Outskirts of Shrewd'm / Cooking in Shrewd'm
No. of Recommendations: 4
“I’m getting close to a record, folks, but— there’s a room here in the Senate named after Strom Thurmond. to hate him is wrong. maybe my ego got too caught up, and if I stood here maybe, just maybe I could break this record of the man who tried to stop the right upon which I stand. I’m not here, though, because of his speech. I’m here despite his speech. I’m here because as powerful as he was, the people were more powerful.”
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“I confess that I have been imperfect. I confess that I've been inadequate to the moment. I've confess that the Democratic Party has made terrible mistakes that have given a lane to this demagogue. I confess we all must look in the mirror and say ‘we will do better.’ and it’s not just defining ourselves what we’re against. we, the next generation as the baby boomers are leaving the stage, we have to say that we’re going to redeem the dream.”
No. of Recommendations: 2
So, a random thought about these long duration Senate floor speeches: if no bathroom breaks are allowed, it must be that an adult diaper HAS to be worn, right? Or else you have to severely dehydrate yourself beforehand. No?
No. of Recommendations: 2
No. of Recommendations: 3
Here's how Sen. Booker got ready.
Very impressive:
After his speech came to an end, Booker told reporters that he hadn't eaten since Friday and stopped drinking fluids Sunday night so he wouldn't have to go to the bathroom.
Since he started speaking and until he yielded the floor, Booker did not eat and only periodically sipped from two glasses of water on his desk. He did not sit down, did not leave the chamber to go to the bathroom and did not even wander from from his desk on the Senate floor.
"I definitely started cramping up from lack of water," Booker said.
A few hours in, Booker even had a Senate page remove his chair so he wasn't tempted to sit.
Why? Because as long as he didn't leave the chamber, no other senator could force him to stop speaking.
By Tuesday afternoon, he was rocking back and forth in his black tennis shoes and leaning lightly on his desk in between monologues. Booker, however, did allow other Democratic senators to give short speeches and ask questions to give him a rest from speaking./i>
No. of Recommendations: 0
I'm guessing diapers.
