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Good looking US Senator Jon Ossoff (D-GA) sounds a bit wishy-washy:

"US Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff said Israeli forces violated the law of armed conflict and international humanitarian law during its war on the Gaza Strip.

Responding to a question on whether Israel had committed genocide in Gaza, Ossoff said genocide requires a specific intent to destroy a national or ethnic group.

"The question of genocide is a question of whether a government has the specific intent to destroy a national or ethnic group," Ossoff said, adding that the determination was a matter for the International Criminal Court (ICC)."

*PUNT!*

Uh-huh. That sounds like lawyering, not leading.

Loser Andrew "AIPAC" Cuomo, who betrayed the Democratic Party to run as an independent against Democrat Zohran Mamdani in 2025, bleated the same nonsense.

Dozens of academics, the UN, and Holocaust survivors agree that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.

Google it.

Meanwhile, US Senator-elect Troy Jackson (D-ME) doesn't sound mealy-mouthed:

"Anybody with eyes and a heart knows the Israeli government is committing genocide in Gaza," stated the Maine Senate candidate (10 July 2026).

And Troy Jackson isn't a judge at the ICC.

So, many of us will pass on corporate tools Jon Ossoff, Gavin Newsom, and Pete Buttigieg, thank you very much.

But we will change our minds should any of them declare: "I will recognize the State of Palestine on the day I am inaugurated President of the United States."

That's political and moral leadership.

Otherwise...


Source: "Um, it's not up to me to use my own eyes and ears."

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It was a great week for Dems and a bad week for Ken Paxton:

Ken Paxton Divorce Is Finalized, His Lawyer Says

His wife, Angela Paxton, filed for divorce last year, citing adultery and "biblical grounds."

Ken Paxton, the Republican attorney general of Texas, has finalized his divorce with his wife, Angela, who cited his adultery in her divorce petition last year, a lawyer for Mr. Paxton said on Thursday.

KJU

PETE SEEGER

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Standing next to Pete in DC 1971 I realized I could make a

difference.

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If they implement policies that are more about social justice than economical impact and every day people don't see a change in their budget, then we be right back to swinging the pendulum back.
#31 | Posted by kwrx25

I couldn't agree more and this is a big part of why so many Democrats including myself want Schumer (AIPAC, Wall Street) and Jeffries (AIPAC, Wall Street) removed from leadership roles.

Though it's true that returning to an America under Biden would be a huge improvement for just about everyone, people are not looking to go "back" to the way things used to be. Because that wasn't so great for most Americans.

The problems that have been brewing since Reagan are still brewing, just not as fast when Democrats are in charge. Republicans won't raise wages, Democrats won't raise wages either, thinking it's sufficient if they throw a pizza party for the downtrodden workers. Like this is a morale problem, and not a structural economic problem that's been eroding the middle class for longer than any of us have been on the Internet (rip Zatoichi). Democrats will have to do better than that if they expect to win in 2028. Personally I don't think they will have much luck.

Schumer did do a pretty good job throwing money at races in the midterms. His AIPAC ass even backed the Michigan Muslim to the tune of $20M after the preferred AIPAC flunky lost the primary. Is that a relevant skillset for Senate Leader with a hostile President? I'm not convinced, but at least it does show some loyalty and pragmatism.

AIPAC funds a majority of both parties of Congress, so I'm thinking Schumer's calculus is there's nothing AES or AOC can really do about AIPAC's influence. But I think AIPAC's influence is an excellent Poster Child for what Democrat voters (and plenty of Republicans too) think is the problem with American politics.

#50:

Some English novelists wrote about the colonies (e.g. America, Australia, the West Indies) as lands of opportunity for crooks or "class jumping."

Australia was a penal colony. The UK deported convicts there under the sentence of "transportation" ("Go away").

In Great Expectations, Pip saves Abel Magwitch, an escaped convict. Abel goes on to make a fortune in Australia and quietly returns to the UK to become Pip's secret benefactor. The dark, sinister Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights goes "abroad" and returns to the UK a rich man in order to win over snobby Kathy. The reader is led to believe, but never told, that Heathcliff made his fortune in the immoral transatlantic slave trade.

In Pygmalion (George Bernard Shaw), Eliza Doolittle's good-for-nothing father -- an embarrassing garbage collector with a deep Cockney accent-- unwantedly re-appears in her life after inheriting a fortune from an American philanthropist.

The more-open minded people of London, like the actors of the Globe Theater or their audiences, were happy to see the Puritans voluntarily depart for America, taking their illiberal, intolerant Christian ideas with them.

In all of Shakespeare's great works, he only mentions America once (The Comedy of Errors). His rival, Christopher Marlowe, also only mentions America once (Doctor Faustus); America is seen by both as places to earn fortunes. And in those days, that meant ruthless colonial exploitation of natural resources from weaker indigenous people.

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