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[–] lupusblackfur@lemmy.world 212 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Including Cory Booker... 🤷‍♂️ 🙄

Was everything he did recently just as performative as with MAGAts??

Way to put up roadblocks and speedbumps when it really counts Dems... Feckless Fucks. 🖕 🖕

[–] ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 83 points 1 year ago (4 children)

No shit it was. He wants to run for president and he knows that stunt will make headlines but this will be buried in comments where the headline is “16 democrats vote for trump nominee” (aka exactly what is happening here)

Booker is classic neoliberal, no ethics or morals, guided by money and power. 10-15 years ago he was deeply in the pocket of the pharmaceutical industry because they are huge in NJ. Then his aspirations went higher and he realized that association was harmful, at that point he had connections that made him no longer reliant on their cash, so he shed them. It’s not growth, it’s a calculated move

[–] redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 1 year ago

I had hoped he was going for redemption. Feckless moron doesn't have a snowballs chance in hell of being president

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 11 points 1 year ago

I wonder who he's going to pretend to date for his next run.

[–] nickiwest@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

I recall that he was also in favor of charter schools, which made him non-viable for me years ago.

I hoped that maybe he had a real change of heart last month, but I guess that was just a publicity stunt.

[–] waylandyr@lemm.ee 70 points 1 year ago

Of course it was performative, it all is.

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 35 points 1 year ago

Of course it was. It was just a political stunt to pump up his street cred as a warrior, in advance of an eventual announcement for a presidential campaign.

Then he votes for the MAGA Nazis.

He's a collaborator.

[–] wpb@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Yes it was! And please look in folks' comment histories, the tankies were the first ones to call this out.

[–] 3abas@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

Keep that energy, know your enemies, all of them.

Never forget, next time they do a performance remember!