I never bought Booker as a POTUS nominee.
Has the wrong energy. Extremely performative. All that grandstanding and then does votes like this.
Where was the filibustering when a critical vote was in the balance?
I, for one, am sick of Dem Senators telling us there is nothing they can do to
Has the wrong energy. Extremely performative. All that grandstanding and then does votes like this.
Where was the filibustering when a critical vote was in the balance?
I, for one, am sick of Dem Senators telling us there is nothing they can do to
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Mehdi Hasan
Just a few weeks ago people were pitching Cory Booker as a front runner for the 2028 Dem presidential nomination.
Tonight he was the only Senate Dem to vote to confirm Jared Kushner’s convict dad as ambassador to France.
Sheesh.
Tonight he was the only Senate Dem to vote to confirm Jared Kushner’s convict dad as ambassador to France.
Sheesh.
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2028
We need Pelosi back in charge.
Revolution is grassroots.
He took himself out with that vote
He Newsom’d himself
Booker is 95% performance.
Dude is untrustworthy and all for show, unserious at best - a danger at worst.
Buh-bye Booker
That game flies with most Dems because we hold our elected officials to very low standards.
We are like starving thirsty travelers in a desert willing to lick up a drop of leadership or a
We are so used to open capitulation that we are perfectly willing to accept this is the only way it can be.
But I am not in that camp. I KNOW that people with a WHOLE LOT less money, power, and resources did a WHOLE LOT more to preserve and protect the rule of law and the
Our electeds are fat, happy and power drunk, convincing us that the win comes from compromising with and for the arsonist setting our house on fire.
I would DIE before enabling a micron of that asshole’s agenda.
And what saddens me is that the recalcitrance of the
is totally absent from Dems when it comes to saving democracy.
We don't need Democrats as politicians, we need Democrats as rebels. Hardline, eviscerating, down and dirty fighting units. To conquer will replace to compromise. It's going to have to get messy, and we all have to be ready!