For years, AOC and the Squad postured as standard left-wing anti-war and anti-imperialism activists. They railed against massive US expenditures to Raytheon, Lockheed Martin and the CIA. Now they just voted for one of the largest war packages ever. Listen to @AOC's own words:
During AOC's 2018 primary, she was unknown. @RyanGrim suggested I look. I did and became an enthusiast. I interviewed her: she vowed to vote NO on Pelosi, railed against identity politics, said establishment GOP & Dems were the enemy, denounced war budgets. Where is *this* AOC?
Meanwhile, what can one even say about this Ilhan Omar statement: from March 8, barely two months ago? She says flooding Ukraine with massive amounts of US money and weapons would be "likely disastrous."
Then, with no explanation, she turns around and votes for *exactly* this:
Even more pathetic is the behavior of the Bernie/AOC left. They don't want it on their permanent record in the Guidance Counselor's office that they supported Biden's escalation in Ukraine.
But they're also not allowed to criticize the Squad, who just voted for it. What to do?
Facing this dilemma, the Bernie/AOC left opted for silence: abstained from what is, by far, the largest and most dangerous US war involvement in decades. A complete abdication.
So the only US left war opposition comes from Chomsky YouTube interviews and a few dissident voices.
Meanwhile, the only anti-war and anti-imperialism message in the US comes from a few dozen right-wing House members and a few Fox hosts. That's it.
The US left *internationally* is loudly opposed, but the mainstream US left are cowardly to supportive.
Even the NYT -- **even the war-supporting NYT -- is aghast that so few people have the courage even to question or scrutinize these gigantic expenditures and weaponry Biden is sending to Ukraine via Raytheon/CIA. The Squad is united with Marco Rubio and Liz Cheney: fully on board
The most amazing part of all is that not one Squad member who just hopped on board with neocons and the pro-war wing of both parties bothered to explain their vote. Some haven't mentioned Ukraine in months! But they know their followers don't care:
Two of the smartest young leftists on YouTube, long supporters of the Squad, confront the reality of who they are and what they just did with this vote to send $40b more to Raytheon and CIA "for Ukraine." For smart/honest leftism, watch @vanguard_pod:
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Last night @elonmusk vowed to honor the endless, repressive and due-process-free censorship orders from Brazil's Judge Alexandre de Moraes.
The Judge has banned various journalists and members of Congress, among others, from social media.
This would be a huge deal for Brazil:
Rumble last year also announced that it would refuse to comply. The platform was expending huge resources to constantly take down videos and ban users upon the endless, lawless orders of a single job.
Amazingly, Rumble is no longer available to anyone in Brazil, getting this:
In January of last year, we obtained one of the secret orders Judge Moraes issues to platforms. This one banned Senators, Congress members and journalists, and mandated secrecy.
No due process. We reported it here. Hard to overstate how extreme it is:
UK Court hands Assange a partial victory in the Biden DOJ's attempt to extradite him.
US must provide explicit assurances that Assange 1) can raise a 1st Am defense, 2) will have the same rights as US citizens and 3) will never face the death penalty.
Biden WH doesn't want the sideshow of a trial; daily protests; discovery into CIA; Assange on the stand; Biden as the first-ever president to imprison a publisher.
They want to kill Assange through conviction-free imprisonment.
How dare the US President weigh in on a war he has caused American citizens to finance, arm and support!
Look at the mentality of these Israel fanatics: the duty of American citizens is not only to finance Israel's military and wars, but also never question what Israel does: