# 3/31/2025: Sen. Cory Booker has embarked on a filibuster **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [March 31, 2025, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-31-2025-sen-cory-booker-has-embarked-on-a-filibuster/1016430 "2025-03-31T23:43:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2025, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-31-2025-sen-cory-booker-has-embarked-on-a-filibuster/1016430/21 "2025-04-01T21:32:53Z")
> [@TeroSunbear](#): > > The New Jersey Democrat took the floor at 7 p.m. Monday, announcing that he intended to disrupt “the normal business of the United States Senate for as long as I am physically able.” So you’ll be denying unanimous consent and putting holds on routine business like Tuberville did two years ago, right? …right? ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2025, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-31-2025-sen-cory-booker-has-embarked-on-a-filibuster/1016430/22 "2025-04-01T22:47:25Z")
I just said on another board that Sen. Booker quite likely showed up prepared, and his own Depends are even fuller than 8647’s, but for the right reasons. As I write this, we’re pushing 24 hours. ---
**Author:** ![Measure\_for\_Measure](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/measure_for_measure/32/557_2.png) [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2025, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-31-2025-sen-cory-booker-has-embarked-on-a-filibuster/1016430/23 "2025-04-01T22:59:03Z")
Yup, going on 24 hours now. Easily beating Strom Thurman’s record. ~~Almost 92,000~~ Now over 100,000 people tuned in live at YouTube. Thank you Senator Cory Booker. Thank you Senator Murphy for sticking around for the entire speech. * * * Fighting tyranny involves small acts and large. This act is in between. That’s ok. New Jersey residents should reach out to the Senator’s office and give him a high five. > [@RitterSport](#): > > I don’t understand how someone physically does that – are Depends involved? The technology has existed for well over 60 years, and yes it is put to use. > **Technological link** > > [Condom Catheter For Incontinence: Application, Use & Care](https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/treatments/22475-condom-catheter-for-incontinence) ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2025, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-31-2025-sen-cory-booker-has-embarked-on-a-filibuster/1016430/24 "2025-04-01T23:01:17Z")
> [@RitterSport](#): > > I don’t understand how someone physically does that – are Depends involved? > [@nearwildheaven](#): > > I just said on another board that Sen. Booker quite likely showed up prepared, and his own Depends are even fuller than 8647’s, but for the right reasons. C’mon, people. 🙄 I understand that the rules allow him turn the floor over to someone else (a Democrat, of course) while he leaves the room for a few minutes. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2025, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-31-2025-sen-cory-booker-has-embarked-on-a-filibuster/1016430/25 "2025-04-01T23:13:41Z")
He is not allowed to leave the floor, even when someone else is speaking. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2025, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-31-2025-sen-cory-booker-has-embarked-on-a-filibuster/1016430/26 "2025-04-01T23:18:55Z")
> [@Measure\_for\_Measure](#): > > Thank you Senator Cory Booker. Thank you Senator Murphy for sticking around for the entire speech. Gotta redeem the dream! ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2025, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-31-2025-sen-cory-booker-has-embarked-on-a-filibuster/1016430/27 "2025-04-01T23:22:06Z")
I think this is a good thing considering where we are. It’s almost entirely symbolic, but symbols can be important, and symbols are one of the few things Democrats can actually do right now. So use what little power you have right now. Symbols like this can lead to other symbols and other acts of resistance. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2025, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-31-2025-sen-cory-booker-has-embarked-on-a-filibuster/1016430/28 "2025-04-01T23:23:37Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > He is not allowed to leave the floor, even when someone else is speaking. I just read this on the NPR site: > His aides set up a bucket in the cloakroom so he could keep a foot on the Senate floor if he needed to relieve himself. [https://www.npr.org/2025/04/01/nx-s1-5347318/cory-booker-senate-speech](https://www.npr.org/2025/04/01/nx-s1-5347318/cory-booker-senate-speech) ---
**Author:** ![Ellie\_Williams](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellie_williams/32/17989_2.png) [@Ellie\_Williams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellie_Williams)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2025, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-31-2025-sen-cory-booker-has-embarked-on-a-filibuster/1016430/29 "2025-04-01T23:41:35Z")
This is definitely Booker laying down the tracks for a run in 2028, but I can’t deny his endurance and words. Very admirable, and particularly iconic since it broke the record of a Senator who spoke against civil rights in the 50s for 24 hours. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2025, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-31-2025-sen-cory-booker-has-embarked-on-a-filibuster/1016430/30 "2025-04-01T23:53:14Z")
… who did time-filler bullshit like read names from the phone book ---
**Author:** ![Ellie\_Williams](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellie_williams/32/17989_2.png) [@Ellie\_Williams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellie_Williams)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2025, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-31-2025-sen-cory-booker-has-embarked-on-a-filibuster/1016430/31 "2025-04-01T23:57:58Z")
Yup. Even with this man’s sleep deprivation he’s still putting out actual words that I hope will resonate with Americans, and is completely coherent. As someone who’s had to pull 24h shifts once or twice, I wouldn’t be safe to drive let alone do public speaking in such a powerful way. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2025, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-31-2025-sen-cory-booker-has-embarked-on-a-filibuster/1016430/32 "2025-04-01T23:58:21Z")
Yeah every time I tuned in today he was saying something meaningful. I’ve been watching again for the past 90 mins. Still great. ---
**Author:** ![mozchron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@mozchron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mozchron)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2025, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-31-2025-sen-cory-booker-has-embarked-on-a-filibuster/1016430/33 "2025-04-02T00:55:38Z")
And, MINUTES after all that, the dems went right back to granting unanimous consent and approving trump nominees. They didn’t learn a fucking thing. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2025, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-31-2025-sen-cory-booker-has-embarked-on-a-filibuster/1016430/34 "2025-04-02T01:03:31Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > But is _no one_ going to thank/congratulate/recognize him for taking a stand publicly? Not just on the board, but anywhere? Even if it is seen as too little, too late, a waste of time, and utterly useless/futile against the omnipotent power that is Trump/Musk? 🖐 I will. Yes, I wish and expect more from all the Dems, but I’m grateful when anyone speaks out against this nightmare. Thank you Sen. Booker! ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2025, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-31-2025-sen-cory-booker-has-embarked-on-a-filibuster/1016430/35 "2025-04-02T03:26:18Z")
> [@mozchron](#): > > And, MINUTES after all that, the dems went right back to granting unanimous consent and approving trump nominees. Huh? I tried Googling this. I couldn’t find what you are talking about. Do you have a link? ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2025, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-31-2025-sen-cory-booker-has-embarked-on-a-filibuster/1016430/36 "2025-04-02T03:51:09Z")
Same. Drew blanks trying to find this. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2025, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-31-2025-sen-cory-booker-has-embarked-on-a-filibuster/1016430/37 "2025-04-02T04:53:59Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > I think this is a good thing considering where we are. It’s almost entirely symbolic, but symbols can be important, and symbols are one of the few things Democrats can actually do right now. So use what little power you have right now. I said this in some other thread recently. I rewatched the Hunger Games with my kids last month and it hit a lot different with me this time. The left needs a Mockingjay. A symbol, or an individual that inspires and stirs emotion in people, to get off their asses and fucking fight back. There’s very little passion and fight left in the resistance these days because there’s no unifying symbol or person to rally behind. Protesting in front of Tesla dealerships ain’t fighting _for_ someone or something, it’s fighting _against_ someone. That ain’t gonna cut it And I think part of the problem with where we’re at right now is that everyone on the left is so divided that anytime a potential leader takes a step forward, we crucify them as being too progressive/moderate/female/law-and-order/gay/young/old/opportunistic/unpolished/inexperienced/failed/fill-in-the-blank. I’m not saying Cory Booker is Mockingjay material, but this is a start. The right has been really good about coming up with _things_ that inspire and rally people to the cause: Tea party symbolism, the gadsen flag, Trump, “MAGA,” etc. They’re really good at having a brand for their team and getting people excited about it. Inspiring them to get on board, wave a flag, wear a hat, be part of the team. The left has no team, it needs a Mockingjay to help build one. It might take a tragic watershed moment for one to emerge. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2025, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-31-2025-sen-cory-booker-has-embarked-on-a-filibuster/1016430/38 "2025-04-02T06:49:03Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > The left has no team, it needs a Mockingjay to help build one. Remind me? When has the left ever been a team? ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2025, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-31-2025-sen-cory-booker-has-embarked-on-a-filibuster/1016430/39 "2025-04-02T09:52:20Z")
> [@Ellie\_Williams](#): > > This is definitely Booker laying down the tracks for a run in 2028 There are worse choices out there. ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2025, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-31-2025-sen-cory-booker-has-embarked-on-a-filibuster/1016430/40 "2025-04-02T13:17:31Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > And I think part of the problem with where we’re at right now is that everyone on the left is so divided that anytime a potential leader takes a step forward, we crucify them as being too progressive/moderate/female/law-and-order/gay/young/old/opportunistic/unpolished/inexperienced/failed/fill-in-the-blank. I’m not saying Cory Booker is Mockingjay material, but this is a start. As the size of the tent grows towards infinity, the cohesion provided by the tent approaches zero. Right now, the tent is “anyone who doesn’t like Donald Trump”. Which seems like a good plan. But as soon as anyone says anything other than “fuck Trump” - like “here are some policy ideas I have” - this becomes a problem, because the tent is SO big and SO full of people with SUCH different views that _someone_ who speaks with the authority of one who is in the tent will be ABSOLUTELY OUTRAGED by whatever proposal was made. That’s why it feels like the Democrats have no direction. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-31-2025-sen-cory-booker-has-embarked-on-a-filibuster/1016430.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-31-2025-sen-cory-booker-has-embarked-on-a-filibuster/1016430.md?page=3)