Susan Crawford, fuck yeah. Cory Booker, fuck yeah.

let’s celebrate some wins

today, let’s savor a couple of hard-won victories — one electoral, one moral.

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Susan Crawford fucking rules.

it’s always satisfying when the richest asshole in the galaxy finds out that he can’t buy everything he wants.

the most recent target of the Space Nazi’s bottomless well of greed was the Wisconsin Supreme Court. why? to hear Elon tell it, he’s oh-so-concerned about the imaginary issue of “voter fraud.”

Elon Musk wrote on X that, because the liberal majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court had reversed a ban on absentee-ballot drop boxes last year, it was “very important to vote Republican for the Wisconsin Supreme Court to prevent voting fraud.” (There is no evidence that drop boxes lead to voter fraud.)

but as always with the Space Nazi, he’s primarily looking out for himself.

Musk has a personal stake in the outcome, too. Last year, his car company, Tesla, filed an application with the Wisconsin Department of Transportation to open four dealerships in the state. The request was denied owing to a state law that bars car manufacturers from selling directly to consumers. A week before Musk first posted about the race, Tesla filed a suit challenging the law.

that challenge is on its way to the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

Elon did everything he could to buy himself a victory. he pumped millions of dollars into the campaign to defeat Democratic candidate Susan Crawford. he held an alleged “contest” where he handed million-dollar checks to people who had signed some cockamamie petition. somehow, the “winners” ended up being Republican party insiders. how fucking convenient.

he bribed people to vote for Crawford’s opponent.

the silly dipshit even wore cheese on his head.

how could he miss?

this arrogant asshole presumed he could just waltz in and buy himself a Supreme Court Justice. gimme gimme gimme, mine mine mine. that’s how plutocrats roll. but yesterday, the voters of Wisconsin — tired of being bullied by fascist gazillionaires — told the Space Nazi to go fuck himself sideways.

this is huge. Susan Crawford crushed her opponent and cruised to 9-point victory.

Crawford was technically running against Republican Brad Schimel — but everyone knows who she really defeated.

let’s let Crawford explain it.

“I’ve got to tell you, as a little girl growing up in Chippewa Falls, I never could have imagined that I would be taking on the richest man in the world, for justice in Wisconsin — and we won!”

we should probably do a wellness check on the world’s richest crybaby and see how he’s coping.

“The long con of the left is corruption of the judiciary”

oh, please. fuck straight off with this hysterical fairy tale.

you want to talk about a long con to create a corrupt judiciary? while Democrats were sleepwalking, conservatives spent decades packing the courts with far-right extremists. just one example: during Donny’s first term, the Federalist Society gave him a list of pre-vetted ideologue judges. he nominated all of them.

remember when Glitch McConnell refused to take up the Supreme Court nomination of Merrick Garland — because, he said, it was too close to the 2016 presidential election — and we ended up with the government-hating Nihilist Neil Gorsuch? and then, four years later, faced with the same situation, he rammed through the confirmation of Amy Comey Barrett, because reasons. that’s the fuckery that led directly to the shitcanning of Roe.

but MAGA always has to portray themselves as eternal victims — so Elon loses one election and starts boo hoo hooing. poor me. it’s so unfair!

fuck off, Elon. go pilot Forkship One to Mars. send us a postcard when you get there.

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Cory Booker fucking rules.

prior to last night, the record for the longest floor speech on the Senate was held by King of the Shitbag Racists, Strom Thurmond. beginning August 28, 1957, Strom spent 24 hours and 16 minutes filibustering. why? because he was trying to block the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1957 — because fuck civil rights. Strom wanted Black people ground under the heel of white supremacy forever.

Thurmond was churning in his urn last night, because it was a Black man — New Jersey Senator Cory Booker — who broke his record.

unlike Strom, Booker wasn’t speaking to block progress. he was speaking to warn the country of the dangers of Trump-flavored fascism.

“Tonight I rise with the intention of getting in some good trouble. I rise with the intention of disrupting the normal business of the United States Senate for as long as I am physically able. I rise tonight because I believe sincerely that our country is in crisis and I believe that not in a partisan sense, because so many of the people that have been reaching out to my office in pain, in fear, having their lives upended—so many of them identify themselves as Republicans.”

Cory spoke for 25 hours and 5 minutes. unlike Strom Thurmond, he didn’t excuse himself after three hours and go running off to the bathroom. and unlike Strom, who mumbled and dissembled and read random passages from an encyclopedia throughout much of his filibuster, Booker spoke forcefully the entire time.

and most certainly unlike like this loathsome fucking pantload — the Esteemed Senator Fidel Cancun — Cory didn’t waste everyone’s time on a dramatic reading of Green Eggs and Ham.

that’s the difference between a stunt and a statement.

listen to Cory, two minutes before breaking Thurmond’s record.

“I’m getting close to a record, folks, but— there’s a room here in the Senate named after Strom Thurmond. to hate him is wrong. maybe my ego got too caught up, and if I stood here maybe, just maybe I could break this record of the man who tried to stop the right upon which I stand. I’m not here, though, because of his speech. I’m here despite his speech. I’m here because as powerful as he was, the people were more powerful.”

Democrats, can we chat? this is what we’re talking about when we tell you to fucking do something.

look, Dems. we know you’re out of power. we know there’s not much you can do to control the agenda. but we want to see some fire. we want to see you fight.

Cory understands this.

“I confess that I have been imperfect. I confess that I've been inadequate to the moment. I've confess that the Democratic Party has made terrible mistakes that have given a lane to this demagogue. I confess we all must look in the mirror and say ‘we will do better.’ and it’s not just defining ourselves what we’re against. we, the next generation as the baby boomers are leaving the stage, we have to say that we’re going to redeem the dream.”

fighting is contagious. look what Cory Booker inspired Adam Schiff to do.

“BREAKING: I'm placing a hold on President Trump’s nominee for U.S. Attorney in DC. For the past few weeks, Ed Martin has been a one-man wrecking ball. Threatening political opponents, firing public servants, and using his office to chill free speech. His nomination must be blocked.”

fuck yeah.

thank you, Cory Booker, for showing Democrats the way.

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