Quote Originally Posted by coqauvin View Post
Technically, it's a new-fashioned filibuster. Traditionally, filibusters involved you actually holding the floor for a few hours until you passed the deadline. Now, you just need to yell "FILIBUSTER!" and it has the same effect.

Except for, you know, actually making a personal sacrifice of some sort in favour of your cause.

I wonder if everything would still be filibustered if politicians were obligated to truly filibuster something.
Of course things would... Nobody likes hearing themselves speak more than those gasbags