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DrALJONES Feb 25

Report: "Backing Israel cost Democrats 2024 election, post-mortem reveals"

Biden’s unwavering support for Israel’s genocide "cost critical support among younger & progressive voters."

The DNC is still keeping the post-mortem results secret, refuelling accusations that leadership is suppressing the truth about the electoral impact of US Israel policy.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260223-backing-israel-cost-democrats-2024-election-election-post-mortem-reveals/

#GazaGenocide #USPol #DemsPostMortem #EUPol #CdnPoli #palestine #Racism #Colonialism #Press .

Backing Israel cost Democrats 2024 election, post-mortem reveals

Support for Israel was a key factor in the 2024 loss in the presidential election, an internal Democratic autopsy has found, according to a report by Axios. Senior party officials have concluded th…

Middle East Monitor

@DrALJONES Democrats keep getting more blatant. Nowadays they're barely even trying to hide that they DGAF what us peons want.

The real reason their action/inaction almost always belies their words isn't cowardice, or "getting fooled", or ineptitude (the excuses they've been using for decades). The real reason is they're every bit as much beholden to their billionaire patrons as the Republicans.

The Dems' job is to give us false hope, so we don't take it into our own hands.

@MySideIsHumanity
The Ratchet Effect provides a very clear illustration.
#USPol #ratchet

Dustin D. Wind Feb 25

@Su_G @DrALJONES Thank you; I wish I knew who to credit.

I'm pretty fond of the Peanuts and WWE analogies I posted in response to @DrALJONES as well… I hope they'll strike a chord? Or at least, be darkly amusing. 🤝

DrALJONES Feb 25

@MySideIsHumanity

Very very well put 👏👏👏

Dustin D. Wind Feb 25

@DrALJONES Thank you much. After decades of watching them make the same excuses over and over, I'm sick to death of Democrats putting on a less convincing act of trying to "fight for us"… than a WWE 'wrestler'. 😅

Dustin D. Wind Feb 25

@DrALJONES Or perhaps more aptly, less convincing than Lucy 'holding the football' for Charlie Brown. 😉

Ω 🌍 Gus Posey Feb 25

@MySideIsHumanity There is no third party. All you're doing is telling people not to vote.

Dustin D. Wind Feb 25

@Gustodon The Greens, among others. Or do you mean “no third party who the billionaire-owned media tell me is ‘realistic’, I.e billionaire-approved”?

Ω 🌍 Gus Posey Feb 25

@MySideIsHumanity American politics is about entrenched forces within government. It's an ugly, broken system, but it's what's happening. The Democrats and the Republicans have succeeded as political parties because they have that infrastructure, the built-in, on-the-aisle tools to make things happen. You want a Green candidate? Elect the Democrat with the tools and the ideas to make it happen within a broader political spectrum, one that Republicans will never allow.

Also, Donald. WTF?

Dustin D. Wind Feb 25

@Gustodon The independents (people who don't align with either party) already outnumber the people who say they align with Reps or Dems. Not to mention people who only choose Rep/Dem because they think they have to.

The only reason this horror show continues, is that the 99% keep listening to billionaire-owned media who tell them nothing else is possible. And keep telling them to hate/blame each other for the horrors being perpetrated on ALL of the 99% by the robber barons.

Ω 🌍 Gus Posey Feb 25

@MySideIsHumanity It was a crisis election.

There was exactly one right thing to do.

The rest is lazy voters and selfish perfectionists.

Dustin D. Wind Feb 25

@Gustodon It's ALWAYS a 'crisis'. It's always 'not the right time' to demand better, but even when they win control of all three branches Democrats refuse to undo the damage. I've been watching this for decades.

Ω 🌍 Gus Posey Feb 25

@MySideIsHumanity You're a Republican's dream voter, or non-voter, as the case may be.

Dustin D. Wind Feb 25

@Gustodon Sad how it always comes back to this… people (both Red and Blue) who regularly drink the billionaire-owned media cults' Good-Us-Versus-Evil-Them koolaid,
1) will never stop making excuses for horrible things their Good Us do as an Unfortunate Necessity,
2) are brainwashed into believing Evil Thems in the 99% are the Real Power running this horror show, and
3) when cornered and out of logical arguments, they accuse anyone who won't pledge allegiance to the Good Us of being an Evil Them.

Ω 🌍 Gus Posey Feb 25

@MySideIsHumanity Answer one question honestly:

Would Kamala Harris be a worse president?

You had a chance to do something good (vote to elect a Black woman president) but you chose to do something bad (abstain and make academic criticisms about the results of an election you didn't participate in.) I don't know if that makes you evil, but you're definitely responsible for evil acts.

Dustin D. Wind Feb 25

@Gustodon If you think "Swear a Loyalty Oath to the Good Us right now or you're an Evil Them" is an appropriate answer to my post, you've demonstrated beyond doubt that you refuse to seriously consider anything I say. I wish you well, and I hope some day you can find a better way to live than Good-Us-Versus-Evil-Them.

Nu Modular Feb 28

@MySideIsHumanity Yup; boycott the overextended duopoly, with a minimum 3 party position.

Too bad so many don't understand the math, at root.

Dustin D. Wind Feb 28

@numodular Grew up in the Deep South, in a state that was a joke for its regressive taxation (highest sales tax in the country, among other niceties).

Living in a Deep Blue state now, that after decades of billionaire "guidance" has now put that state to shame. One of the worst regressive tax systems in the country.

And the developers who run govt charge rents that now rival (and may have passed) NYC's (another previous domicile).

Corruption is corruption, no matter what "color" they feign.