Reply #35: We had extensive discussions on here on post-nuclear proceedings [View All]

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a while back - we talked about the agreements between the parties as to how the senate would operate in such a case, I learned quite a bit.

Should it happen, both party leaders said normal appropriations operations would continue (paying the bills, etc), but the Dems said ALL new business would cease. This is not the same as the gov't shutdown by Gingrinch in the 90s in anyway whatsoever. So, if the bills get paid and the bldg isn't padlocked, I can live with no new business - that definitely hurts them more than us because they couldn't cram their totalitarian legislative agenda down our throats (as a rule change would imply to their sheeple followers).

The new status cannot continue, the rule can be changed back in 5 minutes under our control, so we have NOT lost our ability to exert it over them should we gain a majority. Trust me, after not being able to so much as fucking order lunch without unanimous consent (no more convenient waivers from us - ha!), I suspect we wouldn't be in nuclear winter very long.

There are lots of various parliamentary procedures we discussed in this scenario, and unfortunately I have to take off at the moment, but it can probably be searched or someone else can pick it up that remembers.

Anyway, I'm not afraid of jumping in front of the Alito Bullet Train to Dictatorship by virtue of a nuclear option threat.