68 years old and 23 hours, wow!
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Wow, nice!
That's my senator! I think I would have passed out after an hour.
Without wanting to being a dick, and believing that is an astonishing achievement for a politician, especially of his age, i think that is a nice gesture,
but if the Democrats wont call people on the Streets, nothing will change. SPD did the same tactic against Nazis back in 1930s and you know the results. Ofc they cant do that because that will be as betraying the corp interests.
Yeah, democrats need to call for a general strike.
What would a general strike look like like in America
Everyone stops working. That's it. That's the whole story.
Yeah I mean I think sort of the reason we’re not getting a general strike is because Americans don’t know how. A handful of people aren’t going to stop working knowing it will do nothing and they will just lose a job they desperately need. This is about somehow mobilizing and educating a ton of people.
People: Vote Democrats out of power at all levels of government.
People: "Why won't the Democrats do anything?"
Democrats: Do literally the only thing they can do given the people voted them out of power.
People: "Empty gesture."
People suck.
Middle aged Korean politicians were literally scaling walls and grabbing the guns out of cops’ hands a few months ago.
Have some fucking self-respect and stop making excuses for cowards. 
If this was "literally the only thing they can do", then it would be the only thing Republicans have been doing, too.
I’m about done here, but I’ll take the bait this once. Republicans didn’t do shit until we stupidly voted them back into power. Trump was on his way to jail until millions of people who voted for Biden found some dumb ass reason not to vote for Harris. Every horrible thing the Supreme Court has done for the past 10 years would have gone the other way if the “But her emails” crowd had held their noses and voted for the admittedly horrible Hillary in 2016. If 1 percent of Florida Nader fans in 2000 had voted for Gore, we could have had someone who wrote a book about environmental issues instead of someone who got rich exploiting oil and gas. Obama wasn’t perfect of course but he did get healthcare access for millions of people who didn’t have it before and was working on other things that would have made things better until the 2010 “shellacking” swept democrats out of power and neutralized the rest of his presidency, just like what happened to the very flawed but better than republicans Bill Clinton in 1994.
I’m farther left than ANY of the democrats I’ve mentioned and it sucks we have to settle. But the things some people insist don’t matter baffles me. Truly, what would you have Senator Merkely do? Go nuclear and shut down the government to stop benefit cuts? Done. It’s not accomplishing anything either, because trump is a lawless president and the republicans in congress refuse to stop him. He just keeps paying ICE and uses the so called shut down to defund things he doesn’t like. This is possible because we voted republicans back into power.
The problem is always republicans. The only way to stop it is unity. Instead we splinter. Nice.
Republicans successfully prevented Biden from accomplishing a single one of his campaign promises.
Where is the stonewalling from the Democrats that should have stopped the BBB and all the appointments of loyalists? A ton of dems even approved those appointments!
There's no unity to be had with people who's actions show them being complicit in the fascism. Controlled opposition is a very real tactic.
I'll happily support Democrats fighting.
I don't believe they have the courage.
They haven’t shown courage in decades
Exactly my point. They need to be replaced.
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He needs a TDS vaccination…
Democrats need to instruct people to take direct action against the administration and the rouge DOJ
People are sick of sitting around watching Nazis rise to power, this doesn't go anywhere until we force change
The people need to be confident that they can stand up to rogue and criminal federal officials, knowing that state and local officials will have their back. The public need to know that critical shortfalls in health care and education and emergency services are going to be backfilled by state and local governments while the shutdown persists.
What I'm seeing now is a bunch of city/state chuds working hand-in-glove with the Feds, while mayors and governors just throw up their hands and insist they can't act. Merkley's filibuster is fine on its face, but this isn't a fight any given Senator is in a position to win.
If Trump is pulling the plug on the CDC, we should see every blue state in the country stepping in to hire up all those officials that got let go and continuing the work regionally. If Trump is letting crypto-bros run rampant over the money supply, we should see state AGs hounding down Silicon Valley scammers and prosecuting crooks and criminals under local prohibitions on fraud, embezzlement, and corruption. If Trump's ICE agents are breaking into people's homes without a fucking warrant, the local Sheriffs and State Troopers need to find and arrest those agents and prosecute them for their crimes.
I don't see any of this. I see Dems making speeches and blustering, but backing down as soon as a Fed shows up with a mask and a gun to do highway robbery. If that's how the country is going to operate going forward, the very concept of law and order is dead and we're consigning ourselves to military dictatorship.
Some of that is already happening: https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/23/federal-immigration-agents-deploy-tear-gas-discount-mall-little-village/
But I agree that state and local leaders need to do much, much more. I think part of the problem is that we, the people, need to be pushing our "leaders" to do these things, but we're largely not, instead waiting around for someone to save us. But we need to start resisting and acting ourselves, and seeing that will hopefully embolden our "leaders" to act.
Feel kinda dumb for not knowing already, but do they get to take a piss break during this?
No, Booker said he fasted for days and stopped drinking water 24 hours before his speech to not leave the floor. Strom Thurmond famously had a bucket placed close enough to keep one foot in the room while he relieved himself.
The article I read said that Booker, Andy Kim, and a few other Dems would occasionally ask him "extended questions" to give him a break. Dunno if he's allowed to leave the floor or not, but I imagine the "extended questions" are just them doing nonsense filibuster bullshit for a few mins
Modern day, these are all recorded right? Thinking a pee face compilation (hard to believe no diapers) would be a great addition to 2025.
Go full LBJ and just whip it out mid speech in full view. I doubt cspan would be quick to censor.
That man was insane, but sometimes I fantasize about that high pressure shower he supposedly has installed.
LBJ was a specific style of batshit that comes from not giving an iota of a fuck about social cues and I aspire to such capabilities.
Wouldnt it simply be easier to have a catheter put in? Idk how he even talked that long without substantial water consumption lol
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Assert dominance, drink all the water you want and piss yourself. Keep the floor for weeks.
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23 hours and nobody heard it.
Grand gesture!
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