Trump calls for U.S. Senate to scrap filibuster rule

The filibuster rule is the only reason Trump wasn't impeached during his first term. He might not be so lucky if a couple republicans go against him.

a wise man once said:

"Things get to terrible places, one tiny step at a time.

If I encroach you and I'm sophisticated about it, I'm going to encroach two millimetres. I'm going to encroach right to the point where you begin to protest.

Then I'm going to stop.

Then I'm going to wait.

I'm going to encroach again, right to the point where you protest. I'm going to stop.

And then I'm going to wait.

I'm just going to do that forever.

Before you know it, you're going to be back three miles from where you started. And you'll have done it one step at a time.

You'll ask "Oh, how did I get here?".


The answer is "Well I pushed you a little farther than you should have gone, and you agreed."

the US is the Boiling Frog analogy...

if they just get thrown into the boiling water they will jump out.

so instead they were dropped into a pot of room temperature water, and the heat is being slowly turned up bit by bit, just to the point of being uncomfortable where if it was any hotter they would jump.

then they are allowed to get used to their new normal before the heat is turned up again.

eventually, without the frog ever noticing, the water will be boiling and the frog ends up boiled to death without ever jumping out of the water because it was turned up so slowly

And this is how democracy dies.. in front of our eyes..