Which is why killing the filibuster AND granting statehood to DC and Puerto Rico should have been done long ago. We can thank Coal Baron Attention Whore Joe Manchin and Performative Idiot Kyrsten Sinema for the filibuster still existing, but statehood is a simple up/down majority vote that needs to happen ASAP. If that's the only remedy …
Which is why killing the filibuster AND granting statehood to DC and Puerto Rico should have been done long ago. We can thank Coal Baron Attention Whore Joe Manchin and Performative Idiot Kyrsten Sinema for the filibuster still existing, but statehood is a simple up/down majority vote that needs to happen ASAP. If that's the only remedy for the Dakotas/Montana/Wyoming/Idaho accounting for 10% of the Senate despite having a combined population smaller than Los Angeles County, then what's the holdup? Add Guam and the US Virgin Islands too.
Which is why killing the filibuster AND granting statehood to DC and Puerto Rico should have been done long ago. We can thank Coal Baron Attention Whore Joe Manchin and Performative Idiot Kyrsten Sinema for the filibuster still existing, but statehood is a simple up/down majority vote that needs to happen ASAP. If that's the only remedy for the Dakotas/Montana/Wyoming/Idaho accounting for 10% of the Senate despite having a combined population smaller than Los Angeles County, then what's the holdup? Add Guam and the US Virgin Islands too.
Damn right!!