It is outrageous to me that the same criteria is still in place for filibusters. What are we -- well, we're in the dark ages! It was an amazing fete that Cory Booker had the endurance to carry through on this protest and act of defiance. It will go down in history.
Finally, a Democrat who is doing his job. The other deadbeat Dems may only see this as yet another excuse to make it into a fundraiser. So far, all I have been seeing from them is writing useless petitions and letters, to get their slacktivist "grassroots support" base to donate more money. All they did last year was cry about how they were losing the race to raise the most money. And what good did it do? It just kept their "not for profit" reelection campaign corporations running like well oiled yet broken machines.
Democratic party is the only potentially, formidable, existing political party we have now. Support the good they do and strengthen it. And, yes, call out what is not effective or detrimental.
Corey Booker didn’t just stand for 24 hours; he stood up, finally, in a chamber full of Democratic jellyfish too terrified to flex a spine. This wasn’t policy. It was defiance. It was visible, sweaty, and bladder-defying opposition. And in a time when democracy is bleeding out under the fluorescent lights of procedural apathy, that matters.
Booker shattered Strom Thurmond’s record, the same segregationist fossil who filibustered civil rights—flipping that legacy on its head like a table in a Jersey diner. And you know what? It should be the starting gun because clapping like seals for one man’s bravery while Schumer keeps sleepwalking through fascism is not a strategy. It’s surrender.
This is not the time for Schumer’s damp centrism. It’s time for warrior-leaders who understand that optics are substance when the substance is being destroyed in broad daylight. Booker showed what fighting looks like. The rest need to decide if they’re here to win—or just here to whimper.
It is outrageous to me that the same criteria is still in place for filibusters. What are we -- well, we're in the dark ages! It was an amazing fete that Cory Booker had the endurance to carry through on this protest and act of defiance. It will go down in history.
Thank you for your insights and your straight forward remarks. That is what we desperately need now: straight forward statements of facts.
Spelled Cory wrong in the email. Apologies.
TOTALLY AWESOME! I want to hear from Democrats like this EVERY DAY!
I’m very impressed with Corey Booker, someone I’ve admired before. Schumer needs to step aside and let Corey Booker or Chris Murphy take the mantle.
Finally, a Democrat who is doing his job. The other deadbeat Dems may only see this as yet another excuse to make it into a fundraiser. So far, all I have been seeing from them is writing useless petitions and letters, to get their slacktivist "grassroots support" base to donate more money. All they did last year was cry about how they were losing the race to raise the most money. And what good did it do? It just kept their "not for profit" reelection campaign corporations running like well oiled yet broken machines.
I will be donating to support Corey, though.
Democratic party is the only potentially, formidable, existing political party we have now. Support the good they do and strengthen it. And, yes, call out what is not effective or detrimental.
Corey Booker didn’t just stand for 24 hours; he stood up, finally, in a chamber full of Democratic jellyfish too terrified to flex a spine. This wasn’t policy. It was defiance. It was visible, sweaty, and bladder-defying opposition. And in a time when democracy is bleeding out under the fluorescent lights of procedural apathy, that matters.
Booker shattered Strom Thurmond’s record, the same segregationist fossil who filibustered civil rights—flipping that legacy on its head like a table in a Jersey diner. And you know what? It should be the starting gun because clapping like seals for one man’s bravery while Schumer keeps sleepwalking through fascism is not a strategy. It’s surrender.
This is not the time for Schumer’s damp centrism. It’s time for warrior-leaders who understand that optics are substance when the substance is being destroyed in broad daylight. Booker showed what fighting looks like. The rest need to decide if they’re here to win—or just here to whimper.