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Seth Meyers: Rachel Maddow breaks down early polls for Biden and Трамп Presidential campaigns

NowThis: Why security measures are not enough to prevent school shootings

The People Have Spoken:

John Oliver: Abortion rights

Roll Call: Congressional Hits and Misses of the week

Alex Wagner: Manchin, third party candidates complicate 2024 with more uncertainty

The Chaos Monkey Трамп Cult:

Jonathan Mann: ♫ Wage Slavery ♬

LegalEagle: Oh no! Alex Jones can’t use bankruptcy to avoid the Sandy Hook judgments

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  4. 4

    Ohio is pushing the nation toward civil war. Everyone says, follow the rules, get out the vote, win elections. Ohio did that. The republicans are ignoring the outcome of the election. “Voting only matters if republicans win.” If rules don’t matter, why should Ohioans follows rules?

  5. 5

    Isn’t Alex Jones in the position he is in, because his lawyer was an idiot that made a big mistake in Discovery?

  6. 6

    One thing with each season of For All Mankind, I like to see what timeline changes happened as tgey jump ahead roughly a decade. Apple TV goes in depth with a special feature with one story for each in between years.

    https://youtu.be/aUTFgcbSjm8?si=Qr3AHuqLGBEeDX3j

    I actually thought with President Wilson coming out, she was going to be impeached. Instead gets a boost from moderates in both parties and in the alternate 1996 election, has one of the biggest turnarounds ever. 200 0 goes differently, it’s Bush vs Gore only the former VP is running against Senior.

    I’m waiting to see a clip from the beginning of the premiere to be uploaded by someone on YouTube. It includes the usual catch up with other changes. Season 3, Portland didn’t pass on Michael Jordan, Season 4, they have him play baseball, for the Mariners, not tge White Sox organization, and tge headline is he made the Show as they sometimes call the Major League.

    A great continuity of changes the never ending space race has spawned, in 1979, the Soviets did not invade Afghanistan, in 1991, with the energy transition in full swing, President Hart chooses not to send troops to Saudi Arabia. It appears, no 9/11. I thought if they had a McVeigh type attack Johnson Space Center, 9/11 would still happen.

    Not sure if there will be a Season 5, but it will be without one of the best characters from the Previous seasons.. Admiral Ed Baldwin, loosely based on General Stafford, a Gemini and Apollo Astronaut. The character is supposed to be a Korean War era pilot, and his main regret in this timeline where the Soviets put Alexi Leonov on the moon weeks before Apollo 11, was a Mission Commander on Apollo 10, he followed the flight plan, and didn’t land on the Moon. The seasons jump roughly 10 years, and Season 4 is set in an alternate 2003.

    Tge oil companies were feeling threatened in Season 3, but now have joined the space race.

  7. 7

    Middle Aged Riot

    Republicans are not going cut Social Security.
    They are just going to raise the retirement age to death.

  8. 8

    New (alt right) College of Florida asks state for almost half a billion dollars over next five years
    https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/education/2023/11/09/new-college-needs-nearly-half-billion-dollars-over-five-years-for-plan/71502239007/
    >> Need to fund the school’s conservative makeover.
    “The school’s leadership moved quickly to dissolve the college’s diversity department, abolish the gender studies program, fire an LGBTQ librarian and deny tenure to the faculty members set to receive it.”
    “New students admitted to New College had, on average, worse grade point averages, SAT and ACT scores. Much of the drop in average scores could be attributed to incoming student-athletes who, despite scoring worse on average, earned a disproportionate number of the school’s $10,000-per-year merit-based scholarships.”

    Interesting fact: New College hasn’t even been accepted into the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics. And they don’t even have basic sports facilities, like a baseball field for the 75 alleged baseball players they recruited.

    >> Tax dollars that could been spent on voters gets paid to grifters. Suckers getting what they voted for. Think voters will learn anything?

  9. 9

    Beto rightfully shivs my corrupt, incompetent, senile fossil of a president.

    “More migrants have died this year than any year on record. And last year, more migrants had died than any year on record,” O’Rourke said. “They’re drowning, they’re dying of dehydration and exposure in the desert, and these are little babies and mothers and f***ing human beings who don’t deserve to be treated that way.”

  10. 10

    Heh.

    US Democratic Senator John Fetterman waved the Israeli flag on Friday in front of pro-Palestinian protesters who were demonstrating against Israel.

    In response, protesters booed him, and some of them were arrested. The protesters chanted: “What do we want? Ceasefire. When do we want it? Now.” One protester accused Fetterman of “doing a disservice in Pennsylvania.”

    Well, he’s certainly doing a disservice to Hamas-hugging libbies.

    Y’know, with Sinema now calling herself indy and Manchin out soon, there’s gonna be an opening for a Senate Democrat to really piss off the other Dems.

  11. 11

    Some of them are even occasionally killed by IDF.

    Israel rejects latest UN resolution on Gaza, says ‘green lights’ Hamas
    WHO chief: A child is killed on average every 10 minutes in the Gaza Strip.

    The ministry said that the resolution “gives the green light to the Hamas terrorist organization, which is worse than ISIS, to continue killing, abducting, and using the residents of the Gaza Strip as human shields.

  12. 12

    There are few people in Washington who know Democratic Party politics and President Joe Biden as well as Patti Solis Doyle.

    And there are very few Democrat women as hot as she is. But I digress.

    She has worked for Biden and former President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. What she says is gold.

    And what she told a Georgetown University panel this week wasn’t good, and she knew it. “I’m gonna get cut out of the Democratic Party for saying this,” she said in explaining why polls show Biden losing to former President Donald Trump.

    “He’s old, and that overarching issue is clouding everything else. And people cannot see past it, or voters can’t see past it. And that’s a problem,” she said.

    He’ll be even older next November, if he lives that long. By then people won’t be able to see past it.

    Or his family’s corruption.

  13. 13

    More voters want the liberal old white guy than the fascist dictator old white guy.

    President Biden beat the loser once already, he will do it again.

  14. 14

    She…

    …succeeded in leading Hillary Clinton to a third place finish in Iowa. Got fired. Got angry. Then she went on to creating the Birf Sertifikit bullshit that helped propel Donald J. Trump into political prominance over the next eight years. She’s been shut out of professional politics ever since.

    Very unserious.

  15. 15

    How a guy who doesn’t have a bank account (and likely no credit cards, since you can’t pay for them in cash) buys a flight ticket to Paris?

  16. 16

    13,
    It remains true that Biden’s age will play a role in the general election, as will many other factors.

    The problem with some polls is that they are not measuring most of those other factors.

    In particular what many early polls fail to measure is the very real and sweeping loss of civil liberties and democracy that another presidential term for Donald J. Trump will represent to unaligned, politically disengaged voters. That is expected to change gradually as the Republican nomination contest is revealed for the charade that it has become. And it will change more as the two actual campaigns engage more directly in political confrontation.

    But President Biden will have to address his age when the time is right and once the contest has become defined as a contest between incumbent President Joe Biden and twice impeached convicted felon Donald J. Trump. I believe he has demonstrated that he’s pretty capable of conveying that kind of direct personal communication with the people.

  17. 17

    Shutdown standoff: White House preps for Johnson to fail – Biden aides are betting that Johnson won’t be able to figure this out and are preparing along two tracks’
    Democrats can walk and chew gum at the same time

    It’s obvious, Johnson has no intention to avoid a government shutdown.

    If the government shuts down for any amount of time, Dems will get to blame any economic downturn on Republicans.
    “America is only in this recession because Republicans have the government shut down. “

  18. 18

    @ 13

    President Biden beat the loser once already, he will do it again.

    The eventual Democrat candidate for president will have been nominated from the floor at the DNC convention.

    Looking forward to Team Momala’s cries of racism when she comes in fifth on the first ballot. After which she will endorse the white guy.

  19. 19

    @ 17

    If the government shuts down for any amount of time, Dems will get to blame any economic downturn on Republicans.

    The Even Bigger Fucking Moron, who will you blame if the government stays open?

  20. 20

    Desperately continuing to nurture partisan fantasies about Democratic division will not make real, manifest, corrosive divisions in the GOP disappear.

    Placing another $25 million under Trump’s control might.

    If the anti-democracy billionaires line up behind Trump as they are now beginning to do, it will end the charade. And it will also silence or at least mute a lot of the divisions. Money is the fuel of campaigns. If/when Trump gains control over these sources of campaign cash, moderate Republicans in the House and Senate will have to make a choice. Some will get on board. Some will retire.

  21. 21

    PSA to obese people who refer to themselves as non-binary:

    We can still tell you’re obese.

    We can still tell your birth-assigned gender.

    We’re laughing inside at both.

  23. 23

    This would make for stunning video footage.

    36 babies surviving on manual respirators in shut down Palestinian hospital

    If it were true, that is.

    It’s not. It’s why CNN’s video is of a guy saying this is what is happening because that is what Hamas is telling the Palestinian Information Authority under its control to say to the press.

  26. 26

    @10 “Well, he’s certainly doing a disservice to Hamas-hugging libbies.”

    More nauseating “kill ’em all and let God sort ’em out” drivel from the dumbfuck “FINISH THEM!” troll who tacked a photo of Hamas terrorists on the barn wall to gaze at while jerking off the horse.

  28. 28

    @12 Generally speaking, people who don’t look past Biden’s age are the same people who refuse to see Trump’s behavior.

  31. 31

    If Ohio Issue 1 isn’t enforceable, then neither is the Second Amendment, according to this Republican:

    “’Issue 1 doesn’t repeal a single Ohio law, in fact, it doesn’t even mention one,’ state Rep. Bill Dean said in Thursday’s statement.”

    Specifically, the Second Amendment doesn’t mention any laws, much less repeal them. Therefore, all congressionally and legislatively enacted gun bans remain in effect.

    https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/4304861-ohio-gop-lawmakers-call-block-new-abortion-amendment/

  32. 32

    RFK Jr. is polling at historic levels for an independent

    Ross Perot collected 18% of the vote. And not one single elector.

    But he did get Bill Clinton elected.
    So long as RFK continues to provide television addicted, celebrity obsessed, shy-Trumpers a rape-free alternative that works for me.

  33. 33

    You can read the complete text of Ohio Issue 1 here. It’s as unambiguous as Ohio Republicans’ stated intention of ignoring it.

    Let’s say they attempt to strip Ohio courts of jurisdiction to enforce it, but Ohio doctors and women ignore GOP-enacted laws prohibiting and criminalizing abortion, and are prosecuted under those laws.

    Assuming those laws are invalid under Ohio’s constitution, as just amended by Ohio voters, how would this work? Would persons convicted under these unconstitutional laws be able to appeal their convictions? Could they sue in state courts for wrongful arrest, malicious prosecution, and false imprisonment? Could they sue the state in federal court for deprivation of civil rights?

    What would federal courts, including SCOTUS, do with a state legislature that passes a law saying its own constitution is unenforceable in its courts?

  35. 35

    Could they sue the state in federal court for deprivation of civil rights?

    Yes.

    Federal courts would have jurisdiction under the 14th Amendment. Republicans plan to pick and choose what laws to obey, under what circumstances to obey them, and which classes of citizens deserve the law’s protection. That’s why Americans fought and won the Civil War.

  36. 36

    Does Bob think anyone really cares what he posts.

    He supports a fascist party of terrorists and wannabe dictators, and he thinks anyone cares or thinks he can come across as some who cares about integrity, Justice and democracy. He supports people than ransack the nations capital, who are planning a takeover and the creation of a Nazi state. He supports people that carry tiki torches and chant “Jews will not replace Us”.

    This is s guy he buys a horse to keep his wife happy, because he is incapable. And he lived on a shit hole island.

  37. 37

    “I have a God given right to spread hate about LGBQ people, it says so right there in the King James Bible, and no commie Jesus loving Pope is going to stop me. Fucker.” – Ex Bishop Strickland probably

  38. 38

    @35 Maybe if Ohio Republicans have to raise taxes to pay billions of dollars of legal judgments, and keep paying them on an ongoing basis, that will motivate Ohio voters to quit electing them.

  39. 39

    @36 “Does Bob think anyone really cares what he posts.”

    We don’t care what he posts. We care that he keeps posting. Imagine how boring HA would be without him.

  40. 40

    We don’t care what he posts. We care that he keeps posting. Imagine how boring HA would be without him.

    He has three strikes against him. One, he’s a dumbfuck. Two, he’s a Nazi. Three, he’s a fucking bore.

    A dumbfuck Nazi bore. That, and a fucking coward.

  41. 41

    I’m a hardass about people like this. An innocent woman is dead, 12 people were injured, and a building and city bus were severely damaged, because the system failed to get this asshole off the streets.

    “Investigators found evidence of possible drug usage in Abelson’s vehicle. … Court documents said Abelson was driving a red sedan southbound on 5th Avenue at ‘highway speeds’ and failed to stop at a red light when he collided with a bus traveling eastbound on Battery Street on Nov. 4. The collision forced the bus off the roadway, where it struck 28-year-old Amanda Schneider on the sidewalk and threw her into a building, according to court documents.”

    https://www.king5.com/article/news/crime/adam-abelson-deadly-bus-collision-seattle-charged-vehicular-homicide/281-fe8f97d0-cbe1-4e68-847e-49b6f120073d

    “Court documents say Abelson has a criminal and traffic history that includes convictions for hit-and-run, vehicle prowling in the second degree, false statements to a public servant, over 10 thefts, retail theft and more. He was already on a pending ‘attempting to elude’ case that involved ‘speeding away from a police officer and going through a red light in downtown Seattle,’ court documents say. …

    “Prosecutors say at the time of the [bus] incident, he had multiple warrants out of Issaquah, Bellevue, Tacoma and Seattle, including DUI, receiving stolen property and escaping community custody. ‘Over the years, the defendant has had over 50 warrants issued for his arrest,’ prosecutors say. Prosecutors argue Abelson is a danger to the public and a flight risk who is not expected to appear for any court appearances ‘on his own volition.'”

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/driver-charged-in-deadly-seattle-bus-crash-has-had-more-than-50-warrants-for-his-arrest/ar-AA1jJtDs

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: It’s enough to make you angry. It’s past time to LOCK HIM UP for good. No bail. No plea bargain. Max sentence for every crime he’s committed, served consecutively. He should never get out. I’m for more cops, more jails, and tougher prosecutors if that’s what it takes to protect society from these sociopaths. The fact that someone with his record was still out there endangering the public shows we need to close the revolving door that returns mega-serial offenders to the streets.

  42. 42

    38,
    Obtaining monetary relief is orders of magnitude harder than obtaining injunctive relief under the 14th.

    But injunctive relief is more than sufficient. Littigants are only interested in obtaining injunctions suspending the subject laws and binding the subject law enforcement authorities.

    Once a federal injunction in in place suspending enforcement of a given state law, then any idiot LEO who attempts to enforce it loses QI and can also be chraged with federal criminal violations under the Klan Act. They know all this. That’s why they always talk bullshit at times like this. But always stop short. Maybe this time will be different. Maybe this time a few Sheriffs and County Attorneys will go to jail for the first time since reconstruction.

    But I doubt it. The Southern traitors who fought to preserve slavery after losing the Civil War may not have been dumber than modern Republicans. But at least they were braver.

    So here’s how the Dumbfuck Fantasy plays out.
    Any one of the 17 Planned Parenthood heatlh centers in Ohio provides a patient with a safe and lawful abortion. Some half-wit middle school dropout MAGA Republican Sheriff decides it’s his ticket to re-election if he arrests the doctor, etc. Even if we were to assume that local judges and prosecutors are down for this futile exercise (they might be), PP immediately sues for injunctive relief. The rest is an exercise in clockwork.

    I can’t even begin to tell you how many doctors and lawyers there are who would be eager to volunteer for this. It’s a ticket to book tours, media appearances, talk shows, speaking tours, and Associate Producer credits on shitty Lifetime movies. Nobody needs to sue for money in this situation. PP of Ohio can raise millions off it.

  43. 43

    @40 Yeah, but he keeps us entertained, and it keeps him off the streets (and, hopefully, out of the barn).

  45. 45

    One of the things that may come from the budget battles raging in Washington DC is a cutoff of military aid to Israel. Republicans are dreaming if they think the Senate and White House will agree to gut IRS enforcement against super-wealthy tax cheaters as the price of replenishing Israel’s ammunition stockpiles.

  46. 46

    “I have a God given right to spread hate about LGBQ people, it says so right there in the King James Bible, and no commie Jesus loving Pope is going to stop me. Fucker.” – Ex Bishop Strickland probably

    I have that God given right too, to spread hate against Evangelical POS Mother Fuckers…..because it says it my Bible.

  47. 47

    The opening intro of Season 4 of For All Mankind. In this timeline, JFK Jr is actually alive, and running for Senate, Didn’t say which state, although Massachusetts is open. His uncle in this timeline was President from 73-77.

    Also, nice one about Weinstein getting caught much earlier, Also catching up on the timeline jump from Season 1-2, looks like Chrysler didn’t go under after all. The intro to the first episode of every season, plus the Giant Leap bonus feature on the Apple TV+ app, tend to set up the season. The savior of Chrysler is the new head of NASA.

    https://youtu.be/Dk8VN_1PGos?si=ibvjlcnKYt8baeOl

  50. 50

    @49,

    Too bad that isn’t how our system works.

    The electoral college and the winner-take-all state laws for awarding electors strip power away from pitiful losers like you and give it to the two big political parties.

    Choose National Popular Vote if you don’t want to remain a pitiful losers

  51. 51

    @50 If he doesn’t like the Republican and Democratic nominees, he has two other choices: He can vote for a third party or write-in candidate, or he can choose not to vote.

  52. 52

    Doctor Dumbfuck loves polls, and subscribes to Barrons, although it’s unclear whether he reads it; perhaps he lines birdcages with it. But he may have seen this:

    ” … Deutsche Bank’s own data showing that the ‘predictive value of polls is near zero’ until 300 days ahead of an election.”

    (Nov. 13, 2023 Barrons, page 8 of the print edition)

    Never mind Deutsche Bank’s miserable reputation on other scores (details here); as the world’s 27th largest bank by assets, it has a proprietary interest in how elections impact markets, and studies this stuff. What they found is polls don’t mean shit a whole year before an election. And if Doctor Dumbfuck didn’t know that before, he does now. It won’t change anything; he’ll keep posting meaningless polls because it makes him feel good.

  54. 54

    “The Israeli military says it has agreed to help evacuate babies from Gaza’s Al-Shifa hospital to a ‘safer’ facility. The BBC has been sent pictures of at least 20 newborn babies being kept in a surgical theatre at the site. A doctors’ group says two premature babies have died because of a lack of electricity at Al-Shifa; a surgeon earlier said the facility had run out of water, food and power.”

    https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67385263

    It took dead babies to get Israel to lift a finger to help the Gaza victims of Israeli-Hamas fighting. And you can bet international outcry over conditions in Gaza and the presence of journalists had plenty to do with it. It’s good when Israel adheres to civilized norms in conducting its war against Hamas; it’s good that somebody is making them do it.

  58. 58

    Just makes you wonder, who hurt these people?

    Their own kind hurt them. It’s mis directed anger led by the brainwashing POS GOP Terrorists. Bunch of weak brain dead mother fucking sheep.

  59. 59

    @57

    He’s race baiting. He knows what he’s doing even if he’s got the IQ of a door knob. His cult worshipers ard too stupid to know the difference but when the word Obama enters their ears they think blackie, ohhh no!

  60. 60

    @ 57

    Trump said Obama is the current president during a New Hampshire campaign event

    This simply cannot be, as Obama acolyte David Axelrod wants the current president out of office in 2025.

  61. 61

    This is what happens when libbies prefer support of murderous antiSemitic POS over things that matter.

    Dutch Climate Protester Takes Mic from Greta Thunberg for Turning Climate Rally Into a Political Rally for Hamas

    Think about it, libbies: #BLM hasn’t mattered to any of you recently. Now, I realize that we’re on the cusp of the quadrennial recognition of the black plight by Democrats because an election is at stake, but when’s the last time you gave a shit about something #BLM? We’ve still got Queen YLB and other unserious twats laughing off inner city black youth gun violence unless it happens in a state governed by a Republican.

    There’s a reason Biden’s polling numbers are declining when the respondents are people of color. It’s because those respondents want jobs, not rockets to aim at Israel.

  63. 63

    50 & 51

    What I hate the most is people like you two. I hope you both die painful deaths.

  64. 64

    NBC News thinks that playing around with your friends on Tik Tok, and international influence peddling as an unregistered foreign agent while dodging federal tax liability and lying while trying to acquire a deadly weapon, are very much the same thing.

    NBC Politics
    @NBCPolitics
    Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis says he believes going after an opponent’s children is “out of bounds” in political warfare.

    DeSantis, however, goes after President Biden’s son on a weekly basis.
    6:00 PM · Nov 9, 2023

  67. 67

    @ 54

    The BBC has been sent pictures of at least 20 newborn babies being kept in a surgical theatre at the site.

    That’s not what the linked article says.

    What’s the likelihood that those photos were sent to the BBC on the condition that they not be published in any form? Let’s see the neonatal version of Pallywood.

  71. 71

    @63,

    Oh boo hoo. Pathetic loser has a sad.

    As long as you continue going along with that ass fucking you’re getting, you’ve got no one to blame but the pathetic loser in the mirror.

  73. 73

    @59 Yeah, that’s what I thought, too. Trump isn’t that dumb, but knows his supporters are. He’s even mocked them in the past.

  75. 75

    @61 Your headline needs editing. How about this: “Grown man manhandles young girl on stage, is booed by audience while being removed by security”

  76. 76

    @61 So if someone publicly objects to Israeli settlers violently attacking peaceful Palestinians just trying to live in the West Bank, that makes them a supporter of Hamas terrorism? In your racist mind, yes.

    P.S., we know you don’t like this, but black lives still matter

  78. 78

    @64 I think he means children under 18, and he can bash Hunter all he likes. That’s fine with me.

    P.S., if Hunter was my son, I’d do what Joe is doing: Love him anyway, warts and all. If I was your son, I’d be embarrassed like all fuck, and would petition the court to change my name.

  82. 82

    @ 75

    Grown man manhandles young girl on stage…

    Thunberg is now 20. And her 15 minutes were up about the time she decided to compete with Code Pink.

    The guy taking her mike “manhandled” her in the same way Kanye “manhandled” Taylor Swift. The same way the #BLM chick “manhandled” Bernie.

  86. 86

    @ 85

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: I predict Bartiromo, whose financial reporting I used to follow, will never get legitimate journalism work again.

    I predict that Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit, who takes advice from financial sources based upon that source’s politics rather than by rational measures, will die never having become a millionaire.

    His big winner this year is Generac, up 6% from his purchase price. Meanwhile, he has lost 25% on his 3M investment, more than 30% on his Citigroup investment, and at least 30% on his AT&T investment.

    Everyone cheer for Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit’s stock-picking acumen!

  87. 87

    Yes, let’s give tens of billions to a corrupt nation that blows up energy pipelines and tries to blame Russia for it.

    No questions asked. Because Ukraine’s got the goods on Joe Biden’s personal corruption.

  88. 88

    I was on board until this guy flaunted his racist colors by saying, “The vast majority of black people are like this dumbass,” which would come as news to the many black lawyers and doctors I’ve known.

    https://www.youtube.com/shorts/NM8L5_AAdUk

    So let’s peel the layers off this onion. The black kid who assaulted the white man as an apparent prank isn’t just a dumbass, he’s also a criminal.

    You wonder where his parents are, or whether he has any parents, because it doesn’t look like he ever got much if any parenting.

    What he’s guilty of, though, isn’t attempted murder but rather some degree of assault.

    If I were the sentencing judge, I would give him jail time, after telling him “you didn’t make a mistake, you committed a violent crime.” But the perp indeed is a dumbass, because now he has a violent crime on his record for the rest of his life, which is going to close doors to him.

    His confederate who recorded the crime thinking it was for social media purposes is a dumbass, too. Need I explain why? (Think “prosecution evidence.”) As I recall, he also was criminally charged for participating in this crime.

    If the point of posting this video on YouTube is to assert that all black people are dumbasses, the white guy doing the commentary and the guy posting the video for that purpose are the dumbasses, because all they’ve done is show everybody they’re racists who stereotype entire groups of people based solely on skin color.

  89. 89

    @86 “… who takes advice from” the same “financial sources” you pay to read that I read for free at the public library.

    ‘Nuff said.

  90. 90

    @87 Yes, let’s.

    Assuming WaPo’s story is true, if my peaceful country was wantonly attacked by its neighbor, and they were selling natural gas to other countries to pay for weapons and military supplies, I’d cut their pipeline if I possibly could.

    To you and Putin, it’s “terrorism.” To me, it’s military strategy, and no different from mining enemy harbors or sinking enemy merchant ships. In war, the enemy’s logistics and economy are fair game.

  92. 92

    @67 “The BBC has been sent pictures of at least 20 newborn babies being kept in a surgical theatre at the site.

    That’s not what the linked article says.”

    The linked article says, “The BBC has been sent pictures of at least 20 newborn babies being kept in a surgical theatre at the site.”

    “What’s the likelihood that those photos were sent to the BBC on the condition that they not be published in any form?”

    AOL News published an article today, sourced from NBC News, that includes a photo with the cutline, “Babies wrapped in blankets in a photo taken by Dr. Marwan Abusada, a surgeon at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. (Courtesy Mads Gilbert)”. I counted 16 babies in that photo. The accompanying article says,

    “Meanwhile, images from Al-Shifa show an increasingly dire scene. Dr. Mads Gilbert, a Norwegian doctor who has worked in hospitals in Gaza for years and is in Cairo, shared a photo that Abusada sent him during a rare moment of internet access.”

    By the way, a cropped version of that same photo showing fewer babies (I counted 15) is on BBC News.

    https://www.aol.com/news/newborns-die-gaza-biggest-hospital-191316067.html

    You shot from the hip, doc, and it was wide miss. But you don’t have to admit it, because you’ve been caught. Learn to use your scroll function. Reading the article would help, too.

  95. 95

    This CNBC article has a couple of interesting graphs depicting who suffers the most casualties in Israeli-Palestinian conflicts (you already know the answer).

    The Palestinians are the Middle East equivalent of American Indians: Displaced from their ancestral lands, placed on reservations, and treated like captives.

    We are asked to believe they must be treated this way because they “want to destroy Israel.” With dogged determination, they’ve been trying to do this for 75 years, in many cases by kids throwing rocks at a nuclear-armed military state. Despite suffering over 10x as many casualties as Israel, no end is in sight, because while Hamas may run out of rockets, the West Bank won’t run out of rocks.

    The solution is obvious, and has a precedent: Let them run casinos on their reservations. Then everybody will be happy and prosperous.

  97. 97

    Conservative Christian Credo: Rape ’em, don’t let ’em get an abortion, then give the rapist visitation rights.

  98. 98

    @98 Actually, the visitation piece isn’t all bad. Every time he shows up at her place to spend time with their kid, she has another opportunity to shoot him. Heh, just kidding; I’m against the sort of taking-things-into-your-own-hands vigilantism that conservatives embrace.

  102. 102

    They’re bringing in a dude in a skirt who checks all the DEI boxes.

    Texas A&M fired coach Jimbo Fisher on Sunday morning, a move that resets the paradigm for coaching buyouts and opens up one of the country’s most tantalizing jobs.

    The move is expected to cost the school more than $76 million to buy out Fisher’s deal, which is nearly triple the highest known coaching contract buyouts at a public school.

    According to the terms of the contract, Texas A&M will owe Fisher $19.2 million within 60 days and then pay him $7.2 annually through 2031. There is no offset or mitigation on those payments, and the annual payments start 120 days after termination.

    Fisher was 45-25 in six seasons at Texas A&M, and he signed a new 10-year contract with $95 million guaranteed in 2021.

    The new coach is Lia Williams, the swimmer from Penn.

  103. 103

    @98
    They’re starting to give many good reasons for someone to want use the 2nd amendment right. They do approve of that.

  104. 104

    @ 98

    Heh, just kidding; I’m against the sort of taking-things-into-your-own-hands vigilantism that conservatives embrace.

    Then what was the reason Darryl dressed you down, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit?

    Wasn’t “Liberals must arm.” a call to vigilantism in order to take by force that which liberals lose at the ballot box?

  105. 105

    Downtown San Francisco is a shithole reminiscent of the Dumbfuck Rabbit residence, and has been for years.

    It’s been cleaned up this week. So the city can look good for Chinese President Xi’s visit.

    Meanwhile, the Dumbfuck Rabbit residence remains a shithole with an overwhelming stench of fermenting urethral and rectal catheters in uncovered garbage cans.

  106. 106

    @ 95

    This CNBC article has a couple of interesting graphs depicting who suffers the most casualties in Israeli-Palestinian conflicts (you already know the answer).

    Every single one of those conflicts was initiated by the Palestinians. They need the lopsided death count to have something to whine about.

    Cry more, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit.

  107. 107

    @104 “Wasn’t ‘Liberals must arm.’ a call to vigilantism in order to take by force that which liberals lose at the ballot box?”

    No, and you’re a dumbfuck for thinking so. By the way, what do you call armed conservatives attacking the Capitol to overthrow an election? Tourism?

  108. 108

    @106 Yeah, every time the Israelis evict them from their homes, they start it by getting run over by the bulldozers.

  109. 109

    @ 108

    Yeah, every time the Israelis evict them from their homes…

    Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit, why are the bulldozers there? What did one or more members of that household do to trigger the eviction and bulldozing?

  111. 111

    @109 “why are the bulldozers there?”

    To seize more of the West Bank.

    https://imeu.org/article/quick-facts-israels-west-bank-settlement-enterprise

    “What did one or more members of that household do to trigger the eviction and bulldozing?”

    In many cases, nothing, while …

    “Armed and masked Israeli settlers are attacking Palestinians in their homes, attacking children on their way to school, destroying property and burning olive groves, and terrorising entire communities with complete impunity, ….”

    https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2022/12/israel-un-experts-condemn-record-year-israeli-violence-occupied-west-bank

  112. 112

    @110 A mere formality. He didn’t honestly think the MAGA party would rally behind a black guy, did he? According to the latest RCP numbers, Republicans prefer a white criminal over a black Christian by 58 points.

  113. 113

    Tim Scott has ended his candidacy

    What was he thinking? Doesn’t he ever look at himself in a mirror. He should have asked his “girlfriend “

  114. 114

    Wasn’t “Liberals must arm.” a call to vigilantism in order to take by force that which liberals lose at the ballot box?

    Only the Republican Party has organized and activated an armed, violent pipe-bomb mob to attack Congress in order to overtun an election they lost.

    Only the Republican Party has ever done that.

    In fact, since the nation’s founding, only the Republican Party and the British in the War of 1812 have ever attacked and occupied by force our nation’s capital. Assholes.

  115. 115

    In which Larry Kudlow of Fox Business, who isn’t a lawyer and doesn’t know crap about courtroom procedure, thinks a trial is a conversation between a defendant and a judge.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wgTTx8OmtY

    Bonus points if you know Trump has already been found guilty of fraud and this is a hearing to determine penalties, not to relitigate the question of guilt or innocence.

  116. 116

    @114 That’s not his only delusion. He knows I condemn vigilantism. I post against it all the time. I think doc is on drugs, because he twists everything around. The state should look into whether he’s writing prescriptions for the horse to get pills for himself.

  117. 117

    91)I was listening to that game, for a team that is great at coming from behind, we need to watch for the reverse. Also, been complacent with Portland State. PSU’s home field isn’t even in Portland or Multnomah County.

  118. 118

    Bonus points if you know Trump has already been found guilty of fraud…

    The collective stupidity of the GOP has conveniently chosen to ignore this. They have chosen to regard all legal proceedings in which Trump is embroiled as a setting to challenge the idea that he can be held accountable to obeying any laws.

    His having already been found guilty deprives them of that.

  119. 119

    The RNC has met and decided that in the eventuality that Donald Trump is convicted of felonies ahead of the convention next summer, they will take no steps to hinder or discourage his nomination.

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