Cory Booker Filibuster

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t get the Cory Booker hype. He peaked at 3-5% support in 2020, WAY behind Biden, Sanders, Warren, Buttigieg, Bloomberg. He was down there with Yang and Klobuchar and Gillibrand. And he was younger, so his single status was less weird. In 2028, he’ll be pushing 60.

Democrats are grasping at straws for a leader. This is horrible.

Agreed. We’ve entered a fantasyland where we are thrilled by Booker’s awkward non-filibuster and the white lady awkward non-protests. We are desperate for any small win. So we say Cory did great. But do any of us, deep down, really want to be LEF by him?

As a country, we ignored a far more qualified candidate to instead select Trump.

Twice.

I mean, Booker was great and his speech was far more impactful than I guess you are able to recognize. However, America doesn’t care about honestly or capability, clearly. We’ve become too stupid to select candidates, so his abilities are irrelevant. We need someone that can really dumb the appropriate concepts down while still being able to lead.

[Anonymous]

Our problem is we’re obsessed with identity politics. Other than Warren, everyone your list is a member of an oppressed group. And even Warren pretended to be! Republicans are allowed to run straight white Christian candidates. But that doesn’t describe most of our short list.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t get the Cory Booker hype. He peaked at 3-5% support in 2020, WAY behind Biden, Sanders, Warren, Buttigieg, Bloomberg. He was down there with Yang and Klobuchar and Gillibrand. And he was younger, so his single status was less weird. In 2028, he’ll be pushing 60.

Democrats are grasping at straws for a leader. This is horrible.

Agreed. We’ve entered a fantasyland where we are thrilled by Booker’s awkward non-filibuster and the white lady awkward non-protests. We are desperate for any small win. So we say Cory did great. But do any of us, deep down, really want to be LEF by him?

As a country, we ignored a far more qualified candidate to instead select Trump.

Twice.

I mean, Booker was great and his speech was far more impactful than I guess you are able to recognize. However, America doesn’t care about honestly or capability, clearly. We’ve become too stupid to select candidates, so his abilities are irrelevant. We need someone that can really dumb the appropriate concepts down while still being able to lead.

If your point is that Cory is a lot like Hillary and Kamala, you’re right!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t get the Cory Booker hype. He peaked at 3-5% support in 2020, WAY behind Biden, Sanders, Warren, Buttigieg, Bloomberg. He was down there with Yang and Klobuchar and Gillibrand. And he was younger, so his single status was less weird. In 2028, he’ll be pushing 60.

Democrats are grasping at straws for a leader. This is horrible.

Agreed. We’ve entered a fantasyland where we are thrilled by Booker’s awkward non-filibuster and the white lady awkward non-protests. We are desperate for any small win. So we say Cory did great. But do any of us, deep down, really want to be LEF by him?

As a country, we ignored a far more qualified candidate to instead select Trump.

Twice.

I mean, Booker was great and his speech was far more impactful than I guess you are able to recognize. However, America doesn’t care about honestly or capability, clearly. We’ve become too stupid to select candidates, so his abilities are irrelevant. We need someone that can really dumb the appropriate concepts down while still being able to lead.

If your point is that Cory is a lot like Hillary and Kamala, you’re right!

Agreed.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No offense, but Buttigieg just sounds smarter than Booker when he talks. Vance also sounds smart. I think we may need Buttigieg. Or Warren. We don’t want our candidate getting beaten on the “who sounds smarter?” front. Being hoity-toity is our brand now. We don’t need our masters degree holding blue city folks acknowledging that Vance sounds smart or that our candidate sounds goofy. We need to lead with our best. (Yes, I know Cory Booker’s educational credentials are impeccable. But for someone who went to Stanford, Oxford, and Yale, he doesn’t come across as that intelligent or eloquent.

What are you talking about? Buttigieg has elite finesse in communication, but Booker is more eloquent and has better delivery than 99% of politicians.

+1 Booker is just as smart and sounds like a real person, I also know people who’ve met him and he’s very real and warm. I like Buttigieg but you can tell he listened to recordings of Obama and practiced in front of a mirror BITD. I also like Shapiro but he has the same issue IMO.

[Anonymous]

Booker: Yale, Rhodes Scholar, law degree, senator.
Buttigieg: Yale, Rhodes Scholar, former military intelligence officer, mayor, Secretary of Transportation.

Booker was a mayor as well. Of a city way bigger than South Bend.

[Anonymous]

People applauded Cory Booker for beating a segregationist and racist record but Cory Booker is a segregationist and a racist, just for a different country which makes it even wilder 🙃

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People applauded Cory Booker for beating a segregationist and racist record but Cory Booker is a segregationist and a racist, just for a different country which makes it even wilder 🙃

He’s a creature of his donors

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our problem is we’re obsessed with identity politics. Other than Warren, everyone your list is a member of an oppressed group. And even Warren pretended to be! Republicans are allowed to run straight white Christian candidates. But that doesn’t describe most of our short list.

Trumps straight white Christian appointees are running the country into the ground. Maybe try someone else for once?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No offense, but Buttigieg just sounds smarter than Booker when he talks. Vance also sounds smart. I think we may need Buttigieg. Or Warren. We don’t want our candidate getting beaten on the “who sounds smarter?” front. Being hoity-toity is our brand now. We don’t need our masters degree holding blue city folks acknowledging that Vance sounds smart or that our candidate sounds goofy. We need to lead with our best. (Yes, I know Cory Booker’s educational credentials are impeccable. But for someone who went to Stanford, Oxford, and Yale, he doesn’t come across as that intelligent or eloquent.

What are you talking about? Buttigieg has elite finesse in communication, but Booker is more eloquent and has better delivery than 99% of politicians.

+1 Booker is just as smart and sounds like a real person, I also know people who’ve met him and he’s very real and warm. I like Buttigieg but you can tell he listened to recordings of Obama and practiced in front of a mirror BITD. I also like Shapiro but he has the same issue IMO.

Totally agree. Booker is warmer, and Buttigieg is fake.

But Cory still doesn’t come off as that smart or mature. We like him because we’re desperate. But he is not a Ronald Reagan or a Bill Clinton or a Barack Obama. Most well-educated professionals I know are better speakers than Cory. More power to him for making it to the Senate (with a lot if grooming from the hidden establishment). But Presidential timber? I think not.

[Anonymous]

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Booker: Yale, Rhodes Scholar, law degree, senator.
Buttigieg: Yale, Rhodes Scholar, former military intelligence officer, mayor, Secretary of Transportation.

Booker was a mayor as well. Of a city way bigger than South Bend.

The Rhodes scholar program is a little sinister. Not an ideal source of politicians who should work for voters instead of for the elite establishment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pause for 12:00 prayer and back to it

How can he be Muslim, and yet rally for what Israel is doing in Gaza?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not an actual filibuster, no vote.
But glad someone in this party is taking a stand.
Carry on, Mr. Booker!

Ever since he helped block reform on prescription drugs it's hard to take him seriously.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Pause for 12:00 prayer and back to it

How can he be Muslim, and yet rally for what Israel is doing in Gaza?

Booker is not Muslim.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:People applauded Cory Booker for beating a segregationist and racist record but Cory Booker is a segregationist and a racist, just for a different country which makes it even wilder 🙃

He’s a creature of his donors

Seems like that is the case for almost all politicians sadly