Democrats trying to unseat each other IV

[ZiprHead]

Vast majority of firearm homicides are committed using handguns

Thank you for advocating for a handgun ban. I totally agree.

Not advocating that at all. Instead of mindlessly banning guns for everyone, we need stricter rules on who is allowed to buy and possess firearms.
Your position is what NRA types point to when they say that the so-called "liberals" want to grab their guns.

Yes, I want to grab their guns. No sarcams. The US would be a far safer place without handguns in so many pockets. Do you deny this?

The problem is that you are mixing up two different things here: guns in properly licensed civilian hands and guns in criminal hands. Note that there is very little overlap between the groups and you have no power to wave a magic wand and remove those criminal guns. You're looking for your keys under the streetlight.

All those gun that became illegal guns started out as legal guns.

 

[lpetrich]

How is this for campaign events?
Blue: "Look at this incredible turn out for @katmabu.bsky.social’s Knitting Circle & Craft Time event! This campaign is first and foremost community focused." — Bluesky
then
Kat Abughazaleh: "I think there's a way to make politics about people instead of constant fundraising and clout-chasing. That's why I held a little knitting circle at Sketchbook Brewing Co. on Saturday. I couldn't have been happier with the turnout and had so much fun talking and crafting with voters. " — Bluesky

Kat Abughazaleh: "some headlines transcend language" — Bluesky
The headline of an article about her, in German:

Man hat mich schon als woke Antifa-Kommunistin bezeichnet.

Wegen Elon Musk verfor sie ihren Job. Nun will Kat Abughazaleh die demokratische Parti im Kamp gegen Donald Trump vereinen.

Bei den Zwischenwahlen im kommenden Jahr will die 26-jährige Kat Abughazaleh für die Demokraten in den Kongress einziehen.

From Google Translate and Bing Translator:

I've already been called a woke Antifa communist.

She lost her job because of Elon Musk. Now Kat Abughazaleh wants to unite the Democratic Party in the fight against Donald Trump.

In next year's midterm elections, 26-year-old Kat Abughazaleh wants to enter Congress for the Democrats.

That last one is the caption of a picture of her in the article. The text of it is paywalled, however. Kat Abughazaleh: "Man hat mich schon als woke Antifa-Kommunistin bezeichnet" | ZEIT ONLINE

Google: She left her job because of Elon Musk.
Bing: Because of Elon Musk, she forfeited her job.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

Vast majority of firearm homicides are committed using handguns

Thank you for advocating for a handgun ban. I totally agree.

Not advocating that at all. Instead of mindlessly banning guns for everyone, we need stricter rules on who is allowed to buy and possess firearms.
Your position is what NRA types point to when they say that the so-called "liberals" want to grab their guns.

Yes, I want to grab their guns. No sarcams. The US would be a far safer place without handguns in so many pockets. Do you deny this?

The problem is that you are mixing up two different things here: guns in properly licensed civilian hands and guns in criminal hands. Note that there is very little overlap between the groups and you have no power to wave a magic wand and remove those criminal guns. You're looking for your keys under the streetlight.

All those gun that became illegal guns started out as legal guns.

Thus showing you are exactly what they fear: a gun banner.

And it wouldn't work, anyway. There are too many guns out there to hope to remove anything like all of them. All you'll actually accomplish is make the criminals safer and the law abiding less safe.

 

[bilby]

Vast majority of firearm homicides are committed using handguns

Thank you for advocating for a handgun ban. I totally agree.

Not advocating that at all. Instead of mindlessly banning guns for everyone, we need stricter rules on who is allowed to buy and possess firearms.
Your position is what NRA types point to when they say that the so-called "liberals" want to grab their guns.

Yes, I want to grab their guns. No sarcams. The US would be a far safer place without handguns in so many pockets. Do you deny this?

The problem is that you are mixing up two different things here: guns in properly licensed civilian hands and guns in criminal hands. Note that there is very little overlap between the groups and you have no power to wave a magic wand and remove those criminal guns. You're looking for your keys under the streetlight.

All those gun that became illegal guns started out as legal guns.

Thus showing you are exactly what they fear: a gun banner.

And it wouldn't work, anyway. There are too many guns out there to hope to remove anything like all of them. All you'll actually accomplish is make the criminals safer and the law abiding less safe.

You keep saying this as though it were fact, rather than faith.

 

[ZiprHead]

Vast majority of firearm homicides are committed using handguns

Thank you for advocating for a handgun ban. I totally agree.

Not advocating that at all. Instead of mindlessly banning guns for everyone, we need stricter rules on who is allowed to buy and possess firearms.
Your position is what NRA types point to when they say that the so-called "liberals" want to grab their guns.

Yes, I want to grab their guns. No sarcams. The US would be a far safer place without handguns in so many pockets. Do you deny this?

The problem is that you are mixing up two different things here: guns in properly licensed civilian hands and guns in criminal hands. Note that there is very little overlap between the groups and you have no power to wave a magic wand and remove those criminal guns. You're looking for your keys under the streetlight.

All those gun that became illegal guns started out as legal guns.

Thus showing you are exactly what they fear: a gun banner.

And it wouldn't work, anyway. There are too many guns out there to hope to remove anything like all of them. All you'll actually accomplish is make the criminals safer and the law abiding less safe.

You keep saying this as though it were fact, rather than faith.

Michigan police sweeps result in over 550 illegal firearms off the streets

Since 2022, law enforcement officials in Michigan have conducted 5,331 check-ins with felony offenders as part of a statewide initiative intended to reduce gun crime.

michiganindependent.com

 

[Derec]

DNC wants the insufferable David Hogg to either stop trying to primary insufficiently ideologically pure Democrats, or else give up his vice-chair position.
DNC gives David Hogg an ultimatum

It was a mistake giving him the position in the first place.

 

[ZiprHead]

DNC wants the insufferable David Hogg to either stop trying to primary insufficiently ideologically pure Democrats, or else give up his vice-chair position.
DNC gives David Hogg an ultimatum

The DNC are the old school troglodytes. The Dems should appeal more to the younger generation.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/23/dnc-gives-david-hogg-an-ultimatum-00307113

It was a mistake giving him the position in the first place.

You make a lot of proclamations about what a party you do not support should have done.

 

[Derec]

The DNC are the old school troglodytes.

That's racist.  Troglodytae

The Dems should appeal more to the younger generation.

They should appeal to all generations. Jettisoning everybody older than Gen Z and younger Millennials is not a winning strategy.

You make a lot of proclamations about what a party you do not support should have done.

What do you mean, "you do not support"? If by "support" you mean voting, I mostly vote for Dems.

 

[bilby]

The DNC are the old school troglodytes.

That's racist.  Troglodytae

No, it's not.

troglodyte (plural troglodytes)

1. A member of a supposed prehistoric race that lived in caves or holes, a caveman.
2. (by extension) Anything that lives underground.
   The cave was populated by albino scorpions, blind salamanders, and other troglodytes.
3. (derogatory) A reclusive, reactionary or out-of-date person, especially if brutish.
4. The Eurasian wren, Troglodytes troglodytes.
5. (computing) A person who chooses not to keep up to date with the latest software and hardware.

(source)

You are referring to a different (and actually racist) word; Perhaps you can include it in your upcoming Racist Thesaurus.

 

[Derec]

No, it's not.

That was a parody of leftists who see everything as "racist".

 

[bilby]

No, it's not.

That was a parody of leftists who see everything as "racist".

If there are people who see everything you do or support as "racist", there is more than one possible explaination, and that they see everything as racist is far from the most plausible one.

 

[ZiprHead]

The DNC are the old school troglodytes.

That's racist.  Troglodytae

From Gemini:

No, "troglodyte" isn't a race in the biological sense. While it can refer to cave-dwelling peoples or a fictional race in some contexts, it primarily describes a person with reclusive or outmoded attitudes.

The Dems should appeal more to the younger generation.

They should appeal to all generations. Jettisoning everybody older than Gen Z and younger Millennials is not a winning strategy.

Did I say only the younger generation?

You make a lot of proclamations about what a party you do not support should have done.

What do you mean, "you do not support"? If by "support" you mean voting, I mostly vote for Dems.

The oldest dems are on the way out. Two of them just announced they will not run in the next election. AOC vs Schumer has Schumer way behind.

 

[lpetrich]

 2026 United States Senate elections

These five Senators have announced their retirement:

• Dick Durbin, D-IL
• Mitch McConnell, R-KY
• Gary Peters, D-MI
• Tina Smith, D-MN
• Jeanne Shaheen, D-NH

Running for Gary Peters's seat are Democrats Abdul El-Sayed, Mallory McMorrow, and Haley Stevens, and Republican Mike Rogers.

Haley Stevens? She was first elected to the House in 2019 in MI-11, currently to the northwest of Detroit. In 2022, because of redistricting, she ran against Andy Levin, and her campaign spent some 5 times more than his. From her Wikipedia article, "Despite its large spending against Levin, AIPAC's ads did not mention its motivation for supporting Stevens." Something also in evidence in AIPAC's campaigns against Jamaal Bowman and Cori Bush. The way that AIPAC campaigned, it could easily get the votes of people who agree with Rep. Rashida Tlaib that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is a "genocidal maniac". But would AIPAC really want the votes of people who have that position?

Mallory McMorrow still has no platform page, but her Wikipedia page states "She supports LGBTQ rights, renewable energy initiatives, and gun control." and links to Senate District 13 Update - Senator Mallory McMorrow

 

[lpetrich]

Can Kat Abughazaleh Help Democrats Grow a Spine? | GQ - "She’s a lefty 26-year-old internet star. Her primary opponent is 80 and has held office since 1999. Inside a race for Congress that could help revive a doddering Democratic Party."

Onscreen, anchor Jim Sciutto pivots from questions about inflation and Democratic inaction to the subject of transgender health care and whether Democrats have moved too far left. ...

She doesn’t flinch (but yes, she does roll her eyes). “Absolutely not,” she replies. “The idea that Democrats lost the election because of trans people is ridiculous and offensive.” She goes on to explain that trans and queer communities are often the first targets under “authoritarian and fascist regimes”—and that reinforcing those narratives only strengthens authoritarian power. The real problem, she argues, isn’t messaging but disconnection. It’s that voters don’t feel heard, that the political system is run by politicians who are fundamentally out of touch.

What next?

Could it (should it?) be populist leftist candidates who dismantle the establishment and reject neoliberalism? Or, as Scuitto suggested in his questions (and influential centrist thinkers like Matthew Yglesias argue), are more-moderate politicians better positioned to win back voters and stop Trump from destroying American democracy?

These aren’t abstract concerns. Abughazaleh is a half-Palestinian, Gen Z woman running in the post-Roe, unleashed-Trump era. She’s unapologetically left and already a lightning rod for conservative ire. She also knows the right-wing echo chamber inside and out—the full MAGA cinematic universe—and she’s happy to dive headfirst into the culture wars. Her candidacy could prove to be a blip or a bellwether.

...
“The establishment Democratic opinions are calcified,” says Hasan Piker, a progressive media personality whose Twitch streams and YouTube content have made him a key figure in leftist internet discourse (if not the “liberal Joe Rogan”). “And too little too late on the policy side. We need bold actionable changes and people who will fight for those changes. This is what makes Kat a great fighter for the moment.”

...
Several of these new challengers have already announced their candidacies. They include Jake Rakov, a 37-year-old opposing 70-year-old Rep. Brad Sherman, and Saikat Chakrabarti, 39, who has mounted a challenge against former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. And there’s Zohran Mamdani, a 33-year-old Democratic Socialist, running for mayor in New York City.

 

[lpetrich]

I haven't seen much about Saikat Chakrabarti recently, and San Francisco is small enough and transit-oriented enough for him to easily arrange in-person campaign events.

There’s a dark side to viral fame, of course, especially for a young woman. Abughazaleh has blond hair, round blue eyes, and symmetrical features, and she leans into a femme aesthetic. “I have all the makings of a trad wife, except what comes out of my mouth and what’s going on in my brain,” she says wryly. The contrast seems to short-circuit something in the minds of online trolls and inspire a particularly deranged strain of hate. “It drives them insane. They get so confused and triggered by women they’re attracted to.”

She looks Nordic, which I'm sure makes many right-wingers think that she is a traitor to her race.

To illustrate this for me, she pulls up the hundreds of comments on her campaign-announcement video. Nestled among the racist jokes about her name and epitaphs like “Marxist cunt,” there’s one that reads, “How can someone so hot have such bad opinions?”

“You don’t have to say that!” she exclaims. “No one is forcing you to call me hot while you insult me.”

That comment reminds her of another one she read recently. “Some guy told me he was jacking off to my video and it de-radicalized him,” she says, deadpan. “Like, I’m glad you’re not a Nazi anymore but also, come on.”

 

[lpetrich]

One of the men that she has pissed off:

In 2023, Elon Musk sued Media Matters for defamation after the organization published a report showing that major brands’ ads were appearing alongside pro-Nazi content on X. Last summer, Musk’s lawyers deposed Abughazaleh for, according to her, nothing more than “mean tweets.”

While she can’t speak about the ongoing lawsuit, Abughazaleh doesn’t hold back when it comes to Musk himself. “He wants to be liked so bad. He bought an entire website [Twitter, now X] to make people like him, and it didn’t work,” she says. “In fact, people hate him so much that he can wave millions of dollars underneath their noses and they still won’t like him. Elon Musk is a loser.”

Like many others, KA is annoyed that the Democratic Party leadership isn't doing enough.

“People are begging their representatives to do something,” she says. When members of the DOGE team forced their way into government networks, including the federal payment system, politicians “should have been standing arm-in-arm in front of every single treasury entrance. They shouldn’t have let Elon Musk's goons in there.” The thought that Democrats sat back and let it happen infuriates Abughazaleh. “People want to know that they’re being defended and that someone cares about their rights. They gave you this job, so you should do it.” And if not, Abughazaleh adds, “I will.”

That's the idea. Theatrical activism that attracts a lot of attention.

 

[lpetrich]

At this table, Abughazaleh’s strategy is met with enthusiasm—not just because she’s trying to build a ground game from scratch, but because her supporters see her approach as the only way to outmaneuver the Democratic machine.

“AOC caught the Democrats sleeping at the wheel,” one supporter says. “They thought, Hispanic girl, bartender, whatever—she’s not going to be a problem. They were wrong. And once it started, they couldn’t stop it. They had to give her a seat at the table. And now, they’ll never let themselves get caught like that again.”

AOC successfully unseated a long-time member of the party leadership: Joe Crowley.

One key issue that distinguishes Abughazaleh from most American politicians, including other Democrats, is her stance on Gaza. Outspoken in her criticism of the war, she has been labeled “anti-Israel” by opponents—a tag that could prove difficult to shake in her district, where many voters are Jewish.

...
“It’s pretty basic,” Abughazaleh says. “I believe in basic human rights. War crimes are a bad thing no matter who commits them. No matter who they’re being committed against.”

 

[lpetrich]

Leaders We Deserve | Invest in Young People - David Hogg's PAC - no 2026 candidates endorsed yet, though the site has a page on its 2024 ones.

My First Month as a Congressional Candidate | by Kat Abughazaleh | Apr, 2025 | Medium

Our general inbox was completely unusable in the best way as we received hundreds of questions, kind messages, and notes from folks around the country who want to run for office. ...

I’ve always found political events inaccessible to the general public. These events often require a monetary donation for entry, the larger the better, and very rarely sound fun to the average voter. That’s why we didn’t charge any fee for our event at Five and Dime, just a box of pads or tampons which were donated to Chicago’s Period Collective, which distributes period products to people who can’t afford them.

But her period-products event was a success.

In the second week, she went to a Buena Park Neighbors – Good Living by the Lake meeting, and it was much better attended than she expected. She also went to a Hands Off protest at the west end of her adopted district, to show that she wasn't abandoning areas with lots of Republicans.

In the third week, she did My name is Kat Abughazaleh. I'm a 26-year-old extremism researcher running for Congress because I think there's a new way we can do politics. Ask me anything! : r/politics She was also profiled in Trump THREATENS to Deport US Citizens as Economy NOSEDIVES | America Unhinged - YouTube hosted by Wajahat Ali and Francesca Fiorentini at Zeteo.

In the fourth week, "Back at it with the crazy hectic schedule."

will scream this until my lungs collapse: Trans people aren’t the problem. Immigrants and refugees aren’t the problem. Progressives aren’t the problem.

The problem is that the majority of Americans can’t afford a $1000 emergency expense. The problem is that most of our paycheck goes to rent and if we have appendicitis, we call an Uber instead of an ambulance. The problem is that we have leaders who see us, the voters, as abstract concepts and not as individuals with our own lives, families, traumas, passions, and priorities.

We are all somebody’s child but when representatives forget that, when they start to only view their district from the window of their Capitol office, we become ants. Our votes become numbers in a game. And our struggles become hindrances to our representative’s job security.

Then mentioning "Speaking of change, we also tried something new this week! Virtual office hours!" - so she livestreamed an event.

Finally, we held another in-person event: a knitting (and general crafting) circle at Sketchbook Brewing Co. in Evanston. I’m really trying to bring an intimate, community-centered atmosphere to the campaign and this event epitomized everything I’m aiming for.

In the first half of the fifth week, "Sure, this isn’t a full week, but we’ve still done a lot in the first four days."

She attended a town hall at Indivisible Chicago Northwest

This type of protest felt different from the first Trump term. Most Americans didn’t truly understand what he was capable of, how he would test and damage institutions we considered unbreakable. There was still trust in the establishment, that someone would do something, and that our hashtags and cheerleading and pussy hats would be the catalyst to real change. Somehow.

To be clear, none of those things are bad. I was a participant in all three. But we are not playing by the old rulebook anymore and normal people, ones who never considered themselves rebels or dissenters, are noticing.

After describing how people are waking up to the nasty things that the Trump regime is doing,

That’s why I’m running for Congress, too. I saw that our leaders don’t know how to fight the far-right. I do. I felt like the Democratic Party was abandoning vulnerable people. I won’t. And I know that most of the people in power can’t effectively communicate ideas in this 2025 media landscape. I can.

 

[Derec]

Onscreen, anchor Jim Sciutto pivots from questions about inflation and Democratic inaction to the subject of transgender health care and whether Democrats have moved too far left. ...

Dems definitely have moved too far to the left.

She doesn’t flinch (but yes, she does roll her eyes). “Absolutely not,” she replies. “The idea that Democrats lost the election because of trans people is ridiculous and offensive.”

First of all, I want to distinguish "trans people" from "trans activists" and "overreach on trans issues". I think the latter did play a role in Dem defeat in 2024, even if it certainly wasn't the only reason. But the overreach on trans issues was a highly visible and potent symbol of the larger issue of Dems moving too far toward the activist left. That's why this ad was so effective.

People are frustrated by weird pronouns. It is one thing that when somebody transitions from say a man to a woman to be called by a female name and use female pronouns. But then activists started demanding that for example men who have not transitioned to anything at all may nevertheless demand to be called "they".
Does this look like a "he" to you, or a "they"?

She goes on to explain that trans and queer communities are often the first targets under “authoritarian and fascist regimes”—and that reinforcing those narratives only strengthens authoritarian power.

That is indeed bad. But there is a middle ground where trans (and other LGBTQXYZABC) people are not persecuted, but also the powers that be in politics, academia, sports or media do not automatically bow down to every cockamamie demand by the activist classes. Unhinged overreach by all these domains of power on racial issue in the aftermath of the 2020 Insurrection is also exemplary of that.

The real problem, she argues, isn’t messaging but disconnection. It’s that voters don’t feel heard, that the political system is run by politicians who are fundamentally out of touch.

Disconnection can go both ways. I think the reason Dems failed in 2024 is that they became too disconnected from large parts of the American electorate that does not agree with these activists that Dems have been increasingly catering to.

Could it (should it?) be populist leftist candidates who dismantle the establishment and reject neoliberalism? Or, as Scuitto suggested in his questions (and influential centrist thinkers like Matthew Yglesias argue), are more-moderate politicians better positioned to win back voters and stop Trump from destroying American democracy?

I think Yglesias is correct here. US is overall a center-right country. Furthermore, electoral college and the Senate favor less populated states. House, being based on discrete districts rather than proportional representation, favors rural and suburban areas over urban centers.
I do not think Dems can win by moving too far to the left.
Many people who voted for Trump did not particularly like him. But they did not like the direction the Democratic Party took since the 2018 moderate purge that gave us the Squad among other things either.

These aren’t abstract concerns. Abughazaleh is a half-Palestinian, Gen Z woman running in the post-Roe, unleashed-Trump era. She’s unapologetically left and already a lightning rod for conservative ire. She also knows the right-wing echo chamber inside and out—the full MAGA cinematic universe—and she’s happy to dive headfirst into the culture wars. Her candidacy could prove to be a blip or a bellwether.

She is a carpetbagger who is trying to unseat a Democratic incumbent in an ultrasafe, salamander-shaped (D+19) district.

“The establishment Democratic opinions are calcified,” says Hasan Piker, a progressive media personality whose Twitch streams and YouTube content have made him a key figure in leftist internet discourse (if not the “liberal Joe Rogan”).

A Twitch streamer?
And why are Muslims so overrepresented on the far left of the Democratic Party?
Also, see this:
Congressman Ritchie Torres Writes to Executives at Twitch and Amazon: Hasan Piker is Dangerous
Ritchie Torres is an NYC Democrat, btw.

Several of these new challengers have already announced their candidacies. They include Jake Rakov, a 37-year-old opposing 70-year-old Rep. Brad Sherman,

Another very safe district (D+17). And what's so bad about Brad Sherman from their point of view? He seems pretty progressive to me. 100% from HRC, 100% from NARAL, 100% from Brady Campaign, 100% from AFL-CIO, 100% from ACLU. What's his unpardonable sin that makes him unacceptable to the ideological puritans? At 70, he is not even particularly old compared to some of the other congresscritters.

and Saikat Chakrabarti, 39, who has mounted a challenge against former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

That fan of the Nazi collaborator Bose? Sure, Pelosi is 85 and should retire already, but SC would not be a good replacement.

And there’s Zohran Mamdani, a 33-year-old Democratic Socialist, running for mayor in New York City.

If he were to get elected, it would be a disaster for the city. For all his faults, Cuomo seems like the least bad choice running.

and [Kat the sexy Pokemon] leans into a femme aesthetic

What does that even mean? That she looks like a woman? I really hate this woke language.

They get so confused and triggered by women they’re attracted to.

I call BS on that. Sure, she is attractive, but people don't oppose her for that reason.

To illustrate this for me, she pulls up the hundreds of comments on her campaign-announcement video.

Yeah, I don't think Youtube (or similar) comments can be used to make any cogent point. A lot of nuts post there on all sides.

Nestled among the racist jokes about her name and epitaphs like “Marxist cunt,” there’s one that reads, “How can someone so hot have such bad opinions?”

There is no expected positive correlation between perceived hotness and sound opinions. And then there is the "dumb blonde" stereotype.

That comment reminds her of another one she read recently. “Some guy told me he was jacking off to my video and it de-radicalized him,” she says, deadpan. “Like, I’m glad you’re not a Nazi anymore but also, come on.”

Sounds like a troll honestly.

“AOC caught the Democrats sleeping at the wheel,” one supporter says. “They thought, Hispanic girl, bartender, whatever—she’s not going to be a problem. They were wrong. And once it started, they couldn’t stop it. They had to give her a seat at the table. And now, they’ll never let themselves get caught like that again.”

That is a problem with the partisan primary system in general, but especially in safe districts like the NY14, which is D+19. In the 2018 where AOC unseated Crowley, less than 30k cast a vote in the primary out of a population of ~740k.
A small minority gave us AOC (and similar primary upsets gave us the rest of the Squad). This 2018 Purge of moderates pulled the Democratic Party to the left, and I think it eventually led to Trump getting back into the White House.

For all California's faults, a jungle primary like they have would be a better system. Let everybody compete in one big pool, and top 2 go to the general election. Alternatively, have an Alaska-style jungle primary where top four advance, and there is IRV in the general.

One key issue that distinguishes Abughazaleh from most American politicians, including other Democrats, is her stance on Gaza. Outspoken in her criticism of the war, she has been labeled “anti-Israel” by opponents—a tag that could prove difficult to shake in her district, where many voters are Jewish.

The problem is that these activists who style themselves as "against the war" have no problem with Gaza attacking Israel, murdering >1000, and taking hundreds of others hostage. They just have a problem with Israel fighting back. They wanted a "ceasefire" immediately after the Gazan attack.

“It’s pretty basic,” Abughazaleh says. “I believe in basic human rights. War crimes are a bad thing no matter who commits them. No matter who they’re being committed against.”

So, what is she suggesting as a way to end this war and return hostages that would not make Hamas and other terror factions stronger by releasing 1000s of terror prisoners that would give Hamas et al not only more experienced fighters and commanders but also a huge PR victory? No, there is no alternative but to defeat them on the battlefield, even if that takes a while. Appeasement did not work for the Nazis, and it does not work for Palestinian terrorists.

From the GQ photo shoot:

She is definitely attractive, even if I do not see what in her resume recommends her for Congress.
This photo also seems to to lean into a retro aesthetic. I wonder if that was on purpose.

 

[ZiprHead]

Harris wasn't running on trans issues, but Ttump was. They spent more than a quarter billion dollars on anti trans ads.

‘I’m So Sick of Democrats Like You’: Rahm Emanuel Gets Bodied by Liberal Podcaster for ‘Buying Into the Right-Wing Media Narrative’

CNN contributor and potential Democratic presidential candidate Rahm Emanuel got an earful from Jennifer Welch of the I've Had It podcast on Tuesday.

www.mediaite.com

That is such bullshit. That is total bullshit. That is buying into the right-wing media narrative. And I’m so sick of Democrats like you selling out and saying this. You know who talks about trans people more than anybody? MAGA. MAGA is the most genital-obsessed political party I have ever seen.

Kamala Harris talked about homeownership. She talked about kitchen table issues. Trump’s over there, droning on about Hannibal Lecter. Are you kidding me? This is where the Democrats lose because we’re playing the game with the rulebook. They’ve ripped the rulebook up and are crammed it down everybody’s throat. And Democrats are upset because Joe Biden pardoned his son. We gotta fucking fight. They’re the gender-obsessed weirdos, not us. We’re the ones who fight for Social Security. We fight for Medicare, and yeah, we’re not gonna bully trans people. We’re gonna fucking do it. If you wanna do it, fine.