The Senate Is Responding to 19 Kids Murdered by... Starting a Podcast, Basically

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Instead of legislation to curb uniquely American mass shootings, we're getting 'The Senate Project,' which is as useless as it sounds.

And somehow, I doubt that cute little debates and “both-sides”-ing on whether civilians should have access to mass killing machines that didn’t exist when the Constitution was written will “resolve legitimate differences”—or achieve anything, really, except give Lindsey Graham and other Senate Republicans a platform to see who can own the libs the hardest. Well, 19 kids are dead. Consider us owned.

Speaking of Graham, the first debate will take place between him and Sen. Bernie Sanders on June 13, and, sure, you’re probably thinking, “Don’t these literal US Senators have anything better to do??” To that I say, yes and no.

The only way this chamber of Congress could be vaguely redeemable is the abolition of the filibuster so its narrow Democratic majority could get something,done, or perhaps statehood for DC, which has a larger population than Wyoming. But at this point, after watching this institution pass while shrugging at the murders of 19 children, I’m leaning more on abolishing the Senate altogether. If they all want to be podcasters, cool! But they can do it on their own time and their own dime, and maybe

 

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