In concept, he’s right.
Democrats have spent far far far too much energy focusing on controversial wedge issues like gun control and trans issues.
If they focused on the issues that virtually all Americans can get behind, things like fixing our healthcare, getting corruption out of Washington and other parts of government, holding large corporations to account when they destroy our economy and ruin the environment, and overall making life and upward advancement affordable for average Americans, they would absolutely clean house in every election.
Instead they spend a ton of effort on things like gun control (which does nothing for their base but only alienates rural moderates and Republicans that might make the switch), and spend a ton of time getting bogged down in debates over stupid shit.
When that happens if they had a half a brain they would be doing table flip moments like why the fuck are we talking about which bathroom somebody uses when millions of Americans can’t feed their fucking kids? Why are we obsessing over what kind of ID gets you into a voting booth when the middle class is dying? Why are we wasting billions of dollars in Iran when the same money spent here at home would fix healthcare or hunger or education? Are our own citizens not worth the time or expense? And why do we have national policies that encourage a CEO to amass more wealth than all of his hourly employees combined?
And if any of these things are important to us, why then could the Republicans as a minority grind the government to a halt under Obama, forcing us to negotiate with them, why can’t we do the same? Why aren’t we doing the same?Get a bunch of Democrats to say this every time, every camera, every interview, and that they will stand up against their own party when it doesn’t work to fix this, that’s how you win elections.
I confused him with Cory Doctorow
David Hogg was working towards exactly that until the DNC ousted him. God forbid politicians do any fucking work.
Complaining about purity tests is often a dog whistle to say that the rights of minorities and women are expendable.
Throwing everyone under the bus to safe ur own ass… smooth criminal here
There is no leadership that can make a system designed from the ground up to screw workers and minorities in order to enrich billionaires work in the interests of workers and minorities. You can’t reform rot.
Corey Booker is a two faced liar
“We need new democratic leaders who are centrists unlike Hillary ‘third way’ Clinton, Joe ‘tough on crime’ Biden, and Kamala ‘the cop’ Harris.”
It’s the same party just putting on a show to keep us complacent.
He also said that “purity tests” within the party have led to more division in the US.
What he’s saying is he wants more Conservatives in the Democratic party.
F this guy and his failure of Democratic leadership.
He is objectively one of the people who has failed this moment.
At least he’s calling for himself to be replaced.
Me out now! Me out now! Me out now!
He’s either kicking himself out of office, or demanding his own sexual liberation.
I can only imagine the thought in his head is:
If I say this first, and loudest, it therefore cannot apply to me, because I called it out.
Fucking terminal shitlib brain; everything is optics, history and context don’t exist beyond when I want to A/B test some rhetoric.
The worst part is, it’ll probably work
Good. If Cory Booker sees the way the winds are blowing and wants to start pushing in that direction, good.
You can tell Fox News is scared because when I googled his name, I got
Top stories - Fox News- Cory Booker confronted with old clip of himself saying he loves Donald Trump
(The context is that he’s religious and loves all people, including his enemies, but of course they leave that out.)
Google knows who you are and tailors your search results for you specifically, so the top results on Google aren’t an indicator of a general trend, it’s what they think you’ll click on and/or ads
At this point… basically only on doddering idiot dem voters who still think Bill Maher is worth listening to.
… I wonder if there are more detailed numbers on how his viewership stats break down…
who still think Bill Maher is worth listening to
Still? Maher was always a smirking centrist bell end.
I mean, yes, but he’s just gotten worse and worse, and as best I can tell, his viewer demographic is roughly the same people who think the New York Times represents ‘reasonable progressivism’ or something like that.
For those of us who are legit unaware … what did he do (or didn’t do) to get put on the shit list?
He confirmed a handful of Trumps appointees (one is a relative of Jared Kushner IIRC). He also hasn’t really done anything to stop all this outside his 27 hour filibuster , which didn’t actually filibuster anything.
I’m not as angry as others are about Bookers statement here but he still hasn’t done much to stop anything.
Aipac Shakur has done nothing. Him and Schumer are both pro Israel and have rolled over and not fought for much.
Wait, I thought AIPAC Shakur was Hakeem Jeffries in the House.
You are 100% correct, I was confusing them.
Then looks directly in the mirror unironocally
I’ll stare directly at the sun, but never in the mirror
It must be exhausting always rooting for the anti-hero
…Does he realize he’s talking about himself?
Definitely not.
Me may still think his pointless filibuster will earn him leadership
If you smelt it you dealt it. Get out and make room for someone who actually gives a fuck
Just another example of Democrats acting like they oppose themselves in order to crush thier opposition.
So on one hand people here hate the Democrat leadership (with good reason). But now when this guy is speaking out against the Democrat leadership, you criticize them for internal division?
You have to actually listen and pay attention to more than the most absolute surface level stuff. He wants people who are worse.
The enemy of your enemy is not your friend if they’re just looking for a power grab. In fact, they could very likely be a lot worse.
Possibly - but the people here complaining were not very articulate about it…
He wants to maintain the current right-wing leadership, not to put someone in charge who’d actually do anything differently. Replacing Schumer with another corporate stooge is a guaranteed way to continue losing elections and capitulating to MAGA.
He’s part of that leadership. He’s part of the problem. We want real change for working people, he just wants to change who’s getting the corporate bribes.
what opposition
