New Eli Valley

Yeah, unfortunately I think it's more likely to see the Dems thread the needle and go "Of course, domestically, we're against everything the Trump administration is doing; but even we have to admit it's admirable the support he's showing our Israeli allies."

I'd love to be wrong about this, but...

I've gotten a couple of my "Vote Kamala or we all die!" Aquaintances to admit that throwing Palestinians under the bus was a shit move that didn't buy them any votes

The trick is to approach them like a lost dog, offer them a treat and speak with a calm, soothing voice while maintaining a firm, yet authoritative posture
- oh, regular people can come around on this for sure
  
  when I say Dems I mean the representatives and party leadership.
- Holding out a copy of State and Revolution with a pod jon taped over the picture of Lenin
yeah this'll be the we're reaching across the aisle thing, as the republicans give nothing in return

Whats insane is that they want to mass deport hispanic trump voters and their family members, so they cant even say it in good faith.

Not all of them. The extremely online jackasses aren't the whole population and probably arent' representative of all Dems.

Like the freaks we interact with on Reddit, Bsky, and Hellsite are freaks, extra turbo-libs who have nothing better to do than pretend they're part of the neoliberal consensus and not peons like the rest of us.

This is one thing I miss from the first Trump presidency, you could actually have a conversation with liberals about all the problems with the US and all the problems the US was causing globally, and they would sometimes be inclined to listen because Trump was at the helm. Then, after Biden won, they completely hunkered down and were all "What do you mean, our guy is in the White House, everything is perfect, shut up you lunatic leftie".

My man does not miss

Okay since this is about the 1000th time i see this picture or a version of it: who is this (not Eli, the guy on the picture)

It's an old Norman Rockwell painting titled (I shit you not) "American Freedom"
- Its actually got an even cringier name: "Freedom of Speech" and the subject is a real guy who was opposed to...building a new school in his town
During FDR's presidency in the lead up to WWII, he made the "Four Freedoms" speech, which the artist Norman Rockwell illustrated in four different paintings. This one, "freedom of speech" is the most well known/reproduced.

Source: I was a high school us history teacher
- There's no propaganda in America, though.
  
  It's wild how American's fetishize freedom of speech when the only thing speech is good for is influencing power, and definitely does not do that.
  
  The nicest practical aspect of free speech is you mostly don't have to self-censor every communication, mostly.
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