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WOOT! You go Cory!! #bookerfilibuster
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#CoryBooker has about an hour left, and if he passes the threshold he will beat the record for a #filibuster in the #Senate
and who set the current record?
#StromTurmond the #racist ghoul trying to stop the #CivilRightsAct of 1957
there's a certain poetic justice to it all
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strom_Thurmond_filibuster_of_the_Civil_Rights_Act_of_1957
watch Cory making history now, he's pausing, reaching to recall words, but he's still lucid and on point:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2utlMxAwtE
much respect Cory
en.wikipedia.orgStrom Thurmond filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of 1957 - Wikipedia
I do love how the Dems are trying to give Booker breaks in having to speak by “asking” him long, drawn out questions. Way to team up! #bookerfilibuster
#CORYBOOKER WITH THE FIRE FIRE FIRE 
I'm going to stop uploading videos, the ui is groaning from filesizes and i can't upload everything 
he's not just reading "Green Eggs and Ham" like #TedCruz the turd, he's spitting truth
this is from hour 19-20 of his no sleep #filibuster
he's in hour 23 now and about to break the filibuster record
WITNESS THIS MAN
Cory Booker on #FrederickDouglass, #HarrietTubman, #JohnBrown, #Selma, #StonewallRiots so much more:
it's brilliant
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The #BookerFilibuster is a great time for the "concerned" Senator Collins to share her concerns about the Trump/Musk cuts by asking him a question.
54 MILLION likes on the live stream!!!
#uspol #uspolitics #SenatorCoryBooker #BookerFilibuster
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MORE #CORYBOOKER ON FIRE
this is from hour 19-20 of a no sleep #filibuster
he's in hour 22 now
WITNESS THIS MAN
Cory Booker on #AlicePaul and the #women's #suffrage movement:
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And Booker is actually saying what the public needs to hear.
Not like #CancunCruz reading Dr Seuss
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I'm so pleased so many Dem Senators are helping the #BookerFilibuster by asking helpful questions.
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#CORYBOOKER IS FIRE
Ranging from #anger to #women's #suffrage (#AlicePaul) to #FrederickDouglass to all aspects of #American #history in hour 19-20 of a no sleep #filibuster in #rhetoric I could never elocute well rested in my entire life
WITNESS THIS MAN
I wanted to capture some snippets from hour 19 (he's going on hour 22 now)
Corey Booker on #Anger:
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Continuing my own mini-filibuster inspired by Booker's unbelievable one, I want to add also my thoughts on the issue of deregulation of consumer protections.
In a 2009 essay, I made an argument that credit cards, especially the high rate ones, are a safety net of last resort, available to the poor who are ABANDONED by public safety nets, but who are forced to rent a second government that DOES offer a safety net. Those high interest rates are the TAX they pay to that privately rented government that offers them a lifeline. But the tax is not deductible. So they are double-taxed in a way rich people and businesses would never stand for. That's overly brief, but maybe you see where I was going. See the essay for more detail.
Credit Cards: A Tax on "Being Poor"
https://netsettlement.blogspot.com/2009/01/credit-cards-a-tax-on-being-poor.html
netsettlement.blogspot.comCredit Cards: A Tax on “Being Poor”Seeing credit cards as double-taxation: a non-deductible private tax paid to a private government to get a private safety net.
"It's not about right or left. It's about right or wrong." -- #SenatorCoryBooker
Hour 21 of the #BookerFilibuster #uspol #uspolitics #CoryBooker #democracy
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Continuing on a parallel commentary with Booker's AMAZING ongoing speech, I just want to inject by way of solidarity...
It's not just about stopping the bleeding, and there ARE surely people who are literally bleeding (or worse), it's about insisting on a better morality.
One of the issues is this whole issue of taxation, just as a general proposition.
I do not side with those who think that everyone should be taxed. I've heard some say "everyone needs skin in the game". To that I say, being poor IS having skin in the game, it doesn't need us to add insult to injury.
I think we should tax the rich, not as a punitive thing, but because we live in a society where our morality should be that no one succeeds without bringing others along. We should tax legit surplus, in other words. And we should have a society where people ASPIRE to be wealthy enough to pay tax.
That we have created a society in which the rich can claim injury due to taxation but the poor cannot claim injury for having safety nets removed is a SERIOUS breach of morality.
You can read more detail on that in my 2009 essay Tax Policy and the Dewey Decimal System.
https://netsettlement.blogspot.com/2009/02/tax-policy-and-dewey-decimal-system.html
netsettlement.blogspot.comTax Policy and the Dewey Decimal SystemA look at how to structure tax policy through an unusual lens: how the Dewey Decimal System used by libraries is arranged.
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#SenatorCoryBooker is more than 18 hours in defending #American democracy and pointing out a few of the ways the #MangoMussolini and his owner/techbro buddy #AparteidClyde have attempted to undermine it for their own financial gain.
Alexander Hamilton would be proud!
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now he's speaking about the history of the #women's #suffrage movement, about one of the first people to #protest #congress, how she directly challenged president woodrow wilson and how she was then abused by the state
this is hour 19!
he's stammering a little, but his thoughts and rhetoric are fire
cory is on fire
dude's being a fucking us history professor giving a college level lecture to the nation with no sleep
now on to #FrederickDouglass!
much respect #CoryBooker
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6. Governors, Secretaries of States, state legislatures have all filed numerous lawsuits -- and often won. There are currently more than 77 cases still pending, so success for President #dumpy-pantz is NOT a foregone conclusion.
I'm peeking in on Booker's filibuster, realizing I wish I'd listened all night. Quite inspiring.
He's speaking about who needs help in this nation. That seems to be a recurring theme.
One of the underlying themes of all these cuts is that people shouldn't be "charged" ("taxed") for services they don't use. It sounds good in isolation, but on closer inspection, it's utterly preposterous. What they're saying is...
... that the only people who pay for very expensive diseases are those who get them.
... that the only people who pay for disaster recovery are those hit by disasters.
... that the only people who pay for police protection are those who violated -- or perhaps the only people who can afford police patrols.
... that the only people who pay for fire departments are those whose houses burn down.
I could go on, but the point is that pay-per-service makes no sense for these. Instead...
... the only people who can afford to help people who are sick are those who can.
... the only people who can afford to help people who have lost everything in disasters are those who are not victims.
... the only time it makes sense to most of us to have the police patrol is BEFORE we are violated, robbed, or killed, and that we should not have to be rich to be protected.
... the only time it makes sense to have a fire department is BEFORE our homes burn, and our poor, who can barely afford to eat, should not have to shrug off protection of the fire department because they more needed food.
Most of us WANT COMMUNITY, where the strong help the weak so that we can all survive. It's easy for the mega-rich to pay focus groups to come up with tricky messaging, or to pay Facebook to use The Algorithm to evolve and promote messaging that seduces people into thinking community just sucks out of us, giving nothing back. You CAN spin it that way, but it won't make it true.
Even abroad, which is how this all started, where we were (and hopefully still are) helping others who could not help themselves, we are enriched by a world in which the overall standards of human existence are improved.
Even if we had no religious or moral reason to just be kind, and we were totally mercenary and sociopathic (as the co-presidents are), being kind to other people makes them less likely to attack us and more likely to trade fairly with us. Ending kindness, behaving belligerently, invites bullets instead. Where is the ECONOMY in that? The SAFETY? Kindness, even to a sociopath (if they had a brain in their head) should be seen as BUYING us something.
And our sociopathic oligarchic leaders, after gutting all of this stuff THEY feel the could buy off-the-shelf if they cared, will then turn to payment and suggest a flat tax because they hope poor people will demand a low tax hope that means they'll get one, too. There is NO justice in that, only regressive effect.
"But it's our money," the rich will say. "Taxes are a taking, a robbing. You're just robbing me," they'll say. Not so. These people did not make this money in a vacuum. They're in denial about how...
... they benefited from having a fire department and police department to have a customer base and even their own factories that were safe to visit or work at.
... they have benefited from working in a country where they, their employees, and their customers were not routinely seeing bombs flying overhead.
... they have benefited from having a country where customers were basically healthy.
... they have benefited from the availability of many well-educated candidates for employment.
... they have benefited from having a population of customers who were healthy and had enough surplus of cash to buy their products.
... they have benefited from people being able to count on a dignified retirement. SO MUCH could be said about that, and perhaps I will on another day, but let me here just say that the availability of a safety net lets employees and their families focus on work rather than their own and their family's retirement.
I could go on. but they have benefited from a society that was a COMMUNITY, where we pitched in together to make it a good place. And so to later say they did it on their own is, at minimum, the height of INGRATITUDE, and also really an outright, self-serving LIE.
Taxation is NOT robbery. It is INVESTMENT, and an acknowledgment of the obvious: That in order to have a society where all can aspire to a decent life, we need to acknowledge that some people will pay a little more because they can afford more AND because they have benefited more.
Here, if you're not already tired of reading my ramblings, I reference my 2011 essay "Enough", which I wrote in response to proposals at that time for a flat tax. It takes more about that.
netsettlement.blogspot.comEnoughA flat tax, without progressive tiers, differentially impacts people by income group. At lower incomes, it keeps people from having enough to live.