This will accomplish exactly nothing.
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Thanks for the detailed info. I'll take it into consideration.
Im impressed. This is an establishment democrat almost doing something that almost qualifies as useful. He's almost so close!
Fuck off, Jeffries. You yourself said you’re unwilling to accept or support primary challengers to the oligarch demographic in the party caucus. You can go fuck yourself. As far as I’m concerned, you’re a part of the problem.
Why the fuck aren't they sitting in the chamber of the Senate where they would be actually disrupting the business that's happening. Sitting on steps ain't stopping jack.
The chamber was closed for recess for two weeks.
There's so much randomized "it's not enough" sentiment on lemmy. We all need to focus the hell up, because responding to every single little thing with "how dare they not do more" is so counterproductive. Nobody will ever do anything.
I'm not even saying this action is progress - but shitting on it isn't progress either.
That user just suggested that the congressmen should break into an empty room, as if that would so something.
And even if congress was in session... these people are the people that are supposed to sit in congress. They literally belong there. What, exactly, would that accomplish?
I completely agree. There are a lot of comments that just seem to find a way to keep people down on Democrats, even when they do the right thing. Many of them were the ones shouting Genocide Joe last year. Plenty of them are accelationist leftists or possibly even right-wing propagandists just trying to keep people from a blue wave next November.
I think expecting Democratic Senators to vote no on things like the Laken Riley Act or Democratic Judges to not sign bogus warrants to arrest Gaza protesters should be a bare minimum expectation.
Them not even being able to do that " keeps people down on the Democrats."
I agree they’re not all good. It’s when people paint them all with one brush and refuse to acknowledge good action when I call bullshit. Be loyal to your ideals, not your party.
What Booker and Jeffries are doing by giving the microphone to people on social programs on the steps of the Capitol will reach many more citizens than shouting into an echo chamber. I applaud that. I’m not defending every vote they’ve ever cast, I’m simply recognizing a good action.
The pessimism on here is so diseased that people don’t even seem to have their own ideals other than ‘Democrats bad.’
Cory Booker needs to go away. He only cares when it affords him headlines so that he can feel good about himself running for president yet again. He will never be president, ever.
That's not a sit in, that's a photo op.
This is not a sit-in, and degrades what sit-ins actually were.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sit-in
Democratic leadership is complacent.
I'm increasingly convinced Democratic leadership is in on it.
They are. They will not bite the hand that feeds and those billionaires are the ones feeding them. Citizens United and Super PACs are pure corruption.
Honestly what do they, as individual career politicians in a now-nakedly-corrupt industry, stand to gain from fixing any of it? Their actions are primariy about advancing their careers because Congress has been broken for years and what else would they do?
The consultant's credo is, "if you can't be part of the solution, there's good money to be made in prolonging the problem."
Meaning the politician's credo is now the reverse "There's good money to be made in prolonging the problem, you won't be part of the solution."
Absolutely, in a rapidly developing corrupt oligarchy, you're going to see the people in power rapidly distill into two groups, the ideologically committed and the aspiring oligarchs, and I think you're going to find the latter group is significantly larger than the former.
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Feels similar to a filibuster that was actually just an extended speech.
It looks like the appearance of action, without consequence.
Yeah. You want to make it a protest, do it on the floor of the Senate and block it until they remove you.
“Extended lunch” didn’t attract any cameras so they had to workshop the name.
"Republican leaders have made clear their intention to use the coming weeks to advance a reckless budget scheme to President Trump's desk that seeks to gut Medicaid, food assistance and basic needs programs that help people, all to give tax breaks to billionaires. Given what's at stake, these could be some of the most consequential weeks for seniors, kids and families in generations.
Problem is... They've said this same exact thing for many years now. People stop listening and this just becomes background noise.
He had plenty of engagement with his 25 hour speech. Let’s hope this generates similar awareness.
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Wait, I thought Booker was headed to El Salvador to bring back Garcia.
I would like to have a full update on all past stunts before we begin the next stunt.
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