mean that imo foreign meddling is real but it's largely a function of systemic US corruption and the Russia stuff was but a fraction of all that goes on w Israel as normal US politics (even before the recent genocidal bloodlust), so no one who enables Israel really gives a shit about it on principle

yeah my point was that the Dem party even treating a violent coup attempt against them as unseriously as they did is the strongest argument that their institutional noise about Russiagate was mostly just political theater, which they further proved by prioritizing Israel over beating Trump in 2024

Russiagate was a real actual issue but yeah the biggest argument for your case is Pelosi & co rightly scared shitless running for their lives in J6 and then the Dem party institutionally deciding to broadly treat it as political theater, esp re Trump & GOP lawmakers who sided with the violent coup

yeah Rashida became famous nationwide for calling Trump a mfer who should be impeached, then unlikable to a bunch of fellow Dem politicians for existing as a Palestinian lol. I'm often impulsively harsh w pols & factions I agree with most but it's also important to not lose institutional perspective

as someone who agrees and was pissed at leftists who downplayed J6 etc, to the extent the DSA has institutional heft in nat US politics it mostly seems to be another mechanism for certain politicians to launch their Dem party careers, so it's not really a both sides leftist-liberal thing power wise

fascinating in a weird way to be the kind of racist that uses their own ethnic etc identity as a slur the way like Trump calls Schumer Palestinian but instead of the famously racist US president who doesn't do that with his own identity anyway you're just a rando doing it for online racism cred lol

generally don't get this kind of framing from ppl who have been covering this stuff professionally for years..shouldn't you instead be explaining how it works while denouncing it lol he's obv talking about the intra-MAGA fights over Israel and stuff, not arguing anything different from Ted Cruz & co

the irony of mainstream US media & liberal punditry making disinformation, erosion of trust in institutions etc a core thing for a decade and now looking like international crime syndicate PR rags for Israel bc they won't even touch the evidence that's out there from Epstein & co own email leaks

Michelle Pfeiffer & Jeff Bridges are both great actors and play so well together, she earned the Oscar she didn't get, his brother was really good too, even the kid...and it's really impressive that The Fabulous Baker Boys was the directorial debut of a 20 something writer

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