Let me guess, he should be leader? Even though he’s part of the leadership that failed the moment?
In concept, he’s right.
Democrats have spent far far far too much energy focusing on controversial wedge issues like gun control and trans issues.
If they focused on the issues that virtually all Americans can get behind, things like fixing our healthcare, getting corruption out of Washington and other parts of government, holding large corporations to account when they destroy our economy and ruin the environment, and overall making life and upward advancement affordable for average Americans, they would absolutely clean house in every election.
Instead they spend a ton of effort on things like gun control (which does nothing for their base but only alienates rural moderates and Republicans that might make the switch), and spend a ton of time getting bogged down in debates over stupid shit.
When that happens if they had a half a brain they would be doing table flip moments like why the fuck are we talking about which bathroom somebody uses when millions of Americans can’t feed their fucking kids? Why are we obsessing over what kind of ID gets you into a voting booth when the middle class is dying? Why are we wasting billions of dollars in Iran when the same money spent here at home would fix healthcare or hunger or education? Are our own citizens not worth the time or expense? And why do we have national policies that encourage a CEO to amass more wealth than all of his hourly employees combined?
And if any of these things are important to us, why then could the Republicans as a minority grind the government to a halt under Obama, forcing us to negotiate with them, why can’t we do the same? Why aren’t we doing the same?Get a bunch of Democrats to say this every time, every camera, every interview, and that they will stand up against their own party when it doesn’t work to fix this, that’s how you win elections.
I confused him with Cory Doctorow
Throwing everyone under the bus to safe ur own ass… smooth criminal here
He is objectively one of the people who has failed this moment.
At least he’s calling for himself to be replaced.
Me out now! Me out now! Me out now!
He’s either kicking himself out of office, or demanding his own sexual liberation.
I can only imagine the thought in his head is:
If I say this first, and loudest, it therefore cannot apply to me, because I called it out.
Fucking terminal shitlib brain; everything is optics, history and context don’t exist beyond when I want to A/B test some rhetoric.
The worst part is, it’ll probably work
Good. If Cory Booker sees the way the winds are blowing and wants to start pushing in that direction, good.
You can tell Fox News is scared because when I googled his name, I got
Top stories - Fox News- Cory Booker confronted with old clip of himself saying he loves Donald Trump
(The context is that he’s religious and loves all people, including his enemies, but of course they leave that out.)
Google knows who you are and tailors your search results for you specifically, so the top results on Google aren’t an indicator of a general trend, it’s what they think you’ll click on and/or ads
At this point… basically only on doddering idiot dem voters who still think Bill Maher is worth listening to.
… I wonder if there are more detailed numbers on how his viewership stats break down…
who still think Bill Maher is worth listening to
Still? Maher was always a smirking centrist bell end.
I mean, yes, but he’s just gotten worse and worse, and as best I can tell, his viewer demographic is roughly the same people who think the New York Times represents ‘reasonable progressivism’ or something like that.
For those of us who are legit unaware … what did he do (or didn’t do) to get put on the shit list?
He confirmed a handful of Trumps appointees (one is a relative of Jared Kushner IIRC). He also hasn’t really done anything to stop all this outside his 27 hour filibuster , which didn’t actually filibuster anything.
I’m not as angry as others are about Bookers statement here but he still hasn’t done much to stop anything.
Aipac Shakur has done nothing. Him and Schumer are both pro Israel and have rolled over and not fought for much.
Wait, I thought AIPAC Shakur was Hakeem Jeffries in the House.
You are 100% correct, I was confusing them.
…Does he realize he’s talking about himself?
Definitely not.
Me may still think his pointless filibuster will earn him leadership
Objectively fucking hilarious.
This man has been responsible for stomping down the voices who seek to replace him. AOC, Mamdani, Ossof, Platner…keep naming them.
He is no different than Schumer. Fuck both of you.
Yeah that was all practice for his upcoming imminent presidential bid.
Don’t worry he’ll do the same thing to the people that came before him too.
Yep, we all agree, he needs to be replaced or taken out of the leadership position. We will not forget that he and schumer voted to end the shut down we were winning for no reason that I can see.
You’re talking about Jeffries, not Booker.
Why not both?
Because in terms of voting record, Booker actually doesn’t look that bad: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1gPBdBrqVCbtuy7f1bjOdCDUzEv5RqbbU1yYAr3KoHYE He is on 8th place.
Voting Score - 65%
Left Score - 73%
It looks like Booker isn’t necessarily good, but more everyone else is absolutely terrible. Unless I’m not understanding how these scores work?
Edit: after looking it over, a lot of money for Israel, confirming Trump selections, and Crypto shit. Otherwise solid.
When your nonprofit is declared a terrorist organization (for being anticapitalist), crypo is key to bypassing the PayPal donation blockaid.
See Wiki leaks and Occupy.
New Jersey is also Big Pharma central, and Booker is their main Democrat. So if you’ve got issues with medical care in US, Booker is your top dog shitlib.
Well fuck, that’s embarrassing. I thought they were the same guy until I just compared a video of Jeffrie and Booker. I guess I put them in the same category of shitty.
https://newrepublic.com/post/195475/cory-booker-democrat-vote-confirm-jared-kushner-father-charles
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/1/14/14262732/cory-booker-senate-democrats
To be clear, these guys don’t need to be perfect, but they clearly are looking out for their own interests.
Easy way to know the difference between the two. Booker is fucking Rosario Dawson.
Jeffries isn’t.
Not anymore. Another L for the establishment
Dammit to hell.
Motherfucker filibustered for over 24 hours, fasted in preparation to do so, only to undo every fucking word he spewed by voting in Trump’s nominees.
It wasn’t a filibuster. No legislation was being held up. He just gave a long speech as a performance piece. People keep trying to say he had the longest filibuster, but it literally wasn’t one.
He’s the 2nd most pathetic out of all the Dems besides Schumer. This dude only cares for appearing to do anything, but never actually does anything because he’s a bought centrist.
Damn, that was a good catch. I had misremembered it as well.
You’re right, Cory. So drop out of your fucking primary and endorse a real leader.
He also said that “purity tests” within the party have led to more division in the US.
What he’s saying is he wants more Conservatives in the Democratic party.
F this guy and his failure of Democratic leadership.
He is definitely against litmus tests regarding AIPAC.
Yup. He needs to sit down.
Schumer’s preference for centrist candidates
That is code for zionist first candidates. His extreme loyalty to Israel is disqualifying.
this left-right divide is killing our country
So you want the nazi-simp vote. Got it.
“‘I’ve called for a generational renewal, because this left-right divide is killing our country and our adversaries know it.’ He also said that ‘purity tests’ within the party have led to more division in the US.”
yeah this is kind of the opposite issue of what anyone competent would want to address with chuck schumer
Its also just complete horseshit.
Anybody remeber how David Hogg was actually trying to do this, 9 months ago, earlier than that?
And… basically 0 large parts of the Dem fundraising apparatus got involved in any way?
And… because Hogg tried to do this… he got ousted from his position in the party?
https://www.aol.com/david-hogg-pledged-unleash-20m-193729589.html?guccounter=1
You uh, you coulda said something at that point, Cory.
Flamethrowers for the ratfuckers, thats how they clean em up in the sewers of NYC, I hear.
These democrats think the problem is aversion to genocide and not blindly supporting the party. They would rather compromise with the Nazis, than challenge them from a leftist perspective:
