As part of the Democrat Stuntapalooza we’ve seen over the two-plus months President Donald Trump has been in office, Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) gave what Dems and their mainstream media allies have described as a “marathon speech” Monday night going into Tuesday night, with his colleagues occasionally joining him on the Senate floor to help keep him going.

Early Tuesday evening, Booker learned from embattled Sen. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) that he had “just broken the record” for the longest speech given in the Senate, something Booker admitted after the fact that he had been trying to do:

I was very aware of Strom Thurmond’s record. Since I’ve gotten to the Senate, I always felt that it was a strange shadow hang over this institution, that the longest speech. All the issues have come up on noble causes that people have done, or the things it took to try to stop. I just found it strange that he had the record. And as a guy who’s grew up with the legends of the civil rights movement, myself, my parents and other their friends, it just seemed wrong.