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Credit should be given where due: Sen. Booker is about to make history in less than an hour, breaking the record for the longest filibuster in US history.
Edit: He did it! Now it’s on every American and person around the world to resist the Trump administration.
Honestly the first actual sign of resistance from within the Senate chamber.
What the heck??? This is bizarre…
Lutnick was trying to competently play “good cop, bad cop” diplomacy for Trump, because of Trump’s personal fixations with tariffs, and was mildly successful as far as successes in this administration go. But I remembered we can’t have any semblance of independent thinking in the Trump administration, no siree. It all makes sense now.
The courts should order Hegseth, Gabbard, Waltz, Vance or Trump to go find the guy in the El Salvadorean prison themselves.
Surprised no one has put the “Have the day you voted for 🌈” image up yet.
Obtain the warrant now, Wikler.
Are you going to retire in the next four years? Or take all your cash out into gold, quit your job, and go into hiding for the next four years?
If neither apply to you, you can leave your money in your 401k. Selling index funds right now is ultimately up to you, but in the long term time in the market tends to beat timing the market.
What I’ve read in books is: Building up savings itself is more important than whether the returns are +10% or -10%, early in your career, since it will fluctuate but tends to average up.
And remember if your national index funds, bonds or whatever market and government backed investments lose half its value, you have bigger problems on your hand of the state of your country at that point which having cash on hand may or may not help anyway.
If you want the source of any future “technical glitches”, it’s this wilfully negligent act. Courts, take note.
some of you may die, but that is a sacrifice I am willing to make.
Much thanks to you, Moscow Mitch McConnell.
US already did a dog-and-pony show for a minerals deal, Zelenskyy came to them in good faith and got ran out of town.
Ukraine shouldn’t even bother responding at this point until the USA says something reasonable.
Okay, Susan it’s your turn with the “allowed to defy Trump” token. Pass it to Lisa when you’re done.
In the past we gave our power to set tariffs to Trump temporarily
That was less than a month ago, doofus. Also Rep. Hakeem Jeffries is right there, go talk to him. If you need to fix the mistakes, he’s your guy.
Campaigning, you mean buying votes?
If there are no more federal government unions then they will still be able to gather informally and co-ordinate boycotts, industrial action and protected speech, they can’t be sued under Taft Hartley if the government breaks contracts or lets them expire.
Friends don’t let friends support fascism.
Glad you are here!
There are instances of heavy-handed mod and admin actions here, but they are often held to account, generally on !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com. Moderation disputes often end up discussed from a third party perspective on !fediverselore@lemmy.ca.
It is an echo chamber here too, but I have seen more often that opinions against the “narrative” getting -10 or lower but not censored. Some double down, are flamebaiting or downvote farming for unknown reasons, but there are times when you can see a genuine attempt at understanding and discussion from both parties. Over 7 years on Reddit (2016-2023), I can count how many times that happened on one hand, while on Lemmy, it’s infrequent but it happens a lot more than that.
Nope… we’re going to have the biggest gates, the best gates, a tremendous amount of gates, to levels nobody has seen before.
So far from off the top of my head:
And too many more to list…
The first sentence is true, the second sentence maybe but I don’t know. That’s why I am saying this is the first sign of resistance in the chamber, because up til now it was a lot of humming and hawing about how bad this is but otherwise nodding along as if it was business as usual, but this could be one of a future series of acts of resistance. It’s easy to write off all Democratic senators, but this is the first tangible delay to the Republican majority’s business. He brought to the spotlight many important messages in front of many people, about taxing the rich, giving affordable healthcare etc. (unlike Ted Cruz’s timewaster filibuster that was reading Green Eggs and Ham and stuff).
So many people seem to miss the point. Booker essentially became a streamer for a day except with usually boring Senate stuff, and was able to get at least a few people energized about important topics on how to resist Trump and cause “good trouble”. He pushed his health and stamina to an admirable extent for a politician. It’s far more newsworthy than Democrats waving little handboards around.