Sami Hamdi on the US election

[u/pumpkinzh]

Via Instagram @theamericanmuslimdialogue @salhachimi : For Kamala Harris, the road to the White House is paved with the bodies of Palestinians.

The reason Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are not stopping the genocide is because they believe that if the genocide stops, they will lose Zionist support and the election. Now is the time to prove to the American establishment that Zionism is no longer a political asset, but a political liability, by defeating Harris at the polls.

Watch full interview with Sami Hamdi at The American Muslim Dialogue https://youtube.com/watch?v=QC2wdFKx-kk&t=1657s

[u/kyleruggles]

True true.

It's a shame Garland sat on his hands for over 2 years before appointing Smith. The fact that Trump is free and able to run again shows how f*cked up the US gov't and it's "law and order" really is.

If Democracy is so important, they should have hit the ground running day 1 of Biden's admin.

Sadly it looks like both parties want to continue this insanity. Democratic leaders blame the Republicans for sh*t while not doing anything about them. Good cop/Bad cop. Both horrible cops.

[u/EnterTamed → u/kyleruggles]

There's also the Overton window; Bernie was more popular after 2 terms of Obama, than after Trump. When we win the Overton window shift in our favor. After Trump won, he normalized right wing positions, that centrists also had to adopt. Imagine if Trump normalizes sending US anti-genocide protestors to black Sites or something...

If we don't want "good cop bad cop", we must stop the "bad cop"... (Do centrists want right-wing to win? Yes, they want the Overton window to move to the center again, that's there the oligarchs like it)

[u/kyleruggles → u/EnterTamed]

I agree!

But that good cop Garland waited over 2 years, that's what gets me. It all seems to be going further right to me, both Cheney's endorsing Kamala? That doesn't look good.

To me it looks like the good cop is working WITH the bad cop. Good cop has an excuse to blame the bad cop and it just continues. When I see both cops taking AIPAC money, taking advantage of Citizens United, it's... not a good look.

Admit it. Republicans have broken politics.

[u/EnterTamed → u/kyleruggles]

Republicans are like "the dog to caught the car"; they won (Reagan landslide,...) and moved the Overton window so far right, that Bill Clinton had to campaign to the right of George H bush.... But their policies are not popular now (look at project 25, they have to manufacture Trans-panic and shit ...)

So Mitch McConnell's "chicken race" strategy of blocking democracy, implying oligarchs had to go with the Republicans "if they wanted anything done". Mitch gave us the "fascist environment" people like Noam Chomsky warned about (way before Trump)👉 you need a strong man to get things done, "democracy game doesn't work"... Thanks Mitch!

To be fair, it's not just Cheney what realize that democracy is threatened;

Trump is in a way worse that previous fascists, because of Trump's support... Here is what the leading "Fascists scholar" Robert Paxton said recently in NYT:

At his home in the Hudson Valley, I read back to him one of his earlier definitions of fascism, which he described as a “mass, anti-liberal, anti-communist movement, radical in its willingness to employ force . . . distinct not only from enemies on the left but also from rivals on the right.” I asked him if he thought it described Trumpism. “It does,” he said. Nonetheless, he remains committed to his yes-no paradigm of accuracy and usefulness. “I’m not pushing the term because I don’t think it does the job very well now,” Paxton told me. “I think there are ways of being more explicit about the specific danger Trump represents.”

When we met, Kamala Harris had just assumed the Democratic nomination. “I think it’s going to be very dicey,” he said. “If Trump wins, it’s going to be awful. If he loses, it’s going to be awful too.” He scoured his brain for an apt historical analogy but struggled to find one. Hitler was not elected, he noted, but legally appointed by the conservative president, Paul von Hindenburg. “One theory,” he said, “is that if Hindenburg hadn’t been talked into choosing Hitler, the bubble had already burst, and you would have come up with an ordinary conservative and not a fascist as the new chancellor of Germany. And I think that that’s a plausible counterfactual, Hitler was on the downward slope.” In Italy, Mussolini was also legitimately appointed. “The king chose him,” Paxton said, “Mussolini didn’t really have to march on Rome.”

Trump’s power, Paxton suggested, appears to be different. “The Trump phenomenon looks like it has a much more solid social base,” Paxton said. “Which neither Hitler nor Mussolini would have had.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/23/magazine/robert-paxton-facism.html

[u/kyleruggles → u/EnterTamed]

Well hopefully Kamala will win tomorrow or the next few days, and hopefully we'll hear the last of that guy forever. I fear the Trump stench will linger on in congress for decades.

Still irks me how seditionists were sworn back into congress like nothing happened.

I only hope this time that Kamala won't follow Biden's path at nothing will fundamentally change.

[u/EnterTamed → u/kyleruggles]

💯 let's hope. Fun talking with you, catch you later❤️

[u/kyleruggles → u/EnterTamed]

Likewise, buddy! The entire world needs a sane USA! And I live above them lol.

Take care!