every single democrat that was successful for things pre-trump needs to do something else with their time because they do not understand a fucking thing about why they were successful when they were or how that is not going to work again when you couldn't pass univeral healthcare.
Maybe it's just him trying to distance himself from the abject failures of the administration he worked in, maybe he's putting an argument in the ground for the next possible presidential candidate, maybe both. Still, quite interesting to see him say it out loud now.
I don't see how you could have dealt with the past decade without concluding that figuring out how to act without being immediately hammered into oblivion for your trouble is Democrats' great challenge
Iirc at the time people said that his presence on the campaign was a sign she would be better on Israel than she publicly presented. Van Jackson is comparatively progressive on those issues and he was a foreign policy advisor on her 2020 campaign.
Gordon would have been better than Sullivan and McGurk, but he is also literally a Clintonite. Ilan Goldenberg who literally worked with JStreet and the Iran nuclear deal had a better chance of alleviating those concerns.
We would've gone back to the pre Trump status quo either way.
it’s also extremely shitty to understand that this is genuinely good stuff for the region that is **only** happening due to naked bribery and corruption - and yet the developments are good nevertheless
Well, and also that Netanyahu et al. are so genuinely stupid and thoroughly monstrous that they aren’t even willing to pretend to play along with an administration that would hand them the entire world on a silver platter, and Trump is only interested in getting credit for deals
And let’s see if this good stuff on sanctions materializes. Rubio is walking back Trump’s statement, with lots of help from others who want to see Syria fail.
This is also true. I guess my view is:
- a lot of this stuff is, on the face of it, okay to good
- we cannot rely on Trump or his admin being a consistent actor, much less a good actor, from day to day
- almost anyone else could do this better
- it is unclear which anyone elses would do this at all
Contribute to killing 17K children, be rewarded w public platforms to “bestow wisdom.” These f’ing sociopaths lose zero sleep over unspeakable harm they’ve caused, have no shame, like their media accomplices.
100% agree, was just abt to add that as P.S. Only this is worse: even Bush gang wld have drawn line at slo-mo execution of tens of thousands of innocents, live-streamed to our phones. Biden/Harris & their enablers are moral lepers, beyond redemption. *They* elected Trump.
True. Happy for him to mainstream ideas like "lifting sanctions on Syria was a good move, and we should have done it in late 2024" in the Democratic party
Yes! After posting my reply, I realized, too, that adviser to a Prez candidate has more agency than adviser to a VP, too. They somehow always realize too late.
That said, I think this is also Trump's weird superpower. He can probably convince evangelicals they don't need Israel for the Rapture.
Anyway, glad everyone can see now that, yes, Harris would have been better on Gaza and thousands more people would likely still be alive if she had won
The Dems or any left/left centre govt (eg Labour, UK) has as much flexibility a right wing MSM is willing to give it.
MSM is much kinder on r/w govts and a govt on the left has to suffer r/w MSM’s misinformation.
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We would've gone back to the pre Trump status quo either way.
- a lot of this stuff is, on the face of it, okay to good
- we cannot rely on Trump or his admin being a consistent actor, much less a good actor, from day to day
- almost anyone else could do this better
- it is unclear which anyone elses would do this at all
That said, I think this is also Trump's weird superpower. He can probably convince evangelicals they don't need Israel for the Rapture.
Anyway, glad everyone can see now that, yes, Harris would have been better on Gaza and thousands more people would likely still be alive if she had won
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4VjtZiGuo8
it’s a good assumption to make that Harris wouldn’t have had the same instincts Biden did on the ME/FP
Her mistake was she was too scared to create that distance publicly.
MSM is much kinder on r/w govts and a govt on the left has to suffer r/w MSM’s misinformation.