Aug 9
We're fucked.
We need a blue wave during the mid-terms. Unfortunately. Trump and Musk are trying to rig the mid-terms. Vote on Election Day. Early vote. Vote by mail. Just vote.
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We're fucked.
We need a blue wave during the mid-terms. Unfortunately. Trump and Musk are trying to rig the mid-terms. Vote on Election Day. Early vote. Vote by mail. Just vote.
Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) unleashed a fiery, ultimately failed plea at his Senate Judiciary Committee colleagues to reject Todd Blanche's nomination for US Attorney General, slamming Blanche as President Donald Trump's "sword" and "shield."
Speaking at length ahead of Tuesday's committee vote — in which Blanche's nomination was sent to the full Senate in a 12-to-10 party-line vote — Booker touched on everything from Blanche's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case to corruption in presidential families. He said:
"We are the Judiciary Committee. We're supposed to be checking and balancing this nation. Why have people on both sides of the aisle given up on any trust in government?
It's because we're surrendering any shred of integrity left and now we're letting an Attorney General become the highest law enforcement officer in the land and putting no holds whatsoever.
I had hoped for two weeks that we would get something. Two weeks that we would have something substantive to stop the world's greatest presidential tax cheat from cheating and we've done nothing. And this man is gonna sail to the floor — and history is going to show it.
I know what's going to come out in history on this president and I know what's going to come out on Todd Blanche. And the simplest way that should outrage any shred of decency my colleagues have — because this isn't left or right; this isn't presidential enrichment — this is the deepest, most sacred urgency of this committee and I know colleagues on both sides care about it.
Victims of crime should have justice."
He then went on to describe Blanche's meeting with Epstein's convicted madame, Ghislaine Maxwell, and met with her for two days before she landed in a cushy, minimal security facility, a move he said lawyers had described as "unprecedented," "untoward" and "corrupting."
But Booker — who at one point compared Blanche to an "arsonist" and said the committee was giving him "gasoline" — went further:
"This man is not our lawyer. He is not America's lawyer.
He is about to become Trump's sword against his adversaries and shield against any scrutiny.
The shield is going to shield him from tax cheating. The shield is going to shield him from investigation for any involvement he may have had in Epstein's deeds
And the sword? I've seen it. Unprecedented that the attorney general should investigate colleagues here on this committee. This is farcical. It would be literally laughably funny if it wasn't so dangerous.
We're about to put a person in one of the most powerful positions in the land, vital for not only enforcing the law, protecting national security, but also vital for upholding our democracy.
And my Republican colleagues sound like like Jan Brady, Marsha, Marsha, Biden Biden Biden.
You are worried about a pickpocket — a pickpocket — when it comes to grand theft larceny. When it comes to our democracy you're worried about someone who is doing petty theft when there is the murder of our democratic traditions going on before our eyes,
We are in dangerous waters folks, we are in dangerous waters.
We are turning the ideals of justice and this committee into a mockery by letting the least qualified person, a person proven to do Donald Trump's will over the law.
He is about Trump and not truth.
He's about corruption and not the Constitution.
He's about being Donald Trump's lawyer and not the people's lawyer. This is so deeply wrong. We will rue the day that we let this man have this much power under such a corrupt president. Thank you."
Sen. Cory Booker excoriated his Senate colleagues and Todd Blanche, spitting fire as he declared that Blanche was "about Donald Trump, not t
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U.S. Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), and Alex Padilla (D-CA) are pushing to establish term limits for Supreme Court justices, reintroducing the Supreme Court Biennial Appointments and Term Limits , legislation that would effectively impose 18-year term limits.
sometimes i remember that the us record for longest fillibuster is held by rupauls cousin. ain't that neat
Dre, I’m accepting your request to be friends. 🤝😄 to be clear, my video wasn’t about trying to prove whether you’re AI or not. What I do find interesting, though, is that you chose to respond to my video instead of responding to some of the more political creators who have been asking the serious questions. 🤔 letting you know, as your friend, that alone can fuel speculation & make some people lean even more toward the Ai/plant theories.
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