American Complicity: The Genocide in Gaza

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Wednesday April 03, 2024 · 9:30 AM PDT

2024/04/03 · 09:30

As the ashes settle over Gaza, the air is thick not just with the smoke of destruction, but with the silence of the American people—a silence that speaks volumes of complicity in what can only be described as an attempted ethnic cleansing.

Recent attacks have laid bare a harrowing strategy: the targeting of humanitarian aid, a lifeline for the besieged inhabitants of Gaza, where over 33,000 souls, two-thirds of whom are women and children, have been brutally extinguished. This is not warfare; it is a deliberate massacre, an obliteration of the innocent under the guise of conflict.

The term "Never again," once a global pledge against the horrors of genocide, has been rendered a grotesque irony as we stand witness to its betrayal. How can we, especially in the United States, reconcile our ideals of freedom and justice with our government's support of such atrocities?

Our tax dollars, funneled into the machinery of oppression, make us unwilling participants in this tragedy. The blood of Gaza's children stains not just the hands of their direct aggressors but also the collective conscience of the American public.

It is a moral failing of catastrophic proportions that we, as a society, have allowed our compassion to be dulled by distance and politics.

The Biden administration's continued arming of Israel is not just a diplomatic stance; it is a mirror reflecting our own apathy, a testament to our willingness to overlook the slaughter of the innocent for political expediency. This is not just Israel's war; it is America's shame, a dark shadow cast over our nation's soul.

Biden's Private Prison Exec. Order Good First Step But We Need More Action

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Saturday January 30, 2021 · 10:32 PM PST

2021/01/30 · 22:32

Biden signing executive order to not renew private prison contract bids

Thank you Joe Biden! Returning to the Obama policy of not doing business with private prisons is a breath of fresh air. There is still more work to be done though!

One of the main arguments for private prisons are that they save tax payers money. Not true. “It’s cherry-picking,” said State Representative Chad Campbell, leader of the House Democrats. “They leave the most expensive prisoners with taxpayers and take the easy prisoners.”

I love the Executive Orders by Biden in this first 2 weeks in office. This is a symbolic order and we should keep in mind that we have much more work to do regarding prison reform. For example:

Biden’s order only addresses private prisons under contract with the Department of Justice, not facilities contracted by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The use such facilities by the federal government grew under the Trump administration, and now make up around 75% of DHS detention contracts, according to the Center for American Progress. In the 2019 fiscal year, ICE detained on average 50,000 people a day, every day—and at points, over 56,000 people a day—according to a 2020 ACLU report.

That same report found that, in January 2020, a record-breaking 81% of people detained in ICE custody were held in facilities that were privately owned or managed.

Biden has shown himself to be a fighter early on and more leftist than I had imagined he would be. He also has plans to demilitarize the police in America and if/when he accomplishes that it will be a great start to honoring his pledge to the American people in his acceptance speech.

Georgia voters feel "betrayed" by Democrats already: Honor the $2000 promise!

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Friday January 22, 2021 · 7:03 PM PST

2021/01/22 · 19:03

ap203017245444041jpg.jfif — Warnock and Ossoff Campaigning Together

Welp that didn’t take long.

I, like many of my fellow Democrats, are still basking in the glow of the beautiful inauguration. Democrats now control the House, Senate, and Presidency. By the narrowest margins, we won the Senate by capturing Georgia (even typing this it seems surreal to me).

Now, I knew all along Biden would be a centrist, corporatist etc. doesn’t bother me. He has triumphed over literally evil and we can cling to Democracy for a little while longer as the powers of fascism, nationalism, and tribalism are temporarily defeated.

Unfortunately, many voters aren’t as calloused as I am now. They just listened to Democrats pledge “$2000” if they were elected. Not $1400 + $600 they already received in the past. $2000. Period.

Imagine if they promised $3200 instead. Then when they won said, “oh we count the $1200 you received a year ago...”. Ridiculous.

One Georgia canvasser that went door to door last month said this, “

Some Georgia voters have been left unimpressed by what they see as semantic trickery, with one person who canvassed for Democrats saying he felt he had 'lied to people' when he promised them $2,000 payments.

'I'm a man of principle and morals and I feel like s**t. I lied to them,' Rogelio Linares.

He feels he was lying to people and maybe its easy for a politician but not so much for an ordinary guy that was campaigning for people during a pandemic. Doubtful he will be knocking on doors next time.

Some people will fall for the slight of hand but many many others wont. People are not stupid.

Democrats should do what they said they were going to do.

Demand it.

Jon Voight and others should be charged for sedition. Many need jail time.

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Wednesday January 13, 2021 · 4:52 PM PST

2021/01/13 · 16:52

Let's not forget the many people who called for insurrection. Voight used his celebrity to give gravitas to a violent revolution.

Trump, btw, tried his best to get the military to aid his coup.

I was urging people to take insurrection seriously at the time and many many people called me crazy (none from dailykos thank goodness).

My diary from weeks ago:

Jon Voight recently released a video in which is labeled liberals and Democrats as ‘corrupt’, ‘evil’, and ‘satanic’ villains whom have stolen the 2020 election from Donald Trump.

"There will be a price to pay. The ones who are jumping for joy now are jumping toward the horror they will be in for," Voight said, referencing Biden's victory. "I know the promises being made from the left to the American people will never come to be. My friends from all colors, races and religions, this is now our greatest fight since the civil war."

If you think that was bad, he then called us Satanists:

"The battle of righteousness versus Satan," he said of the country's current state. "Yes, Satan, because these leftists are evil, corrupt and they want to tear down this nation. We must not allow this.

He ends it by saying:

"Let us fight this fight as it is our last fight on earth. As Muhammad Ali said, 'It's not over til the last punch you have.' God bless."

That Jon Voight dog whistled his hope for conservatives to begin a Civil War 2 isn’t the worst part of the video believe it or not. The scariest part of this video is millions of Americans actually believe what he does.

Recently I posted a YouTube video about this subject and to my surprise I received message after message from conservatives echoing Voight and attacking my intelligence for not believing Trump’s propaganda.

I have come to a startling and terrifying conclusion: It is not impossible for us to stumble into a set of events where Trump does not hand over power. Why? Because a large amount of Americans not only would accept a coup, but are actively conspiring to achieve one.

This week, Trump decapitated nearly of civilian leadership in the Pentagon. The Secretary of State claimed there would be a transition to a second Trump administration. Mitch McConnell met with William Barr, and afterwards Barr gave legal weight to Trump’s conspiracies leading Richard Pilger head of election crimes to resign.

Eternal vigilance is the cost of freedom and we should not dismiss these recent actions as desperate acts of madmen with no chance of achieving their goals. The levers of the military are now in the hands of a lame-duck president with nothing to lose (he is facing potential prosecution and financial ruin if he leaves the White House).

I am sure some will say my fears are exaggerated by I urge you all to take this threat seriously and perhaps even call or write your senators and congressman (state and federal) and let them know that an attempt to end our Republic will not be tolerated.

$2000 dysfunction: Trump is to the left of Pelosi and Biden

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Thursday December 24, 2020 · 3:55 PM PST

2020/12/24 · 15:55

Trump is using the $2000 stimulus opening as a gambit for his 2024 presidential bid. Of course it is a political stunt to help win an election... So! That is politics!

The Democratic Party is so inept, feckless, uninspired, and leaderless that it actually let Donald Trump, A FASCIST, outflank them on their left during a global pandemic.

During this crisis and fiasco of government failure all i read from my own leftists is pretty much silence. We should be furious at Pelosi and... Wait for it.... Biden for not moving heaven and Earth to do more for the American people.

Instead we have the same old, tired, corrupt system of politicians looking out for their corporate donors while people literally starve to DEATH!

Its bad in the streets of America. Children are literally going hungry and people are getting more and more desperate by the hour.

I want to see some freaking outrage and fight and spirit from my side. Please anyone! Is anyone listening does anyone care!

Instead Trump has claimed the mantle of savior for the masses of desperate people in their darkest moments.

How has it come to this?

Demand more from Congress. Demand more from Biden. Demand more from ourselves.

If you see someone that is hungry, or alone, or out of work offer them a hand, money, food, anything you can. Maybe we should have community engagement and pool resources or something.

That community can pass laws and...oh yeah its called a government.

Too bad America doesn't have one.

Million MAGA March and PANCAKES!

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Saturday November 14, 2020 · 7:58 AM PST

2020/11/14 · 07:58

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Trump supporters are planning to cry and weep their way from the mountains of W. Virginia, the wastelands of Mississippi, and the swamps of Florida to the nation’s capitol in a show of support for Trump and defiance against reason and reality.

Twitter has taken this solemn march and step #2 in the stages of grief with it’s usual sincerity. They have responded by flooding the hashtag #MAGAMillionMarch and #MarchforTrump with pancakes.

I for one enjoy sweet and salty desserts. Hopefully men and women all across the South (and W. Virginia) will bake themselves some pancakes before their long march through the cursed, covid filled land of America. May their tears flow down their cheeks and land into the sweet pancake batter to be consumed gleefully and unironically.

Join me on YouTube here as I take a small amount of pleasure in Twitter and not a small amount of insulting my own countrymen as I have been radicalized by anti-Trump hatred these many years which I have taken to calling the Trumpacene epoch.

Jon Voight incites Civil War as Trump plans coup!

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Wednesday November 11, 2020 · 5:44 PM PST

2020/11/11 · 17:44

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Jon Voight recently released a video in which is labeled liberals and Democrats as ‘corrupt’, ‘evil’, and ‘satanic’ villains whom have stolen the 2020 election from Donald Trump.

"There will be a price to pay. The ones who are jumping for joy now are jumping toward the horror they will be in for," Voight said, referencing Biden's victory. "I know the promises being made from the left to the American people will never come to be. My friends from all colors, races and religions, this is now our greatest fight since the civil war."

If you think that was bad, he then called us Satanists:

"The battle of righteousness versus Satan," he said of the country's current state. "Yes, Satan, because these leftists are evil, corrupt and they want to tear down this nation. We must not allow this.

He ends it by saying:

"Let us fight this fight as it is our last fight on earth. As Muhammad Ali said, 'It's not over til the last punch you have.' God bless."

Kamala Harris did a sub-par job and that is what she needed to do!

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Wednesday October 07, 2020 · 8:10 PM PDT

2020/10/07 · 20:10

Kamala Harris was extremely disappointing tonight. Not only was she a moderate on every issue (a point which progressives will lament) but she had no fight to her game at all.

She let Trump and Pence off the hook repeatedly, allowing Pence to lie and obfuscate without much pushback at all. If this was the first time you were paying attention to the issues you might assume Pence was a competent leader defending a competent President. He certainly seemed more prepared.

Yet, in my opinion, she nailed her responsibility tonight. Her candidate is up 10+ points and leading in every swing state that matters. The only way he can lose is if Harris somehow admitted they would pack the court, or fumbled the ball in some major way (I think they will and should pack the court but that’s another issue).

In debates, sometimes you can win by not arguing your position. Clearly, from abortion, to the environment, to packing the court, she could have made a liberal/progressive argument that is the right side of the argument (to us).

But, that would have been a blunder. All she needs to do is let Trump continue to shoot himself in the face and sit back. She did a perfect job in not blundering tonight and her sub-par performance all but guarantees a Biden presidency.

Thank you Kamala for being mediocre.

Cori Bush a nuclear bomb to the establishment!

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Tuesday August 04, 2020 · 10:02 PM PDT

2020/08/04 · 22:02

Cori Bush who recently defeated Lacy Clay

The people might actually rise up. Cori Bush is a great individual, progressive, and now she has upset the corporate establishment candidate Lacy Clay.

If progressives can upset Lacy Clay literally no seat is safe. Sure she didn’t have any banker friends. She wasn’t backed by myriad democratic or establishment congresspeople. She even receive an endorsement by AOC!

Nevertheless, she won! Be afraid establishment Dems. Richie Neal be afraid. Alex Morse is coming.

We Must Have Party Unity!

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Monday February 24, 2020 · 8:40 PM PST

2020/02/24 · 20:40

I wholeheartedly support the rally call that Markos in the past has expressed that party unity is the most important thing the Democratic Party should strive for.

Donald Trump is too dangerous to risk 2020 on targeting the frontrunner.

So, as in 2016, i call on Dailykos to affirm that we will not attack tge presumptive nomineee Bernie Sanders and should instead rally to his cause.

Please restate your call for party unity and encourage Biden et al to drop out of the race and rally behind the Democratic nominee.

Party Unity

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Tuesday February 11, 2020 · 7:55 PM PST

2020/02/11 · 19:55

Kos told me over and over to support Clinton over Sanders for party unity.

I look forward to Kos et al to cry for party unity and support the frontrunner Bernie Sanders.

Thank you.

Mitch McConnell and the GOP Senate will convict Donald Trump

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Tuesday November 05, 2019 · 8:22 PM PST

2019/11/05 · 20:22

191105215321-01-andy-beshear-victory-speech-screeengrab-exlarge-169.jpg — Andy Beshear wins Kentucky Governor's race.

Tonight is the night Donald J. Trump officially lost his impeachment battle in the Senate. The glue that holds the GOP Senate is a false belief that they may yet ride the President’s coattails to a majority in 2020. Those coattails are either nonexistent of stuck firmly in the President’s rear end.

The numbers for Senate Republicans are dreadful. Mitch McConnell, the leader of the jury that will vote to convict our criminal President in a few months, has a 24% favorable and 47% unfavorable poll numbers. To put in context, Lucifer is currently polling at a 25% favorable mark.

McConnell has shown that he doesn’t give a rat’s ass about the people of Kentucky, the nation, or the planet. He doesn’t care about the poor, the sick, and he definitely doesn’t care about Donald J. Trump. Mitch the turtle cares about one thing….Power.

If he loses reelection he loses the ability to siphon money to his military donors and THAT he will not allow.

Trump is finished.

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