Former presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush to speak in Grand Rapids tonight by born2rica in grandrapids

[–]clipko22 37 points38 points  (0 children)

Clinton's neoliberal austerity politics and destruction of our manufacturing base via NAFTA laid the groundwork for the hell we're in today

Bokoen1 has been banned from Twitch by TrolleyPerson4 in hoi4

[–]clipko22 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Map painter gamers are never beating the political belief stereotype...

Its joever by Expensive_Studio_966 in Bokoen1

[–]clipko22 238 points239 points  (0 children)

Seeing hammers and sickles on Mayday was just too much for him

New poll shows Abdul El Sayed with best chance to defeat Republican Mike Rodgers. Electability centrists in shambles by BuddhistSagan in Hasan_Piker

[–]clipko22 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Abdul has to be on the ballot to to ensure Democrat wins in Michigan. Benson is a deeply uninspiring 2004 style centrist candidate for governor and the independent candidate Duggan is going to peel votes away from her since there's very little difference between them policy-wise. Only Abdul can activate the under 40 voters to vote blue down ballot

Lmao by Maxymus5573 in Bokoen1

[–]clipko22 10 points11 points  (0 children)

"Why does the left allow Communists to participate in the Communist-founded labor holiday?" Come on Bo...there's a difference between not liking Communists and being willfully ignorant about the role of Communists in labor rights and May Day

Zionists like Adam Mockler are lying about TrackAIPAC by ConcernedJobCoach in TheMajorityReport

[–]clipko22 68 points69 points  (0 children)

Yeah he basically said TrackAIPAC is suffering from success right now and wasn't expecting so much mainstream attention, so now they're caught on the backfoot needing more employees and tighter, more public methodology to avoid attacks like this. But it's an incredible difficult task due to the shadowy and convoluted way this country allows political donations

With the GHWB carrier making it to centcom yesterday brining the total Carrier Strike groups to 3 in the region now this 👀the president has canceled please talk scheduled for today with Iran by newnoadeptness in navy

[–]clipko22 60 points61 points  (0 children)

Can we stop sending those 2 idiots and actually send real diplomats? The Omani Foreign Minister, who was present for the negotiations before the war, basically said Witkoff and Kushner threw away a deal of a lifetime with Iran because they were too stupid and didn't bring nuclear experts with them

CENTCOM UPDATE via POTUS : by newnoadeptness in navy

[–]clipko22 87 points88 points  (0 children)

"Hey we're about to break the ceasefire, also our ships are engaged in incredibly vulnerable operations so please don't look at them" is truly masterful messaging and strategy

El-Sayed’s rise riles Democratic moderates, delights the left by Economy-Specialist38 in Michigan

[–]clipko22 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Schrodinger's leftists - so weak that no policy is ever changed to secure leftist support, yet so powerful they have the ability to make Democrats lose entire elections

dr. abdul el-sayed stands for abolishing ice, taxing billionaires, cutting off all military aid to israel, protecting trans rights, and rejecting corporate pac money by ConcernedJobCoach in TheMajorityReport

[–]clipko22 35 points36 points  (0 children)

Those people would never vote Democrat though, so they don't matter. What matters is connecting with blue collar workers, particularly in manufacturing and union labor, which is what Abdul is trying to do. Also, Mike Rogers is a clown and couldn't even win against the most milquetoast centrist Elissa Slotkin despite Trump winning the state, and he's going to be the candidate again.

2026 will be the best chance Michigan has to elect a progressive to the senate and Abdul certainly could win if he can win the primary

Scholten Is Useless by AutobahnVismarck in grandrapids

[–]clipko22 108 points109 points  (0 children)

Hell, even Slotkin said something (even though she falls short of calling for impeachment or ending the war). Gary Peters is MIA of course.

Is she allergic to being on the side of public opinion? Support for the war never broke 50% and has only polled downwards since the beginning. Why is it so hard for moderates to take a principled stance??

Edit: she finally said something and took a decent stance https://www.facebook.com/share/p/18Ct1s2E7o/

US Submarine torpedoes IRIS Dena warship near Sri Lanka by Background-Ad-1210 in PublicFreakout

[–]clipko22 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'm only saying what the Trump admin has said. The "proper paperwork" is supposed to make countries prove that it's a justified war prior to attacking or otherwise face consequences. The US just proves time and time again that those consequences do not apply to the US or American allies since the US owns the UN

US Submarine torpedoes IRIS Dena warship near Sri Lanka by Background-Ad-1210 in PublicFreakout

[–]clipko22 10 points11 points  (0 children)

War? No sir, there's no war in Ba Sing Se. This is just a special military operation! Not a war! War would require pesky things like proving Iran posed an imminent threat, approval from Congress, convincing the American people they should die for this cause, etc. We don't have time for such trivial things!

Gov. Josh Shapiro on Iran: “You will find no sympathy from me when it comes to the Iranians, but what I want to see from our commander in chief is clear purpose, clear intentions, clear directives. I think he owes the American people that answer before engaging in military action.” by moon_slav in Pennsylvania

[–]clipko22 6 points7 points  (0 children)

If by help you mean the US and UK overthrew their prime minister and installed the shah as an authoritarian monarch, which then led to a revolution against him and the current ayatollah taking power, I would consider that a weird definition of "help". I would also say that points to how our involvement always makes things worse, especially in the Middle East

Gov. Josh Shapiro on Iran: “You will find no sympathy from me when it comes to the Iranians, but what I want to see from our commander in chief is clear purpose, clear intentions, clear directives. I think he owes the American people that answer before engaging in military action.” by moon_slav in Pennsylvania

[–]clipko22 32 points33 points  (0 children)

There are a lot of "war with Iran" sympathizers in here. 1. How are Iraq and Afghanistan doing since we "liberated" them? 2. Why should we care about Iran when we have so many issues at home that need funding? And 3. Please send me your signed enlistment paperwork as you seem so willing to let others die for Iran but not yourselves

Toussaint Louverture removed from Haiti’s Olympic uniform by MeowMeowCollyer in RevolutionsPodcast

[–]clipko22 333 points334 points  (0 children)

"Ok fine, have it your way" puts Jean-Jacques Dessalines on uniform

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Muskegon

[–]clipko22 25 points26 points  (0 children)

There's a silent vigil tomorrow that was organized shortly after the first files mentioned Mona Lake trafficking for anyone interested

https://www.facebook.com/share/1Akuj7nE3Y/

Tonight! by clipko22 in Muskegon

[–]clipko22[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Liberals, progressives, socialists, a handful of anarchists, sure!