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.
Waits until the guillotine is half way through the neck
Bro pls bro we have to stop this bro
I hope you have the day you voted for
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.
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.
I hope you enjoy the party you refuse to hold accountable.
At least I don’t love Trump like you.
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.
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.
Or they’re people that actually want change and a better life for us all. And that’s not coming via either current party in the US.
Very true. I hope they have the day they voted for.
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.
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.
There’s so much randomized “it’s not enough” sentiment on lemmy. We all need to focus the hell up, because responding to every single little thing with “how dare they not do more” is so counterproductive. Nobody will ever do anything.
I’m not even saying this action is progress - but shitting on it isn’t progress either.
That user just suggested that the congressmen should break into an empty room, as if that would do something.
And even if congress was in session… these people are the people that are supposed to sit in congress. They literally belong there. What, exactly, would that accomplish?
Its astroturfing bud. Same people that blather on about kamala being pro genocide
I completely agree. There are a lot of comments that just seem to find a way to keep people down on Democrats, even when they do the right thing. Many of them were the ones shouting Genocide Joe last year. Plenty of them are accelationist leftists or possibly even right-wing propagandists just trying to keep people from a blue wave next November.
I think expecting Democratic Senators to vote no on things like the Laken Riley Act or Democratic Judges to not sign bogus warrants to arrest Gaza protesters should be a bare minimum expectation.
Them not even being able to do that " keeps people down on the Democrats."
Big deal
