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Sen. Cory Booker’s 25-hour congressional floor rant is being hailed as a major achievement, but nobody has ever questioned Booker’s ability to talk endlessly. It’s his greatest talent.
That and making other people’s money disappear.
The 25 hours of rambling summed up everything wrong with Booker as a politician and a man. Booker and his media allies tried to bill it as a filibuster, but it wasn’t because the senator from New Jersey wasn’t trying to fight an actual piece of legislation, just calling attention to himself.
Booker claimed that he was blocking the usual business of the Senate, but the only thing he was slowing down was the nomination of various officials, including Harmeet Dhillon for Assistant Attorney General, Matthew Whitaker as the representative to NATO, and Dean Sauer for the Solicitor General. In his 25 hours and 4 minutes, Booker did not actually have much to say about Sauer, Dhillon or Whitaker (who won his confirmation by 52-45 despite Booker’s ‘nay’ vote).
Cory Booker made a point of trying to break the record of Strom Thurmond’s filibuster of the Civil Rights Act. Except that was an actual filibuster of actual legislation. Booker pretended that just running out the clock by talking for an hour longer than Thurmond was in and of itself an accomplishment.
Why did Booker actually ramble for 25 hours in the Senate? To run for president.
As stunts go, this was the most obvious one yet. Booker’s next Senate election is in 2026, but he has a campaign page up which claims that “he cannot stay quiet and complacent while Donald Trump and Elon Musk shatter constitutional checks and balances” and urges, “Stand with Cory by making a donation today.” But his obvious long-term goal is 2028.
There’s a problem with Booker’s presidential aspirations. And it’s not just that every time he speaks, he reminds everyone of an unsuccessful Obama.
It’s his corrupt track record.
While Booker was boring the Senate, one of the staffers for the militant gun control politician was being arrested by the U.S. Capitol Police for carrying a gun without a license. The last time Booker ran for president, he proposed a federal gun licensing program for all gun owners that would expire and need to be renewed every five years. Presumably his staffers are exempt.
Like Obama, you’re expected to believe in Booker as a transformative politician, but even Obama knew better than to massively defraud his donors before running for president.
In 2010, Cory Booker, then mayor of Newark, went on Oprah with Mark Zuckerberg. The Facebook boss wrote a $100 million check to fix Newark’s schools. The money famously disappeared, including some $20 million spent on consultants, some who were being paid $1,000 a day, and grades actually declined. But millions were spent on polling and focus groups.
“MZ’s money is not going in to classrooms,” a Booker aide admitted in an email that was only released after a lawsuit by the ACLU.
But what happened next was even more blatantly corrupt.
After burning through Zuckerberg’s $100 million, Cory Booker turned to Oprah and Dot Com donors to raise millions for Waywire, a company that was supposed to be a “progressive” version of YouTube. Waywire employed Booker’s Senate campaign social media consultant and gave a board seat to the 15-year-old son of CNN boss Jeff Zucker.
As Freedom Center Investigates reported, Waywire failed miserably and Booker sold his stock to the parent company of FOX News, and donated shares of Yandex, Russia’s top search engine, linked to Putin. (In his 25-hour rant and previously, Booker had accused Trump of ties to Russia.) Waywire ended up with a Ukrainian owner and no longer exists. Neither do Booker’s donors.
Booker had burned through Silicon Valley cash through such blatant schemes that his presidential campaign failed to launch. The big money just was not there.
In the 2020 race, Booker didn’t qualify for the debate and was left begging for money before dropping out. “It’s working,” he told the media about his campaign “it’s not translating to people choosing me in the polls.” That is as good a ‘Bookerism’ as any other.
But somehow neither of these two grifts represented Sen. Cory Booker at his very worst.
That would be the Newark Water Group.
During his fake filibuster, Sen. Cory Booker bragged to the media that he had gotten through it by “curbing his water intake”. Sadly, that was not the case at the nonprofit tasked with managing the Newark water authority where he appointed his political allies who stole millions “through kickbacks and outright embezzlement, bogus contracts, risky investments and excessive pay”.
Money went to Booker’s law firm which was still paying him and contractors contributed to his political campaign. The agency’s executive director, who went to prison after taking nearly a million in kickbacks, told the FBI that their job was to raise campaign money for Booker.
Booker was sued by the reconstructed agency, but his lawyers argued that he’s immune from lawsuits because he was doing his work as a “public servant”.
“The consequence of a failure to uphold these immunities would dissuade an even wider swath of individuals from seeking to hold public office. This would impoverish our democracy,” Booker’s attorneys argued.
This little speech about why not holding a wealthy senator who wrecked a water agency that a minority community depended on accountable is “vital for democracy” did not make its way into Cory’s 25-hour speech.
Sen. Cory Booker claimed that his 25-hour talk was about holding President Trump accountable for violating democratic norms, but his idea of democratic norms is personal immunity for his conduct.
In his last financial disclosure, Booker revealed assets of around $1 million, but reporters know to take his disclosures with a grain of salt. When he first ran for Senate, Booker did not reveal his Waywire shares on his disclosure forms and only admitted it when the media found out about them.
Booker told the media that his campaign had “met requirements for disclosure and transparency and we’ve gone above and beyond what most of the—all of the candidates in this race have submitted to in terms of disclosure.” By that he meant that his campaign handed the papers to reporters in a hotel room, didn’t let them make copies, and then demanded them back. Typical behavior for a politician who has gone above and beyond and has nothing to hide.
Crooked Cory will talk for 25 hours about Trump’s money, he won’t talk for even 1 minute about where his money comes from. But Oprah knows. Mark Zuckerberg knows. And the people of Newark know
And Linda Watkins Brashear knows. The former director of the Newark Water Group got out of federal prison last year told the FBI that contractors were expected to buy $500 tickets to Booker’s campaign and his allies.
Funny how in 25 hours and 5 years, Booker never found the time to mention it.
Yeah, and nobody paid attention to him. He’s a perfect representation of the D-Bag party. Nobody cares about what they say or do. They could take a shit in the middle of a downtown street and nobody would notice.
America hates you. Get used to it.
He’s just making his unknown self, unimportant self, known again so he can run for President. SERIOUSLY…. how many people watched over a minute of it? (Maybe CNN or MSNBC had his speech on box at the top of the screen with the clock. They always had a countdown clock awaiting Obama’s Grand Entry.) I didn’t watch one second. Now that there is no obvious Democrat leader, his stunt was only a Delusion of Grandeur.
BOOKER at the Reparations Hearing: “OUR FOUNDING WAS ROOTED IN WHITE SUPREMACY!” He’s a BLACK SUPREMACIST who took an Oath to defend the Constitution written by a bunch of Whites. It has to hurt, but then again, how many Oath takers are spitting on the Constitution, and if they had a chance, they’d burn it?
Sorry, but I’m still hoping for my Dream Team: AOC/Waters 2028
“WHEN, NOT IF, THE COM-LEFT ever controls SCOTUS, they will rule that the Constitution itself… is UNCONSTITUTIONAL!” sc
“Using the Freedoms in the Constitution to overthrow the Constitution!” sc
BELIEVE IT OR NOT… from Yahoo News: “On his (Bookers) Senate website, the New Jersey Democrat touted some early numbers that the speech generated, including more than 350 million likes on the senator’s TikTok livestream of the speech, more than 28,000 supportive voicemails on his main office line that were left as he spoke and a livestream audience that grew to more 300,000 viewers across his own platforms.”
350 MILLION LIKES? Como? Can you “like” more than once? I don’t think so… so how? 28,000 VOICEMAILS? No, “This Mailbox is Full”? 300,000 VIEWERS?
I DON’T BELIEVE IT!
Because he talked bad about Trump. That is their calling card and basically all they got.
I used to curse a lot to impress people, then I graduated from junior high school.
Oh Ritchie, That must be your big putdown line, since you have used it before. You never cursed at anybody. You are such a polite little dork working at that glorified high school posing as a smalltime college.
now boys – remember, you are out in public – now shake hands, hug, tongue kiss each other, and hold hands and walk off into the sunset together or this clown is going to squirt you with this daisy on my lapel
Okay, Booker is a crook. He’s also a Democrat, which means he is crooked by default.
Crooked on principle and proud of it, thank you very much.
Interesting that it was only a few years ago that Booker opposed filibusters.
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” It’s a shame students are assigned Ibram X. Kendi books instead of Animal Farm.
Cory? Is that guy still pretending to be black? I have blacker sheets in my closet.
And you can shave your head but we all knew you were bald anyway. Bitch.
More deep insights!
You only wish you were smarter than Bargholz. I think you are jealous.
More deep throat.
What else dose this Moron want then to disarm us to appease his fellow UN/CFR/Globalists and the DNC?!
Dishonest and corrupt – is Biden his mentor or something? BTW, wonder what Booker’s (imaginary) “ghetto friend” T-Bone told him the word on the street was regarding the filibuster.
Does Booker know “Corn Pop?”
now that’s a good one
Booker is a crook and a fool. Yet how many in New Jersey will elect him for another term? What does that say about the electorate?
This is the same Sawdust for Brains Nit-Wit who don’t think Americans should own Guns like like that Stupid David Hogg
The leftist elites will vote for him because he hates Trump and he has darker skin.
All those hours of empty blather. And vitriol on April Fools Day.
Who is this putz? Is he supposed to be somebody important?
Exactly! Who the flying A is Cory Booker – I knew a Booker in the department – a fine gentleman – I don’t know his political affiliations – but this Booker is an embarrassment to the surname.
Cory’s just P.O.’d because the Mob would make him a “made guy”.
Hey Cory, go back to Newark. You can finish the job you started there, because, other than blabbering for 25 hours you have accomplished nothing in the Senate.
Typo alert: “wouldn’t”, not would.
Poor Corey, he’s mentally ill. Sad……….
I’m all but convinced that when democrats aren’t talking, they spend most of their time with their heads firmly ensconced up their asses whistling Dixie while admiring the view.
“Booger” has had his head out of his ass for to long and needs to put it back in and catch his breath.
“The consequence of a failure to uphold these immunities would dissuade an even wider swath of individuals from seeking to hold public office.” And how is this a problem?
Cory Booker, leader of the racist organization known as the ” Black Skinheads”. A subsidiary of the black clan, the “Ku Klux Koons”.
I dunno – 25 hours yammering is a mental disorder – the look in Cory Booker’s eyes and face belie a mental disorder along with squat for brains (See I didn’t use an off color word) Was Cory Booker on LSD or what?
Was all his yammering in the Congressional Record? Do they still keep a Congressional Record. A citizen used to be able to order one for free and it would be mailed — Way in the 1960’s. Boring reading for losers who grow up to be politicians because no one would play with them.
It is apparent the mental disorders, chicanery, fraud and pathological liars of politicians left unaccountable by their constituents who vote for them because somehow they feel these politicians represent them learned nothing from President Trump’s rallies when Trump would pull out of his suit jacket inner pocket the story of the snake.
All venomous snakes will bite you – they are mean – they are not trainable – this is the way they were born.
Cory Booker happens to be black, Joe Bite-Me happens to be white – inside they both happen to be demonic!
One look at the face of Cory Booker you see an evil and corrupt man not to be trusted – will stab you in the back with one hand while patting you on the shoulder with the other – this dude needs to be locked up – Batman never faced such a nemesis – but nemesis to the promises of our precious Constitution, Cory Booker and his ilk are!
It is better for a fool to keep his mouth shut than to open it and remove all doubt.
DOGE HIM. EXPEL HIM. INDICT FOR ELECTION TAMPERING AND TREASON. EXECUTE HOS TRAITOR GOD HATING USELESS ASS.
Babylon Bee had a great headline about this moronic stunt of his: “Cory Booker Hosts 24-Hour PSA On The Dangers Of Crystal Meth”
Some TV anchor said yesterday that Booker is the Dems’ top pick right now for 2028. Good Lord. He might actually be worse than Kamala, if such a thing is possible.
He is as Stupid as he is Bald with Sawdust for Brains and Hollow head so when the Wind Blows you can hear that very same sound you hear when you blow into a empty Soda Bottle
Thats 24 Hours of mindless yammering from this baldheaded dweeb he should have gotten Laringitus