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.’”
American politics are a clown show
Except half the clowns think we didn’t hire them to jump through flaming hopes. Get jumping, ya bozos.
Yeah like, this is the best they’ve got? Pathetic.
Pathetic? Now that’s called a clear case of the projections.
Well now I’m confused. I guess you meant it was an impressive clown show?
I’m impressed with how silly it is.
A bit like you being a total regime lib and shamelessly appropriating the word comrade.‘appropriating’ the word comrade like communist is a type of PoC
that’s the most performative bad faith lib shit I’ve seen in quite some time
And they didn’t even say the word. So are you stalking them from other threads or are you just instantly triggered by the instance?
What kind of brain broken fucking weirdo are you?
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You’re getting what you’re putting out, you smug stupid piece of shit.
Go ahead then. Explain what you came up with all on your own as a definition for a word you misused. Now that you’ve put your foot down. After “oh well I felt slighted so my behavior doesn’t matter but HOW DARE YOU respond to it in kind”
Wow. Fuck you. And fuck your parents for training you to rationalize yourself like this. What a spoiled fucking brat dropped from that tree.
-He has the word ‘comrade’ in his bio so that’s why I mentioned it.
oh and by the way this is the answer to “What kind of brain broken fucking weirdo are you?”
Getting big mad and looking at someone’s profile looking for things to get angry about and ammunition to use against them is “I don’t take showers” online troll behavior.
I apologise to you since I misread your comment.
The asshole further down in the comments made me aware of it.
Not all countries in America are like this
True, but we were talking about the US banana republic.
I apologise to all further developed and civilised nations of America.
Yes. That’s not new
Where was this motion when the continued resolution was on the floor? Fucking clowns.
What happens when he needs to take a shit?
He uses a diaper, then sells it online and sends the cash to Israel.
Ew, capitalism. That diaper could have been put to good use as fertilizer instead.
The last record-holder, Strom Thurmond, would shit in a bucket in a coat room while keeping one foot in the Senate chamber and still talking. He was attempting, of course, to filibuster the Civil Rights Act.
oh yeah, biden’s best friend that he gave a euology at his funeral for because he did so much good work for the government
I’m assuming there is no existing audio of the guy speaking out against civil rights while taking a dump? Or at least a transcription of that specific part of his speech so we can imagine at home? It seems like an emblematic moment in American history.
He probably has a diaper and a catheter. The rules don’t let him sit or leave to use the bathroom.
zionist POS
LOL
Their words are worthless.
Do something meaningful. At minimum, replace Jeffries and Schumer as leaders, and make it abundantly and publicly clear you did so because of capitulation to fascism.
Do better, but don’t ever consider what it means to actually do better, also don’t actually do it.
Then do it
Words are cheap
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.
Omg, the blue sky comments made me want to hurl. All this over a filibuster to stop nothing? Couldn’t have pulled this shit when it actually would do something, I guess.
Not a filibuster, there’s not a bill in question or a confirmation on the line. He’s just holding the floor. I applaud the effort and certainly the message, I’m just not sure why he’s doing it now instead of you know when it counted.
That’s really too bad. This sort of effort should be directed at something specific rather than just being performant :(
Unfortunately that seems to be the Democrat playbook these days. Make a lot of noise, but don’t suit up for the actual battles that would win the war.
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.
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.
Feels like too little too late.
He’s applying for the Democratic nomination.
Nomination to what?
There are no primaries from now on in the democratic party, only nominations.
You wouldn’t force the democrats to pass a purity test would you?
Because it is.
A lot of words and no actions… until Schumer steps down Democrats have learned nothing and have nothing new to offer. If you want us to believe you have changed show us don’t tell us.
Cory booker is probably an even more virulent zionist than Schumer. He’s been pro israel, and anti-palestine his entire career.
Citation needed
He praised Israel and defended the genocide in this very same filibuster.
“Ending security assistance to our closest ally in the Middle East at a time when Israel faces new threats emanating from Syria and continued aggression from Iran and its proxies would undermine stability in the region and harm our own national security,” he said at the time. “The United States and Israel have a history of unprecedented cooperation on the basis of shared ideals and democratic principles. [Curtailing funding] would dramatically undermine our enduring commitment to Israel’s security and the historic ties between our two nations, jeopardizing a peaceful and stable future.”
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I was in no way suggesting Booker replace Schumer. I want Booker and the other democrats to pressure Schumer to step down.
We need more words! We need to drown out the republican message.
Would it turn the GOP? No, but it would certainly drown out their insane rhetoric.
Honestly the first actual sign of resistance from within the Senate chamber.
Dumbass L*dditor gets amused by jingling keys.
