I should have been more clear. I’m talking about what politicians are forced into doing. Not my personal views. We’ve spent 20 years demonizing the “terrorists”. Israel very successfully labeled all Palestinians as terrorists until very recently. Getting Americans to understand that the entire time we’ve supported Israel they’ve been doing 10 times worse to the Palestinians is going to take another big push. Understanding Hamas as an embattled resistance movement is a step too far for most voters right now.

So showing up with actual Hamas iconography and flags pretty much requires a statement like this.

She was in the Senate. She has a voting record. Go look at it.

The problem is there was Pro Hamas stuff at the protest. They have the pictures. Which pretty neatly traps most politicians into having to disavow it because Hamas does horrific shit too. Seeing those pictures, her statement absolutely tracks as correct.

Rhetoric is a tool. But the powers of the presidency go well beyond them. A think tank spokesman is a rhetorical position. The president is a CEO. And I doubt you have the inside scoop on their specific working relationship. If you did and you were posting about it here then it would be news.

Saying she has to move Biden or else she’s complicit is just trying to guilt her by association. The only concrete thing she could do is resign and that’s political suicide in the US.

That’s not how that works. Biden has very real power, not just rhetorical. For example he can deploy the military wherever he wants for 60 days. He can direct an agency to only do half of it’s job. (Trump famously removed all the furniture from the office meant to help people find immigration detainees) If you’re not American then think of him as a prime minister/CEO. The Vice President gets a portfolio from the president. Without that their only job is to break ties in the Senate and stay alive.

Some administrations have had a division of labor for whipping votes, but that is primarily the job of the party whip and leader for each chamber.

There’s not much policy action she could take. Other than the words, she’s probably going to meet with community leaders, but there’s really not much more she can do on that front.

He’s not a schoolyard bully.

Don’t say that within hearing range of an Emu.

Man if we could close the gap in Georgia or North Carolina that would be great. We’d have a much higher chance then.

Some of us do recognize Harris has no real power yet.

She’s already been doing that. But it’s not magic. The only other option for her would be to resign her position but that’s political suicide in the US.

Okay but that’s pretty reductionist.

It’s a pretty huge difference in how militaries fight. For example we didn’t carpet bomb entire neighborhoods in Iraq.

Ahh I see

Sure. We can agree on that.

It’s a completely different situation. The entire paradigm was Israel’s setup. In order for your analogue to work we’d have to have been completely blockading Japan for a decade, not just refusing to sell them oil. And we’d have to have interfered with their elections, refusing to let the winner actually take office. And we’d need decades of history where we wantonly murdered them for their land.

If you want to talk about American settlers in the old west, that would be the direct comparison. This is a tale we’ve seen before. And we’re determined to stop it this time.

Except they have different credit products for different things. Products specifically asked for by the banks. That’s their interest. There’s 3 credit companies and if one of them won’t take the info into account then the other two will.

A satirical troll is a thing. You know what, I should probably change their tag in my app.

I laughed. Apparently at least 9 people got mad though?

You know I’ve never gotten a discount for ordering dark meat? At this point I’m convinced it’s a myth.