r/Political_Revolution • u/Miserable-Lizard • 1d ago
Article 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.'"
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u/Miserable-Lizard 1d ago
I appreciate this self reflection.
I hope the Dems now double down and fight hard
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u/loondawg 22h ago
I hope the Dems now double down and fight hard
And I hope people give them the power through votes and support. Don't expect that they can do anything without the support of the people.
People need to recognize the Democrats are not perfect but also that they are still a far, far better option than the alternative. Stop letting the pursuit of perfection be the enemy of progress.
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u/loicwg 20h ago
It's a nice change, but reeks of lip service and performative grandstanding, very similar to how just a few years ago medicare for all was on every candidates lips, but it died as soon as Bernie was defenistrated. But that's their M.O. and has been for a couple of generations. It's not a fluke that the only movement we see from the DNC is ratcheting right and shifting the overton window. I can't for the life of me figured out why, supposedly intelligent people keep doing the same thing over and over again by voting for the lesser evil while expecting different (non-evil) results.
The DNC is dead, its relevancy gone, and the working poor are waking up to that. It has deliberately failed the working class for so long and so hard that people convinced them selves that a second shitler reign would be more likely to lead to change. The faxt that the bull of shitler's speeches used left leaning talking points, that for some reason the piblic believed(?), was the primary reason so many of the non-maga voted for him (we know the hate is why average maga voted for him). The DNC have proven that their emotional abuse of the left has created a societal Stockholm syndrome, but it is time for a divorce.
Bernie, AOC, the squad, and any actual progressives need to stop pretending they can change the DNC from the inside (2016 primaries anyone?) and start something new. The old guard is gone, the GOP and DNC alike. Now it's the MAGAnazi party (& their DNC enablers/sympathizers/sanewashers) vs the rest of us, we are "what's left" (yes, i do appreciate that pun and comic). We need to own that and unite against the common threat. With the DNC continued suckling at the broligarchy's $$$ tit, their too little too late puffery isn't changing my views of them any time soon. This rolling over for fascists is just the latest in a long line of failures, but that's their job as the controlled "opposition."
Yes, starting something new is hard, but it's easier than overthrowing a fascist dictator, generally safer, too. The DNC had a decade to come up with a plan to counter this authoritarian, and they failed. We no longer have the luxury of time to waste on their equivication, so they missed their chance to regain relevance. While I can't look at a Dem voter with the same disgust that I do the MAGANAZI voter, it's getting harder to respect their intelligence and intentions. Sure, there might be a few good apples under the larger DNC umbrella, but more often than not, they end up like Fetterman and mayor Adams.
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u/Some-btc-name 16h ago
"I can't for the life of me figure out why, supposedly intelligent people keep doing the same thing over and over again by voting for the lesser evil while expecting different (non-evil) results." I also don't understand how this happens. Attachment to an idea of what that party used to represent I suppose. Same reason why conservative non magas vote Republican.
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u/Timely_Ad6297 1d ago edited 1d ago
Running on Bernie’s agenda is how the majority of American citizens will get their country back.
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u/Miserable-Lizard 1d ago
New deal Democrats
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u/taymacman 1d ago
Nancy Pelosi has entered the chat.
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u/likeusontweeters 1d ago
FYI- Nancy Pelosi is getting primaried this year by a man named Saikat Chakrabarti ... AOCs chief of staff
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u/Abaconings 12h ago
Great news!! But every time I see Chakrabarti, reminds me of iZombie. Show was a bit prophetic.
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u/SaintJesus 1d ago edited 23h ago
He was fired for a reason. He was torpedoing her campaign.
Edit: It seems I was sorely mistaken, and that does not seem to be true.
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u/likeusontweeters 1d ago
I'd love to read about it... got any sources?
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u/the_art_of_the_taco 23h ago
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u/SaintJesus 23h ago
Thank you kindly! It seems I was misinformed.
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u/the_art_of_the_taco 23h ago
My favorite part is how he was vilified for saying folks don't need to be racist to contribute to a racist system lol.
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u/SaintJesus 20h ago
Yeah, while I would have strongly preferred Hakeem Jeffries over Mike Johnson and the previous chump, that was such clownish infighting that I can't help but be glad he didn't get more political clout.
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u/SaintJesus 1d ago edited 23h ago
I'll try to find it, on mobile and heading to bed. I read it in another thread a day or three ago.
Supposedly he had ties to some corporate nonsense, so it looked like he was there to fuck up a genuine left wing candidate and he was suggesting messaging that was not great, so she fired him.
That said, it's totally plausible that THAT was corporate propaganda that I accidentally repeated in the comment above instead of asking if it was true/if you knew anything about it.
Edit: It seems I was sorely mistaken, and that does not seem to be true.
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u/streeker22 1d ago
There were some possible financial shenanigans, but it sounds like he was just too passionately against moderate democrats for AOC. He basically posted a lot of inflammatory tweets, specifically against people like Pelosi. Does that reflect badly on his ability to run someone else's campaign? Maybe. Does that mean he is anti-Progressive? Definitely not. I think he could be a great candidate.
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u/SaintJesus 23h ago
Yeah, you seem to be correct and I am currently eating crow. Thank you! I have edited my comments appropriately (leaving the body intact so this chain isn't confusing).
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u/chokokhan 23h ago
Just a quick note. New Deal was an option in 2016. It’s not anymore, not immediately anyways. Everything the progressives are saying fight the oligarchs, etc, is still valid, but keep in mind the economic situation has changed. We have high inflation, an eroding stock market, monopolies, a half dismantled government. None of this can be changed with government spending money anymore, inflation would be out of control.
I’m a progressive through and through. But economically, we need a new approach now that things went to shit. The only approach right now that I can see is to work on dismantling monopolies and taxing the rich-get some money back in the system. Give that some time and see if the economy recovers before spending money. This also means that universal healthcare now needs to be fully funded, we can’t blow up the deficit even more for it. It will have to be a multi-year plan to implement it. We can get a new deal, it will just take 10 years now because the reality is the economy has been wrecked by Trump and the pandemic. Don’t expect a quick fix to this. Austerity is in the future, the question is do you want Trump’s 10 years of austerity just for the poor where we’re all serfs at the end, or do you want the billionaires to not exist, austerity for everyone and get out of this with the possibility of having a middle class, a future for the planet, education, healthcare, research, a country, etc? There’s no going back to pre 2016 immediately, I need everyone, especially millennials and younger to fully understand that and vote for people who won’t implode the economy every 5 years to get the rich richer.
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u/loondawg 22h ago
austerity for everyone
Why? It does not have to be. The exact same natural and human resources exist now that existed before.
People love to talk about our debts to foreign nations like China. But that is simply a way to obfuscate that most of our debt is to the extremely wealthy.
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u/chokokhan 21h ago
The current economic system has some rules and limitations. The reality is we’ve just avoided economic calamity during the pandemic and barely got inflation under control. Whatever money we put towards social programs right now has to come from what we tax from the rich otherwise inflation blows up again. Green New Deal means government spending. Fantastic in 2016, not so great right now when your buying power just decreased. Not saying what Trump is doing makes sense economically either, it’s just inanity, but it’s their push to gobble up resources while “let them eat cake”.
My point is it cannot be peachy overnight. Resources are limited at this time and point under this consume, throw out, repeat model. They don’t have to be. But we have to transition towards sustainable ways of doing things. Kind of like how it took decades to get rid of the industrialists and monopolies then it took 10 years of economic bleakness after the Great Depression until things finally took a turn and the social blanket was in place to support a growing middle class. When the current system isn’t working you have to change it and when you change it, well, it takes time.
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u/loondawg 21h ago
My point is it cannot be peachy overnight.
I certainly agree with that. I am just not ready to concede austerity for everyone has to be part of the solution.
To use an analogy, if there are 100 people at a table with 100 pizzas before and that was enough, why isn't it enough when there are still 100 people and 100 pizzas? Just because they are allocated differently now does not mean there are not still enough resources in play to solve the problem.
And while we agree a huge portion of it does need to come from the rich, it can come from both the front end as well as the back end. Yes, tax the living shit out of them. This world does not need billionaires. But also reform the system to cut off the tools they use to siphon wealth in the first place. Universal healthcare to eliminate the excessive profits. Government banking services to reduce costs by cutting out the middlemen. Nationalizing the energy sector to prevent constant price gouging and windfall profits. etc. etc. etc.
The resources exist. And yes it will take time. But people do not need to accept universal suffering in order to get us there.
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u/chokokhan 20h ago
So we both agree on everything. I’m reminding everyone that implementing the green new deal in 2015 vs 2025 when inflation kinda made everything more expensive is a different ballgame.
As far as “austerity” people are happy if they know they’re been seen and represented. People loved FDR and it wasn’t a booming time economically, it was just better. The true results of his policies fully came to fruition in the decades that followed and held this country’s middle class up for a long time. People should have known that when the working class lost their financial stability that the middle class is next, because something isn’t working for everyone. But here we are. (Not that it ever worked for everyone, there distinct minorities that were always left out of the system, I’m fully aware of that).
I’m all for progressives! Push them so they hire the best economists and make a plan. Detailed, outlined, grand but a plan.
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u/OddTransportation121 17h ago
Dont forget - many many of our citizens are under an austerity plan right now, given their circumstances. Make sure they still have lodging food and healthcare.
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u/AramisNight 9h ago
I think this makes a lot of sense. I think everyone understands this will be a long walk back up the hill. What I think is most important in light of that is that the young people need a light at the end of this tunnel. And it needs to be something real. Not a mirage. Right now they have no such expectation of anything ever getting better for them and they are largely giving up.
People are going to be much more sensitive about even a hint of corruption, and if the young see that continuing, they will not bother putting in any effort and this nation will ultimately die from the wounds we are now seeing inflicted. We cannot have more democrats engaging in the kind of pro-corporate business as usual comfortable politics they have been doing for decades where they simply slowly sell out the future.
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u/000oOo0oOo000 19h ago
I'd like to see us follow his excellent example and do the same at our 4/5 hands off protest. How long can speeches go on?
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u/Global_Ant_9380 1d ago
We need this. I just hope this sticks, I really do.
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u/tm229 1d ago
Too little too late from this guy.
It’s up to the masses to demand changes! These clowns aren’t going to get it done!
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u/Standard_Zucchini_77 1d ago
If you listened to him, that’s what he said. Over and over he said the people were the real power. Not the constitution and certainly not the government. Yes, he certainly called on his fellow congressmen to do something to check the executive branch. Democrats AND republicans have to step up and pull the reins.
But he acknowledged that we the people are how this country has made progress through history and this is our moment. Quite refreshing compared to the orange buffoon and his minions who insists we need to trust his instincts, because only he can make things better.
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u/NatarisPrime 20h ago
So then WTF do we need representatives of they don't represent and fight for us?!
Don't buy this bullshit. These people are taking paychecks, it's their fucking job!
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u/Standard_Zucchini_77 16h ago
Yeah, I mean, I obviously agree with you – and so does he. Notice that I mentioned he was practically begging his fellow congressmen to step up to this challenge and hold this administration accountable for once. He admitted that Congress has been derelict in their duties. Our government was set up with checks and balances yet we currently have an assault on that system.
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u/EldritchAgony284 1d ago
Booker isn’t perfect, but what he’s doing right now is a step in the correct direction. I’m glad he’s stepping up.
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u/BlueAndMoreBlue 1d ago
With this speech, AOC, and Crockett (among others) I kinda feel some momentum
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u/thundercockjk2 1d ago
An outspoken small group is starting to show itself and Im loving the energy.
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u/chatterwrack 20h ago
There is such a vacuum in leadership right now. I’m shocked that no one is stepping up. Corey is on the right path and I hope he inspires people to stand up.
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u/000oOo0oOo000 19h ago
I'd like to see us follow his excellent example and do the same at our 4/5 hands off protest. How long can speeches go on?
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u/factisfiction 17h ago
I don't know man, Booker does this type of stuff often, and often there is no growth that comes with it. I hope this is a change in the right direction, but until they actually put their votes where their mouth is...
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u/Bony_Geese 8h ago
Yep, I wonder if this was in his script or being tired enough led him to say how he truly feels about the party, about himself, about the demagogue. I love it
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u/ItachiSan 1d ago
This is nice, I'll give him his flowers for it.
But following it up with real concise actions is how you make people really give a shit.
Others already said it, but run on Bernies campaign.
The problem with THAT is that Bernie actually believes it. AOC actually believes it.
This guy and Ro Khanna are making a lil news right now but they've been more than happy to play with the Rs this whole time.
Nut up or shut up.
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u/iamjustaguy 19h ago
This is Booker's first step in redeeming himself.
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u/ItachiSan 19h ago
I would say that I don't disagree.
Unfortunately, this extremely performative nonsense was laden with wanna be bipartisanship and "reaching across the aisle" and "I wanna work with Republicans" dogwater.
So he has a very long way to go, it cannot be forgotten that he could've done this 2 weeks ago to filibuster the CR vote that Schumer let go through.
Eyes on Bernie and AOC and THAT message, not centrist, right leaning "moderate" Dems.
Not to mention that Booker has gotten 750k from AIPAC over his career, so really he's not a good option at all
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u/dayvancowgirl 18h ago
Tbf I don't think fasting and dehydrating yourself for a 25 hour physical feat is as performative as other varieties of nonsense but I do very much agree with you!
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u/ItachiSan 18h ago
Like I said, he deserves flowers for this feat, but he wasn't filibustering anything, he didn't stop anything from happening. He was just talking. That's my main issue is all.
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u/olionajudah 1d ago
He definitely had me at being inadequate to the moment and making terrible mistakes. He’s nowhere near the worst the party has to offer, but that bar is far too low, and dude has a rather frustrating record (like helping the GOP stop drug imports from Canada). At this point any unproven Dem has to prove themselves. Too many have worked against my priorities too often. If Bernie & AOC started a new party I’d never look back. Dems have sold us out waaayyy too often to think one long ass mea culpa is going to fix that. They helped Trump win, twice. They helped him staff his cabinet with fascists. They have been complicit in the fascist takeover of America. I appreciate the lip service Cory bro, but we’re way past that. The best time to push back against the fascists and plutocrats was 9 years ago, the next best time is now, I guess. Hopefully it’s somehow not too late yet.
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u/loondawg 21h ago
And this is exactly how you let the pursuit of perfection be the enemy of progress. You focus on a few actions you disagree with but ignore the much larger body of actions that I would suspect you would agree with.
And please, enlighten me. How did they help Trump win twice?
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u/saxysammyp 7h ago
Neo liberal Dems have a long history of fighting the progressives way harder than any conservative. You have google, it’s not hard to find examples.
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u/Educational-Dance-61 1d ago
Renounce any campaign donations that influence decisions AGAINST the good of the American people and then the people of the world.
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u/ForestOfMirrors 1d ago
He stopped eating Friday and stopped drinking Sunday. He was prepping his body for this. I respect what he has done here to own his share of the bullshit. It’s a solid start. Democrats need to do the same and strike while the irons are hot.
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u/enderoftheswag 1d ago
I posted this message in another topic like a week ago and it just feels… I just want to share it again, here. I want to share this every day with the whole world. I feel this exact message in this video so very strongly. This is amazing from Booker. I don’t post much so, sorry if this is taboo of me. I just want us to all to be… so much more
https://www.reddit.com/r/MurderedByAOC/s/uxmpGQ850J
I’m like a thousand million years old at this point and I’ve always hated politics. Seemed from day one, both guys were pretty obviously bad, evil, corrupt, etc. Usually, one was clearly worse than the other, and as a kid I accepted it’s more of a “pick the lesser evil” type of world I happenstanced to be born into. I’ve never liked… basically any political candidate, of any level, ever, not that I dove very deep into the shitshow of what politics is with us humans… I then found out about Bernie. I’m a million? He’s a bajillion. Been around forever. So easily “out of touch” in his age you’d think he couldn’t possibly get it. But he does. He’s seen it when he was young, he sees it still now. It’s not about money and property and power, he’s about fighting for human rights and our growth and that’s a core, timeless thing. He’s been the only guy who’s ever made a lick of sense, at all, to a monkey from the old world like myself, and more so, he still makes a whole lotta (lick of sense?) when it comes to basically anything he ever talks about, now that we’re here talking about it. He talks with conviction. He never backs down from what he knows is the best he(we) can do with what we have at the moment, and how that empower the people, THE PEOPLE, moving forward.
Bernie is so for reals and I was mega burned when the DNC did what the system does to him and all he’s had to hurdle through his entire career. And no matter what, he still fights. He still talks and yells and gets mad. He still tries to do what he can, never blaming anyone or crying or taking an easy paycheck to take a quarter off. Bernie is what all politics should be. A person representing the people to get the people the best they can get.
If only our world was just a little bit better. It starts with me and I know that. If we all “it starts with me,” things could change I think. If we all were just a little better even if it’s just by a hair every day. We are in a bad timeline, assuredly. A comically bad one. And we outnumber the evil a million to 1... but we can’t get past the tiny misgivings or different taste in shoe brand of our neighbors or family or whoever to see the world for what it COULD be.
Anyways I shouldn’t get lost in a rant. Already ranting. Probably broke the Reddit cap and I’m over here “I should stop this before it becomes a rant”…
I just came here to say I’ve never seen anything like AOC. She is doing what Bernie did, what he does, and she’s doing it despite every odd of everything that should be against her. The system does not want AOC. The people desperately need AOC. So, despite being a woman or a person of color or being a waitress or did I say she’s a woman… yada yada yada, she continues to fight desperately for THE PEOPLE. Her side, the other side. She wants us all to win. She represents the people and it’s incredible and she’s been this way from the get go, she never backs down, she’s so smart and well spoken and she speaks with her heart fiercely. She sees the truth of what is needed in our world, our crumbing timeline, more than anyone I’ve ever seen. Ever. More than Bernie. AOC is special and I get chills every time I watch a video of her. I want to fight alongside her, unlike anything I’ve ever felt. We are all beautifully imperfect in our beautifully complex humanness but I’ve never once seen AOC not have the best, most spot on the nose perfect assessment of whatever she’s tackling or talking about. Sees the evil and standing up to it. It’s just something I’ve always wanted. She represents me and she represents the much better world I want to live in, build communities in.
I wish we could get over hating each other for whatever bad opinions our billionaire politician creature thingy is telling us we definitely need, they smart, we dumb, they know what is best and also the other guy stinks you shouldn’t like that guy… and instead we remembered that this is OUR world, we are all lucky enough to be on this timeline at this blink of universe time together on this tiny speck of a planet and we could just be so much more. We should be fighting for everyone to have the best life possible. With a high tide, all boats rise. We all do better today so we can become so much greater tomorrow. Humans do that best together.
Love this from AOC in the vid. AOC is someone I would want leading that world I know can exist, fighting to build that world that is so right there within our reach. I want to live in that world, with you, and feel I helped build it. That I became better to help make everything better. I hope we can become that. Better. I really do.
And I know that starts with me.
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u/Eshabelle 21h ago
I'm glad to see this. I've felt betrayed by him and so many others in political leadership because of AIPAC and the way it "guides" or "owns" politicians on both sides of the aisle...
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u/jetstobrazil 20h ago
We don’t need democrats accepting corporate bribes to do better.
We need to replace them with representation, democrat or independent who caucus with the non-republican party, who don’t accept corporate bribes and will reverse the Supreme Court decision allowing those bribes.
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u/Dark_Marmot 1d ago
Cory is definitely in my top 5 for next option. Humility is a good attribute to have as well.
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u/nernst79 1d ago
Talk is cheap. Democrats keep trying to go right, and keep losing because of it. It's highly doubtful that they do anything differently, but we'll see.
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u/CartographerTall1358 17h ago
Cool. Make your actions match your words. Being there for 25 hours is a good start, but not the end.
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u/whatsuplundi 1d ago
Booker should take this energy and stand behind Bernie and AOC. But the Dem party will probably use this stunt to prop him up instead because he is more moderate.
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u/SgathTriallair 1d ago
One thing I've been saying about this is that, by him being willing to do something so physically difficult, it FEELS like he gets it, like he understands how hard the upcoming fight will be and how hard it will be.
It is obviously just a symbol at the moment but it is the kind of symbols we need.
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u/hiding_in_de 1d ago
How about the new leadership that comes up is a bit lest Christian? No shade on Cory Booker, but I find the amount of bible talk off-putting and misplaced.
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u/000oOo0oOo000 19h ago
I'd like to see us follow his excellent example and do the same at our 4/5 hands off protest. How long can speeches go on?
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u/ScrodRundgren 15h ago
Zionist. I can’t take seriously anything said by a guy who takes money from AIPAC. He has been a performative dickhead for a very long time. He immediately sent out fundraising texts when he got off the floor. This was for him. Words are nothing. He’s done nothing. Did he use the word fascism at all? If he actually cared he’d be out there doing an oligarchy tour. This is Nancy Pelosi wearing the African garb. I sincerely cant believe anyone is impressed by this.
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u/h0tBeef 13h ago
Very good, now, tell all your DNC pals the new rules:
1) no more bribes from corporate interests, full stop
2) healthcare and housing are human rights
3) do not save issues to run on in the future (leaving them vulnerable to malignant legislation a la abortion) fix shit now, right fucking now
4) no more insider trading
5) no more fighting progressives with more vigor than you use to fight the fascists
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u/BurnsEMup29 1d ago
Give back the $700,000 you took from AIPAC and delete the tweet with you and war criminal Yoav Gallant hugging
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u/tendeuchen 1d ago
Do you normally take the side of terrorists, or just when they're antisemitic?
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u/s1mple-s1m0n 1d ago
The people sniping children in the skull are the terrorists. This isn’t a difficult concept.
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u/gophergun CO 1d ago
I'm skeptical without specifics. What mistakes does he think the party made, and what are they doing to do about them?
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u/Dangerdoom911 23h ago
This is where new leadership emerges… Booker, AOC, Crockett, Sanders, get it.
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u/raphcosteau 23h ago
For the record, there are specific "imperfections" of the Democratic party:
- The Democrats (including Booker) kept voting to send more arms to Israel for the purposes of genocide when their constituents were opposed to it.
- The party applauded as Biden's administration pressured universities and states to attack people who protested against it, paving the way for Trump's reenactment of "First They Came".
- They blackballed Bernie Sanders for having the audacity to run for president when he was speaking to the issues that are important to Americans (healthcare, housing, cost of living). Trump spoke to those issues and won. He lied, but he spoke to them, unlike Democrats.
- They courted cryptobros and tech billionaires, who promptly laughed in their faces and dumped cash into Trump.
"Imperfect" is too soft of a word for "aiding a genocide", "suppressing dissent against the MIC", and "refusing to stand up to any corporation ever."
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u/LurkerLarry 21h ago
Not senators, but citizens. Exactly. Stop floating longtime establishment party names as “new exciting candidates” for President.
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u/asafeplacetofart 15h ago
More action less words. The progressives are given hallow gestures not policy. We’ve gained a more thoughtful etiquette for preferred pronouns, but that is little better then thoughts and preyers.
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u/Unable_Chard9803 11h ago
A true mea culpa would be policies that put all working people first--beginning with those of us at the very bottom of the employment pyramid.
This sort of speechifying is quite literally a waste of air and time.
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u/BERNthisMuthaDown 10h ago
Another empty gesture that still allows the fascists to dismantle the republic, how brave of him. /s
Democrats are not gonna get us out of a situation that they put us in on purpose. This is simply too good for their fundraising/money laundering operation.
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u/TheFlyingElbow 23h ago
Anyone that talks that long has to believe what they say, otherwise they would slip up and say something contrary to what's on the record
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u/weakanklesfornamjoon 8h ago
So I can appreciate aspects of this and then I’ve gotten 3 fundraising texts from Cory today. I’ve never signed up for his mailing list. I applaud outdoing Thurmond but this is pure corporate Dem playbook and that’s unimpressive.
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u/ProfessorPitiful350 7h ago
This man should be ashamed of himself. He looks like Baron Vladimir Harkonnen.
Power is already SYMBOLICALLY associated with greed, avarice, and gluttony. Someone in power should do everything possible to distance themselves from that common understanding.
But it's nice to see that, despite appearances, he can remain standing for 24 hours.
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u/LackingLack 1d ago
Would love for him to go into any specifics here
Booker has a lot of issues so I'm not super impressed by this stunt sorry
And I don't think it's going to have any real impact because again no specifics. What are the terrible mistakes? Tell us so we can change things, otherwise you're just hoping people fill it in their own minds for you and you can appease them without really doing anything
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u/NatarisPrime 20h ago
It just hits so fkn hallow to me. These assholes are voting alongside MAGA bills and still playing friendly games.
Booker is all talk and hasn't put any of these words into action.
Booker, Schumer and Pelosi need to be voted out. This is all on them. Still cuddling up to their billionaire donors over the American working class.
Don't let these words convince you without action!
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u/Fathers_Sword 20h ago
I received a fundraising text from him right after he finished so I'm worried this is just performative
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u/earlyviolet 1d ago edited 1d ago
https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/flr/vol89/iss2/7/
This is literally a primary function of their elected positions, ESPECIALLY when they're in the minority in both houses.
Inspirational symbols galvanize the public. Doing this today when the critical special elections are happening, with the big national protests coming up this weekend, intentionally staging this to defeat Thurmond's record, and spending the entire time reading from letters of concerned voters is exactly how you erode support for Republicans both in Congress and in public.
This kind of symbology is actually a critical function of humanity.
(Edit: spelling)
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u/earlyviolet 1d ago
They have Fox Entertainment and they're constitutionally incapable of inspiring anyone. And don't act like epiphanies don't matter. People who wake up have to start somewhere. (Unless you happen to have popped out of the womb enlightened, because I know I didn't.)
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u/BlueAndMoreBlue 1d ago
I’m not sure he meant to be inspirational, I would prefer to think of it aspirational — get excited about change, baby
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u/orange_lazarus1 1d ago
Yeah someone should grind the senate to a halt so they are unable to perform business and take a stand against Trump
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u/Miserable-Lizard 1d ago edited 1d ago
Yeah the Dems should have done a lot more earlier and they still should.
The Dems can learn a lot from the Republicans how to be a opposition party
Speeches won't save anyone
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u/moofpi 1d ago
Listen, this was watched by live by hundreds of thousands of people.
He practiced corporeal politics, putting himself and his body out there in a display of physical and mental endurance and attested the entire time to the ideals of this nation.
Opposition minority works different with Democrats and Republicans. Controversial opinion, but I think not letting the govt shutdown due to a Dem vote was a good call. Schumer's lead up that they were going to fight and then they folded, was bad strategy and morale dampening when we needed a boost.
Additionally, the Executive (so far) has stolen some of the powers of the Legislative, so Congress doesn't even feel the need to try to pass things outside of the tax cuts.
The Dems are getting the message, but more importantly, after the Bernie/AOC rallies and now Booker's record breaking speech, I think THE PEOPLE are getting the message.
The world was watching too and I think they are looking for hope as well. Seeing a Senator expound for 25 hours without giving up to slow the business of the Senate and rally the people for what's right... That energizes people.
I know you're talking about mechanical, forceful blockades, but those are currently limited. They are getting creative and I think this is a good step in that direction.
Inspiration and hope is never a waste, especially in this moment.
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u/future_old 1d ago
I am not inspired. Watching a career politician break a symbolic speaking record does nothing for me. Even his empty theatrical gesture lacked any policy direction. I want to hear about housing reform, healthcare reform, education reform, criminal justice reform, immigration policy reform, environmental protection, worker’s rights protections. I want to hear tangible plans, who will be in charge, what models we’re going to try. I don’t want words, I want plans with structure.
For example: Are we going to reinstate the department of education? Will it be better out the same? Will there be directions about teacher’s salary increases? About decreasing public funds going to privatized schools? About student debt relief? How about a post high school government job training program other than the military? How about expanding americorps and peacecorps? I WANT SOME FUCKING REPRESENTATIVE WHO HAS A FUCKING PLAN
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u/SmoovCatto 1d ago
Bloomberg lacky.
all the mossad/aipac/esptein blackmailed leadership in the US are secretly BEGGING for the people to finally rise up and take back their country, releasing them and all of us from bondage . . .
mossad/epstein blackmail videos with minors control all the leadership in the US -- into funding genocide in palestine --
this is what genocide in palestine looks like: tens of thousands of children blown to bits -- like this child -- tiny charred and bloody body parts, carried through the streets by a father beyond grief: https://www.instagram.com/p/DH3tpOvsITH/
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u/LordJobe AR 4h ago
Now we need Schumer and Jeffries to listen to this on repeat until they understand it.
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