Monday, July 22, 2024

I'm happy to vote for Kamala

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That's Isaiah's THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS "Young Tramp Seeks Elderly Dude" from earlier tonight. 

 

I don't know about you but I'm excited about Kamala running for president.  I can now vote in the presidential election!!! I was not voting for Jill Stein who is disgusting.  Being a sane person, I was not voting on Donald Trump.  Seamus Webster (Fortune) reports:


Last month, Donald Trump and the Republican National Committee seemed to have gained a firm financial advantage over Democrats after trailing earlier this year. Following Trump’s felony conviction on May 30 and President Joe Biden’s rocky debate performance on June 27, money came pouring into his and the R.N.C.'s war chests while Democrats burned through cash. As of the end of June, the Trump campaign had nearly $45 million more cash on hand than the Biden campaign did, according to filings with the Federal Election Committee. 
But following Biden’s announcement on Sunday that he was backing out of the race and endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris, a historic wave of fundraising may have tipped the scales back in Democrats’ favor. 
As of Monday afternoon, the Democratic fundraising website ActBlue reported it processed more than $100 million in donations online since the president made his announcement, according to the site. Harris’ campaign alone announced that less than 24 hours after launching, it had raised nearly $50 million for the new candidate. On Sunday night, ActBlue posted on social media that it was the biggest fundraising day of the 2024 cycle.


Go, Kamala!  I really am excited for her.

Other than that?  It's been fun watching C.I.  She did not push for Joe to drop out after the debate.  She defended him.  It was only after his lousy interview with George S on ABC News that C.I. decided Joe had to go.  She and Ava wrote "" and that went up Sunday and she was fielding calls all day.  Her points were then repeated by CNN guests (including James Carville) on Monday, they ended up in various articles and that's happened throughout.  I loved the guest on CNN today who was hitting hard -- a member of Congress -- like C.I. did in this morning's snapshot about how this isn't your business if you're not planning on voting for Kamala.  She writes, they echo.  She's done a great job.  

And I really am excited about voting for Kamala in November.  Yea!  

Now last night, Wally, Isaiah, Betty, C.I., Cedric and I did a joint-post:

 

 

 Be sure to check that out.

 

This is C.I.'s "Iraq snapshot:"

Monday, July 22, 2024.  US President Joe Biden steps aside from the 2024 presidential race.


Yesterday, at the official Twitter account of US President Joe Biden, this Tweet went up:


My fellow Democrats, I have decided not to accept the nomination and to focus all my energies on my duties as President for the remainder of my term. My very first decision as the party nominee in 2020 was to pick Kamala Harris as my Vice President. And it’s been the best decision I’ve made. Today I want to offer my full support and endorsement for Kamala to be the nominee of our party this year. Democrats -- it’s time to come together and beat Trump. Let’s do this. 


Republicans are now in panic mode and Democrats can breathe a little easier.  Independent and swing voters have a new option and those who engage in political futility because they're just so damn useless can continue to do so.  You know who we mean?  Kamala may not even be the nominee but they're already coming after her because they are not Democrats who planned to vote Democrat.


Right, Margaret Kimberley?  Ooops, you're not a Democrat.  Right.  In fact, we can ignore all the gutter trash that Margaret reTweets slamming Kamala -- that's Max Blumenthal, that's Chuck Modi, that's HORN OF AFRICAN LEFTISTS (supposedly broadcasting from the Horn of Africa -- which should mean they're not voting in a US election), that's self-described Socialist Stephanie Voltolin, that's Niko House, that's Ajuma Baraka -- the Hoke to Jill Stein's Miss Daisy back in 2016, that's Briahna Joy Gray,  that's Jaya Rajamani, that's Aaron Mate, that's . . . 


Now not all these people are trash.  Not all.  But they're not Democrats.  This really is a Democratic Party matter.  Now they have nothing to offer, not one of them, so they are going to glom on Kamala and act like they're informed and they care.


Already, Margaret is touting her bad article from five years ago on Kamala.


It's great when she reaches back into BLACK AGENDA REPORT's history -- but she never really does, does she?  Because the reality of history is that she, Glen and Bruce felt THE BLACK COMMENTATOR was not letting them tell the truth about Barack Obama.  So they left.  And then proceeded to struggle with that truth. That is a reality.  They had to get him elected before they could call him out.


Not quite the image of a brave independent press -- and certainly not the myth that gets promoted by those around today but it is reality.


Unlike them, I don't care if Kamala Harris -- who may or may not be the nominee -- gets criticized.  


I do care if the attacks are coming from outside the Democratic Party because I honestly don't giv a damn what people who are not Democrats think -- especially people who are committed to ripping apart the Democratic nominee so they can pimp political whore Jill Stein.


Jill, the doctor who didn't believe in vaccines, has run for so many political offices -- for president, twice already, and she's never been elected once and she never will be.  She left the Green Party hugely in debt and has now proclaimed herself -- we weren't joking about this in "Left with no other possibilities, the Green Party intends to nominate Jill," "When you can't find a worthy nominee, bite your tongue and back Jill Stein," "Jill Stein hopes to lead the Green Party into further irrelevance," "The Green Party doesn't believe in retirement apparently," "Jill Stein has lost her mind," and "THIS JUST IN! GERIATRIC JILL!" -- the presidential nominee of the Green Party despite the fact that the party's convention doesn't start until August 15th.  It's at the convention that the nominee will be decided.  But Jill can proclaim -- and has proclaimed herself -- the nominee and no one bats an eye.


Because she's not real and her supporters aren't real.   If Kamala today proclaimed herself the nominee, these people would be tearing her apart.  But White Jill always gets a pass -- even when she's tearing apart Cornel West who these same people pretended to love and pretended to support until White Jill got back in the race.  They didn't even call her out for her lies or for her attacks on Cornel.  They just all fell in line behind Jill.


So spare us all, you non-Democrats, your 'ethical' stands and your 'honest' remarks.  We don't have time for your pretense and, honestly, haven't you all whored enough already for 2024?

Used to, as I would note hear, I didn't take a position on vaccines because I fund raise for autism and have done so for decades.  Crazy vax denier Robert Kennedy Jr resulted in me having to come out.  I've been very honest in the last year with those I beg money for autism research from.  If you think someone in your family ended up with autism due to vaccines, I feel for you and I don't judge you, I'm not in your shoes.  But, yes, we need our vaccines and to confront crazy head on, I need to be able to say that.  Some no longer want to donate and that's fine, some continue to do so and that's fine too.


But the point is, I'm free now.  Wack Job Jill ran for president in 2012 and in 2016 and she benefitted from my holding my tongue.  No more.  That crazy idiot was anti-vaccine and tried to clean it up -- just like one of her vice presidential nominees (the one that still speaks to her) was a flaming 9/11 conspiracy nut.


These are the crazies of the Green Party.  And apparently they control the party since they intend to go with the same nominee that they've fielded twice before.


On Saturday, when many of us knew Joe was going to issue a statement of some form on Sunday, one idiot started saying, "Hillary could be the nominee!"


No.


Just hell no.


Because we're Democrats.  We aren't Greens.  We don't put the failures of our party back on the ticket repeatedly.  The Green Party does that.


Looks like the GOP has decided to do it as well -- the 2020 loser is now their 2024 nominee.


The Democratic Party looks forward to the future.


And that's why I encourage every Democrat to ignore the liars and whores that were never going to vote for a Democrat to begin with.


The goal for the nominee will be to solidify the base and to reach out to independents and swing voters.  


We have an election to win and we can't waste it right now listening to or attempting to woo a faction of failures who were never, ever going to vote for the Democratic Party nominee regardless of who the nominee was.


We also need to be very careful about those in the Democratic Party who spent the last weeks spreading lies.  From Ava and my "Media: The Fear-Based World:"


Those weren't the only ones being ruled by fear and/or hate.  Roland S. Martin and Joy Reid were among the people who refused to read the writing on the wall.  2024 is an election that will require the Democratic Party to turn out as many votes as possible.  Joe was a drag on the ticket.  He was such a drag that not only were swing-stages in play -- and talk of even New York being in play -- but the lack of enthusiasm for Joe and the concerns over his fitness for the job were effecting the chances of Democrats running for other offices.


Instead of taking a brave step into the future, these fearful fraidy cats -- and include OCCUPY DEMOCRATS on that list -- insisted that Joe must be the nominee.


Presented with the shot at a do-over, these idiots couldn't see beyond their own fear.


But as bad as they were, there was AOC.  


We often wonder why she smears so much makeup on her face.  Watching her idiotic video last week, taped from a low angle, we realized why: She looks like James DeBarge.  Take away the makeup and she's a dead ringer for the rhythm and blues and pop singer who shot to fame in the eighties.

 

Fraud Squad leader AOC made a video of herself lying last week.  She apparently wanted to expose herself.  She lied that Joe could not step down.  Today, he did just that.  She lied that it couldn't happen because of various deadlines.  Again, it could happen and it did happen.

She put whatever was left of her tattered and disappointing image on the line as she insisted it couldn't happen, as she declared "But I do think people are talking about this without having two eyes wide open" and as she launched into crazy talk about it being a "conspiracy" and she had to figured it out.  Not content to let AOC burn in the flames of crazy all by herself, OCCUPY DEMOCRATS ("AOC Exposes Hidden Motivation Of Dems Who Want To Replace Biden") and MEIDAS TOUCH MEDIA ("AOC drops MUST-SEE TRUTH BOMB every DEMOCRAT needs to see") rushed to join her.


Let's note an e-mail topic.  DEMOCRACY NOW! -- I haven't been noting it!!!!!


Some e-mails insist that.  We did include a segment last week where the attacks on immigrants at the RNC convention got fact checked.


That's about all that was worth noting.  The program expanded to two hours for the RNC but it wasn't worth watching.  Friday's show, for example, contained no segment on Gaza.  


As bad as that was, Thursday's show was worse for Nancy Isenberg segment.  We didn't post it here.  Recently, Marc Lamont Hill had a segment with a term I find objectionable.  We posted the segment here but took the term -- a racist term that we'd all object to were it used by a White person (but I got the point Marc was making by using it) -- we took that term out of the headline.  


I got the reason Marc was using the term.  I understood it.  I wasn't offended by it.


The historian segment on DEMOCRACY NOW!  was about JD Vance and the headline included "White Trash."  I'm still aghast over that.  


When I used to note the racism of the Confederate Flag online back in 2005 -- remember Harold Ford posing in front of it -- I got that some people were gong to need some time to travel to the space I was at.  But "White Trash"?  In 2024, I'm having to explain the racism of that term?


Call people trash, I have no problem with it.  But when you call someone "White Trash," you do grasp what you're doing, right?


You're saying you have to put "White" in their because the norm for what is trash is non-White.


That's what you're saying.  That's why using the term "White trash" is racist.  And, if you doubt it, take a moment to think about how you've never heard the term "Black trash."  "White trash" is a racist term.  I hope we've slow walked through that reality and never again have to cover it.


Over the weekend in Gaza, one journalist was killed while another was left injured.


THE NEW ARAB notes:


An Israeli air strike in north Gaza has killed the journalist Mohammed Abu Jasser and his family, Palestinian medical officials announced on Saturday.

The journalist’s home in the Jabalia area was targeted at dawn, making him the latest of 161 journalists to be killed in the enclave since the start of Israel’s latest war on Gaza on 7 October.

Local Palestinian media reported his two children and wife were also killed in the strike.









Another Israeli attack on Gaza today resulted in a journalist being injured. 


  Oxfam notes:


A new Oxfam report reveals how Israel has been systematically weaponizing water against Palestinians in Gaza.

The report, Water War Crimes, finds that Israel’s cutting of external water supply, systematic destruction of water facilities and deliberate aid obstruction have reduced the amount of water available in Gaza by 94% to 4.74 liters a day per person – just under a third of the recommended minimum in emergencies and less than a single toilet flush.

Oxfam analysis also found: 

  • Israeli military attacks have damaged or destroyed five water and sanitation infrastructure sites every three days since the start of the war. 
  • The destruction of water and electricity infrastructure and restrictions on entry of spare parts and fuel (on average a fifth of the required amount is allowed in) saw water production drop by 84% in Gaza. External supply from Israel’s national water company Mekorot fell by 78%. 
  • Israel has destroyed 70% of all sewage pumps and 100% of all wastewater treatment plants, as well as the main water quality testing laboratories in Gaza, and restricted the entry of Oxfam water testing equipment. 
  • Gaza City has lost nearly all its water production capacity, with 88% of its water wells and 100% of its desalination plants damaged or destroyed. 

The report also highlighted the dire impact of this extreme lack of clean water and sanitation on Palestinians’ health, with more than a quarter (26%) of Gaza’s population falling severely ill from easily preventable diseases.  In January, the International Court of Justice demanded that Israel immediately improve humanitarian access upon finding that South Africa had brought plausible claims under the Genocide Convention. Since then, Oxfam has witnessed firsthand Israel’s obstruction of a meaningful humanitarian response, which is killing Palestinian civilians. 

Scott Paul, Oxfam America’s Associate Director of Peace and Security, said, “Oxfam’s new analysis leaves little doubt that Prime Minister Netanyahu's government has systemically obliterated Gaza’s clean water supply and infrastructure.

“Today, Palestinians in Gaza have almost no water to drink, let alone to bathe, cook, or clean. Prime Minister Netanyahu must restore sufficient water, food, electricity, and other vital assistance for all people in Gaza. Instead of granting him the platform to double down on his deadly offensive to Congress, US leaders must cut off the supply of bombs that are being used to kill civilians and destroy Gaza and with it, any hope for peace.”

Oxfam Water and Sanitation Specialist Lama Abdul Samad said it was clear that Israel had created a devastating humanitarian emergency resulting in Palestinian civilian deaths:

“The deliberate restriction of access to water is not a new tactic. The Israeli Government has been depriving Palestinians across the West Bank and Gaza of safe and sufficient water for many years,” she said. 

“The widespread destruction and significant restrictions on aid delivery in Gaza impacting access to water and other essentials for survival, underscores the urgent need for the international community to take decisive action to prevent further suffering by upholding justice and human rights, including those enshrined in the Geneva and Genocide Conventions.” 

Monther Shoblak, General Manager of the Gaza Strip’s water utility CMWU, said:

“My colleagues and I have been living through a nightmare these past nine months, but we still feel it’s our responsibility and duty to ensure everybody in Gaza is getting their minimum right of clean drinking water. It’s been very difficult, but we are determined to keep trying – even when we witness our colleagues being targeted and killed by Israel while undertaking their work.”  

Oxfam is calling for urgent action including an immediate and permanent ceasefire; for Israel to allow a full and unfettered humanitarian response; and for Israel to foot the reconstruction bill for water and sanitation infrastructure.


Benjamin Netanyahu is a War Criminal.  Next week, he'll address Congress because that's how whorish this country is.  We've invited a War Criminal to stand before our branch of government that makes laws.  What's Netanyahu planning to do?  Stick out his tongue and say nah-nah-nah-nah-nah-han?


Gaza remains under assault. Day 290 of  the assault in the wave that began in October.  Binoy Kampmark (DISSIDENT VOICE) points out, "Bloodletting as form; murder as fashion.  The ongoing campaign in Gaza by Israel’s Defence Forces continues without stalling and restriction.  But the burgeoning number of corpses is starting to become a challenge for the propaganda outlets:  How to justify it?  Fortunately for Israel, the United States, its unqualified defender, is happy to provide cover for murder covered in the sheath of self-defence."   CNN has explained, "The Gaza Strip is 'the most dangerous place' in the world to be a child, according to the executive director of the United Nations Children's Fund."  ABC NEWS quotes UNICEF's December 9th statement, ""The Gaza Strip is the most dangerous place in the world to be a child. Scores of children are reportedly being killed and injured on a daily basis. Entire neighborhoods, where children used to play and go to school have been turned into stacks of rubble, with no life in them."  NBC NEWS notes, "Strong majorities of all voters in the U.S. disapprove of President Joe Biden’s handling of foreign policy and the Israel-Hamas war, according to the latest national NBC News poll. The erosion is most pronounced among Democrats, a majority of whom believe Israel has gone too far in its military action in Gaza."  The slaughter continues.  It has displaced over 1 million people per the US Congressional Research Service.  Jessica Corbett (COMMON DREAMS) points out, "Academics and legal experts around the world, including Holocaust scholars, have condemned the six-week Israeli assault of Gaza as genocide."   The death toll of Palestinians in Gaza is grows higher and higher.  United Nations Women noted, "More than 1.9 million people -- 85 per cent of the total population of Gaza -- have been displaced, including what UN Women estimates to be nearly 1 million women and girls. The entire population of Gaza -- roughly 2.2 million people -- are in crisis levels of acute food insecurity or worse."   THE NATIONAL notes, "Gaza death toll reaches 39,006, with 89,818 wounded." Months ago,  AP  noted, "About 4,000 people are reported missing."  February 7th, Jeremy Scahill explained on DEMOCRACY NOW! that "there’s an estimated 7,000 or 8,000 Palestinians missing, many of them in graves that are the rubble of their former home."  February 5th, the United Nations' Phillipe Lazzarini Tweeted:

  



April 11th, Sharon Zhang (TRUTHOUT) reported, "In addition to the over 34,000 Palestinians who have been counted as killed in Israel’s genocidal assault so far, there are 13,000 Palestinians in Gaza who are missing, a humanitarian aid group has estimated, either buried in rubble or mass graves or disappeared into Israeli prisons.  In a report released Thursday, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said that the estimate is based on initial reports and that the actual number of people missing is likely even higher."
 

As for the area itself?  Isabele Debre (AP) reveals, "Israel’s military offensive has turned much of northern Gaza into an uninhabitable moonscape. Whole neighborhoods have been erased. Homes, schools and hospitals have been blasted by airstrikes and scorched by tank fire. Some buildings are still standing, but most are battered shells."  Kieron Monks (I NEWS) reports, "More than 40 per cent of the buildings in northern Gaza have been damaged or destroyed, according to a new study of satellite imagery by US researchers Jamon Van Den Hoek from Oregon State University and Corey Scher at the City University of New York. The UN gave a figure of 45 per cent of housing destroyed or damaged across the strip in less than six weeks. The rate of destruction is among the highest of any conflict since the Second World War."


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