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WarGamer

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3. You should replace the NYT writer

Reply to SSJVegeta (Reply #2)

Tue Apr 1, 2025, 07:12 PM

Apr 2025

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.

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Cory Booker has broken Strom Thurmond's Record for longest fillibuster!! [View all] SSJVegeta Apr 2025 OP

This wasn't technically a filibuster... and the irony is Strom Thurmond was filibustering Civil Rights... asshole. WarGamer Apr 2025 #1

Incorrect. It is a fillibuster when debate has not been ended and cloture cannot be established SSJVegeta Apr 2025 #2

You should replace the NYT writer WarGamer Apr 2025 #3

Or maybe he shoild just quit because he is wrong. SSJVegeta Apr 2025 #4

Even your linked CNN article says it wasn't a filibuster. WarGamer Apr 2025 #5

It wasnt a formal fillibuster but its intention was to disrupt business while keeping the senate in session SSJVegeta Apr 2025 #6

it was an awesome symbolic protest... the longest floor speech in history. WarGamer Apr 2025 #7

Fillibuster/Noun: SSJVegeta Apr 2025 #8

lol... you can definitely replace all the politics writers and analysts at the news outlets. WarGamer Apr 2025 #9

Or just speak english and differntiate between a procedural fillibuster and regular ol dictionary definition fillibuster SSJVegeta Apr 2025 #10