Cory Booker at the moment filibustering at the senate as a protest against the whole trump administration . He is speaking for as long as he is physically able too, as stated by him in the CSPAN clip, https://www.c-span.org/clip/us-senate/sen-cory-booker-d-nj-starts-speaking-in-senate-for-as-long-as-i-am-physically-able/5158775

Here is an article that states why he is on the senate floor if you need clarification https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/31/politics/booker-senate-floor-speech-trump-protest/index.html

    • Smoogs@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      20 days ago

      Just skimming this article and I’m not entirely sure where you’re going with this direction with information listed here. this looks like an opinion piece that’s short shrifting and mislinking the articles it’s forwarding to and some links are broken…

      • EG: manhattan institute, i checked out the listing on this one and all it says is he was at a luncheon and when checking it online it seems it’s supporting the Democratic side https://manhattan.institute/article/school-choice-government-reform-pillars-of-urban-renaissance pretty openly and less “right” as this opinion piece would suggest. If it were as “right” as it suggests, it would sooner burn itself on hot coals than list anything from “the libs”

      • EG: Betsy alliance is claimed but in the source linked it’s giving a story where he’s distanced himself.

      Confusing.

      • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        19 days ago

        I’d ignore them and move on. They routinely shift blame to democrats no matter the situation, it’s pretty clear what they are doing once you notice.

  • frazw@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    20 days ago

    I’m not trying to be a nay-sayer, but what does this actually achieve?

    He’s not disrupting a vote. He’s only talking. While I’m all for the Democrats doing something this doesn’t actually achieve much. Chick Schumer had a chance to actually disrupt this administration but he didn’t.

    So I am genuinely asking, if the Democrats are not preventing the Trump administration from pushing bills through e.g if this were a fillibuster, how does this help?

    • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      20 days ago

      It makes it look like democrats are willing to use the filibuster, while not actually blocking anything that might upset their donors.

    • toasted chickpea @lemmy.world
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      20 days ago

      Hopefully messing with the apathy in the US. The mainstream media is talking about it. And even though it isn’t a filibuster. Strom Thurmond filibustered bs rhetoric against civil rights in the 50’s for a little over 24 hours and people are talking about that so he is kind of making some history. Am basically hoping he is causing more momentum. The system needs fucking changing but we need to come together for that to happen.

  • Initiateofthevoid@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    19 days ago

    A man stood and spoke for over 24 hours straight and so many are dismissing it as nothing more than “performative”

    This is what it looks like to fight. It’s not perfect, it’s not easy, it’s not even clear if it will do anything. But it’s something. It’s someone standing up and forcing people to listen to the voices of the unheard.

    That’s what it looks like to fight. It’s an ideological war for the soul and future of the nation - did you really think it would be simple, or easy? That we would have natural heroes and great victories?

    Fight in whatever way you can. Yell from whatever rooftop you can find, including the senate floor. Kick and scream, even if it feels pointless. But don’t stand around doing nothing but questioning the contributions of others. We need solidarity.

    • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      18 days ago

      public speaking is literally the single most important thing in politics, look at the recent wyoming vote over trans issues.

      Two really talented public speakers made actual headway and progress on the issue.

      Unfortunately lefties on the internet suffer from brain damage and will never accept anything other than lenin coming back from the dead to rule america, or whatever.

    • spectre@lemmy.world
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      19 days ago

      I wonder how many people complaining about it being performative refused to vote against the guy who promised to level Gaza so they could feel good about “not being complicit”.

      • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        18 days ago

        I voted for Kamala and I think this is performative.

        But performance is incredibly compelling to the psychotic apes who rule this planet so maybe it will help.

        I’m not hopeful.

      • Initiateofthevoid@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        19 days ago

        I think it’s important that we start filling the fediverse and the world with more productive discussion. It feels like every single post and thread around here is completely hijacked by the “centrist/leftist/third party voters” conversation.

        The first comments you see on every news article aren’t even about the article, it’s unrelated complaints against the presumed opinions of other people who may or may not have voted, some of whom may have been bots or internationals or children.

        It’s wildly counterproductive. We need to move forward and really push for solidarity and meaningful solutions. We can’t stop fascism by fighting each other.

        • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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          18 days ago

          It’s wildly counterproductive. We need to move forward and really push for solidarity and meaningful solutions. We can’t stop fascism by fighting each other.

          literally this.

          Doesn’t help that every thread engaging in politics is flooded with “great but this doesn’t solve problem XYZ posting” We need to take what we can get, and move forward. Sitting on our asses clearly isn’t doing anything.

  • Floon@lemmy.ml
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    20 days ago

    Not blocking any votes with this. It is the image of resistance without actually resisting anything.

    This is not what we need. This is not helping.

    • usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml
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      19 days ago

      No senate business can take place because of this even though it’s technically not a filibuster of a specific bill. The senate was suppose to open under normal operation at noon EST, but he’s still speaking as of me writing this comment

    • o1011o@lemmy.world
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      19 days ago

      This is bringing hope to millions of people and setting the precedent of democrats actually resisting. It’s changing what is normal and energizing others to do their own good work, to get into their own ‘good trouble’. It’s doing a lot of fucking good. What the fuck are you doing?

      • Floon@lemmy.ml
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        19 days ago

        Protesting locally.

        This would have been better timed to block the continuing resolution. As it is, it is hollow. For all the Dems that love symbolism without caring about efficacy, have fun. The GOP simply ignores this shit.

  • xyzzy@lemm.ee
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    20 days ago

    Watch it live here.

    He was just reading letter after letter after letter from American seniors who are scared about what the administration might do to Social Security. Really helps bring home that these are real people who are affected.