But leave it to maga to exclaim pardoning non-violent marijuana users and the like by Biden as being the same issuing pardons and commutations like this, or for the likes of Steve fucking Bannon.

The scale of corruption is orders of magnitude worse.

What’s the latest on the Governor’s race? I read Becerra surged forward due too crypto bros and righties, any truth? I was pretty supportive of Steyer

Even running within the party, how much have senior Dems propped up the likes of Swalwell or Bill Clinton himself? Platner is without a doubt the better of the two options, even if there is risk. But honestly, this seems fairly overblown considering his wife is the one who brought this info to the campaign staff before they were leaked in the first place, and second, they had already gone through marital counseling if I understand right.

That the backstabbing seems to be coming within the party and from AIPAC suggests to me that Platner may be the real deal.

Dude that may just be my first cage match I’d watch, Hunter slamming any of the Trump sons down. Bonus: Kushner.

Find that troll farm, will ya

Not that I doubt it but what do you mean the DNC backed an indie candidate? I thought the DNC chair endorsed Mamdani following primaries?

All right-wing nutjobs end up in ruzzia at some point. What an utter shithole.

Profit isn’t the goal with nationalized sectors in fairness; nor should one want that (obvious example being single payer universal Healthcare). The question is whether or not these systems can be regulated and in the public eye, if they have a benefit to society. Which realistically, the genie is never going back in the bottle on this. Much like the internet itself, pros and cons.

All I’m seeing in this is someone dancing around their true position that is, “Two wrongs somehow make a right and I condone the Hamas terrorist attack and brutal murder of children because of other wrongs.”

Please, put your disdain for Israel aside for just a brief fucking moment and actually look at the individual civilians acutely affected. The sooner you act like a humanist independent of borders, the better off you will be.

I’m done with this fucked up conversation.

You’re overthinking this. It doesn’t matter what you and I or even Zelenskyy believed then or now about Israel; the only thing that mattered at the time was that global public sentiment was clearly behind Israel and that the acute footage of October 7 was horrifying and galvanizing for much of the international community in support of Israel. Zelenskyy would be a fool to not use that to drive a thorn in Iran’s side by hammering one of its proxies and forcing Iran – the nation supplying bombs to Russia to kill his own people – to withhold weapons stockpiles for its own defense. Welcome to the geopolitical chess-play of the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Zelenskyy is not a Zionist.

Hot take around here but that was in the recent aftermath of October 7th which was – by all accounts – fucking horrendous. Date the remarks of Zelenskyy and you’ll find he has increasingly distanced himself as time went on and the scale of the atrocities levied in response by Israel following October 7th were made clear. At the time though, yes it was apt to equate Hamas and Russian terrorist attacks against civilians. 100%.

Pretty obvious that he was riding off the coattails to draw similarities of public outcries of support to Israel and express something akin to, “yeah, welcome to the club we’ve been in the same boat over here.”

I stand by what I said that he kind of has bigger issues at the home front and this is in no way shape or form evidence of him being a staunch Zionist.

What is your evidence that Zelenskyy is a zionist? Because to me I think the situation is more akin to: Zelenskyy will do whatever it takes to win his home, and if that means letting Israel be a thorn in the side of Iran who was at least at one point Russia’s arms supplier (not so much these days), then he’s all for it. I doubt he gives much thought at all to the notion of the Israel-Palestine conflict. After all, he kind of has bigger issues at the home front.

Well yes, he is a white supremacist bigot, which means he’s also a racist and a sexist. As is every single Republican in office toeing party line

Tangential, but I have a strong suspicion Andy Beshear is using something similar.

Republicans are trying VERY hard to make this stick.

I see a lot of disinfo astroturfing pushing this online, too.

Gee, wonder why: https://economictimes.com/news/international/world-news/bezos-paid-for-op-ed-in-washington-post-aocs-powerful-answer-about-her-2028-run-goes-viral/videoshow/131013981.cms

So Gabbard steps down, Rubio announces US is no longer a mediary with Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine and now this admin is kissing ass of Pooh Bear? Looks like they found a bigger fish to pivot towards.

I remember when Obama handled an Ebola outbreak extremely effectively and also created a pandemic playbook that Trump summarily ignored.

Trump withdrew from WHO, so luckily for us, we Americans don’t have to pay attention! /s

Right, true. Though that’s because practically everyone at the time thought people would be crazy to vote for him in the first place.

Which absent of the Electoral College, they were right. Hillary won 3 million more votes and both then and now was objectively the better candidate for whom to vote.

Hence again, why Sanders endorsed and campaigned for her.

I don’t know about your situation and for whom you’re responsible, but until the binary election system changes – I cannot afford playing chicken with accelerationist rationale of choosing the Greater Poison in lieu of protecting my family and children – even if what some of what you say I agree with.

Trump was never the better alternative to Hillary. If anyone though this, they were fooled by right-wing extremists. I voted Hillary, even though I campaigned for Sanders.

Sanders in fact did the same thing, too, for the very reasons I laid out here.

Now I go to DSA and Democratic meetings alike to advocate for the most progressive candidates possible during these Democratic primaries. That is where I and many others have the most agency to effect change and avoid more Spanbergers and Fettermans, etc.