“The Democrats are far more likely to win the Midterms, and the next Presidential Election, if we don’t do the Termination of the Filibuster (The Nuclear Option!),” Trump wrote.
trump doesn’t understand it’s called “the nuclear option” because it blows up the sham system the oligarchs put in place.
As long as there’s a threat of a filibuster, both sides have an excuse not to do anything productive.
Right now all it it takes is someone saying “I heard someone might filibuster” and that prevents a vote. That’s why it feels like nothing has been done for over a decade.
Without a filibuster, votes are going to have to happen. Politicians stop being able to claim they would vote for something, and actually have to cast a vote.
trump just assumed “the nuclear option” has to mean it’s the biggest possible move, and no one is going to be able to convince him to drop it because of that nickname.
Look, having nuclear—my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart—you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I’m one of the smartest people anywhere in the world—it’s true!—but when you’re a conservative Republican they try—oh, do they do a number—that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune—you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged—but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me—it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are (nuclear is powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what’s going to happen and he was right—who would have thought?), but when you look at what’s going on with the four prisoners—now it used to be three, now it’s four—but when it was three and even now, I would have said it’s all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don’t, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years—but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us.
trump doesn’t understand it’s called “the nuclear option” because it blows up the sham system the oligarchs put in place.
As long as there’s a threat of a filibuster, both sides have an excuse not to do anything productive.
Right now all it it takes is someone saying “I heard someone might filibuster” and that prevents a vote. That’s why it feels like nothing has been done for over a decade.
Without a filibuster, votes are going to have to happen. Politicians stop being able to claim they would vote for something, and actually have to cast a vote.
trump just assumed “the nuclear option” has to mean it’s the biggest possible move, and no one is going to be able to convince him to drop it because of that nickname.
Look, having nuclear—my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart—you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I’m one of the smartest people anywhere in the world—it’s true!—but when you’re a conservative Republican they try—oh, do they do a number—that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune—you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged—but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me—it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are (nuclear is powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what’s going to happen and he was right—who would have thought?), but when you look at what’s going on with the four prisoners—now it used to be three, now it’s four—but when it was three and even now, I would have said it’s all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don’t, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years—but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us.