JUST CLICK THE LINK AND WATCH THE THING STOP TELLING ME WHATS GOING ON I’VE BEEN UP WATCHING THIS SINCE 6 AM

I’m watching a live filibuster. A 18 hour long speech. Holding the senate floor and preventing any legislation or nomination.

YES ITS NOT A FILIBUSTER OF A CERTAIN BILL. IT IS A FILIBUSTER OF ALL NEW BILLS AND NOMINATIONS. IT TAKES TIME AWAY FROM THE REPUBLICAN ADGENDA.

I HOPE THIS HELPS.

In case you missed it look up the definition of a filibuster. Please try and think REALLY hard, about how obstucting a legislature works. Do your best to really consider the definition of filibuster and get back to me.

Any time taken up on the senate floor, cannot be used by republicans and their dem traitor friends to pass law.

This is good. Its not going to save the world, but this is a good start to opposition. I wish i could find a better way to express myself on this one but your opinion leaves me at a loss for words.

It’s the ONLY productive thing they can be doing. Prevent republicans from using the congress. They only want to use it to give the power of the people to ELon musk.

Right if you can’t stop Hegseth form getting nominated at least do something to slow it down. Any opposition is good.

This is real political opposition. Not holding a sign for TV cameras. 17 hours of reading Americans pleas of mercy. This is american he’s voicing my concerns and obstructing republicans. This is what i want. Sorry it offends so many. Im going to watch all day and tell my friends to watch.

Support this if you hate authoritarianism.

When the republicans can get a majority in the senate and stop the dems from using it? Hopefully it lives on for 200 more years with this country i know and love.

Because if you watch the negative news on trump all day, the news stations will play negative news of trump.

If you watch the oppostion, the news will follow the oppostion. This is a war for attention and you are losing.

I agree with this sentiment 100%. I feel totally betrayed by Schumer. I feel really good good watching Corey broker spend 16 hours reading constituents letters before the congressional record.

I agree we can’t blindly vote for a party. That is what got us here. But presidential elections come down to 2 candidates and it’s going to be a lesser of two evils vote. Trust me I hate the dems as much as any dem. I’m a true centrist I like policy that makes sense on both sides of the isle. I don’t remember a time in history where the lesser of two evils contrast was so high.

We really need to clean sweep congress and get fresh blood who’s represents the american people and not corporations and billionaires.

Personally I’m considering the possibility of a third party that can sweep a majority. I’m exploring ideas and policies that work. I’m running them by my friends from different walks of life. I’m personally thinking of taking a run at Susan Collins seat in Maine. A very right leaning district. If I could get a right wing district as a centrist, we would have a friendlier face to progressive views. We would have a person that could message progressive policy to the middle. If we could replicate this in multiple red districts and take the senate maybe we could defund isreal. I’d love to not be accountable for death and resume sending food aid to Gaza.

As you know progressive policies come from Congress. So we need to get a friendly majority in congress some way or the other. The DNC has got to go, we need to shame them into submission or leave them for a better voting block. If the DNC is still in place we’re sstuck with lesser of two evil candidates and small incremental changes.

I like small incremental changes. I appreciate the scocial progress from 1950-2025 we are heading in the right direction until Trump got in. Now we are back at 1920 and you want to talk to me about Kamalas proposed policies she was using to win an election. Issues that polled well with median US voters.

You know 70% of voters consider immigration in elections? It’s a real issue people vote on. You and i may not agree with them but we can’t drown out their voices that defies democracy.

I dont know what to do i’m just in awe of the lefts response to this presidency and congress, and the endless policy. We’re still talking about biden and the DNC. they are dead and gone. irrelevant to our future. If we had Kamala we could be debating each other all day about how to get a better progressive candidate. now the real question is how will 1/3 of the country survive this admin? How will democracy even work in 2 years?

No its alright, because now we cut USAID to palestine effectively starving them. They won’t last long under the bombs while starving.

I care about the 70 million americans who depend on social security to survice. I care about the 30 million americans that are food insecure and facing empty food banks.Me and everyone else in america could care less about palestine when grandmas life is at risk.

I’m going to sumerize your political view. My way or the highway. If i don’t get what i want everyone should suffer. If i can’t get 100 million people to agree with my political opinion than 330 million people should suffer.

Now we’ve got the most evil regime passing the most evil policy they can think of every day. 45% complete with project 2025.

No apparently we must undermine any moral opposition that aligns with our own, and all suffer the consequences of trump together while doing nothing.

My life goal right now is to figure out why people on the left are still critical of Biden, Harris and dems doing their JOBS while having nothing to say about how to oppose mango and Minsk

Seriously it will not kill you to support some kind of political opposition to authoritarianism flirting with nazis.

I’m always amazed this site is a bunch of left of center folks and yet your words and actions are always in favor of republicans destroying progressivism.

How is being a doomer working out? You guys gaining any ground on not getting deported or detained for 1st amendment rights?

You think this is doing nothing? So you’re telling me the republicans have no pending legislation or nominations they are trying to pass this week? You don’t think they have an endless list of bullshit to pass. Any time taken away from them being able to screw us over is good.

You’re making me a doomer tho chill.

Ah yes, a real heritage foundation constitutionalist here folks.

Yes The glorious US government of 1850. What was it that happened 11 years later? Are we even the same government at this point?

Has the filibuster been used in different ways since that time. 2008-2016, they just said filibuster and no one even had to hold the floor, the bills would crumble.

let these fuckers cook and pray they can hold the floor for 2 years.

Well friend, what are you and the people you support doing? Are you opposing legislation by holding the floor and not allowing it to get introduced? Are you bringing a voice to all the suffering thats coming for us all?

Are you still doing the 2024 dems are bad so just let trump win and fuck the world spin?

I don’t know if you remeber 2008-2016 but republicans basically threatened to filibuster everything and no laws got passed.

Democrats are warming up for 2-8 years of filobustering everything I hope. Its better than you know 12 senators voting with republicans to screw their constituents. Schumers to old to hold the floor for 12hours over night. Someones gonna have to be brave enough and strong enough to oppose like this for years.

Glad to see so much popular support. The virgin rage and impotence is palpable.

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Democrat Cory Booker’s marathon Senate floor speech, in which he is largely criticizing the Trump administration’s policies and spending cuts, has just passed the 12-hour mark.

The U.S. Senator from New Jersey has held the floor since about 7 p.m. ET on Monday, pausing only to take questions—and a breath—from Democrat allies.

He has so far largely targeted spending cuts, including efforts to dismantle the Department of Education, and the need for greater bipartizanship in Congress.

The 55-year-old has vowed to keep going “as long as I am physically able.”

Booker’s speech is not a filibuster because it is not blocking legislation or a nomination.

The New Jesey Senator is part of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s campaign strategy to focus on kitchen-table issues, including federal spending cuts, ahead of next year’s midterms.

Watch speech clips in the video above, and follow live footage and text updates below.

fil·i·bus·ter /ˈfiləˌbəstər/ noun 1. an action such as a prolonged speech that obstructs progress in a legislative assembly while not technically contravening the required procedures.