How Are You Getting Ready For Cory Booker?

[Flying Saucerian]

According to Squirrel-Boy, he's coming to your neighborhood soon.

So, you vacuuming the house? Setting out a bowl of chips? Stocking up on soft drinks? Organizing a block party? What?

[Jaglavak]

...Squirrel-Boy?

[Flying Saucerian]

Just Google Cory Booker. You'll see.

[Jaglavak]

Oh, that. I hadn't ever thought to use such a pleasant phrase to describe that asshole.

I guess I'll get ready for Mr Booker by stocking up on party snacks and hand sanitizer. I suppose I should come up with a crime to commit too. These party games can get to be a bit much sometimes.

[leafrog]

Cory Booker gave me a shout out last year when one of my students met him. Booker asked the kid who his favorite teacher was, and I guess that was me. The kid's mom shared the video with me. Kind of cool; got a lot of mileage on facebook.

So I guess if he's coming over, I should tidy up.

[Swammerdami]

...Squirrel-Boy?

Just Google Cory Booker. You'll see.

I Googled "Cory Booker" and "Cory Booker Squirrel" but pickings were slim.

My guess is that this is a Trumpist snide slur of some sort, like Groper Joe or Sleepy Joe. What do I win?

[What Exit?]

Trump is using Booker as the Bogeyman that is going to bring crime to the white suburbs or some utter nonsense like that.

My opinion of Booker has never been high, but Trump is successfully raising my opinion of him a little.

[Flying Squid with Goggles]

If anything, isn't Cory Booker more or less in the pocket of the financial services industry?

[Swammerdami]

If anything, isn't Cory Booker more or less in the pocket of the financial services industry?

Cite?

Hold the presses! Not every respectable politican is vehemently anti-business; some even receive — gasp! — campaign donations.

We can't do much about Trump voters, unless we disenfranchise all Americans who can't pass an IQ test. But I despair when well-intentioned Americans can see through Trump's hypocrisies, but still insist on the implicit message "Both sides same-same."

Betting markets now have the November election as an exact 50-50 toss-up; that's based on November 4 network projections, and doesn't even consider post-Election shenanigans certain to favor the GOP. Yet now our focus is on calling this fine Democratic Senator a "squirrel" and/or corporate lackey?

Heaven help America.

[Flying Saucerian]

Booker isn't the squirrel.

I was referring to Trump's attempts to fear-monger by claiming Booker (who's, gasp, Black) was coming to your neighborhood to create low income housing! (Violin screes.)

[Swammerdami]

I apologize, Mr. Squid. I should think and/or read before I hit Reply. The unexplained mention of 'Squirrel' seemed, well, squirrely, but I should have just deleted the whole thread rather than getting involved.

Meanwhile Trump really is odds-on favorite to control the White House six months from now. My frank opinion about this impending calamity would sound like hyperbole.

ETA: And now I see I've conflated two Geebers both named Flying. Apologies for that too. (Or are you two socks of each other? :rebo: )

[BrickaBracka]

Cory Booker gave me a shout out last year when one of my students met him. Booker asked the kid who his favorite teacher was, and I guess that was me. The kid's mom shared the video with me. Kind of cool; got a lot of mileage on facebook.

So I guess if he's coming over, I should tidy up.

Plenty of reason to vote for a guy, right? While this seems like a jab at you, it's not, it's more a sarcastic remark of exasperation that sometimes...well more like usually...that's all it really takes to win someone's vote. A platitude or a smile. And that's sad.


Trump is using Booker as the Bogeyman that is going to bring crime to the white suburbs or some utter nonsense like that.

My opinion of Booker has never been high, but Trump is successfully raising my opinion of him a little.

It is a very odd state of affairs that we have here...a single person is capable of being a perfectly accurate moral barometer. You just have to invert the output for accuracy. Anything Trump likes is bad, anything Trump dislikes is good - or at least benign enough to disregard. Compared to Trump...it's hard to be so bad as to be a serious concern in his presence. No reason to treat the blister when you're still on fire.

It's kinda wild. :sherlock:


We can't do much about Trump voters, unless we disenfranchise all Americans who can't pass an IQ test. But I despair when well-intentioned Americans can see through Trump's hypocrisies, but still insist on the implicit message "Both sides same-same."


Look...sometimes when you get so deep into a rut...you have to do weird shit like shovel more dirt into the rut to try and get yourself out (politicians are all corrupt? Let's put a super corrupt guy in there to shine a light on it), or dig a giant hole all around you so that the rut is now the new "ground" (when everyone's corrupt, nobody is, amiright???) or sometimes even walk away from the vehicle entirely and give up on it in search of a new mode of transport (viva la revolucion!)

I'm beginning to wonder when we're going to see the "rut" of American politics in a similar light. We've tried about all the options that seem feasible and even quite a few that seem weird as hell.

[Flying Squid with Goggles]

I apologize, Mr. Squid. I should think and/or read before I hit Reply. The unexplained mention of 'Squirrel' seemed, well, squirrely, but I should have just deleted the whole thread rather than getting involved.

Meanwhile Trump really is odds-on favorite to control the White House six months from now. My frank opinion about this impending calamity would sound like hyperbole.

ETA: And now I see I've conflated two Geebers both named Flying. Apologies for that too. (Or are you two socks of each other? :rebo: )

No worries - I was riffing off the president's mindless attempts to say "Cory Boooooker is coming for your suburbs! OooooOoooooOoo!" by pointing out that Booker is well within the mainstream and isn't some anti-suburb/anti-capitalism radical, and is IIRC pretty well-supported by Wall Street donors (which I don't see as a big problem at the moment)


AFAIK, we're all socks of each other on giraffeboards, until that changes. The entire time you've been here, Swammerdami, you've only had a conversation with one other person, regardless of the impression of different personalities :sock::sock::sock:

[Helena]

Booker isn't the squirrel.

I was referring to Trump's attempts to fear-monger by claiming Booker (who's, gasp, Black) was coming to your neighborhood to create low income housing! (Violin screes.)

Only if you're a suburban housewife! /s

[Swammerdami]

ETA: And now I see I've conflated two Geebers both named Flying. Apologies for that too. (Or are you two socks of each other? :rebo: )

AFAIK, we're all socks of each other on giraffeboards, until that changes. The entire time you've been here, Swammerdami, you've only had a conversation with one other person, regardless of the impression of different personalities :sock::sock::sock:

Ouch! Sounds like the plot of a Twilight Zone episode. But thanks for telling me, Squid. Am I also one of the many socks? Or am I the solitary victim, with the Geeb Hive continually laughing at me in a higher-level forum?

I suppose this is more optimistic than my working hypothesis, which was that we were all lonely souls trapped in an alternate universe.