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Bishop2b5

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Sea Turtle said:
Oh why does it always have to be about the Nazis? Why not the Chavezfication? Why not the Putinfication? The Castrofication? And my favorite because a friend of mine met the man, the Idi Aminfication?
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The libs are very original and they all think for themselves. It's just coincidence that they all come up with the same names to call everyone they disagree with.
 
drayer54

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Irish#1 said:
Politics at its finest.

www.nbcnews.com

Cory Booker sets record for longest Senate speech in anti-Trump remarks that exceeded 25 hours

The Democratic senator from New Jersey broke the record set by segregationist Strom Thurmond in 1957, saying later that Thurmond’s record “always kind of just really irked me.”
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GATTACA! said:

Haha. Eat shit Elon.
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How did that voter ID do? Super racist?
 
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GATTACA! said:
Hell yeah. Maybe we can make them multi purpose and people can show their IDs to ICE to keep them from being abducted and shipped to El Salvador!
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What ID? Did he get an ID in court or when he crossed illegally? You guys are just desperate on this one.
 
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NDVirginia19 said:
Is it really a filibuster? There weren’t any bills pending lmao.
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Again...you're wrong.

"After Booker yielded the floor, the Senate moved to vote on the confirmation of Matthew Whitaker as U.S. ambassador to NATO. Booker’s speech delayed that vote, as well as an expected vote on a Democratic effort to thwart some of Trump’s planned tariffs."

It wasn't a "filibuster" in a traditional sense as people know the word because it didn't center around delaying a specific bill or vote...but it did delay previously schedule Senate business.
 
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A Filibuster is when you take the floor and hold it during the formal debate for a piece of legislation or congressional vote... which was not the case.... so you're wrong
 
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Who fucking cares if it was technically filibuster or not? It was the longest speech in Senate floor history.
 
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NDVirginia19 said:
A Filibuster is when you take the floor and hold it during the formal debate for a piece of legislation or congressional vote... which was not the case.... so you're wrong
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No..I'm not.
BuaConstrictor said:
"After Booker yielded the floor, the Senate moved to vote on the confirmation of Matthew Whitaker as U.S. ambassador to NATO. Booker’s speech delayed that vote, as well as an expected vote on a Democratic effort to thwart some of Trump’s planned tariffs."

It wasn't a "filibuster" in a traditional sense as people know the word because it didn't center around delaying a specific bill or vote...but it did delay previously schedule Senate business.
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You made the claim "no bills were pending". There were bills pending..just not related to what Booker was doing. Your claim was factually incorrect.

I never even called it a filibuster.

Stay wrong.
 
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ab2cmiller said:
Is it meaningful or is it more similar to breaking a Guinness Book world record?
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Trends more towards the latter and "historic" by definition. All politics is theatre....but it depends how/if it's leveraged afterwards from a PR/exposure stand point.

I honestly didn't think it was that big of a deal aside from the historic nature of it and watched nearly none of it.
 
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ColoradoIrish said:
I think it's meaningful for no other reason than that now the longest speech in Senate floor history is no longer held by racist who spoke against the civil rights acts.
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And how many people knew who that was before Booker broke the record? Probably close to 1% of the population I guess. Probably less. If it makes people feel better that it's no longer Thurmond, great. But this record will be forgotten in short order.
 
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ab2cmiller said:
And how many people knew who that was before Booker broke the record? Probably close to 1% of the population I guess. Probably less. If it makes people feel better that it's no longer Thurmond, great. But this record will be forgotten in short order.
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If only 1% of people know who he is that's a totally different problem. We're talking about a pivotal moment in our country's history that people on this board are old enough to have lived thru and remember. It's also when we saw both parties political identity get swapped. No matter what the likes of Bishop say. It's a very important moment in history that we should all know about
 
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BuaConstrictor said:
In fairness...given the complete lack of competency of this administration...it's possible! I apparently know more about this than JD Vance.

Down is up. Up is down.
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James Donald Bowman! You're side lost, we don't have to use woke made-up names people gave themselves anymore
 
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