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This parasite has enough wealth that he could single handedly build hospitals, schools, libraries, art and housing, he could change millions of lives overnight. Instead, he sits on here retweeting white supremacists, and he wants your sympathy because he’s sad and unfulfilled.

An extremist group in Washington, DC has claimed credit for the terrorist attack on the Iranian bridge, promising further attacks on civilian infrastructure if its demands aren't met

@magi_jay A better question is if the democrats have the “luxury” of nominating a Shapiro or Harris, which you are treating as inevitable. Hasan is in line with the Dem polling, they are not.

I am, once again, begging people to examine whether their premises are true. "If democracy really is at risk, do Dems have the luxury of alienating someone like Piker?" is a question that assumes Piker is relevant/has power. What if that premise is false?

@MarkGoldfeder The Leahy law doesn’t exist when it’s Israel doing the gross violation. Their entire existence is a gross violation at this point.

All aid to Israel is fully consistent with federal laws. Aid to Israel is an investment in American interests and security. If only you loved America as much as you love showboating and as much as you hate Jews.

@ericadamsfornyc Israel isn’t entitled to defensive or offensive aid on our dime. They have had an extremely lucrative US relationship for many years- they chose to squander that by behaving like genocidal barbarians and lying about it at every opportunity.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez just committed to voting to strip civilians in Israel of protection from rocket attacks. This is not a vote against the government of Israel, or Netanyahu. This is collective punishment against ten million civilians, Jews, Muslims, and Christians. Voting against defensive systems isn’t progressive. It isn’t pro-human rights. It’s indefensible. There is no moral justification for leaving civilians exposed to deadly rockets aimed at them.

@JoshKraushaar @J_Insider Oh no, the baggage of a very popular twitch streamer and a senate candidate who is wiping the floor in his primary? That sounds really terrible. Just awful stuff. And no more sleazy, inconspicuously named PACs funneling dark money to the most evil candidate? How will we survive?

As we wrote in @J_Insider last week: "While it may be easy for Democrats to look at the polling and use AIPAC as a convenient boogeyman, the reality is that by embracing an anti-Israel worldview, candidates will end up dealing with the baggage that comes with the movement  — from associating with antisemitic podcasters to championing Senate candidates that had Nazi-linked tattoos. That’s where the polling doesn’t fully reflect the implications of any anti-Israel shift within the party."

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@sshaf91 @nicks_leon @KyleKulinski Palestinians are governed under a military judicial system, Israelis (including settlers in the West Bank) are governed under Israeli civil court. That’s part of why it’s considered an apartheid state.

@nicks_leon @KyleKulinski The law states that it’s only for one ethnicity? Do you think Palestinians are the only people in Israeli prison?

The nazification of Israel is complete. They’re about to mass murder ~10,000 Palestinian hostages, many of them children. Greater Israel is the 4th Reich.

BREAKING: Israel's Knesset has passed a law to execute Palestinian detainees. Death by hanging. Mandatory sentencing. No pardon. 90 days to carry out. It applies through military courts with a 96% conviction rate. It does not apply to Israelis.

@trouble_man90 Are you stupid? People listen to Joe Rogan because he has an ethos already in place- he presents as a “dumb guy having an authentic chat about dumb guy stuff,” not as a party shill. It’s the difference between your buddy recommending something versus a random salesperson.

Ultimately what we wanted was someone who to tell people to vote for our candidate. “Biden is good guys vote for him” “Kamala is cool you should vote for her” He had years to prove he could be the Rogan or Charlie Kirk of the left but he failed that very simple test.

How about if we conduct a ground operation in Israel instead and take their fucking nukes away and go get our fucking money back??? How about that.

@mehdirhasan Look at that smile, he’s giddy to meet one of the all-timers of murdering children

But indicted war criminals? Just FINE!

So many No Kings moms came up to Hasan today and thanked him. Don’t fall for Third Ways bait. Don’t let the corporate wing of the Democratic Party define the terms of debate.

I warned Biden and Harris directly: Our silence on Gaza was morally, legally, and politically wrong. We were told it wasn't in the data. That wasn't strategy – it was risk aversion dressed up as wisdom. Democrats cannot make that same mistake again this midterm season.

@MaryDil29664033 @MrRoivas @magi_jay Black voters are the most reliable bloc within the Dems, sure. But it’s only about 18% of the entire voter base. The “base” has to be wider and more diverse than that, by definition, to even win an election.

@JebedihS @MrRoivas @magi_jay Nonsense. Black people are the base of the Democratic party. Maybe, you don't understand what a base means

Lots of things to unpack here, but let me stick to a few premises that I find a bit spurious. 1) What growing power of the Left? What evidence is there of this? All their candidates just lost in Illinois. Moderates won NJ & VA Gov seats w/ wide margins last year, a sign of electoral strength. In 2024, Bowman lost. Bush lost. Also in 2024: Ilhan Omar was the single biggest Democratic congressional under-performer relative to the presidential ballot. AOC's district has gotten redder. It had THE WORST presidential collapse 2020-->2024. The only recent "progressive" victories were Mamdani, who won a bare majority against a sex pest and a crazy cat man, as well as NJ-11, where the progressive won ~29% in 11-way race. The left's electoral base is not growing. It's contracting. it's contracting fastest in the districts the left claims as its strongholds. I mean. . . maybe there are signs of "Leftist power growing. . ." somewhere? I haven't seen that. I've seen the opposite. 2) Next, let's look at Yglesias's interpretation of these data. He sees 39% negative on Israel and then infers "Okay, it's not toxic to cater to leftists on this issue." I see something different. I look at the whole data distribution and I see: 32% Positive, 30% "neutral/don't know", 39% negative. To me, that looks like a highly toxic issue, particularly given the insane media saturation of the past 2.5 years. That 32% and 39% will fight with each other. The "neutral/don't" is the *most* telling: after 2.5 years, they don't have an opinion. Does that mean they want to hear about more? Probably not. And then I think of the fact that 2024 was partially determined by drop-off voters who complained NEITHER party spoke about their "everyday lives." Yglesias is treating a sentiment distribution as though it were a voting bloc. "Israel" isn't a dormant preference waiting to be mobilized. It's a minefield, a minefield that likely correlates with voter disengagement and depression. 3) Some tangential points. What IS the Left demanding candidates do vis à vis Israel? Some say to quit weapons sales. Others say total destruction of the state. So that's unclear. And say Democrats agree to campaign on weapons sales (this seriously makes me shudder. It's a TERRIBLE idea), will they then we associated w/ all the other stuff? The state destroying stuff? Relatedly, when has the Left EVER rewarded Democrats for ANY concession? Their podcasts, streams, whatever are funded by anti-Democratic sentiment. Even if you gave them everything they want on Israel (which, frankly=impossible), they will pivot to a different attack line. You go "tough on crime?" They'll DEFINITELY call you a racist. These are not people who actually want concessions to win elections or change policy. They want negativity-driven engagement in order to make money, among other things. 4) Finally, I'll note the following: I am talking about electoral strategy and electoral strategy alone, here. You could not read any of the above and glean my position on weapons sales or Israel policy more broadly. I'm not telling you how to feel about the issue. I'm saying it's toxic and it should be kept away from electoral politics with a ten foot pole.

@MrRoivas @magi_jay Yeah that’s how polling works if you have the brain of a 7 year old

@JebedihS @magi_jay Alright, let's boil this down even more. Issue A is polled. Democrats have a 40% approval rating with the general public on their approach to it. Republicans have a 45% approval on the same issue. Which party has a more popular approach to Issue A?

@MaryDil29664033 @MrRoivas @magi_jay No, black people are a significant portion of the singular base of democratic voters. Polling isn’t particularly robust on race but both polls I found showed more black voters wanting to condition aid and saying Israel had gone too far. That’s from 2024, likely worse now.

@JebedihS @MrRoivas @magi_jay Which base? Black people are the base of the Democratic party and they supported Biden.

@MrRoivas @magi_jay Im not going to try and persuade through your dim understanding of polling, if you want to argue further you can locate the poll and we can analyze it. Meanwhile id refer you to the Gallup, Pew, NBC, and YouGov polling which reflects exactly what ive said thus far.

@JebedihS @magi_jay The public. The public. Which party's policy has more support among the *general public* if the *general public* indicates more approval of the Republican party on it's approach to Israel?

@MrRoivas @magi_jay Because it’s a false dichotomy. Trump and Biden were both supporting Israel - Dem voters are severely less supportive of Israel than Biden was. If 8/10 Rs agree with Trump, and 3/10 Ds agree with Biden, of course Republicans will poll better. That’s why they use Likert polling.

@JebedihS @magi_jay If the public polls Republican's position on I/P higher than Democrats, which party is more popular in it's approach to Israel? Really wanna make sure we're on the same page on what that would mean in theory before I go to the effort of finding the poll.

@MrRoivas @magi_jay That is not generally how polling is even done on I/P, why don’t you share the poll? It’s also fairly redundant, 70% of republicans sympathize with Israel so Trump is leaning into his base. Biden ignored plummeting favorability among his base, why would dems approve of that?

@JebedihS @magi_jay Republicans have a higher approval rating from the general public on I/P then Democrats. Clearly it's because they hate Israel so much more.