Considering Booker's recent pro-genocide votes, maybe don't rush to get excited about him.
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I also love how they refuse to acknowledge the existence of millennials. Being a millennial and watching Gen X pretend like they aren't chasing the financial high of the .com bubble.
He also got an excop around security while he was carrying gun...
Is unapologetically pro-genocide...
And a whole host of other major issues the Dem voting base don't like.
Booker is not someone who should be leading the party, he's someone who should be getting primaried.
Don't let them tell us we need a conservative candidate, there's zero logic behind that. We need a progressive candidate because that's what will drive Dem turnout.
Edit:
And this article is saying Booker likes hip-hop because he was born in 1969?
Cory Booker is a member of the hip-hop generation. Born in 1969, Booker is a member of the Gen X demographic group who came of age listening to artists such as Public Enemy. These artists did more than simply entertain crowds; they also taught Black history to listeners. Indeed, historian Pero G. Dagbovie notes that Black Americans who were born between 1965 and 1984 seemed to be shaped by social and cultural focuses that were conducive to Black cultural nationalism. The embrace of Black history as a political tool was present in the music – i.e., KRS-One; Queen Latifah, and X-clan. And movies like “Malcolm X” and “Boyz n the Hood” also provided ready access to conversations about racism, the achievements of the Civil Rights Movement, and the continued need to fight racism.
Like, that seems pretty racist on top of being nonsensical....
He's a super rich kid from a very privileged life, he may have listened to some early hip-hop, but so did fucking everyone else regardless of race
I'm skeptical about him too.
Re: hip-hop, I think the answer to why he likes it is in the quote itself.
The embrace of Black history as a political tool
It's very possibly genuine, he was in his teens and early twenties as it blew up. But given his record beyond the speech, I think it's reasonable to have doubt.
His parent were IBM execs and he went to Standford and Yale...
Any connection to hip-hop he had was the same as anyone else in a gated community.
I can still remember when Cory Booker blocked cheaper drug imports from Canada on some bullshit about how they don’t have acceptable safety standards, and I still think of him as the Senator from the pharmaceutical industry. I do not trust him and the physical feat of the filibuster was a superficial one that accomplished absolutely nothing. It was a virtue signaling performance.
This was my exact reaction too. Supposedly he stopped taking pharmaceutical money but he still takes lots of other corporate money. While I was searching, an AI summary said he was a business friendly progressive which seems like an oxymoron to me.
But whatever. I like performative over submissive.
This headline made me vomit in my mouth.
Yeah, more than a little racist. What's next, calling him articulate?
His ability to stand for over 24 hours is his only good quality.
If only he would use that power for a meaningful filibuster...
That's how you know it's performative
To filibuster you just need to say "_____ would filibuster this".
Ideally using your own name, or someone else's, but sometimes even saying "someone" will is enough to stop a vote from happening.
It takes virtually no effort to filibuster something meaningful, and instead he did this bullshit and mainstream media all demanded we clap for a neoliberals accomplishing nothing.
The lavish attention and adderall made it his pleasure.
Barf. Pretty sure that "good authority" is just a euphemism for liberal fascism.
https://www.blackagendareport.com/cory-bookers-boot-licking-butt-kissing-and-buck-dancing-zionism
Gen X are just the next boomers.
Gen-X went 10 points for Trump in 2024.
Gen-X isn't going to do shit.