My friends, I am not at all exaggerating when I tell you that there is still plenty of time for the Democratic Party to lose this election to a travshammockery nazi assclown billionaire; you don't even have reliable polling data back from the Harris switch yet and this is where you're going?

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/07/shut-up-asshole-a-michigan-democrat-blurted-out-at-uncommitted-delegate-pushing-on-gaza-policies/

“Shut Up, Asshole”: Democrats Want Delegates Frustrated by Gaza Policy to Just Fall in Line

"Last night, the Michigan Democratic Party held a call asking delegates to rally around Vice President Kamala Harris as the party’s nominee after President Joe Biden stepped out of the race. During the call, two uncommitted delegates—chosen by voters protesting against Biden’s failure to push for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza—said they would not endorse Harris until they knew her policy on aid to Israel. According to a recent Gallup poll, 55 percent of Americans disapprove of Israel’s actions in Gaza, and only 36 percent are supportive.

Delegate Abbas Alawieh, who is an organizer with the Uncommitted Movement, tried to explain his position on last night’s Michigan Democratic Party Zoom call. He says he was told to “shut up, asshole”—an incident which he says is symptomatic of anti-Arab and anti-Palestinian racism within the party. Michigan Democratic Party Chair Lavora Barnes said the incident was “unacceptable,” and that “in this moment, we want to reiterate that our Arab American and Muslim brothers and sisters are welcome in this party.”

Can you hear me in the back? "Shut up, asshole" and essentially telling the majority of Dem voters who're against Israel's genocide in Gaza that "we don't need you" (paraphrase) is WHY you were losing in the first place. It is not the job of the decent human beings working within the party, who are in agreement with the majority of Democratic voters about the odiousness of supporting a literal genocide, as the ICJ progresses forward on multiple cases proving America is supplying a war criminal with the means to slaughter children, to "fall in line." It is the so-called centrist warmonger establishment's job to fall in line with the positions of their *own* base or risk blowing yet another winnable election to a reality TV show fascist dipshit who would not otherwise be able to win.

Get your shit together; the voters *cannot* be wrong. It's your job to get them to vote for your candidate. That's just how elections work you insufferable pricks. "Shut up, asshole" is how you lose anyway, even after ejecting Biden.

#USPol #Gaza #DemParty #2024Election

“Shut up, asshole”: Democrats want delegates frustrated by Gaza policy to just fall in line

As Vice President Kamala Harris marches toward the nomination, the Uncommitted Movement is pushing for policy commitments on aid to Israel. But some members of the party just want them to stop talking about it.

Mother Jones

What is especially galling about the behavior of the unnamed delegate on the Michigan call, is that a significant percentage of *elected* Democratic Party politicians are actively signaling that they have no desire to go down in flames hugging a war criminal and beating the drums for Israel's genocide in Gaza.

https://www.axios.com/2024/07/24/half-house-senate-democrats-boycott-netanyahu

Around half of Congress' Democrats skip Netanyahu speech

"Why it matters: Many lawmakers, particularly progressive Israel critics, made clear they were explicitly boycotting the event in protest of Netanyahu's prosecution of the war in Gaza.

Among the boycotters are former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), former House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.).
Isolationist Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) made clear he was explicitly boycotting the speech as well, saying he didn't want to be a "prop" for Netanyahu."

In other words, there are clear signs that indicate the Democratic Party as a whole is either growing tired of supporting a genocide, or is at least sensitive to the desires of their own voting base. But some absolute fucking muppet prick on a Delegates call is gonna jeopardize what might be the most significant political development in the lead up to this election, period, so he can tell an Arab-American Democrat delegate who grew up in Dearborn, Michigan, a state the Party absolutely *must* win in 2024 to "shut up, asshole" because he doesn't want to hear about the concerns of 100,000 voters who registered for the Dem Primary; so you know, DEMOCRAT voters.

This is what I mean about "get your shit together" liberals; this isn't 2016, and you're not talking to independents who merely like Bernie Sanders here. These are you own voters, and your own candidates can see the writing on the wall. Grow the fuck up.

#USPol #DemocraticParty #2024Election #Michigan

Around half of Congress' Democrats skip Netanyahu speech

Palestinian-American Rep. Rashida Tlaib attended and held up a sign calling Netanyahu a "war criminal".

Axios

@AnarchoNinaAnalyzes I find myself wondering if the scheduling of Biden’s address tonight is an intentional attempt to fuck up Netanyahu’s news coverage.

It’s probably wishful thinking and projection.

Probably.

@AnarchoNinaAnalyzes PRECISELY...

Not voting against #Trump is supporting him, as "% valid votes" (!!!) and not "% total voters" get to decide...

@kkarhan Either I don't understand what you're saying, or you didn't read the post you're replying to.

@AnarchoNinaAnalyzes 🌟 Watching them drop Biden like "oh, are they finally learning?"

Haha silly Fiadh, of course not. They're still just going to yell at voters that they suck and need to get over themselves, still just going to actively drive away voters by the thousands for the sake of a few seconds of feeling smug, still going to make their only pitch to voters "or else Trump," keep making all the same self-sabotaging mistakes.

@fiadh In total fairness, this is on an internal delegates call in Michigan; there's still time to get this hashed out before public messaging. But a great number of "centrists" in the party apparatus seem completely f*cking incapable of understanding what time it is and are also giant puckered ass sphincter human beings. We're not at "they're gonna blow it" yet - but we COULD be if this is how they're going to respond even after ditching Biden.
@AnarchoNinaAnalyzes I don't think he's a billionaire.

@denebeim I mean not that I particularly care either way, because a rich guy is a rich guy whether he makes it to a billion or not and we're talking about class war here, but... as of Marchi 2024, Forbes had his net worth at something like 2.6B

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-net-worth-how-much-money/

Donald Trump's net worth in 2024: How much money does the former president really have?

Ex-President Donald Trump's lawyers say he's unlikely to secure a bond for the nearly half-billion he needs for a civil case.

@AnarchoNinaAnalyzes oh interesting. I really thought he was leveraged up to his spun urine hair