I actually agree #ObamaWasBetterAtEverything. when he was running an insurgent campaign against the establishment candidate hillary clinton, he pulled no punches, didn't play nice, didn't do bullshit civility politics. instead he did this and won:
here's more of obama just brutally mocking hillary clinton, calling out her hypocrisy and lies, her fakeness
remember in that debate in 2016 when bernie was asked point-blank by hillary to name one example of a vote she changed due to donations and being corrupt, and bernie didn't say anything while we were all shouting: "THE BANKRUPTCY BILL!!!". obama said it:
oh ok, but surely hillary clinton accused obama of being a sexist for saying all this, right? how did obama respond to that? did he cower in fear? did he profusely apologize and thereby accept the bullshit premise of the smear? no, here's what he did:
meanwhile some on the "left", pathetic, weak and fickle as ever, are having a discussion about how they weren't kind enough, weren't empathetic enough, have to talk more about "systems" and less about individuals. just admit you are afraid of power and want perpetual opposition
here's kautsky, known at the time as "the pope of marxism" and revered by lenin, decades before his reformist turn laying out clearly what he and many of the left later forgot: "the system exists only in persons, and I cannot attack it without attacking persons"
bernie's decision to not do this w/ hillary in 2016 and biden in 2020 was disastrous, as was corbyn's decision to not do it with may, johnson and the internal saboteurs in the labour party. there were people begging them to fight, pleading with them, but they took the "high road"
I don't consider leading your movement voluntarily to slaughter like little lambs to be "taking the high road". it's the opposite of that. it's a betrayal, it's cowardly, it's weak, it shows fear of power rather than the willingness to take it and save countless lives by doing so
and if the left and its future leaders aren't going to learn this lesson from our defeats over the past decade, something that those with power or desiring to take it from the right and center like obama and starmer know intuitively, it's going to keep being mercilessly destroyed
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if right after picking Tim Walz as her VP Kamala had explicitly vowed to end the ongoing Gaza genocide by saying she would withhold all arms and funding supplies and diplomatic cover if it did not stop, and then also unveiled an economic package of free college, medicare for all, and a 15 or higher minimum wage, she would have easily won the election. That's just a fact, as all of this would have energized the Dem base and also poll very well among independents and even some Republicans.
Instead she ran on being the new version of Liz and Dick Cheney, vowing to endlessly continue the ongoing mass killing and rape of Palestinians and regurgitating genocidal atrocity propaganda hoaxes constantly, saying Iran is the greatest threat to the US and must be destroyed, having Mark Cuban as her main economic guru vowing to deregulate and cut taxes and "be good to Wall Street", and saying actually the Genocide Joe economy is wonderful and great and if you disagree you're too stupid to be able to properly read charts per Ezra Klein, Matthew Yglesias, Will Stancil and David Shor.
She ran a campaign by and for neo-con neoliberals, David Frum, Jeffrey Goldberg, Yglesias, Shor, and ate shit for it. She was humiliated so badly by a candidate, Trump, who said the most insane deranged shit constantly about Haitians eating dogs and cats, about how she's not really black, not having a plan for doing anything at all.
And you know why she and Democratic leadership did that? Because they didn't care if they lost. Losing is nothing to them. They keep their donor money. The Dem political PR strategist media class keeps its jobs. In fact, they get even more money because they'll switch to being epic based "resistance heroes" again and fleece their base of even more cash.
Kamala Harris and Democratic leadership intentionally threw the election instead of actually running a campaign that could win, because Israel is Uber Alles for them, Zionism sacrosanct, as are their other corporate overlords.
That's what happend in the 2024 election.
and you know who helped Kamala and Dem leadership to not even bother to consider running that kind of actually anti-genocide populist campaign?
Online pseudo-radical YouTubers and Twitch streamers who instead of calling out what the campaign actually was, a genocidal neo-con neoliberal Cheney fan-fest, came up with epic coconut palm tree memes and said she was brat and said those fake bullshit "Palestinians are human too, I guess" lines were a massive major huge shift never said before even though it was an exact verbatim copy of Genocide Joe's script and even George Bush had more radical rhetoric on Israel calling it an occupation:
These vile scum all provided pseudo-radical covering for Kamala and Democrats to continue with their campaign as was, and shift ever further to the right and lean ever more into the Cheney fandom.
And why did these pseudo-radicals do that? Because they wanted to keep their AOC and Bernie interviews. They wanted to keep their Democratic Convention invites. They wanted to keep getting glowing NYT and Atlantic mag profiles about how epic and based they are and are "combatting the alt-right pipeline online".
In short, they wanted to keep the flow of donations and money from "progressive soc-dem" pseudo-radicals going, and explicitly calling out the Kamala campaign for what it was, and calling on their followers to never vote for it or support it, would have immediately ended all that.
There is one rule in online liberal-left media: You can say whatever the fuck you want about being an epic communist, anti-capitalist, socialist, whatever, no one gives a fuck. But when election times comes around, you better shut the fuck up and fall in line and let your audience know that they should vote for Democrats. If you don't, and you instead call on them to abstain and not vote, or vote for a third party, you're done. You will never got those profiles, never got those AOC gaming streams. It's over.
So that's what they all did, aside from a very select few who are of course always smeared as "tankies" and "fringe purists" even though if they had been listened to, if we had been listened to, you would not a second Trump term right now.
That's a fact.
and of course the same applies to AOC, Bernie Sanders, the squad (with the exception of Rashida Tlaib who actually did constantly criticize the campaign and refused to explicitly endorse it), and the "progressive caucus". They all fell in line like good little boys and girls. AOC and Sanders were so pathetic in their obsequence to Dem leadership that they even went out of their way to try to keep Genocide Joe on the ballot after his brain leaked live on stage at the debate.
And then of course once Kamala was anointed, they immediately fell into line with that too. No matter how many Cheney appearances she did, how many times she laundered genocidal hoaxes and vowed to forever arm and fund the Israeli baby-killing rape-regime, how many Mark Cuban media hits about how great and wonderful the economy actually is and how Kamala will fire Lina Khan and deregulate more and cut more taxes and hates economic populism, Sanders and AOC electioneered for her to the max. Not a single word of criticism. Not one.
Not one attempt to try to dissuade her and pressure her and Democratic leadership to not adopt a deranged neo-con neoliberal Dick Cheney fandom campaign that would inevitably lose to Trump.
And then what does Sanders do? After going along with all of it, and not even bothering to withhold his endorsement for one second to extract anything, and saying the Genocide Joe and Harris administration is the most progressive in US history since FDR, lending his own fake populist credentials to them without any cost, any ask, nothing, not even for Palestinians but just for Americans, no free college, no medicare for all, no higher minimum wage, nothing. Absolutely nothing he asked for his total obedience to them.
And then he comes out and says Democrats lost the working class because they refuse to listen to them.
Bitch, you are literally talking about yourself. You and AOC and the squad did not oppose a single Biden/Harris regime policy over the last 4 years, you ran cover for all of it, constantly, up to the very end with all the Dick Cheney fandom.
The primary cause of the inflation was the Ukraine proxy war and the endless funnel of money to literal Azov Nazis in Ukraine for years and years, let alone the human cost of all those killed.
What did Bernie Sanders, AOC, the squad and progressive caucus do? They backed it 100%. They backed the very policy that caused the very inflation that played a key role in their defeat in 2024, and they refuse to say a single word about it. In fact, they have vowed to forever keep that money-funnel to Ukro-Nazis going.
And the same goes for those pseudo-radicals online, none of them have said a word about the massive over 170 billion Ukraine funding that disrupted the supply chains and caused the inflation and also significantly damaged economies in Europe leading to the rise of the far right there.
Go look at all their commentary before and after the loss, not a single one of them have mentioned Ukraine. They all want to keep that money going forever to literal Nazis. The head of Ukraine's military is a literal Nazi: x.com/zei_squirrel/s…
Meanwhile Trump ran on ending that war, in his typical incoherent fashion but he doesn't need to be coherent when the other side just goes "yeah endless Azov Nazi cash supply!", which even the fucking liberal scum at Pod Save America acknowledged played a crucial role in his victory: x.com/briebriejoy/st…
None of these depraved scum will ever acknowledge that they themselves are to blame for Trump's victory. The entire Democratic Party spectrum, from Ritchie Torres to Genocide Joe, Kamala Harris, Schumer, Meg Whitman, Pritzker, to Bernie Sanders and AOC, are all equally responsible for ensuring Trump's second term. All of them. The entire depraved genocidal Zionist party.
the genocidal Zionist regime is mass killing Palestinians in north Gaza through starvation, bombing and executions. They are committing a holocaust in broad daylight with US and Western funds and arms and the entire Western media and political class is laundering it for them
if Russia was doing just 1% of what Israel has been doing in north Gaza for weeks now, it would be top headline news every second of every day and every Western politician would be hysterically shrieking about how we need to immediately nuke them to stop "the new Hitler"
Russia can turn every inch of Ukraine into what Israel has done to Gaza. They can do it right now. They can turn Kiev into a wasteland. Every city into nothing but ashes. But Israel has actually done it, with their funds and arms and total media support:
one of the cringiest and most pathetic parts of Kamala's campaign was when she began pretending she owns and loves guns. Her PR handlers thought this made her look epic, cool and tough. In reality it made her look even more like the inauthentic fraud she is and has always been
"If ya'll break into my house ya'll gettin' shot HAHAHAHAHAHAH" The fake ebonics affect, the sickening cackling howl, it's so gross. Look at her face at the end of the second clip when asked if she has ever shot a gun, "Yes of course I have!" She oozes lying fake phony depravity
and everyone knew it. Even establishment Democrats knew that Kamala is and has always been a total charisma-void, Hillary Clinton on steroids. Just look at her: That's why she had to drop out before a single vote was cast in the 2020 primary. Genocide Joe then picked her to be VP because she's a black woman, that's it.
a few days ago two new detailed testimonies of Palestinians violently raped by genocidal Israelis were published at the UN. You didn't hear about it because the entire Western media class intentionally ignored it and erased it from view. Here they are read out in full:
there are countless testimonies from Palestinians that Israel is systematically raping children, boys, girls, women and men in their rape-dungeons. Kamala Harris, who constantly regurgitates the rape hoax, hasn't said a single word about these actual rapes
Kamala Harris, who profiles herself as a brave fighter against sexual violence, began her career enabling pedophilic mass rape (see x.com/zei_squirrel/s…), and has vowed to forever fund and defend the Israeli pedophile rape-dungeons: x.com/zei_squirrel/s…
Zbigniew Brzezinski was a top US foreign policy official, not at all a radical, in fact the opposite. But he acknowledged truths about Israel that will end your career. Just look at this interview from 2002, when Israel was doing another one of its routine massacres of Palestinians:
"I think Israel's international position is very badly damaged. A country which started off as a symbol of recovery of a people who were greatly persecuted now looks like a country that is persecuting people. And that's very bad."
"The Israelis are becoming increasingly like the white supremacist South Africans, viewing the Palestinians as a lower form of life, not hesitating to kill a great many of them and justifying this on the grounds that they are being the objects of terrorism."
"But you cannot define the loss of human life in terms of the number of Israelis killed by inexcusable Palestinian terror. The fact of the matter is that three times as many Palestinians have been killed, and a relatively small number of them were really militants. Most were civilians. Some hundreds were children."
Zionists regularly trot out Bill and Hillary Clinton to do the "why Palestinians are evil sub-human monsters who rejected Israel's perfect deal." Here's Brzezinski destroying that propaganda from his future son-in-law Joe Scarborough, humiliating him in front of his daughter:
Jimmy Carter, former President of the United States, came out with a book in 2006 titled "Palestine: Peace, not Apartheid." Again, this is not a radical, but he called Israel an Apartheid state, said Hamas was willing to negotiate reasonably and fairly but Israel refuses to do so and instead wants to continue its genocidal occupation. What did they do with this former US President saying the same thing as Brzezinski?
They smeared him as an anti-Semite and forced the cancellation of his speaking events. Again, they were literally cancelling the former President from giving talks. And no one in the media and political class cared. In fact they gleefully joined in on the smearing of him.
The level of derangement is astonishing, and it's purely cynical. They know Carter and Brzezinski aren't radicals and were just stating plain facts accepted by the entire world, as we saw again just now in the UN General Assembly voting for Palestinian statehood. But that's not allowed. That's proscribed in the US and West by the media and political class. That's banned. It's Zionism and the genocidal Israeli occupation regime uber alles.
there is now direct testimony from a woman who was in a relationship with Kamala Harris' husband Doug Emhoff that he violently beat her. Why is this ignored by the liberal media class? I thought we accept direct testimonies as fact. Or is that only for genocidal Zionist hoaxers?
Doug Emhoff and Kamala Harris constantly regurgitate the rape hoax to launder the ongoing Gaza genocide, as they have never said a single word about the actual mass rape of Palestinians. By their own standard Emhoff is a violent sexual assaulter who beats women. That's a fact
it's much worse. Kamala Harris who can't stop regurgitating the rape hoax to justify the genocide began her career laundering and enabling pedophilic mass rape. Again, this is a fact even reported in the AP years ago, then quickly buried by the media class