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  • Cory Booker breaks the record

    From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Tue Apr 1 21:55:10 2025
    Cory Booker breaks the record for longest Senate speech, previously
    held by segregationist Strom Thurmond.

    No food or bathroom breaks
    =========================
    It wasn't until 25 hours and 5 minutes later that the 55-year-old
    senator, a former football tight end, finished speaking and limped off
    the floor. It set the record for the longest continuous Senate floor
    speech in the chamber's history. Booker was assisted by fellow
    Democrats who gave him a break from speaking by asking him questions
    on the Senate floor.

    https://apnews.com/article/cory-booker-new-jersey-senator-speech-ab573bb7c3c76fa107cacac7136d3823

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  • From Retrograde@21:1/5 to JAB on Wed Apr 2 20:10:43 2025
    On Tue, 01 Apr 2025 21:55:10 -0500
    JAB <[email protected]d> wrote:

    Cory Booker breaks the record for longest Senate speech, previously
    held by segregationist Strom Thurmond.

    A stunt, and it accomplished nothing. Nothing at all. I consider it performance art, nothing more.

    I'm appalled at how inept the Dems seem to be at present. New parties
    now, the ones we have both suck.

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Thu Apr 3 07:15:23 2025
    On Wed, 2 Apr 2025 20:10:43 -0600, Retrograde
    <[email protected]d> wrote:

    A stunt, and it accomplished nothing. Nothing at all.

    Guinness World Record ?

    That hasn't been broken by those "superior" white men.

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  • From Retrograde@21:1/5 to JAB on Thu Apr 3 23:49:30 2025
    On Thu, 03 Apr 2025 07:15:23 -0500
    JAB <[email protected]d> wrote:

    On Wed, 2 Apr 2025 20:10:43 -0600, Retrograde
    <[email protected]d> wrote:

    A stunt, and it accomplished nothing. Nothing at all.

    Guinness World Record ?

    That hasn't been broken by those "superior" white men.


    Ha ha. But if the Dems' strategy is to get into the Guiness Book, they
    should have gone for something outrageous, like eating hotdogs, or
    making a wig out of bumblebees.

    In the world of politics, it would have been no less effective than
    what they actually accomplished, which was:

    zippo, nada, zilch, diddly squat, bupkis. [help me out here]

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