The aphorism the kids are using nowadays is "fork found in kitchen".
I'm not in the US so I didn't know the stats with this but since Lyndon Johnson, no democrat has been elected president with more than 50% of their voters being white.
Carter was close with ~48%
After action reports only count if :
there is a real effort to address problems ( there isn’t)
that can be solved ( impossible to have most USA politicians be anti genocide)
where votes are counted accurately ( most states fail United Nations standards)
when all voters are allowed to freely vote( who knows how that will be?)
Where the popular vote wins ( electoral college wins)
And elections can lead to more wealth and health for the majority of the population. ( it cannot)
it's only obvious to sane people
Hey I’m insane and it’s obvious to me
No ableism please
Yow wee! What a scoop!
Yeah? Well if it takes an investigation to figure that out they're truly the biggest dumb fucks in all of political theater.
They probably wanted a study and report because it's one thing to have a hypothesis, it's another to get actual data and prove it. Hopefully they got a comprehensive report and will actually act on the results. Arguably they should have gotten good data on what their constituents want BEFORE the election.
They won’t. They support Israel because of the legal bribes they receive.
The only members of congress speaking out against the genocide are the only congresspeople who don’t accept AIPAC money.
Supporters of the Israeli regime are scum.
I won’t vote for them and I will encourage my friends to follow suit.
Its wild that people that have devoted at least a portion of their lives to working in government would be so easily swayed by mere money, and arguably not a lot of money, to support a whole different government who is clearly doing horrific things. It's not like these people are short on money either, they're all wealthy, a lot of them millionaire wealthy.
Working in elected office means dancing when your donors say dance. It selects for people willing to do anything for an extra buck. Anyone who actually had principles wouldn't make it through the gauntlet that is campaigning in the US, and that's by design. Why do you think neither party seems interested in campaign finance reform?
I assume a lot of that is blackmail or pressure from people being blackmailed.
But that's just as wild, so many people in so many governments have either been bought for a pittance or blackmailed and none of them have retaliated or given the blackmailers the finger and exposed them anyway. I would be furious if I was a member of a g20 government and some genocidal dickhead from Israel had the gall to try and first buy my vote and second blackmail me into submission. I'd make it my life's mission to see them and their entire nefarious network exposed and rendered useless.
I’ve read blackmail allegations in different news stories for a long time, some in mainstream newspapers. Additionally federal USA politicians are usually not very nice people.
But even if one were to discount all that, the whole thing is, as you said, very weird
Who would have thunk it?
What was the point of the report if we knew going in what it would say, and there was no desire to act on the findings?
Can't wait till they come out with the sky color scoop. Maybe a follow up on water wetness.