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.’”
Is it even filibustering if he’s not trying to stop any laws being passed?
I’d argue no. I’m kind of confused. I guess it’s a prolonged speech protesting the actions in of the admin in general? I somewhat applaud the push back by any member of congress, but I feel like it’s a wasted gesture if it isn’t specifically filibustering an important bill. This just seems like a publicity stunt rather than a meaningful action of resistance.
Its blocking all movement on the floor. Which slows all the garbage they are trying to push through.
I wouldn’t call it a wasted gesture.
But there’s nothing tabled that he’s jamming up?
Why not wait to pull this stunt when trump is actually trying to push through one of his atrocious polices?
To me it seems like another ‘look we’re responding to your anger and calls to do something’ performative action that doesn’t actually do anything, that the democrats are so adroit at
It stalled the vote on Matthew Whitaker as Ambassador of NATO for 25 hours, which immediately happened afterwards and the vote passed anyways
- Everything being done by the republicans is atrocious.
- Trump isn’t going for legislation, he’s just signing executive orders.
- Having someone visibly stand up, draw attention, and say “this isn’t OK” is something some people need to hear, especially to get them to support and/or join in protest.
Sure you could complain that it isn’t enough. And by itself, it isn’t.
It still isn’t nothing.
Don’t deflect; instead of an ultimately performative action, why didn’t he do this when it could have done some actual good and possibly protected people by blocking one or more of trump’s policies?
I know that sincerely engaging with this question may be intellectually uncomfortable for you, but please at least attempt to critically revaluate your pre-conceived notions about the American political system and the goals of the DNC, establishment democrats and their megadonors
Ive engaged with plenty of folks in this thread, but I don’t appreciate the attitude youre bringing to me out of nowhere, so I won’t be engaging in conversation further than this with you.
How dare you address me in a curt tone after I acted in deliberate bad faith and held water for nazis. I am above speaking to you and so I leave with my head high.
My attitude in asking you a very simple question in why did he wait to perform this gesture when it would actually have an effect
That’s the spirit that’ll beat trump, hopefully you’re rich a white enough that your complacency won’t affect you personally 🙄
I don’t want to hear “this isn’t ok” from Cory Booker, one of the most outspoken Zionists in the entire US government. He has no moral framework to stand upon. He’s a proponent of genocide and his contention with Trump is largely theatrical. If he truly had a backbone or even a soul there are a million better choices he could have made before reaching this point.
This guy has taken $893,998 from AIPAC. He’s paid for just like the rest. Fuck this guy.
Letting “perfect” be the enemy of “good”.
Cory Booker is far from perfect. But i will commend any good choice, and this is one of them.
“genocide is good”
-BlueMAGA Democrats.
Cory Booker is a murderer and war criminal. He’s not good in any respect. Stop doing apologia for genocide. In a just world he’d be at the Hague right now on trial with the rest of his colleagues. Fuck this guy. Death to Israel. Death to America.
He’s literally one of Israel’s staunchest supporters.
He could do all that by pulling a fire alarm.
Not really, pretty sure that’d be easy grounds for censure, and the fire alarm would be off in minutes.
And good heavens if he were censured it would affect his ability to do things
But why not wait to filibuster an actual policy as both a protest against the admin itself, and to call attention to, and spark outcry, about the policy? It still seems like a waste to not time this type of once in a lifetime event with a particular action by the admin. I feel like if he’s going to do something like this, especially something historic which will get people paying attention, why not use all that attention to it’s maximum potential. The garbage is still going to be pushed through eventually, but if he were doing it at the moment that a garbage policy was being pushed through it would call much more attention to it and create more pushback from people.
But why not wait to filibuster an actual policy as both a protest against the admin itself
Because then theyd be waiting rather than doing? Because this isnt a filibuster, but they can still actually filibuster should something come up?
Because one does not preclude the other?
I didn’t say one did preclude the other. My point is that if you’re going to do something historic that, by it’s unusual and uncommon nature, gets you more attention then usual, why wouldn’t you use that gesture to BOTH protest, and filibuster a bill that will put more attention on the bill because of the historic nature of the filibuster?
And yes, by all means, continue to filibuster and stymie the admin’s progress by filibustering whenever possible. However, the American public are notoriously short of attention, especially when something has already been done before, that subsequent filibusters won’t have the same impact as the original, especially when you have outlets like Fox that can just spin it towards being not worth notice because “same old shit by the dems”. People will eventually tune out, and the opportunity to really amp up the pressure on the Republicans will be lost.
… Or do both, and break your own record?
I dont know about you, but I prefer something to nothing. And I will continue to support anyone being against what Trump is doing. So I’m not going to disparage him for this. I have plenty of things to complain about with Booker. This isn’t one of them.
To each their own I guess.
That’s my point, you can break your own record, but the media and public will be desensitized to it after the first time, sadly most people will tune out after the novelty has passed.
I’m not disparaging him, as much as I am calling into question the timing of it. Any pushback at all is welcome, but it just seems to me to be poorly timed in terms of effectiveness.
I guess we’ll see what kind of effect this has afterwards and if it has a positive outcome.
Thank you for saying this Cory. All other democrats who don’t take up this message can bite my balls. At least this guy seems ok, or at least conscious.
Do better, but don’t ever consider what it means to actually do better, also don’t actually do it.
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.
Performative bullshit from a zionazi genocide supporter.
Y’all look at the date… This tool isn’t standing up for anyone or anything, he’s doing an elaborate April fools joke
He also took the time to praise Israel and defend the genocide during his filibuster.
Fuck right off.
Why are our politicians like this… Anyone with eyes can see it’s evil what’s happening there.
Because we have legalized bribery.
And call it ‘lobbying’
AIPAC
I regret cheering him on now. Fuck this dude.
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.
Glad to see the turning of sentiment within the DNC. Perhaps Chuck Schumer got the message that people want him gone and is trying to stay wanted. Or maybe he is worried a third party will galvanize a voting bloc and take money from the Dems.
Ultimately this is a good thing as it shows a fire and regret in the same speech. Finally nice to see democracy start returning to the Democrats.
Booker a day later: let’s give Israel more money
“My job is to keep the left pro Israel” -
Chuck ShumerCory BookerAlso, too tired to filibuster when something bad actually needs to be stopped, like Chuck Schumer collaborating with Trump two weeks ago.
Corey Booker spoke for a while, and we all lived happily ever after…
Out of Trump’s 35,000 hours as president, Booker expertly OBLITERATED 25 of them. Trump is done.
sLaMmEd 🧨
– NYT tomorrow, probably
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.
You know you can cuss on the internet, right?
Bro if my mom sees people cuss a lot on here she’s not gonna let me back on.
Be cool.
WHO WANTS TO BUY SOME DRUGS
First Past The post voting is the reason weak candidates run for political office. No competition.
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.
That’s really too bad. This sort of effort should be directed at something specific rather than just being performant :(
Unfortunately that seems to be the Democrat playbook these days. Make a lot of noise, but don’t suit up for the actual battles that would win the war.
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.
towed the line
*toed
toad* 🐸
Weird
Cool, but also confusing
“Toe the line” = conform to standards by lining up with your toes on the line. What the heck would “tow the line” mean as a metaphor?
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
