The Squirrel Guide to the US Election
On the incoherence and depravity of the media and political class' "lesser evil" hysterical careerist posturing and browbeating for genocide
Over the past while I’ve unfortunately had to address pseudo-radical anarcho-Bidenist liberal defenses of the genocidal Zionist rape-supporting Democrats, and show in detail why they are among the most depraved scum on earth.
So I thought it would be helpful to put all these detailed deconstructions of these incoherent liberal genocidal Zionist “lesser evilism” talking points into one place ahead of the election tomorrow.
Table of contents
Bernie Sanders’s incoherent “lesser evil” propaganda and the how politics and power actually works
Yes but still Netanyahu prefers Kamala Harris!!!
Introduction
Everything Lawrence O'Donnell says here is a truism that no one can deny:
My position on the US election, based on that truism, is: Never, under any circumstances, lend your support or vote to liberals, especially not when they are actively laundering, justifying, funding and arming the genocidal mass rape and killing of entire peoples.
Kamala Harris is, as I have repeatedly called her, a Genocidal Zionist Rape Queen, who gleefully laundered video footage of rape-tortured Palestinians at the White House, campaigns with and touts the endorsements of Bush regime scum like Liz and Dick Cheney who instituted vast networks of pedophilic mass rape in Iraq and Afghanistan, and has regurgitated the rape hoax in every interview and speech she has given so as to justify the ongoing genocide and actual rape of Palestinian babies, children, girls, boys, women and men, about which she has not said a single word.
Moreover, as I have also detailed, and can also be read here, Harris began her political career covering up and enabling pedophilic mass rape, which conservatives haven’t said a word about because it involves the Catholic Church.
But the pseudo-radical soc dem liberal progressive then comes in and says: Yes, but she is the “lesser evil”, and it is both our moral and strategic obligation to support and vote for her as such. The very nature of politics and how it “really works” demands us to do this. If you don’t abide by these imperatives, then you’re just a grifter, a liar, stupid, irrational, incapable of grasping four-dimensional political chess as the real world dictates.
So “lesser evilism” has both a moral but crucially also a fake “realist strategic” aspect to its justification scheme. They don’t just morally browbeat you into submission by going “OMG WHAT ABOUT THE GREATER HARM YOU WILL CAUSE BY BEING A PURIST”, they also pretend there’s a strategic rational dimension to it.
Both are patently false, absurd, incoherent garbage, and in fact they are so obviously deranged that it is sickening that anyone dares even pretend otherwise, and the sole reason they can do so is because they are the actual grifters who know that refusing to back Democrats and liberals will lead to career suicide in the media class.
So here is my detailed deconstruction of “lesser evilism”, from its foundational in simplistic utilitarian pseudo-logic, to its extension into the realm of US Presidential politics.
Everything Lawrence O'Donnell says here is a truism that no one can deny:
AOC and the pseudo-radical liberal smearing of anti-genocide third party candidates by appealing to “political realism” and “strategy” over “purism” and “moralism”, Part One (link to thread)
When AOC was a candidate she said: "If you're a one-term Congressmember, so what? You can make ten years' worth of change in one term, if you're not afraid."
Then she became a Democratic Party shill whose job it is to launder Genocide Joe and Zionist Queen Kamala Harris
When AOC was running for office she dismissed attempts by Democrats to blame Hillary's loss on Russia, Jill Stein, the weather, saying instead that they themselves are to blame for being a neoliberal corporate party. Now she shills for genocidal neoliberal Kamala with utter glee.
Listen to AOC before she was elected, and listen to her now. Before she was elected, she didn't blame Jill Stein and the Greens for Democrats losing elections and "enabling Trump". No, she did the opposite: She blamed Democrats for being systematically corrupt neoliberals who have nothing to offer people, have ignored and neglected the working class for decades in favor of serving ruling elites, and in doing so gave rise to Trump.
And in fact, she kept saying over and over again that if the Democratic Party does not fundamentally change from being such a corporatist neoliberal party, it would only enable Trump further and give rise to future Trumps.
Then she was elected and showered with glowing coverage by swooning liberals and received pushback from them whenever she stepped out of line, and decided to become yet another Dem Party shill with pseudo-radical rhetoric on the occasional insta live.
And now she's safe in her seat and preparing for that Senate run and then on to a Presidential run with stints at Colbert and Met Gala appearances and Vogue covers helping her pass the time, with every passing moment becoming ever more like Hillary, "mama bear" Nancy Pelosi (yes, she actually called her that, look it up), and of course her fav momala Zionist Genocide Queen Kamala Harris.
That entire rhetoric AOC has adopted is being hilariously read as an epic based 12 dimensional chess move by pseudo-radicals online, even though it's pure Bill Clinton and Tony Blair. Go read Blair's speeches before he was elected, it's exactly the same.
AOC and the pseudo-radical liberal smearing of anti-genocide third party candidates by appealing to “political realism” and “strategy” over “purism” and “moralism”, Part Two (link to thread)
The line from this deranged rambling mess that all the pseudo-radicals are quoting from their cult leader AOC, "we have a moral obligation to be EFFECTIVE in addition to having a just stance", is just pure liberal centrist rhetoric and self-justification. It's pure Bill Clinton and Tony Blair. And they're celebrating this as a huge novel thought by their epic based yaaas kween AOC.
For those unaware: The standard ideological justification for liberal centrism, when the neoliberals took over the Democrats and Labour, was to argue against the left in the parties that yes, their heart is in the right place, they have the "right stance", but they keep losing to the Reagans and Thatchers, so it's pointless to have those stances as you lose anyway (of course notice there's zero material analysis of why these elections were lost in the first place, and whenever neoliberal centrists lose it is never an indictment of their entire ideology of mimicking Republicans/Tories, then suddenly the "BE EFFECTIVE" line drops away).
So what should be done according to neoliberals on both sides of the Atlantic? We should throw all those principles away, only adopt the vague rhetoric of it with zero foundation in actual policy, become neoliberal shills, adopt the language of the "mythical center" that "appeals to the average person and voter", and then we will finally be able to "BE EFFECTIVE", to quote AOC, and win elections.
Isn't that also the perfect encapsulation of what AOC is now, and has been for quite some time?
And that's also how Tony Blair and Bill Clinton took over their respective parties and made them neoliberal clones of the Republicans and Tories.
And to this very day Blairites and Clintonites in both parties use this same line against the left. That's literally the line they used to destroy Bernie with and also Corbyn: You can't just have the just feel-good stances, you have to "BE EFFECTIVE". And of course we, like AOC and her disgusting vile lies to cover up for the ongoing Gaza Genocide being committed by Genocide Joe and Kamala, are the only ones who know what "BEING EFFECTIVE" entails. The anti-imperialist principled left can't possible "be EFFECTIVE" even though its policies have support among the majority of the population and Democrats/Labour voters.
AOC won't demand that her fav epic Zionist Genocide Queen calls for an arms embargo to actually get a permanent ceasefire even though it is widely popular among the Dem base and has majority support among the broader public, even though that means "BEING EFFECTIVE", because that entire line is just a cover for laundering genocidal right-wing neoliberalism in the hands of liberals, and now also AOC.
AOC's sole purpose in life is to ensure that she can become Senator, and then run for President, and then write her name in history as "the first epic based yaaas kween Latinx President". That's all she cares about, and she will do anything, she will launder a genocide, to get there. That is how vile she is as a human being. How depraved she is.
But there's a problem for AOC and other depraved pseudo-radical liars like her who are laundering the ongoing Gaza genocide to advance their personal political careers. No matter what they say, this is a truism, and the only way to actually "BE EFFECTIVE": https://x.com/zei_squirrel/status/1826705116784717999
To be clear when AOC did her DNC speech and said that Kamala is "working tirelessly" to get a ceasefire, she was intentionally, deliberately lying to advance her personal political career, and Ilhan Omar exposed her for the disgusting depraved liar she is: https://x.com/akela_lacy/status/1826302251113349500
Stop babying this disgusting cynical lying scumbag piece of shit. All these fucking pseudo-radical larpers are like "uwu AOC is kinda sorta right uwuwuwuw" like she's a fucking baby. She is a calculated lying scumbag piece of fucking shit. Look at her: https://x.com/zei_squirrel/status/1781865144085094406
AOC has repeatedly smeared anti-genocide protesters, who are the most moral people in the West, as evil anti-Semites, solely to get a 0.1% boost to her PR ratings among liberals for her Senate run by not getting that ADL-AIPAC hit. She is pure scum: https://x.com/zei_squirrel/status/1711747161564512483
Just days ago she laundered an Israeli baby killing pedophile rapist to again get a boost to her future Senate run by appeasing AIPAC and the ADL. "I'm being pragmatic and epic strategic by laundering Zionist rape-soldiers." 14 year old: "OMG YAAAS KWEEN": https://x.com/zei_squirrel/status/1826085920472265157
I'll just end with this: I know it breaks the hearts of irrelevant liberal pseudo-radical wonk-cunts like James Medlock and Matthew Sitman, who fortunately no one has or ever will hear of, but AOC is not going to be President. Yes, she will run. She will run multiple times. And she will be destroyed so easily in the primary that it will make Kamala Harris' 2020 run look like one of the best primary campaigns in history.
AOC and the pseudo-radical liberal smearing of anti-genocide third party candidates by appealing to “political realism” and “strategy” over “purism” and “moralism”, Part Three (link to thread)
Before AOC being a Nancy Pelosi clone singularly obsessed with becoming Senator and then running for President (which she will lose so badly it will make Kamala's 2020 run look like the best campaign in history), her argument was that it was the responsibility of the Democratic Party to not move so far to the right as to push left progressive voters either into abstaining from elections or voting Green.
That's literally what she said in response to why Hillary Clinton lost in 2016. She didn't blame Jill Stein. She didn't blame "the Greens who only come around during general elections and are predatory."
But she has now fully adopted the talking points of Hillary Clinton/Nancy Pelosi because that's what she is. That's her main goal in life, to become "brat", to become the next Latinx version of Queen Kamala after her run is over.
And again it's the neoliberal rhetoric of "we are really serious about power, but not these dirty hippie vile leftists that aren't Democrats like us who bow to our anointed Dear Leaders. They're unserious and predatory."
Do you know what's predatory and rapey from AOC, since we're going to use language like that?
When she lies to her teenage early twenties ignorant audience by saying "Queen Kamala is working tirelessly to end the genocide" that she actively funds and arms and has pledged to forever support, as she is totally beholden to the Zionist Israeli rape-cult, and since AOC is giving cover to her by lying, that means she is also beholden to it. Hence the rapey part. AOC loves to continue the rape of Palestinian children, girls, boys, women and men. That's why she poses with the relatives of Israeli genocidal baby-killing rape-soldiers: https://x.com/zei_squirrel/status/1826085920472265157
And as I have said before just recently, this neoliberal rhetoric of "we are the serious ones about power" (see https://x.com/zei_squirrel/status/1829430798056878578) is even more deranged and absurd when you consider that AOC's own political project, per her own stated terms, has been an abysmal failure.
The AOC theory of change was we will build more and more members of "the squad", and take over the Democratic Party, and I will devote all my energy to that such that even if I lose after one term it will have been worth it (see https://x.com/zei_squirrel/status/1826087733292577028).
Instead of "growing" that "power", let alone utilizing it in the one moment when she and they could have for example to prevent Nancy Pelosi from becoming speaker again or blocking crucial votes to get their own policies passed or at least voted on which she refused to do for "epic based million dimensional chess power" reasons, what has happened to her precious "squad"?
It just lost two of its key members, Cori Bush and Jamaal Bowman. The only thing AOC did to try to avert that was do last-minute epic rallies that only disgusted everyone even more.
What happened to your epic based TikToks and Instagrams lives there? Why weren't you able to save them? Why weren't you able to "build power" per your own theory of change, but instead lost it?
No, she's not interested in "building power", she is interested in becoming the first based epic Latinx President. That's her life's mission now. She became intoxicated by those invites to the Met Gala and Stephen Colbert and those Vogue and Time Magazine covers. She's a celebrity now. She's our celebrity epic based Nancy Pelosi queen.
You can watch all those deranged ukro-Nazi flag rose emoji loser cucks swooning over her, "OMG YAAAAS KWEEN YAAS LIE TO US MORE ABOUT HOW KAMALA WILL END THE GENOCIDE YAAAAS NEXT PRESIDENT YALL YALL I WAS NOT FAMILIAR WITH HER GAME YALL".
Everyone in the US despises these people, and there will be no greater actual joy than watching brat Kamala lose the election, and then AOC YAAAAS KWEEN lose her primary. Those are two of the events I greatly look forward to in the coming years.
Btw, just to show how much of a disgusting liar AOC really is: The point of a left of Dem candidate running in the general is to act as a pressure point to prevent predator rapey Democrats like AOC from going even further to the right: https://x.com/zei_squirrel/status/1826705116784717999
It would of course be great if the Green Party or any party for that matter was more effective, but AOC and other rapey neoliberal Dem establishment predators like her only bring this up as an excuse to launder the genocidal rapey Zionists she demands unending fealty to.
AOC wants her followers to vote for rape of Palestinian children, that's who AOC is. That's the kind of rapey disgusting depraved scumbag she is, she is laundering rape right now. That's her sole purpose in life, to launder pedophilic child rape, and she does it by lying about what the purpose of a left of Dem run in the general is.
Let's imagine rapey predator AOC got her way, and Jill Stein and Cornel West and the PSL weren't running in the general. It was just the Democrats, and everyone to the left of them pledged total fealty to Democrats. All those Michigan voters, the anti-genocide voters, they all made no demands, they pledged total obedience to rapey predators like AOC and Kamala.
Do you know Kamala's DNC speech that was already a genocide-laundering pro-pedophilic child rape mess? It would have been even worse than that. They would have invited AIPAC speakers at the DNC every night. They would have laundered the rape hoax every minute of the convention to launder the actual mass pedophilic rape of Palestinian children.
And AOC would have still come one to participate in all that, and lie even more brazenly about how great momala is and how she's the best most radical epic based queen alive. Every single day momala would come out with even more deranged Republican policies than she is currently, and even more insane Zionist genocide-laundering. Because there's zero pressure from the left. There is no Jill Stein, there is no West, there is no PSL, exactly like rapey predator AOC wants.
So the ideal scenario for AOC is an even more disgusting genocidal pedophilic rapist Zionist death cult candidate and Party running in the general than is already the case.
She calls this "building power" and "being serious".
also, anyone who chooses this moment to call Jill Stein a "crank" and smear the Green Party, isn't expressing an actual criticism based on reason and facts, they're electioneering for the genocidal Zionist yaas kween pedophile-rape lover Kamala/Walz campaign. So all those Twitch streamers and Youtubers doing the "LOL BUT JILL STEIN IS WEIRD THOUGH LOL LOL" are doing free advertisement for the pedophile-rape Zionist campaign of Kamala Harris. And they're doing it consciously, intentionally, for that very purpose.
Do you know what makes a person a "crank"? When they give speeches at AIPAC as a black woman saying they have loved Israel since their earliest childhood, when they went around homes raising money for it: https://x.com/zei_squirrel/status/1815165619291013301
Now I know Kamala is lying when she says that. She did not go around homes raising money for Israel. That's fucking insane. But imagine just how much of a deranged pathological crank you have to be to say that in public at a speech to advance your personal political career.
How about when someone goes on the DNC stage and lies about how Kamala is "working tirelessly to get a ceasefire", which is a lie because Kamala has vowed to never stop arming and funding the Israeli death and pedophilic rape-cult, which is the only means by which the genocide can be stopped, as Ilhan Omar pointed out: https://x.com/akela_lacy/status/1826302251113349500
That's a crank. A person who does that is a deranged pathological crank. A predatory rapey crank I should add, and her name is AOC.
Claiming you care about rape and sexual violence as you pledge endless funding and arming of a regime that has been confirmed to systematically engage in pedophilic mass child rape, makes you a rapey predatory crank.
Claiming you care about averting the existential threat posed by climate change as you support endless fracking makes you a deranged crank. Celebrating your history of a "tough law and order prosecutor" as you claim to care about the systematically racist legal and prison system, makes you a crank.
Kamala Harris and AOC are among the most grotesque depraved predatory rapey cranks in US politics right now, and they're deflecting it onto Jill Stein and the Greens. It's a copy of the Zionist strategy of every accusation being a confession, unsurprising coming from genocidal predatory rapey Zionists.
Bernie Sanders’s incoherent “lesser evil” propaganda and the how politics and power actually works (link to thread)
Politics is a game of pressure, of force, exerting your influence. The Zionist Israel lobby and others know this very well and play it accordingly: If you cross us, we will use all our leverage against you. If in response to that you lay down all your arms, and say: Ok, we won't use our leverage, our pressure, our ability to hurt you in elections, we won't wage war on you ever when it actually matters and power is being contested during the only moments you care about, these precious spectacles every 4 years, then you automatically lose.
You have nothing. You have already conceded. You have literally nothing.
Bernie knows that. AOC knows that. They all know this, because it is a truism. If Kamala only gets pressure from the Zionist Israel lobby with its immense power and influence to keep the genocide going, to ensure that every day countless Palestinian babies, children, boys, girls, women and men are beheaded, maimed and raped to death, and on the other side there is only Jill Stein and Cornel West and some other marginal third party people, guess who wins in that struggle?
Just listen to her speeches and pronouncements which is a reflection of this balance of forces, and you know who they consider is the more powerful force.
They have calculated: "Alright, Stein, West, the TikTok anti-genocide crowd, we'll some votes from them, definitely, because they are seeing a genocide being livestreamed on a daily basis.
But is it worth their loss? We have Bernie, we have AOC, they're all preventing that dam from breaking for us with their pseudo-radical posing and smears and vile attacks on them, so we can take that hit.
We definitely can't take the hit from the Israel lobby, they have a lot more power versus them, so we'll just keep the genocide and mass rape going."
Do you know what fundamentally changes that calculation such that it will force them to give concessions and accept that they will use their leverage to end the genocide?
If Bernie and AOC and the entire "squad" (whatever is left of it) and the progressive caucus even came out and said: This is our red line. Give us a firm commitment that you will abide by international law, by US law, and by basic minimum moral integrity and humanity and stop the mass murder and rape of Palestinian children, or we will all come out and say that you should not be supported in the election, ensuring your loss.
Then suddenly the power between the Zionist Israel lobby and the anti-genocide movement is equalized, and Kamala's choice, the choice of the Dem establishment, will be clear: Will we lose definitely and keep the genocide going? Or will we adopt the position that the majority of the population wants, and commit to ending the genocide.
Whatever they choose, it is on them what happens, and the anti-genocide movement, actually showed that it believes what it says about the ongoing Gaza genocide and gave the Democratic party a red line: Here and no further. We will not let you do genocide and get away with it, which will stand as a firm line into the future.
If you abandon it, and they actually win the election with the Zionist Israel lobby backing them, the opposite is conformed to them: We must always, under any circumstances, even during a genocide, stand by the Israel lobby because that guarantees a win for us. The left is a joke, they are easily dismissed by our Bernie and AOC lapdogs who smear and pose and get us that segment of votes.
Again, Bernie and AOC know all this, and yet they choose to not use their very real leverage and power to stop a genocide, and instead to continue it.
Every beheading, maiming and rape of Palestinians is on them as much as it is on Genocidal Zionist Rape Queen Kamala and the entire Democratic establishment and liberal media and political class.
For more on the genocidal Zionist depravity of Bernie Sanders see these threads:
https://x.com/zei_squirrel/status/1851258476418240642
https://x.com/zei_squirrel/status/1734079340185276456
https://x.com/zei_squirrel/status/1721316148350701936
https://x.com/zei_squirrel/status/1759718906095141223
AOC and the simplistic utilitarian case for “lesser evilism”: If we don’t support the Democrat, things will only get worse in every respect, ergo we must support them! (link to thread)
One of the common talking points used to defend Democrats and the line of pseudo-argument that AOC deploys, which someone again posted in the replies here, is the whole "utilitarian calculus" type of "lesser evilism": We have to vote Democrats/Labour/[insert neoliberal party] forever and always, because the alternative can only be worse as we know by our rational, logical calculated political projection into the future, both in the short and long term.
This was my response to them:
I'll write a longer post on this because this is the typical talking point that's trotted out as if it means anything, even though I have addressed it before at great length (see threads linked here: https://x.com/zei_squirrel/status/1296491447227645952).
But just to summarize: Any argument that relies on a future projection of politics extending into 4 to 8 years or even longer, with the assumption that it can be perfectly or even remotely closely predicted, and hence you can do a simple utilitarian calculus of X being superior to Y in the present, is intrinsically and empirically false.
Not only is it empirically false, but anyone who decides their political action in the present based on such a false calculus is either intentionally lying, or just ignorant. I don't know in which category you belong, that's for you to decide.
Just to give one recent example: When Ed Miliband, who was seen as being on the left end of the Blairite establishment neoliberal spectrum, lost the election in 2015, everyone thought based on current utilitarian calculations that a further right neoliberal would become the next Labour leader. The "left" had clearly failed, the entire media and political class blamed Miliband's supposedly "left" politics for the failure, so obviously Labour members would now flock to a out and out Blairite who promised a lurch to the right with ironically the exact same language as AOC is deploying right now: We need to be serious about power, we need to build power, we need to win elections, we have a moral obligation to win otherwise nothing matters, etc. etc., that's just pure Bill Clinton Tony Blair self-justifying rhetoric and of course it's unsurprising that now their heir in the US AOC has adopted it.
If you were in the UK in 2013/2014/2015, you would have said the same thing you're saying now in your post in reply to me: What if Ed Miliband loses, and the Tories win, and Labour goes only further right? Is that the "better result" you wanted? Wow, that's so terrible. You're so terrible.
Except you were wrong. Your utilitarian calculus was empirically false, because the entire mechanism doesn't work. It only has the pretense of being a pristine perfect logical rational calculation machine, but in the real world (incidentally this is the problem with utilitarianism in moral philosophy as well), it collapses upon first contact with reality.
Because no one can predict what happens in politics, an intrinsically contingent category of human activity.
What ended up happening is that Jeremy Corbyn ran for the Labour leadership after Miliband as what everyone thought was a joke candidacy which would obviously lose to the very serious good neoliberal Blairites like Liz Kendall and Yvette Cooper. Except Corbyn won quite easily despite all the media smears, and Kendall and Cooper got low single digit votes.
But you would have determined your entire political calculus in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 based on the idea that if Ed Miliband wasn't fully supported and voted for, everything would be lost for the left forever. And you would have been wrong.
Now this example can be reproduced in every recent political context, say the recent French election, the US primaries post Hillary's loss but also the 2016 primary, etc.
The reason for this is because every political moment produces its own active forces that hitherto were inactive and not present, and no one can predict their nature in advance, and it can arise at any moment with great speed and force. In fact, one can make a very good argument, though this would also be purely speculative like your pseudo-calculus is, that a loss for Kamala in the upcoming election will lead to a mass mobilization of the left that can successfully take a shot at power in the 2028 primary, and in the period before expand the electoral left's presence in Congress (remember, AOC and the squad only appeared post-2016 Hillary's loss, and she explicitly framed herself as a result of that loss and what was needed for the Dem Party to recover from it, namely to abandon its failed neoliberal policies. Just watch this interview:
Isn't that ironic btw? The person you are now defending, AOC, the entire squad, the only reason they even exist is because Hillary lost the 2016 election which led to a reflection among liberals to be more open to progressive-left anti-establishment candidates and voices internally. So your calculus, brought back to 2016 ahead of the general, would have led to AOC not even existing right now.
Do you see why this entire line of reasoning only has the pretense of being rational and logical when in reality it is the exact opposite?
Now again, this can only be denied if one is lying, or ignorant of it. I have now explained it empirically to you that it is a factual matter that this is how politics works in the real world, so if you continue to deny it only one option remains as to why you do so.
Even Netanyahu believes Kamala Harris is the “lesser evil” and prefers Trump, so why should we not back her? Are you backing Netanyahu’s candidate? (link to thread)
Already replied to this in detail in the thread below, and you ignored it because you can't answer why David Frum, Bill Kristol, Jeffrey Goldberg, Reid Hoffman, Anne Applebaum, Bill Maher, Sam Harris, all want Genocidal Zionist Rape Queen Kamala to win.
This is not particularly difficult. Why do David Frum, Bill Kristol, Jeffrey Goldberg, Sheryl Sandberg, Haim Saban, Reid Hoffman, Joe Scarborough, Dick and Liz Cheney, basically the entire fanatical genocidal neo-con Zionist media, political and billionaire class want Kamala to win? They have the exact same view as Netanyahu and his regime, so why are they pumping Kamala's campaign full of cash and endorsing her if they don't want her to win? The disagreements over whether Trump or Kamala wins among fanatical genocidal Zionists is like the disagreements between what the best tactical move is in the Nazi high command in 1941. There is no daylight there.
Netanyahu doesn't give a fuck if Kamala wins instead of Trump, he owns her just as he owns Trump. The only difference is that Kamala will maybe occasionally do the rehearsed "Palestinians are kind of human too maybe sort of, btw they're all barbaric sub-human rapists", and the only material effect of that is to help more effectively launder the ongoing genocide and mass rape of Palestinians.
If Kamala is president, she will as she has vowed repeatedly over and over again, gleefully continue the ongoing Gaza genocide and mass rape of Palestinian babies, children, girls, boys, women and men (see https://x.com/zei_squirrel/status/1827034919064736234).
In fact, if she wins the election after having explicitly made that vow, she and establishment Democrats and their liberal media class hangers-on will only be further emboldened to double down on the genocide even more, and drop the second half of that sick grotesque genocide-laundering script, "ummm maybe they sort of deserve self-determination lol lmao btw remember they're all sub-human rapists!!!" A script given to her that she reads off dutifully every time she's asked about the ongoing genocide and mass rape of Palestinians that is the exact copy of Genocide Joe's script: https://x.com/zei_squirrel/status/1827032583479435730
A script that btw is worse than what George Bush used to say. He actually referred to the occupation explicitly: https://x.com/zei_squirrel/status/1823246051236606427
Meanwhile Kamala's first act in the Senate, after expressing and vowing her lifelong loyalty to AIPAC, was to condemn the Obama admin for not vetoing a UN resolution condemning settlements in illegally occupied territory: https://x.com/zei_squirrel/status/1815178908263686297
In fact, Kamala winning will only make the genocide all the more effective, because now it's a black woman who is justifying and laundering it as all the liberals swoon over her. "OMG BASED YAAAAS KWEEN BEHEAD AND RAPE THOSE PALESTINIAN BABIES AND CHILDREN KWEEEN YAAAAS YAAAS". Obama redux, except she's infinitely more fanatical and deranged in her Zionist mania. She is the Genocidal Zionist Rape Queen: https://x.com/zei_squirrel/status/1843287572719730718
None of this is speculative or hypothetical, it's purely descriptive and empirical: Just look at the last year and how Genocide Joe and Kamala, in their most vulnerable position politically as they are heading for a tight election, did not bow an inch, not one inch to the anti-genocide mass movement, but in fact spit in their faces repeatedly, over and over again, with utter glee.
No, you will not speak at the DNC. No, we will not acknowledge the actual documented mass rape of Palestinians by the same Israeli pedophile rape-soldiers we fund and arm, as we smear and dehumanize every Palestinian as a sub-human barbaric rapist every single time we talk about them.
No, we will not adhere to any of the pathetic "red lines" we set out as Netanyahu breaks them over and over again and we leak these bullshit "BIDEN SAID FUCK HIM IN PRIVATE OMG OMG" talking points to all the more effectively launder the genocide we fully and unconditionally fund and arm.
They have said that they are perfectly happy to throw the election, as long as their Zionist donors and the genocidal Zionist rape and death-cult, is fully safe and secure to do what it wants, to behead, maim, and rape the entire Palestinian people, and now also the Lebanese, Yemenis, Iraqis and soon the Iranians.
If this is how they behave at their politically most vulnerable and weakest moment, how do you imagine they will behave if they win on with this campaign?
Yeah, I'm sure they'll suddenly see the light and start listening to the anti-genocide mass movement half of which will join the swooning brigade over the "first black woman who has to be given a chance!" once there is nothing on the line for them anymore.
A final point, and a very important one: There is now in Congress a small set of people who are critical of Israel and the genocide, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, you can even include AOC in that if you like despite her gleeful laundering of genocidal Israeli rape-soldiers and smearing of anti-genocide protesters (see https://x.com/zei_squirrel/status/1826085920472265157).
As I have pointed out in detail before in the threads below, how did these people get into Congress in the first place? They got into Congress in the post-2016 period as a direct consequence of Hillary's loss. The loss of the Democratic establishment in 2016 is what gave them all, including AOC as she explicitly ran on a campaign calling this out, the chance to become elected and get into Congress:
https://x.com/zei_squirrel/status/1834697769166291030 https://x.com/zei_squirrel/status/1829430798056878578
If Trump had won in 2016, there would be no AOC. There would be no Ilhan Omar. There would be no Rashida Tlaib. It is only because Genocide Joe and Kamala were heading the Democratic party that liberals began swooning over their supposed power and security and "we need to go moderate and safe now", and got rid of Jamaal Bowman and Cori Bush and are ready to replace Omar, Tlaib and the others who remain principled with another black-face genocidal Zionist copy of Kamala.
So again, none of the things I'm saying are hypothetical of speculative. We have actual recent history proving it, demonstrating it. It's empirical fact that liberals are more than happy to sit back and watch the mass genocidal slaughter and rape of an entire people, as long as it's done by their side, by a Kamala YAAAS KWEEN or Joe ice-cream eating grandpa.
Actually I have another point that is essential. How will the liberal base, and by this I don't mean the aforementioned genocidal Zionist media-pundit and political class who will never abandon Zionist fanaticism, I mean the average Democratic voter, how will they react to the fact that Netanyahu handed the election to Trump?
You see that's where the Netanyahu side of the Nazi high command in 1941 has a tactical disagreement with the David Frum wing. The latter believe that the only reason there is so much anti-Israel sentiment in the political space in the first place is exactly because the Netanyahu wing are overtly siding with Republicans and thereby branding the entire project as a right-wing conservative cause. They're tainting their precious beloved Zionism and making it toxic for liberals, who comprise one half of the political power base in the US and West more generally.
And they know that after 2016 that is why a Tlaib and Omar and AOC were elected and for the first time in a very long time if not ever the US political class had a representative for the Palestinian side.
The liberal base will be absolutely enraged and furious that Netanyahu and that wing of the genocidal Zionist project threw the election to Trump, and they will act accordingly no matter how desperately the Dem establishment will throw themselves on that bomb and go "NO ACTUALLY IT WAS IRAN! RUSSIA! CHINA!!! NOT ISRAEL, IT WAS NOT ISRAEL!!!!"
And again, none of this is speculative. It happened in 2016, and now it will be on a much grander scale given how much more overt and explicit the Netanyahu wing's backing of Trump has been.
Also no one can dispute what Lawrence O'Donnell says in the clip below about how politics works. If Greens, West and others weren't running Kamala would be even more emboldened in her depraved genocidal Zionist neoliberal mania. That's an indisputable fact: https://x.com/zei_squirrel/status/1826705116784717999
Yes but still Netanyahu prefers Kamala Harris!!! (link to thread)
Netanyahu believes he will be better off with Trump, and Benny Gantz believes he will be better off with Kamala, just as David Frum believes the latter while Ben Shapiro believes the former. The question is: Why do these figures who all have the same steadfast fanatical devotion to the genocidal Israeli death cult have the luxury to pick and choose between Kamala and Trump as if it's a choice of what color clothing to wear or flavor of ice cream to have?
Because it's utterly meaningless. As I said in that thread, it's like two field marshals in the Nazi high command in 1941 having a tactical disagreement over which village to take first.
But there's a more important point I also mentioned there, and that is the argument put forth by the David Frum/Bill Kristol/Jeffrey Goldberg/Sam Harris/Benny Gantz/Isaac Herzog types.
They believe that if Israel goes too far to the right and becomes too explicit in its disdain and hatred of liberal pieties, too open in their glee for murder and rape, they will lose one half of the Western political class and its base permanently, and in doing so, they will mortally threaten the very existence of their beloved Israel and its ability to successfully complete the genocide and establish Greater Israel.
Instead, they believe that it is essential for Israel's survival and to allow it to effectively complete the ongoing genocide to launder it with the rhetoric and symbolism that appeals to this very same liberal class. Israel is just defending itself, it adheres to international humanitarian law, it punishes rapists rather than celebrating them a la Ben Gvir, it's "the only democracy in the Middle East".
And who can most effectively aid them in this effort? They correctly have decided that that's Kamala Harris. The black woman who will drape her identity markers over Israel as an impenetrable protective shield, and the entire liberal class will happily join her in that effort, because after all, it's their duty to do so for the first black woman president. That's a given.
Also, she gives them the cover of liberal rights speak as they commence the genocide: We believe in Palestinian self-determination, as ethnic cleansing commences, we believe in Palestinian human rights, as Gaza is resettled, we believe in the sovereignty of the Palestinian people, as the West Bank is formally annexed.
That's much more effective. It gives not only the entire rights crowd in the West the language and rhetoric they need to justify and launder it all, including at all the major media organizations, but also the Arab puppets in Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, UAE, who will also love that they can say: Look, momala says she believes in Palestinian sovereignty and human rights! Ignore the annexations and ethnic cleansings, she sees and hears us and them!
It's not an accident that historically Israeli Labour governments have been much more successful in forwarding the project of Greater Israel than Likud has been, as Norman notes in the clip below:
How do you know that Netanyahu's estimation of how Israel can best and most effectively complete the genocide with a Trump rather than a Kamala, by just going entirely mask-off and losing the liberal class and all the institutional heft that comes with it and opposition that engenders rather than its active support, is more accurate than the estimation of the Goldbergs, Frums, Haim Sabans and Bill Mahers?
The answer is that you don't know. And Netanyahu doesn't know.
So this appeal to Netanyahu's belief that he will be better off with adopting this tactic for the genocide rather than that tactic for the genocide even though they're both the same strategy, is just intrinsically based on flawed logic and assumptions.
Incidentally, since you mention Chomsky, this is exactly why his "lesser evilism" argument was always incoherent. It assumed that a utilitarian calculus is possible, that you can accurately predict the future based on the present concerning something so contingent and volatile as politics, when the entirety of history, including US electoral history, completely disproves that.
Just one example of that: If you don't have Clinton in the 1990s and the neoliberal revolution, then you don't have Trump in 2016. So the "lesser evil" at the time turned out to be the "greater evil" in the longer term, shifting the entire political spectrum to the right. That's also Chomsky btw.
Anyway, I addressed the entire flaw of the utilitarian thinking underling "lesser evilism" in greater detail in the threads here: https://x.com/zei_squirrel/status/1830407553206894979
Liberal pseudo-radicals do not actually believe in “lesser evilism”, as they never apply it to any other context aside from advancing their personal careers in the media and political class by browbeating everyone into submission to them during elections, Part One (link to thread)
The Western progressive liberal-left cretins demand you must denounce Hamas, otherwise you are beyond the pale. But you must also vote for Joe Biden, the butcher of Iraq, who has the blood of a million Iraqis on his hands. These are the scum who moralize without shame.
Joe Biden has killed millions of people, hundreds of thousands of women and children and babies, in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Palestine. But you must love him. He is our daddy. He licks icecream. He is the lesser evil. Oh you didn't denounce Hamas? MONSTER, MONSTER.
No fuck you you scumbags. You are genocidal depraved scum. You don't care about human life, you are in the death cult of the US empire. The mass murder of children, women, is like the killing of insects to you. Then you dare pose as brave moral paragons. Look at this:
Yanis Varoufakis: "Those who are trying to extract from people like me a condemnation of Hamas will never get it. And they won't for a very simple reason. Apartheid is always going to procure violence. The criminals here are not Hamas. It is the West."
Here is deal for you AOC, Bernie, Naomi Klein, all this liberal-left trash that is now beating its chest "OMG WE HATE HAMAS, WE PROMISE, THE TANKIES ARE EVIL, ANTISEMITES!!": I will denounce Hamas when you denounce and refuse support for Biden. Have minimal moral integrity, scum
American progressive soc dems: "Sure, Hamas is bad, they do some terrible stuff, but their policy on trade unions and healthcare and the climate is better than that of Republicans, so we have to support them." This is actually unfair, because Biden has mass murdered millions.
Liberal pseudo-radicals do not actually believe in “lesser evilism”, as they never apply it to any other context aside from advancing their personal careers in the media and political class by browbeating everyone into submission to them during elections, Part Two (link to thread)
If liberals actually believed in "lesser evilism" they would all support Hamas and Hezbollah, as by any conceivable metric they are Saints as compared to not only the genocidal Israeli rape and death-cult, but also their cult leaders like Genocide Butcher of Iraq Joe and Kamala.
Genocide Joe is a serial sadistic rapist (see https://x.com/zei_squirrel/status/1772813078784000443), and has personally overseen the mass murder and rape of millions of babies, children, boys, girls, women and men across the world since he began his political career, up to this very second in Palestine and Lebanon. Liberals turned him into a kind ice-cream loving grandpa, and then got their "progressive" cuck faction to demand everyone support him as the "lesser evil".
Genocidal Zionist Rape Queen Kamala Harris began her career laundering and enabling pedophilic mass rape, and continues to do so in Palestine today (see https://x.com/zei_squirrel/status/1831114747829248016), as she campaigns with Liz and Dick Cheney who killed and raped millions: https://x.com/zei_squirrel/status/1760300961388478841
So liberals and "progressives" are perfectly happy, in fact gleeful, about supporting these mass murdering, baby beheading, pedophilic rapist genocidal scum, and in fact idolize them, turn them into fun cute meme-politicians, momala coconut pilled, but Hamas is pure evil.
No, you are pure evil, and the entirety of the rest of the world outside your small depraved pathological bubble of narcissistic scum-fuck freaks knows it. And they despise you, because they see you for what you are behind your thin veneer of smug self-satisfied pseudo-moralism that you desperately use to browbeat everyone into submission to your genocidal Zionist death and rape-cult.
One more day.
I was watching this Pod Save America episode a while back, a mistake that I will never make again, and these smug liberal scumfuck cunts were sitting there going "oh my god, Hezbollah is so evil, they're so terrorist and evil, do you remember when they supposedly targeted civilians? Oh my god, they're so sub-human and evil!"
These are ghouls who were officials in the Obama regime, that literally brought back slave markets to Libya (see https://x.com/zei_squirrel/status/1672335941199884289) They oversaw a vast pedophilic child trafficking and murder network in Afghanistan. US troops created and maintained that network under Obama (see https://x.com/zei_squirrel/status/1732075587865367034), as these Pod Save cunt bros were whitewashing and laundering it all for him. These scum have murdered and raped across the world personally, singlehandedly, to such a vast extent, numbering in the hundreds of thousands if not millions, and then they sit on a podcast and play the paragons of moral virtue: "Ummm, Nasrallah was a bad guy, he's the modern Hitler."
No, you are the modern Hitlers, and the fact that you can make millions sitting on a bullshit podcast pontificating about how moral and saintly you are as you denounce those evil dirty brown sub-humans, just reveals the sick depravity of the Fourth Reich US-NATO empire in which you live and thrive.
Liberal pseudo-radicals do not actually believe in “lesser evilism”, as they never apply it to any other context aside from advancing their personal careers in the media and political class by browbeating everyone into submission to them during elections, Part Three (link to thread)
The Houthis are pure evil monster spawns from Hell who must be bombed mercilessly and killed. Also Joe Biden is a kind old grandpa progressive liberal Saint and his genocidal mass murder of millions of Iraqis, Afghans and Palestinians is irrelevant and everyone must support him.
Do you see how depraved Western liberals and pseudo-radical "soc dems" are? How they invoke their deranged Lesser Evil Principle to justify supporting a genocidal mass killer, then quickly withdraw it when it comes to anyone daring to resist the US empire?
https://x.com/zei_squirrel/status/1712159989362467325
Here you have genocide Joe Biden, serial rapist who has killed millions, hundreds of thousands of children, tens of thousands of babies, and that's just outside the US, and these depraved cunt cretins Sanctify him while Hamas and the Houthis are pure evil:
https://x.com/zei_squirrel/status/1732174147206230259
What happened to your bullshit "Lesser Evilism" that you love browbeating everyone with into supporting a genocidal serial rapist mass killer? Western liberals have no principles, only interests. More specifically US-NATO-Israeli imperial interests. They are the purest scum alive.
Whenever you see liberals daring to pull this move on you, ask them: Do you support Hamas and the Houthis against the genocidal Israeli regime because they are clearly the "lesser evil" by your own proclaimed standard for moral action? They will say no. Then tell them to fuck off.
Whatever you do, do not vote for genocide serial rapist Joe Biden. Vote for Jill Stein, Cornel West, the PSL candidates Claudia De la Cruz and Karina Garcia, or just abstain. That is the only principled and coherent action for anyone with basic moral decency and humanity.
This is actually fucking insane. We are talking about not voting for genocide Joe being some horrific morally fraught thing to do. That genocidal mass killer should be arrested and charged with war crimes and hanged. The depravity of the liberal class knows no bounds.
When you dare resist the US-NATO-Israeli empire, the entire Western media class, with liberals leading the way, immediately jump into action to vilify you as pure evil spawns from hell. Bolsheviks, Mao, Castro, Viet Cong, and now Hamas and the Houthis: https://x.com/zei_squirrel/status/1716223745365328127
The methods are always the same: Baby killers, rapists, beheaders, torturers, terrorists. This atrocity propaganda with manufactured "evidence" is deployed to provide talking points to liberals and pseudo-radicals to disseminate further. They admitted it: https://x.com/zei_squirrel/status/1719700058583482770
But no matter how much these depraved genocidal scumbags lie, from the NYT and BBC to pedophile YouTubers and gusano streamers, it will not wipe away the courage and heroism of those who dared take up arms against the murderous US-NATO-Israeli empire: https://x.com/zei_squirrel/status/1746447473629864225
The fundamental incoherence and inanity of the foundation of utilitarian “lesser evilism” pseudo-logic masquerading as hyper-rational realistic political analysis, Part One (link to thread)
You shouldn't take anyone who bases their politics on a proclaimed utilitarian calculus seriously because it's an inherently normative position masquerading as based on Reason and Principle. for example Biden's body count is infinitely higher than trump's, just with Iraq + crime bill.
Then the counterargument will be "yeah but that's in the past, we only look to the future!" seems like quite a shitty moral system as that'd absolve Hitler and anyone else as long as you pick the right time-frame. but ok, let's go with that: only future actions, Biden vs Trump.
Anyone arguing that a Biden admin isn't highly likely to cause less harm than a trump admin in that specific time-frame isn't being serious. Yes, for the 4 to 8 years of a dem-run white house, there'll most likely be a lower body count produced. but time doesn't stop after that.
Simply negating the longer term effects of a Biden admin from your utilitarian calculus, which is what every hack who proclaims to be Reasonable and Principled does either implicitly or explicitly, means you're just fine-tuning the calculus to suit your ideological needs/biases.
Just as trump didn't appear out of nowhere but was the product of decades of neoliberal policies pushed by republicans and, crucially, entrenched by dems, whatever spike in body count caused after a Biden admin must be taken into account as well. and that doesn't look pretty.
We have evidence from Clinton and Obama that what came after was an exponentially worse outcome, with spikes in body count. hell, dems like Biden happily went along with causing it, like with the iraq war. there is no reason to believe the same won't happen after a Biden admin.
Anyone saying otherwise by fine-tuning the time-frame to limit it to 4 or 8 years while pretending this is Scientific, Reasonable, Principled, is lying to you. they're a scam-artist. and the reason they're doing it is because they have no better arguments to make. it's pathetic.
If you want to make an argument based on intrinsic values, like how one should act to prevent any harm being done under any circumstances (Chomsky's view may appear utilitarian but if you inspect it more closely it's based on a deontological core), that's fine. I can respect that.
At least that's honest and doesn't pretend to be based on some bullshit moral arithmetic that in fact is the height of immorality because it excuses all the untold harm done by ghouls like Biden in the past while erasing from view all of it that will be done in his wake.
I've discussed the inherent incoherence of purely consequentialist/utilitarian approaches in more detail in this thread. basically it's ideology masquerading as Reason and Principle. works great on 14 year olds under the spell of some surrogate e-daddy.
The fundamental incoherence and inanity of the foundation of utilitarian “lesser evilism” pseudo-logic masquerading as hyper-rational realistic political analysis, Part Two (link to thread)
The key problem with any kind of consequentialist ethics is that humans are fallible, not perfect rationality machines with perfect knowledge of reality and, by extension, the future (assuming determinism, which is itself a big assumption to make).
There are too many variables, which are constantly changing and shifting, to be able to have any kind of predictive ethical system upon which consequentialism relies. this remains the case even if you reduce the scale or add qualifiers like "likely outcomes" to any actions.
This is also why you often end with diametrically opposed actions that can both be reasonable justified by reference to consequentialism: due to the preponderance of variables which can be interpreted in a variety of ways (this or that aspect brought together in this or that way).
You can argue for communism with consequentialism, or you can argue for neoliberalism. hell, a nazi can make a consequentialist case. it's all just a reflection of your own normative biases/ideology, because there is no objective predictive system. we can't tell the future.
It doesn't provide a means by which to adjudicate between rival conceptions of the future, and it's impossible for any ethical system to do so, because again, we aren't perfect rationality machines, and that's assuming determinism.
Of course these are classic criticisms of consequentialist ethics, that it erects an absurd conception of humans as perfectly rational utilitarian calculus machines, which only exist in some philosophers' delusions. but too often people just take it for granted as common sense.
And that's taken advantage of by hacks who add it to their particular political positions to make it seem as if they're not outcomes of their particular normative dispositions, but rather of an Objective, Rational, Logical analysis of Reality, which they have perfect access to.
Don't buy into that bullshit. they can't tell the future. they're not infallible rationality machines. they're not somehow removed from ideology and just "telling it like it is". don't be browbeaten into believing you have to do something because they pretend they're demi-gods.
Anyway, I've always thought that utilitarianism, deontology and virtue ethics all grasp one aspect of humans' multifarious (and yes, contradictory) ways in which they deal with ethical issues. the same person switches from one to the other intuitively, depending on circumstances.
In embryonic form, as a kind of intuition, which is how most people use them, they're all fine. but cutting them out of a broader range of ethical dispositions & turning them into separate incompatible systems, while useful for academic seminars, is meaningless for everyday life.
Virtue ethicists (at least the good ones, which are typically the classics: stay far away from analytical philosophers doing virtue ethics) get closest to grasping this because they focus on the fallibility and contradictory nature of humans. See also Wittgenstein on ethics.
I very much appreciate you doing this - I was permanently banned from Twitter / X a couple of years ago - for what reason I am not sure - and as a consequence I have missed many of your threads.
Please consider doing the same for all of your great work. And all the best.
Upon reading this superb essay I noted somethings to comment about.
I'd posted on X numerous times about Harris's cover-up/shielding of pedophilic Catholic priests in San Francisco when she was DA. From Lee Fang's 2019 Intercept article it was quite clear that she did this because the Catholic Church in SF is politically powerful and this was the politically expedient thing to do. I wondered over and over again why this obvious flaw was ignored by everybody, including her political enemies on the right. Your explanation makes sense, and I had never thought about it, and that is that the right did not want to bring up anything so unfavorable towards the Catholic Church.
Besides the comment above I have another observation to share and that is that in the videos AOC is way more relaxed, genuine and authentic in her voice, facial expressions and body language than she is in her rather new-found remake of herself in the image of Nancy Pelosi. If she continues in her high-pitched and forced language and mannerisms of lies and deceit--e.g., Harris is tirelessly working for a cease-fire--she will certainly lose the bid for presidency that she's seeking for her future. It's offensive, though of course I can't speak for everyone.
Thank you for your thoughts and looking forward to reading your work again. I just wish it wasn't about genocide.