the last thing you hear before you die is a health insurance bureaucrat telling you your medical treatment has been denied due to insufficient funds in your bank account, all while a TV in the background blares CNN pundits yelling about Hasan Piker
So when you read about eight members of an NBC News Team being beaten by Israeli settlers today in the West Bank, it's important to note two things:
1. The settler wouldn't do this to Americans had they not received a green light from the Israeli gov.
2. Israel's gov would not have given such a green light unless it felt confident that the US gov - and Amb. Huckabee - wouldn't lift a finger to defend the Americans.
If these individuals were Jews, the whole of the internet would share photos of Nazis stripping Jews naked and lining up to be sent to concentration camps or to death.
But because the victims are Palestinian, not Jewish, making the same comparison is deemed anti-semitic.
Political streamer Hasan Piker notes that more establishment Democrats have condemned him over comments he did not make than have demanded the release of Sama Safi, a 20-year-old American imprisoned by Israel without charge in the occupied West Bank since June. Her doctors warn that Israel’s denial of adequate medical care puts her at risk of irreversible, life-threatening damage to her internal organs.
As journalist Prem Thakker points out, Chris Van Hollen is the only potential 2028 presidential contender in the Senate who has called on the Trump administration to secure Safi’s release.
Van Hollen is also introducing a resolution requiring the State Department to provide answers about nine Americans killed in the West Bank since 2022 with zero accountability, as well as the broader abuses Palestinians face under Israeli occupation. He says he will bring it to a vote when Congress returns.
Still not a word on Gary, Indiana being without power for weeks or about all of the cases of Black people being found hanging recently. Our community is dealing with systemic racism and racialized violence, and this man couldn’t give a single fuck.
I’m going to be honest this nuked the excitement I had for midterms.
Every bill against the Iran war and critical of Israel will be shut down by this man in committee before it ever gets a floor vote.
What’s the point of dems controlling the house if we still get more war?
If you needed more proof that the political class is one big gaslighting machine, just consider that while almost nobody in America can afford anything, both parties are non-ironically trying to turn a national election into a referendum on a Twitch streamer