The representation in question? A long-winded version of "We see you, we hear you!"
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Getting so totally carried away with the smugness from 'you don't understand the political mechanisms' to 'you don't know where New Jersey is' to 'you don't even know what a senator is' is absolutely hilarious.
Especially when the main arguement appears to be that the totality of a senator's job is reading all letters in full on the senate floor.
And attacking people saying that's performative by implying they think politics is a West Wing episode, not like this real business of politics, is the absolute icing on the cake.
There's an entire West Wing episode about how a old retiring senator who has a granddaughter with autism does an epic filibuster to stop Bartlet's admin passing a bill that reduces funding for autism studies and he goes on for so long, in such a courageous performance of process, that the administration comes around to him and decides they won't gut autism funding after all.
It's called The Stackhouse Filibuster and the ending is this amazingly saccharine bit of lanyard swinging below, where all the important West Wing people write to their elderly parents about how they helped this guy by getting a senator to ask a question so Stackhouse can have some water and a sit down:
The true liberal fantasy.
Their party 'accomplishing' something by having a neurodivergent person speaking ad nauseum (a person who gets shoved back under the rug after they have 'performed sufficiently'), and the accomplishment is just preventing something from happening; not resulting in positive change, just preventing a negative change.
Pathetic on so many levels. These people dream in beige.
Agreed. And even worse, it's undoing the policy they were accepting despite it's effect of neurodivergent people only because a political insider has a relative it effects and made a righteous spectacle of political process.
I'm guessing Stackhouse is supposed to be Paul Wellstone since in the episode mentions that he's from Minnesota and is a haranguing 'pain in the ass' of Bartlet who they frequently dismiss for outdated lefty grievances.
If so, then the real life counterpart, Wellstone, didn't get a triumphant send off on the Senate floor. The small plane he, his wife, kid, and aides were travelling in crashed after he become a prominent opponent of the Iraq war in 2002 and the Senate majority hung in the balance of his re-election.
Unfortunately he didn't follow the rules.
Never heard of Wellstone; crash doesn't seem overtly suspect, but there were some things that caught my eye
Wellstone had been receiving death threats since he took office; the FBI tapped his phone to locate the callers...Government documents also indicated that the FBI had been following Wellstone before he became a senator, and included records dating as far back as his arrest at a 1970 antiwar protest.
(NTSB) later determined that the crash's likely cause was "the flight crew's failure to maintain adequate airspeed, which led to an aerodynamic stall from which they did not recover".
There was a problem with the airport's VHF omnidirectional range (VOR) navigational beacon. According to Minnesota Public Radio: The day after the crash, FAA pilots tested the VOR. The inspection pilots reported to the NTSB that when they flew the approach without their automatic pilot engaged, the VOR repeatedly brought them about a mile south of the airport.
Other pilots at the charter company told NTSB that pilot Richard Conry and first officer (co-pilot) Michael Guess had both displayed below-average flying skills.
So he was being piloted to an airport with a faulty VOR beacon by two bad pilots; a reach could be that the faulty beacon was not an 'accident', and that those two were picked to fly him in hopes that between the beacon and poor pilots this would happen, but seems a stretch. Crash was determined to also be due to the aircraft stalling due to low airspeed; this pilot was known to let the copilots actually do the flying, and this copilot here was known for easing up on the throttle to the point of almost stalling
I meant more that a man in his position should have lived by the True Anon rules than the idea that he was definitely murdered. It was convenient for a lot of the political class after the fact though. Interesting context though, I never looked into it at the time, just remember the news.
Aaron Sorkin has a lot to answer for
To women first, then for the Obama braintrust, then to writing. And maybe the 
Aaron Dorkin
Good lord, that clip is radio active. I can't even find the words to accurately describe the level of cognitive dissonance on display here. The utter lack of material understanding is in full bloom.
performative adjective
not sincere but intended to impress someone, prove that something is true, etc. :
- I do not like the performative grief that is seen on social media.
- There's something stilted and performative about the way she speaks - you never get the sense she is being sincere.
If Cory Booker was intending to impress liberals, then by god he did it. He put on a show for them, and they ate it up. Just see for yourself!
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"he's doing nothing guys! So brave!" "Finally someone is doing nothing about the right!"
Excuse me. He did nothing for TWENTY FOUR HOURS STRAIGHT! I'm not going to do that until the next PoE2 league, so, he has me beat by almost a week.
-- and doing it for 18 hours; surely this will fix things.
First time I've ever seen West Wing brain criticized from the inside. This man is truly lost. 
Dude just heard a bunch of people clowning on West Wing for being unserious for years, didn't investigate how or why, and just absorbed the joke format as "this is shorthand for people who are preoccupied with useless political fantasy play, such as those who don't weep with joy at Cory Booker's 24-hour pissathon."
Its so inside out it makes me dizzy.
Hmm that's interesting because it appears like there's a political sector who, when they write letters to congress, gets bill passed, and then the rest of us who can write a letter and at best it will be part of a completely useless act of theater.
They don't write letters. They have their people write the bills.
- You don't know what politics is!
- You think it's performative because you watch west wing!
- This is what a representative should do! I can't think of anything MORE they should do.
This shit was reposted by the spreadsheet guy LOL. It feels like bait but I looked at the other videos on the profile and seems very libbed up.
Yapper's Delight
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I'm fillibuster nut 
TIL, delivering a monologue is not a performance.
Today I learned that the only thing a senator is capable of doing is standing on the floor and reading letters from his constituents. Which I find disheartening because Ted Cruz has yet to publicly read out any of the things that I have sent to him, He's too busy firing the parliamentarian for standing in the way of his party's agenda.
I guess he beat the record by that racist guy or whatever but he couldve then not unanimously consented to the government later the same day lol