Last night proved that claims made by our hyperbolic media--and by some pearl clutchers inside the party-- that the Democratic "brand" is destroyed and the party is in chaos have been way overblown.
Great summary Michelangelo! Corey Booker stood up for what Democrats are about regarding this misbegotten presidency. He caused some Good Trouble. John Lewis was right there along side him all the way. That's the first part of the Democratic vision. We need more of this kind of ongoing visibility day by day. That's what Leadership requires now. We also need a better America for all, not just the wealthy or the elite. So we need another 24 hour marathon speech in the Senate proclaiming the second part of the vision. Who will do that speech? Who's it to be?
I worked for the guy in Newark's communications office for seven years. Getting his name spelled right in the media was a death struggle for me.
One time a reporter called us up, asking to do an interview with "Mayor Booker in his Jersey City Office."
I told her that "SENATOR BOOKER" was no longer Mayor, and he had been Mayor of NEWARK, and not Jersey City, and his Senate office was in Newark, and not Jersey City.
She apologized profusely, showing profuse embarrassment. I did NOT ask her where she had been for the past 10 years, or where she got her education.
Or how much she knew about Kim Kardashian's nail care line. Modern journalists seem more familiar with such trivialities than important stuff.
Actually, I didn't have much choice...I'm civil service. His predecessor, Sharpe James, hired me.
Sharpe also gave me a merit raise, civil service status, and made me "Employee of the Month." The closest he ever came to asking me to do anything illegal was to print out a campaign flyer for his son John Sharpe James on the copier in our office, as his was broken. So I am fond of Sharpe.
Ironically, Cory's first press secretary ordered us -- all Sharpe holdovers -- to do illegal research on the private lives of reporters who covered Cory, so she could use them against those reporters. She told us that if we got caught, she would accept the blame. We knew that was nonsense...she would hurl us out the window.
We went straight to her boss and said, "We are not violating the law." The big boss hauled in the press secretary and put an end to that nonsense. However, that big boss was just as idiotic...I was glad to be seen the last of both.
They were poster girls for personal ambition. The press secretary thought she was working for President Booker, and told us to prepare statements from Cory on irrelevant national and foreign issues. I sneered, "Oat blight in Bulgaria...will it affect Newark?"
I couldn’t agree with you more! I’m so sick and tired of everyone saying that the democrats are elitist and out of touch with the American people. The media definitely drives these narratives while the republicans lie to the American people and as far as I can remember have done nothing to ever help the American people. They give tax cuts to the rich and then say they don’t have any money for the programs that we need never saying it’s because they’re letting the rich pay nothing in taxes! The democrats have done a lot for the American people and have tried to do a lot more with republicans fighting them every step of the way yet they’re treated like crap. Thanks for your article😊
The Democrats gave us everything that benefits society. Trump is shrinking government into nothingness. What happens when there is a natural disaster? pandemic? Nothing, if Republicans are at the helm. The problem is Newsmax, Fox News, and others. Their viewerships are enormous, and they are liars skilled at brainwashing their viewers, and their viewers believe every lie they hear.
Cory Booker’s display of passion about the dire state our country is in, broke Strom Thurmond’s record for length, and it was a powerful show of democratic leadership. But the flip side is that most Americans don’t know who Thurmond is, or what he represented (as recently as 1957!!!) Speaking against passing the Civil Rights Act in 1957, Thurmond was a segregationist who said “negroes…are not so well qualified to vote as white people.” Drumpf’s erasing the “real” American history will not allow Americans to learn from its past. Hopefully Cory Booker’s feat will call attention to the history of racism in America.
The Civil War should have ended with real, honest equality for all Americans, but remnants of discrimination and prejudice were allowed to fester. It took over 100 years for impactful civil rights legislation to happen, and even then, it was met with resistance by some. Now, extremist WCNs have been emboldened. IMO Sakina, the situation will only change when people acknowledge America’s racist history and understand its effects on society.
Totally agree, and let's add the near-genocide of Indigenous People in the Americas that marked the beginnings of the so-called USA. As my mentor once said, an excellent Psychologist now retired: We are all affected by a "collective trauma" here in America. White people are not immune, although the effects are more directly felt by the descendants of Indigenous People and formerly-enslaved Blacks.
I notice on Axios and other places, that they think the Democrats will be finished by the 2020 Census, which will reflect people moving from Blue states to Red ones, and that will empower the GOP.
However, that assumes that all the people who move change their voter registration.
They might -- when Americans moved from inner cities to the suburbs in the 1950s, they abandoned the Democratic Party for the Republicans, as they were no longer dependent on inner-city Democratic political organizations, and now backed a party that supported lower property taxes on their quarter-acre lot homes. Worse, they did not want those "horrible Negro people" moving into those suburbs, and that meant voting Republican.
Yet I think Axios et al. are wrong...the voters will not flip as much. The Bloated Yam is a single-person personality cult. His failures are showing.
The real story—we haven’t even tried in FL-01 since the last Dem to hold it retired, and got to 40 percent. A district that red still on the board would be like a seat in Baltimore or Boston even being competitive.
I am a Wisconsin voter from a rural township outside Madison. Yesterday I was #874 voting at 4 pm. So before people came after work. Our township has 901 households, most are 2 person households. So that is an incredible turn out and shows people were concerned. I do find it hard to understand how Crawford voters could vote to put the voter ID requirement in the state constitution though. It will likely cause problems down the road. (We already have to show a photo ID.)
Also my husband and I got to meet another WI Supreme Court justice on Monday in a small group meeting of area progressives. She was so down to earth and easy to talk to. She could not comment on why the court turned down the suit against musk and his bribes unfortunately.
We will be attending the protest rally Saturday. Doing what we can to fight the mad emperor and his henchman.
Yay for Wisconsin. Musk wasted his $. Hoped we could pick up 1 House seat in FL, but there are just too many wealthy Repukes here in FL, and money talks.
In reality the left was too split to make simple decision to decide stopping Trump was the number 1 thing that needed to be done, and ALL pet peeves needed to be abandoned in favor of that. I believed that's what we did in 2020 and I had hoped stopping Trump would carry the day once more in 2024 but the Gaza war and other concerns, that could have been delt with after the election were used as reasons not to vote or not to vote for Harris. If we get power again and split a bunch of different ways until we lose it again, we will fall back into the same old trap that keeps us from increasing the power when we have it. Where is our Lyndon Johson? I applaud our victory here in Wisconsin of our new SC judge.
Here, here!! As for 2024, the difference was 1.4% and no majority. It has been proven that Putin interfered with 2016, correct? It seems to me the KGB had 8 years to improve their methods. Perhaps that gap could be explained thusly, no?
The turnout numbers tell the tale. If we really want to win, we have to stop blaming something and someone else for our own low voter turnout. It seems really simple to vote for the candidate that has the best chance of beating Trump. How hard is that? Using simple math we could have defeated Trump in 2016 by not worrying about Hillary's past that was distorted by the right anyway and just VOTE FOR THE CANDIDATE THAT HAS BEST CHANCE TO DEFEAT A FASCIST takeover of America. Sometimes it seems the left believes there's always next time when our savior of America is bound to appear and rid America of bad people.
Great summary Michelangelo! Corey Booker stood up for what Democrats are about regarding this misbegotten presidency. He caused some Good Trouble. John Lewis was right there along side him all the way. That's the first part of the Democratic vision. We need more of this kind of ongoing visibility day by day. That's what Leadership requires now. We also need a better America for all, not just the wealthy or the elite. So we need another 24 hour marathon speech in the Senate proclaiming the second part of the vision. Who will do that speech? Who's it to be?
Richard
Fenton, Missouri
It's "Cory Booker."
I worked for the guy in Newark's communications office for seven years. Getting his name spelled right in the media was a death struggle for me.
One time a reporter called us up, asking to do an interview with "Mayor Booker in his Jersey City Office."
I told her that "SENATOR BOOKER" was no longer Mayor, and he had been Mayor of NEWARK, and not Jersey City, and his Senate office was in Newark, and not Jersey City.
She apologized profusely, showing profuse embarrassment. I did NOT ask her where she had been for the past 10 years, or where she got her education.
Or how much she knew about Kim Kardashian's nail care line. Modern journalists seem more familiar with such trivialities than important stuff.
It's ALL entertainment coverage now.
Absolutely true...Americans are more interested in the Kardashian family and "Dancing With the Stars" and "The Bachelorette" than Climate Change.
Whoops! Sorry about the misspelling. Should have checked it out. So good you got to work with him. I admire him a lot. Richard
Actually, I didn't have much choice...I'm civil service. His predecessor, Sharpe James, hired me.
Sharpe also gave me a merit raise, civil service status, and made me "Employee of the Month." The closest he ever came to asking me to do anything illegal was to print out a campaign flyer for his son John Sharpe James on the copier in our office, as his was broken. So I am fond of Sharpe.
Ironically, Cory's first press secretary ordered us -- all Sharpe holdovers -- to do illegal research on the private lives of reporters who covered Cory, so she could use them against those reporters. She told us that if we got caught, she would accept the blame. We knew that was nonsense...she would hurl us out the window.
We went straight to her boss and said, "We are not violating the law." The big boss hauled in the press secretary and put an end to that nonsense. However, that big boss was just as idiotic...I was glad to be seen the last of both.
They were poster girls for personal ambition. The press secretary thought she was working for President Booker, and told us to prepare statements from Cory on irrelevant national and foreign issues. I sneered, "Oat blight in Bulgaria...will it affect Newark?"
I couldn’t agree with you more! I’m so sick and tired of everyone saying that the democrats are elitist and out of touch with the American people. The media definitely drives these narratives while the republicans lie to the American people and as far as I can remember have done nothing to ever help the American people. They give tax cuts to the rich and then say they don’t have any money for the programs that we need never saying it’s because they’re letting the rich pay nothing in taxes! The democrats have done a lot for the American people and have tried to do a lot more with republicans fighting them every step of the way yet they’re treated like crap. Thanks for your article😊
The Democrats gave us everything that benefits society. Trump is shrinking government into nothingness. What happens when there is a natural disaster? pandemic? Nothing, if Republicans are at the helm. The problem is Newsmax, Fox News, and others. Their viewerships are enormous, and they are liars skilled at brainwashing their viewers, and their viewers believe every lie they hear.
As Joy Reid says in her “Reels” video, republicons want us to “figure it out.”
Cory Booker’s display of passion about the dire state our country is in, broke Strom Thurmond’s record for length, and it was a powerful show of democratic leadership. But the flip side is that most Americans don’t know who Thurmond is, or what he represented (as recently as 1957!!!) Speaking against passing the Civil Rights Act in 1957, Thurmond was a segregationist who said “negroes…are not so well qualified to vote as white people.” Drumpf’s erasing the “real” American history will not allow Americans to learn from its past. Hopefully Cory Booker’s feat will call attention to the history of racism in America.
So true, Larry!
The Civil War should have ended with real, honest equality for all Americans, but remnants of discrimination and prejudice were allowed to fester. It took over 100 years for impactful civil rights legislation to happen, and even then, it was met with resistance by some. Now, extremist WCNs have been emboldened. IMO Sakina, the situation will only change when people acknowledge America’s racist history and understand its effects on society.
Totally agree, and let's add the near-genocide of Indigenous People in the Americas that marked the beginnings of the so-called USA. As my mentor once said, an excellent Psychologist now retired: We are all affected by a "collective trauma" here in America. White people are not immune, although the effects are more directly felt by the descendants of Indigenous People and formerly-enslaved Blacks.
I notice on Axios and other places, that they think the Democrats will be finished by the 2020 Census, which will reflect people moving from Blue states to Red ones, and that will empower the GOP.
However, that assumes that all the people who move change their voter registration.
They might -- when Americans moved from inner cities to the suburbs in the 1950s, they abandoned the Democratic Party for the Republicans, as they were no longer dependent on inner-city Democratic political organizations, and now backed a party that supported lower property taxes on their quarter-acre lot homes. Worse, they did not want those "horrible Negro people" moving into those suburbs, and that meant voting Republican.
Yet I think Axios et al. are wrong...the voters will not flip as much. The Bloated Yam is a single-person personality cult. His failures are showing.
The real story—we haven’t even tried in FL-01 since the last Dem to hold it retired, and got to 40 percent. A district that red still on the board would be like a seat in Baltimore or Boston even being competitive.
I am a Wisconsin voter from a rural township outside Madison. Yesterday I was #874 voting at 4 pm. So before people came after work. Our township has 901 households, most are 2 person households. So that is an incredible turn out and shows people were concerned. I do find it hard to understand how Crawford voters could vote to put the voter ID requirement in the state constitution though. It will likely cause problems down the road. (We already have to show a photo ID.)
Also my husband and I got to meet another WI Supreme Court justice on Monday in a small group meeting of area progressives. She was so down to earth and easy to talk to. She could not comment on why the court turned down the suit against musk and his bribes unfortunately.
We will be attending the protest rally Saturday. Doing what we can to fight the mad emperor and his henchman.
Yay for Wisconsin. Musk wasted his $. Hoped we could pick up 1 House seat in FL, but there are just too many wealthy Repukes here in FL, and money talks.
In reality the left was too split to make simple decision to decide stopping Trump was the number 1 thing that needed to be done, and ALL pet peeves needed to be abandoned in favor of that. I believed that's what we did in 2020 and I had hoped stopping Trump would carry the day once more in 2024 but the Gaza war and other concerns, that could have been delt with after the election were used as reasons not to vote or not to vote for Harris. If we get power again and split a bunch of different ways until we lose it again, we will fall back into the same old trap that keeps us from increasing the power when we have it. Where is our Lyndon Johson? I applaud our victory here in Wisconsin of our new SC judge.
Here, here!! As for 2024, the difference was 1.4% and no majority. It has been proven that Putin interfered with 2016, correct? It seems to me the KGB had 8 years to improve their methods. Perhaps that gap could be explained thusly, no?
The turnout numbers tell the tale. If we really want to win, we have to stop blaming something and someone else for our own low voter turnout. It seems really simple to vote for the candidate that has the best chance of beating Trump. How hard is that? Using simple math we could have defeated Trump in 2016 by not worrying about Hillary's past that was distorted by the right anyway and just VOTE FOR THE CANDIDATE THAT HAS BEST CHANCE TO DEFEAT A FASCIST takeover of America. Sometimes it seems the left believes there's always next time when our savior of America is bound to appear and rid America of bad people.
Cory Booker is a Zionist 🐖🐖🐷🐷🐖 end of story
🎶🎹🎺 ….Michael Row the boat ashore, hallelujah…..we are winning! Keep it up!