@adamwren @playbookdc @AbdulElSayed @hasanthehun Kind of frightening that you don't see the Hitler parallels yourself
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Joe LeMaster
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Joe LeMaster
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Northern VA انضم Nisan 2011
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New @playbookdc: @AbdulElSayed declines to part ways with @hasanthehun’s post that “donald trump is adolf hitler” ahead of his two rallies with the streamer today.
“I mean, when you’re threatening genocide against the whole people, that speaks for itself,” El-Sayed said
politico.com/newsletters/pl…
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@MarkWarner House Democrats repeatedly delayed forcing a war powers vote and Schumer repeatedly goaded Trump into attacking Iran. You're just lying now.
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Democrats are fighting to rein in this completely out-of-control, costly, devastating war in the Middle East.
When will Republicans do the bare minimum and join us?
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@Kalestine It's a bipartisan problem. Biden and Harris set the table, and now Trump and Bibi are feasting. If Dems really believed in their messaging, then this wouldn't have happened.
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per @maggieNYT and @jonathanvswan the intel Bibi gave Trump, compelling him to launch this war, turned out to be wishful thinking
nytimes.com/2026/04/07/us/…
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Brief recap: Dem leadership delayed a war powers vote until after the war started, then pushed the next potential vote to mid-April.
Schumer literally led a pressure campaign pushing Trump to bomb Iran last summer
Sahil Kapur@sahilkapur
House Democratic leaders' joint statement on Trump "threatening to eradicate an entire civilization": "The House must come back into session immediately and vote to end this reckless war of choice in the Middle East before Donald Trump plunges our country into World War III."
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We didn't have to be here of course. All Biden/Harris had to do was stop supporting a genocide. Most people would do that out of sheer decency. Biden/Harris could have done it and got to keep the White House! A moral failure we are still learning the depths of every day.
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@RepDonBeyer It would be much easier to take you seriously if Jeffries hadn't actively stalled efforts to stop the war before it began
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My Republican colleagues in Congress continue to abdicate their duty and turn a blind eye as the President makes unhinged threats to obliterate an entire civilization in clear violation of basic human decency and American ideals. This is a moral failure and cowardice of the highest order.
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My Republican colleagues are turning a blind eye as the President escalates unhinged threats to obliterate an entire civilization. A moral failure and cowardice of the highest order.
Speaker Johnson must bring the House back to stop this blatantly illegal, immoral threat.
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Everything indicates that Barak Ravid is the journalist chosen by the U.S. government to release information designed to contain or temporarily mislead the markets for only a few business days, fully aligned with the White House’s messaging.
That’s why we will avoid citing Axios publications until the end of the war.
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@brianschatz Brian can you give specific dates when it’s ok to criticize Democrats for failing at their primary reason for existing which is preventing ascendant fascism? Last Oct you said that wasnt a good time so I’m curious. This isn’t sarcasm, I’d like an actual date so we can circle back
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If America had a functioning opposition party, its leaders would be putting as many people as they possibly could into the streets. And if it had a functioning Congress, it would be acting to remove Trump from power as quickly as possible.
Jonathan Lemire@JonLemire
President Donald Trump is threatening that a “whole civilization will die tonight”
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a MAJORITY of Democrats in the House & Senate voted to give Trump nearly a trillion dollars for war in 2026
…now we’re supposed to act like this party isn’t a willing partner in ruinous US foreign policy, but rather a bulwark against war? Gonna take more than some angry tweets!
Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
One problem for Democrats is that left-wing people pretend they aren’t doing stuff that they are in fact doing in order to further fuel the flames of anti-establishment sentiment.
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When you want to defend your boss but he's too unpopular to mention by name:
Brian Schatz@brianschatz
If you are still doing discourse, today, about tactical choices that Democrats should make, you have lost the plot. Time and place for everything.
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Genuinely at the stage where I simply don't understand why the U.S. isn't ousting him.
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Can't tell you how many members of Congress who *at best* had nothing to say when I asked about the Minab girls school attack. There is a profanely cold detachment inside Capitol Hill, a mode completely unrecognizable to common human decency I wish I could properly convey to you.
Prem Thakker@prem_thakker
The world not screeching to a halt when the US killed more than 100 little school girls on the very first day of this "liberating war" led us exactly to this moment
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Trump: “I’m going to commit a genocide”
Democrats: “Did you get congressional approval first?”
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The unwillingness of liberals to make genocide a redline under a Democratic administration - and to normalize every version of war crime - gave a green light to Trump to escalate to threatening entire civilizations with nuclear holocausts
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Democrats could position themselves as the ones ending this historically unpopular war. They could force war powers vote after war powers vote. They’re choosing not to
Jake Sherman@JakeSherman
On iran talks —Iranians seem to want Congress involved: The Omani Foreign Ministry has confirmed talks with Iran about reopening the strait. Mr. Mousawi, who was briefed on the plan, added that it called for formally ending the war through an act approved by Congress, and that it called on the United States to offer war compensation that “must be approved by the U.S. Congress and the United Nations.” “These conditions would have to be approved by Congress, and ensuring their implementation must be guaranteed under an international-American umbrella, because they do not trust Trump and his administration,” he said. nytimes.com/2026/04/06/us/… via @NYTimes
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Retired Lt. Col. Rachel VanLandingham said it clearly on PBS: threatening to bomb every bridge and power plant in Iran is itself a war crime. Not just reckless talk. A crime. Why? Because terrorizing a civilian population through rhetoric violates the law of war. And the law of war is U.S. law. Here’s the part nobody wants to say out loud: our own State Department used this exact legal standard to condemn Putin for targeting Ukrainian power plants. Same act. Same law. Different flag. Words have consequences — and so does hypocrisy.
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