[ExI] i would do the same i suppose

[Adrian Tymes]

On Sat, Nov 8, 2025 at 7:54 AM John Clark via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 8, 2025 at 7:41 AM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:
>>  > It might result in the elimination of the senate filibuster, in order to let the majority reopen US government over the objection of the minority.
>
> They call that the "nuclear option", the Republicans are reluctant to do that because in one year the Democrats might be in control of the Senate.

Which lends weight to fears that the plan is to prevent any further
free and fair elections - e.g., Trump runs again, and any state that
won't let him on the ballot because they say the Constitution doesn't
allow a third term (which it doesn't, but some states might go with
"'may not serve' does not mean 'may not run for'"), won't get to have
electors and possibly not a Presidential election.  Unlimited power to
the majority party is less of an issue for the current majority party
under one party rule.

This is part of why Republicans in the Senate are resisting: they
think they might not get reelected if they seem to be favoring such an
eventuality, and they think they - as opposed to Trump - would still
have to run in a free and mostly fair election even in this scenario.