House Minority Leader Jeffries, NJ Sen. Booker hold sit-in protest on Capitol steps
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Titled "An Urgent Conversation with the American People," the 8-hour livestreamed discussion comes ahead of Congress' return to session on Monday.

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YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBejfVOUmBs

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjr7VvL9/

Titled “An Urgent Conversation with the American People,” the livestreamed discussion comes ahead of Congress’ return to session on Monday.

A statement released by both officials’ offices said in part, “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.”

According to the statement, Rep. Jeffries and Sen. Booker plan to speak to shared American values and the nation’s religious and moral underpinnings, and how the budget bill opposes these beliefs. They also plan to affirm to Americans watching the livestream that their voices matter, especially in this moment in time.

    • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgEnglish
      2112·
      1 day ago

      So edgy. So reactionary. While I can’t speak for Jeffries, Booker has been working: https://www.distractify.com/p/why-is-cory-booker-filibustering

      From March 31 to April 1, 2025, Cory Booker, the senior Democratic senator from New Jersey, delivered the longest recorded speech in United States Senate history while protesting the second presidency of Donald Trump and the operations of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.

      Booker began speaking at 7 p.m. EDT on March 31 and concluded at 8:05 p.m. on April 1, 2025. The speech lasted twenty-five hours and five minutes, surpassing the previous longest recorded speech in Senate history: Strom Thurmond’s twenty-four-hour and eighteen-minute-long filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of 1957.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Booker's_marathon_speech

      • killeronthecorner@lemmy.worldEnglish
        61·
        13 hours ago

        I’m not interested in self indulgent showmanship, I’m interested in supposed left wingers espousing left wing views and acting up on them.

        Maintaining the ratchet effect for the right and insider trading your way to a comfortable retirement isn’t admirable, it’s pathetic.

        We’ll all continue to vote to slow the progression to the far right but why shouldn’t we expect more than that?

      • Grass Cat@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1324·
        1 day ago

        Cory Booker is working for himself, Israel, and Big Pharm, in that order.

        Please note that you and I are conspicuously absent from this list.

        • disguy_ovahea@lemmy.worldOP
          163·
          1 day ago

          How is protesting cuts to Medicaid and social programs helping those you listed, and not benefiting you and me?

          • blakenong@lemmings.worldEnglish
            147·
            1 day ago

            These are just trolls trying to continuously crush The United States by convincing people not to vote for the Democrats, creating A majority Republican voting pool.

            • VanillaFrosty@lemmy.world
              1·
              2 hours ago

              Or they’re people that actually want change and a better life for us all. And that’s not coming via either current party in the US.

            • Grass Cat@lemmy.worldEnglish
              812·
              1 day ago

              My name is Jake Gless. Google me. I stand up straight for my positions. Nothing troll-like here from me. I am a bleeding heart.

              Have you considered the possibility that I’m right and maybe you’re not? Cory Booker is NOT the answer. CORY BOOKER IS THE PROBLEM. I will not support self-serving neolibs.

                • Grass Cat@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  76·
                  1 day ago

                  wtf…I’ve been supporting you in another thread this morning about the Vancouver massacre. Cory “Spartacus Tears-of-Rage” Booker is as fake and performative as a slimy politician could ever be. I despise him.

                  • VanillaFrosty@lemmy.world
                    2·
                    2 hours ago

                    Hey he specifically broke the record for longest filibuster when it didn’t matter directly after voting yes to the budget proposal. How is that performative?!?! /S

                    Could have done it a week earlier and it be an actual filibuster instead of some symbolic bs.

                • Grass Cat@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  34·
                  1 day ago

                  image sent, check your DM

                  ***edit: wait a sec…are you a komradebot? maybe you need to send me a photo with the hang loose handsign.

                  • blakenong@lemmings.worldEnglish
                    52·
                    1 day ago

                    Confirmed an image holding up 3 fingers. However I will note that googling your name got no matching faces. Are you saying you’re the Lakewood teacher? Or?

          • Grass Cat@lemmy.worldEnglish
            24·
            1 day ago

            How is dotard wearing diapers helping fascism? This is not a valid rebuttal from you. Cory Booker exists to help himself, Israel, and Big Pharm.

            Unequivocally.

            If taking popular positions to get elected helps dotard pull up his diapers and also happens to have an ancillary benefit to you or me, that doesn’t cancel out Booker’s loyalty to Israel and Big Pharm.

          • Grass Cat@lemmy.worldEnglish
            22·
            1 day ago

            How is dotard wearing diapers helping fascism? This is not a valid rebuttal from you. Cory Booker exists to help himself, Israel, and Big Pharm.

            Unequivocally.

            If taking popular positions to get elected helps dotard pull up his diapers happens to have an ancillary benefit to you or me, that doesn’t cancel out his loyalty to Israel and Big Pharm.

        • blakenong@lemmings.worldEnglish
          47·
          1 day ago

          I mean it plainly, I hope that you have the day that your vote directly influenced.

          To be more specific, not voting for fascism is not the same as voting against it.

          • killeronthecorner@lemmy.worldEnglish
            91·
            1 day ago

            Then what is the point of you quipping a line that has been almost universally targeted at Trump voters to me?

            As walkbacks go, this is particularly cringe.

            • blakenong@lemmings.worldEnglish
              46·
              1 day ago

              Actually the line has always meant people who also did not vote, or voted for a third party knowing that it was just a vote that didn’t go against Trump.

              I’m not walking back anything.

              • killeronthecorner@lemmy.worldEnglish
                71·
                1 day ago

                First, no it hasn’t. No-one would say “have the day you voted for” to someone who didn’t vote as it’s a ridiculous non sequitur.

                Second, I didn’t do any of those things. You still not walking it back? Sticking to your guns when you’re dead wrong?

                • blakenong@lemmings.worldEnglish
                  37·
                  1 day ago

                  Yes. That is what it means.

                  Second, not everything online is an insult. If you have the day you voted for, and you voted for Harris (the only option in a sadly two party system), then I am wishing you a good day.

              • doctordevice@lemmy.ca
                51·
                1 day ago

                The line has always been used to silence and bully into coerced obedience the people who most wanted progressive change. The people who have been calling for the party of Fascism Lite to step up their game.

                Let me speak plainly: unconditional support for the Democratic Party from people like you is the mechanism by which we’ve landed where we are today. You refused to hold your party accountable so they put Trump into a position to win 2016. And I mean that quite literally, they did everything they could to make sure he won the primary because they knew they were putting a loser candidate up.

                So get off your fucking high horse. I blame you for where we are. And before you come at me: I voted for Bernie in the 2016 & 2020 primaries. I voted for Hillary, Biden, and Kamala in the generals. I’ve voted in the way that would maximize opposition to fascism at every step. My conscience is clean. You continue to spew insults to people to your left to blame them for your Party’s failures. I blame only people to my right who want to keep running in that direction.