June 4 (Reuters) - Karine Jean-Pierre, who was former President Joe Biden’s press secretary at the White House from 2022 until 2025, has left the Democratic Party and is now an independent, according to the publisher of her forthcoming book.
“We need to be clear-eyed and questioning, rather than blindly loyal and obedient as we may have been in the past,” she was quoted as saying by Legacy Lit, part of the Hachette Book Group, that will release her book ‘Independent’ in October.
looking for a spot to grift with the gop. just like all the dinos that switch to independant, to siphon votes from the DEMS in future elections.
Hey me too.
I joined the Dems for Bernie. Nearly ten years later nothing good has come of it.
If they prop of AOC I will consider it, but I’d rather we have more parties. To only have two is absurd
AOC has no interest in becoming potus, she said she stays in the house, because more can be done there.
We need a 3rd party and now. Dems aren’t getting it and we can’t keep waiting.
I can’t blame anyone for quitting the Democratic Party after having to defend Biden’s approval of genocide.
I’d genuinely like to hear what Israel should be doing instead in response to Hamas. It’s easy to condemn what’s happening - and I get why people do - but I rarely see anyone offer a serious, workable alternative. If the argument is that military retaliation is off the table entirely, then what exactly is the proposed path forward?
Because from where I’m standing, it seems like Israel is expected to absorb attacks and hostage-taking without responding, or to somehow remove Hamas without any civilian harm - despite Hamas operating from civilian areas. And if that’s not viable, then are we really just saying Israel shouldn’t exist where it is? If the answer to this is yes, then what’s the alternative?
This isn’t rhetorical - I’m asking for concrete alternatives. Because if we can’t offer those, then we’re just criticizing without grappling with the impossible position they’re in.
I’d genuinely like to hear what Israel should be doing instead in response to Hamas.
negotiate a ceasefire with Hamas in exchange for the remaining hostages. reign in the West Bank settlers, to focus the conflict on Gaza specifically rather than the conquest of the Palestinian territories. as part of the ceasefire,
- remove IDF troops from Gaza.
- freely allow all medical, food, construction and infrastructure aid, along with foreign aid workers. still check all shipments and persons entering for weapons and other contraband. maintain a naval blockade and checkpoints to implement the screening.
- rather than having IDF implement the screening, propose a joint peacekeeping force, staffed by Israelis, Egyptians, Jordanians and UN peacekeepers.
- offer a pathway towards increased autonomy, easing of travel restrictions, potentially even Palestinian statehood contingent upon the peaceful transition of power from Hamas.
- encourage Arab foreign nationals and other non-Israelis to volunteer or do business in Gaza, rebuilding, running aid clinics, teaching school, etc. establish economic prospects for collaboration between Gazans and the rest of the world.
- remove Netenyahu from power and investigate him for corruption and his dealings with Hamas. remove Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezazel Smotrich from the Knesset, and ban Otzma Yehudit the way Kahan’s Kach party was outlawed.
sound fair?
This doesn’t address the core issue - Hamas. They have no intention of living peacefully next to a Jewish state. They’ve openly stated that they want to destroy Israel and kill Jews. After the IDF withdrew from Gaza in 2005, Hamas didn’t use that time or international aid to build infrastructure or improve life for civilians - they used it to dig tunnels and stockpile weapons in preparation for the ongoing conflict.
I genuinely don’t believe a two-state solution is viable as long as Hamas exists. If one were established tomorrow, it would likely just return to the same cycle - with rockets being fired indiscriminately at Israeli civilians, and the rest of the world expecting Israel to just take the hits without fighting back.
correct. it doesn’t address the core issue. however, sometimes enemies have to live next to each other. a military solution cannot end Hamas. anything short of full-scale ethnic cleansing of the population of Gaza cannot end Hamas. that is the unfortunate reality. the human cost is too great.
Hamas murdered 1,195 people on 10/7. Israel has killed ~57,000 in Gaza, and razed it to rubble. Israel has had its retribution, killing 50 Gazans for each dead Israeli. enough.
Stop occupation
Israel practically organized Hamas to have an opponent easily disliked by western nations. They funded and molded it to the exclusion of more secular and leftist organisations like PLO. Hamas is not a problem for Israel, it’s a tool to allow them unlimited brutality on the Palestinian population. I know people on lemmy don’t want to hear this but when you look at what happened since the days when people like Rabin and Arafat were making headway in peaceful solutions that might have ultimately led to freedom, safety and dignity for everyone in the region.
The agreements they made werent perfect, they were stepping stones in the way to a better situation, and they were what could be eeked out in the existing situation. Of course Zionist extremists could not live with that. Never forget who killed Rabin.
Okay, but this doesn’t even begin to address my question.
Maybe they should stop doing the final solution on a captive population?
They invited this reality on themselves.
I agree but I still don’t think it’s fair to make their civilian population pay the price for it.
But that’s the point though isn’t it? They do make their civilian population pay the price. They rile up the Palestinian population every 4 -10 years by killing their loved ones thereby ensuring a guaranteed militancy to fight against. Then they clamp down on Gaza even harder than before, denying access to the basics and the cycle continues. If you truly want to know what Israel should be doing, it’s almost in all cases the opposite of their current path.
Israel make their civilians population pay the price by maintaining a 57 years occupation
Are you refering to the state of Israel as a whole? Where do you suggest they go?
Are you ignorant or pretent to? Israel was created in 48 so that’s 77 years ago. Gaza and the west bank was occupied in 67 so 58 years ago. If you was smart you would realize the parts that need to be given back to palestinians
There’s a difference between counterinsurgency and just bulldozing entire neighborhoods, shooting children in the head, and preventing anyone from bringing food and medical aid to civilians. Yeah Hamas attacked first but Israel’s response is disproportionate and aimed almost entirely at civilians. Over 54,000 Palestinians have been killed while fewer than 2,000 Israelis have. Estimates vary for the civilian casualties in Gaza, but they’re almost all over 50%. So in the best case, you have Israel killing over 20,000 civilians.
Israel’s plan for taking out Hamas is eliminating the Palestinians. Otherwise, they would be taking even the most basic measures to avoid the mass slaughter of civlians that is going on right now. Before the war and even in the earliest days I leaned a bit more towards Israel because I didn’t realize the level of hatred they have towards the Palestinians and Hamas attacked first, but as the war has gone on it has become impossible to defend their actions. This is a genocide, plain and simple.
I don’t see an answer to my question there. We all agree the status quo is intolerable - so what’s the alternative? What should they do instead?
Can you point to another conflict that was resolved by doing all of these things clearly targeted at civilians? How exactly are the things I mentioned required for fighting a terrorist group? When ISIS was defeated, did the coalition forces come in and just murder literally everyone and flatten occupied villages to the ground, or did they take out leadership? I am not merely talking about civilian casualties when people are near a place targeted by an airstrike- I am talking about specific targeting of civilians.
As for what they should do instead - actually fight Hamas instead of the Palestinians as a whole. By taking actions aimed solely at Palestinian civilians, Israel has lost all claim that this is in any way self defense
actually fight Hamas instead of the Palestinians as a whole.
You do see how extremely vague this “alternative solution” you’re offering is, right? I think the fact that people struggle this much to give anything resembling a concrete answer when this question is posed highlights just how impossible the situation is that Israel is facing.
I’m extremely sympathetic to the reluctance of going door to door looking for terrorists who are hiding among civilians - often dressed as civilians themselves. While I can’t defend bombing an entire city into rubble, I also don’t feel comfortable telling them not to when I have absolutely no idea what they should be doing instead.
Your solution is killing almost all palestinians under the pretext that hamas use human shields
actually fight Hamas instead of the Palestinians as a whole.
You do see how extremely vague this “alternative solution” you’re offering is, right?
I don’t think this is vague at all. Stop doing airstrikes on places that have civilians in them. Send in armed troops instead if shooting one or two Hamas assholes is so important to you, or just drop it and refocus on making your intelligence and security better so October 7 can’t happen again, but either way dropping bombs on places with civilians is never acceptable. “But Hamas [whatever]” does not change that.
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I’m extremely sympathetic to the reluctance of going door to door looking for terrorists who are hiding among civilians
Please, at least they have guns and armor and squad mates and medics and it’s infantry v infantry for them, the poor civilian bastards have none of that and are facing a damn air force
It is vague.
Gaza is a city, not a country. Telling Israel not to strike where there are civilians is effectively the same as telling them not to fight back at all. Hamas operates from among the civilian population - often dressed as civilians themselves. It’s an enemy that doesn’t fight fair and deliberately exploits the rules of war for strategic advantage. They could relocate their civilian population into one part of the city and engage the IDF in another - but they don’t, and I’d argue that’s deliberate.
You don’t just “drop it” after 1,200 of your civilians have been brutally murdered.
I love this reasoning. Do you apply this to literally anything else in your life?
“Hey I think we should target the cancer cells instead of taking out the whole liver because I’m pretty sure that’s bad”
You do see how extremely vague this “alternative solution” you’re offering is, right? I think the fact that people struggle this much to give anything resembling a concrete answer when this question is posed highlights just how impossible the situation is that Israel is facing.
I’m extremely sympathetic to the reluctance of looking carefully at each cell under a microscope looking for cancer- often looking like the healthy cells nearby. While I can’t defend removing a patient’s entire liver, I also don’t feel comfortable telling them not to when I have absolutely no idea what they should be doing instead.
Nobody forced you to engage with my question. It’s you who chose to. It’s pointless to get frustrated with me for your failure to come up with an aswer.
“I determined that the danger we face as a country requires freeing ourselves of boxes. We need to be willing to exercise the ability to think creatively and plan strategically,” she said.
Jean-Pierre had previously worked on Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign, in President Barack Obama’s White House, and was chief public affairs officer for MoveOn.org, a progressive advocacy group.
The Democratic National Committee declined to comment on the news that Jean-Pierre had become an independent.
Y’all midterms are roughly a year away.
I hope all of us are pleasantly surprised.
Eta by her future actions
Whoop de doo. Another person hocking a book.
hawking*, unless they’re chucking it at you.
Gracias.
You have to do something after spending years lying on the white house podium. There’s only so many MSNBC jobs to go around.
I strongly suspect that every political book for the last 20 years has been a money laundering scheme. Otherwise I can’t fathom who the hell is buying these.
My in-laws have several books by Republicans, including Pence
Religious nut jobs, in my experience.
No, it’s just a cash grab. Person “writes” book (i.e. someone ghostwrites it and they put their name on the cover), then sells a bunch based on recent name recognition.
My dad had one of those books. A book by Ben Shapiro. Didn’t read it. Doesn’t know where he got. I suspect an aipac convention. Well, he’s dead now, and all I ever got from him was, “we don’t burn books here” (to me, very upset after finding the book displayed on a guest bedroom bookshelf). My mom tells me he most likely placed these books around haphazardly. So, this explains at least one copy of one of those books.
I think the OP was referring to actual books.
heh heh.
They print and sell them to themselves to inflate their numbers, then give them away everywhere.
republicans do. People who actually know how government works often have interesting things to say.
I wouldn’t say Republicans, in general. Policy wonks, yes, know thyself, know thine enemy.
