George Takei: Many Americans don't understand the filibuster. So let's put it in plainer terms.

[soothsayer]

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George Takei
@GeorgeTakei
Many Americans don’t understand the filibuster. So let’s put it in plainer terms. Your gang want to vote on whether to order pizza. One asshat is holding the only phone and he just won’t shut up. He’s been talking for hours. That’s the filibuster.

[unblock]

1. how is there only one phone for the whole gang? i thought i understood the filibuster, but now...

[soothsayer]

2. And why are they voting on ordering a pizza?

[Auggie]

3. Nice metaphor: everyone GOES HUNGRY because of one asshat

[Warren_Pointe]

4. It's even worse than that.

The asshat doesn't even have to be talking; in congress, he can just threaten to talk.

That's where we fucked it up. Make them go back to talking the whole time like "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington."

[Coleman]

5. Oh please don't

Don't you remember when Cruz decided to do an old fashioned filibuster. Geen Eggs and Ham

[Warren_Pointe]

6. Which was the most intelligent thing to ever come out of his filthy mouth.

I want to hear lindsey graham recite Fear of Flying.