SIO278: The Filibuster is F***ing Stupid
Serious Inquiries Only
Thomas Smith
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2021
⏱️ 47 minutes
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It is unfathomable to me that Senator Kyrsten Sinema wants to preserve this idiotic accident of history. It is not anything the founders intended. It's not in the constitution. It's pure crap that stands in the way of not just progress but basic governance. I do a mini break down of how we got here, and I have a few ideas of how we could get around the filibuster and not make liars out of Manchin and Sinema.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Serious Inquiries Only. |
| 0:10.0 | Hello and welcome to Serious Inquiries Only. This is episode 278 and I am Thomas here |
| 0:35.3 | by myself because I have some political opinions to share. |
| 0:39.3 | Also, I am amazed at the number of questions and emails and comments and all that I've gotten |
| 0:44.5 | lately. I'm going to try to get to some of those too because they're so good and it's |
| 0:48.8 | so fun to interact with you folks. But it's amazing how much it is and I keep wanting |
| 0:53.4 | to catch up and so I'll do a big episode and catch up and then I'll be behind again |
| 0:58.0 | in a few days. It's crazy. But anyway, I got to talk to you about this filibuster. |
| 1:05.1 | I know this is kind of probably an opening arguments topic and I think we've done stuff |
| 1:10.0 | on the filibuster but I'm not going to try to do. I'm not going to try to lawyer explain |
| 1:14.3 | anything. I'm not going to try to be a lawyer and explain that all every all the I could |
| 1:18.9 | sooner explain probably better the rules of magic, the gathering than I could the Senate |
| 1:25.1 | rules. Like I started to do the research into the filibuster and the Senate rules are |
| 1:29.5 | ridiculously complex and I'm not a lawyer and it's it's hard to wrap my mind around |
| 1:34.7 | them. But I can give you the broad strokes of where we are. There are just so many misconceptions |
| 1:39.6 | about the filibuster. It's driving me nuts, especially at a time when it is so incredibly |
| 1:46.1 | important to get stuff done. So let me let me try to summarize where where we're coming |
| 1:51.6 | from here, where where where we are I guess and where I'm coming from because as recline |
| 1:57.6 | who moved to the New York Times or somewhat recently, he wrote an opinion column called |
| 2:04.3 | how the Democrats could lose in 2022 and deserve it and it's a very good article. I really |
| 2:09.7 | love Ezra Klein and and actually quite a lot of what I'm going to say today is informed |
| 2:16.0 | by by stuff he's written or podcasts he've done, not all of it, but but he's he's definitely |
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