WASHINGTON, May 18 (Reuters) - Several top White House aides say they are confident protests across U.S. college campuses against Israel's offensive in Gaza will not translate into significantly fewer votes for Joe Biden in November's election, despite polls showing many Democrats are deeply unhappy about the president's policy...
But damn please do not forget the drastic difference between this peaceful rhetoric vs having your president declare citizens unpatriotic or an enemy, liars, or whatever for disagreeing with him.
Biden's supporters on lemmy are doing their best to compensate for this particular oversight on his part.
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s super PAC has launched its first ads attacking Rep. Jamaal Bowman in the Democratic primary in New York’s 16th Congressional District. The ads claim that Bowman “has his own agenda” and refuses to work with President Joe Biden....
Donald Trump flirted with the idea of being president for three terms – a clear violation of the US constitution – during a bombastic speech for the National Rifle Association in which he vowed to reverse gun safety measures green-lighted during the Biden administration....
The only time we elected a president 3 times, it was a Socialist
FDR was elected to four terms. He died 85 days into his fourth.
and he was so popular that we had to pass a law to keep him from being elected a fourth time.
The 22nd amendment wasn't even drafted until after FDR was dead, and wasn't ratified until 1951. And the language of the amendment specifically exempts the president at the time of ratification. The 22nd Amendment wouldn't have stopped Truman from running again, let alone his predecessor.
A federal judge in Fort Worth, Texas, on Friday blocked a new Biden administration rule that would prohibit credit card companies from charging customers late fees higher than $8....
I'm more willing to give Biden credit when he's blocked by trump appointed judges than I am when he's blocked in the senate by members of the party he nominally heads.
I’m not happy with centrism. The term is progressive for a reason. If you abandon all progress short of the goal, you’re not progressing. That just leads to party division, disenfranchisement, and Republican regression.
Stop trying to redefine "progressive" to mean "slow walking progress."
What you don’t understand is that liberal policies that you take for granted today were the progressive policies of the past.
I understand that progressives fought for them in the past and centrists didn't, often fighting against them, just like today. Contentment does not produce progress. Which is why people who don't want progress call discontent divisive.
There are plenty of examples of centrists fighting progress as well. Your demands that progressives shut up and be happy with deliberate failure and betrayal don't change that.
I'm voting for Biden this time around, too. I voted for Clinton in '16. And I'm going to gripe about it the whole fucking time.
That doesn't mean that centrists oppose Republicans harder than they oppose progressives, and it doesn't mean they don't work with Republicans to shut down progressive policy.
The House delivered a rebuke to President Joe Biden Thursday for pausing a shipment of bombs to Israel, passing legislation that seeks to force the weapons transfer as Republicans worked to highlight Democratic divisions over the Israel-Hamas war....
Can you please point to me what makes you think it’s explicitly genocidal and not just your run of the mill war crimes like happened in Chechnya, Syria, and now Ukraine?
Sealioning for genocide. Neat. You'll get ONE reply from me in which I explain the fucking obvious. The UN has a definition for genocide: "a crime committed with the intent to destroy a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, in whole or in part."
Destroying the infrastructure of Gaza so that the wounded cannot get treatment. Targeting civilians. Targeting aid trucks. Preventing aid from getting in, essentially manufacturing a famine. And just so we're clear, "Putin is doing it so that makes it ok" is a shitty rationale for anything.
If you're going to ask for more granular evidence or dismiss what I'm saying, it won't surprise me at all. In any event, talking to genocide deniers disgusts me and I'm not going to continue. So now you can try to goad me into continued participation in this conversation as well.
This is completely false. They had control of the House, and a tie breaker for the Senate. But that didn’t matter much because they need 60 senators to pass legislation without Republicans impeding.
They could have changed the senate rules to do away with the filibuster forever with the simple majority they possessed. They chose not to.
Despite polls, Biden aides insist Gaza campus protests will not hurt reelection bid ( www.reuters.com )
WASHINGTON, May 18 (Reuters) - Several top White House aides say they are confident protests across U.S. college campuses against Israel's offensive in Gaza will not translate into significantly fewer votes for Joe Biden in November's election, despite polls showing many Democrats are deeply unhappy about the president's policy...
Consumers are so demoralized by inflation and high rates they've given up on saving for the American Dream and are spending money instead, economist says ( fortune.com )
Trump flattened for talking about executing Biden before gun owners ( www.rawstory.com )
Biden says pro-Gaza student protesters ‘voices should be heard’ in Morehouse speech ( www.independent.co.uk )
Outside Groups Spent $285,000 Backing Jamaal Bowman. AIPAC Alone Just Dropped Nearly $2 Million to Attack Him. ( theintercept.com )
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s super PAC has launched its first ads attacking Rep. Jamaal Bowman in the Democratic primary in New York’s 16th Congressional District. The ads claim that Bowman “has his own agenda” and refuses to work with President Joe Biden....
Trump floats idea of three-term presidency at NRA convention ( www.theguardian.com )
Donald Trump flirted with the idea of being president for three terms – a clear violation of the US constitution – during a bombastic speech for the National Rifle Association in which he vowed to reverse gun safety measures green-lighted during the Biden administration....
Tankies say: "Critical support for fascism!" ( lemmy.world )
PROTIP: Opposition to interventionism in the Middle East does not have to equate to support for the currently extant states therein.
The schools & police trampling on student rights don't understand the true meaning of "trespassing" ( www.lgbtqnation.com )
Why school segregation is getting worse ( www.vox.com )
Seventy years after the Brown decision, many students are divided by their race and socioeconomic status....
Judge blocks Biden administration rule capping credit card late fees at $8 ( www.cnn.com )
A federal judge in Fort Worth, Texas, on Friday blocked a new Biden administration rule that would prohibit credit card companies from charging customers late fees higher than $8....
House votes to require delivery of bombs to Israel in GOP-led rebuke of Biden policies ( apnews.com )
The House delivered a rebuke to President Joe Biden Thursday for pausing a shipment of bombs to Israel, passing legislation that seeks to force the weapons transfer as Republicans worked to highlight Democratic divisions over the Israel-Hamas war....
Democrats introduce bill to aid older LGBTQ+ Americans in rural areas ( www.advocate.com )
Person Charged in Random Attack on Steve Buscemi: NYPD ( www.thedailybeast.com )
bUt BoTh SiDeS dA sAmE ( lemmy.world )