Well, it was nice while we had it...
A big majority of Gen Z apparently don't know what it is
that 'Independence Day' is supposed to be commemorating.
Which doesn't exactly bode well for the prospects of *Re-Independence*.

Although if we ever do manage that, maybe it would be a good idea to forgo the empire business and try something like something novel like a democratic constitutional republic.

About half-way down down this article about how the Israeli Lobby was throwing enormous amounts of money to defeat Cori Bush and Dave Bowman, I saw this:

I know it's popular for the online left to hate Democratic progressives even more than conservatives, but do you hate them more than apartheid and ethnic cleansing?

Back in 2018 AIPAC thought that “We must keep the support for Israel bipartisan,” he said. “This is a strategic asset for Israel’s security, and your work here today is more important today than ever before.” Of course that was the center-left Labour Party, and Israel politics is far right-wing now.

The blame/credit for Nina Turner losing two times in a row can be applied to one specific special interest group.

MoveOn, a progressive advocacy group with millions of members, is calling on Democratic presidential candidates to boycott AIPAC's annual conference.

While the GOP is still under the control of the pro-Israeli lobby, it appears that the Democratic Party is slipping out of their grasp. It started with the anti-BDS bill.

One can only be gobsmacked by the Orwellian tactic of claiming that a quotidian phrase, uttered by millions for decades, has suddenly become an anti-Semitic insult. ("Its all about the Benjamin's, baby.") This is weaponized sophistry, aka casuistry. If we go down this road, saying "I wouldn't touch that with a ten foot pole." is going to be construed as anti-Polish. The metaphor of the boiling frog will be taken as an insult to French mentality.

The obvious (to me) response to the fabricated and orchestrated outrage about Representative Ilhan Omar's remark is to send her a $100 bill. If she is going to be crucified on a cross of Benjamins, she might as well have some of them.

The largest and most powerful foreign government lobby that legally meddles in American elections opened its annual conference by reaching out to people it has nothing in common with.