Booker: "I confess that I have been imperfect. I confess that I've been inadequate to the moment. I've confess that the Democratic Party has made terrible mistakes that gave a lane to this demagogue. I confess we all must look in the mirror and say 'we will do better.'"
Then do it
Words are cheap
The real reason to have a 3 day no pooping challenge.
Shhh we're not allowed to speculate on the reason for not wanting to poop for 3 days
First Past The post voting is the reason weak candidates run for political office. No competition.
He could always demonstrate his regret by stepping down and letting someone else take over his position LOL
I confess we all must look in the mirror and say ‘we will do better.’”
Spoiler: they won't
Hey now, lets not forget that time Schumer and Pelosi led that "We will win!" chant. If it wasn't for that, we might be in REAL trouble right now.
I thought it was kinda cool he was mad at Trump for 24 hours straight. This shit takes a lot of physical effort, especially for a 55 year old.
Highly performative though. Not saying it was useless, because it definitely was a statement. It was not yet a "step in the right direction, but at least a "slight bend of the neck to maybe someday start looking in the right direction". Now I would like every other congressional Democrat to follow it up with something. Furiously voting against absolutely everything the MAGA terrorists propose, no matter what. Call Mike Johnson a cuck live on C-Span, every day. Lock MTG in the bathroom. Create 100 policy proposals for the docket, every day and from everyone until the .txt list is 500 Petabyte big.
Shut congress down. Completely, until Trump is gone. This is war.
Not a filibuster, there's not a bill in question or a confirmation on the line. He's just holding the floor. I applaud the effort and certainly the message, I'm just not sure why he's doing it now instead of you know when it counted.
Honestly the first actual sign of resistance from within the Senate chamber.
What did he resist? There wasn’t a bill he was filibustering. This was a performance.
Stop being satisfied with performance.
Booker and every other Senator voted unanimously for all of Trump's political appointees. Booker is full of shit.
I think a lot of people on both sides are still living in a weird fantasy bubble that we have "two sides" and they're actually fighting each other.
Yes, some outliers are probably genuine, but we're all getting played if we think this shit isn't designed to make a select group of people wealthy no matter who wins or who speaks out or what the political landscape looks like. You don't leave trillions of dollars up to chance and the votes of uninformed or uninterested voters.
Resistance seems like a bit much, can we compromise and agree it's the first sign that a Democratic senator has a pulse?
Credit should be given where due: Sen. Booker is about to make history in less than an hour, breaking the record for the longest filibuster in US history.
Edit: He did it! Now it's on every American and person around the world to resist the Trump administration.
Have you seem what Sanders is doing?
Yes, but most his effectual action seems to occur outside the Senate chamber, rallying crowds together with Ocasio-Cortez.
This guy is a fucking Zionist clown and a stooge for venture capital. I'm old enough to remember when Obama would take shots at Romney in the 2012 election for Romney's founder status at Bain Capital. Booker, perhaps simply for love of the game, defended Bain Capital for seemingly no reason other than to get pats on the shoulders from Republicans
And what is this doofus doing now? Wagging his finger at Trump for theatrical reasons. This keeps getting called a filibuster but there's not specific legislation Booker is trying to kill. There's no bill he's trying to stop.
All this fire and gusto to stand around while he eagerly votes for bills to send yet another billion dollars to the Zionist Entity. Fuck this guy. I hope he enjoys hell.
the literal moment his speech stunt was over, the trump appointment for NATO ambassador was unanimously confirmed with zero resistance. these spineless fucks stand for nothing, it's all for show. props to Booker for the best April fools day prank I've ever seen in my life.
Well come on now, support for NATO is a bipartisan consensus! If anything, it's now a middle finger to Trump!
Where was this motion when the continued resolution was on the floor? Fucking clowns.
so you'll support a better policy platform, right?