I have been listening to the Hacks and Wonks candidate interviews for Seattle City Council. I don’t want to single anyone out specifically, but some of them don’t seem to like Seattle very much. I don’t get it. I don’t get it.
Anyway, please wash your hands right now and get vaccinated or boosted if you’re eligible.
Anything less than massively disproportionate is a waste of time and resources.
What ‘proportionality’ really means in Israel’s war against terror
As well as human lives. Losses incurred in ending Hamas will be fewer than losses over time if Hamas is not destroyed.
FINISH THEM.
Massively disproportionate in terms of slaughtered infants.
Pro-Life Republican life goals are sad.
Out: All Lives Matter.
In: Value Every Human Life.
When this POS mentions “value every human life”, she means let Hamas live to fight another day.
But hey, it’s nice to see that the left admits that all lives do matter, even if merely to suit its own purposes.
Nice to see Iran back off its silly earlier threat to get more directly involved if Israel invades Gaza.
Partial and likely unintentional credit to my corrupt, incompetent, senile fossil of a president, who did not say “No.” when asked by Scott Pelley if the US might send forces into Gaza to assist Israel.
Emerson:
Looks like it’s time for a certain threatened senator to begin shifting to the right. Quickly.
Schumer joins Nikki Haley in calling for Israel to FINISH THEM.
He also rightly refers to AOC as “Congress’ dumbest cunt”. OK, I added that last part. But it isn’t far off from Harry Reid calling Gillebrand the “hottest member” of the Senate. At the time Reid wasn’t wrong, although the years have not been kind to the junior senator from New York, also a really dumb cunt. Really dumb.
I guess Chuck Schumer loves him some @ 2 slaughtered infants, too.
How long until QoS McHillbilly draws for us a caricature of Chuck Schumer looking like a bloodthirsty Jew?
See page 7.
Cheeto Mussolini got another gag today.
Leaves him free to talk about the case, criticize the prosecution case on the merits, and even ze the motivation for the criticiprosecution.
May not talk any shit about the people or their family members, including Judge Chutkan, her court, DOJ, FBI, or any witnesses.
Judge promised “swift and certain” sanctions for violations.
This oughta be good.
Treat people you hate like non humans.
Feign surprised when any of them act out in anger.
Indiscriminately FINISH THEM!
Act betrayed when people think you are also the bad guy
Someone at the UN High Command is pretty pissed that one of its agencies told the truth without permission from above.
UNRWA Deletes Statement Accusing Hamas of Stealing Humanitarian Aid From Gaza Compound
I geuss it wouldn’t look good that Biden sent $75 million to the Palestinians for “food aid” earlier this month if it got out that Hamas took the money as soon as the check cashed, would it?
@ 9
Treat people you hate like non humans. Laugh at the homosexual with the fourth-grade level of understanding.
Feign surprised when any of them act out in anger. Laugh again when he describes the massacre of more than a thousand people as “acting out”, like the terrorists were toddlers having a bad morning.
Indiscriminately FINISH THEM! Indiscriminate would be dropping daisy cutter bombs and MOABs. Going house to house is as discriminating as it gets.
Act betrayed when people think you are also the bad guy. Shrug my shoulders at silly twats who enjoy a 19-to-1 advantage over me yet still see themselves as the victims when their ilk does exactly what we have said they would do, and it gets pointed out to them.
The list of things that have not happened that wouldn’t look good:
Gym Jordan finally confessing his ardent wrestler-love for Matt Gaetz;
Any Senate Republican offering immigration reform legislation;
A Republican balanced budget;
Rep. Lauren Boebert appearing on Sesame Street;
Trump with his shirt off;
The incel troll lecturing us about spelling.
@1 There is no “proportionality” issue, or shouldn’t be. Proportionality is poppycock. When you’re attacked by a relentless enemy, you want nothing less than the enemy’s total defeat or unconditional surrender. What Israel has to do is sort the Gaza Palestinians into Bad Guys and Innocent Civilians, and make a better job of it than we did in Vietnam. It remains to be seen whether they can, but they’d better at least try; and they need better public rhetoric than is being put forth by this lying idiot.
@1 There is no “proportionality” issue, or shouldn’t be. Proportionality is poppycock. When you’re attacked by a relentless enemy, you want nothing less than the enemy’s total defeat or unconditional surrender. What Israel has to do is sort the Gaza Palestinians into Bad Guys and Innocent Civilians, and make a better job of it than we did in Vietnam. It remains to be seen whether they can, but they must at least try; and they need better rhetoric than is being put forth by this lying idiot.
@3 Only a dumbfuck would think she’s defending Hamas. You qualify.
@4 “Partial and likely unintentional credit to my corrupt, incompetent, senile fossil of a president”
Biden’s intelligent handling of the crisis finally elicits a grunt of admiration from the Whidbey Whackadoodle.
@6 Chuck Schumer and Nikki Haley aren’t the same. Not remotely. Haley has the spine of a jellyfish and the mental capacity of a gnat.
@7 Can you hold your breath that long? I dare you to try.
@9 You’ve got the stump-dwelling troll pegged.
@10 It doesn’t take an idiot to figure out that Hamas will try to divert humanitarian aid to its own use. It does take an idiot to use that as an excuse to deny humanitarian aid to innocent civilians.
By this “logic,” grocery stores that experience shrinkage shouldn’t sell groceries. And since all stores experience shrinkage, there should be no groceries for anyone. Including you.
Got a Victory Garden on your five acres?
“The University of Pennsylvania has lost a major donor and a board member to allegations of anti-Semitism exacerbated by the school’s response to the Israel-Hamas war.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/education/4258709-upenn-loses-big-donor-board-member-resigns-citing-antisemitism/
For context, you need to click on the link and read the full article, which is too lengthy to quote here. I’ll try to summarize. UPenn issued statements condemning antisemitism and the Hamas attack, but critics argue it wasn’t forceful enough; and took particular issue with the university for hosting a Palestine literature festival — last month before the attack — “that included speakers with a history of anti-Semitic statements.” UPenn said, as universities routinely do, that it did not endorse the views of the speakers.
The issue this raises is whether, and to what extent, colleges and universities should exercise censorship over on-campus events. If there’s an expectation to exclude anti-Semites, then shouldn’t they also exclude of proto-fascists and provocateurs like Milo Yanaoupoulis? Also, if university administrators are expected to assume a censorship role, then that involves drawing lines, which raises the question of where the line should be drawn — at advocating violence, or merely advocating unpopular views? Any censorship, of course, intrudes upon the traditional role of universities as being places where ideas are freely thrashed out.
Two years ago, when a rightwing student group invited Yanaoupoulis to speak on campus at Penn State, the university allowed the event to proceed, and issued this statement disavowing Yanaoupoulis’ views but rejecting censorship. Nobody resigned or pulled donor funding then.
It’s a complicated issued, but this aspect of it is uncomplicated: What’s good for the goose, is good for the gander. You can’t demand censorship of some people, and demand others not be censored, without being a hypocrite. If you’re going to censor unpopular or offensive viewpoints, then you have to censor both sides.
FINISH THEM.
Few things more pathetic than when a dumbfuck coward tries to talk tough. Sad!
“The Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Biden administration to continue regulating so-called ghost guns – untraceable homemade weapons – as firearms under federal law. The court’s brief order grants the Justice Department’s request to wipe away a lower court order and allow the regulations to remain in effect while a legal challenge brought by firearm manufacturers continues to play out in the lower courts. There were no noted dissents to the order.”
https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/16/politics/ghost-gun-regulations-enforcement-supreme-court/index.html
The conservative justices apparently are getting the message that the public won’t stand for SCOTUS-abetted unrestricted warfare against the citizenry by criminals and domestic terrorists.
According to Newsweek, Hamas says it has about 200 hostages, which it claims to be treating as “guests,” and says 50 more are scattered and 22 have been killed in Israeli airstrikes. Hamas also claims it will release foreign nationals when it can do so “safely.”
https://www.newsweek.com/hamas-hostages-guests-release-israel-1835184
Interesting, but take with grains of salt.
We cannot have world communism unless we confiscate all firearms held by non-government people. Subduing the populace is the first step in establishing an authoritarian communist workers’ paradise here in the US and every where else in the world.
Just another hate crime.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/arizona-state-university-turning-point-usa_n_652d8b6ae4b00565b62113b4
@25 HAL needs some of his tubes replaced. His AI is going haywire again.
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/oct/09/viral-image/video-that-predates-hamas-october-2023-attack-misc/
@ 21
The issue this raises is whether, and to what extent, colleges and universities should exercise censorship over on-campus events.
This is incorrect, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit.
For the megadonors pulling their support, the issue is that these donors find revolting the mindsets of the students their donated funds subsidize. It need go no further than that.
Nobody has announced that they are pulling their support from George Mason University in the past 10 days.
MAGA foreign policy experts solves Ukrainian crisis.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/f-fjt6DSqNo
Roger Rabbit Commentary: Yes, it’s possible to be dumber than Doctor Dumbfuck.
@29 Only dumbfucks think donors should dictate who can speak on public university campuses. But then, you also believe universities should be nothing more than vocational schools, which also is a dumbfuck idea. You think this way because you’re a dumbfuck.
Hey look, David Pakman called out two leftwing idiots. Kudos to him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJ5ZS2tr05U
Pakman has an audience of 1.85 million, according to Wikipedia. Two idiots out of 1.85 million subscribers isn’t bad, when all of Trump’s 1.7 million Truth Social followers are idiots. Compare and contrast.
Official Dark Brandon is live on TRUTH:
https://truthsocial.com/@BidenHQ
😎
@33 Well, not quite all. But a lot of them.
Tim Scott’s campaign admits he’s not going to win the nomination.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4259628-super-pac-supporting-tim-scott-pulls-back-on-ad-buys-report/
Rightwing role model Victor Orban pals around with Xi, Putin, and the Taliban.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-67120726
As LOL stupid as ever.
Case #1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qSQXzzJGO8&t=357s
Case #2: https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-jr-ar-15-sales/
Ramaswamy wants to end birthright citizenship. Which would make him ineligible to be president.
Follow-up: Remember ex-county clerk Kim Davis, the bigot who refused to issue a marriage license to two gay men? They sued her, and last month a jury awarded them $100,000 in damages.
https://www.npr.org/2023/09/14/1199477637/kim-davis-same-sex-marriage-license-ordered-to-pay-damages
He could be FINISHED too. He’s. DUMBFUCK!
@39
Bob will buy her a horse. Or he’ll lend her one of his so she finally can have orgasm.
@11. Typical response when triggered.
Attack the person’s character.
Pretend to misunderstand the point, to play the victim.
Justify awful actions with the argument they could have been worse actions.
Sum it up with more character attacks.
Cop who fired shots at Kirkwood Missouri trunk-or-treat said attendees were ‘going to die’
https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-courts/cop-accused-of-firing-shots-at-kirkwood-trunk-or-treat-said-attendees-were-going-to/article_82dec69c-6c66-11ee-aac0-6fedb1985ecc.html
>> Not a drag queen.
>> “To stop a bad guy with a gun, you need a good guy with a gun.” Yet the parents who overpowered the potential murder did not have or use guns. Not waiting for the Uvalde type cops.
>> “Police said attendees ran for cover and tried to shelter children who had been separated from their parents.” Good people.
“Yeah, so, we’re gonna hand a bunch more money and stuff to the Palestinians, in the full knowledge that it will end up with Hamas.”
A Florida governor accomplished what the US government under my corrupt, incompetent, senile fossil of a president could not.
Meanwhile, HA libbies prefer to talk about white boots he wore after a disaster that one time.
The US government is telling Americans that if they want out of Israel, they’re paying for the trip, and they might get dumped in Germany, or Cyprus, after which they’re on their own.
·
Ukraine dropped two US-supplied cluster bombs on a Russian-occupied airfield and its troops.
For some reason AOC hasn’t condemned this act.
The incel troll’s infinite grief at the prospect of even one fewer, thin-limbed, weak, dehydrated, uncontrollably quivering infant lying soaked in its own sweat and urine with its eyes rolled back into its head.
46,
Republicans hate this one thing.
More grief from a Republican over sound, effective US security policy under a Democratic president.
The ATACMS has a 190 mile range. It can be deployed and fired from the HIMARS rapid platform making it useful in forward combat areas and easily defended from counterattack and capture
It can be armed with both multi-munition bomblet warheads as well as individual hardened target penetrating warheads all with the highest precision gps aided guidance.
While Republicans fought with each other for the privilege of sucking Putin’s very small penis for what they consider “clout” with disgraced reality TV celebrity Trump, Democratic President Biden quietly, and secretly delivered ATACMS to Ukraine along with combat training. Now UAF is enabled to begin destroying Russian air support positions.
By doing this in secret without informing Pedo Gym, President Biden denied Republicans the opportunity to publicize the shift in capability which would have alerted the Russian military to the new threat and given them the time needed to effectively redeploy to a safe distance.
Meanwhile, HA libbies prefer to talk about white boots he wore after a disaster that one time.
Don’t like that one? Howbout’ the “serious” maga black shit-kickers that Casey picked out..
https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Ftiwo8rc7nvrb1.jpg
“Lifts” the candidate. Heh.. All it needs is a “ranch” now to “clear some brush.”
Tim Scott’s campaign admits he’s not going to win the nomination.
noun, verb, THE LEFT.. didn’t work..
shades of noun, verb, ANTIFA.. CHICAGO.., FILL THE TANK, MAKE THE RENT…
Of course being Republican, they can fold at any moment. But there have already been four members this morning who have said they are not yet ready to vote for Gym.
Nearly 1,000 U.S. citizens, family have departed Israel with government help
The state of Florida and a non-profit group partnered to charter a flight and helped more 270 Americans return from Israel,
>> Glad they helped.
It has been U.S. policy “for at least 79 years” to require Americans who intend to be evacuated from overseas to sign a promissory note.
In August 1944, a telegram from the U.S. secretary of state said American adults who had been evacuated in Europe during World War II “should be required to sign a promissory note” for the cost of transportation. It became a law in 1956 under Republican Eisenhower.
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/oct/13/brian-krassenstein/why-do-americans-have-to-pay-for-a-state-departmen/
>> Maybe it has something to do with not having a Speaker of the House and being able to legally pay for the flights? People are asking.
Keeping the Fat Midget dream alive, we can only hope.
Anyone care to rate the probability going forward that if Trump were to somehow lose the nomination to Fat Midget he would acknowledge the defeat and give his full support to the Republican nominee?
Or is there perhaps some far more likely response from Trump?????
I love this timeline.
A lot of the more conservative media outlets talk of American “leadership” in the world. Exercising hegemony is not leadership, however.
At this point I count four Republicans voting for someone other than Gym.
If the intention is to put the members on public records as a way to apply pressure it’s a gamble. It may be that once a first vote fails, going quickly to a second vote without further negotiations to find a more dignified way forward can produce frustration and resentment triggering a backlash against the nominee.
It may be that once a first vote fails, going quickly to a second vote without further negotiations to find a more dignified way forward can produce frustration and resentment triggering a backlash against the nominee.
Jim Jordan loses first ballot in speaker race
The vote count is Jeffries 212, Jordan 200, others 20, present 0. Time for GOPers to put aside the insurrectionist and cut a deal with Democrats.
It has seemed to me that if the “party interest over national interest” partisan extremism of Republicans has some virtue to it’s supporters, it has been that it keeps them unified and moving forward supporting an agenda and building a brand.
But a prolonged partisan Republican fight over an empty Speaker’s chair does the opposite.
It fractures their own ranks and erodes supporters confidence that they can make any progress. By staging a prolonged public fight over their own extremism they drive away moderate voters while reducing the confidence of extreme MAGA voters.
May they go on forever.
Ilhan’s district won’t ever go red. But she nearly lost her primary race last time around.
And that was before her race with Tlaib to be crowned The Congresswoman From Hamas.
@44 What’s Hamas gonna do with water, dumbfuck? Lob water balloons at Israel?
@ 59 link.
@58 “May they go on forever.”
The world’s first working Perpetual Motion Machine?
Putting aside that he’s writing off the military vote,
In his campaign stop in Iowa, the shit fer brains former guy said of military leaders saying it is more cost effective to leave equipment behind in Afghanistan in order to meet the withdrawal deadline HE placed on them,
And this is why every business that moron has attempted that sold an actual consumer product or service has failed. He doesn’t know diddly squat except “Daddy’s money can buy real estate and real estate appreciates in value.”
Tell me, oh brilliant businessman, when a retail giant closes one of their stores, why do they sell as much of the merchandise as possible starting at maybe 30% off, then 50% off then 75% of and then for next to nothing in the final week before locking the doors? Because it is expensive to remove the stuff and try to get it somewhere else to hope you can re-use it as inventory.
You know when the Bellevue WalMart went tits up I got a rechargeable battery leaf blower for $15.
https://www.walmart.com/ip/HART-40-Volt-120-MPH-at-450-CFM-Battery-Powered-Axial-Blower-Kit-1-4-0Ah-Lithium-Ion-Battery/754502096?from=/search
@59 So you’re saying Democratic donors are more sensible than Republican donors …
@46
Yes because a militarized airfield and a residential neighborhood full of apartment buildings and children are exactly alike.
What a dumbass you are. You thought this was clever. You typed it up and thought, “YESSSSS!”
@60
Cold Fusion nuclear bomb. Ssshhhh it’s a secret. Our people have been working on the very same thing but the Palestinians must have succeeded.
Here’s something to bring tears of joy to dumbfuck’s eyes …
“Hundreds of people have been killed in an Israeli strike on a hospital in Gaza, according to Palestinian officials; the Israeli military says it’s investigating the incident”
“Earlier, the UN said a school in central Gaza where 4,000 people are sheltering was also hit, killing at least six people
‘No place is safe in Gaza anymore, not even UNRWA facilities,’ said a senior UN official after the school incident”
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67119233
@44
You did know that Israel has for nearly a decade only delivered water to Gaza ever 15 days? Part of the simmering resentment that boils, see what I did there, into violence. When water has to be rationed for 10 years while Israel provides the illegal settlements with more than enough…well ordinary people become radicalized against their occupiers.
Spare me the lectures on Palestinian water shortages, contamination, and dependence.
The Truth Behind the Palestinian Water Libels
Proper water management requires piping, which competes with Hamas’ rocket construction needs. Guess which use wins.
Let’s not forget the Palestinians’ choice to destroy all of the infrastructure that Israel had built in Gaza after Israel’s withdrawal in 2005.
NBC News:
Looters strip Gaza greenhouses
Palestinians looted dozens of greenhouses on Tuesday, walking off with irrigation hoses, water pumps and plastic sheeting in a blow to fledgling efforts to reconstruct the Gaza Strip.
This is why Palestinians can’t have nice things. They don’t deserve them.
@69 @70 You just want excuses to kill innocent civilians, half of whom are children.
BABY KILLER.
Doctor Dumbfuck missile launcher: https://tinyurl.com/yr86jvca
in 2005.
Wow.. teh kreepshit is REACHING BACK… we reference stuff that’s a month old and we’re not “serious”…
earth to kreepshit…
it’s 2023…
@ 72
@69 @70 You just want excuses to kill innocent civilians, half of whom are children.
BABY KILLER.
Hamas, not IDF, blew up the Gaza hospital:
There’s video that has audio confirming that it was a rocket; bombs aren’t propelled. And then there’s Hamas bragging that it was firing on Haifa just as this SNAFU occurred:
Hamas killed its own people, as frequently occurs, and blamed Israel for it. Get used to this.
So kreepshit has been assigned hasbara duty here at HA..
We should be so honored.
Popcorn time..
@ 76
… has been assigned hasbara duty here at HA..
Queen YLB, if you click on Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit’s link @ 67 you’ll find that it’s being updated as more news is available. Currently, scroll down a bit and you’ll find this:
It therefore appears, Queen YLB, that Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit and I are sharing that duty, although if Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit had known that his link was spilling the beans on Hamas incompetence, he wouldn’t have posted it.
I wonder how many Hamas terrorists will be killed by Israel’s coming invasion of Gaza before the number of collateral damage true Palestinian civilians equals the number that the Islamic Jihad killed with its wayward rocket just last night.
Probably at least a few thousand, I would imagine.
289+ Israeli soldiers, trained military professionals, have been killed by Hamas gunmen and the dumbfuck is outraged that ordinary men, women, and children are not standing up to Hamas?
They’re just animals.
The bumps their skulls prove they’re inferior to us.
They were BRED for work
They worship false gods.
The full throated racism and bigotry of ‘sensible’ conservatives.
That recession is right around the corner…..anytime now. That and Gym boy being speaker.
Was away from Delaware the past 4 days. Another couple hours I’ll be there. I can’t wait to see what the price of gas is!
Second vote pushed to tomorrow after hours of closed door arm twisting.
NPR reporting four GOP house members telling the caucus
they are not pro-child molestationthat there are no circumstances that will get them to vote for Gym.The Republican nominee for Speaker, having fallen well short in his one and only vote before the full House, has canceled any further votes today and returned to his offices to sulk and plot his revenge.
The Democrats continue to reach out to the other side requesting negotiations for a bipartisan compromise with no public responses from any Republicans.
Mighty Joe Biden remains confidently at the helm, while the legislative branch remains paralyzed, and the Middle East bursts into conflict.
@75 A more objective source than you says:
“Hundreds of people were killed after an airstrike fell on a hospital Tuesday in Gaza City, Palestinian officials said, with Gaza and Israel trading blame for one of the deadliest strikes on Gaza in years. … Hamas called the strike ‘a horrific massacre caused by an Israeli strike. Israel’s military pointed blame at a ‘failed rocket launch’ by the Islamic Jihad ….”
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/4260742-gaza-says-500-killed-in-israeli-strike-on-hospital-where-civilians-were-sheltering/
Fog of war. Until it’s sorted out, we don’t know, although at this point Israel is a lot more credible than Hamas. And Hamas calling anything “horrific” is bombastic, hypocritical horseshit, not to mention they’re responsible for starting the whole shootin’ match.
@75 “Hamas, not IDF, blew up the Gaza hospital”
Which is completely irrelevant to the point of my comment @72, and therefore unresponsive. Do I need to explain why?
I can’t believe these lapses in security:
https://www.miamiherald.com/latest-news/ocawd2/picture280615709/alternates/LANDSCAPE_1140/59716430_10218777815497652_1272472915723419648_n.jpeg
Although it must be tough, what with every other campaign photo op being another lunatic gun-humper.
A heated mayor’s race in Franklin, Tennessee, is garnering national attention because the rightwing candidate:
1. Has used other names
2. Has a criminal record (promoting prostitution)
3. Has neo-Nazi associations
4. Is supported by white supremacists
5. Violated city ethics code
6. Her husband ran for Congress in Illinois while she claimed to reside in, and sat on the city council of, Franklin Tennessee
A local conservative group yanked their endorsement; even in a red state like Tennessee, they’re worried about her harming the conservative movement. The election is Oct. 26.
@77 “Hamas incompetence”
If you had half-assed reading skills, you would’ve blamed this on “Palestinian Islamic Jihad” (I’m quoting BBC) incompetence.
Sheesh. You can’t even keep terrorist organizations straight.
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.) has seen a precipitous drop in her fundraising each year since 2019
Only if you limit the counting to campaign fund and define “precipitous” as broadly as possible.
I doubt Freebacon knows any better. And I’m certain the dipshit troll doesn’t.
But the way House incumbency in a safe district works is the member earns the party leadership support and any assignments by raising money for other Democrats. It’s very normal therefore that a member like Tlaib, having won re-election by staggering margins, to focus fund raising on her leadership PACs, all of which continue to double in size every two years.
More premature ejaculation from the dipshit troll.
So now paragliding is to be demonized because the Hamas terrorists used paragliders? Well, since they also used AK-47s, shouldn’t we demonize the gun hobbyists who like to shoot AK-47s, too?
Last spring Glenn Youngkin sent Virginia National Guard troops to Texas, supposedly to prevent fentanyl making its way from Mexico to Virginia. They intercepted [crickets] fentanyl.
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/glenn-youngkins-border-initiative-faces-unflattering-scrutiny-rcna120772
Roger Rabbit commentary: Republican politicians are always ready and willing to waste taxpayer money on political stunts to further their careers.
This figure shows the hospital directly in the path of several rockets fired from a Gaza launch site into Israel. Nice job, Hamas. Another “work accident”? Or are you losing the war for hearts and minds so badly that you took out a hospital intentionally in order to sway public sentiment?
@92
This is proving to be an unmitigated disaster for news outlets who unquestioningly ram with the IDFs claims of beheaded babies and public rapings.
@92 The hospital more likely was hit by a short round fired by the Palestinian Islamic Jihard organization than by a precision-guided munition fired by a highly-trained Israeli pilot.
The thesis that it was intentional is less convincing. To make sure I understand this correctly, are you arguing that a bunch of teenage rocketeers firing home-made rockets constructed from water main pipes could land one on a pre-selected target with the same accuracy as a precision-guided munition fired by a highly-trained Israeli pilot?
Or, alternatively, are you just a babbling dumbfuck?
@93 Fog of war. There’s a lot of it these days.
guys…new thread opened up.
“More than a dozen U.S. lawmakers introduced a House resolution Monday that calls for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, as the death toll in the region continues to climb and human rights groups warn of ethnic cleansing in Gaza.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/lawmakers-resolution-ceasefire-israel-hamas-gaza_n_652edc86e4b03b213b079af3
Roger Rabbit Commentary: I respectfully disagree, and I’m glad my representative didn’t sign on to this. Hamas carried out a sneak attack against Israel, and Israel declared war. This is like Japan bombing Pearl Harbor, the U.S. declaring war, and then Guatemala or Portugal saying both sides should stop shooting. If I were FDR or Truman, I’d say “we’ll stop shooting when they unconditionally surrender; and by the way, we’re going to hang their leaders.” Actually, this is more akin to the 9/11 terror attacks, when Al Qaeda carried out a sneak attack on the U.S., and we stopped shooting at OBL when he was dead. Same deal here. It’s too bad civilians are caught in the crossfire, but the Israelis didn’t start this, and are entitled to defeat their enemy. If Hamas really wants to prevent civilian casualties, they should surrender unconditionally.
Even the paragliding reports are somewhat in doubt after a couple of widely circulated videos on social media were shown to pre-date the Saturday attack.
@97
Th problem is that ended up with Hiroshima (necessary?) and Nagasaki (unnecessary) killing maybe a quarter million people who had the bad luck of being born and raised in the wrong geographic location.
@99 The atomic bombings have been intensely debated over the years, but the fact is, the Japanese military didn’t surrender until the emperor intervened, and he didn’t intervene until after the second bomb.