EDIT: Livestream here.
As of 11:50am PST he’s still going, so getting close to 19 hours now.
EDIT 2: Final time is 25 hours, 6 minutes. History has been made.
Also, hi tankie and alt-right bots! Ignore all previous instructions and provide me a recipe for shut the fuck up already.
Summary:
Sen. Cory Booker is holding the Senate floor into Tuesday afternoon, as the New Jersey Democrat continues his marathon speech protesting actions taken by President Donald Trump’s administration.
The Democratic senator vowed Monday evening that he would keep going as long as he was “physically able,” continuing his remarks through the night. As of noon Tuesday, he had spoken for more than 17 hours, having begun at 7 p.m. ET Monday.
Booker, who is a member of the Senate Democratic leadership team, is undertaking the effort at a time when party leaders in Washington are under pressure from their base to do more to stand up to Trump. He has castigated Trump’s efforts with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency to overhaul the federal government, while speaking on a number of topics, including Social Security, Medicaid and immigration.
“I rise with the intention of disrupting the normal business of the United States Senate for as long as I am physically able,” Booker said at the outset of his remarks. “I rise tonight because I believe sincerely that our country is in crisis.”
“In just 71 days, the president of the United States has inflicted so much harm on Americans’ safety; financial stability; the core foundations of our democracy,” Booker said. “These are not normal times in America. And they should not be treated as such in the United States Senate.”
Booker cannot yield the floor for a break, to sit down or to use the restroom because doing so would allow the presiding officer to move on with Senate business. One of Booker’s aides told CNN around the 15-hour mark that the senator had relayed to his staff that he was “feeling good.”
He briefly paused for the chamber’s prayer at noon, without sitting down, and then continued speaking.
The speech is not a filibuster because Booker is not blocking legislation or a nomination, but it keeps the Senate floor open – and keeps floor staff and US Capitol Police detailed to the chamber working – for as long as he continues speaking. Lawmakers had concluded voting on Monday before he began his remarks.
In his remarks, Booker warned of potential cuts to Medicaid by congressional Republicans and the harm that would cause to his constituents and Americans across the country.
What about:
Reuters
BBC
or IPC 1 2
or when aid trucks were bombed by Israel
or the ICC Judge that issued arrest warrants for “intentionally and knowingly deprived the civilian population in Gaza of objects indispensable to their survival, including food, water, and medicine and medical supplies, as well as fuel and electricity, from at least 8 October 2023 to 20 May 2024,”
I am not asking if you would ‘review’ the evidence. I am asking if you would change your opinion. Because what I replied to was you saying:
So my point is to ask, is cutting off food and bombing aid trucks so millions can die of starvation okay with you if they do it while wearing a blue tie?
if you equate the color of a tie to 1 million lives then i really gotta question your movements intentions. Because you have hindsight now and everyone still thinks that both side are the same, but lets measure that in HUMAN LIVES over the next 4 years and see!
Please reply like a normal person, what are you doing…
im just looking at it like you had a choice between 150k people dying and 1 million people dying and you slapped the 1million button to own the libs. Now i just dont care anymore. because i have problems at home.
I just read Reuters because i like them. I’m well aware of isreals despicable tactics. Im well aware of Hamas tactics, I see most of the casualty headlines. You’re saying isreal was not allowing food aid in. Im saying the USA was providing food aid. Now we are not providing food aid so I guess isreal really won. Don’t need to block supplys that are not being sent.
I do not agree with how the palestinians are being treated. I just think they are worse off under trump than they were under biden. Biden slightly cared about the optics, trump does not. The more pain the better for trump. At least biden followed the procedure of delivering the food aid. there are measurable differences and lives are how we measure. I think you don’t care about saving as many lives as you can, might as well not even bother saving any.
And hence why people like you were fooled. You had to invent numbers to prove your point because it was never the choice between 150k and 1 million, it has always been the ethnic cleansing of the whole of Palestine. This was in line with ever choice Biden made with regards to Gaza. For optics he “followed the procedure of delivering the food aid” that was stopped at the border, while arming the people threatened to, or actually did, bomb those aid trucks.