Our representatives are the ones who are supposed to be acting. Again, what did this speech accomplish?

Dude, they are in the minority. The only thing they can hope to do is obstruct what Republicans are doing. Holding the floor is a good way to do this. They don’t have to hold the floor physically to obstruct most things, but it’s better IMO…because it gives them a bigger platform to scream from.

If I were a democratic senator, I’d be setting up to physically filibuster everything the whole session and use the time on the floor to have a parade of people continually shit talking Trump. It generates headlines and diverts attention, and gets people talking. All good things IMO.

I’m irritated with Democrats most often because they seem to not give a shit about fighting when they don’t have the votes. Booker’s actions are a step in the right direction.

One of the ways you sleep walk into a dictatorship is by “complying in advance”. We may be on our way to a dictatorship but there’s no need to roll out the carpet for it. Booker is doing a good thing by using his platform while he still has one.

There may be no way out of this without violence and bloodshed, but that doesn’t make non-violent, more conventional forms of resistance useless. They work as force multipliers. I support Booker and I also don’t think the Tesla takedown people are terrorists.

Nah those fucking paddles or whatever at the fake of the union were the easiest type of protest.

These motherfuckers will still be chirping about “cancel culture” while hanging from chains in Trump’s gulag.

A demonstration of the “soft power” that Vance was telling Ukraine to use.

His base is a bunch of cultist lunatics that would vote for him if he shot their mom on fifth avenue in front of them.

This country is full up with fucking idiots.

That’s already the headline, Moscow Mitch (you fucking bitch).

Yeah I mean I don’t think it was intended for anyone other than white men, but we did build a middle class before destroying it with neoliberal garbage politics and global capitalism shortly thereafter.

There were many mistakes made along the way: making the office too powerful, eliminating all checks and balances, and making congress so contentious and useless that making the executive too powerful seemed necessary to accomplish anything.

However, ultimately handing the keys over to a fucking brain-dead, business-garbage pile in a suit at a time where so many powers have been concentrated in the executive because he “owns the libs” and makes the spiciest AI slop memes on truth social between bits of all-caps screed was the worst of those mistakes.

It wasn’t always like this, but it has been for a long time, and it has been my entire lifetime for certain.

Let’s do it.

So make IDs free? Cuz that is the right thing to do.

Le epic troll of killing a bunch of people

And really, what should be addressed is the difficulty of getting id. But noone wants to pay for that.

That’s my point. Fix that. Everyone gives up on that without even half a fight.

To casual observers, it looks like you’re arguing for voter fraud. Then Republicans can cynically appeal to the stupidest people by making that argument directly.

It helps to have so much show for your show and tell, I guess.

I agree that “heads should roll”…literally.

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Democrats are fighting on the wrong side of this issue and have been for some time IMO. I think requiring them is 100% fine, but they should be fucking free.

Oh come on, they’re going to have higher levels of fuckup than simply this. Get a better imagination.

It’s like a bunch of stupid kids playing government.