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Vile POS doubles down.

www.huffpost.com

Can we impeach this piece of garbage yet?

"Trump's post on Rob Reiner sparks outrage from lawmakers and celebrities (see #28)

President's statement blaming acclaimed director's death on his dislike of him described as disgusting' and vile'

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"Meanwhile, California's Democratic governor Gavin Newsom wrote on X: "This is a sick man."

Echoing Newsom, US House member Maxwell Alejandro Frost, a Florida Democrat, said: "What a despicable piece of garbage."

US senator Chris Murphy, a Connecticut Democrat, similarly said of Trump: "He's just lost it. Now saying Rob and Michele Reiner caused their own murder because they didn't support him. So sick."

US House member Zoe Lofgren, another California Democrat, called Trump's comments "a new low for this petty, hateful man". Lofgren added: "His party needs to condemn this."

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"Similarly, US House member Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Georgia Republican, wrote: "This is a family tragedy, not about politics or political enemies."

Greene also seemingly alluded to Nick Reiner's past experiences with addiction and homelessness, writing, "Many families deal with a family member with drug addiction and mental health issues. It's incredibly difficult and should be met with empathy especially when it ends in murder."

Greene's fellow Republican US House member Thomas Massie struck a similar chord. The Kentucky representative said: "Regardless of how you felt about Rob Reiner, this is inappropriate and disrespectful discourse about a man who was just brutally murdered."

Massie also said he challenged anyone in his party " including vice-president JD Vance and White House staff " to defend Trump's commentary."

www.theguardian.com

EU Tightens Sanctions on Belarus After US Moves Woo Minsk
www.bloomberg.com

... The European Union expanded sanctions against Belarus, just days after the US said it would lift restrictions on exports of potash from the country, underscoring diverging approaches to the close ally of Russia.

"If the Belarus regime doesn't change its behavior, we might be both at different speeds and at different directions with the US," Lithuanian Foreign Minister Kestutis Budrys said Monday in Brussels. ...


I love that simps believe being Muslim is the problem. It isn't. I count several Muslims among my friends however, yes there is a tremendous amount of Muslim hatred but it is by no means universal.

The fact is that a few centuries of repression and in particular the last 8 decades or so have built a tremendous amount of animosity in Muslim people toward not Christians per se (but all Christians will feel it) but the West. They do see the West as Christian but these terrorists won't care if you are Muslim or not if you are a white westerner. For that matter, you race won't really matter but Whites in particular are the target. Chinese too for that matter... If they know you are Jewish or Christian it just hardens them. Western White Christians have done what people have a problem with in the Koran and worse to Muslims globally.

The current global militant Muslim issues actually all come from the Saudi kingdom or Iran and the US and UK. Iran because of the West, the US in particular, backing a tyrant in the form of the Shah. Saudis simply began exporting radical mullahs and funding them particularly well to tend to the people they were "leading". The problem was they were almost universally militants and once outside of the kingdom, they started buying weapons with that money and doubling down on their militant teachings. Follow the money. There are great articles wrote on this. The US? How many times can we betray Muslims? Not to mention backing Israel. Just saying. The UK, the original global oppressor of Muslims and others...

Those who fail to learn from history simply repeat it - over and over.

@#1 ... It becomes a "death spiral", ...

Well, yeah.

Pres Trump's solution seems to be to buy off those who need healthcare support with a $1500 check to their personal healthcare account.

OK, that may cover 3 or 4 months of the increase in cost that people may be experiencing.

So, then, what happens after that short period?

At the risk of being repetitious ...

...
Candidate Trump on healthcare:

May 21, 2015
I'm not going to cut Medicare or Medicaid.

Sept 25, 2015
Everybody's got to be covered.

Feb 17, 2016
We're going to have great plans. They're going to be much less expensive and they're going to be much better.

Oct 25, 2016
You're going to have such great healthcare at a tiny fraction of the cost, and it is going to be so easy.

Nov 13, 2016
It will be better healthcare, much better for less money. Not a bad combination.

"I'm not going to cut Social Security like every other Republican and I'm not going to cut Medicare or Medicaid."
-- Trump to the Daily Signal in May 2015

"We will immediately repeal and replace ObamaCare - and nobody can do that like me. We will save $'s and have much better healthcare!"
-- Trump tweet in February 2016

Pres-elect Trump on healthcare:

"We're going to have insurance for everybody ... There was a philosophy in some circles that if you can't pay for it, you don't get it. That's not going to happen with us."
-- Pres-elect Trump to the Washington Post in January 2017

Pres Trump on healthcare:

"Our healthcare plan will lower premiums & deductibles -- and be great healthcare!"
-- Trump tweet in May 2017
...


 

OK, that political blah, blah, blah aside...

Here's what I see (and, I admit, YMMV)...

For starters, let's go here ...

What you should know about Section 230, the rule that shaped today's internet (2023)
www.pbs.org

... wenty-six words tucked into a 1996 law overhauling telecommunications have allowed companies like Facebook, Twitter and Google to grow into the giants they are today.

A case coming before the U.S. Supreme Court this week, Gonzalez v. Google, challenges this law " namely whether tech companies are liable for the material posted on their platforms.

Justices will decide whether the family of an American college student killed in a terror attack in Paris can sue Google, which owns YouTube, over claims that the video platform's recommendation algorithm helped extremists spread their message. ...


That's a good background.

But more from the article ...

... WHAT IS SECTION 230?

If a news site falsely calls you a swindler, you can sue the publisher for libel. But if someone posts that on Facebook, you can't sue the company " just the person who posted it.

That's thanks to Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act, which states that "no provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider."

That legal phrase shields companies that can host trillions of messages from being sued into oblivion by anyone who feels wronged by something someone else has posted " whether their complaint is legitimate or not. ...


Rob Reiner
en.wikipedia.org

... Reiner was born into a Jewish family in the Bronx, New York, on March 6, 1947. His parents were Estelle and Carl Reiner. As a child, Reiner lived at 48 Bonnie Meadow Road in New Rochelle, New York. ...

Show business was in his blood.

I first learned of, and admired, his efforts back in the day when All in the Family shocked the airwaves.

He's one of the talented ones.

R.I.P. Robert Reiner.


... Ethnic Cleansing of the United States will Destroy It ...

What Is the Quote on the Statue of Liberty? (2021)
www.yourdictionary.com

... There are two inscriptions on the Statue of Liberty in the United States. One is on the tablet Lady Liberty holds in her left arm, and the other is on a bronze plaque within the pedestal of the statue. ...

Statue of Liberty Quote

According to the National Park Service (NPS), the most common quote associated with the Statue of Liberty is a poem inscribed on a bronze plaque on the pedestal of the statue.

The most famous quote from this plaque is the line:

"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free."

...

The granite pedestal upon which the statue stands is 89 feet tall. In 1883, as part of efforts to raise the money to construct the pedestal, Emma Lazarus wrote a poem called "The New Colossus." Lazarus was persuaded by fundraiser William Maxwell Evarts and friend/writer Constance Cary Harrison to donate a poem to an auction of art and literary works to aid in the pedestal fund. In 1903, the sonnet was engraved on a bronze plaque and presented by philanthropist Georgiana Schuyler to be mounted on the interior wall of the pedestal. ...

This is the entire poem "The New Colossus" created by Emma Lazarus.

"Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.

'Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!' cries she
With silent lips.

'Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore,

Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!'"


...

The Statue of Liberty holds a torch in her uplifted right hand and a tablet cradled in her left arm. The date of the Declaration of Independence is inscribed on the tablet in Roman numerals -- JULY IV MDCCLXXVI (July 4, 1776).
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Person of interest in Brown University shooting served in Army, worked at Arlington National Cemetery

www.cnn.com

Was the shooter at Arlington National when the disgusting------------- started a brawl at a gravesite?

List of Domestic Terror Attacks by White Supremacists and Nationalists in America

Domestic terrorist attacks by white supremacists and nationalists in America have been a persistent issue throughout U.S. history, with officials noting that they currently pose the most significant domestic terrorism threat. The following list details some of the most notable attacks and plots, primarily focusing on recent decades.

Major Incidents and Plots (Recent Decades)

Jacksonville Dollar General Shooting (August 2023): A gunman killed three Black people at a Dollar General store in Jacksonville, Florida, in a racially motivated attack.

Buffalo Supermarket Shooting (May 2022): A white supremacist targeted and killed ten Black people at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York. The perpetrator authored a manifesto promoting the "great replacement" conspiracy theory and modeled his attack after previous white supremacist acts.

El Paso Walmart Shooting (August 2019): A shooter killed 22 people and wounded 26 others, primarily targeting Latinx individuals. He wrote a screed expressing support for the Christchurch shooter and citing a perceived "invasion" of the U.S. by Hispanics.

Poway Synagogue Shooting (April 2019): A gunman opened fire at a synagogue in Poway, California, killing one person and wounding three others. The attacker published an online letter claiming Jews were orchestrating a "planned genocide of the European race".

Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting (October 2018): Eleven worshippers were killed and seven injured in an attack on the Tree of Life synagogue. The shooter expressed a belief that Western civilization was facing "extinction" and viewed refugees as "invaders".

Charlottesville Car Attack (August 2017): During the "Unite the Right" white nationalist rally, a white supremacist drove a car into a crowd of counter-protesters, killing one woman, Heather Heyer, and injuring 28 others.

Portland Train Attack (May 2017): A white supremacist man fatally stabbed two people and wounded another who intervened when he was verbally harassing two young women of color on a MAX train.

Charleston Church Shooting (June 2015): Dylann Roof, a white supremacist, shot and killed nine Black worshippers during a Bible study at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina.

Overland Park Jewish Community Center Shooting (April 2014): A former Ku Klux Klan member and neo-Nazi, Frazier Glenn Miller, killed three people at a Jewish community center and a nearby retirement community in Kansas, in an attempt to kill as many Jewish people as possible.

Wisconsin Sikh Temple Shooting (August 2012): A white supremacist and neo-Nazi musician, Wade Michael Page, attacked a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, killing six people and wounding four others before dying by suicide.

Oklahoma City Bombing (April 1995): Timothy McVeigh, an anti-government extremist influenced by white power ideology, bombed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, killing 168 people and injuring hundreds more in the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in U.S. history."

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So... DEI Boaz is saying that Muslims act like Rwing White Nationalists... who are, and have been for decades, the biggest perps of Domestic Terrorism in America?

He may have a point.

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