There are damned few heroes, and no, Cory Booker isn't one of them.
I liked him before he came to Congress, but in office he's been a blah, one of many worthless Dems, and dead wrong on numerous issues — including Gaza.
I'll give him kudos for the longwinded speech, without even any snark, but it only added up to a day's delay. To actually be effective, he should've yielded the floor to another Democrat who'd filibuster, and then another. Where are the rest of the Dems? For that matter, where was Booker until Monday night?
It’s really hard to care a ton about a war a world away when Trump is quite literally melting our government and economy from the inside out. I guess that’s part of the plan, but the people that didn’t vote for Kamala because of Palestine are partially to blame for Trump returning to power.
you can't afford things and parents in gaza are collecting their children's body parts in ziplock bags so that they have something to bury; they're totally on the same level and fuck those people who didn't want to be complicit with that genocide.
The right most of all want to be recognised as centrists, so when the overton window eventually shifts they can safely genocide everyone else without being labelled directly as fascists
I also saw that while he was on his feet making himself visible, the committee that he normally chairs was digging into the same tech bros who put money in his pocket.
It's no wonder that American voters didn't want to vote for the Bourgeois Liberal Party, even though the alternative was literal Fascism.
The Democrats have constantly misread the situation very badly. For the typical voter, not the bourgeois liberals, not the MAGA brain-rotted dummies but the average poor working class voter the choice was:
Vote Liberal Bourgeois and maybe things might tick along for another couple of years with the rich bourgeois liberals profiting off you and telling you how good you've got it
Vote Trump, you'll definitely be fucked but all the bourgeois liberals will be fucked as well.
I mean sanity suggests that the first offer meets the self-preservation criteria better but it's not what you call an attractive offer, is it?