Thx you for posting the information. Do you have a link you can share that shows the voting breakdown, which Democrats voted for a Trump nominee after the Booker marathon? It's amazing to me that these feckless Democrats keep reaching across the aisle to the Republicans who are destroying America.
oh my god i literally saw a woman with a sign at city hall any booker and said to my friend "he's doing this but none of them are doing any of the procedural roadblocks they have access to." this is so comically stark
I'm just glad I made a whole food run before finding this out. For a minute there, my world was just a nice bike ride and, "Hey, regardless of what I think of the dems' response to trump in general, pretty cool that guy talked for like 25 hours!"
With all due respect, no democratic senator voted in favor for this man. The woman who spoke immediately after booker was a republican from Idaho. Most of that vote was already done the previous night and it split by party lines. Please please don’t spread misinformation like this.
Someone told them that the media was starting to pay attention and they were getting traction in the news cycle and they all said, oh hell no, we don't want that! 😭
People are saying this is misinformation becauseI described voting for unanimous consent as voting to approve the candidate, which it technically wasnt but de facto was because they'd lose the vote on party lines and could only resist via...fillibuster and delay...and not a single one of them tried
But I gotta tell ya arguing that "techniclaly they voted against the nomination, after they all unanimously pushed through the procedural question to guarantee his win through a vote" is a self-own
Oh did they literally abdicate responsibility for the moment where they could actually resist in order to register their displeasure via pure symbolic "no" saying while still getting to go home on time? After 25 STRAIGHT HOURS of obstruction. Definitely not unanimous consent from them for sure
Schumer saw online libs finally getting a single talking point that doesn’t just boil down to: “well yeah I agree they’re bad b-b-but spoiler effect though so uh you are actually Helping Trump” and he immediately made sure to put a stop to that.
Genuinely so unsurprising.
Dems are good for nothing but sheep-dogging the working class to the polls and/or convincing them to put their faith in electoral politics…when Dems are very much on the same team as these fascists and a big part of the reason we’re in our current state.
"Cory Booker's actions was in a way a perfect encapsulation of Democratic party strategy: bloviate for hours on end when the stakes are non existent for the sake of a hollow victory that ultimately won't change people's material conditions so they can claim "resisting""
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Gee, that sounds like it would be an infinitely better time to do this record-breaking filibuster speech, don't ya think?
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Dems are good for nothing but sheep-dogging the working class to the polls and/or convincing them to put their faith in electoral politics…when Dems are very much on the same team as these fascists and a big part of the reason we’re in our current state.
"The Democrats!"