@SuitablePolitic I don’t know what will happen, but if it isn’t a blue wave, poll aggregators and pundits are going to quietly delete all their posts that showcased such confidence/arrogance and will pop up again in 2028, having literally no shame.
And people will still treat them seriously.
@TheBigKahane Nope. Congress has already given presidents the authority to impose certain sanctions without a new vote (search up the IEEPA). Biden exercised that authority when he sanctioned West Bank settlers in 2024 (Trump revoked that EO in 2025). Neither needed congressional approval.
2 things can be true:
1) Israel has agency in what actions they do or don’t take.
2) The US can elect a president that (quietly) shares AOC’s views on Israel, and Israel could have Yair Golan as PM and would still be subjected to US sanctions.
It’s a 2-way street.
ברייקינג: נתניהו אומר שהסיוע הבטחוני האמריקני לישראל "נגמר" ושצריך להיערך ל"סנקציות בנקאיות" עם "כלכלה עוקפת".
*מדובר באמירות מטרידות מאוד שמשמען סוף הכלכלה הישראלית הגלובלית ע"ע רוסיה של פוטין, רק בלי נפט וגז.
@mirijoie@CristianFl46703 Also, just FYI, Congress doesn't need to be on board for a president to seriously harm Israel. The president can do considerable damage through the State, Commerce, and Treasury departments alone.
@mirijoie@CristianFl46703 You're looking at the wrong metrics. DSA doesn't need to take over, and I/P doesn't need to be a top voter priority. What matters is who's making policy and what they're willing to do. If Dems already favor arms embargoes, why would sanctions be a bridge too far?
@sarinexile Easiest metric with conservatives is asking them about the Civil Rights Act. Watch some people who you thought were, otherwise, simple and uncontroversial suddenly spew the most insane shit and not thinking of what they incentivize if that legislation is gone.
In 2025, we published a bold proposal to use fusion reactors for gold production.
And now we’ve done it: Mercury transmuted into stable gold, using fusion neutrons, at 10x the record set by CERN in 2025.
We’ve reduced alchemy to a series of difficult but tractable engineering problems.