Summary
Senator Cory Booker’s speech on TikTok live surpassed 350 million likes as he stood for over 25 hours speaking in the Senate chamber.
Booker broke Strom Thurmond’s record for the longest Senate speech, which lasted 24 hours and 18 minutes in 1957 to block civil rights legislation.
Hopefully dems start doing this strategy to block actual policies from being passed.
It’s really really important to understand that this was 100% performance, no legislation has been delayed or stopped as a result of this.
We SHOULD encourage our reps to waste yhe legislature’s time, but ONLY when it actually impacts something.
I wish people would quit saying this. It delayed the appointment of Matthew Whitaker as the ambassador of NATO for 25 hours
25 hours of “we must resist this fascist takeover” only to immediately have multiple Democrats roll over and help confirm said fascist’s appointment nominee… Really kinda cuts out the knees from any hope that speech may have inspired.
“You need to resist, because we won’t”
And did anything of importance happen (or not happen) in those 25 hours?
The true news story will be when there are no follow up filibusters
It will not be reported. Instead, soundbites about how “nothing could be done to stop this” will be reported ad-nauseam.
I kinda feel like you missed the point.
The takeaway i got from somebody not preventing the fascist coup in a meaningful way was that some dems want to do something but are too stupid or complicit to have a material impact on the changes happening.
I suppose his speech could be seen as a shot across the bow of DNC leadership, but I’m not really that optimistic. Even if that’s what it is, waaay too little and waaay too late.