“The choice facing the nation this November is much older and deeper than Trump. A determined minority has been trying to shape the foundations of American governance for their own benefit since the inception of the republic. ... In 2024, the country is once again immersed in a pivotal battle over whom the political system should serve and represent.”
Pushing this "Biden and Trump are the same" trope is incredibly damaging to efforts at keeping any thread of democracy alive in the US. Infighting and division among those who by all rights should be united against the looming tsunami of fascism is akin to shooting holes in the bottom of a sinking boat.
Biden has a lot of faults, but he's not promising to militarily deport millions, destroy public education, impose religious doctrine across the board, etc.
Keith Owens on why, even if Biden wins, we can't discount the damage a significant minority of Americans still want to do to all of us:
"Keep in mind that in 2020, there were exactly 74,223,975 Americans who voted for Trump’s re-election, and that was after he suggested they inject themselves with bleach as protection against COVID."
Sometimes frank simplicity is best. This super popular @PamelaBarroway reply nails it! WTG Pamela!
"Biden is truly the only choice in November if we want our country to remain a #democracy. An easy way to make a difference and help re-elect #Biden — especially if you don’t have free time and / or don’t want to volunteer — is to donate to the #BidenHarris2024 campaign, monthly or as a one-off (I’m a monthly donor). #voteblue"
Dems are still bringing a knife to a gunfight *passive, not combative. M Obama's: 'when they go low, we go high' doesn't work with dom. terrorists.
Biden has responded to #TFG's escalating threats against #democracy with a desperate desire to present an image & leadership style that's “reasonable” &“responsible” & emphasizes public policy successes. Being boring, nice, & passive will not help Biden/Dems defeat TFG/#MAGA mvt. Pol scientist MS Fish agrees.
Alito & Thomas: racists & fascists, want to end #democracy:
"Thomas signals he'd end democracy if he could.
Overturning equal pop. reqs. would enable a level of gerrymandering far beyond today's most X maps.
Lawmakers could gerrymander perm. majorities, & the GOP dominates most ST legs. today."
-S Wolf
"Thomas' opinion calls on the SC to overturn the entire line of redistricting precedents, incl. Baker v Carr -est. "1 person, 1 vote" *says fed cts. never have authority to redraw dists."
-MJS
there is an historical reason for germany to support israel:
germany aka formerly known as west germany has never reviewed its tight collaboration with apartheid south africa
when most other countries had already turned their back on apartheid south africa, it was west germany which breached every embargo and did business with the apartheid regime
given the current situation in palestine, germany is forced to deal with the lie underpinning its very existence: that germany allegedly has learned from its nazi past, and that germany thus has become a democratic, anti-racist country
A church of Scotland was receiving donation money from slavery and even refused to apologise for such sinful offence. Ironic isn't it?
The Free Church of Scotland has been accused of “shameful” behaviour after it refused to apologise for receiving money from slavery worth millions of pounds today.
"Now it turns out that a flag representing the idea that the 2020 election was stolen, that the people should engage in armed revolution against tyranny, and that the United States should be a nation based in Christian theology has been flying over the home of Justice Alito, who is supposed to be defending the United States Constitution impartially."
"The unfortunate truth is that Republicans, under Trump’s influence, no longer accept that Democrats can legitimately win elections. This isn’t a run of the mill ideological difference between the parties. It’s the ruin of American democracy."
"Let’s be clear about what this means. Alito is giving our entire democracy the finger. He has expressed public allyship with the enemies of our Constitution instead of upholding his oath of office. And he’s also a coward and a liar, unwilling to speak his traitorous words aloud, yet ready to throw his wife under the bus the moment he’s questioned about these displays."
"If Alito refuses to recuse himself from cases involving Trump, Congress should impeach and convict him of no less than tending to prostitute the high judicial character with which he was invested, to the low purpose of blatant partisanship. That is, of violating the basic tenets of impartial justice, on which public trust for the high court is based."
#Taiwan's military mobilised forces & said it was confident it could protect the island, after #China started 2 days of #punishment drills around Taiwan in what it said was a response to "separatist acts".
The exercises in #TaiwanStrait & around groups of Taiwan-controlled islands…,come 3 days after #Lai Ching-te took office as Taiwan's new #president, a man Beijing detests as a #separatist.
China, which views democratically governed #Taiwan as its own territory, has denounced Lai's inauguration speech on Mon, in which he called on #China to stop its threats & on Tues Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi called #Lai "disgraceful".
Lai has repeatedly offered talks w/ China but been rebuffed. He says only Taiwan's people can decide their future, & rejects Beijing's #sovereignty claims.
The Eastern Theatre Command of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (#PLA) said it had started joint military drills, involving the army, navy, air force & rocket force, in areas around #Taiwan at 7:45AM.
The drills are being conducted in the Taiwan Strait, the north, south & east of Taiwan, as well as areas around the Taiwan-controlled islands of Kinmen, Matsu, Wuqiu & Dongyin, the command said in a statement.
TFG promised oil execs to get rid of environmental protections if they donate a billion to his legal fund/political campaign.
No word from Republicans on how further tax cuts for corporations and multi-millionaires are not reckless wealth transfers. Republican support for debt bondage is full-throated, however.
@TonyStark Biden is truly the only choice in November if we want our country to remain a #democracy. An easy way to make a difference and help re-elect #Biden — especially if you don’t have free time / or want to volunteer — is to donate to the #BidenHarris2024 campaign, monthly or as a one-off (I’m a monthly donor). #VoteBlue
"Judge Carlton Reeves' latest vivisection of "qualified immunity"—which lets violent & corrupt cops escape accountability—is nested in a broader critique of the SC's cynical & selective reliance on "democracy" to nullify our civil rights.
David Weiss now says the salacious conspiracies were false. With the indictment yesterday of Alexander Smirnov, the source of those false claims, Weiss confesses he is a direct witness in an attempt to frame President Joe Biden, even as Weiss attempts to bury it.
US Govt is seeking a protective order in the #Smirnov case disclosing what was fairly obvious: that the case involves sources & methods. And if there was an active #FISA order while the nitwit caucus was potting with Comrade Smirnov there's going to be a lot of panic in Dog Patch.
Republicans disseminated disinformation from Russian intelligence to harm President Biden. The Kremlin Hunter Biden Operation is used to gain control of American political outcomes.