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Fulchrum posted:Okay, back up. What allows this? "Because gently caress you that's why"
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Fulchrum posted:Okay, but, seriously, why? They're essentially allowed a single vote where they are allowed to gently caress with the rules that are supposed to restrain them? It's supposed to be a budgetary vote, but if you wipe out the budget of an agency or organization you don't like well then that's just a totally different thing from passing legislation so there's no need to do any of that messy procedural stuff involved in passing legislation. It's like many, many other things lately; political norms and fundamental assumptions of how people are supposed to act as a part of governing the nation are just getting thrown the gently caress out the window all over the place because "gently caress you, that's why". Republican political extremism has divided things so sharply that the fundamental institutions of government are starting to break down. Look at North Carolina as an example. "Oh we lost the vote for an office? Well gently caress your vote we'll take the power of that office away and give it back to ourselves" One party is willing to burn the whole loving nation to the ground (such as playing chicken with the United States government defaulting on it's debts) to get what they want (looting the ashes of the burning nation). "We shouldn't do this, it's really bad and corrosive to the functioning of the nation" doesn't matter to people who see the nation as a piggy bank to shatter today to scoop out everything they can grab before bailing out on their personal golden parachute tomorrow when everything goes to complete poo poo.
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