@#27 ... What gives you the impression I was absolving America of its responsibility for Israel's actions? ...
Good question.
Pres Trump's support of PM Netanyahu is looking like an absolute support of PM Netanyahu policies.
Given the, what I view as, the genocide of Palestinians by Israel, I have to ask Pres Trump ... WTF?
#28 | Posted by LampLighter

It looks like he is obfuscating for Israel by blaming America for their actions AND painting the dems with the same brush of support.

That certainly was true in the past but is likely to change moving forward

Dems will conscientiously object to Israel's actions. Republicans will object because their anti-semitic.

My opinion on what happened over the past year and a half.

Netanyahu spurns Biden's efforts at pushing for a ceasefire because he calculates that will help Piggy get elected.

Netanyahu supports Piggy getting elected.

Netanyahu either conditions his support of Piggy candidacy OR supports the ceasefire after Piggy's election and pushed by Piggy on the condition that America participates in Israel's attack in June of last year.

Netanyahu agrees to the Gaza ceasefire January through May of 2025

Israel bombs Iran and gets Piggy to drop the MoaB on Iranian nuclear facilities.

Now that the US has supported Israel in attacking Iran, Israel knows that Piggy has lost options vis a vis Iran. If Israel attacks Iran, Iran will see the US as a valid target in response-this was verbalized by Rubio. Therefore, the US has no choice but to attack Iran in conjunction with Israel.

Thus, Israel attacks Iran with the US. Because Piggy could not say no to Netanyahu.

Piggy was clearly played by Netanyahu.

Netanyahu is clearly a dictator for life in Israel, btw.

Talk about a weak leader

A Democratic president wouldn't allow that.
But you do you, truthhurts.

#25 | Posted by A_Friend a

What gives you the impression I was absolving America of its responsibility for Israel's actions?

Or that I was absolving Democratic politicians of responsibility for condoning and funding Israel's actions?

Not sure what the purpose of your edit was, except maybe to obfuscate for Israel's clearly evil acts.

And the SC just gutted the VRA which was IMMEDIATELY seized upon to gerrymander primarily black districts, stripping millions of African Americans of their chosen representatives

TN, La, Al, SC IMMEDIATELY did what the VRA was designed to prevent.

And this is just the beginning of the attack on the voting process.

Expect all of the 2020 fever dream election fraud bullshit to actually be successful when dems win elections.

Seizing ballot boxes, refusing to certify, refusing to sit elected representatives. that will happen

WE NO LONGER LIVE IN A REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY

Republicans will retain control of the House, the Senate come November

Unless

there is a global depression that collapses the economy

Maybe, just possibly dems might eek out a win in the house

But that will be till 2028

And furthermore, the Republicans are attacking the very fabric of representative democracy. They are effectively reversing elections from the voters picking their representatives to the representatives picking their voters.

We now have a precedent that every state can redistrict every 2 years instead of every 10. That means after every election the power in place will redraw maps to assure their victory in the next election.

That is madness

Again the inevitable end point is states that are all one party representatives. that is the race that is going on now. A few states are resisting but over the next 2 or 3 election cycles will surrender

And the House will be even less representative then the Senate. In the Senate at least their is a possibility of 2 opposing political party representatives.

In gerrymandered states it will be all or nothing.

the one good thing is this may benefit the blue cause that is where the people are. But that certainly isn't good governance

And do not for a second think elections will save us. The electoral college map is stacked against us, when a few thousand cattle fuckers have the same power as 10s of millions of Americans, we... are.... fucked

And we are on a race to make the House essentially a mirror of the Senate electoral college. Gerrymandering states into one party representation.

that cannot survive

Let me posit something.

When a state no longer has representatives from more than one party say Louisiana or South Carolina or California or Illinois what happens to that state when the opposite party is in power in the presidency or in one or both chambers of congress? What is the incentive for the President to not say fuck them, they are the other party? And screw the states out of money and grants and emergency aid etc.?

Piggy is doing that right now. he is withholding aid from blue states, he is targeting blue cities and blue states with hostile lawfare.

Now just expand on that, when South Carolina has no democratic representatives, what will motivate President AOC or President Shapiro from saying fuck South Carolina. No money for them.

The SC said he can do it because he is king

Now imagine the collapse of a nation when that type of chaos is thrown into the system every 2 years.

This is madness

This is the road to 1 party rule

1 party rule is VERY BAD IDEA

We are at the infancy of a whole new country. People need to wake to that fact.

Conservatives will control the SC for DECADES.

Liberal ideology generally controlled the court from the 30s until the early 2010s.

But no more that is dead, gone, finito

We are living under a SC with justices who will be on their for decades, with justices that can pick and choose when they retire to assure they are replaced by fellow conservatives

That is baked in.

The court WILL slowly but surely tear down ALL of the liberal policies that have made America what it is

It is being and will be replaced by a fever dream of christian beliefs, intolerance towards minorities, right wing grievance and autocracy.

It is no accident that this court made the President a King

They do not envision, cannot envision, will not permit a Democratic President to act that way but any Republican president will literally have no limits on their powers

This is the system we set up.

You don't blame the rat for being a nasty filthy animal.

That is their nature

When McConnell stole a seat and when America elected an immoral conman-twice, when Biden refused to do what was needed, this is the result

You might as well cry for the shit that fell out the donkey's ass. It ain't going back in

This is the system we have set up

These regressive fascists have had this as their goal for decades, shit for over a century.

To tear down liberal governance. To destroy the liberal order. To replace representative democracy with autocracy.

These people DO NOT BELIEVE in equality. They believe that certain groups are better than others and deserve, no MUST rule.

We allowed them the keys to our country and are going to do what is in their nature

Tear down liberal order and replace it with fascistic, white nationalist, white christian autocracy.

That is what they believe is the true nature of humanity.

No it's irrelevant.

America had no right whatsoever to do what we did. Iran did not deserve it. Why does Iran do what it does? Cause Israel and America want to destroy their country. That is a stated goal of both Israel and America-"regime change", mowing the grass, etc. They actually live under an existential threat posed by 2 nuclear armed countries that have shown zero compunction to kill Iranians at will. We support theocracies and auto crats that are just as bad.

America is Fuckked. Iran now controls the global oil market. This issue is not going to be resolved anytime soon and every day the damage gets deeper and the time to fix it will take longer, BUT the world has changed. Most people haven't grokked that yet. The world has changed. We now have a new power in the world-Iran. Iran controls 20% of the worlds oil 20% of the worlds fertilizer. That is permanent. There is no "exit ramp" to this because Iran holds all the cards. they don't even have to do anything. The threat is there and America has proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that they cannot do anything about it.

Ask yourself this. What will happen if the straits remain closed for another six months? Can you see a global economic collapse? A depression? I can.

Now ask yourself. Do you think Iran gives 2 shits about that?

Now ask yourself this. What is America going to do about it?

Piggy's trip to China should wake people up.

Trump was HUMILIATED.

Who met the leader of the free world at the airport? Xi? the Foreign Minister? NOPE

Some low level dignitaries, the type of reception that Belgium or Bolivia could expect. Not the US

Compare that to Piggy sitting on the red carpet to greet Putin in Alaska

HUMILIATED

Piggy flew across the globe to be HUMILIATED

NOPE the future looks bleak.

But I also want to add that Iran's regime was not the epitome of goodness in the region.
#19 | Posted by LampLighter

Irrelevant

The US and Israel has been as bad and worse

And all of that is irrelevant to the heinous nature of our act

We deserve the harm that is coming our way

Nothing to do with AIPAC.
Nothing whatsoever.

Does your obvious hatred of Jews make you believe anyone would believe your obvious lie, Caius Marcius Coriolanus?

Seriously?

#8 | Posted by A_Friend

To state some facts

Israel is

1. Committing genocide
2. Enacting pogroms
3. Stealing land from Lebanon and Syria
4. Starting wars of aggression
5. Continuously breaching ceasefire agreements
6. Targeting UN Peacekeepers
7. Targeting Journalists
8. Targeting EMS workers
9. Torturing Palestinians including children
10. Desecrating non-Jewish religious symbols and statues
11. Detaining thousands of innocent Palestinians-one could call them hostages
12. Using illegal weapons (white phosphorus, booby traps)

All on our dime

Fuck Israel
All on our dime

America began the illegal war of aggression against Iran, in concert with its genocide committing ally Israel with a cowardly assassination of the Iranian head of state (who happens to essentially be the Shia Pope) by bombing his home, killing numerous women and children including infants. This murderous attack was conducted without warning, without declaration and without ANY justification. This was a barbaric act.

This dastardly attack was committed during peace time, during negotiations with Iran over their nuclear weapons program, which had been subject to an agreement that the US unilaterally pulled out of years earlier and which Iran was complying with. This was the second time the US and Israel attacked Iran in the middle of negotiations.

America performed evil.

America deserves the harm that is coming to us.

Truth Hurts

"I don't think it's out of bounds to have the position that only US Citizens should be voting in our elections."

Why?

Expand to say some groups of legal residents

They pay taxes they are affected by American policies?

Wouldn't investment in and subject to the impact of governing play some role in consideration of representation?

Look at msgt try to make this crap the Dems fault
lol

Laura,
What part of misleading do you not understand?
The question itself was written to sway the voter.
"do you want these new districts that are fairer?"
That's about what it was.

#19 | Posted by BillJohnson

Bill, let me explain something to you, you semi-sentient ---- wart

One party rule is not a thing you want.

One party rule is dictatorship which will eventually get into your bedroom and monitor the way you ---- your wife

One party rule will be war all the time cause war pays

One party rule is the gate to theocratic rule, which you may think you want, but it won't be the theocracy you think you want.

When 30% of the population rules over 60% with the majority having no say, bad things happen

But you are too stupid and immoral to understand

The new districts would have prevented half of the state that is rural from having any voice in elections.
The new governor is making new taxes on a lot of things.
Doesn't matter it was voted. The ballot wording was misleading so it should be set aside.

#11 | Posted by BillJohnson a

10s of millions of African Americans will have ZERO representation. ZERO. NONE, NADA NILCH 10s of MILLIONS

take you and your "fairness" -------- and shove it up your ass

This gerrymandering war is putting our country on the path to one party rule.

If you don't understand how or don't realize the danger that poses you might just be a magat scum like bill

We no longer live in a representative democracy

Millions will soon live without representation

This is ------ and dangerous

This is a path to one party rule

We need a revolution

Trump is the logical and natural endpoint of conservative philosophy a selfish narcissistic sociopathic grifter

Bill is the worst kind of scum. A hypocritical "Christian " wanting to impose his vile beliefs on the rest of us

Conservatives cheered the dismantling of USAID causing untold harm through out the poorest people in the world

Conservatives are the most hateful selfish people imaginable

The essence of conservative belief is selfish self interest

I've met few conservatives I would trust around my children

Meanwhile your president is justifying his illegal war of aggression (ineptly executed) to children talking about shooting women in the forehead

Your so sick you can't even conceive how messed up your beliefs and movement is

Someone needs to do it

Why?

Boaz is too stupid to realize that the republican party is destroying the constitutional republic/democratic republic and/or democracy

Again boaz is an idiot