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.
Im impressed. This is an establishment democrat almost doing something that almost qualifies as useful. He’s almost so close!
This is not a sit-in, and degrades what sit-ins actually were.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sit-in
Democratic leadership is complacent.
Honestly what do they, as individual career politicians in a now-nakedly-corrupt industry, stand to gain from fixing any of it? Their actions are primariy about advancing their careers because Congress has been broken for years and what else would they do?
The consultant’s credo is, “if you can’t be part of the solution, there’s good money to be made in prolonging the problem.”
Meaning the politician’s credo is now the reverse “There’s good money to be made in prolonging the problem, you won’t be part of the solution.”
Absolutely, in a rapidly developing corrupt oligarchy, you’re going to see the people in power rapidly distill into two groups, the ideologically committed and the aspiring oligarchs, and I think you’re going to find the latter group is significantly larger than the former.
Fuck off, Jeffries. You yourself said you’re unwilling to accept or support primary challengers to the oligarch demographic in the party caucus. You can go fuck yourself. As far as I’m concerned, you’re a part of the problem.
That’s not a sit in, that’s a photo op.
"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.
Problem is… They’ve said this same exact thing for many years now. People stop listening and this just becomes background noise.
He had plenty of engagement with his 25 hour speech. Let’s hope this generates similar awareness.
I haven’t even listened to it… Did it at least sound interesting? One of the advantages Trump has is that even though he says really stupid shit he at least doesn’t sound like a politician. The democratic leadership just pulls out a form-letter style speech that’s been workshopped to death and sounds exactly like everything else they’ve ever said.
He spoke like an honest and unpolished person. He read countless letters of concern from his constituents regarding this administration, told relevant personal anecdotes of his father’s battle with Parkinson’s disease, and focused heavily on America’s previous challenges and triumphs over oppression while drawing similarities to the current state of our nation. It was actually quite moving.
