Live Stream Sources
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.
Im impressed. This is an establishment democrat almost doing something that almost qualifies as useful. He’s almost so close!
Fuck off, Jeffries. You yourself said you’re unwilling to accept or support primary challengers to the oligarch demographic in the party caucus. You can go fuck yourself. As far as I’m concerned, you’re a part of the problem.
Why the fuck aren’t they sitting in the chamber of the Senate where they would be actually disrupting the business that’s happening. Sitting on steps ain’t stopping jack.
The chamber was closed for recess for two weeks.
Cory Booker needs to go away. He only cares when it affords him headlines so that he can feel good about himself running for president yet again. He will never be president, ever.
That’s not a sit in, that’s a photo op.
This is not a sit-in, and degrades what sit-ins actually were.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sit-in
Democratic leadership is complacent.I’m increasingly convinced Democratic leadership is in on it.
They are. They will not bite the hand that feeds and those billionaires are the ones feeding them. Citizens United and Super PACs are pure corruption.
Honestly what do they, as individual career politicians in a now-nakedly-corrupt industry, stand to gain from fixing any of it? Their actions are primariy about advancing their careers because Congress has been broken for years and what else would they do?
The consultant’s credo is, “if you can’t be part of the solution, there’s good money to be made in prolonging the problem.”
Meaning the politician’s credo is now the reverse “There’s good money to be made in prolonging the problem, you won’t be part of the solution.”
Absolutely, in a rapidly developing corrupt oligarchy, you’re going to see the people in power rapidly distill into two groups, the ideologically committed and the aspiring oligarchs, and I think you’re going to find the latter group is significantly larger than the former.
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Feels similar to a filibuster that was actually just an extended speech.
It looks like the appearance of action, without consequence.
Yeah. You want to make it a protest, do it on the floor of the Senate and block it until they remove you.
“Extended lunch” didn’t attract any cameras so they had to workshop the name.
"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.
Problem is… They’ve said this same exact thing for many years now. People stop listening and this just becomes background noise.
He had plenty of engagement with his 25 hour speech. Let’s hope this generates similar awareness.
I haven’t even listened to it… Did it at least sound interesting? One of the advantages Trump has is that even though he says really stupid shit he at least doesn’t sound like a politician. The democratic leadership just pulls out a form-letter style speech that’s been workshopped to death and sounds exactly like everything else they’ve ever said.
He spoke like an honest and unpolished person. He read countless letters of concern from his constituents regarding this administration, told relevant personal anecdotes of his father’s battle with Parkinson’s disease, and focused heavily on America’s previous challenges and triumphs over oppression while drawing similarities to the current state of our nation. It was actually quite moving.
Wait, I thought Booker was headed to El Salvador to bring back Garcia.
I would like to have a full update on all past stunts before we begin the next stunt.
Great to see this!
Oh, look, Corey Booker is still hot AF
doode wears more makeup than dotard
No one wears more make up than Donald and his orange Admin.
Big deal
Waits until the guillotine is half way through the neck
Bro pls bro we have to stop this bro
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.
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?
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.
How is protesting cuts to Medicaid and social programs helping those you listed, and not benefiting you and me?
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.
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.
Send me a face pic holding up 3 fingers to prove you are you.
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.
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***edit: wait a sec…are you a komradebot? maybe you need to send me a photo with the hang loose handsign.
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.
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.
I hope you have the day you voted for
I hope you enjoy the party you refuse to hold accountable.
At least I don’t love Trump like you.
I didn’t vote for fascism as you’re snidely implying. You know what they say about faulty conclusions.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
I hope you have the day you voted for.
