Cory Booker Ripped After Voting to Confirm Ivanka’s Father-in-Law
No other Democrat senator supported convicted felon Charles Kushner for a top diplomatic role.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/cory-booker-ripped-after-voting-to-confirm-ivankas-father-in-law-charles-kushner/Open linkView original on lemmy.world
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Jesus fucking Christ Democrats are worthless.
Corporate Democrat and slippery shit Corey Booker proves once again to be all bluster, goes against his words and again votes yes to confirm another disgraced slimeball much to the chagrin of his party and constituents
His sincerity has been lacking for awhile now. This kind of puts the final nail in. There is no reason in the world that would be okay that he approved this guy, other than he hit the wrong button by mistake.
He was always in big pharms pocket. He just did a good job at tricking people who didn't follow him closely because he makes himself very seen and vocal at rallies and protests that aren't against people who line his pockets.
That's not representing the people, that's representing the corporations that are bribing(?), extorting(?) him to vote that way.
So what you're telling me is, it's okay to sacrifice the rest of the country for your own state. Let's also know for a fact that pharma would pick up and leave if it was feasibly possible because it was cheaper, no matter how he votes.
So I understand you likely are against any universal healthcare in our country? Because of jobs?
There's always more healthcare staff needed everywhere, maybe if education and trainings for those jobs wasn't so expensive...
Not every person in New Jersey works for big pharma. There are other folks too, Booker should be representing all of them, not just the ones who pay him off.
You're also assuming he did it for pharma. We don't know.
Representing the people is representing the people.
Representing the interests of the mega corps that is trying to extract labor from that populace while also overcharging for their product is not representing those people that perform the labor and but the product.
This is not complicated
They sometimes overlap.
They also often conflict.
You're acting like they are always in lockstep
Booker once again proving to us how much of a fake progressive he was. He’s probably getting a good laugh out of this vote over lunch with Fetterman today.
They are all lining their pockets.
Wow I'm surprised this hasn't been scrubbed yet.
What was the point of all of that filibustering, if he was just going to act like a corrupt douchebag? These dudes are always slimy. Didn't he save someone from a burning house and date Rosario Dawson? What a waste. I would be surprised if he was even straight at this point.
The point was to distract. There was an investigation into him being published at the same time. Booker only cares about himself.
It was a performative spectacle to get his name in the news. Few of our elected officials have any actual skillset for good governance. They have a skillset for getting elected.
To swindle the public into thinking he's against any of this. During that he still praised Israel.
Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives
The Democrats are complicit
The only thing worse than Booker's ill-conceived vote is that Dem leadership is so failed at this point it can't get everyone on the same page, ever.
I need to add too, this is a fucked up headline - I don’t know why the it's ‘Ivanka’s father in law’ either. We all know Charles Kushner by his own misdeeds, don't we?
Honestly, no. Never heard of the guy before this. Other than spawning Jared, what has he done?
Oh man you should read up, he's a real piece of work https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Kushner
Thanks for the link. Looks like the shit apple doesn't fall far from the shit tree.
Bernie needs to retire already.
He's eighty-three.
I love how you got downvoted for posting a factual number.
Bernie bros in 2025 is a cult, you can’t reason with them or point out their contradictions cause they just downvote you and continue their hypocrisy
Let me just throw out all at once these idioms about this guy.
All talk and no action
All sizzle and no steak
All foam and no beer
All glitter and no gold
All tail and no cock
All fart and no turd
All broth and no beef
All smoke and no fire
All mask and no measure
All rhyme and no rhythm
All sound and no fury
All squawk and no scratch
All frank and no beans
Stolen from a Google search.
There was something else that came up a while back that made me look sideways at Booker, and now this.
HE GOT SO RIPPED. RIP HIM!
As long as he isn't slammed, slammed is so much worse than ripped
He was absolutely shredded! Yoked to the max! Built like a brick shithouse!
Oh, he just ruffled some feathers. Another day in Congress.
Cory Booker has been and will always be a gigantic phony. Pure performance art at every step. I mean he's dating Rosario Dawson, like every normal, morally grounded man of the people would do.
Republican nepotism.
50 / 51 Republicans voting yes.
44 / 45 Democrats voting no.
"Democrats are bad." "It's the ratchet effect." "They're all against us."
They just hate Trump as much as we do.
Reminder that neither Biden nor Kamala said no to Israel. If they aren't enemies, they're at least self-serving cowards. Biden didn't use his immunity to bolster the middle class, he used it on his own family and half-ass some debt forgiveness.
They lost two elections because they ignored wealth inequality and labor unions in favor of virtue signalling and petty culture wars that all failed (woooooke!).
All I see are two enemies fighting it out. Fuck em both. America deserves better.
I get anxiety thinking about thinking about "two sides." It's like alarm bells going off. Us vs them, simple and easy to understand explanation for current event, anything a frustrated or cynical person would generate automatically, etc.
TWO. SIIIIDES.
We're being spit roasted.
Weird how everyone mocks the “both sides” people, even when both sides jump on board the nepotism train.
Because it's not "both sides." There are three sides, here. You've got Republicans, who are universally awful. Then you've got corporatist Democrats, who are also universally awful, although marginally less so. Finally, you have actual Democrats like AOC, who aren't awful in the slightest.
The "both sides" people never differentiate between the second two groups. What we need is more of group #3 and less of groups #1 and #2, but pretending all we have is #1 and #2 is bullshit that doesn't help anyone.
When the corporate democrats have full control of the party it effectively eliminates group #3
Let me know when the true
scotsmandemocrats have power over the party.This is just the "few bad apples" argument for police reform. Only for political reform.
I'm here for group three
The revolution is basically inevitable now. May take decades before anything meaningful changes for the people, but it's suffering is inevitable.
The dems are complicit, as a youth I was an independent. Bernie got me to register Dem, and I've never felt so betrayed, betrayed by this party constantly. I'm out. Its going to get worse before it gets better, sucks but, here weeeeee ah goooo
@Redditsux Turning the Executive branch into a corrupt family business again must be unacceptable to every American democrat.
Didn't Booker learn a thing from Trump's inexcusable 1st disaster term & stone-cold Jared's antisocial performance during the Coronavirus pandemic?
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/09/jared-kushner-let-the-markets-decide-covid-19-fate
#Trump #CriminalNetwork #Corruption #ObstructionOfUSGovernment #AmericaDeservesBetter #RuleOfLaw #Law #Justice #Democracy #Freedom #USPol #USPolitics #RaiseYourVoice #UnitedInDiversity #StrongerTogether #WeThePeople
Fuck the Democrat party. Done with all of the ones in that party who approve of this fascism going on.
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It's a diplomatic role. Maybe Booker was just strategically keeping him off the roster for potential SecDef nominations later.
Don’t make excuses for corrupt nepotism.
Vote Blue No Matter Who! strikes again.