The distinction everyone is making is usually filibusters are held during a bill debate, before a bill can go to vote. In theory you would have to filibuster indefinitely until one side can get 60 votes to end the filibuster and pass the vote. It forces the other party to gather a larger majority or compromise.
This was delaying a vote on a nomination, it was also proving that they can and will filibuster, not just threaten to filibuster, but talk for 25 hours straight. someone should have continued after him because the nomination passed and i am sad again. 52 votes so more dem defectors yay.
idk where politico and news week are getting their definition of a filibuster, but talking for 24 hours to hold off a nomination vote is a filibuster to me. My community college education may have failed me but i interpret a 25 hour speech on the senate floor a filibuster.
Does your opinion motivate people to oppose republicans? Does it inform and empower them to oppose fascists? Or does it strip them of their power, make them feel disenfranchised and steal attention away from something good?
Idk who does your opinion benefit? Im not checking the thread so you tell me. I usually call em like i see em, but im hot on the keyboard right now. did you say something that stole power away from the opposition? Are you diminishing hope of change?
Damn you are the first person to share that very articulate opinion. Thanks so much! Have you checked the 25 hour long live filibuster yet? Or just pop in to share this bold piece of wisdom we were dying to hear?
Seriously i feel like god just handed me the first commandment.
I went off to college back in the great recession so it really was like the best option i could find. The experience really shaped me as a person and im so greatful i didn't lose my chance at education to poverty in a recession.
I'm sorry to hear they prevented you from that program. No system is without need for reform. Hopefully they can continue to improve the system and make it more inclusive.
I guess you sound pretty silly, because you're not listening to the live stream being discussed. I really hope you tune in and listen, if not thats fine. There's plenty of other posts to rage on. You don't really sound informed enough for me to deal with and you're clearly not willing to discuss the live filibuster so bugger off?
I'm really hoping a viable third party emerges and can get a large majority to end the rule of DNC RNC. If you build it they will come. Someones gotta step out and make it. Plenty of people willing to support it.
Like its so ironic because theres a man on the senate floor crying, saying exactly what you're saying. There's a problem in the congress they are derelicting their duty. He's saying that right now. They know they fucked up. Listen in or find a new post to comment on. I don't want to read you virtue signaling while someones saying it on the senate floor and you refuse to even listen or support it in spirit. Like this is truly funny dude. Walking contradiction here. Theres something beautiful happening in congress and it's speaking to your very thoughts and you just wanna ignore it because it might make your opinion incorrect. Good luck.
Hey dude you're talking on a post about a filibuster thats taking up the senate floor for 25 straight hours and its still going. Project 2025 was completed by executive order not at a legislative level yet.
I also do not like how the DNC has handled the last 4 elections. I am not a fan of Kamala at all but would have loved to have her over this. I don't inject Gaza into every conversation, but that does not mean i do not care and want to end military funding for isreal. I want USAID to get back to gaza.
It's not relevant to the topic of this post. Which contradicts half of your post right here. So like watch the filibuster and discuss it or please, find somewhere else to virtue signal. Let Booker virtue signal, he's cookin and im vibing and you realling killing that right now man? whats wrong with you?
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THE TRUE COMMUNIST EVERYBODY.
He's soooo much better than us he just can't articulate why.
Please do tell what is this mutal aid you're doing and who's financing it.
You gotta remember in America we are all far apart. I have to drive 30 minutes to the closest protest. 40 Million people in california live 48 hours away from washington DC.
We can't easily get our population in the same place at the same time. People are doing their best, there are lots of small protests everywhere. They will get bigger when the weather gets nicer. This filibuster has got me excited. Hopefully we can get rid of some of the apathy and get to some action. We are doing something we're just spread apart and are lacking direction and leadership. It's hard to keep hope, hell its hard to keep up with the stream of evil shit this admin does every day.
It's breaking me and stealing my humanity. More people will fight as it breaks them too. They may have to lose their granma to poverty and disease but even thats not far away now.
I've got some extra firearms if you need one to defend yourself. Im pretty sure ice isn't gonna come arrest me and the retired old ladies protesting in front of the capital, but it would make good news for the cause. Idk i refuse to live in fear. I refuse to live like a impotent fool. Go do something besides discourage people from being productive.
That's how im trying to reach out to my MAGA voting buddies. It's hard to get through the layers of shame and "fuck joe biden dems eat babys" but theres a person underneath those cheap defenses.
Man you got a lot of opinions for a guy afraid of protesting and boycotting? Are you afwaid of a wittle ice at your wokal pwotest? What are you suggesting here?
Fully agree. They had their chance in 2016 to listen to the popular calls for bernie. Policies would have prevented this incredible rise of billionaires into the very seats of power we hold dearly. DNC needs to be completely replaced by new leaders. They need to be a democratic organization if they want to be called democrats. They make me sick. I hope we can get rid of them or force them to spend money on good candidates.
He's saying everything that people are saying in this room, in the internet, to our familys. this is a true call to americans. It's speaking to everyones shared values. Tune in and remember what americans believe in. It's just reading american letters and telling stories and exposing republicans. It's the most based protest to hit the senate floor that i can remember. I feel less hopeless. I've been begging for someone in congress to do ANYTHING. This is a thing. my prayers have been answered.
Keep sharing, keep streaming, we need to flood this and show the media and politicians that this is what we want. Turn off your TV and your tick tock and tune into the the endless filibuster. Endless sit in!! Lets go dems!!!
Yes because democrats are pushovers. Everyone knows that. Nice of Booker to show up with his spine and his shit talking voice. He's a legend for this.
We might have to hold the flooor and filibuster for 2 years straight to save old America. Im glad somones got the balls to show up and do it. I'm here for it. In this house all we do is listen to filibuster and support the peoples power.
The distinction everyone is making is usually filibusters are held during a bill debate, before a bill can go to vote. In theory you would have to filibuster indefinitely until one side can get 60 votes to end the filibuster and pass the vote. It forces the other party to gather a larger majority or compromise.
This was delaying a vote on a nomination, it was also proving that they can and will filibuster, not just threaten to filibuster, but talk for 25 hours straight. someone should have continued after him because the nomination passed and i am sad again. 52 votes so more dem defectors yay.