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.'"
Booker a day later: let’s give Israel more money
Also, too tired to filibuster when something bad actually needs to be stopped, like Chuck Schumer collaborating with Trump two weeks ago.
"My job is to keep the left pro Israel" - ~~Chuck Shumer~~ Cory Booker
He also took the time to praise Israel and defend the genocide during his filibuster.
Fuck right off.
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.
Why are our politicians like this... Anyone with eyes can see it's evil what's happening there.
AIPAC
I regret cheering him on now. Fuck this dude.
Quite frankly, I don't give a f*** if they look in the mirror and say that they will do better. We've been calling on them to do better for many years, or decades even, depending who you are. Don't bother f****** telling us how you're going to f****** do better. Just start doing better already.
Simply admitting it does not mean you don't have to correct. This was a fillibuster in name only, no bill was protested. This is theatrical at best.
It was performative nonsense, as per usual of the democrats.
The only thing it did was take the record from a segregationist.
Of course, the Dems are experts at theater.
Corey Booker spoke for a while, and we all lived happily ever after...
Out of Trump's 35,000 hours as president, Booker expertly OBLITERATED 25 of them. Trump is done.
– NYT tomorrow, probably
Then do it
Words are cheap
Performative bullshit from a zionazi genocide supporter.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Y'all look at the date... This tool isn't standing up for anyone or anything, he's doing an elaborate April fools joke
Do better, but don't ever consider what it means to actually do better, also don't actually do it.
First Past The post voting is the reason weak candidates run for political office. No competition.
zionist POS