(I am also noting you have 3 followers. While you may just be new, everyone's aware of Israel's efforts). www.npr.org/2024/07/09/n...
Journalist/author. I wish I didn't comment so much on politics and current affairs, but this is where we're at, I guess. I don't follow back people without profiles.
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(I am also noting you have 3 followers. While you may just be new, everyone's aware of Israel's efforts). www.npr.org/2024/07/09/n...
Since it is Israel, and the descendants of a genocide, who are doing this to Gaza, the irony strikes me as high in the debate of whether the ball flew an inch outside the foul pole. But vis-a-vis "a higher standard," I'd be very curious how bad Netenyahu has to make it for you to see genocide. 2/
But I hope you'd agree the Gaza situation is in the discussion. I'm also curious what the benefit is to referee these lines so closely. It's like the Magas shrieking "J6 wasn't an insurrection because nobody got charged with insurrection!" It passed the insurrection smell test for me, at least. 1/
I like your thinking! 🤞🤞🤞
And she would have been surrounded by Secret Service and not wandering around public areas. But 🎯 that she didn’t sign on to comfort him on his deathbed. Maybe give her a pillow to finish him off!
No, too broad a definition. I posted the US Holocaust Museum’s definition of genocide, and it’s clear on how it’s different.
Death isn’t accountability, but I’ll take it.
Sad fact.
Trump was mad at Modi for not going along with the "I stopped the war" lie, and so he hit India with 50% tariffs. Next stop Beijing for Modi.
He got in a car wreck in NH that broke his back. A nurse on here said the surgery to repair it could be life-threatening to someone his age (81).
I think we all have to accept that Trump will in time die having lived a life of zero accountability.
Some anonymous X poster said she saw Melania at Walter Reed, and everybody is acting like that makes it a fact. Let us be careful.
I've seen no reporting that Melania was seen at Walter Reed. Let's not go there unless it's verifiable.
He also did bear-cub autopsies then ate the liver with a nice Chianti.
It would be ironic if Trump were diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. And do note that swollen ankles are associated with pancreatic cancer, but symptomatically and as a side effect of treatment.
Knowing a bit about Gruden, prepare for him to post something saying "I wear the same gold clothes every day" or whatever. He's a racist chud.
And interestingly, all this is because I have one question in this thread, which is "What is the definition of genocide, and who actually gets to define it?" That's "trendy"? Seems to me that is good old civil discourse. But you be you, friend.
"You folks." Wow. I was writing on Gaza years ago, for a two-state solution, and against Netenyahu. I've been writing about war crimes in Ukraine, about rising hunger around the world, about climate change, about rising fascism and about wealth asymmetry. I don't do "trends," I do humanity. JFC.
Gee, ya think?
Thank god we have an undercover agent like you spiling the tea, then!
If you're asking if they can hide it from the Magas, I'd say a long time. If you say hide it from the rest of us, they won't care what we say. "President Trump has gone undercover to fight communism and socialism and create world peace. He'll send out Truth Social posts to let you know he's OK."
No evidence. Vance was 20 years old and living in Ohio when the Epstein stuff was going on, so I doubt "they have stuff on him too" in the Files. They may have other stuff on him - which would likely compel him TO release the files, to finish off the Trump legacy and solidify power. We'll see.
True. But given the years elapsed, few of those men still have the power they had, or are dead. Bill Clinton, Bill Gates & Dershowitz don't wield that power. But the interesting name might be RFK. He is documented as being on at least one flight, and was sex-heroin-power-addicted stooge. Hmm...
No doubt. But luckily, I doubt they have the magic Trump has had when it comes to convincing Maga mouthbreathers he is their superhero come to save them.
You misunderstand. Vance will release them not because he is strong, but because he is weak and will need to try to destroy whatever Trump legacy would overshadow him. But I'd also be a bit concerned that Vance is a) much smarter than Trump, and b) backed fully by Thiel and the Curtis Yarvin mafia.
The ghost autopen?
Yup. Unlike Magas, I don’t think the law only applies to the other side.
Cholesterol Was Right About Everything.
To me, the main thing will be Magas in Congress being more afraid of getting voted out than they’d be afraid of Vance. He can’t command the cult the way Trump has.
It can’t be too far off, it seems. And incapacitation would be a good start as well.
I’m up for it all.
Let’s see if he comes down for breakfast.
Hope so. But Vance will *try*, is my point. Just like every new boss you get has to tell you your last boss was doing everything wrong.
Agreed. What is this ‘everything else’ that people are calling genocide?
Good Lord, wtf went wrong in your life?
If Trump gets 25A’d, Vance will quickly release the files to solidify his own position.
Well, we all know how much he hates being in front of a TV camera…
And Russian money laundering, it seems.
Thank you. That does sound bad.
So age, primarily? Makes sense.
There are many related definitions of the term. Whose would you claim is the one everyone must adhere to?
But the moment you say ‘leftists,’ you open a semantic and definitional argument right there. I’m interested here in who gets to dictate the definition of ‘genocide,’ and what the conditions are. Is it Lemkin/the 1948 Convention? The UN? Dadrian? The Rome Statute?
Is the US Holocaust Museum’s definition of genocide accurate?
“Leftists.” Here we go, speaking of semantics. “Everyone who disagrees is a leftist and nothing else matters,” is what you’re saying?
If the drugs are good enough he can.
Based on what, do you think? I haven’t seen anything specific on his injuries.
Yep. If you’re battling a standing army and *don’t care* if the civilians are wiped out as a result, that’s one thing, but making civilians the target seems another.
I’m with you. I think the problem is when one says “listen to experts” and then litigates who the experts are as it suits oneself. I won’t try to parse the difference between ‘genocide’ and ‘war crimes,’ but what Netenyahu is doing seems pretty openly genocide-adjacent.
Soon to be re-united with Herman Cain.
Three nurses got second-hand drunk by taking his vitals.
I was responding to “I used to be a member 30 years ago.”
But in this case aren’t civilians the *target* rather than collateral?
That’s the proof? Wow.
Remember the time Covid didn't make him sick at all? And the time he was 6'3" and 235 pounds? I'm sure he's fine.
He's no angel. He's the Junkie of Death.
"But those children are in MS-13 and they wre eating the pets!" -Magas
Once upon a time I worked at a large newspaper. It's amazing how people in a newsroom can tell each other how "we know better than everybody else." A form of groupthink of its own. Add to that the chasing of the almighty click and this is where you end up.
All due respect, it’s what we do on BlueSky, is it not? But thanks for guiding me on how to communicate to suit you!
But it is certainly tiring. And often feels as if it isn’t having an impact. Which is what they want.
I think you need to call out hypocrisy all day long. Once you don’t, you’re on the road to accepting it.
It’s about hypocrisy, which is worth calling out.
“Paging Jake Tapper, Jake Tapper…”
He has more than time in his hands!
Every Republican?
Next they’ll be picking lettuce.
Chatgpt tells me I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and people like me!
And my kingdom for a horse!
And as I understand it, this is happening in a few days: www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
Remember his performance during his Covid hospitalization? Dictators never want to show weakness and will tell any lie to do it.
The Cankles don’t lie.
I don't know how we even measure. They are all awful, but in different ways. But I think Vance is vulnerable, and I think about a dozen other Magas think they are the rightful heir to the throne, from RFK to Ivanka to Stephen Miller. I think it will be chaotic times.
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News quiz: Who said the following? "I'm smart. Not dumb, like everybody says! I'm smart, and want respect!" A) Fredo Corleone B) Donald Trump C) RFK Jr D) Kristi Noem E) All of the above
Yep, nice picture there of Aryan Andy getting ready to go work down at the asbestos plant.
Tertiary syphilis is often accompanied by blindness, hearing loss, paralysis and such. I think we're looking at plain old dementia, but piled on top of existing psychopathy. And he seems to have congestive heart failure, no surprise for a junk-food-breathing, golf-cart-riding fat man who is 79.
The reason is Vance does not have the weird power over the Maga mob that Trump does, so the Magas in Congress would be more scared of losing their next election than of defying Vance. That would likely be an improvement, though not a big one.
Yep, the bruises on the back of the hand may be where they put IVs with diuretics. The swollen ankles, and now face. You don't really recovers from congestive heart failure. QE2 has the same thing days before her death:
He’s also suffering from loss of focus.
Body double!
Many people saying it doesn't make it true. Like saying God exists.
I am fully supportive of trans people in sports. I cannot speak to what concerns are "legitimate" or not; my continuing appeal is to help these people *not* be concerned through informing and persuading. Attacking people for their views only hardens their views. Human nature being what it is.
Without coalitions, the opposition maintains control.
It dismisses no such thing. I wrote one sentence, not a book. I'm well aware of complexities but the simple point was about violent vs nonviolent rhetoric. "Bullets for Ballots," "By Any Means Necessary," etc. You're "making shit up" by reading so much into a one-sentence observation.
I did not say chase right-wing votes. Voters exist on a spectrum, especially on the leftward side.
They actually are happy, sadly. It's so strange that they decided to try out their "Unitary Executive" theory using the dumbest most dishonest man who ever lived.
Whena grown man desperately has to have another man's hat. Good Lord.
The woman, too. "Stealing is funny!"
Yes, appeal to more voters. But lots of voters are getting lots of misinformation. Attacking them for being misinformed isn’t always productive to the cause.
The biggest thing is that the Magas in Congress a) don't fear Vance, and b) are worried about losing in 2026. If Trump goes, I think tariffs disappear, and RFK goes. But I think ICE and grifting won't go away. And Bondi gets fired and the Epstein Files get released by Vance.
You need more voters than the opposition has, Dave. I agree they 'never were', but if you can get them to a) change their minds a bit, or even b) simply not view the issue as important to them, it's good for the cause. We can't get the country back by alienating voters, even if you don't like them.
“The suspect was silently judging me…”
Not dead, but probably not well. It’s pretty obvious he has CHF. His decline has happened, to paraphrase Hemingway, “gradually and then suddenly.”
No they won’t. Jose Andres and WCK will win. www.bbc.com/news/world-u...
How ironic would it be if he died of Covid?
Don’t forget bomb threats to Blue polling places, traced to Russia.
make of this as you will. www.jewishelectorateinstitute.org/p7846
