Not to worry, he just taxed all the world’s stuff on Americans.

The immediate effect is that Senate business has been delayed by an entire day. From within the Senate as well, if there’s ever going to be a tone shift with Republicans in Congress wrestling back control from the President, it would be now, looking at how Trump declared a emergency against a trade deficit today. Like I said already, the most significant benefits of this speech will come by Senators and Americans at-large following through, if that can happen. Your line of questioning is like watering a seed and wondering where the fruit is right away.

Not really reciprocal levies but a blanket levy with a couple reciprocal actions…

A WI supreme court Musk defeat, millions of views who have heard of “good trouble” and the whole plan to cut services to fund billionaire tax cuts, increased turnout for Apr 5 protests (50501), a 500pt Lemmy thread, so on and so forth. The action is a seed that would bear fruit if Americans and others actually care for it, be part of the solution and not act all nihilist.

We’re doing our part in Canada. We are out protesting, boycotting Tesla, boycotting many other American goods and not travelling to the US. Time to do yours, and not use your ineffectual Senate as an excuse for inaction. Call your Dem and Repub senators, and even if they don’t listen, then take to the streets, see eye-to-eye with your fellow statesman and make change happen. This is a moment that Americans have to seize upon, not just for the 40-odd old geezers in the Dem Senate Caucus to do.

I already said downthread that it was a record-breaking performance. It got eyeballs on an important message in the same way as what Sanders and AOC are doing in their tour around their country.

Dem Senators’ performance has been a big pile of disappointment during 2025 so far, hence I’m calling this a first sign of resistance because we have had essentially nothing noteworthy prior to that and in the chamber since Sanders’ organizing efforts are outside of that, while his and other Senators’ efforts to bring bills forward and grill Trump appointees have seemed ineffectual, and Schumer led a big letdown with the CR bill.

It’s not everything we need, it’s not enough on its own, but it’s not nothing either. I don’t know how many people I have to say this to.

Democrats in Congress are experts at snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, I get it. But what the senator did is something that would inspire individuals to organize into groups to put more pressure on the administration and its allies. Booker put a part of himself on the line, got his message out there.

After this is the part where the Democratic minority of the Senate, conceivably, will fail to follow through and organizing together and amongst their constituents and putting pressure on red state senators. At least I heard Booker was doing something along those lines in NJ this weekend. If they can force a 60%-80% productive work week in the Republican Senate that is something.

Yes, but most his effectual action seems to occur outside the Senate chamber, rallying crowds together with Ocasio-Cortez.

Pesky truth getting in the way of the lies, damn it!

He can demand the world from Denmark and France, yet he can’t demand anything about the guy his admin wrongly deported to El Salvador?

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.

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.

• Donald Farquaad

Much thanks to you, Moscow Mitch McConnell.