The Jake-Sullivan-led Biden delegation that met Bolsonaro in Brasilia this week offered Bolsonaro *membership in NATO* in exchange for him not using Huawei for Brazil's 5G, reports Brazil's largest paper, @Folha: all this as Bolsonaro increases his threats to cancel elections.
I know liberals all suddenly decided at once that the tiny and strategically trivial country of Hungary is something they all must denounce because Tucker visited there, but maybe Biden's overtures to Bolsonaro -- President of a vastly larger country - deserves some attention.
I know it's profoundly crucial what a cable host feels about a tiny Eastern European country but for those claiming to oppose authoritarianism, the US President sending arms and $ to the Saudi and Egyptian tyrannies & offering NATO membership to Bolsonaro might matter a bit more?
A major reason -- probably the key one -- that the US Government is so determined to prevent countries like Brazil from using Huawei is because that means they don't buy US tech, which the NSA and FBI invade and convert into spying machines.
What's also odd about the Biden Admin offering NATO membership to Bolsonaro in exchange for not using Huawei for 5G: Bolsonaro is getting ready to do more damage to the Amazon, which Biden says is the existential threat, yet it's not conditioned on that.
So often, the rhetoric about climate change being the most pressing crisis -- an existential and imminent threat to the survival of the human species -- is not matched by the actions of those claiming it, to put it mildly. This is another vivid case where that's true.
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A NYT reporter on CNN justifying Obama's huge maskless birthday bash because he only invited "a sophisticated, vaccinated crowd" is about as emblematic of liberal discourse as it gets.
What happened to all the concerns about vaccinated people passing Delta to the unvaccinated?
Yes, it's a pandemic and a crisis, but let the sophisticated people have their fun!
Seems like the NYT's stamp of approval for Obama's opulent, massive, indoor maskless party for the "sophisticated people" is a bit at odds with Dr. Fauci's demand this morning that motorcyclists stop acting like spoiled children by gathering outside:
Oh, wow: a nominally feminist group working in tandem with a powerful male Democratic Party politician to protect him from consequences for his serial harassment and predatory behavior toward women.
The key role played by @AlphonsoDavid -- the President of @HRC -- in helping Andrew Cuomo smear his first accuser, by aiding in the leaking of her personnel records to the press, is absolutely repugnant. That HRC is standing by him speaks volumes:
Also, @TIMESUPNOW - the "feminist" group that plotted with Cuomo against his accusers - is the one @ryangrim reported refused to help Tara Reade by inventing a blatant falsehood to protect Biden.
These are DNC fronts masquerading as social justice groups
Four straight years of corporate media and liberal politicians (excuse the redundancy) pretending to care so deeply about the rule of law above all else -- including those who served in past lawless administrations -- only to now have headlines like this one above.
In 2011, the House of Representatives voted *against* authorizing Obama's involvement in the war in Libya, but he just ignored that and continued to fight there anyway, to remove Gaddafi even after he swore that protecting civilians, not regime-change, was the mission: #RuleOfLaw
Here's the top consultant for Shontel Brown, who defeated Nina Turner in Ohio yesterday -- after the Dem establishment and pro-Israel groups poured huge resources into defeating Turner -- telling @danielmarans what lessons the left must learn from this:
The Bernie/AOC wing watched the entire Dem establishment unite to defeat @NinaTurner just to spite them and deny them a seat.
What did the left do to try to stop them? Nothing. No threats to withhold votes or support. What will they do now? Continue to loyally serve the Dems.
A political faction that signals it will never use its power and will always loyally serve the Party -- no matter how much contempt the Party displays for them -- is a faction that will have no respect and deserves no respect. People in politics despise weakness above all.
Reminder of how the liberal sector of the corporate press spent the last 15 months sanctifying and slobbering all over Andrew Cuomo without even a pretense of critical distance:
CNN anchor Chris Cuomo advised brother, NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo, on sexual misconduct claims, report says
"It was inappropriate to engage in conversations that included members of the Governor’s staff, which Chris acknowledges," CNN’s statement said.
Vintage Squad politics: Lots of performative theatrical dissidence, sometimes well-motivated. But ultimately, it's always boxed in by a refusal to wield real power if doing so means defying Pelosi or subverting the Dem Party. It keeps pseudo-edgy leftists loyal to the Party.
That's why the Squad's behavior on Pelosi's bill to increase Capitol Police funding is vital. All 6 of them agreed to join the GOP and vote NO, but when they realized that would sink the bill, AOC, Tlaib & Bowman voted "present" so it passed by 1 vote:
Look at what the Squad did there. All 6 members were going to defy Pelosi and vote NO on more spending for Capitol Police -- but only when they thought it would pass without them. Once they realized that would sink Pelosi's bill, they backed away. The dissent is only for theater.