How to handle a little man

Cory Booker tells Kash Patel in a fiery exchange, "You may be in charge of the FBI, but I'm not afraid of you!"

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— Raider (@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social) September 16, 2025 at 2:06 PM

Fuck Donald Trump

Peace,

emaycee

 

An American hero getting in good trouble

Sen. Booker’s speech was a substantive and moral account of this moment. He did not read the phone book. He did not babble. For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity. What will you do?

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— Sherrilyn Ifill (@sifill.bsky.social) April 1, 2025 at 7:45 PM

Fuck Donald Trump

Peace,

emaycee

 

Once more with Democrats making America greater

60 million children benefited from the expanded Child Tax Credit. It is time to permanently expand this benefit for children in America.

— Sen. Cory Booker (@SenBooker) July 13, 2023

Republicans = Nazis

Peace,

emaycee

 

Splat

Whoopsie...

I'll be the first to admit I'm not a fan of Cory Booker (Corporatist Dem, has advocated for charter schools), and I've thought since there were just rumors that he'd get in the race for the Democratic nomination that he had an exceedingly small chance of getting it (and the numbers so far back it up), but to have him go on ABC News today and say that Elizabeth Warren's ideas for breaking up High Tech monopolies sounds like Donald Trump is so beyond the pale that frankly I just can't let it pass.

In fairness, Booker immediately said he wasn't comparing Warren to Trump...but fuck that, we all know that the media runs with bullshit statements like that without giving the proper context and Booker is fully aware of it.  While it's all well and good that most Democratic candidates have pledged not to say bad things about one another and support the eventual nominee (except for our "savior" Joe Biden), let's face it, we have a handful of shitty candidates running for the nomination and there is nothing wrong with pointing out that they are shitty candidates.

Cory Booker is a shitty candidate.

He will do nothing to alleviate the plights of average Americans, will do nothing to stem Corporate America run amok, won't take on Wall Street, won't help our schools, and won't make America better off in the long run.  He'll spend his time spit shining the ass of every corporation in America and if we're lucky we'll get free doughnuts on Fridays for his efforts.  Thanks, but no fucking thanks.

Elizabeth Warren is an expert on corporate malfeasance and will run circles around Cory Booker in protecting Americans from their con games, as well as insuring a more level playing field for average Americans.

Meanwhile, if Booker is lucky maybe someday he'll get hired by some Can't We All Get Along think tank and he can go on yakety-yakking about how Corporate America isn't the enemy to the three people left in America who actually believe that bullshit.

Fuck Donald Trump,
emaycee

Some actual good news

From 2012 to 2013, homelessness in America fell by 3.7 percent.

This is really amazing because, as the above link notes, the homeless don't vote, don't donate to political campaigns, and it's not a problem most Americans are concerned about.  But with the likes of new HUD Secreatry Julian Castro, New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, and Michelle Obama speaking out about how to end homelessness in America, maybe a change is coming.

And you take your victories where you can get them--especially if you're one of the 600,000 Americans who are homeless on any given night.

Peace,
emaycee

The "intelligent" wing of our party

"It's an innovative concept.  An intelligent conversation with the American people.  Imagine that."

This is how Digby today exhorted her readers to tune into Geek Out Live with Rush Holt, who is one of the candidates running against Cory Booker to be the Democratic nominee for the Senate from New Jersey (and in all likelihood, the next Senator from New Jersey).  Digby also said the race wasn't over and asked her readers to donate to Mr. Holt's campaign.

To put it succinctly, Digby is full of shit.

I'm no fan of Cory Booker, and would really rather see Mr. Holt in the Senate.  But the plain truth of the matter is that this election is a few weeks away, Cory Booker has a ton of money in the bank, and he leads Holt, as of July 14th, 52.5% to 8.8%.  This race is not fucking winnable.  If one wishes to listen to a good progressive have an intelligent conversation about the state of America, by all means do so.  Anything further than that is about as foolish as Tea Party dolts who nominate deep red candidates to run in deep blue states' Senate races.

I don't mean to be an ass, but my guess would be that there are a lot of Liberals who a) have family obligations, b) have full-time jobs, and c) don't have a lot of disposable income.  Anyone asking them to waste their valuable time and resources on a quixotic quest for another in a long line of demoralizing losses might as well be asking them to spend their time watching "The Price Is Right" and flushing ten dollar bills down the toilet.  It would do equally as much good.

How much better to invite them to particpate in races where their efforts and money can actually make a diffrerence, rather than propping up one's intellectual bona fides (the opening quote says it all) at the expense of the betterment of the American people.

Peace,
emaycee

Amateur Hour

Wow--how to do major damage to your political bona fides in just a few short minutes.  Well done, Mayor Cory Booker!  At the start of today, you were a rising star in the Democratic Party, but after appearing on Meet the Press and calling President Obama's attack ads on Mitt Romney's record at Bain Capital "nauseating" you've pretty much lost the base--permanently.  You can't be a progressive on some issues and not on the ones that matter most--mainly looking after the 99%--and expect our support.  That's exactly the problem we have with the "Liberal" media.

I have no doubt you'll probably move on to bigger and better things--but today you've cost yourself a lot of money over the years (the base donates) and quite a few votes (the base shows up in huge numbers).  But even more important, you've lost their hearts.  We fight a lot harder when we believe.

Nice try on walking back those "nauseating" comments you made--when you end up as republican fodder for Willard's campaign, it's way too little, way too late.

Peace,
emaycee