Maybe the most important interview I've done with
@majorityfm
.
I spoke with Dr. Tarek Loubani today, a doctor who's previously been tortured by the IDF and was shot during Palestinians' peaceful protests in 2018, about what he's seen. I asked him: "What does genocide look like?"
The last few months for Rudy Giuliani:
1. Gets caught (allegedly) undoing his pants in a Borat movie
2. Hosts an election fraud presser at Four Seasons Total Landscaping
3. Sweats so much his hair dye melts
4. Audibly farts in a hearing
5. Tests positive for covid-19
An icon.
So it looks like Elizabeth Warren isn’t going to endorse anyone.
I’d say it’s deeply disappointing, but I’ve come to accept her inability to rise to the political moment. It’s sad and angering.
It’s no accident the number of transgender youth doubled in the last 5 years, and children mastectomies are up 389%. It’s a direct result of the radical ‘woke’ agenda being pushed on our kids by so-called “healthcare professionals,” MSM/social media, and even Biden directly.
Ben, you should do that singular pushup you've been putting off for thirty years and enlist so you can fulfill your dream of killing Muslim civilians in person
Soleimani was one of the leading terrorists on the planet, was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of Americans, was planning further attacks on Americans, and was on foreign soil doing so. Spot on comparison, there, Sparky.
Ilhan Omar is endorsing the only Jewish candidate in the race.
Which means it's a tough day for the "Omar is an anti-Semite" right-wingers who cloak their rabid anti-Muslim xenophobia and loony toons Bible thumping in faux concern about anti-Jewish hatred. Real tough.
Biden being competent on COVID was enough to placate people for a month or so. But his refusal to cancel student debt, his balking on his promise to halt deportations, and his underhanded approach to the “$2,000 checks” show that the honeymoon’s over. He is who we thought he was.
Those attacking
@AOC
for refusing to play into Ted Cruz's disingenuous pleas to collaborate on Wall St reform conveniently forget that she *has* tried to work with him. In 2019, their staffers met to ban former lawmakers from lobbying. Nothing came of it. Because he's full of it.
So I’m just going to nip this in the bud...
Primarying Elizabeth Warren in MA because she’s made selfish decisions in the twilight of her presidential run is the dumbest, most toxic shit I’ve ever heard.
She’s one of the three most progressive senators.
Childish tribalism.
Shoutout to the
@AOC
who thrust the Green New Deal onto the national stage and made it the framework for debate on climate policy within two years. That’s a hell of an Overton window shift by... “just a bartender.”
#VPDebate
If you're outraged that Sanders accepted an endorsement from Joe Rogan, who has massive reach with actual centrist/apolitical young people, you're part of why the left loses.
We need to accept everyone who is open to a leftist message, no matter their past or how they got there.
I voted for Hillary Clinton against Trump in 2016 and it was an easy decision.
I genuinely don’t know if I could bring myself to vote for Mike Bloomberg against Trump in 2020.
No matter the outcome, the fact that this election is so close is a clear indicator that Americans aren’t connecting material conditions on the ground — a depression, pandemic, low wages, etc — to the consequences of politics. Which is an abject, disgusting failure of Democrats.
Imagine the Iranian government assassinated Mike Pompeo with a drone, at the direction of the president, and called it self defense.
That’s exactly what the US did by killing Soleimani — an act of war.
The only difference is Iran’s self defense claims would be more legitimate.
I love how right-wing podcasts feel the need to smoke cigars and drink brown liquor prominently. Maybe there's a gun in the background, maybe the set is decorated like a beer commercial "man den." Leather chairs are a necessity. It's all so painfully insecure lol
Lindsey Graham, today, on Fox & Friends: "We all know that [
@AOC
] and this crowd are a bunch of communists, they hate Israel, they hate our own country."
Why is loving Israel a prerequisite for being an American? And how would Graham define communism?
This is a sitting senator.
It’s impossible for me to relate to the Boomer libs in my life who only want to vent about how awful Trump is and have zero interest in examining the systems that created him. They are so emotionally invested in hating him that any larger examination is treated as an affront.
Last night, Bernie Sanders doggedly fought to include benefits to laid off workers in the Senate stimulus bill and he won.
But he "can't get anything done."
The people who screamed “government tyranny” about mask mandates are oddly silent when it comes to unmarked federal officers cracking protestor skulls against the will of local and state governments.
Bill Maher says he's an atheist, but like Sam Harris, his deepest animosity for religion is reserved for brown Muslims. It's xenophobia cloaked in "truth telling."
I'm ashamed to say that I used to see him as a hero. His show has become unwatchable.
Warren is still a progressive senator, but it's clear that Warren is no longer running a progressive campaign.
She has taken a sharp turn to pander to the ultrawoke identity politics voters to her right and has backstabbed a friend in Sanders in the process. Ugh.
#DemDebate
I can’t believe I’m writing this. Michael Brooks was pure light. He was just good to his core. He was fun-loving, brilliant, generous, thoughtful, loyal, open. He was building a better world. He was my true friend. He was an oasis. I am heartbroken. I will never forget his laugh.
Under a Biden presidency, in the unlikely event that he’s able to defeat Trump, there will be...
❌ No Medicare For All
❌ No Green New Deal
❌ No tuition free college
❌ No student loan forgiveness
❌ No legal marijuana
❌ No wealth tax
❌ No end to the wars
❌ No trade reform
Images of
@AOC
waiting tables and making drinks in Queens in support of higher wages for tipped workers.
The federal subminimum wage for tipped workers is $2.13. Only seven states require tipped workers be paid the actual minimum wage.
New York is not one of them.
Democrats loving Bernie Sanders’ agenda but not voting for Bernie Sanders is a complex stew of:
1) Anti-Trump hysteria
2) False electability narratives
3) Media/DNC bias
4) A primary electorate that’s not as populist as the apolitical center
5) 2016 baggage
6) Fear of change
Anybody could have beaten Trump this election and that anybody could have been Bernie Sanders. We could’ve had an advocate for:
-Medicare For All
-A Green New Deal
-Ending wars
-Police reform
-College for all
-Ending mass incarceration
I’ll never get over the missed opportunity.
The fact that this officer did this to an estimated *100 people* with his body camera ON speaks to how confident police are that they won’t face any consequences for their own criminality.
In one night, Bernie Sanders wins the debate and gets an endorsement from
@AOC
,
@IlhanMN
and
@RashidaTlaib
.
A historic night for the Sanders campaign. Unreal.
Establishment Democrat smugness is gonna look really bad after Biden loses the general. I’m floored that after three years of public criticism of the party, ostensible internal soul searching and Trump hysteria, that this is the candidate they’re going with.
We are so screwed.
The fact that every Democratic candidate — from Bernie to Warren to Biden to Klobuchar — pretty obviously thinks Buttigieg is a joke should tell you something.
Buttigieg's decision to lie and say he won Iowa before any votes were finalized shows how much he needs this win. He's poured all of his wine cave money into this one (very white) state and without a top two finish, he's no longer a top tier candidate.
No more donor cash 😢
Democrats, who are so very good at politics, are currently debating sending stimulus checks to 40 million fewer people than Trump did, because... reasons? Surely that won't come back to bite them in 2022.
Joe Biden: "I actually like Dick Cheney... I get on with him. I think he's a decent man."
He adds that Cheney was "extremely helpful" about the "legal parameters" of the VP office. Without irony.
Mondale then says his view of Cheney is "a little bit different." The crowd laughs
1) They’re desperate to stop Bernie.
2) Do Klobuchar and Buttigieg supporters automatically go out and vote for Biden on Super Tuesday? I don’t think that’s a guarantee.
3) Elizabeth Warren is being extremely selfish. The progressive movement needs her right now.
If Bernie had screamed at Warren the way Biden did last night - let alone try to falsely take credit for her Herculean accomplishment - the media would be up in arms about his sexism today. But Bernie would never do that.
I’m not hearing enough about Biden’s blatant sexism.
You can’t criticize Trump for lack of leadership and defend Biden’s absence during this crisis.
If something’s seriously wrong, that’s a different story. But if his campaign is doing this by choice — either to hide his mental decline or keep his polling lead — it’s a disgrace.
Kyrsten Sinema is the most vapid Democratic politician to come along in quite a while. Her shtick of funky hair and bright clothing as a mask for her apparent sociopathy is downright horrifying. She’s not a “maverick,” she’s an attention seeker who only engages in aesthetics.
So now that Bernie Sanders is the frontrunner, the DNC is changing its debate rules mid-primary, eliminating the small donor threshold to let Bloomberg buy his way onto the stage.
Bloomberg’s surrogates are openly admitting he’s running as a Sanders spoiler.
Here we go again.
Personal news: I’m thrilled to announce that I will be joining
@majorityfm
and
@SamSeder
as co-host and producer, starting on Election Day! Anyone who is familiar with progressive media knows that the Majority Report team does incredible work. I couldn’t be more excited. (1/5)
@bariweiss
@EmilyYoffe
Bari, is it good journalism to sympathetically highlight the experience of a parent that sent their child to conversion therapy, excluding the perspective of the victimized child? Because that's the equivalent of what your disgusting site just did.
I have reinstalled Twitter to respond to this story and make sure my voice is fully heard. I am Casey.
My real name is Alex but my mom decided it would be best to hide it for anonymity. But this is my story, not hers. This is not the free press’s story.
@benshapiro
Your nativism is amusing. Trump, Obama & Bush all committed war crimes - should they be assassinated on the spot?
Are you aware of how many deaths Trump and Pompeo are directly responsible for? Civilian deaths? Or do you not care because they're Arabs who "live in open sewage"?
I believed Dr. Ford. I believe Tara Reade.
The corroboration threshold is nearly identical. Pretending otherwise reveals how heavily biased your political analysis is.
There are nearly 1.7 million Palestinian Israeli citizens.
Netanyahu is openly saying that he doesn’t consider them part of the country.
See why we use the term “apartheid?”
Crowder admitted it. He admitted he was monitoring
@majorityfm
and saw our show end early last week when he rescheduled the recording with H3. I still can’t believe he admitted it!!
Israeli forces storm the al-Aqsa mosque and shoot tear gas and rubber bullets at worshippers on day 1 of the ceasefire, and we’re supposed to pretend that Israel isn’t actively trying to provoke a Palestinian response so that they “defend themselves” and kill more civilians.
.
@Ocasio2018
’s
#GreenNewDeal
has redefined what’s politically possible.
Two years ago, Obama wouldn’t even try for a carbon tax. Now, the
#2
Senate Republican is advocating for it as an alternative to the GND.
Bold progressivism shifts the goalposts. Democrats, take notes.
.
@AOC
called Amazon’s bluff and corporatist Democrats and Republicans were incredulous... “She took da JOBS!!!”
She’s been unequivocally, entirely and completely proven right.
Do you want to put yourself and your own ego ahead of the progressive movement in an unwinable race, potentially handing the nomination to a status quo candidate who will almost certainly lose to Trump?
Elizabeth Warren’s got a plan for that!
Democrats coalesced behind Biden based on the perception that he’d beat Trump.
Looking at Trump’s numbers today, it looks like he’s likely to. But I think almost any 2020 candidate could’ve beaten him.
We missed out on a shoo-in progressive president and I’ll never get over it.
Has there ever been an earlier shift into a lame duck presidency? We're three years out from the election and there's just no hope on the horizon for any meaningful legislation.
A three year lame duck, with a majority in both chambers no less. This party is a ghost ship.
This will certainly have an effect on how the white liberals/professional-managerial class that love his show (no shade -- just my impression) think about Medicare For All.
Major props to John Oliver here.
.
@AOC
is the most important woman in Congress and the fact that she’s missing/they have historically been chilly towards her tells you everything you need to know about EMILY’s List.
CNN just posted the audio of the tense exchange last night.
Elizabeth Warren: "I think you called me a liar on national TV."
Bernie Sanders: "You know, let's not do it right now."
At the Thurgood Marshall Public Library a predominately black senior population is waiting on average 2 hrs to vote in crowded rooms. This is not safe!
#COVID19
#IllinoisPrimary
Bloomberg didn't end stop and frisk until a judge forced him to.
Bloomberg didn't end stop and frisk until a judge forced him to.
Bloomberg didn't end stop and frisk until a judge forced him to.
Bloomberg didn't end stop and frisk until a judge forced him to.
#DemDebate