Epic Filibuster - Anti-Abortion Stalling

Texas senator Wendy Davis is performing an world-record length filibuster to prevent an anti-abortion law from passing. If she can keep talking for 13 hours without sitting down, going to the bathroom or leaning on anything she will successsfully stall the bill. People are sending her stories and information to help her keep talking in this herculean act of continuous waffling.

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I hope she didn't forget her diapers.

There comes a time when a gal just has to stand up and ferociously shit her pants for the things she believes in.

Anyway, I hope I wake up tomorrow to learn that she succeeded. This is a pretty damn cool story imo.

Originally posted by Nephthys
There comes a time when a gal just has to stand up and ferociously shit her pants for the things she believes in.

Anyway, I hope I wake up tomorrow to learn that she succeeded. This is a pretty damn cool story imo.

How far is she in, anyway?

The record for filibustering is much more than thirteen hours. Strom Thurmond holds the record for a 24 hour, 18 minute filibuster in opposition to the Civil Rights Act.

Originally posted by ArtificialGlory
How far is she in, anyway?

I read one article posted 7 hours ago that said she'd been doing it for over 2 hours, so between 9 and 10 hours. Still a ways to go.

Originally posted by Omega Vision
The record for filibustering is much more than thirteen hours. Strom Thurmond holds the record for a 24 hour, 18 minute filibuster in opposition to the Civil Rights Act.

I wasn't being serious, but good to know.

Originally posted by Omega Vision
The record for filibustering is much more than thirteen hours. Strom Thurmond holds the record for a 24 hour, 18 minute filibuster in opposition to the Civil Rights Act.

Haha, that's something to be proud of...

Anyway, I've always though filibusters were rather ridiculous and almost undemocratic. Allowing the minority to triumph over the majority.

Yeah, I'm not too clear on the rules of filibustering, but it seems to me like you should be able to block a filibuster if you could get a 2/3 vote.

The point of it, as far as I can tell, is that it's designed specifically too overrule a majority/super majority bias. I.E 9 out of the 10 voters will vote to pass a law legalizing child porn. The 10th guy stands up and makes a long winded moral stand to overthrow it, etc etc.

Like many American laws, it's one of those things that's pretty ****ing awesome and "freedom" idealistically... but tends to suck dick in practice.

And like many American things, its actually from Italy.

This is great to listen to when playing Call of Duty.

Originally posted by Omega Vision
Yeah, I'm not too clear on the rules of filibustering, but it seems to me like you should be able to block a filibuster if you could get a 2/3 vote.

3/5ths I believe.

Originally posted by Tzeentch._
The point of it, as far as I can tell, is that it's designed specifically too overrule a majority/super majority bias. I.E 9 out of the 10 voters will vote to pass a law legalizing child porn. The 10th guy stands up and makes a long winded moral stand to overthrow it, etc etc.

Kind of. The filibuster (there are several types) in the Senate can be used for a number of things. For example, you can filibuster in order to specifically force a vote on an issue that would normally be given basically a quick nod of assent by the Senate. In this case the filibuster is being used to force proponents to get a 3/5 majority (which really means forcing them to burn political capital).

Oh shit, something just happened.

Senator 'interrupts' to ask "how do I cast a vote in the Senate? I'm worried I might make a mistake."

I'd like to propose that any Senator who feels they are not competent to cast a vote in the Senate should be immediately institutionalized.

Originally posted by Tzeentch._
The point of it, as far as I can tell, is that it's designed specifically tooLike many American laws, it's one of those things that's pretty ****ing awesome and "freedom" idealistically... but tends to suck dick in practice.

It starts sucking dick when they pass rules in Cogress that allow some Republican Fascist fat **** to simply say he's filibustering without actually doing anything and then they all just leave to do blow or cash their Phillip Morris checks or rape children or whatever it is that conservatives do in their free time and nothing gets done that isn't a train wreck.

These Texans are even worse. I mean some dumb **** in their senate actually thinks rape kits give you abortions. It makes me wonder if people are genuinely that stupid or if Texas puts radium salts in their drinking water.

Originally posted by Omega Vision
The record for filibustering is much more than thirteen hours. Strom Thurmond holds the record for a 24 hour, 18 minute filibuster in opposition to the Civil Rights Act.

The difference being that he got to take breaks.

Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
I'd like to propose that any Senator who feels they are not competent to cast a vote in the Senate should be immediately institutionalized.

Holy shit, this is bizarre. As far as I can tell Republicans now actually broke the law (in front of thousands of people watching), and disregard a tool they have been constantly using for their purposes to destroy any proceedings of the actual elected federal government.

Thereby becoming more evil than even the most evil politician Hollywood can imagine in the same instance.

Can't wait to find out what people will say when the dust settles.

Seems they found that their desire to pass a bill does not bend time to their will (that rhymes).

And SB5 did not pass after all. Now we just need dead tree media to give us the rundown and confirm twitter chatter 😐

Haha, yeah it seems they couldn't make the vote in time. Missed it by 2 minutes. Also curiously enough this article claims they tried to falsify the time?

'But after official computer records and printouts of the voting record showed the vote took place on Wednesday, and then were changed to read Tuesday, senators convened for a private meeting.'

Lol WTF?