New 'Thought Policing' Bill May Let Rubio Strip Passports from US Citizens Over Political Speech

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New 'Thought Policing' Bill May Let Rubio Strip Passports from US Citizens Over Political Speech - Lemmy.zip

> Free speech advocates fear a new bill could let the Secretary of State strip passports from US citizens based on their speech. “Rubio has claimed the power to designate people terrorist supporters based solely on what they think and say,” one said.

This bill, like many equally bad bills, will be inevitabily be killed by a filibuster.

Remember that if you are among those who think the filibuster should be abolished.

This bill, like many equally bad bills, will be inevitabily be killed by a Democratic filibuster.

Democrats haven’t filibustered shit this year.

You know this and love that the filibuster is used almost exclusively to block the progressive legislation you don’t want.

This year Democrats filibustered an anti-trans bill, an anti-choice bill, and countless parts of the OBBB. And when - not if - this bill dies, you can thank Democrats.

You know, it’s odd. OBBB passed.

When this bill passes, you’ll thank democrats for blocking it no matter what the actual facts are. Because you like how the filibuster blocks progressive legislation.

Plenty of parts of the OBBB were deemed subject to filibuster, and therefore didn’t pass.

If it weren’t for Democratic filibuster, all of these things in the OBBB would have passed.

  • Ban the use of Medicaid funds for gender-affirming medical care for transgender minors and adults

  • Restrict coverage of abortions in many Obamacare plans

  • Tax credit for contributions made to organizations that provide money for children to attend private schools

  • Limit on income-driven student loan repayment options.

  • Prohibit loan payments made while students are in medical or dental internships or residencies from counting toward forgiveness

  • Authority for state and local officials to arrest noncitizens suspected of being unlawfully present in the U.S.

  • Limit on preliminary injunctions or temporary restraining orders by requiring litigants to post potentially large bonds.

  • Repeal of an E.P.A. regulation limiting vehicle emissions

  • Automatic compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act for oil and gas lease sales

  • Elimination of the Office of Financial Research funding

  • Elimination of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board

  • Requirement that electric vehicles used by the Postal Service are sold

Uh huh. OBBB still passed. Because it wasn’t something truly heinous to democrats, like raising the minimum wage.

To repeat:

This year Democrats filibustered an anti-trans bill, an anti-choice bill, and countless parts of the OBBB

At this point, I’d like a source for democrats filibustering an anti-trans bill and an anti-choice bill.
Senate Democrats block GOP-led bill to ban transgender athletes from women's sports

Senate Democrats voted unanimously to block a Republican-led bill Monday evening that would prohibit federally funded schools’ athletic programs from allowing transgender athletes from participating in women's sports.

NBC News
Thank you. I was wrong. democrats are occasionally willing to use the filibuster instead of just letting republicans use it to block things democrats ran on but never had any intention of passing. Now, how many times did republicans use the filibuster during biden’s first 9 months in office?

I don’t know, because filibusters are also an *implicit" threat. Plenty of bills from both parties never even come to vote because both sides know they will be filibustered.

Actual cloture votes like those above happen when the majority wants to put the minority “on the record”, eg as pro-trans.

When the majority allows a successful filibuster vote like those above, it’s because the majority wanted to put the minority “on the record”, for example as pro-trans.

And how many times did that happen during the first 9 months of the biden administration?