One of the things about 2016 that has gone down the memory hole was the media having a multi-day freakout over Clinton getting the flu without sufficient "transparency." The local NPR station was openly saying that Biden might have to be the nominee
these are the same guys who act like "cancel culture" is a "woke" thing, all while they obsessively assemble out-of-context receipts to shame the current target of their anti-woke mob harassment.
Israel is fortunate to have no neighbor with a serious army.
57 years as a colonial police force has degraded IDF discipline and professionalism to a horrific and criminal degree.
Another sick fruit of a cancerous occupation that brutalizes Palestinians and coarsens Israelis.
i feel like every year i'm hearing some rumor about jamie dimon being offered some position or other with the democratic party, and it never actually happens.
i can only conclude that NYT keeps using dimon, or one of his close allies, as a source, and should stop.
who is saying "lesbians are attracted to women in a way that is sacred, nonsexual and pure"?
but it is worth pointing out that it's possible to be sexually & romantically attracted to women without the degradation and objectification that passes for "straight male sexuality"
I don’t think “lesbians are attracted to women in a way that is sacred, nonsexual and pure, unlike disgusting straight men who are inherently predatory” is a particularly productive narrative to advance actually
soooooo... white house press saw a neurology specialist on the public visitors' logs and assumed it was to secretly treat biden for parkinson's...? and that's why they were freaking out & acting unprofessional today? absolute clownery.
NEW
The White House has released this letter from the President’s Physician Dr. Kevin O’Connor about the multiple visits to the White House by Dr. Kevin Cannard, an expert on Parkinson’s and other movement disorders.
It is so cool how “””liberals””” drop all pretense of caring about rights, due process, criminal justice reform, etc anytime someone reports on one (1) unit of crime happening
i had a group of 4 friends til 2nd grade. one recess they were like "new game. stay in this weird hidden corner. we'll come back"
and they just played without me all recess and did not come back, while i fuckin sat there, likely daydreaming abt pokemon til recess ended lmao😭
Fun fact when I was 12 my “friends” orchestrated a fake reality show rose ceremony where they publicly voted me out of the friend group at lunchtime. It was so brutal that almost all of them tracked me down in adulthood to apologize.
This kind of maximalism was /always/ the movement. Dewy-eyed Westerners like yourself didn't listen to Jews or Palestinians who BOTH told you that the movement was about destroying Israel without compromise.
There are many people (and I am one) who oppose this war, are horrified by the way Israel is conducting it, and want a ceasefire + peaceful long-term resolution who also don't aim to see Israel destroyed. But a kind of maximalism seems to have taken over this movement, with calls
i get why jack black is in damage control mode, but the preaching and pearl clutching from republicans is getting very old very quickly. if they took political violence seriously at all, donald trump would not be the republican nominee in the first place.
Jack Black has canceled Tenacious D's tour and "all future creative plans" amid blowback over Kyle Gass' remark on the Trump assassination attempt. Gass staid on stage during a concert: "Don't miss Trump next time."
“I was blindsided by what was said at the show on Sunday,”
the man on the left was not in prison for "owning racist stickers." he's a neo nazi organizer who produced and distributed stickers inciting racial hatred and antisemitism. he's affiliated with terrorist group national action which is known to target youth.
why downplay this?
"there's a politico article about how NYT is letting petty grievances & out-of-touch entitlement impact its reporting? let's set the record straight by releasing a statement that's dripping with pettiness and entitlement."
lmao wow
There was a protestor in the liberated zone at
@UCLA
with a potentially fatal banana allergy. Counterprotestors invaded the encampment and saw all the no bananas warnings. The next day they came back waving bananas like settlers waving machine guns & smeared bananas everywhere.
Mehdi Hasan citing a Twitter account called "Oct7factcheck dot com" and believing it to be more credible than NYT, who have stood by their reporting despite all of the smears & complaints from the well-funded antisemites in international media. Fucking lol.
If only the
@nytimes
still had an ombudsman or reader’s editor. This is one of the many, many issues with the original ‘Screams without words’ piece that was then partly used by some to justify the ongoing genocide of the people in Gaza.
You portray me as an extremist in your piece. Here's a question: what's so extreme about being happy if a genocidal maniac dies?
Would you have been happy to hear the news of Hitler dying in 1945? Or Bin Laden in 2011?
If you say yes, then you're an extremist, apparently.
lmfao it's always "don't kinkshame!" when people reveal their most fucked up patriarchal sexual fantasies, but as soon as some women talk about what gives them "the ick" in a way that is critical of some men, we have to clutch our pearls about "conservative gender roles"
"katharine, are you saying that ZERO lesbians objectify and degrade women. you think lesbians are perfect"?
no. if any partner is doing this to you, male or female, then that is not a healthy relationship.
but lesbian culture & straight male culture differ in very obvious ways
We’d have nuked Moscow or Tehran by now if Russia or Iran killed 7 Jose Andres workers with 3 drone strikes — one after the other, chasing them from vehicle to vehicle until they were all killed
Like what's the thought process here? "Hey guy who I was friends with years back, and asked me out that one time (that I shut down hard). I see you have a reasonably well-paying career, want to meet up?". I didn't even remember that until hours later, but now I'm just offended
More misleading stuff from one of resistance Twitter’s favorite accounts. This is a pretty standard liberal op-ed about how Trump has shattered norms in a dangerous way that threatens the integrity of America’s systems. But for engagement, it’s presented here as bothsidesism.
"we care about the hair that is most difficult to actually remove, the hair that actually serves a biological function in protecting against bacteria" lmao get bent
@hollowearthterf
No guy cares if the woman has hair above it
The issue is when the hair is entirely AROUND all of it - sorry, but that un trimmed shit is gross.
Women trimmed that shit even back in the ancient world
I can’t tell you all how shameful it feels to hear all these leaks about what Democratic leaders are staying and not to have a single one of them out here confirming or denying it. It’s a lack of leadership and it’s making all Democrats look bad. Whatever this mess leads to will
idk i feel like those women would be annoyed if democrats went off-message and lowered themselves into beefing with college students. i think democrats should stick to messaging about abortion & how unfit trump is
I could be wrong. But my political instinct right now is: 🚨🚨🚨.
The college educated suburban women who defeated Trump in 2020? I’m pretty sure most of them are offended, even alarmed, by the campus protesters. And they don’t see Democrats standing up against the protesters.
david austin walsh has always seemed like a fucking idiot, but it is unsettling to watch the same predictable group of twitter-addicted media guys (singal, yglesias, noah smith, etc.) gleefully smear him for days on end in order to make an example out of him.
I do love the leftist morons who are like, "If you ask yourself, 'What would I do if I was alive during WW2??' then reflect on what you are doing right now" because these same people cannot take a strong, unequivocal stance on ANYTHING currently happening in Europe or Asia.
again, i do not know why this is unbelievable. isn't younger ppl being lazy, low energy, and having a poor work ethic like, a common complaint among older people in the workforce...? biden's schedule would exhaust me
it's actually not flattering at all when you tell women "nothing about your interests, hobbies, career, personality, experiences, beliefs or ambitions matters to me. just don't get fat."
like the women aren't the ones being shallow in this meme.
I'm imagining travelling back in time a few years and telling myself that some of the strongest and most unequivocal voices for Israel on the left would be John Fetterman, Destiny, and Briana Wu. I think I'd be like "hahahaha gfy troll"
and for some reason both of us just like, powered through pretending to be friends for a day even tho we were not?? LOL. that whole saga was so weird & uncomfortable.
@HeerJeet
@ddayen
@AOC
It's not a putsch to let the Dem Party delegates pick the candidate they think is best equipped to beat Trump. No Democratic voter has voted for Harris to be the party's presidential nominee in 2024.
i love how these assholes will act so offended whenever someone calls them pro-hamas, then will turn around and blatantly defend hamas in a really stupid and obvious way
@richermh
Come on Random Guy, you’re better than this. Biden doesn’t need some dude putting words in his mouth and Hamas changed its charter 7 years ago to rectify the antisemitism and focus on Zionism, so we don’t need to get into hypotheticals or extrapolate into imaginary scenarios.
i hadn't told my parents about any of this either, bc it was so stupid and embarrassing. but i guess my parents & the parents of the girl who used to be my best friend noticed we hadn't hung out in a while and took it upon themselves to arrange the most awkward playdate ever lol
A fun question to ask defenders of Israel:
What country is Gaza in?
They can't say Palestine, because they don't believe Palestine is a country. But if they say Israel, the awkward question "Why don't Gazans have the right to vote in Israeli elections" arises.
she's 20 years old lmaooo chill. back in the day, we'd regularly be watching actors in their late 20s walk around high school for pretty much every CW show. it's fine.
because i advocated for pressing charges against a teenage boy who assaulted a female classmate lol.
how can one argue against people who have such low reading comprehension and are not even aware of their own intellectual limitations?
"wow biden's age is a huge liability going into reelection! we need someone younger!" - inevitably from some dude who supported one of the three men who were in their late 70s in the 2020 primaries & dismissed everyone else as unelectable
like don't fucking talk to me right now
do people pushing for josh shapiro even realize that there was recently a settlement of a sexual misconduct lawsuit, because one of his good buddies sexually harassed female staffers while in a high-ranking position on his staff? and he was slow to act? no? then fuck off lol
y'all last week: "biden is going to step down! look at all of these dems coming out against him! surely it's inevitable!"
y'all this week: "okay so maybe biden's not stepping down but don't blame us when he loses!"
what happened to the utter confidence from last week?? lmao
@dhaaruni
"Democrats are perceived as feminized and preachy, which is causing young men to feel alienated by the party" is a whole lot of passive tense and very different from "too many preachy females" though, which is what he actually said. You're being charitable.
another "dump biden" person who cannot even handle criticism. can't have anything shattering the illusion that they're the Smartest Boy in the Room lol
No one is going to remember a single thing Biden says tonight. Everyone is going to remember how weirdly amped up he is and how bizarrely fast he’s speaking.
yeah lol and that'll be case closed, no more questions asked, people will just accept that at face value because the public has such high trust in politicians right now
"We think Joe Biden has plenty of stamina to run the country for the next 6 months, but it's not clear he has the strength to do it for four more years, which is what's reflected in the concerns of voters."
lmao your basis for assuming she's an "unqualified student" is...? 24 is not an unusual age to be graduating from college, especially with covid-19 & remote learning being disruptive to education (something conservatives usually never shut the fuck up about)
Just a reminder given that she’s 24(!) that the *6-year* graduation rate at universities is only 60%. Universities admit unqualified students for the govt loan $, & people are hanging out on campus on federal loans as long as they can. And you’re supposed to pay for this scam.
okay listen, i broadly agree that clowning on people's looks is not the move... unless the other person starts it LOL like then it's open season. those are just the rules.
hey maybe we should apply more analysis to how many 30 smthns now feel weirdly entitled to clown on younger people’s— mostly women’s— looks while using a beautification filter than “generational smackdown”
this image of hillary clinton you have in your head, of a woman who is petty & wants other female politicians to fail, is a sexist caricature. you should be embarrassed to be this wrong.
and i was a prideful little freak even at age 7 or whatever, so i just had an "ok message received" attitude about the whole thing, and never confronted them on it. i just sat by myself and played by myself until i somehow stumbled my way into making a new friend later that year
I think the fact he's too old feeds his other problems. He comes off as uninvolved and unaware of various issues and as generally weak and feeble. Ask yourself if you feel like that administration is aggressively dealing with much of anything. It doesn't, does it?
people writing this sort of thing now need to be honest about what their opinion was during the 2020 primaries. not because i think they should feel bad, necessarily, but because they didn't want four years of biden, were out of touch with what dem voters wanted, and still are.
I personally think Biden was a phenomenal president. He did a great job, and accomplished a lot. But that's not the same as being confident he has four more years in him. When the issue is competence going forward, past accomplishments are not the whole story.
why the fuck would you ask a question about gaza at a joint press conference with zelensky lmao, if anything his response was polite
the media's obsession with israel-palestine is so disproportionate
I’m sure someone will call me a terrorist for stating that basic fact, but ignoring the repeatedly stated reasoning for keeping a hostage is a massive disservice to said hostage, and we shouldn’t keep acting like that’s okay.
Remembering when the Taliban had that ridiculous press conference and accidentally answered a question from an Israeli reporter. And then had to issue a statement apologizing for it. And their replies were full of "It's okay, brother, you didn't know, those Jews are sneaky." LOL.
so he made a verbal slip, then immediately caught himself & corrected? who cares. i do this everyday. and biden has always been well-known for doing this.
btw did you ever apologize to the press secretary for your mental lapses & emotional outbursts or nah?
"Ladies and gentlemen, President Putin,"
@POTUS
Biden said as he introduced President Zelenskyy.
Realizing his mistake, he clarified:
"No, we're going to beat Putin."
These are the same people who will cry about how "criticizing Israel isn't antisemitism!" but will construe any opposition to them as Islamophobia.
Ilhan Omar has repeated Hamas talking points on countless occasions. It is not Islamophobia to point that out.
“From 10am to 4pm, Biden is dependably engaged – many of his public events in front of cameras are held within those hours.
Outside of that time or while traveling abroad, Biden is more likely to have verbal miscues and become fatigued, aides told Axios.”
i always had such a high opinion of the irish until i saw their opinions on twitter, which leave a lot to be desired in terms of intelligence and accuracy
@SaeedDiCaprio
Ireland is the only European country to be a victim of colonialism and people are surprised when Irish people choose the side of the people being colonized
I'm assuming you are a liberal arts major, but companies actually want to hire STEM graduates, and STEM graduates want jobs. Therefore, companies form partnerships with universities for recruitment. And this isn't even getting into on-campus R&D for the defense industry.
Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait one damn minute. Why is Cornell University investing in Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin?! Why the fuck are universities investing in weapons manufacturing companies? We need to have that conversation. The levels of depravity is insidious.
I might have to tap out of this whole Kate Middleton thing because I genuinely, hand on heart, do not think these pics look like the same woman & it’s making me feel like I’m losing my mind. Like, I’m not trying to be a conspiracy theorist, but that is not her??
that is probably because they are better team players, but i know it's difficult to understand the mindset of people who don't voice every annoying negative unconstructive thought they have to the entire room
For the record, it's worth noting nearly all of the clout-seeking Can't-Dump-Biden stans seamlessly transitioned to being extremely enthusiastic for Kamala Harris but whatever, I'm already well past my quota of fights picked for the year.
Okay, I get the frustration bc I've been there, but most women who are sexually active are sexually active with men. The doctor is just keeping women's best interests at heart with these questions.
OBGYN: are you on birth control?
Me: no
Her: are you trying to get pregnant?
Me: no
Her: *stares at me* but you’re not on birth control?
Me: *stares right back* think harder
the fucking pearl-clutching about police presence at columbia is so obnoxious, i'm sorry. at a midwest state school you would've been teargassed on day 1 of this childish bullshit. stop coddling these morons from long-overdue consequences
A handful of alumni of Hillary Clinton's and Bernie Sanders' 2016 campaigns have come together to form United for Harris, the first public-facing effort to promote a potential 2024 presidential campaign for Harris so far.
Organizers compare the effort to Ready for Hillary, the
It's weird to not mention that Israeli hostages were being held captive at both Al-Shifa Hospital and Nasser Medical Center. It's seems like a very purposeful omission of context.
Biden smiles when asked about Sen. Warner’s reported efforts to get him to drop out of the race. “Mark is a good man. He also tried to get the nomination, too.” (Warner didn’t run for office.)
Pete Buttigieg is the only Democrat who has been training to message on the accomplishments of the Biden administration for years. He'd be a good candidate.
@torriangray
i think there are some people who literally have notifications set whenever there is a new twitter mention of him so they can go in and argue with anyone who even mildly criticizes him LOL it's strange stuff for sure.
Jews have been saying Briahna is a horrible antisemite and as soon as she was able to she went full Oct 7 denier. We told you guys and you wouldn't listen.
this. idk why people are being so casual about yanking popular governors from rust belt states when they are one of our strongest lines of defense in protecting things like abortion access.
his path to victory is reasonable assumption that voters will unite behind biden once it becomes absolutely clear that he and trump are the two choices & are reminded of how much they hate trump, and to win the states we won in 2020.
let's hear your 10 step plan now.
I’ll get out my crystal ball and present a 10 step plan for exactly how Biden stepping down is going to shake out as soon as you definitively tell me what his path to victory is
On a daily basis, MSNBC tells its audience that Trump is a threat to democracy, an authoritarian in waiting, and a would-be dictator if no one stops him. What did they think would happen?
@comcast
made a choice.
VIBE SHIFT among House Dems in Biden’s favor
Nadler- who privately said Biden should step down- now says he backs Biden.
“I'm fully supportive of him. I plan to campaign for him. And it's essential that he wins.”
i'm already seeing some insane jumping to conclusions and i am so glad i have better things to do this week than be on twitter because the discourse will be insufferable
Maybe all the liberals wringing their hands about the protests and equivocating about police intervention could think more than two days in advance about what this could mean for, idk, people in the south protesting for reproductive rights.
Idk what would possess you to watch a show about Europeans in Japan in the 1500s, and think to yourself, "This is exactly the same dynamic as Jews in present-day Israel."
"i got what i wanted and now all of my priors have been confirmed about what a great decision it was! look at all all of this energy in my echo chamber of people who wanted the same thing as me and were really annoying about it!" is not compelling
Switching to Kamala has, for some reason, allowed every Democrat to just focus solely on the fact that they fucking hate Donald Trump, intraparty differences don’t matter, he must lose again no matter what, and its unleashed an energy I’ve just never seen in politics.
mfao idk why you pretended to be "non-MAGA" all to write this biased, presumptuous screed against democrats and announcing your intention to vote for trump. you are MAGA.
As a (non-MAGA) conservative, I just don’t know how to say it except there’s a not-insignificant segment of the country who HATES us.
10% of the voting population (NYT stat) says it’s acceptable to use force to prevent Trump from taking office.
But it’s not just him. And it’s
this is so weird because when fox news was actually boosting bernie sanders for the entirety of the 2016 and 2020 primaries just to sow chaos, these assholes pretended they did not see it.
Don Jr says Biden did well enough to stay in the race. Jesse Watters guesses this may keep him in for weeks/months. The Heritage Foundation says they'll sue to keep Biden on the ballot (Trump hasn't even selected a VP yet, this isn't a thing). Pretty obvious what they're doing!
a large part of the annoyance here is that the media is treating one bad debate performance as a victory lap for three and a half years of making his age an issue without any evidence. it still makes you look bad. this was not his first public appearance ins 3.5 years.
Addition to number 2: Biden allies spent 3.5 years saying the reason voters have such deep concerns about Biden's age is because The New York Times writes too often about Biden's age. Instead of, say... the magical power of sight and sound.
Mace: Abortion is still legal in this country. It may or may not be legal in your state… but it's still legal. No one is preventing you from traveling somewhere else,
If you're a leftist and in favor of the declining birthrate unfortunately I'm forced to conclude that you have no idea about the economics that underpin our modern welfare system.
wow - NYT reporter says their nonstop coverage of Biden’s age is retribution for not giving their boss an interview:
“It’s A.G. He’s the one who is pissed [that] Biden hasn’t done any interviews and quietly encourages all the tough reporting on his age.”
I know this is bait but I cannot imagine being a doctor and asking a schoolteacher, who I am theoretically in love with, to give me $660 a month for rent. That's such a piddly sum on an $180k salary but a significant amount of money on a $40k one. OP is fucking embarrassing.
Kate having cancer makes a lot of sense. Hope she recovers. It's also insane that the palace's PR let this get so out of control. I thought they ran a tight ship over there.