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spider, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

per·fid·i·ous

adjective

deceitful and untrustworthy

See: Jared Kushner

Edit: Always found it odd that you never hear a peep from him about his father-in-law playing footsie with these people.

spider, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

True, but now it’s off the rails.

Edit:

Margaret Goldwater advocated for birth control and reproductive rights in the United States during the twentieth century. Goldwater was a socialite and philanthropist and was married to Barry Goldwater, US Senator from Arizona. She spent much of her life working to further the women’s reproductive rights movement, which sought to expand women’s legal, social, and physical access to reproductive healthcare, including contraception and abortions.

source

Barry Goldwater was considered the father of the modern conservative movement; his wife’s work would likely result in his excommunication from today’s Republican Party.

spider, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

The real reason is that Israel has a ridiculously effective lobby group in AIPAC where they control pretty much everyone in Congress.

…like this:

https://archive.is/vUi68

spider, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

Well, he could host his own event, “Trump Con”, but the name would be redundant.

spider, 5 months ago

These statements elide her more than a decade of experience as a barred attorney

So she might become a different kind of “barred” attorney.

spider, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

That would be so glorious.

And then we could accuse them of losing money because they’re not being responsible or trying hard enough.

spider, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

In a scathing speech last week, Fain blasted Trump as a “scab” who if ever “worked in an auto plant, he wouldn’t be a UAW member, he’d be a company man trying to squeeze the American worker.”

Yep, he’s a real champion of the little guy:

Donald Trump casts himself as a protector of workers and jobs, but a USA TODAY NETWORK investigation found hundreds of people – carpenters, dishwashers, painters, even his own lawyers – who say he didn’t pay them for their work.

spider, 5 months ago

Trump is poisoning the brains of our country.

spider, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

She ran a shit campaign. Everyone likes to forget that part

And then used Russia as an excuse and got away with it, as evidenced by the downvotes here.

spider, 3 months ago

Here’s a big one:

The 1987 repeal of the fairness doctrine enabled the rise of talk radio that has been described as “unfiltered” divisive and/or vicious: "In 1988, a savvy former ABC Radio executive named Ed McLaughlin signed Rush Limbaugh — then working at a little-known Sacramento station — to a nationwide syndication contract.

spider, 3 months ago

…not to mention the damage done by Reagan, which we’re still paying for.

spider, 3 months ago

Judge Allen Winsor

…appointed by Donald Trump – surprise! /s

spider, 3 months ago

The “attack” was a defensive maneuver to stop these settlements that violate international law in the first place.

…and here’s some context:

More than 6,000 unarmed demonstrators were shot by military snipers, week after week at the protest sites by the separation fence.

Source: United Nations, via Internet Archive

spider, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

Then it sounds like she had a mental health crisis because she miscarried in a fucking bathroom.

And the prosecutors are holding her to a standard they likely couldn’t follow themselves under these circumstances.

Also, she’s black, which I’m sure has nothing to do with this. /s

spider, 5 months ago

Republican moderates

my nomination for 2023 oxymoron of the year

spider, 3 months ago

It added that Israel has not “shared the raw intelligence behind its assessments with the US”.

i.e., Throw everything at the wall and see what sticks.

spider, 5 months ago

The Big Club running – and ruining – everything.

(NSFW - language)

spider, 5 months ago

Yet another example of the obscenely wealthy being regarded as experts on everything.

spider, 4 months ago

And it’s not necessarily limited to universities:

http://web.archive.org/web/20231206000344/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/05/world/middleeast/house-anti-zionism-antisemitism.html/

More than half of House Democrats declined to back the Republican-written resolution, as some argued that equating criticism of the state of Israel with hatred of the Jewish people went too far.

“Under this resolution, those who love Israel deeply but criticize some of its policy approaches could be considered anti-Zionist,” Representative Jerrold Nadler, Democrat of New York and the longest-serving Jewish member of the House, said in a floor speech before he voted “present.”