Even with universities that got too woke,” Booker said, “the antidote to that isn’t to try and shut down the thought of the left, it’s to try to make a fair, more competitive marketplace.”
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"Both sides are to blame" I say as the Nazis shoot me in the head after they had just shot an avowed communist
Oh no not the dreaded SLAM
CORY BOOKER COMING IN FROM THE TOP ROPES AND SLAMS DONALD TRUMP!!
BY GAWD IT’S FETTERMAN WITH THE CHAIR
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I was thinking about how an organized opposition party would have a plan to swap in new speakers as each one rests to halt the system but he did this with no plan and no explicit backing and I'm realizing
This is liberal adventurism.
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Liberals are donating over this 😭😭😭 bro is gonna send another billion dollars to Israel next week just you watch
It's a holding strategy, something libs can point to so they can tell leftists to shut up while we wait for midterms
Glazing McCain right now, LOL.
I have Termux on my phone, and I use a bash script as the ~/bin/termux-url-opener then uses yt-dlp to download the video on whatever site I shared to the app via the systems "share" interface. So, if I see a YouTube video I want to re-upload, I share it to Termux, and it automatically downloads the video to my phone. yt-dlp doesn't just download YouTube videos, either. It works on numerous sites. So I can download a Reddit video, Twitter video, TikTok video, etc. and quickly re-upload it to https://tankie.tube/ for example.
That rules
How did this end up in this thread.
Maybe you want to repost Comrade Booker's heroic filibuster speech to Tankie Tube
the power of poasting
I tuned in for like two minutes and I thought I was watching a Key and Peele sketch
I'm not an expert on Senate rules but this seems like a strange thing to do. If the Dems were serious on gridlocking the Senate they should not be providing unanimous consent on things like adjourning and all the other procedural points of order. But that would require them to do things like not go on book tours. I was under the impression that you could silent filibuster for 36 hours on every point of order or w/e the correct term is.
I was under the impression that you could silent filibuster for 36 hours
Yeah - but then there's no video to be used for campaigning of a dem "standing up to Trump". :(
The longest filibuster on record was a 1957 speech by then-Democratic Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina — in opposition to the Civil Rights Act — that lasted for 24 hours and 18 minutes.
Media reported at the time that Thurmond sustained himself with "diced pumpernickel and bits of cooked hamburger" and sips of orange juice. His aides set up a bucket in the cloakroom so he could keep a foot on the Senate floor if he needed to relieve himself.
Listen, if he can knock Strom Thurmond off the leaderboard, I guess that's cool. Other than that, not sure what is to gain out of this. Seems pretty performative to me.
His aides set up a bucket in the cloakroom so he could keep a foot on the Senate floor if he needed to relieve himself.
this is the kind of pointless rituals that you read about in stories of weird kings courts. "Nooo my foot hasnt crossed this line yet, so I can continue talking and while I am talking this law thats gonna affect over 100 million people cannot get voted on and if I am annoying enough the opposition is going to drop it!!" - a very serious legislative body
If there isnt even a law being filibustered I guess it's finally crossed the threshold into simulacrum
It is however precedent. If hexbear helps me get elected to the senate, I pledge to shit in a bucket on the floor every day. I will put John Fetterman to shame.
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Imagine thirty or so glassy eyed old fucks looking in the direction of your foot while you rock one in the closet.
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That's literally it. At least when they teach who has the longest filibuster record, they won't mention Thurmond anymore. I don't remember exactly, but I feel like when I learned that tidbit in school, they left out the part where he was filibustering the civil rights act. They just focused on the feat and the fact that he "cared so deeply about his cause"
At least when they teach who has the longest filibuster record, they won't mention Thurmond anymore.
But that's a perfect lesson for what the filibuster is and why it continues to exist.
It's a tool for the worst people in government to stop progress even without a majority.
I honestly hope the record isn't broken.
they left out the part where he was filibustering the civil rights act
Although yeah, it's important to include that part.
It's a tool for the worst people in government to stop progress even without a majority.
It's just a tool. If we actually had a single principled anti-imperialist senator they'd filibuster each bill granting Israel military aid by reading off names of Palestinians who were killed. Obviously in a proper democratic system this garbage wouldn't exist, but you wouldn't need to go to such extremes for democracy to work in a proper democratic system.
If we actually had a single principled anti-imperialist senator they'd filibuster each bill granting Israel military aid by reading off names of Palestinians who were killed.
lol they would immediately end the filibuster if that happened. Or come up with some excuse for why they could end that specific filibuster.
Though really, there would easily be 60 votes to break it anyway.
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Joe Biden’s good friend
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What's there for them to protest?
Democrats are just the moderate wing of the Republican party.
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