Trump Redux: The Death of Democracy, or Overblown Hyperbole?

[Jwb]

Not justifying it but I think there are some reasons for the antisemitism on the left to become much more prominent than I think anyone would have expected 10 years ago.

The first and most obvious is that claims of antisemitism are routinely weaponized in order to defend Israel's actions,  to the extent that their politicians are willing to label the ICC antisemitic for issuing arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant. Netanyahu's office compared it to the Dreyfus affair.

Israeli leaders from across the political spectrum united to condemn the decision by a three-judge panel of the international criminal court to issue arrest warrants for the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and the former defence minister Yoav Gallant.

Netanyahu's office described the warrants as "an antisemitic decision ... equivalent to the modern Dreyfus trial", referring to the 1894 trial of a French artillery captain of Jewish descent that has become one of the most prominent examples of antisemitism.

https://www.theguardian.com/law/2024/nov/21/israel-politicians-condemn-icc-arrest-warrants-netanyahu-gallant

So I think it's become an equally reflexive instinct for some on the anti zionist side to dismiss claims of antisemitism when attached to the issue of Israel.

There's also just people taking naive approaches toward understanding the kind of ideology behind groups like Hamas or Hezbollah.  Inadvertently you end up seeing the slogans and iconography pop up among the activist left.  But this isn't exactly unheard of.  Anti war protesters during Vietnam similarly chanted pro Vietcong slogans.

But with the holocaust denial I think there's more to it than just the rise of antisemitism.  We are becoming more and more conspiracy brained and alt history pilled  in general due to the endless cottage industry for that kind of content online. But that being said,  there's no denying that antisemitism has markedly been on the rise since at least Charlottesville and that the war in Gaza has put it into overdrive. 

[Trollheart]

Looks like RFKJ scraped in by the skin.
14-13? Hardly a unanimous verdict was it?


News Alert: RFK Jr. nomination to lead HHS approved by Senate Finance committee


Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s nomination was approved by the Senate Finance Committee this morning, 14-13. The nomination now advances to the Senate floor.

This was a party line vote. There has been some speculation that GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy would vote against advancing Kennedy's nomination; Cassidy is a doctor who has expressed concerns with Kennedy's views on vaccines. However, Cassidy ended up voting with his Republican colleagues.

"With the serious commitments I've received from the administration and the opportunity to make progress on the issues we agree on like healthy foods and a pro-American agenda, I will vote yes," he said in a statement posted to X just before his vote.

[degrassiknoll]

Of fucking course he did

[Weekender]

Meritocracy in action.

[SGR]

Donald Trump will be first sitting president to attend Super Bowl





Hates Taylor Swift, likes Brittany Mahomes...is he rooting for the Chiefs or the Eagles? 

This also means this will be the first time the 'nuclear football' has been at the Super Bowl..

[Trollheart]

Who the fuck is Brittany Mahomes?
Think Swift will have problems getting bookings now, if the president has publicly said he hates her? You know what he's like about revenge!

You've got to love the hyperbole: the greatest and most powerful political movement in the USA? What about the civil rights movement, BLM, the protests against AIDS, the anti-war movement during Vietnam, to name but a few?

Can we have some more appropriate meanings for MAGA guys?
Mean Asshole Goes Amuck
Murder All Gender Assignments
Move Aside God: America
Maybe Another Grotesque Announcement
More Arms & Guns America
Mexicans Are Going Away
Make All Guns Assault

[SGR]

You've got to love the hyperbole: the greatest and most powerful political movement in the USA? What about the civil rights movement, BLM, the protests against AIDS, the anti-war movement during Vietnam, to name but a few?

Can we have some more appropriate meanings for MAGA guys?
Mean Asshole Goes Amuck
Murder All Gender Assignments
Move Aside God: America
Maybe Another Grotesque Announcement
More Arms & Guns America
Mexicans Are Going Away
Make All Guns Assault

It sounds to me like you're tired of all the 'winning'. 

[Buck_Mulligan]

WaPo.

Trump says U.S. would 'take over' Gaza Strip, says Palestinians should leave in news conference with Netanyahu
In a news conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump suggested Gazans should leave the war-torn area and that the U.S. would step in and "develop it," possibly on a long-term basis and with U.S. military involvement.

[Jwb]

In before "it's a negotiating tactic."

[DJChameleon]

I fell asleep listening to that stupid news conference. Along with having Chinese food for dinner. I ended up having some fucked up dreams. Anyways, all of what he said makes sense, I knew they were gonna do that. Prime real estate beach front property over all the dead bodies that have passed away. Everything built there is going to be haunted as shit. Worse than building over an Indian burial ground.


Also instead of Mexicans are going away.

Mexicans Aren't Going Anywhere.

I just like calling them MAGAts though pronounced maggots.

[Psy-Fi]

WaPo.

Trump says U.S. would 'take over' Gaza Strip, says Palestinians should leave in news conference with Netanyahu
In a news conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump suggested Gazans should leave the war-torn area and that the U.S. would step in and "develop it," possibly on a long-term basis and with U.S. military involvement.

From 2 weeks ago...

George Galloway - Interview with Chris Hedges

[Trollheart]

"Come to sunny Gaza! Stay at the brand new, purpose-built, state of the art Trump Gaza Hotel, where the rich and famous, and those without any sort of a conscience come to relax. Don't be put off by stories of guests waking up in the night to hear the cries of children - it's just the wind."

PS. No Palestinians.

[Lisnaholic]

In before "it's a negotiating tactic."

^ Yes, or perhaps more likely a deflection tactic: get the media howling about a new, ridiculous idea and not quizzing the President about the antics of Elon Musk: not elected, not given security clearance or Senate confirmation, but with impunity accessing US State info, dismantling State departments and blocking aid to the needy - a particularly vile look coming from the richest man in the world. I wonder how the Christian Nationalist preachers are going to spin that one in their Sunday sermons:-

 "And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

Perhaps they'll be ripping that page out of their Trump bibles

I fell asleep listening to that stupid news conference. Along with having Chinese food for dinner. I ended up having some fucked up dreams. Anyways, all of what he said makes sense, I knew they were gonna do that. Prime real estate beach front property over all the dead bodies that have passed away. Everything built there is going to be haunted as shit. Worse than building over an Indian burial ground.

Don't worry, DJ: as Trump's endlessly recurring Infrastructure weeks demonstrated, the Trump admin show no appetite for building anything other than border walls and internment camps.

Also instead of Mexicans are going away.

Mexicans Aren't Going Anywhere.

^ Like it!

[Psy-Fi]

"Don't be put off by stories of guests waking up in the night to hear the cries of children - it's just the wind."

You could write a good horror story around that line. 

[Trollheart]

Yes I would probably call it Ghosts of Gaza or Gaza Ghastly. Also thinking of having their ghosts haunt Trump around the White House, till finally he decides to shoot his own reflection in the mirror, thinking this is where the sounds come from. Mirror explodes and a large piece of glass decaptitates him. Oh, spoiler, by the way.

Anyhoo, looks like he's not having everything his own way...


News Alert: Federal judge blocks Trump's executive order to end birthright citizenship


A second federal judge on Wednesday blocked President Donald Trump's executive order that seeks to end birthright citizenship, saying it's likely unconstitutional and "runs counter to our nation's 250-year history of citizenship by birth."

The nationwide preliminary injunction from US District Judge Deborah Boardman is a significant ruling against Trump's Day 1 order, which was swiftly met with legal challenges and put on hold days later by a separate judge.