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Feels like the right time to do this again. If you want to understand who Biden is, his career, the choices he's made and why - not simply read a children's book about a man who never existed - give this a look:
Branko Marcetic
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Branko Marcetic
@BMarchetich
March-eh-teach. Writer @Jacobin, co-host @1of200podcast. Faves =/= agree. Author of Yesterday's Man: the Case Against Joe Biden
Joined October 2014
- Crazy idea, but what if the same way this guy passes himself off as superhumanly talented at this video game - which is clearly fraudulent to someone familiar with the game, but convincing to anyone else - is the same thing he does in a lot of other aspects of his life?
00:00 - I hope my American followers can understand how extreme and abnormal this is. I don't know any other country where a former official can just openly say this, and then the *journalist* interviewing him simply nods along as if it's completely unremarkable.John Bolton: “As someone who has helped plan coups de etat — not here but, you know, other places — it takes a lot of work”
- Three Democrats who would've made the losing vote 214-217 died in office this year. So basically, the budget Democrats have warned non-stop is a disaster will pass directly because of their insistence they stay in Congress until death.NEW: House passes the budget reconciliation bill 215-214. Two Republicans, Massie and Davidson, voted no with all Democrats. Freedom Caucus chair Andy Harris voted present. Garbarino and Schweikert didn’t vote. @axios
- Between this and Buttigieg getting slammed for his Gaza answer on Channel 5, Dem politicians are getting a preview of the gauntlet they'll have to run in 2028 if they can't break from Israel.This Post is from an account that no longer exists. Learn more
- Here we see step one of a policy's long, arduous journey to political common sense: radicals put it on the table, only for the "sensible" liberal gatekeepers to explain why it's silly and can't be done. We'll soon be at the final step, where those gatekeepers take credit for it.John Oliver in 2016, mocking the notion that the President can unilaterally cancel student debt.
00:00 - Biden's legacy is not just a genocide, but bringing a far more radical Trump to power. A fitting capstone to the career of a disastrous failure.
- Israel is completely out of control. This attack on Iran is coming while Israel is not just continuing a nearly two-year-long genocide in Gaza, but still bombing Lebanon, and illegally occupying a large part of Syria. That's four different wars simultaneously.
- As this video reminds us, there was nothing unique about 1990s Rwanda, 1930s Germany or so many others. Any society of perfectly normal people can, in the right circumstances, be conditioned to support monstrous, criminal things. That's the scariest thing of all.Age-restricted adult content. This content might not be appropriate for people under 18 years old. To view this media, you’ll need to log in to X. Learn more
- RBG was the perfect avatar for the Obama era: a figure whose actual record didn't resemble the legend around her, but was nevertheless was turned into a cultural icon & fantasy for liberals to retreat into in the midst of decades of defeat.Choose your fighter
- A sentence that tells you a lot about everyone named in it: Cori Bush, the BLM activist and nurse who knocked off a 10-year incumbent last night, was endorsed by Bernie Sanders, but not by either Barack Obama or Elizabeth Warren.
- Can't recall any of the "crazy" states we're told to fear - Iran, DPRK etc. - acting in the rogue, unhinged way Israel is rn: Among other things, threatening the UN, bombing its facilities, verbally attacking the Sec Gen, killing 100+ UN workers & now calling them terrorists."Many @UNRWA workers in Gaza are themselves members of Hamas. The time has come to bust the myth of UN supplied facts" The Israeli representative at the United Nations launches a tirade against the UN, UN agencies, UN workers and UN officials
00:00 - I don't know where this is all heading, but a major reason it's more alarming than under Trump in 2020 is that this time there's complete bipartisan & media consensus that the protests must be suppressed.Biden is now giving a completely one-sided, dishonest speech about these campus protests. “Dissent must never lead to disorder.”
- If Mamdani wins, one of the key differences from Sanders' 2020 run will be that, unlike Warren's campaign, Mamdani's progressive rivals understand that they're part of a shared political project with him. Concerted effort by Lander & others to both defend Mamdani & block Cuomo.
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