I don’t think this reaction makes sense when we’re talking about Catholics. Catholic clergy are already notorious for diddling kids.

Exceedingly rare Russian W.

Jacobin should be ringing bells louder than anyone that these two are lame ducks who don’t represent the DNC, the voters, or even Dem members of Congress.

Is this non-lame duck DNC in the room with us right now? The assertion that this isn’t just how they always are warrants justification.

Generally an appropriate reaction, but this particular brand of clownhood isn’t at all new.

People follow the religion of their kings.

-Ibn Khaldun circa 1377

Unfortunately this is closer to the norm than to being an exception.

Yeah that’s true; I’m intentionally taking the bait because I make it a point to call out bullshit.

To be honest I didn’t know that (WTF Trump), but the conversation is clearly about events after the full-scale invasion. The person I replied to implied Trump completely cut off aid to Ukraine after his reelection.

And how many of those are unfulfilled and/or watered down Biden promises? Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. She did nothing to make people believe she was actually going to do these things; promising to put Republicans in her cabinet certainly didn’t. Campaigning on fracking certainly didn’t. Dickriding Israel certainly didn’t.

Harris was also very progressive on policy

Fucking delusional.

I mean, no need to lie; Iran is absolutely going to shoot at any US navy ships in their backyard.

he is the “unapologetically christian” candidate who polled very strongly with Whites and Independents.

Sure, but that just means he’s a guy who appeals to less progressive/more conservative people. Now putting that in the forefront is a decision, but that’s different from modifying one’s policies to appeal to conservatives. The latter is what’s foolish; the former is the equivalent of accepting free lunch.

unfortunately another dude trying to appeal to moderates and conservatives, foolishly.

What? This is a progressive who vowed not to take AIPAC money. How exactly is or was he trying to appeal to conservatives?

More of this please and good riddance.

We’ve been passing NDAAs since The Korean War without hitting this level of mass slaughter.

Not contesting your overall point, but the Korean War was mass slaughter galore. The US almost completely flattened North Korea, and proportionally more North Koreans died in the war than Soviets did in WWII. If there’s a time when the US didn’t inflict mass slaughter on its enemies, it sure as hell wasn’t 1950-1953.

There’s definitely a different in quantity, but you’re exaggerating. Biden was famously slow-walking aid and sanctions and Trump didn’t completely (or even mostly) cut off aid.

Yes, because the US wasn’t sucking Israeli cock when Biden was president. It’s not guaranteed this exact situation would’ve played out if Harris was president, but fundamentally it’s Tel Aviv setting the schedule here, not DC. It’s more than likely a Harris admin would’ve just taken more care to manufacture consent first (and not call the affair a religious war, but secular bombs aren’t any better than religious bombs).

PS: Leftists unwilling to vote blue don’t exist in large enough numbers to skew any US elections.

I mean, libs do tend to believe that Trump’s imperialism is fundamentally different from “normal” bipartisan US imperialism (and therefore not bipartisan). “This is the same shit as always and putting your heads in the sand won’t help” is a meaningful message to spread.

Again, capability and intelligence vs morality. Unlike Netanyahu and his ilk, Putin knows not to bite off more than he can chew and his enemies are getting billions of Western aid so he can’t just bomb them to smithereens (though he still tries). From his career in general and his actions in Ukraine specifically it’s clear he’s fundamentally the same kind of fascist colonialist scum as Netanyahu (and the Israeli ruling class more broadly).

I get what you mean, but I think the difference might be more down to capability (and realpolitik, which Putin is undeniably better at) than morality.

Nice.