Hey, get vaccinated or boosted if you’re eligible.
I know I usually put it at the end of these, and maybe it’s an after thought. But it’s a good thing to do. I got mine over the weekend and no side effects this time.
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Oh dear, Tesla is down another 5.5% and is now well below the buy in price that our lying Dumbfuck claims he took advantage of to make his fortune.
We’re a long way from 400
Right now sure is a near perfect time for the MAGA controlled Republican Party to say the quiet part out loud:
https://twitter.com/PocketCastNews/status/1704194945471435029
“Sexual anarchy”: New House Speaker Mike Johnson showcases the incel-ization of the modern GOP | The Louisiana congressman’s career has been centered around his bitter obsession with other people’s sex lives
https://www.salon.com/2023/10/30/sexual-anarchy-new-speaker-mike-johnson-showcases-the-incel-ization-of-the-modern/
>> Will see how swing voters in battle ground states react if he tries to force his agenda on them.
Stallantis has a tentative agreement with UAW pending radification.
Last one to fall will be GM.
It’s good to see labor finally flexing a little muscle in the US.
These are the folks who just defenestrated Brave Kevin and seized control of the Republican conference in the House:
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3540071-boebert-says-she-is-tired-of-separation-between-church-and-state-the-church-is-supposed-to-direct-the-government/
Their true agenda is a lot more extreme than anyone wants to admit.
Ever heard of the Century of Humiliation? It refers to the roughly one hundred year period when the European world essentially dominated and controlled China. The Chinese haven’t forgotten about the Century of Humiliation, and that’s why they are smuggling fentanyl, with the help of the Mexican cartels, into the US. They are looking to “get even” with the West for their past experiences. Paybacks are a bitch!
“Why if they hadn’t confiscated all their guns the Jews could have fought their way out of the ghettos.
It is unconscionable and barbaric that Palestinians use their weapons to fight their way out of the ghetto. Just eliminate them.”
the Stable Genius, “Viktor Orban is the head of Hungary. Hungary fronts both Russia and Ukraine.”
Close, but no. Hungary does share an eastern border with Ukraine. But the nearest Russian border is some 4000k away (2500 miles)
That was after he had his “Hello Sioux Falls (SD)! Are you ready to ROCK!” moment. He was in Sioux City, IA”
The advisory board is like a death panel.
Harvard University president Claudine Gay launches anti-Semitism advisory board after Hamas’ terror attack on Israel sparked wave of bigotry on campus
You know. To determine which Jewish students can be safely assaulted by Hamas-supporting students. By safely, they mean without pissing off the biggest donors.
Headline today: Hamas releases hostage.
Oh, wait. My bad. It was actually
@10
“Rape Victims should make the best of a bad situation” – Rick Santorum
Oh, look, an entire political party is living a lie in order to get the QAnon vote:
“The rise of Rep. Mike Johnson in the House, coupled with the fall of former Vice President Mike Pence and the dominance of ex-President Donald Trump, shows that 2020 election denialism is a prerequisite for winning Republican power.”
https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/30/politics/republican-party-2020-election-denialism/index.html
Israeli forces are gunning down Palestinian children
FINISH THEM!
FINISH THEM!
Because I can’t wait until we get back to killing Jews.
JEWS WILL NOT REPLACE US!
Long-serving GOP legislator indicted on child sex charges in North Dakota
The indictment claims Holmberg traveled to the Czech Republic to engage with sex with a minor and knowingly received child sex abuse materials between June 2011 and November 2016.
That makes #1176 on the list of Republicans who fuck children, the family dog, goats and horses.
@6 Well, if they’re doing that to us, we should humiliate them for another century.
Another Faux-cahontas. She could have been exposed a decade ago, if not for…
Hey, just ’cause she’s a fake Indian doesn’t mean he wasn’t a pedo.
Buffy?
@17 is what it looks like when a treasonous fucking troll can’t talk about how the democracy-hating GQP is embracing fascism.
FINISH HIM!
@4 Yes, TSLA broke — no, shattered — the double-benjamin today, but that’s merely symptomatic of what’s ailing the entire car market: Plunging sales, unsold vehicles accumulating on dealer lots, and skyrocketing car loan defaults and repos.
I watched a video the other day showing a window sticker where a dealer added a $100K “market adjustment” to a $133K MSRP for a total sticker price of $233K for a goddam pickup. I’ve seen other videos of showing dealer lots full of unsold ordinary pickups with 6-figure asking prices. Wonder why …
Same with EVs, Jeeps, SUVs, and luxury cars. Bottom line: Automakers and dealers are asking so much for cars they either aren’t selling or the sucker buyers are defaulting their loans en masse.
Ford, Stellantis, and GM can afford to settle this strike on UAW’s terms, because they’ll soon lay off all these workers anyway as demand tanks and assembly lines are paused for lack of sales.
Not a drag queen. Just your standard white male who just can’t enough of the kiddie sex tours.
@ 18
… how the democracy-hating GQP is embracing fascism.
By hosting its third primary debate next week. Apparently real democracy is icing out the other candidates by not holding debates.
@20 This is the kind of government you get under one-party rule.
@21 Today the dumbfuck troll wants us to believe the GQP is the party of democracy.
HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR
And if the UN doesn’t protect them then it’s Israel’s fault, natch.
Today the dumbfuck troll wants us to believe the GQP is the party of democracy.
And that they love Jews.
“JEWS WILL NOT REPLACE US”
Very fine people.
And if the UN doesn’t protect them then it’s Israel’s fault, natch.
“JEWS WILL NOT REPLACE US”
Momala leads both DeSantis and Nikki Haley in the RCP Favorability Ratings.
Must suck to be the fascist democracy-hating troll.
TSLA was down again today and GNRC, 3M and GE were up.
Wherein Netanyahu’s cabinet calls him a liar.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/benjamin-netanyahu-apology-israel-hamas-war_n_653f93b2e4b0a78a26a3fa60
MAGA Mike, “We don’t live in a democracy”
Let’s instead talk about today’s safe space, Buffy.
In other political news, Corrupt Sarah Sanders’ popularity is tanking.
https://www.rawstory.com/sarah-huckabee-sanders-has-lowest-approval-rating-of-any-arkansas-governor-over-last-20-ye/
In today’s stupid criminals news, a Nevada man has been arrested for threatening an unnamed Nevada U.S. senator (both are Democrats), a Trump supporter has been arrested for threatening Fani Willis, and a convicted Jan. 6 rioter has been jailed pending sentencing for threatening law enforcement.
Interesting police misconduct case. Three juveniles go to prison for felony murder because cops killed their friend. Detective with arm-long history of misconduct gets to retire on pension.
https://theappeal.org/jacob-harris-jennifer-diponzio-phoenix-police-maricopa-county/
More protect and serve here.
This article title is incomplete.
Study: Cost of ‘fueling’ an electric vehicle is equivalent to $17.33 per gallon
This is more accurate:
Yes. Definitely more accurate.
Besides Buffy, today’s safe spaces for our cowardly troll includes EVs.
If he wasn’t such a fucking coward he’d admit that he’s a POS fascist traitor who want to see our democracy come to an end.
@35 Shorter version: Rightwing website cites rightwing Texas think tank “which seeks to ‘explain the forgotten moral case for fossil fuels'” (source) to come up with bullshit number that includes, well, read it for yourself here.
Bonus points: Texas is famous for producing [ ] oil [ ] electricity.
What White Privilege Dep’t
While decent folk pay six figures for Teslas and pickups, the boyz in the ‘hood drive Kias and Hyundais for free. This proves systemic racism is a mirage. [sarcasm]
To call for a cease-fire, an end to the killing, is anti-semitic..
The $17.33 per gallon equivalent cost of fueling an EV is largely subsidized
Vote for Joe.. he’ll only raise taxes on shit for brains shivering in fear of a knock on the door…
knock, knock, knock… Manchinema IRS calling for teh widbee shitstain…
aaahh that’s life in a kreepshit’s golden years…
Black man finds creative way to murder white man.
More here: https://twitter.com/ElijahSchaffer/status/1718833079228494092
Remember when Republicans booed and jeered and shouted down a black reporter when she asked Speaker Mike about his participation in the 2020 attempted coup?
https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/nabj-rachel-scott-mike-johnson-rcna122877
Yeah. Black reporters aren’t supposed to ask white Republicans questions. This girl needed to be put in her place. [sarcasm]
@39 Well to be honest, from a veteran’s perspective, it doesn’t make military sense to soften up a battlefield with bombing and artillery and then pause to allow the enemy to rearm and regroup. I wouldn’t do it in Ukraine or Vietnam, so I understand why the Israelis won’t do it.
@41 What do you think this is, shuffleboard? This is hockey, man! That’s a match penalty.
As for the possibility of criminal prosecution: https://www.newsweek.com/adam-johnson-death-matt-petgrave-ice-hockey-1839161
But hey, even if it was an accident, exploit the shit out of it.
https://metro.co.uk/2023/10/30/vile-trolls-send-abuse-to-ice-hockey-star-after-adam-johnson-death-19743012/?ico=trending-post-strip_item_3
Speaker Mike and his fellow Republicans are holding Israel hostage for IRS funding cuts.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4284228-democrats-accuse-johnson-political-games-israel-funding/
No doubt inspired by Tommy Tubes holding the U.S. military hostage.
16 – It probably is not a good idea to try to humiliate 1.4 billion people who have nuclear weapons and the means to deliver them to the US and Europe.
Republicans are holding Israel hostage for IRS funding cuts.
Oh no.. now THAT is NOT anti-semitic…
Defund the IRS – nothing could be more pro-semitic…
Demorat-Pfizer Party Of Vax Mandates & Chickenhawk Warmongers News –
Failed insurrectionist Trump, who almost destroyed democracy forever by challenging an election, something no Demorat has ever done, stoops to new low, now suggests that Joe Bidenclown may actually be a zombie, see, https://twitter.com/RSBNetwork/status/1718445335255629921
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Kamala Dahoe-Einstein resoundingly demolishes absurd zombie speculation;
“Well, first of all, I’m not gonna engage in that hypothetical, because Joe Biden is very much alive, and running for re-election,” Harris responded.
https://slaynews.com/news/kamala-harris-biden-very-much-alive-running-re-election/
@35
Did you even take a second to see who did the study?
BTW we have a foundation that is 100% sure cigarettes are it addictive.
@48 Thanks very much for raising the average troll IQ in this thread. It’s still infinitesimally small mind you, but all the same, thanks.
Black man finds…
The racist troll’s original safe space. Black people.
What a coward. And a dumbfuck.
collective punishment is PRO-semitic…
51,
Face it.
He’s an angry white Republican who has not let a single day pass in the last decade without finding something about The Blacks to piss and moan about. And he has absolutely no idea how ridiculous this makes him look
@48,
So you’re just going to overlook that Trump raped a few women and killed a million Americans.
We all know COVID was created by man….China Man.
@ 45
No doubt inspired by …
Democrats who want to cut spending on things they don’t like and allocate the money instead to things they do.
June 13, 2022
REPS. LEE AND POCAN INTRODUCE BILL TO CUT DEFENSE SPENDING BY $100 BILLION AND PRIORITIZE PEOPLE OVER THE PENTAGON
Lee is the chick that Nancy Pelosi doesn’t want anywhere near the Senate. At times Nancy makes some sense.
@ 55
The Chinese haven’t forgotten about the Century of Humiliation, and that’s why they are smuggling fentanyl, with the help of the Mexican cartels, into the US. They are looking to “get even” with the West for their past experiences. Paybacks are a bitch!
So let’s cut wire fences and make it easier for them.
Without a SHITDOWN?
How on earth? That’s unpossible.
If you live in Tempe, Arizona, and voted against a public bond issue supported by the mayor for a private hockey arena complex (as 56% of your neighbors did), you paid taxes for a crony and campaign donor of the mayor to conduct surveillance on arena opponents including their names and addresses.
https://www.azfamily.com/2023/10/14/attorney-general-investigating-whether-tempe-used-taxpayer-money-spy-citizens/
Louisiana Jim Crow literacy test, ca. 1960. You have 10 minutes to answer 30 questions; if you get 1 answer wrong, you fail the test.
https://jimcrowmuseum.ferris.edu/question/2012/pdfs-docs/literacytest.pdf
Related video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoUct-62nUo
I love this comment under the video: “I once heard a story about a Black man back in the day who ‘aced’ one of these ‘literacy’ tests; much to the consternation of the testers. In desperation, the testers – who just ‘happened’ to have a copy of a Chinese newspaper handy – told the man that he had, “. . . just one more test: Can you read the headline of this newspaper to us?” Without skipping a beat, the man said that he could. When the incredulous tester demanded to know what the headline said, the man replied, “Black people are still not allowed to vote in this state.”
@55 “The Chinese haven’t forgotten about the Century of Humiliation”
But that’s trivial compared to what Mao did to them.
After six weeks the UAW strike is winding to a conclusion with automakers making major concessions to organized labor.
The strike failed to plunge the US economy into a post apocalyptic horror of cannibalism. The Christmas Gift Buying Season officially begins tomorrow. And Republicans only remaining strategy is to SHITDOWN the federal government and launch an impeachment.
Last night Senate Democrats looking into his decades long Carnival of Corruption announced that they would begin issuing subpoenas to Clarence Thomas’s many white sugar daddies.
It will look really sincere and transparent when every single one of them takes the nickel and refuses to answer questions about how much money they have paid a Supreme Court Justice and his wife over the years for serving as “their very own Black guy” on the court.
Our kreepshit troll revels in inequality like a pig in shit… Today it mourns:
The pay increases are the largest that autoworkers have received in decades, my colleagues Neal Boudette and Jack Ewing explain. The raises are also a reminder that organized labor has an unmatched record in reducing economic inequality.
A large academic study, using Gallup surveys covering millions of workers over decades, found that unionized workers typically made 10 percent to 20 percent more than similar non-unionized workers. The extra pay generally does not harm economic growth, the economists found. It instead often comes out of executive salaries and business profits, reducing inequality. Unions alter the division of the economic pie more than the pie’s size.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/06/business/labor-unions-income-inequality.html
The kreepshit troll never saw a killing by cop of an unarmed person of color it didn’t like.. Similary it never saw a concession of kapital to labor it didn’t hate with a passion.
More munee to labor, less munee for kreepshits babblin’ non-stop about flippin’ their silly paper chits aka stocks, bonds and options contracts..
Lovely to see POS Cori Bush being primaried by someone with a decent chance of taking her out.
JOE’S POLITICAL FIX
Wesley Bell to challenge Cori Bush for 1st Congressional District seat
A few large Jewish neighborhoods in this district, too. She should be nervous. Ilhan Omar barely survived her primary in 2022.
48,
Objectively Republicans simply could not be more wrong about something than they are about responses to COVID.
The US CDC vaccine response to COVID was a triumphant success exceeding all expectations even while overcomming obstruction and delay deliberately imposed by Republicans and Trump.
Lockdowns worked. Objectively they were a complete success where fully and properly implemented along with social distancing, entry restrictions, travel restrictions, and robust programs of vaccination, testing, and tracing.
But that didn’t happen in the US because of refusals by Republicans. Where it did happen exces mortality was not only held in check, it was actually reduced owing to social distancing measures decreasing non-COVID infectious mortality.
Public health science works. Crazed, neanderthal Barbie superstition and rage baiting kills. Republicans kill.
Republicans are now, as a whole political party, committed to just this kind of crazed, unscientific, irrational death-cult superstition and grievance mongering. As a political party they would rather see your children paralyzed and slaughtered by the next polio pandemic for the sake of keeping Chuck-E-Cheez open for business and posturing about it.
65,
Now that the Fat Midget Dream has died, Trump is circling the bowl, Brave Kevin has been “HANG MIKE PENCED”, and the entire GOP has lapsed into raving insanity nurturing bizarre grievances about rainbows, imaginary kitty litter, lifesaving vaccines, and electric vehicles, our very own troll has decided to become a Third Way Democrat.
And they don’t want him either.
#Lieberman2024!
@61
Two things:
1. Mao was a murderous tyrant, but he was a CHINESE murderous tyrant, not some white-faced European or American plundering China and forcing opium the Chinese citizenry.
2. Mao didn’t punish China for 100 years. He killed more people than Hitler or Stalin ever did, but his reign or terror didn’t last nearly as long as the Europeans’ reign of terror in China.
Take a look at China’s currency, and you’ll see Mao’s face. They loved the guy, which is sort of like how the old people in Russia lave Stalin, even though Stalin was a horrible tyrant, worse than any czar.
Bush easily won re-election in 2022, defeating state Sen. Steve Roberts by more than 30 percentage points in the Democratic primary. During her time in Congress, she has been a high-profile member of a group of progressive Democrats nicknamed “The Squad.”
Bell’s election in 2018 as the first Black prosecutor in St. Louis County’s history was part of a wave of progressive wins in prosecutor races around the country seeking to address racial disparities in the criminal justice system. Before that, Bell worked as a public defender and served as a member of the Ferguson City Council.
>> It’s a win, regardless of who goes forward. It makes sense for him to try for rep. There is no way this state would elect a black man, too many racists. He might have a chance against Bush, it’s a liberal district. On the other hand, she has a lot of passionate support. And all that matters is voters in the district, not all the haters from outside it, like in widbey.
Muslim orgs in the US now threatening to work against the re-election of my corrupt, incompetent, senile fossil of a president if he does not immediately begin pressuring Israel to cease fire.
if he does not immediately begin pressuring Israel to cease fire.
Biden should.. Haven’t enough Gazan children died to satisfy jewish israeli bloodlust? After all it was Israel’s incompetence that led to their own people getting massacred..
Imagine not letting Jewish citizens (palestinian arab second class citizens need not attend) celebrate a “joy” festival in peace and safety within spittin’ distance of a crowded open air prison supplied with unsafe drinking water…
Inexcusable..
The one who got excited on election night in 2016 when the President of Egypt was first to call with congratulations:
I love the Bangles! You know that song ‘Walk like an Egyptian’?”
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.timesofisrael.com/holy-f-this-guy-doesnt-know-anything-new-book-shows-chaos-around-trump/amp/
God how pathetic.
@ 71
Haven’t enough Gazan children died to satisfy jewish israeli bloodlust? After all it was Israel’s incompetence that led to their own people getting massacred..
Yeah, and Hamas was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Those poor innocent freedom fighters…
Hey, it’s your fault if your bike is stolen. You didn’t buy a strong enough lock.
Hey, it’s your fault if your house is broken into. You chose to live in that neighborhood.
So unserious. Such is our Queen YLB.
Why might there be secondary explosions, praytell?
Lessee, according to Queen YLB it’s the Palestinians’ fault for building residences over such soft ground.
’cause otherwise she’d have to admit it was because the bombed Hamas tunnels collapsed. Oh, and the secondary explosions were due to the ignition of munitions stored in those tunnels.
Either way, it’s the Palestinians’ fault. For letting Hamas take over Gaza.
Queen YLB, here’s what #CrookedHillary says about a cease fire.
Good on her. She’s got the bloodlust that her husband did not.
Hey, it’s your fault if your house is broken into. You chose to live in that neighborhood.
LMAO… If Biden let something like that happen here what would teh kreepshit babble…
The country that can do no wrong is excused from sleeping on the job – a mess they created..
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2014/07/30/how-israel-helped-create-hamas/
What a “seriously” besotted kreep – like every one of its tribe, treats Israel with puppy love… Too bad it couldn’t attend that “joy” festival… it’d be dancing and waggin’ its dick in the direction of the open air prison… until…
the prisoners rioted… and cut said appendage off…
Catherine Herridge of CBS News won’t divulge her source. The DOJ is gonna try to force it, or jail her.
She’s been consistently critical of Team Biden.
Parents Left Out of Biden’s New Student Loan Plan
What’s that, Mom and Mom in the Queen YLB household? You took out loans for your fucked kids?
Hey, that means you’re fucked, too!
Good on her.
Israel can even make teh widbee shitstain drop its ocd knee jerk Hillary hate for just one spew at HA… heh.. wonders never cease.. thank you country that can do no wrong..
You took out loans
The wife has a couple student loans.. One she’s paid 10 years on.. The other is pretty trivial.. She’s like 5 years into that one..
Kids? No loans.. College graduation and tuition way in the rear view mirror..
Wife submitting her forgiveness papers on the big loan as I write.
Thank you widbee shitstain and the empty suit you voted for twice..
John Kirby rightfully believes that Queen YLB is a skirt.
He mistakenly believes that Cori Bush is a dude. POS, you see, are non-binary. One POS is like any other.
an ‘ethnic cleansing campaign’
In 1948, over 700k Palestinians were forced from their villages by zionist militias and escaped to the Gaza strip to squat in refugee camps..
Very definition of an ethnic cleansing.. The ethnic cleansing has been on-going since then..
Read all about it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ethnic_Cleansing_of_Palestine
Book written by a jewish Israeli historian..
Think the GOP will nominate a black guy? Naaah. Tim Scott gets only 6% in his home state.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/31/politics/cnn-poll-south-carolina-trump-haley/index.html
Anyway, Republican voters prefer the seditionist and fraudster to anyone with a clean criminal record, because that’s who they are.
@65 “Ilhan Omar barely survived her primary in 2022.”
Yeah, by only four times as many votes as Boebert’s margin.
@66 “for the sake of keeping Chuck-E-Cheez open for business”
It’s always about money. Specifically, their money. The lieutenant governor of Texas was candid: When the pandemic began, he came right out and said old people should give up their lives for the sake of the economy. The GOP is actually the anti-life party.
@68 “They loved the guy”
Well, those who had any say did, but that was a tiny, tiny, tiny number of people. Basically one.
Is this not precisely what Republicans like the ShitLord Crybaby have been calling for?
Heh. Both my sons are enjoying their 20’s and young working lives debt free.. All debt.. They have no credit card debt, not even a car loan.. (So far they’ve avoided that debt trap. They take the public transit ‘cuz they can.) They have months of income saved and retirement savings..
Yet a degen kreepshit troll from widbee is gonna dance stoopid in December over its LOW 4 FIGURE ONCE A MONTH SS CHECK.. Like it did for Mary Kay MANY YEARS AGO.. cuz?
It lives for the fantasy that its life amounts to a fart in the wind.
Following from your own silly babbbling, your own tribe cancels ya out kreepshit… Each and every day..
“FINISH THEM!!!!!! AYEEEEE!!!!!!”(fap-fap-fap-fap)
We can hear that shit all the way from widbee… Degen’s gonna degen..
@ 84
Think the GOP will nominate a black guy? Naaah. Tim Scott gets only 6% in his home state.
In 2019 at about this time of year (Monmouth poll, 9/2019), Cory Booker got 9% of New Jersey Democrat primary voters.
Proving, of course, that the Democrats would not nominate a black guy in 2020.
Tim Scott might pick up some Pence voters, but that’s about it. Whether he’s an attractive VP choice remains to be seen.
@ 83
Book written by a jewish Israeli historian..
Howard Zinn was a Jewish historian as well, Queen YLB. Doesn’t mean his US history textbook was an accurate accounting.
And I see you didn’t pick Benny Morris’ view of 1948, girlfriend.
you didn’t pick Benny Morris’ view of 1948
LMAO… Benny Morris has said that Ben-Gurion didn’t go far enough.. Morris believes Ben-Gurion should have expelled ALL Arabs from Israel..
Awwww. More Israeli incompetence..
And what if they did? Sigh.. They’d have land but no peace. Same situation as today, more or less.
That said, Morris has been honest enough about the excesses of jewish militia tactics in ’48. He’s documented rapes and a host of war crimes. He calls Pappe “sloppy” but agrees with him on many points.
Nice try kreepshit.
More on Benny Morris:
You do not condemn them morally?
“No.”
They perpetrated ethnic cleansing.
“There are circumstances in history that justify ethnic cleansing. I know that this term is completely negative in the discourse of the 21st century, but when the choice is between ethnic cleansing and genocide – the annihilation of your people – I prefer ethnic cleansing.”
https://web.archive.org/web/20220613200811/https://www.haaretz.com/2004-01-08/ty-article/survival-of-the-fittest-cont/0000017f-e86d-da9b-a1ff-ec6fb5000000
Countless kids will die in the war to come. Robbing and extinguishing a people’s future.. THAT is genocide..
@94 “Morris believes Ben-Gurion should have expelled ALL Arabs from Israel.”
Israel’s current government believes that, too:
Israel downplays intelligence ministry document that proposed relocating of millions of Gazans to Egypt”
From CNN’s Kyle Blaine and Kevin Flower
Israel’s prime minister is downplaying a leaked intelligence ministry document that proposed the relocation of millions of Palestinians to the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt.
“This is a preliminary paper, like dozens of such papers prepared by all political and security echelons,” Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said in a statement. …
The document is dated October 13 …. In it, the intelligence ministry lays out three options for dealing with civilians in Gaza after the Hamas attacks and the outbreak of war. The paper’s authors concluded that “Alternative C,” which calls for relocating Gaza’s civilian population to the northern Sinai, would be best for Israel’s long-term security.
As part of the plan, tent cities would be constructed in the area, with more permanent cities being constructed at a later date. The plan also calls for … a security perimeter to be created to prevent them from entering Israel.
The acknowledgment of the paper by the Israeli government will likely intensify suspicion amongst Arab nations in the region that Israel is deliberately trying to displace Palestinians permanently. Egypt and Jordan have warned that any plan to transfer Palestinians from Gaza and the West Bank to their respective countries would escalate conflict in the region.
https://www.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news-10-31-23/index.html
Roger Rabbit Commentary: It’s not a question of what Netanyahu’s far-right, ethnic-cleansing government wants to do; it’s a matter of what they think they can get away with.
@ 94
Robbing and extinguishing a people’s future.. THAT is genocide..
No. The vast majority of Gazans will be very much inconvenienced, but alive. A substantial number of Hamas members will die, perhaps half or more. That could be 20,000. The rest will be demilitarized.
If Gaza had 2.5 million people on October 7 and ends up with 2.4 million people by the time it’s over, I’m OK with it. Hamas can always surrender beforehand.
And don’t forget that 471 – I think that’s the official Hamas-endorsed toll – people were killed by a wayward Islamic Jihad rocket that hit the hospital parking lot. So own-goal deaths gave the total a head start. Palestinians killed by secondary explosions aren’t Israel’s fault, either.
96% survival isn’t genocide, Queen YLB. It’s a haircut. Calling it genocide is what a silly twat does, because seriousness means calling it something else. A necessity, in the view of many.
Hamas can always surrender. You, Queen YLB, can always try to get serious.
@70 “Muslim orgs in the US now threatening to work against the re-election of my corrupt, incompetent, senile fossil of a president if he does not immediately begin pressuring Israel to cease fire.”
I’m sure they’d prefer a president who wants to kick them out of the country.
@71 “Biden should.. Haven’t enough Gazan children died to satisfy jewish israeli bloodlust? After all it was Israel’s incompetence that led to their own people getting massacred..”
As I stated @43 above, you don’t “prep” a battlefield and then give the enemy an opportunity to regroup. Timing is everything in military operations; the BEF got chewed up on July 1, 1916, because of an unintentional pause between the artillery bombardment and infantry advance. The IDF no doubt is familiar with that example and many others.
And let’s not forget that Hamas atrocities against Israeli civilians started this whole thing. A violent Israeli response was utterly predictable. This is something Hamas did to Gaza civilians.
But Netanyahu’s government isn’t trustworthy, and the world should carefully watch, and keep pressure on his government, to keep him from exploiting the war Hamas started to conduct ethnic cleansing or seize more Palestinian land, which has been an ongoing project of his government since long before the Hamas attack.
96% survival isn’t genocide
Big fucking yawwwwn.. the bodies are stacking higher than any previous slaughter.. half the population are kids.. The bombs and shells don’t discriminate too well..
I commend you for being “serious” about that SS check in December.. oh and your “compassionate” klownservaticism for kids in Chicago…
It makes for a good laugh..
@73 What about Israel’s obligation under international rules of engagement to minimize civilian casualties? Do you give a fuck about that? Nobody would ever know it from your posts: “FINISH THEM.”
@74 Don’t overlook Israeli duds. Not all bombs and shells explode on impact. They’re still digging them up from WW1 and WW2 battlefields, and in Laos and Vietnam, too.
And let’s not forget that Hamas atrocities against Israeli civilians started this whole thing. A violent Israeli response was utterly predictable. This is something Hamas did to Gaza civilians.
And let’s not forget that the Israeli security state is supposedly world class.. complete w/ check points, walls, fences, sophisticated surveillance, scores of armed to the teeth soldiers and police – the whole nine yards.
If they fell asleep on the job I can only conclude they wanted it to happen.. They apparently believed Hamas didn’t have the stones to take things as far they did.
The Israelis have a record of studying their own failures and making something of a public accounting. I look forward to that. I hope that process isn’t compromised (too much) by Bibi’s degen crowd.
@75 Maybe, maybe not. Those tunnels are pretty deep, and they’re not much bigger than sewers. Improvised construction with the limited building materials Israel allowed into Gaza might have something to do with it, too. It’s not like those residences were up to Seattle building code standards. Gaza is more like Turkey, where everything collapses when the ground shakes.
By the way, bombs make the ground shake. I recall when I was in Vietnam a nearby B-52 strike threw me three feet into the air. But I’m guessing you were never in the military and don’t know shit about bombs, battlefields, and such.
@76 Competent military leaders don’t have bloodlust. Experienced soldiers don’t have bloodlust. Bloodlust is something that afflicts “armchair generals” who’ve never seen a battlefield.
Occasionally it also afflicts poorly disciplined and poorly led troops in the field who’ve been getting chewed up by mines, booby traps, and ambushes. The proper military approach to that is to sack the officers in charge and pull those troops out of the field.
At least they did not prefer a rapist who negligently killed a million people and stole classified military secrets to trade for child porn.
@78 That’s a procedural ruling, not one on substance or merits, idiot. Do you know what that means? It means the trial court ruled her appeal is premature.
@81 For all his ranting about student loans, he probably had some himself to get through his Caribbean med school.
What he’s really pissed about is having had to pay them back from his six-figure doctor’s salary.
@96 “If Gaza had 2.5 million people on October 7 and ends up with 2.4 million people by the time it’s over, I’m OK with it.”
Nice to know you’ll settle for a measly 80,000 civilian deaths (100,000 – 20,000 Hamas = 80,000) versus “FINISH THEM.” I’m sure that’s a comfort to the children on the getting end of it.
“Hamas can always surrender beforehand.”
I think that’s an excellent idea, but probably unrealistic in light of Netanyahu’s vow to kill them to the last man.
@102 “If they fell asleep on the job I can only conclude they wanted it to happen..”
I honestly wouldn’t give them that much credit for planning ahead, nor are Israelis customarily that subtle. When they want to level a West Bank village, they drive in with bulldozers. So far as I can tell, they never feel in need of a pretext for anything. I think they just fell asleep on the job. And by all appearances, Israeli voters are going to take it out on Netanyahu the first chance they get.
“More details are emerging about new House Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-LA) long-held fundamentalist Christian beliefs and how they could impact his political views. … Mother Jones DC bureau chief David Corn wrote about how Johnson and his wife, Kelly, once led seminars promoting the false idea that the U.S. is a ‘Christian nation.’ In one 2019 video, Kelly Johnson reportedly told seminar participants that ‘biblical Christianity,’ or a literal interpretation of the Bible — including the belief that the Earth is just 6,000 years old — was ‘the only valid worldview.'”
https://www.rawstory.com/yearns-for-theocracy-mike-johnson-once-suggested-religious-litmus-test-for-politician/
Roger Rabbit Commentary: A free country is one where people can believe the Earth is only 6,000 years old and people co-existed with dinosaurs. A country whose political leaders consider that “the only valid worldview” is an unfree country.
Can anyone here see a difference between the worldviews of this guy and Reinhard Heydrich?
https://www.rawstory.com/extremist-urges-catholic-charities-workers-for-helping-immigrants/
P.S., This guy is a prime candidate for Minnesota’s red-flag law. Take his guns.
@78 & @105
So let me see if I have this logic straight. A private person, Yanping Chen, files a lawsuit against the FBI for improperly leaking her case information to a news organization.
The Government (AKA the Biden Justice Department) is tasked with defending the FBI. The Government is NOT responsible for defending an individual journalist or her news organization against being deposed.
The lawyer for the private person, Yanping Chen, files a motion to compel testimony from a journalist about who at the FBI leaked the private information about her and the case.
Judge in case rules for the private person, Yanping Chen and AGAINST the private person. By extension against the Biden Justice Department as evidence provided in ordered deposition is likely to harm the Government’s ability to defend their client, the FBI.
Dumbfuck, “Biden is trying to put this journalist in jail.”
Quite possibly the stupidest post of the month, Dumbfuck. Quite impressive level of mendacity.
@111 Doc takes small facts and stretches them far beyond the point where rubber bands and exercise bands would break.