

Sounds about right. No armor called up either. They could have activated one for show at least.


Sounds about right. No armor called up either. They could have activated one for show at least.


Theres something extra sad about that. If you are going to stoop to corruption and payola at that level of government, at least have the self respect to get paid better for it.


Funny thing is, in Weimar politics it was the centrists joining with the far right fascist conservatives against progressives who effed their way into electing an infirm, dementia ridden, incompetent Von Hindenberg, who then appointed Hitler chancellor. Elevating the fascists to power.
The centrists always allow the conservatives to eff the world, every time, and its always because they are afraid of progressives getting power and doing something good for the filthy damned peasants.
I suppose from a very twisted, “look what you made me do” perspective, you could blame progressives, but its abuser logic.


The 1978 FISA law was fine until it was expanded in 2008 to include sweeping up any domestic communications between Americans even remotely adjacent to a foreign target. And all of that was made searchable, discoverable and was used for fishing expeditions despite assurances that it would only be studied except for relevance to foreign targets. Dems controlled both houses of congress in 2008 and George Bush was president. The senate vote was 69-28 with 20 dems defecting to Bush’s side+ Joe Lieberman, of course. It was Feinstein and a bunch of dems who called themselves “centrists”.
Even with both houses of congress, about 40% of the Dems just couldnt find it in them to protect the privacy of the citizens and chose republican-lite. Its even worse now. Centrists are a key part of all of our problems. They need to be removed and their philosophies tossed in the dustbin of history for good.


Good! maybe the DNC will put up the fight this time that they should have put up last time.


The police wont endanger themselves to save others. They argue in court that they are only there to do paperwork, and that “protect and serve” was just marketing, and was never a promise to do either. Useless bullies. They use their monopoly on the use of force to protect themselves, and thats it.


He’s putting his best ‘full self driving’ talent on it. It’ll be super successful, like magic-- in just 6 months. It’ll take 30 trillion dollars, which he will need you to pay now.
(Hey it worked to sell cars, that still cant drive themselves 8 years later-- after people already paid for that functionality when they bought their teslas-- why not sell the exact same scam to governments?)


So that relatively small group of soldiers sitting in boats far from shore without adequate food or supplies are going to crush the much larger and entrenched entire Iranian military now huh. Sounds real scary.
One silver lining to all this is that evidently Trump has learned that its harder to attack a mid sized country halfway around the world --without allies-- in challenging terrain – than it is to attack some unarmed civilians trying to get to work in portland or minneapolis.
Progress of a sort.


You – not me-- started by denying the factual history of sacrifice and then just temper tantrummed. Isnt that why we are replying to each other in the first place? If you want to object to facts, next time bring facts to prove them wrong.
Or be quiet. History does not depend on your acceptance or rejection of it.


“antisemite” is not an insult anymore, when its been legally defined as being against the state of Israel. Israel is doing vicious racist war crimes all the time. So anyone who is NOT an antisemite is a bit of a monster.


Few foreigners will feel safe coming to trumps america, so of course LA will lose money on the olympics.


Or at least until Israel stirs up some new racist murder and needs our backing. They will finish Lebanon and then its on to Jordan.


Pushing them as boogiemen has always been a self-owning take. Maybe they are adversaries but acting as reactionary as we do is counter productive, and just allows them to capitalize on our continual reputation loss.
They are a great power and a great civilization and we treat them like they are some third world tinpot tyrants. The world isnt buying our clown show anymore. There are clearly differences between them and the west that needs respectful discussion that we arent bothering to engage in with them.
If we want to exercise influence in that area but also globally-- instead of paddling around there like arrogant hick dipshits lets get on with diplomacy and be serious about it for a change.


This is like “it was promised 3000 years ago” levels of irrelevant.
If we go by time for relevance isnt everything in Jewish and Christian holy books irrelevant too then? When does Jewish history start again, can you remind me?
And you bring up nazis if I mention historical facts you dont want to talk about? I’m not a nazi. I beleive in universal human rights and dignity. Thats what so many of my comments are so very anti-israel. They are the ones whose actions are so like nazi actions, and you are the one helping them by throwing around accusations whenever you don’t like historical facts. I think the nazi here is much more you than me, but hey, you do you, Herr friendo.
Didnt Isaac, the second of the 3 patriarchs of judaism, try to sacrifice his son at gods command only to be stopped at the last possible second by an angel, who gave instruction to Isaac to sacrifice a ram instead?
The takeaway for jewish people in that story is that they should no longer sacrifice their children, but animals instead. So um why was that story ever even needed if it was completely irrelevant to judiasm?
But everyone loses their mind when we talk about the history of sacrifice in Judaism at all, it seems. Its an unfortunate fact of history that it was done, and you cant revise your way out of that fact. Little bit late to control and whitewash that narrative, that ship has sailed whether you like it or not. Judaism evolved over time and is not what it once was, thats a fact. You can google “when was human sacrifice outlawed in Judaism” and you will see it was a reform of judaism, not a founding idea. Fact.
I suppose you could try to burn a bunch of books to try to get rid of those historical facts? I think people like yourself burning books would be right on brand, right? You’ll need to burn down google too I guess.


Yeah. Seems to me that the Epstein ring was a world changing operation for Israel. I’m sure they started a new one and didnt just give up the whole method. Theres almost certainly a new Israeli pedo extortion ring running somewhere right now.


I reject your finely minced framing and choose to blanket hate the whole massively evil country, thanks.
I feel like pedantic parsing like yours dishonestly runs defense against those on the left attacking the core of the problem: which is the constitution/basic laws/existsnce of Israel as a state. Arguments like: “Sure 82% of Israelis want to forcefully deport every arab from all land they control, but some tiny percentage of them (way under 18%) dont support that so how can you be against the whole country???”
You place yourself bodily between people seeking justice for all humanity vs Israel, and use the tiny proportion of Israeli leftists as unwilling hostages against global calls for Israeli accountability for genocide and overwhelming support for ethnic cleansing and a continuation of 80 years of murderous abuse and state sponsored theft. I say the israeli government cant continue and cant/wont change, so it has to end, and that region be put under some adult leadership.
You don’t believe that do you. By the nature of all your previous publicly available comments, you think Israel must exist for the Jewish people, by the Jewish people. So I think your opinion is crap, and your framing in this instance is contrived, dishonest and manipulative.


Depends on who is in charge after they get deported. From that article: “The administration never misses an opportunity to gratuitously antagonize its allies on the ICC,” said Dicker. “But it’s also true that the new law has more loopholes than a block of Swiss cheese.”


yep, it basically always circles back to land theft and zionist racism.
And the US likes boogieman racism, religion and money, so we ally with Israel.
Ironically the US government has always stated that Iran is a natural culturally similar partner to the US, if we could ever get over our existing bad relationship and the reach of religious extremists in Iran. If Iranian and American commoners all sat down together at a bbq, highly likely we see a lot of similarities and like each other. Pretty effed up state of affairs.


There is no just war (Pope Francis, 2022)
I dont think a lot of people understood what a groundbreaking, radical change this was when Francis made it. Doctrine says clearly that there are a limited number of conditions for a catholic to participate in violence, basically self defense, to prevent others from certain harm, or a just war. Francis removed one of the key reasons cited for catholic to engage in nationalistic warfare without damning their souls.
And given-- Francis was also far from perfect. But he had giant balls and a sense to at least try to do the right thing. Even as an atheist, I miss that guy. What a legendary Chad. (the modern complimentary form of chad).
And stuff like this is exactly why the vatican is generally hostile to popes with a Jesuit background.
(I’m a Gen X ex-catholic)
the “door dash grandma” at the white house “sharon simmons” is a actor they reuse a lot. She testified last year in congress pretending to be a concerned citizen to support the big beautiful bill act, and pretended to be in tje military in another skit they tried to pull. They really need to get more actors, its getting ridiculous.
https://x.com/Donald_from_HI/status/2044585952811872468