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  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldtopolitics @lemmy.world•Amid All the Other Chaos, Congress Focuses on a Hasan Piker BillEnglish
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    2 days ago

    “Congress” as in two House representatives…

    Democratic Representative Josh Gottheimer and Republican Mike Lawler on Wednesday introduced a resolution to target “the rise of antisemitic, hate-filled rhetoric disseminated by prominent online personalities, including Hasan Piker and Candace Owens, and calling on social media platforms and public leaders to take stronger action against hate.”

    The Republican is obviously gonna be a piece shit, and the Dem is a textbook neoliberal:

    Gottheimer was a speechwriter for Bill Clinton and served as an adviser to the presidential campaigns of Wesley Clark, John Kerry, and Hillary Clinton. He has also worked for Burson Cohn & Wolfe, the Federal Communications Commission, Ford Motor Company, and Microsoft.

    Gottheimer’s net worth was between $16.9 and $75.3 million in 2023, and he and his wife Marla Tusk, who is general counsel at the political consulting firm Tusk strategies, reported $897,617 in joint income.[2]

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Gottheimer

    It seems counter productive to point the finger at “congress” and not the two House reps who are trying to grab headlines.

    Unless you want to make this Twitch streamer seem overly important…

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldtopolitics @lemmy.world•The FBI Director Is MIAEnglish
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    14 days ago

    It started with an incident that occurred on April 10 when the FBI chief panicked after he struggled to log into an internal computer system. He behaved frantically and began calling aides to announce that he had been fired by the White House.

    Two people familiar with the matter described to The Atlantic that his behaviour was a “freak out.”

    The reports also alleged that a SWAT team had to once ask for breaching gear after Patel was uncontactable behind a locked door.

    That’s not alcoholism, he’s coked to the fucking gills…

    It’s really common these days with heavy drinkers, because it lets you drink longer. Eventually you crash and nothing can wake you up unless someone shoves a bump up your nose.

    Then you’re up and running for a couple more days doing crazy shit.

    The staying awake for days is why meth heads are so crazy, but you can do the same on coke if you have a key to the evidence locker…

    Shits gonna keep getting crazier too.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldtopolitics @lemmy.world•Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas blasts progressivism as threat to AmericaEnglish
    462·
    16 days ago

    Back in the day, certain slaves were “house slaves” who were still treated like shit and beat. But were “allowed” to do work in the plantation house instead of the fields.

    They were often more racist then the slave owners. The only way they could build themselves up was by tearing their brothers and sisters down.

    The worst the slave owner consider them, the better the ones in the house seemed by default.

    While Thomas should be aware of all that as a “legal scholar” who would have had to study shit like this for years…

    The mentality isn’t relegated to just slavery.

    Pick any random minority, and you can find a member who does similar.

    So he probably wouldn’t mind if slavery came back, because in his head he’d still be one of the “valuable exceptions” and has done the mental gymnastics to think he’d even hold onto his position.

    Understanding how they think is important to stop them.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldtopolitics @lemmy.world•AIPAC may be a new litmus test for Democratic candidates. Leaders say voters' heads are elsewhere.English
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    19 days ago

    Campaigns can’t coordinate with PACs.

    A candidate can not tell a PAC to spend money, or not to spend money.

    Similarly, the DNC shouldn’t be coordinating with pacs, and hasn’t been for the last year except to empty the coffers of the VF they inherited back to the state parties the money came from.

    But they definitely can’t tell a PAC not to spend money.

    The DNC wants to end all PACs, there’s just not a way to do that. Because a PAC could spend on people just to get them “kicked out” of dem.primaries. that 100% would happen, Republicans would immediately jump on that, as would Israel and corporations.

    Billionaires are manipulating people into demanding something that is impossible to deliver on, and the idiots falling for it are making it so the things that can be done, don’t have enough time before midterms.

    People desperately need to wake the fuck up and realize the reason billionaire owned media suddenly went against the DNC, is because the DNC changed. If the billionaires had changed, they wouldn’t be billionaires anymore.