Obama just said what everyone’s thinking but too many are afraid to admit: If he had done even a fraction of what Trump’s doing—blacklisting press, punishing dissent, targeting student protestors—the outrage would’ve been deafening.
But now? Silence. Because when the Constitution gets torched by someone in your tribe, suddenly principles are optional.
This isn’t about policy anymore—it’s about power unchecked and hypocrisy on full display.
Obama: Imagine if I had done any of this. Imagine if I had pulled Fox News’ credentials from the White House press corps. Imagine if I had said to law firms that were representing parties that were upset with policies my administration had initiated, that you will not be allowed into government buildings. We will punish you economically for dissenting from the Affordable Care Act or the Iran deal. We will ferret out students who protest against my policies.
It’s unimaginable that the same parties that are silent now would have tolerated behavior like that from me, or a whole bunch of my predecessors.
There are some moments when you just bury your hands in your head muttering “What a knob” under your breath.
Zack’s back to talk ‘transgender mice’. There’s dumb, then there’s Wun Dum Fuc.
🎥 TikTok - @zak.kimball
@docligot poignant post on the reality of data science jobs… https://t.co/cqqHUhnIjv. We couldn’t agree more — every org is failing a data. Curious your thoughts on our approach. https://t.co/LcRRQ9q9Vz
@DineshDSouza@DineshDSouza stop spreading false data and making shit up. Trump absolutely won last night and in 2016. He didn't in 2020. in '20 BOTH candidates got a lot more votes because overall turnout was higher.
This is how dictators destroy free nations. They threaten those who speak against them with death. We cannot entrust our country and our freedom to a petty, vindictive, cruel, unstable man who wants to be a tyrant. #Womenwillnotbesilenced#VoteKamala
Bill Clinton On the Palestinians:
“And the only time Yasser Arafat didn't tell me the truth was when he promised me he was gonna accept the peace deal that we had worked out, which would have given the Palestinians a state on 96% of the West Bank and 4% of Israel, and they got to choose where the 4% of Israel was. So they would have the effect of the same land of all the West Bank. They would have a capital in East Jerusalem.
I can hardly talk about this…. And they would have equal access all day every day to the security towers that Israel maintained all through the West Bank up to the Golan Heights.
All this was offered, including, I will say it again, a capital in East Jerusalem and 2 of the 4 quadrants of the old city of Jerusalem, confirmed by the Israeli prime minister, Ehud Barak, and his cabinet. And they said no.
And I think part of it is that Hamas did not care about a homeland for the Palestinians. They wanted to kill Israelis and make Israel uninhabitable.
Well, I got news for them, they were there first before there was their faith existed.
They were there. In the time of King David, in the southern most tribes, Hadjardia and Samaria.”
Tomorrow, Eevery Kennedy family member should congregate in Arizona with Harris and Walz to counter attack RFK Jr announcement on the same day. @RobertKennedyJr go away, you are un-American and the polar opposite of a patriot.
Just when you think the lack of foresight, pragmatism, strategic planning, realistic visions, or sound organizing couldn’t get any worse among some “pro-Palestine” groups, think again. The national umbrella organization of Students for Justice in Palestine is doubling down on support for a group (Within Our Lifetime) that is explicitly pro-Hamas, celebrates October 7, glorifies the armed resistance narrative, and calls Rashida Tlaib, AOC, and Democratic Socialists of America Zionists for not adopting their maximalist, ideological, extremist, and hateful positions. Sometimes, I genuinely wonder if SJP and other such groups are really working for Palestine and an actual resolution or if they’re part of a long-term con psyop that’s meant to discredit Palestinians and their cause in the diaspora.
A historic opportunity to harness and drum up support for Palestinian independence and sovereignty through an occupation/settlement-free Two State/ Two Nation solution continues to be squandered in pursuit of academic theories, extremist rhetoric, far-left ideologies, and theoretical frameworks that will never set the Palestinians free. The issue isn’t that SJP and detrimental groups discredit themselves by acting the way they do; the serious and primary problem is that they harm and undermine the pro-Palestine narrative, which is always framed as being mutually exclusive of any scenario in which Jewish Israelis exist and live side by side with Palestinians. I understand the deep pain and resentment due to the continuous annihilation of Gaza and the death and destruction that has befallen the Palestinians in the coastal enclave. But to ignore the role of Hamas in triggering this catastrophe, and to adopt extremist positions that will never create a free Palestine is immensely irresponsible and amounts to a dereliction of duty to represent the best interests of the Palestinian people.
@elonmusk can you please fix calendars on the Tesla dashboards so that we don’t all have duplicate entries, seems so simple to be able to select the calendars to display (iOS)
@SethDavisHoops enjoyed the new book by Rex and you, fascinating and heartfelt journey for Rex.
One thing - have your editor get a better copy editor. Few places in book where full sentences are repeated. Most notably page 208 :-)
@dhh Isn’t Superhuman doing the same and Apple didn’t block them. You can’t use superhuman app unless you pay for the service (at least I don’t think you can)
@elonmusk Soros is a target of the right because he is Jewish.
It’s a joke to you but not to those targeted by hate.
When you are worried about your safety or your family, you treat it differently.
When you endorse hateful ideologies without care, others face the consequences.