Booker: "I confess that I have been imperfect. I confess that I've been inadequate to the moment. I've confess that the Democratic Party has made terrible mistakes that gave a lane to this demagogue. I confess we all must look in the mirror and say 'we will do better.'"
LOL
Their words are worthless.
Do something meaningful. At minimum, replace Jeffries and Schumer as leaders, and make it abundantly and publicly clear you did so because of capitulation to fascism.
I think this sentiment is good and happy to see something like this out of the Democrats for fucking once in their lives.
That said, Booker is a huge embodiment of the Democratic Party he's criticizing here. While certainly better than a ton in the traditional centrist camp like Schumer and Pelosi, Booker still towed the line the past 10 years since the DNC has actually been screwing over genuine progressives like Sanders.
If this is a genuine recognition of a failed strategy then great, but I'm skeptical.
I’ll believe it when I see it
Quite frankly, I don't give a f*** if they look in the mirror and say that they will do better. We've been calling on them to do better for many years, or decades even, depending who you are. Don't bother f****** telling us how you're going to f****** do better. Just start doing better already.
Corey Booker spoke for a while, and we all lived happily ever after...
What happens when he needs to take a shit?
He probably has a diaper and a catheter. The rules don't let him sit or leave to use the bathroom.
Bullshit. The begging, pleading lies of those caught in the act and facing down a 20 year sentence, promising now that things have come to a head they'll change the way they've been all their life if just once more they're let off the hook for their actions.
It reminds me so much of the Saddam bit from the South Park movie where Saddam is in an abusive relationship with Satan and keeps winning him back by promising to change and then doing something performative before going back to his old ways. "I can change, I can change!" he sings and it's the same tune these Democrats are singing. They've been singing it off and on for decades every time they lose the base too much then immediately putting away that number as soon as they get the base back and berating them for demanding better, for 'purity testing' and so on and brow-beat with accusations that demands for change help Republicans win.
So excuse us if we're a little skeptical because this song and dance is very worn.
How about actually defending trans people and trans rights instead of getting mealy-mouthed? How about making impassioned speeches in defense of trans kids right to affirming care and transitioning? No they won't do that.
Or condemning the genocide in Palestine and calling out the elements in their own party supporting it? No they won't do that either.