Good morning kids. So Cory Booker, who I see as the poor man's Barack Obama took to the well of the Senate two nights ago to deliver what amounts to the world's longest presidential candidacy announcement. How appropriate that he chose April Fool's Day, for this uncunning stunt.
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.
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.
well, Obama was elected twice and ran the Biden junta from 21-25 from Kalorama after the 2020 election theft. Aside from that, Daniel Greenfield takes a good hard look at Booker's record of malfeasance, rank corruption and criminality during his stint as mayor of a quintessential Democrat Shithole Newark NJ and then his abortive 2020 presidential candidacy and asks the rhetorical question of where did all the millions in campaign cash thrown at him go?
Considering that, despite what happened in Wisconsin with the election of an in-your-face commie to the state Supreme Court and preserving the Leftist stranglehold on the court as well as much of the state government, the Democrat Party and Leftism in general is in total disarray as Donald Trump rolls on with his agenda, the criminal judicial law fare and borderline/crossing the line acts of domestic terrorism against Tesla and other targets notwithstanding. Here's just the latest example.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents from Dallas, Texas, arrested a man for making “terroristic threats against ICE agents” and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem.
In a post on X, HSI Dallas, revealed that they had taken a man named Robert King into custody and explained that his “social media posts included intentions to ‘open fire'” if ICE agents were spotted “in his neighborhood.”
“Robert King, a U.S. citizen was recently taken into custody in McKinney, Texas for making terroristic threats against ICE agents and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem,” HSI Dallas said. “King’s alarming social media posts included intentions to ‘open fire’ if agents are seen in his neighborhood.”
The average American sees things like this, coupled with the disaster unleashed on us with the erased border, transgenderism insanity, wokeism and DEI and all the rest of it and for objecting to it, get called racists, Nazis, homophobes, xenophobes and every other slur imaginable. Perhaps Booker understands this and senses an opportunity to look like the sane alternative to Bernie Sanders and Titty-Caca Ocasio Cortez and their ilk, despite being fully in their camp ideologically. He knows when to keep his mouth shut. Or given25 hours of bloviating against Trump and an agenda that is indeed popular with a broad segment of the citizenry, maybe not. To paraphrase Joey Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants' opinion of Barack Obama, Booker and his handlers are projecting or trying to project the image of the clean, articulate black man who only speaks Jive when he has to, so as to try to recreate 2008 20 years later.
The Democrat Party is polling about 27 percent approval — and sinking.
In 2024, it lost the White House, the House of Representatives, the Senate, and both the popular vote and the Electoral College, 312-226.
In 2024, Donald Trump won over 46% of the Hispanic vote, including a majority of Hispanic men. Trump also likely captured 26% of the Black male vote, doubling his 2020 total.
In 2024, Trump increased his 2020 vote total in every single state. And he won 89% of all the counties in the United States.
On every issue, Democrats sided with strident leftist movements rather than the majority of Americans. . .
Democrats claim no formal role in such terror — but more or less seem to approve of its ends and means.
Left-wing comic Jimmy Kimmel winks and nods on national television about the current violent Tesla terrorist campaign. Tim Walz celebrates the resulting drop in the Tesla stock price. As Minnesota’s governor overseeing his state’s sizable investment in Tesla, Walz could care less about trash-talking his own taxpayers’ investments. Rep. Jasmine Crockett boasts that Musk “must be taken down.”
. . . Senator minority leader Chuck Schumer, who once issued threats to Supreme Court justices Neal Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh by name, now boasts, “We have people going to the Republican districts and going after these Republicans who are voting for this and forcing them to either change their vote or face the consequences.”
Furious at their own increasing impotence, these contemporary Democrat Jacobins are dabbling with their own version of a reign of smut terror.
All Trump has to do is keep on delivering on the promises he has made, one of the more critical and difficult things is not only turning the economy around, but reversing the disaster that globalism and unchecked trade unionism did to our once gargantuan manufacturing sector that over the east 60 years or so has been dismantled and shipped overseas.
Hence the battle over tariffs which will kick into effect this week.
President Trump and his team are telling top financiers his tariff plan unveiled today is all about playing the long game — getting trading partners who are clearly protectionist to reduce or remove their barriers to US exports in exchange for us doing the same.
In the end, they claim, everyone will be happy — including the American public that will be on the receiving end of the long-term gain of economic prosperity.
But The Post has learned that top Wall Street execs have been warning the White House and Trump himself in recent days that getting to that long-term gain, while feasible, will not be easy.
It could well result in a significant degree of short-term pain, more than just the markets going haywire. It could ignite something known as stagflation of higher prices ie., inflation, and lower growth, a possible recession. It’s an economic disruption not seen in decades as we upend the global trade ecosystem and play chicken with the rest of the industrialized world over tariffs.
Will Trump play that game of chicken? He knows trading partners will respond in kind; US goods will get more expensive overseas and import prices spike. That’s where the stagflation comes in. Everyone I know who knows Trump says he’s committed to the tariff hammer because he believes in his heart that they will rebuild America, bring jobs back to the Rust Belt and as he explained in his press conference, the trade deals we have crafted with even our allies are so unfair.
But you never know what a little stagnation will do to a politician, even one as steadfast as Trump — which is exactly the warning financiers made to the president in recent meetings.
The White House was said to be all ears during these meetings, as Wall Street executives explained the grim details of the short-term tariff pain: Uncertainty over what Trump would announce has stymied business spending for large swaths of the economy, and it will fall further once the tariffs go into effect.
US automakers are readying price hikes because they source much of their parts overseas. Trump announced a 25% tariff on imported autos.
As a Wedbush analyst Dan Ives said Wednesday in a note: “The concept of a US car maker with parts all from the US is a fictional tale . . . tariff policy will cause pure chaos to the global auto industry and will raise prices to the typical Us consumer by $5k to 10K out of the gates.” Tariffs will impact farmers because we provide grain overseas and to China; our natural gas exports will be hurt, meaning a slowdown in growth on top of spending cuts businesses already enacted before in preparation of the tariff announcement.
That’s the bad news, but here’s what good could happen down the road: Trump’s art-of-the-deal making skills will change the protectionist behavior of our trade partners. He wants that stuff to stop, and if they do, he announced that he will reciprocate and things go back to normal. Perhaps even better than normal with new trade deals that don’t put US exports at a disadvantage, and bring jobs back home. . .
. . . Put all that together and it sounds like a great place to start talking and make this short-term pain that’s coming as short as possible.
Along with the effects of DOGE as well as the reversal of regulatory tyranny on American business, and the bolstering of our labor force by the sealing of our borders and sane immigration policy, we of a certain age might not live long enough to see the Rust Belt brought back to its former glory as the manufacturing powerhouse of the world.
Certainly, there are far too many individuals and institutions in and out of government, domestic and foreign which are desperate to thwart the American renaissance, economic, political, cultural and societal for a host of reasons.
So we shall see if the estimable Victor Davis Hanson is correct about the Dems' seeming impotence in thwarting the MAGA agenda. The seemingly lackluster turnout here in the Wisconsin special election is a puzzler given Trump's performance in '24. Is it mere complacency or what is it? Yes, it doesn't help that the GOP-e is worse than useless, and at times downright collaborationist with the enemy. We need to figure that out. See here and also see here.
yes, Trump endorsed Lindsay Graham, but it's either a good strategic move or a self-own. We can debate that for days, as we no doubt will.
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