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.'"
Honestly the first actual sign of resistance from within the Senate chamber.
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.
That's fair enough, I absolutely agree that his resolve is notable and his voice should be elevated, but will we see that happen in reality?
Booker is a staunch zionist. He should be in prison for supporting the killing of Palestinians.
He stopped a full day of business in the Senate. I've never been a huge Booker fan but I gotta admit, not only is it a pretty impressive feat but this is exactly the kind of thing we need from them right now.
No, we need their party to stop bombing Palestinian civilians. In no way is booker, who is a staunch zionist, promising to change that.
A full day of ... nothing. The senate, and congress as a whole don't really do anything these days. They pass maybe one consequential bill every 2 years and then go back to sitting on there asses because the filibuster prevents them from doing anything besides "bipartisan" shit like sending weapons to Israel.
All the bad shit that's been happening is coming from trumps desk with no approval or input from congress.
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.
What did he resist? There wasn’t a bill he was filibustering. This was a performance.
Stop being satisfied with performance.
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.
He also took the time to praise Israel and defend the genocide during his filibuster.
Fuck right off.
He also put on a genocide pin and proceeded to preach some biblical Zionism quotes. Usually Democrats stick to the liberal Zionism. Apparently they have moved so far right they identify more with the MAGA crowd now.
It was a loyalty pledge. He put on this performance to get a shot at a leadership position, and he wanted to make it clear to the aipac lobby which side he was on.
Why are our politicians like this... Anyone with eyes can see it's evil what's happening there.
AIPAC
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.
If the Democrats actually wanted to be an opposition party he wouldn't need to be speaking right now. At least some are supporting him.
Where was this motion when the continued resolution was on the floor? Fucking clowns.
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.
Simply admitting it does not mean you don't have to correct. This was a fillibuster in name only, no bill was protested. This is theatrical at best.
It was performative nonsense, as per usual of the democrats.
The only thing it did was take the record from a segregationist.
Of course, the Dems are experts at theater.
Booker a day later: let’s give Israel more money
Also, too tired to filibuster when something bad actually needs to be stopped, like Chuck Schumer collaborating with Trump two weeks ago.
A lot of words and no actions.. until Schumer steps down Democrats have learned nothing and have nothing new to offer. If you want us to believe you have changed show us don't tell us.
Cory booker is probably an even more virulent zionist than Schumer. He's been pro israel, and anti-palestine his entire career.
Then do it
Words are cheap
LOL
Their words are worthless.
Do something meaningful. At minimum, replace Jeffries and Schumer as leaders, and make it abundantly and publicly clear you did so because of capitulation to fascism.
I think this sentiment is good and happy to see something like this out of the Democrats for fucking once in their lives.
That said, Booker is a huge embodiment of the Democratic Party he's criticizing here. While certainly better than a ton in the traditional centrist camp like Schumer and Pelosi, Booker still towed the line the past 10 years since the DNC has actually been screwing over genuine progressives like Sanders.
If this is a genuine recognition of a failed strategy then great, but I'm skeptical.
New headline: One of Murica's leading zionists shits himself publicly during pointless 24 hour talkathon. Booker signs and sells senate diapers to raise money for Israel to kill more Muslims.
#diapers4israel
Quite frankly, I don't give a f*** if they look in the mirror and say that they will do better. We've been calling on them to do better for many years, or decades even, depending who you are. Don't bother f****** telling us how you're going to f****** do better. Just start doing better already.
Anyone know what he is filibustering?
There's is no particular vote that he is fillibustering, he is just doing it because he can.
The NYT also theorized that he wanted to do this at some point anyway, because the record for longest continuous speech in the Senate is currently held by Strom Thurmond, while fillibustering the ~~1967~~ 1957 Civil Rights bill, and Booker wanted to top it. He only has an hour or two to go to get there.
He's not filibustering. He's grandstanding.
Corey Booker spoke for a while, and we all lived happily ever after...