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SSJVegeta

(242 posts) Tue Apr 1, 2025, 07:43 PM Tuesday

Cory Booker has broken Strom Thurmond's Record for longest fillibuster!!

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/31/politics/booker-senate-floor-speech-trump-protest/index.html

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Cory Booker has broken Strom Thurmond's Record for longest fillibuster!! (Original Post) SSJVegeta Tuesday OP

This wasn't technically a filibuster... and the irony is Strom Thurmond was filibustering Civil Rights... asshole. WarGamer Tuesday #1

Incorrect. It is a fillibuster when debate has not been ended and cloture cannot be established SSJVegeta Tuesday #2

You should replace the NYT writer WarGamer Tuesday #3

Or maybe he shoild just quit because he is wrong. SSJVegeta Tuesday #4

Even your linked CNN article says it wasn't a filibuster. WarGamer Tuesday #5

It wasnt a formal fillibuster but its intention was to disrupt business while keeping the senate in session SSJVegeta Tuesday #6

it was an awesome symbolic protest... the longest floor speech in history. WarGamer Tuesday #7

Fillibuster/Noun: SSJVegeta Tuesday #8

lol... you can definitely replace all the politics writers and analysts at the news outlets. WarGamer Tuesday #9

Or just speak english and differntiate between a procedural fillibuster and regular ol dictionary definition fillibuster SSJVegeta Tuesday #10

WarGamer

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1. This wasn't technically a filibuster... and the irony is Strom Thurmond was filibustering Civil Rights... asshole.

Reply to SSJVegeta (Original post)

Tue Apr 1, 2025, 07:49 PM

Tuesday

Today was a "floor speech" not a filibuster.

SSJVegeta

(242 posts)

2. Incorrect. It is a fillibuster when debate has not been ended and cloture cannot be established

Reply to WarGamer (Reply #1)

Tue Apr 1, 2025, 08:10 PM

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That's why they always called the lack of 60 votes a "fillibuster." Since debate has not ended. It's a cop-out though cause technically they are still "debating" a bill even though they will never discuss it again and can end the session.

This is an actual fillibuster, where the senate stays in session forever until it is over. If it is intended to disrupt, it is generally considered a fillibuster.

WarGamer

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3. You should replace the NYT writer

Reply to SSJVegeta (Reply #2)

Tue Apr 1, 2025, 08:12 PM

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Booker did not, technically, undertake a filibuster since he is not trying to stop a specific piece of legislation; he is instead trying to dramatize the scope and intensity of the threat that Trump, Elon Musk, and other presidential stooges pose to government as we know it and to democracy itself.