NSR: CHICAGO Political Thread ***HIGHLY TOXIC - ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK***

"Like a pendulum": How America's racial reckoning unraveled
The America that marched for George Floyd five years ago is gone, buried beneath a backlash that has hardened — for now — into a new political and cultural order.
https://www.axios.com/2025/05/23/george-floyd-anniversary-trump-racial-justice

 

What a complainer. It’s not like ALL of her family were destroyed…

Gaza pediatrician and mother loses 9 of 10 children after Israeli airstrike hits their home, hospital says
The pediatrician's husband and a surviving child were injured.
https://abcnews.go.com/Internationa...-loses-9-10-children-after/story?id=122140789

Thank god KKKamala isn’t in charge because then all ten children AND the husband would be dead.

 

Wait until genocidal Joe hears about this! I’m sure he’ll fly right over and finish the job himself.


Father of nine children killed by Israeli strike still in critical condition
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp8djlg3zq5o

 

Joe would’ve totally prevented that from happening. Of course he would have, just like he prevented all of the other strikes from happening while he was in office.

It’s so wild seeing liberals invent ‘shrodinger’s voter’ over Israel. Like, apparently this voting block wasnt large/important enough for Kamala to meet with but simultaneously was large/important enough to have cost Kamala the election to the point where some of y’all are still whining about it more than 6 months after the election finished.

Either they were insignificant and had no bearing on the outcome, or they were significant and Kamala should’ve probably done the bare minimum of outreach. But sure, keep celebrating the death and destruction going on in Palestine, definitely a good look for the party and totally distinguishes you from the folks that voted for the current regime in the issue.

 

"The vice president discussed her efforts to end the war in Gaza, such that: Israel is secure, hostages are released, the suffering in Gaza ends, and the Palestinian people can realize their right to dignity, freedom, self-determination," the official said, echoing a sentiment that Harris has previously expressed when discussing the war.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/20...s-muslim-arab-american-communities-rcna174115

See, also
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna173863

Please stop with the false narrative about "celebrating" the deaths of innocent Palestinians. That really is not helpful and not something anyone here is doing.

 

We’ve already gone over at least three things Harris could’ve done during the election to secure the voting block in question - if you think that the deaths that continuously are being posted about in here would not have happened had she won, I have a bridge to sell.

And I don’t really know a better word than ‘celebrating’ at this point - the election was half a year ago, and I’m seeing the same stupidass ‘good thing Kamala lost’ toned posts that use headlines of death and destruction as a talking point. It’s not a binary where someone is either mourning or celebrating, I get that, but the posts certainly don’t have a mournful tone and just seem to be some sort of ‘I told you so’ smarminess that dont seem to be making the point that the poster thinks they’re making.

 

Netanyahu has escalated things since Trump won, that’s all, and we knew he would if given the chance. Some people did more than others to help give Netanyahu the chance to escalate.

 

Then stop posting lies that she did nothing and did not "meet with" the voting block.

She did, that was all I was pointing out in my post.

 

Yeah, duh, but this is exactly what the people that abstained from voting said when discussing why they wouldn’t vote. You can probably go back and find posts from Juice Crew Allstar, who had an awesome username and is hopefully doing okay, saying that the only difference between the candidates was who would be completing the “genocide” faster. The uncommitted voters said they wanted someone committed to ending the “genocide” and neither candidate satisfied that so they sat out. So your point is essentially the same one the people you’re presumably mocking were making. And again, what’s the point? If they were insignificant in number to affect the election then there’s no point in mocking them, if they were significant enough to affect the election then maybe it’s time to admit Kamala committed an unforced error in not giving them a forum with her.

I do not post ********ing lies here, dude - I’ve posted several times in this thread links demonstrating that she ignored these voters, and will here again (one of these is even linked in the NBC article you posted):
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/19/harris-uncommitted-movement-declines-endorse#:~:text=The Uncommitted National Movement announced,on Gaza by 15 September.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/20...ed-movement-refuses-endorse-harris-rcna171756

Again, she could have platformed a Palestinian-American at the DNC, held right here with one of the largest Palestinian-American communities in the country, and did not. She could have met with the uncommitted voting block, and did not. And of course, she could have just said ‘hey, we’re going to stop giving Israel the bombs that kill Palestinians’ whether simply saying those words would lead to the literal collapse of the Middle East or not. She did not. Either way, it is a fact that she did not even grant the requested meeting to the group being mocked here, not a lie.

 

Why do you bother? He's not capable of seeing things from a different perspective. Tunnel vision, as Costanza says it's not a lie if he believes it is true.

 

Thoughts and prayers.

Israeli airstrikes in Gaza kill 38 people, including children, as Noem visits Israel
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/...ople-including-children-as-noem-visits-israel

 

I heard Joe signed off on these before he left office.

Israel announces major expansion of settlements in occupied West Bank
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1j5954edlno

 

NEW: Former Tea Party Republican Congressman @WalshFreedom announces he has joined the Democratic Party:

"I’m becoming a Democrat because I’m pissed off. I’m pissed off at the ignorant, lying madman in the White House who’s using his position to only enrich himself and his fat… pic.twitter.com/Ilx4l8N1ri

— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) June 3, 2025

NEW: Former Tea Party Republican Congressman @WalshFreedom announces he has joined the Democratic Party:

"I’m becoming a Democrat because I’m pissed off. I’m pissed off at the ignorant, lying madman in the White House who’s using his position to only enrich himself and his fat… pic.twitter.com/Ilx4l8N1ri

— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) June 3, 2025


How about, No?!? Go to hell, Joe Walsh
Joe Walsh you can go f*ck yourself from here to as far as Tammy Duckworth can chuck your stupid self. She should drop your sorry ass out of a helicopter, you worthless jagoff.

"Waah! I helped create the disgusting political culture we live in and I lost because I am a big loser. A worse person is in the White House than I would have been in the Senate. Since I cannot have it all, I am leaving and infecting the Democratic Party with my noisome, noxious, putrid self."-Joe Walsh, probably.


Hey, did I mention that I REALLY do not like former Rep. Joe Walsh?

 

US vetoes resolution for unconditional Gaza ceasefire at UN security council
Russia, China, France and the UK all voted in favour of ‘immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/04/us-vetoes-gaza-ceasefire-un-security-council

Genocidal Joe strikes again.

 

you forgot the /s symbol...to the extent that it still matters.

 

I was hoping the blaming Joe Biden for something happening now would let people in on the /s….

 

Aaron Rodgers now a Pittsburgh Steeler.

The shame.

 

Is that still a thing? /S

 

I don’t know if this is Joe or Kamala’s doing.

US ambassador to Israel says US no longer pursuing goal of independent Palestinian state
Mike Huckabee suggested any future Palestinian state should be carved out of ‘a Muslim country’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/10/mike-huckabee-independent-palestinian-state

 

https://theonion.com/israel-intercepts-gaza-aid-boat-with-greta-thunberg-aboard/

We must protect the Onion at all costs. My favorite is: “It sounds innocent, but that boat could easily be concealing a school or hospital.”

Shame that Kamala didn’t win, since Israel only started bombing hospitals and schools after the inauguration. Oh. Right. Oops.

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Ahli_Arab_Hospital_explosion

 

Ummm… okay? lol, not sure what point you think you’re making but I don’t think it’s landing.

• World Health Organization (WHO): As of October 2024, the WHO reported verifying 516 attacks on healthcare in the Gaza Strip since October 2023. This resulted in 886 fatalities and 1,349 injuries.
• Human Rights Watch (HRW): Reported in March 2025 that only 4 of Gaza's 36 hospitals had not been damaged or destroyed by Israeli forces by September 2024.
• OHCHR: Reported at least 136 strikes on 27 hospitals and 12 other medical facilities during a period covered in their report.
• Al Jazeera: Stated that Al-Ahli Hospital is one of at least 36 hospitals that have been bombed and burned by the Israeli military since the start of the war.
  
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attacks_on_health_facilities_during_the_Gaza_war
  
• Schools
• • UNICEF: Reported in August 2024 that 564, or 85 percent, of all schools in Gaza had been hitby Israeli attacks.
  • UN-partnered analysis (including UNICEF, Education Cluster, Save The Children): Indicated “direct hits” on 212 schools in the enclave, with at least 53 schools "totally destroyed" since conflict erupted on 7 October 2023.
  • Wikipedia: States the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have conducted numerous airstrikes on more than 200 educational facilities, including universities.
  • UN experts: Stated that Israel had destroyed more than 90% of school and university buildings.
  • The Intercept: Reported that most school buildings in the Gaza Strip - at least 477 of 564, or 85 percent - have been damaged or destroyed since October 2023. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attacks_on_schools_during_the_Israeli_invasion_of_Gaza

 

My initial hope was to find some evidence of what's happened before and after but that was just the first link that showed up. I'd prefer some solid analysis than an Intercept article. Don't get me wrong, I read the Intercept.

 

Not to get all “take that shit to the optimism thread-y in politics, but the always wonderful Defector is making the case that mass protests may be one way to chip away at the armor of these fascists.

https://defector.com/this-party-sucks

 

I think you misinterpreted the article:

Cheers.