Oh yeah - I have no doubt at all that she's antisemitic, and in the modern American conspiracy theorist "Them Jews is a'tryin' a take over the world!" sense.
But this doesn't feel like someone just spouting rhetoric, or even just trying to get attention. It seems more deliberate and calculated than that. She's not just hurling condemnation - she's distancing herself from Trump snd the rest of the Republicans.
I' m starting to suspect she's positioning herself for a 2028 presidential run.
It seems too early for that, but she's definitely up to something, and setting aside the timing, that seems most likely.
I don't think they elected Trump because they have a death wish. I think they elected Trump because they're angry morons.
You say it "doesn't take a genius to know what Trump was gonna do," and I'd agree. But two things:
Umm... yeah. That's not a surprise, nor is it a coincidence.
I'm not yet convinced that it has a death wish.
I am convinced though that Trump and the Republicans and the billionaires want to kill it. It remains to be seen if the people will try to stop them.
The most difficult thing about cooking chicken is getting the inside cooked all the way through without burning or drying out the outside.
If it's frozen, that's much more difficult.
So yes - you can cook it from frozen, but if you don't know what you're doing, the odds are that it's going to end up cooked on the outside and raw on the inside or cooked on the inside and burnt on the outside.
Funny thing — after I wrote out that response, I briefly considered adding an entire additional section - "Now, all that said, I would actually suspect that..." followed by basically everything you just said there (except for the Manifest Destiny point, which I didn't think of but with which I agree). But I was feeling lazy, so I figured I'd just let it go as is and deal with it later if someone responded like you just did.
So this is me dealing with it later.
I suspect all of that is true - even without the Manifest Destiny part (with which, again, I do agree), there's a strain of both societal and individual exceptionalism that arises along with the position of world power, and that makes it all the more likely that individuals will be emotionally reactive morons.
It's essentially the scale from humility to pride to hubris, and the US is the world leader in hubris.
The planet is largely filled with emotionally reactive morons.
I think the only thing that makes the US stand out in that regard is a century of cultural dominance, which puts more of a focus on American emotionally reactive morons and creates a sort of feedback loop by which American emotionally reactive morons think they're more important tham anyone else, which just puts that much more of a focus on them.
If the US stopped being a world power tomorrow, its emotionally reactive morons would sink into obscurity, and the focus would shift to the emotionally reactive morons of whichever nation(s) took its place.
i can see the DNC budgeting $25 million on a series of studies and focus groups on Effective Strategies For Projecting Sincerity, none of which will conclude that the only real necessity is to be sincere.
I don't see anything really wrong with that primer, but more to the point, I can't tell you how good it really is because you don't judge the quality of primer with your eyes - you judge it with your hands.
Try it. You'll get it.
Broadly, I think that this has been Israel's goal since the start, and that it was apparent when they bombed the al-Ahli hospital (and denied responsibility, only later to recant).
From the start, they intended to kill as many Palestinians as possible - hundreds of thousands if not millions - and since they predicted that not even their legions of morally bankrupt international defenders could protect them from condrmnation if they did it through mass executions, they instead systematically snd deliberately set sbout destroying infrastructure and hospitals, stopping aid by driving out existing aid distribution organizations and taking over and closing all border crossings, and herding the population into the smallest possible space so that starvation and disease would do the bulk of the killing for them.
They are, right now, doing exactly what they planned on doing from the start, and toward the goal toward which they've been deliberately working from the start - the complete destruction of the Palestinian people and the full annexation of Gaza.
And in fact, I have zero doubt that that's why they've recently walked away from negotiations - because Hamas, entirely justifiably, will not back down from their demand that any deal must include Israel's withdrawal from Gaza, and they have, and have had since day one, no intention of ever withdrawing.
I catch myself humming improvised songs as a distraction.