2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: This message was self-deleted by its author [View all]TheBlackAdder
(28,249 posts).
The mental splitting that some are going through is quite astonishing.*
I think to myself, "What the fuck is wrong with some of these petty people?"
One minute, Sanders is a media hound, just out to grab the spotlight.
The next minute, he's not telling other senators to stand down, because he is more important than they are.
The filibuster was successful, with the scheduled senators at hand.
Some here just seem to think that the senators who speak just run up to the podium, ad hoc.
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/orlando-nightclub-massacre/filibuster-ends-after-gop-agrees-allow-gun-control-votes-senator-n593396
*Note: Removed the word 'here' because some overly sensitive censoring types will use that as an excuse to flag.
Some here live by censoring opposition thought, because that's exactly what pragmatic progressive democracy is about.
Shutting down the opposition, caving to the median, to slow any progress to a crawl.
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