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.
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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."
Dems care about 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.
Fuck the Democrat party. Done with all of the ones in that party who approve of this fascism going on.
Jesus fucking Christ Democrats are worthless.
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.
To swindle the public into thinking he's against any of this. During that he still praised Israel.
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.
The point was to distract. There was an investigation into him being published at the same time. Booker only cares about himself.
Wow I'm surprised this hasn't been scrubbed yet.
03-04-05 -- Kushner, Charles -- Sentencing -- News Release
Political Contributor and Developer Charles Kushner Sentenced to Maximum 24 Months for Witness Retaliation and Other Crimes
NEWARK - Real estate developer and political contributor Charles Kushner was sentenced today to 24 months in prison for his pleas of guilty to assisting in the filing of false tax returns, retaliating against a cooperating witness and making false statements to the Federal Election Commission, U.S. Attorney Christopher J. Christie announced.
Calling Kushner's crime "disgraceful and reprehensible," U.S. District Judge Jose L. Linares sentenced Kushner to the top of the eligible range - 18 to 24 months - under the his plea agreement with the government.
"The court of law was the great equalizer for Mr. Kushner, who had obviously convinced himself that his power, influence and immense wealth put him above the law," Christie said. "We are very pleased that justice was done."
Judge Linares ordered Kushner, 50, of Livingston, to surrender to the federal Bureau of Prisons by May 9 to begin serving his sentence. Judge Linares also fined Kushner $40,000, the maximum amount as determined under U.S. Sentencing Guidelines.
On Aug. 18, Kushner pleaded guilty to 16 counts of assisting in the filing of false tax returns, one count of retaliating against a cooperating witness and one count of making false statements to the FEC.
Kushner admitted then that, as chairman of Kushner Companies, he assisted in filing false tax returns claiming over $1 million in partnership charitable contributions as office expenses, causing losses to the IRS of between $200,000 and $325,000.
Kushner further admitted at his plea hearing that he devised a scheme to retaliate against a cooperating witness - his sister - and her husband by having a prostitute seduce the husband and covertly filming them having sex. Kushner admitted that he paid a private investigator $25,000 to arrange for the seduction and videotaping of the cooperating witness' husband. Kushner admitted to personally recruiting the prostitute and instructing that the videotape be mailed to the cooperating witness.
Kushner also admitted to making false statements to the Federal Election Commission which allocated campaign contributions to certain individuals who had no knowledge that contributions were being made in their names and had not consented to him making the contributions.
Christie credited Special Agents of the FBI, under the direction of Special Agent in Charge Joseph Billy, Jr.; and Special Agents of the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation section, under the direction of Special Agent in Charge Patricia J. Haynes.
The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Scott Resnik and Thomas Eicher of the Special Prosecutions Division.
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We need more Bernies and AOCs to primary then all.
Bernie needs to retire already.
Maybe. Is there a similar progressive ready to take the place? I think he was just holding on to try to rally support for the next candidate to fill his seat.
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
Yea dude needs to retire. If the electorate cannot find someone younger progressive, they're fucked anyways. He can't be fighting this war forever, time to pass on the mantle, just endorse someone young and resign.
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.
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.
Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives
The Democrats are complicit
Vote Blue No Matter Who! strikes again.
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.
@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
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