Posted on 05/28/2025 1:35:31 PM PDT by DFG
New Jersey Democratic Sen. Cory Booker is parlaying his marathon 25-hour speech from the Senate floor last month into a new book set to be published in November, sparking widespread mockery online.
Booker’s “filibuster” oration — appropriately made on April Fool’s Day — was the longest continuous speech ever given on the floor of the upper chamber, eclipsing a record set by late South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond in 1957.
Now, less than two months later, St. Martin’s Press will be publishing the book “Stand,” intended as a companion piece to the Senate floor bloviation.
“This book is about the virtues vital to our success as a nation and lessons we can draw from generations of Americans who fought for them,” the 56-year-old lawmaker said in a statement touting his forthcoming treatise.
Social media immediately erupted with scorn after the announcement, with hundreds of comments ripping Booker and questioning his motives in attempting to profit from the record-breaking monologue. “It was a grift all along,” one observer wrote.
“I can’t wait not to read this,” an X commenter quipped.
“Those poor trees,” said another.
“Rebel without a cause. Or a clue,” another user chimed in.
The former Newark mayor’s day-long screed was little more than a protracted airing of grievances against Trump, in which he railed against virtually every policy position of the administration, from Social Security and Medicaid to free speech, public education, Elon Musk and even the president’s tongue-in-cheek musings about Canada becoming the 51st US state.
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Crayons not included with book
Tapper’s publisher’s is owned by the Germans.
So is Meeks’.
Coinkydink...?
I don’t think so.
So is Booker’s publisher...
Not a coinkydink.
Bertelsmann in Tapper’s case.
Holtzbrinck in Booker’s.
Yeah, he’s peddling his book now like the clintoons to rake in the cash. It’s definitely not my reading material.
Does there exist on this earth someone who is in such dire circumstances trying to get a life that he will actually read that book?
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