Summary

Sen. Cory Booker spoke for 25 hours and 4 minutes on the Senate floor, breaking the 1957 record held by Strom Thurmond, to protest the Trump administration’s policies.

Starting at 7 p.m. Monday, Booker criticized Trump’s actions on immigration, education, healthcare, and democracy.

Over a dozen Senate Democrats joined to support him. Unlike a filibuster, Booker’s speech wasn’t tied to a specific bill.

His emotionally charged address drew over 115,000 livestream viewers and contrasted starkly with Thurmond’s segregationist stand decades ago.

  • boydsterEnglish
    94·
    28 days ago

    This is the baseline standard we should be expecting in these trying times. Extenuating circumstances call for extenuating measures, and our representatives need to start showing up for the job in visible and historic ways just like this. Set the standard and hold the line. Fascists are not honest negotiators.

  • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.worldEnglish
    86·
    27 days ago

    I am so glad a black man beat Strom Thurmond’s record, mostly because it would piss of Thurmond so much.

    Edit: Like Jesse Owens at Hitler’s Olympics.

  • ByteJunk@lemmy.world
    271·
    27 days ago

    “Can you explain some of the issues with the current administration?”

    This guy: Hold my beer.

    What a legend!

  • SuperCub
    71·
    27 days ago

    They need to be doing this when it counts, like before a Republican spending bill.

  • wanderwisley@lemm.eeEnglish
    41·
    27 days ago

    There are heroes and there are legends heroes get remembered, but legends never die.