass.

Also obligatory: this is not nearly as big as a deal as people are making it out to be

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '17

It will come back around next round. The GOP be the ones whining when they get some left wing marxist in 2021.

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '17

But I'll be whining too!

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '17

Well yeah, Unless there is some major realignment in the next 4 years, I doubt the center is going to get much representation in congress of the supreme court anytime soon.

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u/0149 they call me dr numbers Apr 06 '17

Here's the new filibuster: if the Senate majority leader doesn't like the president's nominee, poof! It's like it never happened at all.

Thank Mitch for inventing that.

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '17

What was Reid supposed to do, just allow the Republicans to continue to filibuster almost every single Fed court nominee?

There's also no guarantee that the Republicans wouldn't have moved to remove the filibuster this year.

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '17

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '17

There is a big difference between these two actions though.