Principles NOT Parties

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[David Sirota @davidsirota]

Lots of people are figuring out that Obama turning hope and change into more of the same created the backlash conditions for Trump’s ascent. It’s taken a long time for people to absorb this painful fact, but it’s slowly seeping into America’s consciousness — which is good.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

The folks who want flock cameras in your neighborhood, the folks who wanna read your emails without a warrant, the folks who say, “If you’re not doing anything wrong, why do you wanna hide it?” have withheld 3 million Epstein files and redacted the rest.

[DD Geopolitics @DD_Geopolitics]

For generations, Washington has overthrown governments, sponsored coups, armed death squads, assassinated political leaders, manipulated elections and plunged entire nations into war whenever they stood in the way of American geopolitical interests.

Academic research documents 70 U.S.-backed regime-change attempts during the Cold War alone, and that narrow figure excludes much of the wider history of invasions, proxy wars, election interference and other interventions.

Millions of ordinary people have been forced to live with the consequences of decisions made thousands of miles away in Washington.

And after more than a century of overthrowing governments around the world, the United States still has the audacity to lecture everyone else about sovereignty, democracy and the “rules-based international order.”

[DD Geopolitics @DD_Geopolitics]

In February 2019, after Kraft was charged with soliciting prostitution at a massage parlor in Jupiter, Florida, Epstein told his attorney Jack Goldberger:

“yes im trying to have him hire you”

Epstein then messaged another lawyer:

“if your buddy Kraft, needs local palm rep let me know”

And Kraft subsequently hired Goldberger (one of Epstein’s former attorneys) for his defense.

And where did all of this happen?

Palm Beach County, Florida. COINCIDENCE?!

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

In case you're wondering when Trump's debt to Miriam Adelson and her Israeli cabal will finally be paid off, the answer is: never. The debt is eternal and limitless.

And that's all separate from Trump's own personal and political reasons for his unyielding servitude to Israel.

[Principles NOT Parties @NotParties]

To our Jewish neighbors, family & friends, brothers & sisters,

"May your life be full of wonderful blessings and be surrounded by love and care. Shana Tova! Best wishes for the new year!"

May God be near to you at this time, and always.

Love thy neighbor as thyself.

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

Ask yourself this question: If a corporate executive says they are knowingly building a technology that could murder literally everyone, how is the response not immediate prosecution, or at least a serious law enforcement probe?

The answer: Political corruption.

[Principles NOT Parties @NotParties]

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[David Sirota @davidsirota]

25 years after 9/11, none of the people in politics & media who cynically used that day to create the monarchical powers Trump is now abusing have been held accountable.

In America's accountability-free society, all of them have been given more wealth, fame, stature & power.

[Principles NOT Parties @NotParties]

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[David Sirota @davidsirota]

Everyone who used 9/11 to lie America into a war and build a secret surveillance state has been rewarded for that with money, fame, and power. Not one of them has apologized and not one of them has paid any financial or social status cost for what they did. America is an accountability-free zone for elites.

[Principles NOT Parties @NotParties]

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[Prof Zenkus @anthonyzenkus]

Hakeem Jeffries is fine with racism as long as it's against Muslim and Arab Americans. He chose not to say a word to defend Zohran Mamdani from the vile racist attacks against the mayor from the Islamophobes demanding he not attend the 9/11 ceremony in NY.

Despite receiving Mamdani's loud endorsement. Despite Mamdani shutting down a primary challenge to Jeffries.

This is who Hakeem Jeffries is: unyeilding support for Israel's genocide and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians and Lebanese abroad, notably silent on anti-Muslim hate at home.

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

Even now, 25 years later, I can’t get over George Bush standing on a pile of dead people as he and his aides were already preparing to lie America into a war & I can’t forget that the people now monetizing themselves as Never Trump Republicans enthusiastically cheered him on and have never apologized.

How are we supposed to learn from history if we allow elites to just move from one horror to the next with no accountability or even contrition? The sociopathic shamelessness that has been so normalized over the last 25 years is a genuine societal plague — one we still haven’t reckoned with.

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

A shorthand way to understand the corruption & nihilism that took over Dem/liberal politics in the last 50 years is to just remember that in their elder years, Dick Cheney was valorized by Dems as a hero at the same time Ralph Nader was denigrated by Dems as a villain/pariah.

[Principles NOT Parties @NotParties]

“Blessed are those who work for peace: they will be called children of God.”
- Matthew 5:9

[Principles NOT Parties @NotParties]

Iran warned the Epstein Class & deceptively named Israel, that if @CENTCOM attacked, Iran would control the Strait of Hormuz. Judas @realDonaldTrump & satanic @netanyahu put the Strait in Iran's hands. The greatest threat to Americans & the world is the U.S. Ruling Class.

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

One more time: the greatest threat to free speech in the West, by far, is Israel and its western loyalists attempting to use all weapons to criminalize, banish and punish criticisms of Israel by pretending that it's anti-Semitic.

[Ben Rhodes @brhodes]

Translation: a giant fuck you from Democratic leadership to Democratic voters.

[Ben Rhodes @brhodes]

Really disappointing from Meeks. I cannot believe he actually opposes the war in Iran if he puts one of the only Dems who supported the war in Iran in charge of the subcommittee responsible for it.