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    10 hours ago

    Let me guess, he should be leader? Even though he’s part of the leadership that failed the moment?

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    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.

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    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.

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    18 hours ago

    “We need new democratic leaders who are centrists unlike Hillary ‘third way’ Clinton, Joe ‘tough on crime’ Biden, and Kamala ‘the cop’ Harris.”

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    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.

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    He’s not the worst, but he’s definitely part of the problem. When he calls for new leadership, he really means give it to him, and he wouldn’t be much better than Schmuckie Boy. He’d be just as Zionist, that’s for sure.

    If Booker becomes president, MAGA will be back in power 4 years later.

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      I’ll stare directly at the sun, but never in the mirror

      It must be exhausting always rooting for the anti-hero

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        Me out now! Me out now! Me out now!

        He’s either kicking himself out of office, or demanding his own sexual liberation.

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      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.

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          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.)

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            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

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          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…

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            who still think Bill Maher is worth listening to

            Still? Maher was always a smirking centrist bell end.

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              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.

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      For those of us who are legit unaware … what did he do (or didn’t do) to get put on the shit list?

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        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.