Ensign_Crab

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Ensign_Crab,

He’ll never see the inside of a cell. The legal system protects shit like him.

Ensign_Crab,

Hillary didn’t lose because of a cult of personality or a few swing states, she was just simply a shit candidate.

She had decades of accumulated hatred from Republicans. She had resentment from Obama Democrats regarding her behavior in the 2008 primaries. She had greater resentment from Sanders Democrats because of the way party leadership favored her in the 2016 primaries. She coupled that with a VP nominee that was to her right, as a slap to the face of progressives she had done her best to alienate. Then she didn’t campaign in key swing states that she went on to lose.

What I’m saying here is that she was not simply a shit candidate. Her shittiness was remarkable for its complexity.

Ensign_Crab,

Which is why he’s coming to the US instead.

Ensign_Crab,

Yeah, but unfortunately with how charged everything is if he gets anything he will claim political persecution and try to be a martyr

He did that when he won.

Ensign_Crab,

Huh. Yesterday, I was told that this plan was endorsed by Israel. I doubt Biden was lying about it. Now it’s a nonstarter.

The Netanyahu regime is operating in bad faith in order to make Biden appear foolish and weak because Bibi wants Trump. Biden keeps playing into his hands.

Ensign_Crab,

Schumer was one of the people who invited Netanyahu to directly and publicly provide his employees with their marching orders.

Ensign_Crab,

That congress does whatever Netanyahu wants? They overwhelmingly voted against conditioning aid to Israel while Netanyahu was obviously committing a genocide.

Ensign_Crab,

I offered my rationale for my statement. Which was a formality since you intended to dismiss in bad faith anything I said.

Ensign_Crab,

The article you linked to indicates that Schumer’s invite to Netanyahu came after it was clear that Netanyahu was committing genocide:

Johnson first suggested inviting the Israeli leader, saying it would be “a great honor of mine” to invite him. That came soon after Schumer, who is the highest ranking Jewish elected official in the U.S., had delivered a stinging rebuke of Netanyahu. Schumer said in the speech that Netanyahu had “lost his way” amid the Israeli bombing campaign in Gaza.

Even so, Schumer had said he would join in the invitation because “our relationship with Israel is ironclad and transcends any one prime minister or president.”

Schumer invited Netanyahu AFTER the genocide commenced. I’m confident that my comment was not misinformation.

Ensign_Crab,

Oh no. You baselessly declared victory after dismissing my comment in bad faith. How will I survive?

Ensign_Crab,

Ah. I was confused. I thought you were saying you had reported it, like to the admins or something.

Ensign_Crab,

Which does make more sense, yes.

Ensign_Crab,

I see his hands aren’t tied here.

Ensign_Crab, (edited )

Fah Who foraze.

Dah Who doraze.

EDIT: I wasn’t being dismissive.

Netanyahu won’t agree to hostage release deal unless it polls well for him, Israeli families say they were told (www.nbcnews.com)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will not agree to end the war in Gaza in exchange for the release of hostages unless opinion polls show it is politically advantageous for him, a top Israeli security official told the families of those held captive, a person in the closed-door meeting and an advocacy group said Friday. (…)...

Ensign_Crab,

Worked for Ronald Reagan.

Ensign_Crab,

The candidate that ran to Biden’s right wants a pardon for Trump? Imagine that.

Ensign_Crab,

This song is perfect in Donald’s voice.

Ensign_Crab,

People who think Biden has a choice wrt Israel and Gaza are fucking clueless as to how powerful aipac is in the USA.

Wow. I’ve heard some absolute shit excuses for Biden’s support for genocide, but “We have to keep supporting genocide because the antisemites are right and The Jews do secretly run everything” takes the fucking cake.

Ensign_Crab,

Let’s say Biden stopped all aid to Israel tomorrow, you can bet you sweet ass that Trump will win by a landslide purely through all the Jewish votes suddenly transferring to him

Jewish voters are better people than you’re giving them credit for.

Ensign_Crab,

So what remaining reason do we have to not strip Manchin of his committee positions?

Ensign_Crab,

I can’t pin it on Biden, but Democrats had the majority in the House and Senate for the first 2 years of his presidency. They had the opportunity to protect LGBTQ+ people. The catch is that they would have had to end the filibuster forever. They chose to protect the filibuster.

Ensign_Crab,

There was a majority in the House, and it was 50-50 in the Senate. With Harris being the tiebreaker, that’s a majority.

I also remember the line from 2022 being “If you want to pass things progressives are clamoring for, we need more Democrats.” So we elected an additional Democrat. Then Sinema left the party. Then Fetterman was like “Sucker!” and sprinted toward the center. And now Manchin has left the party.

Ensign_Crab,

2 additional progressives and we could have told Manchin and Sinema to pound sand.

Please. We elected an additional progressive in '22 and wound up with two fewer Democrats and the progressive we picked up turned out to be a centrist.

It doesn’t matter how big a majority we give Democrats. There are always just enough Manchins.

Ensign_Crab,

We gave Democrats a supermajority. They killed the public option with it. They made damned sure to bail out their owners in the banking industry and make sure the only one of them who saw any consequences was the guy who scammed rich people. And had no interest whatsoever in codifying Roe.

And just like Biden’s first two years, they could have ended the filibuster forever with a simple majority, so your “four months” argument is just another pro-failure excuse.

Ensign_Crab,

I’d settle for Biden being half as progressive as Democrats keep insisting he is.

Ensign_Crab,

Let’s see how this plays out.

Ensign_Crab,

“Employee of the month”

Ensign_Crab,

Centrists gonna pretend they don’t still love him.

Ensign_Crab,

And now he’s abandoned you, and you’re still defending him.

Ensign_Crab,

Gatekeeping centrism. That’s a new one.

Ensign_Crab,

We’re back to actually calling it a majority again because Manchin needs defending. Neat.

Ensign_Crab,

When I criticize Democrats for getting so little of what they promise done, some apologist is quick to insist that the Democrats haven’t had a majority in the senate and that Manchin doesn’t count.

Now that someone’s saying that your god is imperfect, he’s crucial to what is conveniently a majority.

Ensign_Crab,

Democrats are not willing to run someone progressive for his or any other seat, regardless of that candidate’s chances of winning.

Ensign_Crab,

Democrats hate him, because every Biden policy that was blocked for the first two years of his term was Manchin’s fault.

Some Democrats hate him.

Ensign_Crab,

Lemmy has a few folks that like to label anyone being pragmatic as a “centrist.”

And no end of people who only punch left but call themselves pragmatists.

Ensign_Crab,

“Everyone to my left is all the way to my right.”

Ensign_Crab,

Supporting Manchin isn’t doing the trick either, is it?

Ensign_Crab,

I’ve had people straight up tell me that Biden never had a Senate majority to work with, right here on lemmy.

Now Democrats magically have the majority their numbers indicate, and it’s all thanks to Manchin.

Ensign_Crab,

Does Biden have enough progressives to get more progressive stuff passed? No. Two conservative democrats block that.

The party will always find just enough no votes, no matter how big a majority we give them.

Ensign_Crab,

Once again, in the spirit of an actual constructive conversation, how would you get someone more progressive into a West Virginia federal senatorial seat?

Why is your arbitrary bullshit goal the one I need to meet before I can level any criticism at your god?

Manchin is leaving the senate because he knows he will lose if he runs again. Moving to the right has failed. Democrats have no one who can win they can run in that state. There’s none to Manchin’s right.

So who would you run for that seat? You can’t run Manchin, he can’t win anymore and even he knows it.

I would work on getting progressives elected in better states. Manchin is wet dogshit on his single best day, and it’s why centrists will always go to bat for him.

Ensign_Crab,

2008? When we gave Democrats a supermajority and they found enough no votes to kill the public option? When we gave the Democrats a supermajority and they didn’t bother to codify Roe? That 2008?

Ensign_Crab,

but I’ll sure miss his votes on judges

Kavanaugh or Gorsuch?

Ensign_Crab,

The DNC screwing Bernie

In order to help whom?

Ensign_Crab,

Hillary was a disappointment. Debbie was a failure.

Debbie was a resounding success. She did the only thing she was there to do.

Ensign_Crab,

I hope not.

Ensign_Crab,

This was Debbie’s responsibility, and she failed to execute.

Her responsibility was to throw the primary for Clinton. She did so.

Ensign_Crab,

Her duties didn’t change one bit when she left the DNC to work for the Clinton campaign.

Ensign_Crab,

She typifies party leadership to this day.

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