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Cory ‘Spartacus’ Booker Says ‘I Am Vegan’ to Fight Climate Change

U.S. Senator Cory Booker, who compared himself to Spartacus during a particularly cringeworthy moment in the Brett Kavanaugh hearings, thinks the world would be better off going vegan. The New Jersey Democrat says that his own vegetarian to vegan journey started in 1992 when a vegetarian diet gave him more energy, and he subsequently concluded that eggs “didn’t align with [his] spirit.” In the interview with VegNews, the 2020 presidential candidate insisted he would never dictate what Americans can eat or not eat. Liberals seldom try to restrict individual freedom, right? read more

Cory ‘Costanza’ Booker Made a Fool of Himself at Kavanaugh Hearing

U.S. Senator Cory Booker, a New Jersey Democrat who wants to run for president, channeled Seinfeld‘s George Constanza with his embarrassing and desperate showboating at the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearings, as these mashups from the Washington Free Beacon suggest.

As Costanza famously once said, “it’s not a lie if you believe it.”

From the New York Post in detailing Booker’s history of making stuff up:

“Those who have followed Booker’s political career have long claimed that it is merely a long string of theatrics, fables and malleable positions. As an optics-obsessed lightweight mayor of Newark, they contend, he spent large swaths of his time collecting lucrative speaking fees to lecture others about his imaginary accomplishments in his corruption-riddled city. ‘The only way you can see the mayor,’ explained one Newark councilman, ‘is if you turn on Meet the Press.” read more