James Carville: “Wokeness is a problem and we all know it”

By artappraiser on Tue, 04/27/2021 - 2:08pm |

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James Carville: “Wokeness is a problem and we all know it.” https://t.co/uHZlhCBvjm
— Josh Kraushaar (@HotlineJosh) April 27, 2021

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https://www.vox.com/22338417/james-carville-democratic-party-biden-100-days

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Myself, I actually like Sean Illing's point here best of all, in his question. This is the current party difference that people too often forget, the MAIN Democratic alternative to the current GOP needs to be BIG TENT! That is the only way to have a "blue wave".

Sean Illing

Not to beat a dead horse, but Democrats and Republicans are dealing with very different constituencies. Democrats have a big tent, they have to win different kinds of voters and that means making different kinds of appeals. Republicans can get away with shit that Democrats cannot.

James Carville

Yeah, that’s a problem. We can only do what we can do. People always say to me, “Why don’t Democrats just lie like Republicans?” Because if they did, our voters wouldn’t stand for it. But I’m not saying we need to lie like they do. I’m saying, why not go after Gaetz and Jordan and link them to Hastert and the Republican Party over and over and over again? We have to take these small opportunities to define ourselves and the other side every damn time. And we don’t do it. We just don’t do it.

Not one policy or ideology, but encompassing as MANY as possible.. As an outsider, what I see is that one faction in the Democratic party must take care to alienate another, or more people will just chose "Independent" as I myself have done since 1980. Purity tests especially should be anathema. This is the true benefit of "moderation": not pissing a huge segment of voters off. Biden has learned to do this from trial and error process of decades of politics. He knows how to do it far better than Bill Clinton did being president at a young age, he was quite good at it but didn't have real national experience, only southern politics. By the end of his second term he got much better at it, maintaining a high approval rating all through his impeachment, even though he flubbed on the personal lying.

by artappraiser on Tue, 04/27/2021 - 2:26pm

though I see now that Carville is basically saying the same thing here as regards the current demographic situation in the country, when he says "here's the deal":

Right, but we can’t say, “Republicans are going to call us socialists no matter what, so let’s just run as out-and-out socialists.” That’s not the smartest thing to do. And maybe tweeting that we should abolish the police isn’t the smartest thing to do because almost fucking no one wants to do that.

Here’s the deal: No matter how you look at the map, the only way Democrats can hold power is to build on their coalition, and that will have to include more rural white voters from across the country. Democrats are never going to win a majority of these voters. That’s the reality. But the difference between getting beat 80 to 20 and 72 to 28 is all the difference in the world.

So they just have to lose by less — that’s all.

by artappraiser on Tue, 04/27/2021 - 3:52pm

That era of liberalism was all about privileged white people scolding other white people, and the actual empowerment of other groups of people messes that up - makes him seem as irrelevant and self-serving as him and people like him really are. So of course "woke" is a problem for him.

by Orion on Tue, 04/27/2021 - 9:53pm

James Carville goes off on 'wokeness' - Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large, Updated 6:32 PM ET, Tue April 27

James Carville changed the face of Democratic politics when he spearheaded the election of Bill Clinton in 1992.

Gone were the New Deal echoes. In their place was Third Way-ism -- the idea that liberalism had run its course in the country and the way for Democrats to win was to find a new, more moderate path in between the two traditional parties.

All of which is a long-winded way of saying that Carville was far ahead of his time -- and managed to set a course for Democrats to win the popular vote in seven of the last eight presidential contests -- dating back to 1992.

So when Carville speaks about the state of the Democratic Party, he's very much worth listening to. Carville did just that -- speak -- in an interview with Vox's Sean Illing this week. And he went OFF on the PC culture of "wokeness" coursing through his party [....]

“I always tell people that we’ve got to stop speaking Hebrew and start speaking Yiddish. We have to speak the way regular people speak, the way voters speak. It ain’t complicated. That’s how you connect and persuade.”

James Carville, a mensch mit sechel. https://t.co/zBmUYbW7YH
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) April 27, 2021

...I'm going to have to have another Conversation with James Carville, partly because he's lively and interesting, but mostly so I can ask him to speak Yiddish.
Dos volt zeyn epes. https://t.co/JNiCbCjU1O
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) April 27, 2021

Carville is correct, if dems moderated just a little bit on cultural issues they'd win because Biden's economic agenda is popular but a lot of dems' other stuff is not https://t.co/88SBTCmnzn
— Matt Boxer (@MattBoxer94) April 27, 2021

Refreshing that James Carville admits that the construction "of color" is incoherent and rarely used by people without a college degree, distressing that he appears to be the only Democrat who realizes this? https://t.co/BXspLUX88J
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) April 27, 2021

We People of Color, definitely a coherent, tangible group with a shared language, history, cuisine, and values...
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) April 27, 2021

The historical tension in Canada was between English and French, but as immigration splintered the ethnicity of English speakers that dichotomy broke down, so people began referring to the tension as between Quebec and the "ROC" (Rest of Canada).
— Samuel Hammond (@hamandcheese) April 27, 2021

Something analogous occurred in the US, because without the same useful terminology. So "Whiteness" became a stand-in for "Rest of America," and POC for the inverse, but in a confusing way that blurred the claims that are particular to decedents of enslaved African Americans.
— Samuel Hammond (@hamandcheese) April 27, 2021

POC was just an attempt for liberals to update and preserve what was on damp street corner entrances across the South
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) April 27, 2021

The pre civil rights regime tried really hard to maintain white supremacy by jamming everyone else into this huge category, even though it clearly doesn't fit. Some people feel bound by it. Who knows.
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) April 27, 2021

Ya it's actually set back reparative justice in some ways. A 2nd generation Nigerian American may face forms of discrimination, but the set asides and affirmative programs meant to redress slavery and Jim Crow are for a particular ethnic group, not non-white people writ large.
— Samuel Hammond (@hamandcheese) April 27, 2021

two political scientists:

Re: Carville, one of my concerns is that "wokeness" is used as a political tool by white left politicians during campaigns who clearly don't have receipts of long-term engagement w/ communities they claim to now be woke about. It's pretty blatant & many white liberals don't care.
— David Darmofal (@david_darmofal) April 28, 2021

I would have preferred a metaphor other than faculty lounge, but he made some very good points. Liberals often talk above people. Wokeness is an example of people jumping in front of the parade and claiming to be drum majors.
— Cindy Rugeley (@crugeley) April 28, 2021

by artappraiser on Wed, 04/28/2021 - 7:06pm

Interesting take by @aravosis about an interview with James Carville. Many people have slammed what Carville said, and Aravosis thinks they didn't understand him. I agree with him in that Democrats need better messaging, especially when the #GQP is handing it to us on a plate. https://t.co/g0lOySUgYd
— Mike Fisher (@BFSMan45) April 28, 2021

I find the pushback on this very interesting because it seems so blatantly obvious to me that Carville is right. Then again, I’ve been making this argument for a year. Polling on “defund the police” is awful. Normal people don’t say “Latinx” etc. https://t.co/aDJi4HXFj2
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahDispatch) April 28, 2021

Good video of @amyklobuchar Q&A. Yes,Amy is all in for Police reform. She also adresses James Carville woke interview, Antitrust,& President Bidens SOTU tonight.

https://t.co/D3iMIntzYH
— jim rice (@rice_ricej) April 28, 2021

by artappraiser on Wed, 04/28/2021 - 7:13pm

Bree Newsome has a lot to say on Mr. Carville's rant, as one might imagine; wonder if she realizes the thing about making his point for him

Ironically it’s Carville who demonstrates classic white liberal racism here with his assumption that Black people can’t understand “jargon” that has mostly arisen directly from Black-led movements https://t.co/s89kT02McJ
— DEFUND & ABOLISH POLICE, REFUND OUR COMMUNITIES (@BreeNewsome) April 27, 2021

People don’t want to openly complain aboutWokeness because they’re afraid of being cancelled

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People don’t want to be called out on their bigotry when they express their discomfort with Black ppl & other marginalized groups demanding social justice
— DEFUND & ABOLISH POLICE, REFUND OUR COMMUNITIES (@BreeNewsome) April 27, 2021

Let’s not forget that the term “wokeness” is a pejorative taken from the phrase “stay woke” which Black activists used to raise awareness around police brutality. And the notion of “cancelling” people began as an inside joke among queer Black ppl online...
— DEFUND & ABOLISH POLICE, REFUND OUR COMMUNITIES (@BreeNewsome) April 27, 2021

... So this language is always loaded w/ racial & class connotations when white ppl use it disparagingly. They divorce it from its original context either knowingly or by ignorance, crediting wealthy white elites on college campuses...
— DEFUND & ABOLISH POLICE, REFUND OUR COMMUNITIES (@BreeNewsome) April 27, 2021

...They only understand how to use it as a way of expressing discomfort with things that challenge white supremacy & heteropatriarchy. Yet the liberal white elite to which Carville belong assume they have a better understanding of it than the poors & the Blacks ever could.
— DEFUND & ABOLISH POLICE, REFUND OUR COMMUNITIES (@BreeNewsome) April 27, 2021

by artappraiser on Wed, 04/28/2021 - 7:24pm

Then there's the Working Families Party:

Tune in to our Facebook Page after Biden’s Congressional Address when we share @WorkingFamilies live stream with @RepBowman who will deliver a response on behalf of the Working Families Party! https://t.co/uRxXPplj9F Lives Matter pic.twitter.com/0TLzLVC2ll
— Black Lives Matter (@Blklivesmatter) April 29, 2021

by artappraiser on Wed, 04/28/2021 - 10:32pm

Whatever else is true about James Carville's wokeness interview with @seanilling, his point about the phrase "Latinx" is objectively correct — actual Latinos don't use it. It is generally dumb politics to call people something they don't wish to be called. pic.twitter.com/NzhMEOZMPH
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) April 29, 2021

by artappraiser on Wed, 04/28/2021 - 11:35pm

here's one possible answer to little white snots condescendingly labeling a southern Texas lady LatinX; she's an American and might be prone to go with those that label her as such:

I went to McAllen to understand what's driving the improved performance for Republicans in South Texas. One answer: Hispanic women https://t.co/bpjh3HcOI2
— Jennifer Medina (@jennymedina) May 2, 2021

by artappraiser on Mon, 05/03/2021 - 6:10am

NEW: Joe Biden is proving progressives wrong. And they're loving it. https://t.co/ItAEqjKSBn
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) April 30, 2021

“Biden ran center-right in the primary and has governed to the left of Obama.”

A 100-days look w/ @aseitzwald at how the president is exceeding expectations with a movement that opposed his candidacy and has long viewed him skeptically.https://t.co/ItAEqjKSBn
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) April 30, 2021

"I don't think they would have been better if Bernie Sanders was the president," Larry Cohen (!), who chairs the Sanders-aligned group Our Revolution, says of Biden's staffing decisions. https://t.co/ItAEqjKSBn
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) April 30, 2021

White House senior adviser Anita Dunn says Biden's progressive critics in the campaign would be less surprised if they "looked at the actual person and not the caricature."

"What he's doing now is totally consistent with what he said as a candidate."https://t.co/ItAEqjKSBn
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) April 30, 2021

Bernie on Biden’s first 100 days https://t.co/ItAEqjKSBn pic.twitter.com/za7P5iP1kq
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) April 30, 2021

People in the “progressives surprisingly pleased with Joe Biden” should reflect a little on why back during the primaries they were so eager to impose litmus tests around Medicare for All, decriminalizing illegal entry, etc https://t.co/nsC4Y2gZpB
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) May 1, 2021

by artappraiser on Sat, 05/01/2021 - 4:56pm

As the US prepares to withdraw from Afghanistan the same way the Russians and British did, we're having this grand celebration about killing one guy 10 years who lured us in there.
— emptywheel (@emptywheel) May 1, 2021

by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 05/01/2021 - 5:11pm

Oh no. Don't tell me the left is going to cancel Dr Cornell West now https://t.co/SxUMfoAgge
— Dave the Progressive Bull (@kingbullyo) May 3, 2021

by artappraiser on Mon, 05/03/2021 - 2:46am

Oh no, Cornel's gonna become one of the adults in the room?

by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 05/03/2021 - 7:37am

Carville knows all about this, I am sure, could have predicted the results of this election

70 to 30, so bitter, so divided? https://t.co/18JeGDUUjM
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) May 3, 2021

Opponents of anti-racism education win big in a bitterly divided election in Southlake, Texas. Conservative candidates who opposed a school diversity plan won every local race, taking about 70% of the vote in the wealthy Dallas-Fort Worth suburb. https://t.co/m7rtlYh3X0
— NBC News (@NBCNews) May 3, 2021

The Woke REALLY ARE A PROBLEM for Democrats. Except for those very young voters who have already become part of it via their education. About which many parents had no idea was going on until the last few years.

I suspect it does create a generational divide, but only among elite educated's of Americans past second generation. I think the young 2nd generation immigrant population that are in college or graduated college recently, they will probably tend to be less true believers in Wokeness, and more skeptical, as they would have intuited totally different messages at home from their environment growing up.

by artappraiser on Mon, 05/03/2021 - 3:53am

in reply to Jilani, interesting what a Canadian citizen sees in woke white New Yorkers commenting at the NYTimes:

This is how this NYT reader is supporting racial justice .........it's my WTF moment on some of these people

Why do they talk about people like they are small children or pets. So condecinding and self important. pic.twitter.com/PlW0Dw9uhM
— KBTY (@MR50565861) May 3, 2021

by artappraiser on Mon, 05/03/2021 - 3:14am

CRT running K-12 school curricula is a very hot topic, many centrists and swing types consider it racist; GOP know it's a winner for them to attack that:

Congrats to Southlake, Hannah, Cam, John, Randy and Amy! Critical Race Theory ain’t coming here. This is what happens when good people stand up and say, not in my town, not on my watch.
— Southlake Families (@SouthlakeFamPAC) May 2, 2021

First In Nation: Idaho’s Republican Gov. Signs Bill Banning Critical Race Theory https://t.co/nWutTLjd89 pic.twitter.com/cwFTMuNgcP
— The Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) April 30, 2021

BREAKING Texas Senate passes #SB2202, banning Critical Race Theory from schools.
— Tim Swain (@SwainForSenate) April 29, 2021

GOP lawmakers warn against 'dangerous' Biden critical race theory effort https://t.co/A04JyruFUy pic.twitter.com/RJPFqrwRCQ
— New York Post (@nypost) April 28, 2021

At the anti-“critical race theory” in schools panel in West St. Louis County today. https://t.co/qxJO8d6LC4
— A. Kuo Hammerman (@akhammerman) April 30, 2021

Critical Race Theory is a conspiracy theory.

Pass it on.
— Kimberly Klacik (@kimKBaltimore) April 30, 2021

by artappraiser on Mon, 05/03/2021 - 4:08am

Conspire + racist = ???
(Jeopardy 2025)

by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 05/03/2021 - 7:30am

To me an underlying current of this debate is that a lot of intellectuals seem to believe that “talking a lot about racism and how it’s bad” is a close substitute for “taking action to improve Black people’s lives” and I think that’s not the case.https://t.co/po3kzd3WTV
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) May 2, 2021

(article by Eric Levitz)

1. Pick a social problem
2. Do the math to discover it disproportionately afflicts Black people
3. Write up that finding

Is a pretty simple content-generating formula and it would be convenient if doing it a lot was also super-effective praxis but I really don’t think it is.
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) May 2, 2021

Me reposting a cartoon I just recently plopped elsewhere that goes with that

Leftists these days... pic.twitter.com/XxjhtNmAih
— Radical Centrist, wrathful tantric deity (@RadCentrism) May 1, 2021

by artappraiser on Mon, 05/03/2021 - 5:55am

If putatively "woke" language can so easily be co-opted by the CIA, is it really emancipatory? Either time to get new language or pay less attention to language. https://t.co/GguxQvC4g5
— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) May 2, 2021

"I am intersectional" -- an actual line in CIA recruitment video. Would encourage watching. https://t.co/kTvR6hg356
— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) May 2, 2021

btw for those who don't recognize the name, Jeet Heer is a long time columnist for The Nation, so he's quite left.

Here's Friedersdor with similar thoughts:

What does it mean about a political ideology's relationship to power and hierarchy when the CIA starts adopting its jargon and frameworks for a recruitment video? https://t.co/2pSjzX72Qa
— Conor Friedersdorf (@conor64) May 3, 2021

by artappraiser on Mon, 05/03/2021 - 6:30am

It's starting to read like a cheap porn script. Not that I know anything about that...

by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 05/03/2021 - 7:24am

The traditional left goals of ending militarism, extending healthcare & labor rights are race neutral, universal rights. What wokeness does is cynically divide us into atomized competing identity factions filled w/hate & resentment so that we lose sight of the our shared humanity
— Lee Fang (@lhfang) May 3, 2021

by artappraiser on Mon, 05/03/2021 - 7:22pm

The popularity of wokeness is that it replacing the tough work of actual governance w/ euphemistic language. Confronted w/a problem: Gun homicide, mass transit, high pharma prices, they respond w/ rhetoric loops, tangents about history & racial resentment, but no concrete ideas.
— Lee Fang (@lhfang) May 4, 2021

The venn diagram between the ultra woke and the ultra nihilistic is a perfect circle. They are self centered, more interested in social media righteousness than solving any complex problem or contributing to society.
— Lee Fang (@lhfang) May 4, 2021

thread does have replies making serious counterpoints

by artappraiser on Tue, 05/04/2021 - 5:17pm

Nice mini history lesson about 90s "PC" by Cathy Young. Then as now, left illiberalism wouldn't ultimately prevail not because it was a myth, but because liberals pushed back against it--in that case, by doing things like founding FIRE.
https://t.co/Jni60MlQTH
— Conor Friedersdorf (@conor64) May 4, 2021

by artappraiser on Tue, 05/04/2021 - 6:06pm

I just remembered this: Obama basically said the same thing a year and a half ago, that "Woke" culture is childish b.s., counterproductive ("you're not going to get that far") and not reality. So I don't get all the shock and awe hearing it from Carville many moons later:

by artappraiser on Fri, 05/07/2021 - 2:59am

I think the tide may be turning, I see several books like this coming out, including this by a sociologist "of color" at Columbia U.:

The book will highlight how wokeness is often deployed as a weapon in this conflict, often at the expense of those who are *actually* marginalized and disadvantaged.

It is a text, then, whose contributions will lie at the intersection of literature on elites, inequality and STS
— Musa al-Gharbi (@Musa_alGharbi) May 6, 2021

Maybe brave of him, we'll see...

by artappraiser on Fri, 05/07/2021 - 3:05am

We are excited to share that our Project Manager, Zara Qureshi, will be talking about identity politics at @dorsethumanists this Saturday 8th May.

For further information & to book your FREE tickets to this event: https://t.co/6Yhwl7ryTt pic.twitter.com/u05KqAQxzu
— The Equiano Project (@EquianoProject) May 6, 2021

In many cases we are witnessing an identity crisis and calling it identity politics.
— Ayishat Akanbi (@Ayishat_Akanbi) May 5, 2021

I'm seeing it even from lefties, that's a key

Stop celebrating rainbow imperialism. pic.twitter.com/7i7HqLXb4M
— Ryan Knight ☭ (@ProudSocialist) May 5, 2021

they're weaponizing identity politics for imperialism and corporatism.
— Jack Jameson (@jack_jameson1) May 5, 2021

Could be that the "Woke" CIA recruitment video was the straw that broke the camel's back? (One thing you've got to say for the CIA is that they do good research! They somehow got across nearly every one of the Woke's pets in that video.)

by artappraiser on Fri, 05/07/2021 - 3:26am

Not just the CIA - the KGB (GRU) has been doing it too - just with less fanfare, plus some cheering from the left. The Russia know narratives for sure.

Guy who makes electric cars, batteris, solar practical to solve global warming while putting people in space = horrid capitalist.

Guy who hacks candidates' campaigns, helps undermine peoples' vote, and is in collusion with corrupt oligarchs who steal complete oil companies and carry out political assassinations = "woke journalist"

by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 05/07/2021 - 4:34am

the problem it appears, is that billionaire brands are tribal property, and the white privileged tribe ain't got no respect for their own like the others do?

Missed this Michael Che quote the other day about Elon Musk and billionaires.https://t.co/nsZiHtr25l pic.twitter.com/SlltJA1g6A
— Teddy Schleifer (@teddyschleifer) May 7, 2021

by artappraiser on Sat, 05/08/2021 - 12:25am

To be fair, i didn't like Musk's tone-deaf comments about masks, but yeah, we whites shouldn't make or break on every damn issue. If I like 70-80% if what someone's about, that's pretty good, no?

by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 05/08/2021 - 1:13am

Carville notes what Democrats have to do to win in the Vox article.

But the Democrats can’t fuck it up. They have to make the Republicans own that insurrection every day. They have to pound it. They have to call bookers on cable news shows. They have to get people towrite op-eds. There will be all kinds of investigations and stories dripping out for god knows how long, and the Democrats should spend every day tying all of it to the Republican Party. They can’t sit back and wait for it to happen.

Hell, just imagine if it was a bunch of nonwhite people who stormed the Capitol. Imagine how Republicans would exploit that and make every news cycle about how the Dems are responsible for it. Every political debate would be about that. The Republicans would bludgeon the Democrats with it forever.

So whatever you think Republicans would do to us in that scenario, that’s exactly what the hell we need to do them.

https://www.vox.com/22338417/james-carville-democratic-party-biden-100-days

Democrats need to go on the attack against Republicans. Attacking the "Woke" diverts from that important national message.

by rmrd0000 on Sat, 08/07/2021 - 12:39pm

If Marjorie Taylor Greene can suggest people shoot people who are offering vaccinations and Madison Cawthorn can say that requiring children to wear masks is Wokeness and face no serious backlash the country is already lost. The Woke are not the problem.

by rmrd0000 on Sat, 08/07/2021 - 12:45pm

"the country is already lost" - more hyperbole

by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 08/07/2021 - 3:15pm

If Democrats always cede slogans to the Republicans and cannot effective label Republicans as authoritarians, they will lose elections. They have to reject, rather than accept labels used by Republicans as mischaracterizations. Republicans believe Biden lost the election and that Democrats eat babies. That is a target rich environment Democrats can use to create an image of Republicans.

by rmrd0000 on Sat, 08/07/2021 - 4:26pm

I note for you that some evil GOP Senators are promoting voting for a $1 trillion infrastructure package today, making sure you know because I presume you want to stay pure and have Democrats reject it all. Must not accomplish anything until they are all dead, the Constitution is changed, something along those lines.

Do you really think anyone in this country who actually votes buys your kind of hyperbole instead of just rolling their eyes?

You belong on a SNL skit as a humorless clueless absurdist character

by artappraiser on Tue, 08/10/2021 - 11:51am

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Former U.S. Ambassador Arrested, Charged With Working As...
Former U.S. Ambassador Arrested, Charged With Working As Secret Agent For Cuba

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Former US Ambassador Arrested, Charged With Working As Secret Agent For Cuba https://t.co/LDwo4ZJI1K
— HuffPost (@HuffPost) December 4, 2023

Read the article at https://www.huffpost.com/entry/manuel-rocha-ambassador-arrested-cuba_n_656d1e2ae4b028b0f3d07478

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[War in Israel, Chapter II] UNRWA under scrutiny
[War in Israel, Chapter II] UNRWA under scrutiny

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[Chapter I news is HERE, Oct. 7 til today]

You don’t get it.
It’s not about an UNRWA teacher who held an Israeli kid hostage in his house.
It’s all about how for 75 years you have destroyed the future of generations of Palestinians, including my family.
My cousins in Arab countries are still not citizens - not even the… https://t.co/nv6anubGhc
— George Deek (@GeorgeDeek) December 2, 2023

Note 'Community Notes' attached to UNWRA's statement.

Read the article at https://x.com/GeorgeDeek/status/1731020551328579863?s=20

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Maduro, Under Pressure, Holds Vote to Annex Territory From...
Maduro, Under Pressure, Holds Vote to Annex Territory From a Neighbor

submitted by artappraiser 11 months ago

Imperialism for me but not for thee?

It's wild that Venezuela is now holding a vote on whether 2/3 of Guyana actually belongs to them! Analysts suggest that Modoru may want military action to pump up his sinking popularity.

Could we have a war in South America?!?

"The people who live in Essequibo are largely… pic.twitter.com/QvMEjkkgwy

Read the article at https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/03/world/americas/maduro-vote-essequibo-guyana.html

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[Where is the GOP headed?] Divisions leave Florida’s House...
[Where is the GOP headed?] Divisions leave Florida’s House Republicans powerless

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The lack of a cohesive delegation has allowed attention-seeking lawmakers to act on their own.

McCarthy: “You have [Rep. Matt] Gaetz, who belongs in jail…”

Gaetz: “Tough words from a guy who sucker punches people in the back. The only assault I committed was against Kevin’s fragile ego.”https://t.co/LctPuz6Pcf

Read the article at https://www.politico.com/news/2023/11/29/divisions-leave-floridas-house-republicans-powerless-00129200

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‘She got so mad at me’: book on the ‘Squad’ details AOC-...
‘She got so mad at me’: book on the ‘Squad’ details AOC-Pelosi clashes

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By Martinn Pengelly in Washington DC for TheGuardian.com, Nov. 30

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tells Ryan Grim life in Congress ‘completely transformed’ after Democratic leader stepped down

Read the article at https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/nov/30/squad-book-aoc-nancy-pelosi?CMP=share_btn_tw

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US health insurers Humana, Cigna in talks to merge -source
US health insurers Humana, Cigna in talks to merge -source

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@ Reuters, Nov. 29

Read the article at https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/us-health-insurers-humana-cigna-talks-merge-wsj-2023-11-29/

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Central Africa’s dinosaur regimes and the art of coup-...
Central Africa’s dinosaur regimes and the art of coup-proofing

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"Both the AU and the intl community place more weight on whether elections are held than whether they are free and fair. Sanctions/expulsions occur when there is a coup but not necessarily when elections are rigged or if an “institutional coup” occurs." https://t.co/m9dNimJP0D
— Cameron Hudson (@_hudsonc) November 28, 2023

Read the article at https://africanarguments.org/2023/11/central-africas-dinosaur-regimes-and-the-art-of-coup-proofing/

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