Screw this I’m repo’ing the gundam
She couldn’t even wait til one week before the general election? Wouldn’t make it any better, but at least symbolically hold his feet to the fire by withholding you support for a long as possible.
The incredible negotiation tactic of giving up all leverage before a single one of your demands is even addressed.
Everyone with 2 brain cells to rub together knows not voting D in the general gives the election to the Cult45 crowd who’ll fuck over the Palestinians way more.
That’s the leverage. If Biden thinks that Trump is that bad, surely the rational choice from his side is to give in to some of the demands made by the uncommitted voter movement on Palestine to earn their votes. Like a ceasefire. One phone call to Israel and Netanyahu is all it would take. Ceasefire now, otherwise no more US support. Even Reagan, the farther of modern right wing US politics, did that in the past. Instead, Biden has chosen to continue arming the genocidal Israeli state. And large parts of uncommitted movement are unprepared to put any political pressure on Biden.
However the truth is that this is all political theatre, Biden doesn’t actually think that Trump or the Republicans are an existential threat, which can be seen by his lack of urgency to address anything with regards to the moves Republicans are making. The USA is an effective one party state, with two factions.
Remember when she voted “present” on recognizing the Armenian Genocide?
Her explanation – which I believe since she explicitly said that the genocide happened subsequently – is that she didn’t approve of the recognition of a genocide being used as a political football. She’s a garbage liberal, but I don’t think she was wrong there specifically.
Ties to Turkey. Omar had a private meeting with Erdogan in 2017, and some of his allies have contributed to her campaign. According to a report, the meeting ended with a request of support from Erdogan. Omar posted the report on her Twitter account before it was deleted.
https://twitter.com/IlhanMN/status/910131702957305856
President Erdoğan who thanked MP Ilhan Omar and the accompanying delegation especially praised the good leadership and reputation of the MPs for all the Muslims living in the United States. President Erdoğan asked MP Ilhan to be a voice for him and support her Turkish brothers and sisters.
some of our problematic faves might be implicated
