During Tuesday’s hearing, Gabbard told Warner that the Signal thread didn’t share any classified information but refused to share its contents, or even admit that she was on the chain.
“If it’s not classified, share the texts now,” Warner told Gabbard. “Share it with the committee. You can’t have it both ways. These are important jobs. This is our national security.”
Bitch, we can smell the bullshit 500 miles away.
If you’ll notice, liberals—both rank and file and leaders—are not calling for an end to the actual mass murder…
Here’s liberals, both rank and file, calling for an end to actual mass murder in 2022:
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-democrats-urge-biden-overhaul-drone-strike-lethal-force-policy
More than 40 House and Senate Democrats have urged US President Joe Biden to review and overhaul Washington’s counterterrorism policy and its use of lethal force and drone strikes.
The letter, led by Senator Elizabeth Warren, comes a day after US Central Command (Centcom) released the first public footage of an 29 August drone strike in Afghanistan which killed 10 civilians.
When “there is little policy change or accountability for repeated mistakes this grave and this costly”, they wrote, it sends a message that civilian deaths are “the inevitable consequence of modern conflict, rather than avoidable and damaging failures of policy”.
The letter was also signed by ten other senators including Chris Murphy, Patrick Leahy and Richard Durbin, as well as 40 House members including Ro Khanna, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Barbara Lee, and Pramila Jayapal.
Unfortunately, seeing as libs lost the recent election, there’s no way of telling the outcome this kinda of pressure would bring. But based entirely on the momentum Bernie and AoC are gaining, the flavor of lib you hate the most is fading fast from the favor of the Democratic party.
Even now, there’s fighting to change their leadership as the “New Lib” defense they’re putting up is about as effective as a wet paper towel.
Here’s a great article about the rise and fall of the “New Libs” that you hate (rightfully so, they suck), but it outlines they are indeed falling from grace at this very time:
Then, [Democrats] can learn from the [New Libs] most fundamental mistake: any new policy agenda must not only address structural challenges, but also be firmly rooted in a popular political base.
A popular base like their 50+ constituents calling to reform mass murder policies.
Unfortunately, Democrats currently have no power in any part of the US government. Trump is the only one in charge, and stopping him involves focusing on the part of his job he fucked up, particularly the Opsec.
That is something liberals DO have control over at this time. So it is what they are focusing on.
But if you look at what they were calling for when they were recently in power, it’s very much what you have been asking them to call for.
Okay you only seem to be interested posting liberal apologia rather than engaging with my point, so I won’t respond further. I will, however, note that I’m interested in what they’re doing now, not the one thing a minority of them did three years ago that, I should say, amounted to fucking nothing.
Any chance I could get enough of your empathy to explain what part of my comment is “liberal apologia?”
Because you just shifted to attacking me as an “apologist” instead of attacking the evidence I provided that you are wrong about your assumption of modern liberals.
Comparatively, if you were Israeli, and this conversation was about the Palestinians, you’d be telling me how much of a Palestinian apologist I am for pointing out that there’s some clear evidence that not all Palestinians are terrorists. I just provided some decent evidence to suggest that not all Libs are terrorists either.
Hate is addicting that way. Makes you assume the world is black and white when it’s always been shades of gray.
If you can’t admit it’s even possible your hateful assumptions about Libs are now outdated when presented some clear and unbiased evidence they very well might be, then you are choosing to believe your hate over reason.
Here’s another opportunity where you can choose to:
A) Have empathy and engage with the evidence I provided that your assumptions are wrong.
Or -
B) Have hate by dismissing me without evidence or good reason as you are now.
I guess we’ll find out in your next response if you like the way hating on Libs makes you feel so much that you’ve never stopped to considered when a good time to stop hating them would be.
Because someone with the political knowledge you have could certainly be doing a lot more with their life.
Any chance I could get enough of your empathy to explain what part of my comment is “liberal apologia?”
So in a nutshell: It’s the exact same rhetoric liberals use to whitewash Biden, Harris and the Democratic establishment’s support of Israel, and while that not may not necessarily be you 99% of people who say this either fundamentally don’t care about the people whose murder they’re justifying or are actually braindead. The citation of a small minority faction that cares, the appeal to some vague “pressure” that will cause change if we just have patience, and the implication that just because they don’t have official power they can’t and don’t need to do anything, you might not notice it but if you switched a few words you’d sound exactly like someone arguing that the Uncommitted Movement is literally Satan in August.
For more details, you took one action from three years ago that a minority of Congress democrats did that was not followed up by anything and that had no effect as evidence that liberals are calling for an end to the mass murder of brown people, but that’s literally not what’s going on. Some Democrats (which aren’t all liberals; AOC is a democratic socialist) wrote a letter saying they don’t think the president should have the unilateral power to murder brown people all over the world and when he ignored it did nothing. The so-called Congress Progressive Caucus has over 100 members so the fact that only 50 congressmen signed this letter is fucking pathetic. If any of these people actually cared, they’d do something about it. If signing one letter three years ago is supposed to convince me that they care beyond an extremely superficial level, then… uh… no.
Also, you raised Bernie and AOC as examples of a new trend within liberalism, but that’s straight up false. AOC is a (I think) democratic socialist, and Bernie ie a straight up socialist. These aren’t new flavors of liberal; they’re simply not liberals at all. The only thing liberals have done concerning these two is fight them at every turn.
Then you said that neoliberalism is in decline, which is not true. The people who actually run the show in the Democratic party are still all neoliberals. Schumer is still Senate minority leader, Jeffries is still House minority leader, Pelosi is still Pelosi. Maybe we’ll see neoliberals losing power in the midterm election if there’s even a free and fair midterm election, but now? Nope. And in places where neoliberals are being removed from power, they’re not being replaced by nice liberals (those don’t exist; the neo in neoliberalism is basically for show); they’re being replaced by socialists and other progressives. The existence of those people doesn’t make liberalism “nice” because these are also not liberals same as Bernie snd AOC.
And finally, the idea that criticizing the Trump admin’s opsec will somehow help stop him is laughable at best, dangerous at worst, because his supporters don’t give a shit. The arguments that Hegseth needs to be fired and all that do nothing to actually hurt Trump (who can just nominate whoever the fuck he wants). There’s no 5D chess game being played to oust Trump here.
I couldn’t be assed to write all this, so I just said liberal apologia and moved on, but there.
Because someone with the political knowledge you have could certainly be doing a lot more with their life.
Dude I fucking wish. The math changes a lot for authoritarian states, particular ones where political apathy is as common as it is in Egypt. I do intend to he there if there’s ever an opportunity to change that, but for now? Nothing to do but wait.
