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Yeah, you don't even need to do the actual talking to do a filibuster, you just essentially need to say you're filibustering. However, there's carveouts for the filibuster for nominations and budget reconciliation (and a bunch of other stuff, conveniently all stuff Republicans like).

So what happens if the Senate wants to schedule a vote right now? He's not preventing a specific bill, but they can't really do anything until he gives up the floor. It's not nothing.

The speech is not a filibuster

Can someone mark this post as disinformation?

Oh wait it's stickied/featured. jfc.

Just a big 12 hour pile of Democratic bullshit instead of action.

Why isn't he out there like Bernie and AOC, drawing huge crowds that scare the bejeezus out of the MAGA Nazis?

The Dems could easily take back this country if they would show the slightest bit of courage and strength. At their core, Americans are soft, lazy, and cowardly, and all they want is someone they feel will protect them from all the bad stuff in the world, and the Conservative Propaganda Machine is happy to invent one murderous threat after another who is going to rape, murder, amd eat your family.

Republicans are the most cowardly of all, afraid of literally EVERYTHING, so they are so easy to manipulate that they will vote for literally the worst possible candidate on the entire planet, over a democratic candidate that they've been Pavlovian Conditioned to despise with their entire being.

If Dems showed some brass balls, and played Hard Ball, they would start to attract loyalty and numbers to their side. Instead, they allow that simpering, weak, spineless weenie Chuck Schumer to represent them, the same guy who bowed to a MAGA smear campaign and forced out Al Franken, one of their most talented Senators, and a solid potential presidential candidate. Had he not been betrayed by Schumer and that backstabbing bitch Gillibrand, FRANKEN would have beaten HitlerPig in 2020 instead of Biden, and HitlerPig and his hebchmen would be in prison, and MAGA would be ashes.

So purely performative. Not a filibuster.

i mean yeah, it's a speech.

4 and a half hours now. Might be symbolic, but there are a lot of angry GOP senators who probably have to stay there.

18.5 hours. I hope he breaks the record.

17 Hours now. And story after story of American's being hurt, Americans asking their lawmakers to help.

23hr and counting.

It makes it look like democrats are willing to use the filibuster, while not actually blocking anything that might upset their donors.

Hopefully messing with the apathy in the US. The mainstream media is talking about it. And even though it isn’t a filibuster. Strom Thurmond filibustered bs rhetoric against civil rights in the 50’s for a little over 24 hours and people are talking about that so he is kind of making some history. Am basically hoping he is causing more momentum. The system needs fucking changing but we need to come together for that to happen.

This helps by distracting from the fact that Chuck Schumer didn’t do shit

It's the RESISTANCE!!!

(ie. performative antics while completely collaborating with fascism)

Get outta here with that negativity. It's the first sign of life from Senate Democrats, and taking a moral stance against Trump is still important. We need more of this, not less.

This is to obstruct fast-tracked appointments by Trump according to C-SPAN. Other than that, you’re right.

The Democrats forced a 15-day vote against Trump’s emergency executive order, and Republicans redefined the entire congressional calendar as a single day, just to avoid holding the vote.

Every last Republican in Congress is complicit.

He's still there as of ~~10am PT~~ 2pm PT.

This is bringing hope to millions of people and setting the precedent of democrats actually resisting. It's changing what is normal and energizing others to do their own good work, to get into their own 'good trouble'. It's doing a lot of fucking good. What the fuck are you doing?

No senate business can take place because of this even though it's technically not a filibuster of a specific bill. The senate was suppose to open under normal operation at noon EST, but he's still speaking as of me writing this comment

Thanks, I did not notice that mistake.