What desperate politicians will do to stay out of jail
Faced with the option of going to jail or clinging to power, what’s a desperate politician to do?
“Netanyahu and Trump: two desperate men exploiting power to save themselves. Israeli PM growing increasingly Trump-like in willingness to turn a personal crisis into a national one to stay in power and out of jail.” — The Guardian
Swipe to compare for yourself. Attacks on judges. Appealing to religious extremists. Calling for mass deportations. Profiting from seized land…
Greed unlimited
“Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s former White House adviser and his son-in-law, praised the “very valuable” potential of Gaza’s “waterfront property,” suggesting that Israel should remove civilians while it “cleans up” the area.
“Gaza’s waterfront property, it could be very valuable, if people would focus on building up livelihoods,” Kushner said in an interview dated Feb. 15, posted earlier this month on the YouTube channel of the Middle East Initiative, a program of Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, and reported first on Tuesday by The Guardian. “If you think about all the money that’s gone into this tunnel network and into all the munitions, if that would have gone into education or innovation, what could have been done?” — AP
“Leaked document fuels concern Israel plans to push Palestinians from Gaza into Egypt. Israel says ‘concept paper’ isn’t policy, but Palestinians fear ethnic cleansing.” — CBC
Appeal to religious extremists
“Bezalel Smotrich has a history of making inflammatory statements against Palestinians, Arab citizens of Israel, non-Orthodox Jews, and the LGBTQ community including once declaring himself a “proud homophobe.” In 2021, he said David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first prime minister, should have “finished the job” and kicked all Arabs out of the country when it was founded. Earlier that same year, he said members of Israel’s Arab minority communities were citizens “for now at least.” — Times of Israel
Project 2025: Follow Leonard Leo’s unholy war to overthrow American democracy
“Highly organized people who successfully overthrew the oldest democracy in the world.” – HandMaid’s Tale
Leo is funding Project 2025, a scheme to overthrow American democracy to install a Christian dictatorship, just like Gilead from HandMaid’s Tale.
Leonard Leo, the wealthy neo-conservative Catholic puppet master. Leo has funded 60 of over 80 Project 2025 initial advisory groups, including over half the Advisory Board in 2022, using hard-to-track dark money. Leo’s world is a tight knit, overlapping network of friends, Christian Right activists, and GOP lawyers at The Heritage Foundation, the Federalist Society, Congress, and, unexpectedly, the Catholic sect Opus Dei. While Project 2025 represents a roadmap for autocracy – a future theocracy — it’s definitely a Leocracy. — Stop The Coup 2025
How Project 2025 Will Ruin Your Life
TakeAway: Stop desperate politicians from stoking hate and violence to stay out of jail.
Deepak
DemLabs
DISCLAIMER: ALTHOUGH THE DATA FOUND IN THIS BLOG AND INFOGRAPHIC HAS BEEN PRODUCED AND PROCESSED FROM SOURCES BELIEVED TO BE RELIABLE, NO WARRANTY EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED CAN BE MADE REGARDING THE ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, LEGALITY OR RELIABILITY OF ANY SUCH INFORMATION. THIS DISCLAIMER APPLIES TO ANY USES OF THE INFORMATION WHETHER ISOLATED OR AGGREGATE USES THEREOF.
Read in browser »
Reposted from Democracy Labs with permission.
