Van Hollen and Booker showing how representatives in government should be working for their constituents. I hope their aim is to be as annoying as possible until something good comes of it, but I worry Bukele will just arrest them and further erode the numbers we have in Congress.
Lets not conflate Van hollen and Booker.
Van Hollen actually does good with his position and I dont see skeletons in his closet.
Booker is a centrist zionist bullshitter trying to ride van hollens coattails. Booker has done some good things, but when the chips are down and his vote is needed, he doesnt show up. A DNC democrat that needs to be removed along with the rest of the so called “liberals”. Lets make these people wear their voting history and not adore them for their purely performative BS or empty words.
Tired of empty cult of personality democrats.
Hard agree. Underrated comment.
Well Booker is doing a hell of a lot more than most other reps when it comes to this, no need to shit on the dude.
Like, I’d take him over the GOP candidate that ran against him.
so would I, but why is our yardstick always “is he better than a republican”. Thats exactly how we lose campaigns.
It’s not but party unity is also important and we won’t find perfection. Working within the confines of our real world is important but I agree that we need better representatives. Booker is just what our system gave us and he’s a lot better than many alternatives and worse than others.
Mostly I think having a unified message and party is important but hard when you’re dealing with people who actually care.
I get that, really, but where I push back is that our reps push their own voters because they want to take money from special interests. And so we end up with these candidates (who we are told are political “leaders”) who say “the best they can do is X”. We get treated like we’re at a used car dealership by our own supposed representatives and then people argue we cant expect perfection. And then the best they can do is republican lite, so we end up in a republican lite party. Seems the only way out of that is to not let them do that to us.
Most would agree he sounds better and seems to do better somewhat, but it is still hard to trust him.
Donald and his many goons has many skeletons in his cabinet. The only difference is, he’s showing it in real time.
If you hate liberals so much, why even vote for them? Just support a 3rd party or force all the liberals out and make them vote Republican.
Your comment makes no sense and jumps to conclusions. Maybe dont bother doing that.
This is a ballsy move on Booker’s part, and shit like this is exactly why nobody likes the left. Make better use of your time.
The left doesnt like centrists either. But neither of us can win without the other. So now what. The centrists would be in charge of the presidency right now if they could have held off sucking off AIPAC for 5 minutes but you lot couldnt even give a little bit on that-- you would rather lose to trump than give up on the genocide and bring the left and a critical portion of your base on side. That election was very winnable but you lot always seem to hate the left more than you hate trump. So what does the left owe you besides the back of our hand?
One of these days you ethics-free troglodyte centrists will have to admit you are in a coalition with the left. Neither of us has to like it-- and we absolutely dont like it-- or you, but we have to do it. And you need to ditch the zionists or get used to trump and losing every election till you do. You think the left will back down, we wont. We will never ever back your dirty genocide.