Well the news has been awful lately, from Trump's "emergency" declaration that will hopefully be neutered by lawsuits, to Bernie Sanders running for 2020. When will that fucker give up? Of course it stirred up pie fights on Daily Kos again. Stupid idiot fans when he's not even a Democrat. Anyway the field for the 2020 election is crowded already with a lot of better candidates than him.
Meanwhile Beto O'Rourke hasn't declared for anything though he did the march/rally in El Paso and has given interviews. I hope he'll run for Cornyn's seat instead of abandoning Texas so soon. I heard Joaquin Castro is interested too, if Beto doesn't run for Senate again.
I was also very disheartened by the attacks on Ilhan Omar for her tweets against AIPAC. She was accused of being anti-semitic and racist for attacking a pro-Israel lobby. Why the fuck has Israel got such a hold on American politics, that people disingenuously equate attacking a country's government with attacking a race? If people complain about Theresa May and the disastrous Brexit deal, they are not being "anti-British" or "anti-Caucasian." Plenty of Jewish people don't like Israel's apartheid treatment of Palestinians. There's also that virulent characterization of BDS boycott as antisemitic too. As long as the fucking US government is going to send my taxpayer money to fund Israel's illegal occupation and war crimes, then I have the right as a citizen to protest and try to keep from sending any more money to them or to companies based in the stolen territories.
So far, Ilhan Omar has not been hypocritically forced to resign, and just now a new Democrat has won a special election in Virginia after similar hysteria over his anti-Israel comments. So hopefully people aren't scared off of voting for Muslims or Palestinians.
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