Hillary Clinton says when she was Secretary of State there was “constant” and “relentless” pressure by Prime Minister Netanyahu and then-Defense Minister Ehud Barak to secure U.S. backing for a military strike against Iran.
Clinton recalled hours-long phone calls where Israeli officials used leverage tactics, frequently telling her their "planes are on the tarmac" to imply an imminent, unilateral strike.
Clinton says she would respond to pressure like that with: "Well, good luck."
The New Yorker’s David Remnick asks if she felt the U.S. was being manipulated or "played" by a foreign ally that receives an enormous amount of American aid, Clinton agreed and said it happened "all the time" due to Netanyahu's intense focus on the issue.
The disgusting remark about Mrs. Obama last night was not an aberration.
For many years, the rightwing has been pushing a deeply racist conspiracy theory that she’s a trans woman, which is, of course, drawn from a dehumanizing and thoroughly absurd-on-its-face trope that Black women can’t be feminine.
This particular slander against Mrs. Obama has been going on for many years, and watching some quarters of conservative media pretend to be offended by the same remark that they’ve enabled in online spaces all this time strikes me as pretty goddamn pathetic and dishonorable.
But it’s not surprising. I would expect nothing different from Trump and his most ardent supporters.
Any woman they don’t like—let alone hate—particularly Black women, aren’t “real women.”
This is what they do. It’s not accidental.
Don’t let them claim otherwise.
Here's how the corruption works:
Thursday: RJ Reynolds donates $5M to Trump
Saturday: Trump invites RJR execs to Mar a Lago; execs ask to loosen regs on flavored vapes; Trump calls up RFK Jr. and tells him to change it
Friday: FDA changes the policy
https://t.co/Udu1RhYtKI
REUTERS: “Enrique Tarrio, Proud Boys leader sentenced to 22 years for seditious conspiracy over the January 6, 2021 riot, said he planned to get between $2 & $5 million.”
We are so far off the cliff. 🇺🇸
https://t.co/eh1I7Bp9tW
As a little girl, I was taught “life skills” like...
- Never let them take you to a second location, they'll kill you.
- Act crazy or vomit on them. Men don't like gross girls.
- Don't scream “help”, people don't care. Scream “fire”.
That's part of the reality of being female.
Josh Turek is not a veteran.
It's very strange and disappointing that @VoteVets does not make this clear in their ongoing support of him in the Iowa democratic primary for Senate.
Unintentional or not, it gives the impression that Mr. Turek is a veteran. But he is not. He did not serve.
In fact, Mr. Turek has never worked in the national security space in any form.
As a veteran, I've supported VoteVets in the past, and I was proud to do so.
But I'm now watching as VoteVets pours nearly $7 million into a competitive primary contest to support a candidate who has never served and is not a national security professional.
And I'm wondering why so many veteran candidates across the country who could use that money are not being adequately supported by VoteVets in their campaigns.
Let's stop the anti-feminist/anti-woman rhetoric.
1918 - My grandmother was born. It would be two more years before women had the right to vote in the US.
1941 - My mother was born. Women would routinely be fired for becoming pregnant. Marital rape and violence were par for the course and considered domestic issues, not crimes.
1968 - I was born. Women were still not admitted to many Universities. A woman needed a male co-signer for a lease or a loan. It would be 4 more years before women could run in the Boston Marathon.
Don't be a fucking idiot hoping for male head pats. Learn some history. Not only do I remember when things were much worse and harder for women I lived some of it and my mother and grandmother live very small circumscribed lives because feminism had not yet done much of it's work.