Tonight the senate voted against voting rights. With this vote, the anti-democratic monster has officially taken off its mask. The vote was a partisan divide with the two saboteurs siding with the opposition, as expected. Voting rights protections have been defeated because the senate voted to maintain the sixty vote threshold to start debate.
The status quo won by majority vote.
Public policy that benefits the public requires at least a supermajority vote count to pass in the senate. The senate changes that 60 vote threshold to 51 when the legislation benefits investors. The establishment calls that scam “The Filibuster”, but that’s wrong. The filibuster refers to senate floor time for debate.
They call their scam the filibuster to hide what it really is.
This filibuster scam is the senate killing legislation by depriving majority rule with a vote count requirement that is out of order. The cloture count is incorrectly applied to a motion to proceed, which makes proceeding impossible, unless you’ve greased the senate wheels, sorta speak.
This is a senate rule scam that violates the constitutional intention of majority vote and ultimately it deprives the public of a representative government. The filibuster is a political crime in progress by the senate that prevents democratic reforms and increases inequality, social dysfunction, and public debt. Their sixty vote obstruction scam should be ruled as illegal by the court and the senate should be required to correct their rules to comply with the constitution.
That’s what should happen.
The senate has just voted to rubber-stamp their crime as legal. They will call it the filibuster to pretend it’s not what it is. It’s a scam. What they call the filibuster is actually an arbitrary vote count that serves investors by putting a higher threshold for victory onto their opposition, which is the under-invested and over-worked tax-paying public, who consistently lose with a simple majority in the senate. The senate obstruction tactic is illegal and if you believe republicans, which I don’t, it is original intent and righteous and has been going on for over two-hundred years.
This voting rights debate was actually a debate about procedure. It was a great debate. But, we also need a debate about voting rights. Imagine the horror stories of the past that could be shared, and visions of the future to promote political solutions. It’s time for the senate to put out their cigars and write some rules that make sense, and then follow them, from now on.
Rules that can be interpreted differently are no rules at all. The senate bends the rules as necessary now, in collusion with their parliamentarian scapegoat, for their corporate overlords, in service to the monster.
That’s how our “system” “works”.
The senate protects and defends the scam. It’s what they do. Which makes them an adversary to democracy, by vote now. A majority of senators voted to violate their oath to protect and defend the constitution in order to preserve the “filibuster”, and they won by a majority vote.
Oh, the irony.
But then you say, “Well what about when the republicans return to power, the senate minority dems won’t be able to filibuster.” As if that matters. The dems got three strikes in a row on the court without a filibuster one. The establishment does what it wants and the public always loses. That bipartisan trend was solidified long ago.
Because of the coming electoral subversion, it looks like elections will be determined by the establishment from now on, like before.
The growing population and public debt will eventually force the electorate to correct the growing inequality and social dysfunction, democratically. To protect and defend the scam, the establishment must prevent that democracy, moving forward, in order to maintain their control over our public policy. That’s what’s happening now.
When the republicans do take power back, make no mistake, it won’t be because people voted for them. If they win without cheating, and they won’t, it will be because people voted against the democrats. The republicans will win because the establishment has rigged the duopoly with a binary choice. The choice is false because it’s not really change. Both parties are fueled by the same establishment money. Together, the partisan duopoly have extracted, and counterfeited, and inflated the wealth in their favor based on the speculated growth of the scam.
You can vote for one of them.
Investors are harvesting the profits that they believe they can squeeze out of workers. Some of it trickles down, they say, to those who need that money to survive and pay taxes. Money that is constantly devalued for them, by inflation, to maximize shareholder value. Our allegiance is to that money, like it or not.
Politics is a money fight.
Extraction is the process of borrowing unlimited money, leveraged with the speculated profits of increasing marketshare and collateralized with the promise that the scam can be maintained, politically. Or is that capitalism? Either way, you can’t beat that. It can however, be regulated by law. But I digress. Back to the senate.
That’s cool, they say, the senate has voted. Let’s all move along now to protect the democracy in Ukraine. That is insane. I’m not going there now but I can’t believe what I’m seeing and hearing on the news. This is the perpetuation of the conflict-based economy.
Whose agenda does this government serve by abandoning public voters while sending weapons to Ukraine?
State legislatures are working overtime here, to make sure they can steal elections legally in the future with “voter subversion”. That’s where you can vote for somebody who the establishment has pre-approved. If a democracy advocate somehow accidentally wins, they can be legally eliminated by the incumbents, apparently.
By killing voting rights, the senate just rubber-stamped their allegiance to the subversion scam, and to the other legislative conspiracies being waged against the public now, by state legislatures across the country.
It’s like one big orchestrated plot against our democracy, by Putin and Trump and their billionaire oligarch buddies. They steal their money from our future and launder it back into our economy for a bribed allegiance that protects and defends the scam, our conflict-based economy.
Maybe Biden should start sending weapons to the democratic resistance in the US now, before it’s too late. Before the corrupt start stealing our elections. You know it’s going to happen, contested or not.
This “voting rights” debate was historic beyond any current consideration, as the minority turtle mentioned, possibly ever, in the senate. There was so much truth on the senate floor today and so many lies, about senate procedures, it will serve as a window into our intentionally dysfunctional truth, for generations.
In the end as predicted, the republicans abandoned the public without concern of consequence and the democrats couldn’t stop them, apparently. The democrats have been outmaneuvered again. Their list of failures is getting long. The public generally forgets.
I was however extremely impressed with the democrats for their efforts. At least they gave it a good try. At least they forced the matter to a vote to demonstrate to the public that the republicans are united against democracy. The republicans only care about their supremacy to increase economic inequality. It’s like a political inflation. The power consolidates at the top by further diluting the power at the bottom.
This was a great debate because a healthy dose of the truth about senate procedure was discussed. That alone was worth the watch.
The senate actually debated. It’s a huge story and it’s already being forgotten, or spun as if the fight for voting rights is not over. The bad guys just got the green light. The only reason that the fight is not over is because political narrators and democratic defenders make a living selling hope. They must remain optimistic even while being defeated, over and over again. Their job is to protect and defend the constitution from those who are violating it. And they are failing. Failure is not an option and yet somehow it’s always the result.
That needs to change.
I appreciate TRMS for sharing some long overdue truth about the filibuster, as seen in the video. I will point out however senator Manchin’s sign was called deeply wrong. Rachel didn’t explain how it was wrong, but it is incorrect. The orchestrated confusion goes to the heart of the deception, which I will explain now. It goes something like this;
First, I want to see Rachel ask Schumer to explain the rules that allow him to move to debate without a cloture vote. Ask him to cite the rule by number. It wasn’t long ago he said “wait and see”. He’s got some tricks up his sleeve, was implied. Well, we just saw how that went. He failed. He said they were going to get this thing passed, but alas. They’re always outnumbered.
Senate rule 8.1 violates the constitutional intention of majority vote.
Back to the floor. Here’s Manchin with his big sign that says:
The senate has never ended the debate with a simple majority.
Rachel says his sign is deeply deeply wrong. Which it is. It’s wrong alright. But it’s also correct. By the rules, it takes a supermajority in the senate to end debate. So it’s not deeply wrong because it has been done before, as was implied by TRMS, it hasn’t. Manchin’s sign is deeply wrong because it’s a deception by deflection. Nobody wants to end debate with a simple majority. That’s not the issue. The issue is that the senate requires a supermajority to open debate, which is what he and his co-conspirators are defending.
The republicans are pretending to be defending extended speech in order to preserve a sixty vote threshold to open debate.
The senate rules should require a supermajority to prevent the debate, not a supermajority to allow the debate. The current misinterpretation prevents debate and kills popular legislation. And it’s illegal.
The Manchin sign is a deception in that it relies on the viewer to be persuaded by their own confusion, and then Rachel confuses the issue further, whatever. The truth is Manchin and his republican friends don’t care if you know the sign is a deception. Those who preach the same flawed logic are in on the scam. They’ll do what they do despite what you or even forty-eight senators think is true. You are either with them and the scam or against them. It’s important to understand that choice because it was just made for you, by senators, who are collectively by majority, against you, and the public, and their voting rights. They say you are with ‘um.
What say you?
The first step towards honest political correction is to acknowledge that the conflict-based economy is a scam being perpetrated against the public by an adversarial government, and that it can be changed. The political correction required now for the systemic corruption causing the public abandonment and democratic decay can be nothing short of tax-bracket apportionment and income-based representation, as I’ve mentioned previously, for honest political reforms.
Unfortunately, because of the betrayal by the senate to protect and defend our democracy, and the concerted efforts by states to suppress voters, our democracy is on the path to ruin. Much like the procedural debate on voting rights, our democracy seems destined to sunset now, with little understanding of why.
Rather than have a democratic revival in celebration of our newfound technology and wealth, this government has decided to steer the ship of state away from democracy and towards a foreboding future. A future that we learned about in history class studying the misfortune of others from the past, who had lost their democracy. Our destination now, it appears, is toward the future we were warned to avoid.
The irony that we lose our democracy to billionaires is that it also illuminates the corrections necessary to take it back from them.