WatDabney

Oh no - of course not. They want late 19th century levels of robber baron wealth built on worker oppression, sickness, ignorance and death.

Valid point well made - thanks for that.

I’ll be folding that into future screeds. ;)

Of course.

Conservatism is nothing but lies.

It starts with the foundational lie that the world was a better place in the past, then immediately segues to the grotequely destructive lie that if only they were given power, they could and wuold return the world to that fictional better era.

That immediately crashes into the simple fact that all of their actions actually serve to make the world worse. Every single thing they do brings more suffering to more people.

But that’s okay - they’re already lying, so they just lie more. And more and more and more.

And that’s where the US is right now.

Just from the context, let me guess - he opposes zionist oppression and murder and theft of Palestinian land, right?

And (looking him up)… yep. There it is.

So why the random potshot implying Mamdani is struggling to win over Jewish New Yorkers? On what basis does the Times make this claim? The reality is that Mamdani has alienated pro-Israel adovacy groups and pro-Israel donors, but this sounds too ideologically motivated, so instead the Times conflates the “Jewish community” with support for the Israeli government and its myriad war crimes in Gaza over the past 20 months.

On that note, has anyone else noticed that the governments and their media mouthpieces aren’t even trying to trot out their standard “Israel has a right to defend itself” rhetoric? Even they realize that there’s no way to even pretend that that’s what Israel is doing now. All they have left is conflating opposition to Israeli actions and policies with “antisemitism,” and they just flog that one lie constantly.

I always wonder what it must feel like to be that morally bankrupt. They can’t possibly all be conscienceless monsters — what goes on in the heads of the ones that still have at least some vestige of a functioning moral center? How do they cope?

I presume it involves a lot of alcohol.

What I get from that is that Musk is no longer giving Trump’s people access to all the data the collection of which was the entire point all along.

The only way it could be theater is if all three of them are world class actors who have stayed entirely in character for years.

It’s simply far more likely that all three of them are, just ss they appear, thin-skinned, emotionally stunted manchildren, currently engaged in a schoolyard slapfight.

This is my take on it too.

I really don’t think it’s likely that they’re just posturing as a distraction - I don’t think either one of them is that subtle. But even if they are, I think they’re both so thin-skinned that even if they didn’t start out serious, they’re going to end up that way.

Clearly he exemplifies the qualities the IDF values most, including brazenly engaging in indiscriminate slaughter of unarmed innocents.

Wow… I didn’t realize that got posted.

I wrote it out (mostly - I didn’t finish it), but then thought better of it, but I didn’t immediately delete it. Then later when I opened my screen, there it was, still. And I actuslly thought “Lucky I didn’t butt-post that.”

Apparently not.

Ah well…

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As part of the investigation, officials had contacted Morales Reyes and asked for a handwriting sample and concluded his handwriting and the threatening letter didn’t match and that the threat was not credible, the person said. It’s not clear why Homeland Security officials still decided to send a release making that claim.

What’s “not clear” about it? They sent out a press release making that claim because they’re dishonest sacks of shit with an agenda, and that claim served their agenda.

It’s not complicated or even surprising - it’s just standard operatong procedure for the Trump administration.

Of course.

The overall dynamic surrounding Israel’s treatment of Palestinians is simple and obvious - Israel’s actions are entirely indefensible, so all the efforts of the people responsible for it and of the many more people enabling it are directed not toward countering criticism, which is impossible, but toward silencing it.

This is such a bizarrely evil timeline.

Republicans want people to die.

It really is just that simple.

I actually expect most world leaders to start treating Trump as a pariah. He’s just a gross, creepy manbaby who looks and notoriously smells like a drain clog and who can’t be trusted for anything ever, so there’s nothing to be gained from interacting with him at sll.

Very much this.

Now it should be noted that Musk is, among other things, a desperately insecure wienie who really is crushed by the fact that basically everyone hates him and spends a great deal of time and effort cringily trying to compensate for it and pathetically failing. So at some level all of this certainly does hurt him.

But he’s also toxically greedy and self-absorbed and wantonly destructive, and by those measures, his government tenure was a resounding success. And that he undoubtedly throws tantrums and goes on crying jags when he’s alone, just like he’s done since middle school, doesn’t make any of the rest of it any less a success.

The Israeli mass slaughter of Palestinian men, women and children has made me wish, more than anything else in 50+ years on this Earth, that the Old Testament God actually existed.

Imagine the fire and brimstone He’d rain down on those patently evil motherfuckers.

And bonus points if He kvetched while he did it - “Here I went ahead and made you My chosen people and this is how you repay Me? If I’d known this was what you were going to do with your lives, I would’ve left you in the desert.”

Or better yet, use your own brain.

That Stormy Daniels was paid with funds embezzled from the Trump campaign and hidden behind false financial reports.

I presume Schumer is upset by the accusations that he’s spineless and wants to demonstrate that he does in fact possess a spine. That’s made of pudding. And that he only breaks out when the stakes are low.

It strikes me that this in a way illustrates how delusional Trump is.

He’s an egomaniac and a pathological narcissist, and he’s demonstrated repeatedly that he’s obsessed with how other people see him - he’s desperate to be respected and admired.

And I have no doubt that he sees this gift as a mark of respect and admiration.

And it very much is not - it’s the complete opposite in fact. It’s the Qatari royal family pretty clearly saying that while strengrhening ties with the US under another president would require a great deal of detailed discussion and negotiation, with Trump all it requires is giving him something bright and shiny.