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Waits until the guillotine is half way through the neck
Bro pls bro we have to stop this bro
So edgy. So reactionary. While I can't speak for Jeffries, Booker has been working: https://www.distractify.com/p/why-is-cory-booker-filibustering
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Booker%27s_marathon_speech
Cory Booker is working for himself, Israel, and Big Pharm, in that order.
Please note that you and I are conspicuously absent from this list.
How is protesting cuts to Medicaid and social programs helping those you listed, and not benefiting you and me?
These are just trolls trying to continuously crush The United States by convincing people not to vote for the Democrats, creating A majority Republican voting pool.
My name is Jake Gless. Google me. I stand up straight for my positions. Nothing troll-like here from me. I am a bleeding heart.
Have you considered the possibility that I’m right and maybe you’re not? Cory Booker is NOT the answer. CORY BOOKER IS THE PROBLEM. I will not support self-serving neolibs.
Send me a face pic holding up 3 fingers to prove you are you.
wtf…I’ve been supporting you in another thread this morning about the Vancouver massacre. Cory “Spartacus Tears-of-Rage” Booker is as fake and performative as a slimy politician could ever be. I despise him.
Hey he specifically broke the record for longest filibuster when it didn't matter directly after voting yes to the budget proposal. How is that performative?!?! /S
Could have done it a week earlier and it be an actual filibuster instead of some symbolic bs.
image sent, check your DM
***edit: wait a sec…are you a komradebot? maybe you need to send me a photo with the hang loose handsign.
Confirmed an image holding up 3 fingers. However I will note that googling your name got no matching faces. Are you saying you’re the Lakewood teacher? Or?
*Was. No principals ever had the backbone to hire me again after I stood up for what’s right.
That is me. Not a right-wing troll, not remotely. Who are you?
That was a pretty shitty situation.
This was not a back and forth identity deal.
Okaydokay komradebot. Looks like we can both agree now which one of us is legitimate and which one of us is not.
I despise internet anonymity for its duplicitousness almost as much as I despise Cory Booker for his duplicitousness.
I don’t know who komradebot is, but I can promise you I’m not Russian nor interested in anything ML has to say.
And yes, booker doesn’t really shine, to put it mildly.
Did you vote in the 2024 presidential election?
Did you brush your teeth this week? I got all A’s in college and a National Merit Award before that. Get to the point and just tell me why you think I’m not as intelligent or as informed as yourself, please.
I never made those accusations.
Did you vote or not?
Still can’t access the newest comments to reply directly to them.
Of course I voted, you stablegenius. I only told you that to see where you were trying to go. You are trying to claim a snooty highroad over me. I voted. I always vote. You have severely lost credibility by attempting this highroading. You have NOTHING over me. Do better.
Our conversation appears to be too far down the thread for the newest comments to be accessible. I see no relevance of my vote in 2024. So I’m going to tell you NO I DID NOT VOTE IN THE 2024 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION just to see where you’re trying to go with this.
What an annoying question. My state of MI reelected Gov. Whitmer two years ago by >450k votes, yet somehow dotard flipped our blue state by a margin just beyond a legal recount. I do not believe my state’s 2024 presidential election results are legitimate. My vote did not matter.
I’m sorry that you find it an annoying question, but that’s rather relative. As far as the legitimacy of the Michigan result, that is not relevant to the question.
Are you saying that you did not vote in the presidential election?
Or they're people that actually want change and a better life for us all. And that's not coming via either current party in the US.
Very true. I hope they have the day they voted for.
How is dotard wearing diapers helping fascism? This is not a valid rebuttal from you. Cory Booker exists to help himself, Israel, and Big Pharm.
Unequivocally.
If taking popular positions to get elected helps dotard pull up his diapers happens to have an ancillary benefit to you or me, that doesn’t cancel out his loyalty to Israel and Big Pharm.
How is dotard wearing diapers helping fascism? This is not a valid rebuttal from you. Cory Booker exists to help himself, Israel, and Big Pharm.
Unequivocally.
If taking popular positions to get elected helps dotard pull up his diapers and also happens to have an ancillary benefit to you or me, that doesn’t cancel out Booker’s loyalty to Israel and Big Pharm.
I'm not interested in self indulgent showmanship, I'm interested in supposed left wingers espousing left wing views and acting up on them.
Maintaining the ratchet effect for the right and insider trading your way to a comfortable retirement isn't admirable, it's pathetic.
We'll all continue to vote to slow the progression to the far right but why shouldn't we expect more than that?
I hope you have the day you voted for
I didn't vote for fascism as you're snidely implying. You know what they say about faulty conclusions.
I mean it plainly, I hope that you have the day that your vote directly influenced.
To be more specific, not voting for fascism is not the same as voting against it.
Then what is the point of you quipping a line that has been almost universally targeted at Trump voters to me?
As walkbacks go, this is particularly cringe.
Actually the line has always meant people who also did not vote, or voted for a third party knowing that it was just a vote that didn’t go against Trump.
I’m not walking back anything.
First, no it hasn't. No-one would say "have the day you voted for" to someone who didn't vote as it's a ridiculous non sequitur.
Second, I didn't do any of those things. You still not walking it back? Sticking to your guns when you're dead wrong?
Yes. That is what it means.
Second, not everything online is an insult. If you have the day you voted for, and you voted for Harris (the only option in a sadly two party system), then I am wishing you a good day.
Sure you are buddy.
You have nice day.
The line has always been used to silence and bully into coerced obedience the people who most wanted progressive change. The people who have been calling for the party of Fascism Lite to step up their game.
Let me speak plainly: unconditional support for the Democratic Party from people like you is the mechanism by which we've landed where we are today. You refused to hold your party accountable so they put Trump into a position to win 2016. And I mean that quite literally, they did everything they could to make sure he won the primary because they knew they were putting a loser candidate up.
So get off your fucking high horse. I blame you for where we are. And before you come at me: I voted for Bernie in the 2016 & 2020 primaries. I voted for Hillary, Biden, and Kamala in the generals. I've voted in the way that would maximize opposition to fascism at every step. My conscience is clean. You continue to spew insults to people to your left to blame them for your Party's failures. I blame only people to my right who want to keep running in that direction.
I hope you have the day you voted for.
I hope you don't, because yours is today. Maybe actually read my comment to see what day I voted for, jackass.
I read it all. I hope you have the day you voted for. So, I hope you have a good day. I don’t disagree with you. The two party system is shit. I voted Bernie in the primary too.
Then stop blaming the left. You're sewing discord and serving fascism. Hold the Democratic Party accountable for always doing the bare minimum they think they have to and nothing more. That's what's gotten us to where we are, not voters that are fed up with the bullshit.
Give the people something to vote for, don't blame them when all of the options are evil. No more "lesser of two evils," it's clearly not working.
I’m not blaming the left or sewing discord serving fascism. Trump is the fascism. Anyone who didn’t actively fight against him is the problem.
So let me get this straight. Someone says
clearly blaming the past inaction of the Democratic Party for the state of affairs today, and you chime in with:
And go on to double down that you are blaming this person for fascism. And all of this is you not sewing discord or blaming the left? You know who I hate worse than sycophants? Sycophants who constantly lie to rile people up. I don't care or believe who you voted for. You behaving like this only serves fascism.
This is exactly what they did to me and it's very apparent that they're not capable of meaningful discourse beyond childish heel digging.
Honestly, you leave Reddit to get away from this paper thin sports-team politics nonsense and yet here we are feeding the parrots.
It's depressing.
I definitely was hoping Lemmy would be better than reddit for this but it's the same neoliberals bullshitting that was rampant there. It's exhausting.
You’re entitled to you opinion. I don’t share it.
I don't need you to share it, I need you to stop spouting bullshit blaming people who want something better.
Just block blakenong. I just did.
I did too after this comment.
I hope you enjoy the party you refuse to hold accountable.