Ever since Biden demanded $60b more for Ukraine, and it looked difficult to attain, I kept saying I've rarely if ever seen the military-industrial complex fail to get whatever it wants. They always win in DC.
As the $60b for Ukraine looks imperiled, CNN magically reports this:
For programs Dems pretend they favor to improve Americans' lives, they always insist they just sadly don't have the votes, etc.
But for DC's real priorities -- billions more for endless wars -- Dems are working with pro-war Republicans to use extreme measures to get it done.
One of Schumer's key GOP partners in getting $60b more for Ukraine and $17b for Israel is @SenThomTillis.
His strategy: knowing Americans oppose it, he wants to use the GOP members who are retiring to vote YES, meaning: they don't have to care what Americans want.👇
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I really wonder if any Democrat or liberal ever contemplates why it is that all the worst vintage neocons -- whom they were calling Nazis and bloodthirsty psychopaths just a decade ago -- have the exact same foreign policy as Dems, Biden and liberals now?
Just 15 years ago, liberals hated neocons like they hate Trump now. Jonah Goldberg was a particularly despised because this little coward said the US has to take a crappy little country and throw it against the wall every decade.
Half if not more of the left-liberal bloggers that I used to most read before entering journalism now spread the Word of the worst neocons and Bush/Cheney operatives, even though none changed their views.
Then they accuse everyone who still hates neocons of having "changed."
This is just like when Palantir announced it was setting aside 180 jobs for Jews only, and Ben Shapiro and Bari Weiss both applauded (Shapiro backtracked after his followers attacked him).
What happened to the vehement opposition to group-based benefits and privileges???
Absolutely bizarre how so many of these people spent years mocking and heaping scorn on any attempt by any minority group to claim oppression and the need for special protections.
Suddenly, they decided that one, and only one, group is sufficiently persecuted: American Jews.
Anyone who actually got persuaded that Bill Ackman is really interested in eliminating DEI and various censorship programs -- rather than *expanding* it to include and protect the groups and causes he most values -- is in for a big surprise.
Joe Biden is so deeply and passionately devoted to the urgency of Democracy that he's doing everything possible to imprison his leading opponent, criminalize his movement, and (as federal courts found) censor the internet.
But his anti-democratic measures are to save Democracy.
You can take Democratic Party propagandists out of their job as White House speechwriter and give them a podcast, but you can never take the Democratic Party propaganda out of them.
I also can't wait for those now accusing Biden of supporting genocide to slowly shift in 6 months to decreeing that nothing is more vital than keeping the genocide supporter in power.
Nobody who believes this accusation would do that: it's the lesser of 2 genocides!
Please read this article. If you're American, this is your war. Your government is paying for it, even though many Israelis have a higher standard of living than many Americans.
The rates of Gazan civilian destruction - including for children - are staggering by any metric:
Evidence shows 1% of the Gazan population that existed 10 weeks ago is now killed. For those who like such math: that's tantamount to 3.3 million Americans killed - or 1,000 9/11s.
This is not just another war. And it's plausible that 500,000 more will die from disease alone.👇
There is *finally* a reckoning of the huge, glaring inconsistency on the US Right: professing "America First" while financing Israel, pretending to oppose censorship while long punishing Israel critics. I'll talk about that shortly.
Hamas killed hundreds of Israeli civilians on Oct. 7, some in brutal ways.
But so many of the most dramatic claims -- babies baked in ovens, dozen of babies beheaded, cut out of wombs -- were fabrications debunked by Israeli media, yet many will go to their graves believing it.
One of the most bizarre aspects of the US/Israel relationship -- so many Americans are more supportive of Israeli wars than the US's -- is how much more dissent there is in Israeli media than US media.
@haaretzcom Speaking of Israeli media, here's a new @haaretzcom report on how death counts from what US media now calls "the Hamas-run Gazan Health Ministry" have historically been very precise.
If anything, "20,000 dead" is undercounted due to un-removed rubble: