Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky....
Bluesky Elder
James Carville, the crypt keeper, just wrote this in the NYT.
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Just read it.
Maybe, just maybe, the useless, harmful, archais corporate centrist Democratic establishment will finally listen to the man they worship and embrace this change and run on this message.
Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsk... •12m
Bluesky Elder
So, I saw this posted quote and l wrote my comments below.
But, sadly, I then saw the framing and the title...and...of course Carville missed the mark in the most predictable, pathetic way.
Essentially: No "woke,
" just
economic populism, which btw is a recipe for disaster & cruelty.
Amanda Litman• @am... • 50m
Bluesky Elder
If it takes James Carville to be the messenger for this message to break through to the people who need to hear it, great. Fine.
Whatever.
This offers Democrats the greatest gift you can have in American politics: a second chance. I am now an 81-year-old man and I know that in the minds of many, I carry the torch from a so-called centrist political era. Yet it is abundantly clear even to me that the Democratic Party must now run on the most populist economic platform since the Great Depression.
It is time for Democrats to embrace a sweeping, aggressive, unvarnished, unapologetic and altogether unmistakable platform of pure economic rage. This is our only way out of the abyss.
Amanda Litman • @ama... • 5m
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• Bluesky Elder
Went back & finished reading this, my b for sharing w/o completing - he is wrong on a lot! We should
*not* throw marginalized people under the bus! I maintain he should shut the fuck up! But "be mad at the status quo & fight for
affordable housing + childcare" is better than "roll over & play dead"
Extremely funny shot:chaser day on Bluesky.
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Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand
In a normal world, this should be an immense scandal in Europe.
Le Monde has a long article describing the hellish life of Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the ICC in The Hague, due to U.S. sanctions punishing him for authorizing arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes in Gaza.
Guillou's daily existence has been transformed into a Kafkaesque nightmare. He cannot: open or maintain accounts with Google, Amazon, Apple, or any US company; make hotel reservations (Expedia canceled his booking in France hours after he made it); conduct online commerce, since he can't know if the packaging is American; use any major credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Amex are all American); access normal banking services, even with non-American banks, as banks worldwide close sanctioned accounts; conduct virtually any financial transaction.
He describes it as being "economically banned across most of the planet," including in his own country, France, and where he works, the Netherlands.
That's the real shocking aspect of this: the Americans are:
- punishing a European citizen
- for doing his job in Europe
- applying laws Europe officially supports
- at an institution based in Europe
- that Europe helped create and fund
and Europe is not only doing essentially nothing to protect him, they're actively enforcing America's sanctions against their own citizen - European banks closing his accounts, European companies refusing him service, European institutions standing by while Washington destroys a European judge's life on European soil.
Again, in a normal world, European leaders and citizens should be absolutely outraged about this. But we've so normalized the hollowing out of European sovereignty that the sight of a European citizen being economically executed on European soil for upholding European law is treated, at best, as an unfortunate technical complication in transatlantic
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