I wish we lived in a world where these people could face consequences

So far I've just been operating under the assumption if anybody in the state department, isreal, or r/worldnews say something it's conplete horseshit and the exact opposite is true.

Somehow nat sec people are doing a worse job of vetting information than I am.

I'm sure it's a coincidence.

He's been doing this for years (cw: brief mention of sexual violence) https://www.propublica.org/article/blinken-israel-military-aid-human-rights-violations-leahy-law

I fucking hate Blinken

seriously my least favourite ghoul

Kissinger was a devil

Musk is fucking infuriating

but Blinken is such a greasy little slime fuck

blinken.... lied???? oh no

Idk why this hits me as hard as it does. Like obviously they were never going to let anything threaten their pet campaign of ethnic cleansing.

I think it's the little shard of 2019 Bernie bro lodged in my worldview that if all the stars aligned just, just perfectly then the US would have no choice but to back down and do the right thing, or at the very least the less wrong thing.

I think that part of me is dying, though. This is a deeply diseased country. There is no hope for it to get better. Reading things like this and then going on to live my life in this place is probably my greatest shame.

Would Trump even be worse for Gaza at this point? Like the Republicans are way worse domestically but the Democrats might actually be worse for foreign policy

And liberals want me to go out and vote for these worms

Behind that pinkwashed charm offensive with a WOC girlboss at the forefront, this administration is as evil as any that came before it. Cast my mail-in ballot for De la Cruz this morning and will probably never vote Dem again in my lifetime. Just filled with utter disgust.

when Israel kills 40000 innocent people and then blocks aid

..

when Venezuela blocks American aid (that in the past has been used to smuggle weapons on the continent), across a bridge that has already been closed for months, and the aid gets set on fire but actually from a right winger's molotov, while other aid is being allowed into the country from nonprofits, and USAID elsewhere in the country is being used to fund right wing parties:

Apartheid Antony giving his contributions to the ethnic cleansing.

It’s crazy that it takes official “reports” to say what we could all obviously witness for it to become news. To liberals, things don’t exist until an official authority gives you permission to believe your lying eyes

"They can't prohibit or restrict aid if we don't send any", , "See, we're still the good guys!"

Yea, but did you see Trump pay for a woman's groceries?

What's interesting is these aren't leftists or activists the administration is pushing back on. It's career bureaucrats trying to follow the law. One of the big scary things about project 2025/trump is supposed to be how agencies are being stripped of all independence. Liberals are supposed to defer to the experts.

I thought the executive was supposed to lie to Congress, it's what every other administration has done.

ah, well nevertheless

Unfortunately not surprising. This is the same country that was responsible for countless children in iraq in the 90s and they faced no consequence for it. Lying is as American as pie

LOCK HIM UP

We do not currently ASSess -

The US is a weird beast. Regularly acts with impunity and decimated thousands of lives with no internal OR external accountability, but at the same time reliant on weird politicking to keep the killing going else some weird technicality will accidentally force them to make the world less shitty.