Shout out to Cory Booker!!!

[RiverStone]

Great message for Dems! I hope people will listen!!

Cory Booker’s message to the Democratic Party: Don’t bend the knee to Trump | CNN Politics https://share.google/WMYjMLaLuTdImE7Ck

[dutch777]

1. Yes, clear contrast to Schumer and others.

[rampartd]

2. if the message is "resist every thing every way all the way"

i'm with booker

i would prefer shutting the entire nation down to allowing these barbarians to twist it to evil.

[stopdiggin]

3. this the same Democrat

that is getting into nasty public (and personal) food fights with other respected major Dems on the Senate floor .. ?

The guy that appears to think Dems should oppose all legislation .. ?

A dry policy debate over bipartisan policing legislation exploded on Tuesday afternoon into a heated and personal clash among three Democratic senators, offering a rare glimpse of the internal fight in their party over how to take on President Trump.

The spectacle started in the least dramatic way possible: Senator Catherine Cortez Masto, Democrat of Nevada and a former attorney general and federal prosecutor, asked for unanimous consent to pass a package of policing bills, including one to reauthorize support for mental health services for law enforcement officers, and another to make recruits eligible for funding for training programs.

It quickly went off the rails when Senator Cory Booker, the progressive New Jersey Democrat, rose to object, accusing Ms. Cortez Masto of being “complicit” with an authoritarian president.

-snip- Ms. Cortez Masto, in response, gave a competing theory of how to govern as a Democrat when Republicans control a trifecta of power in Washington. What the Trump administration was doing was not acceptable, she said. But that did not mean that Democrats should stand in the way of legislation that all Americans would want them to support.

“Two wrongs don’t make a right,” she said.

Calmly but firmly, Ms. Cortez Masto, who represents a swing state, told Mr. Booker that he should have proposed his change when the measures were considered by the Judiciary Committee and passed by a unanimous voice vote.

“This is an attempt to kill all of these bills — I don’t know why,” she said.

- snip - Things got personal and nasty after Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, a longtime rival to Mr. Booker who also ran for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination and a cosponsor of some of the measures, noted that he failed to attend a key committee meeting where members debated the legislation and voted unanimously to move it to the Senate floor.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/us/politics/cory-booker-democrats-trump-senate.html

"Speeches, Not Legislation!" - "Defund!"

[RiverStone]

4. We need to rev up Dem enthusiasm!

Where I see your point on complex legislation, this will not get the attention of the public.

Sadly, tRump as employed professional wrestlers and other right wing attention grabbers.

More than the nuance of substance, if we don't get Dems to the polls, it won't matter. We need a new kick ass approach!!! We need righteous indignation. We need to fire people up! And it's the great late John Lewis said, let's make "good trouble"!!

[stopdiggin]

5. if this post was intended as response ..

(not real sure)
I can only say that while I thought Booker's marathon speech several weeks back - might have punched that ticket.
(certainly sparked some respect in this corner) The more recent childish antics - did not. And based on that reaction - no, I do NOT think that this kind of performative nonsense is going to motivate more people toward the polls. (and if anything - suspect the obverse?)

Booker is in essence here saying we must oppose ALL legislation ... That's not only grandstanding' - that's monumentally STUPID!
Sorry ... Afraid I am never going to be able to get behind 'activism' / 'motivation' - that is at its core - just plain dumb. Give me something to stand behind - rally for. 'Cause this sure ain't it!

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[RiverStone]

6. Oops, yes meant it as a reply to you.

Good guess hit wrong button.

While I would not use the term childish antics, he is stirring things up with a few other prominent Dems. Now tRump... he exemplifies childish temper tantrums.

Reminder, that your average voter is nowhere near as informed as most of us here on DU.

We live in the age of dramatic sound bites and visual impact. Sadly, AI has it made even that questioning the truth.

We need an approach which will attract young people, get people extremely pissed off, they will be deeply informed that their rights ( in health coverage) are being taken away.

I'm sick of the milk toast approach! Our last election did not inspire Dems or Independents on the fringe.

Ultimately, whichever one of us is right, let's just hope we can come together in 2026 and at least take back the House!!.