I am kind of too scared to ask here, but what did it actually achieve?

  • eldavi@lemmy.ml
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    1 day ago

    the same way thurmond did it; you secure the votes behinds the scenes and then throw a filibuster when it’s time to vote to turn up the pain; not when there’s nothing on the table and no one around like booker did it.

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      1 day ago

      Come on, do you truly think there was any chance they’d be interested in shaking hands behind the scenes? These people bowed so low to their king that their pants split months ago. They can’t even stand up straight at this point. Yet somehow, I’m the idealist here.

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        23 hours ago

        They shook hands and unanimously approved (booker too) more weapons for the genocide immediately after the performance.