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'What about Project 25?' John Fetterman turns the table on Fox News over Biden questions (www.rawstory.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Wtf did I just read? This is what counts as journalism?

"How about Biden?"

"Oh yeah? How about project 25? Donald Trump likes it"

"Dominion lawsuit cost fox a lot of money"

"Wow."

...JFC what was that?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

About the same time Fettermen stopped saying he was a progressive and started getting visibly confused and angry when people called him a progressive, his ability to speak coherently and use critical thinking also disappeared...

Total coincidence it was after a major stroke...

But since he also became a shit ton more conservative, the moderate wing of the party is trying to pump him up as an alternative to The Squad.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

god what a shitty website.

Archive link: https://archive.ph/5CLup

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (4 children)

It's a shame he went full Zionist over donor money.

But Project 2025 is just basic conservatism. It is a wishlist that should shock no one for existing because it's pretty much verbatim what right wingers have demanded since pretty much ever.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I'm inclined to think that his brain damage was the root cause (which led to accepting the ~~bribes~~ donations) - the timing was right, and only the brain-damaged would be Zionist at this point.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

And it's not like it's trump specific.

They've wanted to do this shit longer than even Biden has been alive.

If trump dropped dead right now, the replacement would do the same stuff. Whatever republican running in 2036 will still want to finish up what hasn't been done yet.

trump is a symptom, he might be the symptom that kills us, but just removing trump doesn't solve the underlying problem.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

It's the Heritage Foundation ffs.

[+] [email protected] -7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Just because someone with access to intelligence doesn't believe that what's happening in Gaza amounts to genocide does not mean that they are some religious fanatic zionist.

You realize virtually everyone in Washington agrees with Fetterman about what's happening in Gaza? You realize most Western democracies, their heads of state, along with their state and national security apparatuses, all agree that there is no genocide happening in Gaza?

Maybe you simply have the calculus wrong? Have you considered that possibility?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Because 40 thousand dead out of a population of millions equates to genocide. The number includes the savage Hamas terrorists you love so much as well. Maybe you just simply don't understand the calculus or what a genocide truly is. Thank Israel they don't show you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Bald death tolls say nothing of whether or not something fits the statutory definition of genocide. People die in wars. Innocent people die in wars.

Hamas started a war on behalf of all these victims that they could not possibly win. The de facto government refuses to surrender or release hostages. They refuse to wear uniforms. They employ child soldiers. They build tunnels under dense population centers to use the population at large as human shields. They refuse to let their own families evacuate. They pay people to die as "martyrs." That's why there are 40,000 out of 5,000,000 Palestinians dead, 0.8%.

That death toll, in these circumstances, is not evidence of genocide, it is actually evidence that Israel is pretty careful and actually not trying to kill civilians. Any other Army in that region of the world would have murdered every man woman and child in Gaza after about the tenth suicide bombing, forty odd years ago. It's 40,000 out of 5 million in the face of the fact that Israel could easily turn all of Gaza and all of the West Bank into a sheet of glass in three hours, and have not done so. They could have let no food or water into the country, no medicine into the country. But they have not done so. Rather, they have been consistently ramping up their capacity to inspect shipments going into Gaza since the war broke out. They could have not evacuated anyone. They could have not called anyone on the phone, they could have sent zero text messages, instead of the millions and millions of phone calls and texts that they've sent. These facts, obviously none of which are reported in the Qatari media you no doubt have been gorging on, fly in the face of your bullshit reasoning.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Then you have to wonder if the Palestine state will install another government similar to Hamas when Hamas is eradicated. As well it's not true Hamas started this war on behalf of all the victims because the majority of Palestine voted in Hamas which ran on a destroy Israel agenda. It means the majority of the victims would have supported this war. Was their lives truly that bad if they are able to have and feed millions of children? That they were desperate to start this war? It does not make sense. There are western countries struggling to have more kids than older people and they were thriving.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I don't wonder that. They aren't able to feed millions and haven't been since I've been alive. The only thing stopping Gaza from a calamitous famine has been and remains western charity. Gaza does not literally have the tools, resources, or skilled people needed to govern itself, or even to physically rebuild itself.

What I do wonder is, if the people of Gaza had to bear the actual price of its antisemitic terrorism--which has left it completely isolated, except from other far right religious dictatorships--would the people there allow Hamas to exist?

They only tolerate it, I believe, because they know no hope. It's been so long since anyone there thrived, the only thing they have to celebrate is death and killing, martyrdom and terrorism. Hopeless as they may be right now, as you pointed out, they are, relatively, fed.

Ironically it's in large part the charity that keeps this system in place.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Oh. Project 2025.... Okay. I was really confused.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_25

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