Booker: “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 gave a lane to this demagogue. I confess we all must look in the mirror and say ‘we will do better.’”
Bullshit. The begging, pleading lies of those caught in the act and facing down a 20 year sentence, promising now that things have come to a head they’ll change the way they’ve been all their life if just once more they’re let off the hook for their actions.
It reminds me so much of the Saddam bit from the South Park movie where Saddam is in an abusive relationship with Satan and keeps winning him back by promising to change and then doing something performative before going back to his old ways. “I can change, I can change!” he sings and it’s the same tune these Democrats are singing. They’ve been singing it off and on for decades every time they lose the base too much then immediately putting away that number as soon as they get the base back and berating them for demanding better, for ‘purity testing’ and so on and brow-beat with accusations that demands for change help Republicans win.
So excuse us if we’re a little skeptical because this song and dance is very worn.
How about actually defending trans people and trans rights instead of getting mealy-mouthed? How about making impassioned speeches in defense of trans kids right to affirming care and transitioning? No they won’t do that.
Or condemning the genocide in Palestine and calling out the elements in their own party supporting it? No they won’t do that either.
I’m with you, but fixing income inequality and reversing climate change are way higher on my list than either of the issues you mentioned.
You’re right; Addressing the financial pain-points, and securing the future of the children of the bottom ~90% should be the US’s primary concern.
Successfully doing so is what buys a political party sufficient goodwill to be able to address social concerns for minorities in need.
It is literally the “why are we sending aid overseas when we have starving children here” meme, but unironic.
More so than the destruction of Palestine, which Booker supports?
Also the US military is one of the world’s biggest polluters, so that one isn’t unrelated.
Neither of which they’re going to do or address.
This is Lucy with the football and Dem voters are Charlie Brown sure this time she won’t pull it away. Well she will. And if she doesn’t they have the Republicans who magically have the power to break laws, rules, ignore the parliamentarian and Senate decorum and so on and do whatever they need to put a stop to this to which Dems put up feeble resistance then shrug and say they tried but oh well. They didn’t really try. They never will. And they’ll never break rules, never stack the supreme court, never play ball.
They will let their most rightward members split to sabotage a vote, they won’t try party discipline, they won’t whip members, they won’t threaten, they won’t do old politics stuff of if you fuck with the party on major things you get shut out of everything, your district doesn’t even get $5000 for a new sign for its park because you get nothing, not assignments, no allowing your bills, no riders, nothing. Play ball or get shut down. Play ball or the party supports a primary challenger on top of those things and does everything it can to push you out. But they won’t do that because they don’t want any of this and are happy to have spoilers derail it so they can pretend they wanted it and pretend they listened to their base and pretend they tried.
The real reason to have a 3 day no pooping challenge.
Shhh we’re not allowed to speculate on the reason for not wanting to poop for 3 days
I think this sentiment is good and happy to see something like this out of the Democrats for fucking once in their lives.
That said, Booker is a huge embodiment of the Democratic Party he’s criticizing here. While certainly better than a ton in the traditional centrist camp like Schumer and Pelosi, Booker still towed the line the past 10 years since the DNC has actually been screwing over genuine progressives like Sanders.
If this is a genuine recognition of a failed strategy then great, but I’m skeptical.
towed the line
*toed
Weird
Cool, but also confusing
“Toe the line” = conform to standards by lining up with your toes on the line. What the heck would “tow the line” mean as a metaphor?
toad* 🐸
First Past The post voting is the reason weak candidates run for political office. No competition.
Perhaps if he wore a bomb vest to the next senate meeting I would consider forgiving him.
If he uses it, same
Glad to see the turning of sentiment within the DNC. Perhaps Chuck Schumer got the message that people want him gone and is trying to stay wanted. Or maybe he is worried a third party will galvanize a voting bloc and take money from the Dems.
Ultimately this is a good thing as it shows a fire and regret in the same speech. Finally nice to see democracy start returning to the Democrats.
Y’all look at the date… This tool isn’t standing up for anyone or anything, he’s doing an elaborate April fools joke
He could always demonstrate his regret by stepping down and letting someone else take over his position LOL
He also took the time to praise Israel and defend the genocide during his filibuster.
Fuck right off.
Why are our politicians like this… Anyone with eyes can see it’s evil what’s happening there.
AIPAC
Because we have legalized bribery.
And call it ‘lobbying’
I regret cheering him on now. Fuck this dude.
He also put on a genocide pin and proceeded to preach some biblical Zionism quotes. Usually Democrats stick to the liberal Zionism. Apparently they have moved so far right they identify more with the MAGA crowd now.
It was a loyalty pledge. He put on this performance to get a shot at a leadership position, and he wanted to make it clear to the aipac lobby which side he was on.
This guy is a fucking Zionist clown and a stooge for venture capital. I’m old enough to remember when Obama would take shots at Romney in the 2012 election for Romney’s founder status at Bain Capital. Booker, perhaps simply for love of the game, defended Bain Capital for seemingly no reason other than to get pats on the shoulders from Republicans
And what is this doofus doing now? Wagging his finger at Trump for theatrical reasons. This keeps getting called a filibuster but there’s not specific legislation Booker is trying to kill. There’s no bill he’s trying to stop.
All this fire and gusto to stand around while he eagerly votes for bills to send yet another billion dollars to the Zionist Entity. Fuck this guy. I hope he enjoys hell.
Citation needed
To what? Booker’s publicly available voting record?
That would be a helpful source, but that isnt the best because bills are stuffed with so many different things that it could be misleading
Better would be a reputable source that quotes him saying that he supports Zionism.
Translation: I made this up
What did you want them to cite?
You think I made up that Booker is a Zionist? I’ll cite whatever but I don’t understand what I’m being asked to cite.
Wtf. Cite every claim. This is the internet.
Why do you think you wouldn’t need to cite facts here? Gtfo if you think you can spread misinformation
I don’t owe you shit, but here you go: https://www.booker.senate.gov/news/press/booker-statement-on-israel-hamas-ceasefire-deal
From Cory Booker’s own website in regards to the recent ceasefire:
"The work must continue to achieve a two-state solution that affirms and protects Israel’s right to exist as a democratic Jewish state and ensures the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination and a state of their own.”
Israel’s right to exist as a democratic Jewish state
He’s a Zionist. He says right there on his own website that Israel has a right to exist as specifically an ethnonationalist state. That’s what a Zionist is. It’s someone who supports the creation/maintenance of a ethnically/religiously Jewish nation-state in the region of Palestine with Palestinian Arabs either disenfranchised, made a minority, or completely removed. A Zionist supports Israel as a sovereign Jewish homeland with a Jewish identity along with a nation-state apparatus to enforce this status as homeland.
For further information, please consult CodePink’s anti-zionist website boughtbyzionism.org. Here is the page for Cory Booker:
https://www.boughtbyzionism.org/cory_booker
As you see, he’s taken $893,998 from AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, which is a Zionist lobbying group.
Do you want any further citations? Here is an opensecrets.org search for Zionist lobbying money to various politicians. If you are skeptical of opensecrets, it’s used as a unbiased source of information for AP, the Washington Post, Politico, NBC News, NPR, and the New York Times. Opensecrets cites Federal Election Comission data, which is public information.
https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary?cycle=All&ind=Q05&recipdetail=S
The first link is sufficient, thanks. He’s a Zionist.
And, you dont owe it to me. You do owe it to this Lemmy community.
the angry sealion is a rare sight but it does exist 🦭
yeah like why is it so unbelievable that I call a Democratic politician a Zionist? Zionism is the official party line. What the fuck
“Hey these Democrats sure do give a lot of money to Israel”
“UHHH SOURCE?”
the literal moment his speech stunt was over, the trump appointment for NATO ambassador was unanimously confirmed with zero resistance. these spineless fucks stand for nothing, it’s all for show. props to Booker for the best April fools day prank I’ve ever seen in my life.
Well come on now, support for NATO is a bipartisan consensus! If anything, it’s now a middle finger to Trump!
New headline: One of Murica’s leading zionists shits himself publicly during pointless 24 hour talkathon. Booker signs and sells senate diapers to raise money for Israel to kill more Muslims.
Performative bullshit from a zionazi genocide supporter.
Thank you for saying this Cory. All other democrats who don’t take up this message can bite my balls. At least this guy seems ok, or at least conscious.
Do better, but don’t ever consider what it means to actually do better, also don’t actually do it.
I will be honest, I would have run out of things to say after one hour if I am in his position.
Kudos to Booker!
I think my body would have given out long before I ran out of things to say about Trump. I would have started with Plato, and ended with a litany of insults, everything that could possibly conceived by mankind. A 20 hour “Zaporizhian Cossack’s response to the Sultan”, but even more scathing.
