The Daily Populous Wednesday April 2nd, 2025 morning edition
Authored by esquire.com and submitted by Esquire

I hung in there as long as I could on Monday night, but Senator Cory Booker outlasted me. And he was still going when I got up Tuesday morning. And he’s still going as I type this post. He has moved on to shaming the House conservatives for their fiscal cruelty and irresponsibility. (Yeah, good luck with that.) What Booker is doing is not technically a filibuster since Booker is not holding up action on a specific bill. But with the help of questions from his Democratic colleagues, Booker is holding the floor, as is his right as a senator, and he is rounding into his 15th hour, and there is no damage being done to the republic from that quarter, so that’s a good thing.

He’s moved on to shaming conservative Republicans for sucking up to the guy who sucks up to Vladimir Putin by demolishing NATO. Yeah, good luck with that.

Sometimes it’s necessary to just stand up against the momentum. Way back in 1964, before the Sixties really got rolling, a guy named Mario Savio stood on the steps of Sproul Hall on the campus of the University of California at Berkeley and talked about what is to be done when all else fails.

There’s a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart that you can’t take part! You can’t even passively take part! And you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus—and you’ve got to make it stop! And you’ve got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it—that unless you’re free the machine will be prevented from working at all!

Cory Booker is putting his body on the gears of the United States Senate because the operation of that machine has become too odious to do anything else. Now he’s talking with Senator Chris Coons about U.S. efforts at helping Africa fight against epidemic disease. Yeah, good luck with that.

The elite political media largely have managed not to notice what Booker is doing. It has escaped the notice of the keepers of Politico’s front page. The New York Times buried it beneath tariffs, the latest vandalism out of the White House, and the race for a seat on the Wisconsin supreme court, as did The Washington Post. Nevertheless, Cory Booker is now talking about how the president has no respect for the people his policies will hurt. Yeah, good luck with that.

We are coming up on the 250th anniversary of our revolutionary birth. There are going to be a lot of commemorations over the next decade, beginning this month at Lexington and Concord here in the Commonwealth (God save it!). We will play a big role in the celebrations until the action moves to Philadelphia next year. But the real commemoration began in 2023, when we celebrated the 250th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, to which even that stick-in-the-mud John Adams gave respect.

This is the most magnificent Movement of all. There is a Dignity, a Majesty, a Sublimity, in this last Effort of the Patriots, that I greatly admire. The People should never rise, without doing something to be remembered—something notable And striking.

That is the spirit pushing Cory Booker toward his 20th hour, putting his body on the levers and trying for something notable and striking, and now he’s talking about the threat to Social Security. Yeah, good luck with that.

Gwentlique on April 1st, 2025 at 19:27 UTC »

He's doing a lot more than just shaming Trump. Senator Booker is admitting that Democrats haven't done enough, and he's calling on them to do more, he's articulating a better vision of who Americans really are, he is reminding the American people of the basic principles of the constitution.

After 20 hours, he's still articulate, he's still talking with fire and passion. Take notes Democrats, this is what leadership in a crisis looks like.

timeknew on April 1st, 2025 at 19:09 UTC »

Please be sure to support Booker by watching one of the live streams (even if you’re not actively watching it, at least have it on in the background).

https://www.youtube.com/live/v2utlMxAwtE

brashendeavors on April 1st, 2025 at 18:46 UTC »

I hope he is going for a new record!

The 5 Longest Filibusters in US History

He has already beat La Follette and Proxmire and could possible take on Morse, D'Amato, and even Strom Thurmond.