 Everyone's talking about the filibuster and you because you spent eighth grade drilling on your trapper keeper are like What the fuck is the filibuster and why the fuck do I care? Well wipe that slobber off your mouth and let's get to learning All right. What the fuck is a filibuster? The filibuster is any tactic a senator uses to extend debate on a bill and block it from being passed Typically done to stall a piece of legislation they oppose in today's Senate 60 votes are required to overcome the filibuster When most people think of a filibuster they see a senator standing up and talking for hours on end to stall a kind of Mr. Smith goes to Washington defiant last stand Hold your horses cowboy. That's not how the modern filibuster works These days it's something stupidly lazy like an email or a text message So if Ted Cruz hates kittens and I'm not saying he does you do like kittens don't you Ted? He could stop the kittens are cute act just by sending a text like I'm sure it's yuck But I don't like kittens to all key things by then Ted can go back to Slippery Margaritas on the beach while the whole thing Is gunked up unless 60 senators rallied to tell him to shut up And in this day and age it is nearly impossible to get 60 senators to agree on anything really one assumes even cute cats So why the fuck do you care in case you've been living under a rock what in-paid politicians have been piling on Legislation to prevent voting access around the country our Democracy is under very serious threat, but the for the people act stops those jerks in their tracks and It's caught in the filibuster trap. I know it's not cute kittens It's just the foundation of our society at stake and it's stalled by this silly rule of course some snot-nosed politician will talk about the quote-unquote Integrity of the Senate first of all the filibuster is basically a historical accident That's gone from interesting congressional quirk to destructive Tactic in just a few decades in its current state. It's made Congress an ineffective flame pile of garbage Maybe it's just me but government should respond to and work for the people Second you know what would really ruin the integrity of the Senate the destruction of democracy I'll see it later for the folks in the back There is no integrity in the destruction of democracy and letting the filibuster stay the way it is means the destruction of our Democracy we're talking about totally losing our voice a despot Autocracy run by leaders with no accountability no checks and balances and unlimited power That's bad right right so let's make sure it doesn't happen call your senator. Hell them Democracy matters more than some arcane process fix the filibuster. Oh And if you see Ted Cruz on the beach this summer don't go too hard on him for cating kittens I'm not even sure if it's true, but it sounds true