outrageousmatterApr 1, 2025

Senator Cory Booker filibuster against the trump administration Megapost

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Senator Cory Booker filibuster against the trump administration Megapost - Lemmy.World

Cory Brooks 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 [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 [https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/31/politics/booker-senate-floor-speech-trump-protest/index.html]

Show threadfrazwApr 1, 2025

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?

Show threadEnsign_CrabApr 1, 2025
It makes it look like democrats are willing to use the filibuster, while not actually blocking anything that might upset their donors.
Show threadgregs_gumptionApr 1, 2025
You don’t understand how the filibuster works. Please educate yourself rather than spreading red maga misinformation to further your clear pro-Trump agenda.
Show threadfedupwithbureaucracy
Stop being a cultist. You’d support teump if he was a dem and you know it.
Apr 1, 2025 at 2:47pmWeb
Show threadEugene V. Debs' GhostApr 2, 2025
They would, they just think since he’s registered R that defines everything about him, instead of how Biden loves most of Trump’s policies.