Cory Booker's solitary vote to confirm Charles Kushner as French ambassador highlights a contentious political maneuver following Kushner's 2018 conviction for witness tampering and blackmail, which earned him a pardon from Donald Trump. While Booker framed the move as principled "good trouble," critics argue it was a transactional alliance born from Kushner funding Booker's failed mayoral campaign rather than shared values. The segment contends that opposing this confirmation exposes a neoliberal reluctance to challenge French President Macron, suggesting the real strategic goal involves leveraging cross-aisle cooperation to scrutinize French officials' ties to Israel. [Automatically generated summary]
Talk about cognitive dissonance and seeing your heroes for who they really are.
Did you see that Cory Booker voted to confirm Jared Kushner's dad as ambassador to France?
He was the only Democrat to do it?
Oh, man.
Wow.
Interesting.
This was pretty funny.
So Cory Booker, of course, just went viral and became a liberal darling for doing that filibuster for nothing.
Yeah.
That 25-hour filibuster that didn't even hold up an actual vote, if I'm remembering correctly.
It didn't prevent anything from actually passing.
No, it felt more like a David Blaine magic trick than an actual political action.
He was like, look how long I can talk for.
And then nothing happened.
Well, yeah.
The Senate just had a vote on confirming Jared Kushner's dad, Charles Kushner, as a French ambassador, despite Charles Kushner's interesting past of Guess what?
Blackmailing his brother-in-law with a hidden camera of him having sex with a prostitute.
Where does that sound familiar?
Sorry, not brother.
I think son-in-law.
It was his sister.
It was his sister.
Okay, so what happened was his sister's husband, Charles Kushner, Jared Kushner's dad, His, I think, either sister's husband or daughter's husband.
I think it was his sister's husband.
Sorry.
It was like working with the feds against Charles Kushner.
So Charles Kushner arranged for a prostitute to seduce him, recorded it, and then sent it to his sister.
Sent him the video.
Or sent her the video.
Hell yeah.
And they both turned it into the state.
And he was charged with tampering with a witness, among other things, and sent to prison for two years.
After he was let out, he supposedly did prison reform advocacy and Donald Trump pardoned him at the end of 2020, right before he left office.
Cory Booker's excuse For why he's friendly with Charles Kushner is because he says that they both worked together on prisoner advocacy and prisoner reform.
But if you actually look into it, it's because Charles Kushner funded Cory Booker's failed mayoral campaign in New Jersey and has apparently long since been a Cory Booker supporter.
Cory Booker is reportedly friends with Ivanka and Jared Kushner.
And a lot of Democrats are just finding that out for the first time with this vote.
Again, he took this vote like a week or two after that.
Wow, such a strong and powerful filibuster where he invoked John Lewis and other black civil rights leaders while he was doing this performative filibuster.
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I think it's tight.
I think we're standing like a 007 type over to France.
That's pretty cool.
We all know the French are pretty horny people.
They probably get a lot of work done by seducing them and getting them on camera.
I think this is a good move.
I think this is more strategic.
I think we've got to work across the aisle sometimes when it comes to catching French people fucking on tape.
If you're against this, it really just shows what a neolib you are that you aren't willing to try and take down Macron.
It's really showing your ass.
You say you're a leftist or whatever, but the lib comes out pretty quickly.
It is funny, though, because Macron is one of the more vocal anti-Israel or vocal critics of Israel on the world stage.
I wonder what happens next.
Very, very good.
Very, very interesting to bring up.
Let me get into some responses.
I haven't.
I've been on Blue Sky for a while now, but I don't go on Blue Sky.
It's not always the most fun place to go.
However, I knew when I was looking to see how people were reacting to Cory Booker voting for Jared Kushner's dad, I knew where to go when I wanted responses to that.
So I went over to Blue Sky and just, yeah.
Brown-Eyed Susan says, I'm still waiting to find out why Cory Booker voted to confirm Charles Kushner.
And you go to Brown-Eyed Susan's avatar, 137,000 followers, 108,000 following, 29,000 posts.
So definitely a liberal.
Definitely.
Well, like an online deranged American, follow for follow in the hundreds of thousands.
But her cover photo says, Embarrassed American!
And her bio says, She slash her.
Women's rights are human rights.
Fuck fascism.
Slava Ukranee.
Anti-theist.
No human is illegal.
Not a sheep.
420.
Good trouble.
Safe place.
So yeah, good trouble.
Another invocation of the civil rights era.
Specifically with John Lewis, Congressman John Lewis talks about getting into good trouble, which means protesting injustices and things like that.
And so she feels particularly burned by Cory Booker, who pretended to be good trouble.
And as a white lib, she was like, hell yeah, me too, brother.
And then he showed himself to be fake, to be a fake friend.