Notices by toussaint (toussaint@newsie.social), page 3

i said Lewinsky scandal but i forgot, he was in charge of the Flowers scandal/cover-up way before Clinton was even elected
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/1998/01/stephanopoulos-analyzes-his-own-crime.html

People think this means biden is actually thinking abt quitting, he s not, he'll have to be forced out.
What he is doing is setting expectations high, so when he passes this 'test' interview friday, it'll seem like a big deal and enough to quiet the calls for him to leave. They picked George Stephanopoulos of ABC for a reason, he is NOT a journalist, he is a DNC operative from the Clinton White House, he was the one that said Gennifer Flowers WHO??? and lied so much for Bill that he had to quit

there was a lot of movement to get Biden to drop out yesterday. There were leaked poll numbers, Rep Lloyd Doggett said quit, along with Carville.

BUT most are waiting on friday for biden to do an interview to see if he can pass that test. Of course he will, theyve gone to a friendly journo, who'll make sure the edited package will look 'normal'. Ppl will argue all weekend abt how much it matters or doesnt. That brings us to monday where the #CorpoDems will again tell everyone that its too late

i can see people are learning the wrong lessons from Jamal Bowman's defeat. He's just the latest in a long line of challengers from the left side that get defeated by the establishment who prefer the right side of the duopoly.
India Walton, a socialist, won the democratic primary for mayor of Buffalo & the entire party closed ranks to help the corrupt incumbent's write-in campaign. #CorpoDems spent millions defeating Nina Turner.
The morale of this story is; true reformers need their own party

the corporate democrat party is making it absolutely clear they will not be reformed from the inside, they will not let reformers inside in the 1st place. The Left must form their own party & ONLY work in coalition w/ #Corpodems when they come around to our side of an issue, otherwise let their failing policies & people fail. The Left is the only thing holding the party above water, its time to let them fail so something new can be born. The dems are bought& paid for & we cant afford to even bid

From: Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec

"Massachusetts has the lowest incarceration rate in the U.S., but the U.S. puts so many people in cages that Massachusetts is 20% higher incarceration rate than Saudi Arabia, 50% higher than China, 100% higher than France, and 700% higher than Japan."
#ACAB #DEFUND https://www.prisonpolicy.org/global/2024.html

American Capitalism is just all scams now.
We have to break up these huge corps that have more power than governments or we must globally regulate them better.
Did you know Florida closed its wage theft unit years ago and it never re-opened?
#CapitalismIsKillingYou https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/06/13/apple-workers-tax-form-left-on-office-printer-showed-he-made-10000-more-than-a-woman-doing-the-same-job-now-shes-suing/

"Since the beginning of 2020, grocery prices have risen 25%, significantly higher than wages."
#bidenomics https://prospect.org/economy/2024-06-12-war-in-the-aisles/

the main reason consumer prices went down .1% last month is because of the 5% drop in oil prices. i think this will be short lived since it is the start of summer driving season and oil is already up 5% in June. Also, shelter prices continue to rise
#bidenomics https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/crude-oil

The State Dept says a big ol' NO COMMENT on any questions about using US intel to help #ApartheidIsrael hide in an aid convoy to trojan horse their way pass hamas, rescue 4 hostages by killing 3 other hostages and 274 civilians, and then use our new aid pier as cover to land a helicopter and escape with the 4 hostages. Nope, nothing to see here folks
#freepalestine

by any metric #immigration is down at its lowest point of biden's presidency outside of when the border was closed for covid, but that wont stop him 'cracking down' and issuing a executive order today to basically implement trump's border policy. i guess he has given up on the Left and will only go after right wing voters. But they have their dream guy running, they dont need you joe. All he is doing is legitimizing the border as a 'crisis' like Fox lied to them all along
https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/southwest-land-border-encounters

the savings rate in the US has been going down for ever generation, but it is now NEGATIVE and has been for more than a year, 5 quarters, which is the longest period since The Great Recession. The savings rate is a leading indicator, which means it moves before the general economy and is one indicator economic predictors like the Conference Board use
#bidenomics

RIP to a real one, Bill Walton, socialist sympathizer

The Pentagon has never successfully passed an audit and cannot account for over half of its assets.

Lockheed Martin gets more money from the US government than the Dept of Education

Why are taxpayers spending nearly $1 trillion a year to enrich a few arms manufacturers? #CapitalismIsKillingYou
https://newrepublic.com/article/181289/stop-war-profiteering

"The U.S. backed off sanctioning an IDF battalion w documented human rights violations including actions that led to the death of an American. The leader of the battalion’s U.S. nonprofit arm (yes) has given almost $100k to AIPAC’s super PAC"

thats right, in addition to the billions we give #ApartheidIsrael for the IDF, each battalion has a dedicated non-profit they use as a slush fund to do illegal settlements. Biden knows this while he 'sanctions' them
#freepalestine https://theintercept.com/2024/05/23/aipac-donor-stephen-rosedale-idf-netzah-yehuda/

#ApartheidIsrael put out the word to their paid drones to say: NO EQUIVALENCE between hamas & them.
ok. Lets just take 2023, by Oct 7th, it was already the deadliest year for palestinians outside of a war. The 1200ppl hamas killed just barely evened up the death numbers. But when you compare kidnaps, israel took 1000's w/o charge or trial & tortured them, hamas has taken 100's, so yeah, not equal. If all 1200ppl hamas killed on 10/7 were kids, israel has killed 10x that + 1200
#freepalestine

these folks seem to think the ICC judges should issue those arrest warrants against Bibi et al
#freepalestine https://www.ft.com/content/aa2089c5-6388-437d-bf5c-9268f3a788ce

1) its better than nothing
2) it upholds my moms rule of being better than a stick in the eye
3) at least history will note that not all of humanity were craven genocidal maniacs
#freepalestine https://youtu.be/tdJNAgI7e0I

More Perfect Union:
Red Lobster had $2.3B in sales in 2021. Now it's filing for bankruptcy. Some blame endless shrimp, but the truth is simpler: private equity
Golden Gate Capital, a private equity firm, bought them in 2014.

To finance this deal, Golden Gate sold off Red Lobster's real estate to another entity —American Realty Capital Properties — and then immediately leased the restaurants back.
Suddenly, restaurants had extra rent expenses...
#CapitalismIsKillingYou
https://www.businessinsider.com/red-lobster-endless-shrimp-bankruptcy-private-equity-debt-real-estate-2024-5

#ApartheidIsrael learned everything they know abt genocide form the US:

"39 years ago today the City of Philadelphia dropped a bomb on a rowhouse on Osage Avenue belonging to MOVE, a West Philadelphia-based Black liberation and activist group. The bombing and fire killed 11 people, and destroyed 61" homes. https://inquirer.com/move-bombing/