God Has Abandoned Us: U.S. Politics November 2023

wtf else would he expect?

Trump pledges to reimpose Muslim 'travel ban'

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20231029-trump-pledges-to-reimpose-muslim-travel-ban-at-jewish-gathering

lol sleeve

i don't think arab americans are going to vote for trump over biden; but not voting at all is going to hurt biden's chances in some places.

otm, I absolutely understand not wanting to vote for Biden, even more after the past few weeks, but I fear that people choosing not to vote is going to help Trump more than anything else.

Biden can fix that with one weird trick

Absolutely, but do we honestly think he'll do that soon enough? I mean, it's too late as it is, but I'm skeptical he will move meaningfully on this.

Don't worry, he's going to rural America to hear concerns from voters.

Oh I don’t think he’ll move meaningfully, or any other way, on it

xpost

It’s very simple, the US supports our democratic allies in their fight against terrorism

as monstrous as Biden's statements have been it's not exactly out of line with what the Dem party as a whole is saying. a small handful of Congresswomen have taken a stance saying war crimes are bad and for that they've been getting called terrorist sympathizers from both sides. it does seem with this recent "stand up to Islamophobia" thing the White House is doing they're at least aware that this is hurting them, not that I expect them to do anything about it

USAID seems to say we gave Israel $3.3B with a B for military aid and $8m of economic aid
https://www.foreignassistance.gov/
cool infographic you can parse in several ways.
disbursements to west bank/gaza $110m, you can then see how they believe it's apportioned by sectors, e.g. $48.36m for "Emergency Response"

as monstrous as Biden's statements have been it's not exactly out of line with what the Dem party as a whole is saying.

Fetterman is not exactly surprising in this. Didn’t he allow AIPAC to edit his campaign platform during the primary?

https://apnews.com/article/military-nominations-senate-tuberville-holds-0c3a5441fb94887fdb0e1b1b65a399f5

Sam Bankman-Fried was just convicted on seven charges of fraud and conspiracy. So why does it feel like Joe Biden is the one who’s going to jail?

— New York Times Pitchbot (@DougJBalloon) November 3, 2023

Meanwhile, in the how's the "not Biden" campaign going?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/11/02/dean-phillips-town-hall-new-hampshire/

Speaking in a theater here less than a week after announcing his campaign, Phillips faced screaming and profanity from voters disappointed in his response to a question on a cease-fire in the Middle East. He was accused of gaslighting the lone Black woman in attendance, who was escorted out of the event — but not before a handful of other attendees walked out of the room.

Around an hour into the meandering town hall here Wednesday, 23-year-old Democrat Atong Chan rose to ask Phillips to support a cease-fire in the Israel-Gaza war.

Phillips blinked rapidly as Chan asked her question, and then began his response by turning around the question to ask her about how she feels about the Israelis killed by Hamas in the conflict.

“I’m going to answer each of your questions, but I have to tell you, I took note that you didn’t mention — how do you feel about the Israeli babies? And moms and dads and grandmas and hostages in Gaza who were brutally murdered? I just want to hear, before I answer your question, if that empathy is across humanity or only for Palestinians right now?” Phillips responded to Chan, a Manchester resident.

Phillips and Chan then debated whether she was being antagonistic, and when she said she hoped he would change his position on the cease-fire, the event devolved into a shouting match.

“They’re U.S. bombs; that’s the f---ing problem,” chimed in a man from across the room. A person seated in the same row as Chan shouted out that Phillips had not answered her question, and said, “You just gaslit her instead,” before getting up and walking out of the event.

“I gaslit?” Phillips asked, as more voices chimed in, “You did,” before Chan was escorted out of the town hall by three staffers. She accused Phillips of not caring about Gazan children, and he again turned around the issue to focus on Israelis.

Earlier in the event, Chan could be heard saying, “Is it?” in response to Phillips saying that Rep. James E. Clyburn’s assertion that he is disrespecting Black voters by focusing on New Hampshire is sad and wrong. Democrats changed their presidential nominating calendar to have South Carolina lead the nominating contest in 2024, instead of Iowa and New Hampshire, as part of a push for more diversity.

Chan said Phillips’s response on a cease-fire felt smug, arrogant and flippant. As she decried Democrats not doing enough, in her view, to prevent more Palestinian deaths, a staffer for Phillips opened the door of his red, white and blue campaign bus and walked directly behind her — not heeding the visibly upset Chan — to let Phillips’s dog, Henry, relieve himself nearby.

“I’m a Black person; sitting out would be one of the hardest things for me to ever do. There are people who died for my right to vote,” Chan said through tears minutes later. “I feel like I’m being put in a very precarious situation because I never want to disrespect my ancestors. … I’m gonna have to vote for somebody, and it’s going to be hard, because everyone who is running right now, they’re all not people I would ever want to vote for.”

Mark Meadows’ publisher is suing him for lying in his own book lol

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4292647-mark-meadows-sued-by-book-publisher-over-false-election-claims/

“I’m going to answer each of your questions, but I have to tell you, I took note that you didn’t mention — how do you feel about the Israeli babies? And moms and dads and grandmas and hostages in Gaza who were brutally murdered? I just want to hear, before I answer your question, if that empathy is across humanity or only for Palestinians right now?” Phillips responded to Chan, a Manchester resident.”

When it’s going great

Some elections coming up

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/11/04/10-biggest-races-election-day-00125386

Fingers crossed

“One ⁦@GlennYoungkin⁩ adviser, speaking on condition of anonymity, predicted a ‘massacre,’ saying the state’s center-left orientation and views on abortion would be too much for Youngkin to overcome.” https://t.co/e1Ra9wklUq

— Jeff E. Schapiro (@RTDSchapiro) November 4, 2023

As a newly minted Virginian, my first act is helping him eat shit.

I don't get to vote against my shitass governor (like myself, a transplanted New Jerseyan) until next November, but I'm ready.

I'm trying not to let myself feel too much hope about MS-GOV. Presley has been campaigning hard and Reeves has been hiding out hoping the (R) will be enough.

I hope the Democrats get out the vote efforts are more thorough in Mississippi than they were recently in Louisiana. In Louisiana too many Dems stayed home , allowing a right wing extremist to become governor with only a small percentage of registered voters

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/mike-johnson-son-monitor-porn-intake-covenant-eyes-1234870634/

Evangelicals are all insane.

“Accountability”

I expect his home looks very clean and tastefully decorated in a style that all but shouts "no humans live here".

“And no one beats off here, that’s for darn sure, yessiree.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc7EUmqaR88

its wild that there's only one elected Republican who it feels like you can even remotely relate to right now and it's Chris Christie. you think the high profile ones are bad and then when some random dude from the party starts making news they always wind up being one of the weirdest motherfuckers on the planet.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch:

1. Two members of @Moms4Liberty have reported several Florida librarians to law enforcement, claiming the librarians committed felonies by distributing pornography to minors.

Popular Information obtained the video from the Santa Rosa County Sheriff's Office.

WATCH: pic.twitter.com/Korty5aoVs

— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) November 6, 2023

(Dunno the best way to display this thread for the twitter-averse.)

Here's the write-up on it from Legum's website:

https://popular.info/p/moms-for-liberty-members-call-the

The media seems to do a poor job of pointing out that these lunatics define "pronography" in a very different way from the Supreme Court, or, indeed, normal people.

definition? i know pornographers when i see them at the checkout desk

yeah Neko Case stops by sometimes

Tapley told Popular Information that any book that has a "sex scene" is pornography and not "appropriate for minors." She did acknowledge that there may be exceptions for "extreme classics."

And Tapley will determine what the "extreme classics" are, I'm sure.

Lady Chatterley: Extreme Classic

I would like to round up every single member of this fascist loon cult and read to them the most disgusting books I can imagine— I’ll begin with Guyotat’s Eden Eden Eden.

I bet these people are still talking about rainbow parties

XTreme Classics sponsored by Surge

display this thread for the twitter-averse

https://nitter.net/JuddLegum/status/1721521769134125092

I would like to round up every single member of this fascist loon cult and read to them the most disgusting books I can imagine

naw i reckon this is all projection and these fuds are into the sickest shit you could imagine, eg https://newrepublic.com/post/176676/mike-johnson-son-monitoring-porn-intake-national-security-threat

Tapley will determine what the "extreme classics" are, I'm sure.

Already decided. It's the Bible with its numerous sex scenes. No others.

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is a musical porn

"dreamcoat" being slang for condom, of course

creamcoat

Amazing unicolor

I still just keep coming back to this incredulity that anybody is fighting about library books, when every kid has a smart phone. And can easily Google celebrity lookalike gang bangs or whatever they want. Just so utterly divorced from reality.

Not if they have the Mike Johnson “Covenant Eyes” spyware app installed!