Supporting Israel is not the same as supporting Netanyahu.
Biden and Netanyahu have a decades-long relationship that has at times been strained. At the Monday evening reception, Biden said he once gifted Netanyahu a photo and wrote at the top: “I love you but I don’t agree with a damn thing you had to say.”
“It’s about the same today,” Biden said, adding he’d “had my differences with some Israeli leadership.”
Oh, corruption is going to thrive under Trump. Did you not notice that last time around? Did you not notice the fake charities, the tax payer money funneled into Mar-a-Lago, the hundreds of millions going to Trump PACs, the money going to the Trump hotel in Washington DC, all the corruption and bribes and schemes?
And the fun thing is that now that Trump knows how to do all of this, how to funnel millions into his own pocket, a second Trump presidency is going to be corruption on steroids.
The only thing that’s going to crumble are democratic norms and human rights in the United States.
From a utilitarian point of view, it probably makes more sense to attempt to minimize suffering rather than opting out of the decision and thereby passively enable greater suffering.
But hey, it’s the trolley problem all over again, and people hate even thinking about that one.
Donald Trump has said that he will not become a dictator if he becomes US president again except “on day one”, after warnings from Democrats and some Republicans that the US was in danger of becoming an autocracy if he wins the 2024 election. Fuck, well at least he’s honest on this statement
“We recognize that, in the next four years, our decision may cause us to have an even more difficult time. But we believe that this will give us a chance to recalibrate, and the Democrats will have to consider whether they want our votes or not.”...
For example, a U.S. president could send American ground troops into Gaza. Or recognize Gaza and the West Bank as Israeli territory. Or increase military aid to Israel tenfold. Or launch a preemptive military attack against Hezbollah. Or launch a ground attack against the Huthi rebels for firing rockets at Israel. Or increasing tensions with Iran for funding Hamas. Or round up suspected Hamas supporters in the U.S. and deport them. Or round up suspected Palestine supporters in the U.S. and hold them in indefinite detention. Or create a House Committee for Un-American Activities. Or bring back “enhanced interrogation” for questioning Americans suspected of un-American activities.
The possibilities are really unlimited.
This is like arguing that voting for Hitler as Reichskanzler wouldn’t be so bad, because at worst he would be doing the exact same thing as Kurt von Schleicher.
But that’s the thing: things can always get worse. And Trump has proven time and time again that he’s willing to make things worse.
“There’s just a lot of people in this country that don’t want to work, period,” Rep. Virginia Foxx said during a hearing about people who work too much....
prevent extending disaster aid to Kathrina victims
prevent the expansion of the Voting Rights Act
prevent the Armenian genocide from being declared a “genocide”
and she firmly stood her ground in telling everyone that Obamacare was a danger to the nation bigger than any terrorist attack on America ever could be.
You’ll never completely eliminate all possible bias from human beings serving on a nation’s highest court, but out of the things that could be done, the United States is doing exactly nothing.
Judges simply shouldn’t be nominated by one single person, particularly if that person is the de facto leader of his political party. And confirmation of judges simply shouldn’t be possible purely based on how many seats that same party holds in the Senate and, in a worst case scenario, without any kind of bipartisanship purely along party lines.
Because that essentially means that Supreme Court judges are nominated and confirmed by the political parties.
Apart from maybe a president being able to single-handed determining Supreme Court judges, almost any other system would be better. Including - as shitty as that would be - direct election of Supreme Court judges by the entire electorate.
That’s because every single person who slights him even the tiniest bit was obviously always his enemy, and he obviously always knew this. Probably a RINO, a secret Democrat, a stealthy undercover deep state fake Republican. Very bad person, could not be trusted, in fact Trump barely knew them, they begged him for the job, but they simply weren’t up to it.
Even if he praised that same person to high heaven just the day before.
Evidence: the 263 people he hired and fired in the last administration (with the firing usually done via Twitter, when they were far away from wherever he was tweeting from).
Also Kevin McCarthy. And Chris Christie. And Rex Tillerson. And Omarosa. And Steve Bannon. And Scramucci. And Reince Priebus. And Mike Pence. And Michael Flynn. And John Kelly. And Sebastian Gorka. And John Bolton.
There are literally hundreds of people who swore allegiance to Trump, only to be thrown under the bus.
Israeli official says Hamas doesn’t want to release remaining women because it doesn’t want them speaking publicly about what they endured on Oct. 7 and in their time in captivity...
Which is why they released women for the other 7 days. Love how this article contradicts itself in the first sentence.
Here’s the entire sentence:
Israeli official says Hamas doesn’t want to release remaining women because it doesn’t want them speaking publicly about what they endured on Oct. 7 and in their time in captivity
which clearly implies that Hamas was fine releasing female hostages that were treated okay, but is refusing to release the remaining female hostages that have possibly been abused, raped, sexually mistreated.
You obviously don’t have to agree with that analysis, but where exactly do you see the contradiction?
One party got Obamacare done and is responsible that 40 million Americans who otherwise wouldn’t have health insurance are covered by the Affordable Care Act.
The other side has sabotaged Obamacare in any kind of way possible, has blocked the Obamacare expansion to uninsured people in their own home states, has sued all the way up to the Supreme Court to eliminate Obamacare, has campaigned for 10 years against Obamacare, and came to within one single vote of eliminating Obamacare without any kind of replacement whatsoever.
And here you are, telling us how parties are the same.
Why should Democrats want to permanently do away with the filibuster when they only ever had a razor thin majority and were facing an opposition hellbent on destroying the entirety of the Affordable Care Act and leaving 40 million Americans without health insurance?
Last time voters gave Democrats a significant enough majority, they got the Affordable Care Act. If voters want Democrats to act decisively, all they need to do is give them a decisive majority.
Voting for Republicans and then whining that Democrats get nothing done isn’t going to achieve anything.
Ich habe heute Morgen etwas Nachrichten gelesen. Insbesondere einen Artikel über Frauenhäuser und das Problem deren Finanzierung. “Hmm, da muss man wirklich was dran tun. Kann so nicht weitergehen” dachte Ich. Als ich dann, trotz besseren Wissens, in die Kommentare schaute erblickte ich dieses… Dieses… Stück....
Milliardäre sind halt so unglaublich weit weg vom eigenen Erfahrungshorizont, da könnte man sich genauso gut über Smaug den Drachen unterhalten. Menschen, die vielleicht hunderttausend mal mehr Geld haben, als man als Durchschnittsmensch in einem gesamten Arbeitsleben verdienen kann? Da fehlt vielen Menschen komplett das Vermögen, das in irgendein Verhältnis zum eigenen Leben zu setzen.
Da sieht man sich dann lieber in der eigenen, erlebten Umgebung um und tritt dann gerne kräftig zu, am liebsten nach unten.
There are Republicans who spent a decade fighting tooth and nail against Obamacare, and still took credit for Obamacare provisions in their home states.
Donald Trump’s supporters unleashed a wave of death threats and antisemitic and homophobic messages to the judge overseeing his fraud trial, as well as his chief clerk, according to a state court filing this week....
A lawyer can walk away if the client is engaged in a continuing criminal enterprise, if he’s using the lawyer to perpetuate his illegal scheme, or if the client asks the lawyer to do something illegal himself.
Feels like chances would be pretty good for Trump’s lawyers to dump him if they really wanted to.
Another thing of course is that the banks are unhappy with not getting their share in money laundering, crime investments and tax evasion, like they do with government currencies. Cryptocurrencies could also democratize organized crime and not just leave it to the established ties between politics, banks and existing crime groups.
I’m not sure that “cryptocurrencies make it much easier for criminals to launder money, finance criminal enterprises, evade taxes and for organized crime to funnel dark money and into politics and corrupt politicians” is the kind of pro-cryptocurrency argument you seem to imply it is.
However, it’s just an argument for cracking down on money laundering, criminal enterprises, dark money in politics, etc.
Bad actors who oppose cryptocurrencies out of nefarious reasons don’t make cryptocurrencies a good thing, particularly if even worse actors support cryptocurrencies for even worse reasons.
‘Too many things unaffordable:’ Biden fires up price wars as inflation cools (www.cnbc.com)
Biden sharply critisizes Netanyahu’s government, saying Israel is losing support worldwide over ‘indiscriminate bombing’ in Gaza (www.washingtonpost.com)
'I am a Zionist,' says Biden at Hanukkah event, promises continued military assistance to Israel (www.timesofisrael.com)
Epic win: Jury decides Google has illegal monopoly in app store fight (www.theverge.com)
Well, I’ll be damned. They finally won one it sounds like.
US Senate Republicans block assault-style weapons ban as mass shootings rise (www.reuters.com)
Trump says he'll be a dictator only 'on day one' if elected (www.rte.ie)
Donald Trump has said that he will not become a dictator if he becomes US president again except “on day one”, after warnings from Democrats and some Republicans that the US was in danger of becoming an autocracy if he wins the 2024 election. Fuck, well at least he’s honest on this statement
Muslim Americans in swing states launch anti-Biden campaign (www.axios.com)
“We recognize that, in the next four years, our decision may cause us to have an even more difficult time. But we believe that this will give us a chance to recalibrate, and the Democrats will have to consider whether they want our votes or not.”...
GOP Lawmaker Laments Workers' Laziness In Hearing About Overtime Pay (www.huffpost.com)
“There’s just a lot of people in this country that don’t want to work, period,” Rep. Virginia Foxx said during a hearing about people who work too much....
Donald Trump's own judges are ruling against him (www.newsweek.com)
Report: Truce fell apart after Hamas refused to release more Israeli female hostages (www.timesofisrael.com)
Israeli official says Hamas doesn’t want to release remaining women because it doesn’t want them speaking publicly about what they endured on Oct. 7 and in their time in captivity...
Hamas reklamiert Anschlag in Jerusalem mit drei Toten für sich (www.tagesschau.de) German
Team Biden plots attack on Trump over Obamacare (www.semafor.com)
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Kommentare unter Nachrichtenartikeln machen mich krank [Wut/Enttäuschungs-Pfosten] (lemmy.world) German
Ich habe heute Morgen etwas Nachrichten gelesen. Insbesondere einen Artikel über Frauenhäuser und das Problem deren Finanzierung. “Hmm, da muss man wirklich was dran tun. Kann so nicht weitergehen” dachte Ich. Als ich dann, trotz besseren Wissens, in die Kommentare schaute erblickte ich dieses… Dieses… Stück....
Sen. Mitt Romney Says He Would Vote For 'Virtually' Anybody Other Than Trump or Ramaswamy (themessenger.com)
Trump lawyers dismiss death threats as ‘irrelevant’ to federal gag order (www.the-independent.com)
Donald Trump’s supporters unleashed a wave of death threats and antisemitic and homophobic messages to the judge overseeing his fraud trial, as well as his chief clerk, according to a state court filing this week....
ECB chief Lagarde admits her son lost crypto cash (www.reuters.com)