#5: Hi Corky, good point. In an average year, 4,330 people die by guns in Texas. Texas firearms licenses in 2021: 1,006,555; 45.7% of Texans live in homes with guns.

"Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?"

And Trumpf helps Israel at its acme of egregious human rights abuses against Palestinians as the Likud Party plans to occupy Gaza. The UK, France, Canada, and Malta have signaled they will finally recognize the State of Palestine at the UNGA, so Netanyahu and Beelzebub Smotrich have to work fast to make that unviable. Let's see if these Western countries really do recognize Palestine without caveats or excuses.

"Hamas!"

Of course. Dummkopf Trumpf already sanctioned the ICC on behalf of war criminals Benjamin Netanyahu and Vladimir Putin. Soon the Dotard-in-Chief will be meeting his KGB handler for further instructions, so this was a nice gesture ahead of the summit. Putin will ask Trumpf for the US sanctions on Aeroflot to be lifted. Aviation enthusiasts who watch planes and airports may start analyzing where the Trumpf-Putin summit will take place, as a huge caravan of planes and equipment precedes any POTUS visit overseas.

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#4: Sounds like the US justification for its own acts of dispossession and ethnic cleansing: exceptionalism.

Hi Doc, you said it: These are the parallels of Manifest Destiny and colonialism. There are two differences between America's westward and Russia's eastward expansion compared to Israel's internal incursion. There is no evidence of foreign subsidization of the US or Russia conquering their indigenous people. Two, there is much more worldwide condemnation of Israel's ethnic cleansing than what the US or Russia faced in the 19th-century. In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818), when the creature meets his creator he makes one reference to the plight of the unfortunate native Americans at the hands of the brutal white colonists.

#2: The 'Keystone State' is a motto for Pennsylvania, which is technically a Commonwealth by their constitution (like Massachusetts or Virginia).

What does that linguistic nuance have to do with this white maniac named Carmine Faino using a firearm to murder a woman and nearly kill two state troopers, as well as the responding EMTs?

From 1861-65, the traitorous Confederate military killed more Union servicemembers than the indigenous resistance warriors (1865-1898), the Spanish army (1898), the Kaiser's army (1917-18), the North Korean/CHICOM armies (1950-53), and the Vietnamese army and Viet Cong guerillas (1965-1975) combined.

US Military Combat Deaths:

Indigenous Pacification Wars (919)
Spanish-American War (385)
WWI (53,402)
Korean Conflict (33,686)
Vietnam War (47,434)

Sub-total: 135,826 KIA

US Civil War: 140,414 KIA

This is who the Trumpf junta is honoring.

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#2: Speaker Johnson's vacation to Israel and photo-op may have been funded by the hardworking American taxpayer under the guide guise of a CODEL.

Faux Christian Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) recently visited the illegal Israeli settlement of Ariel, where he addressed a conference of fanatical right-wing settlers. Ariel, one of the largest Israeli settlements in the West Bank, is widely recognized as illegal under international law and viewed as a major obstacle to any future Palestinian state. He was accompanied by the hyper-evangelical Christian Mike Huckabee, US Ambassador to Israel. Speaker Johnson's vacation to Israel and photo-op may have been funded by the hardworking American taxpayer under the guide of a CODEL.

Meanwhile JD and Usha Vance take yet another vacation.

And US Senator John Cornyn (R-TX), collects three Texas pensions(!) That's what makes John Cornyn so in touch with the common man, fully in empathy with struggling Americans trying to make ends meet.

#18: Hi Snoofy: The sweet spot here is join Army at 17, retire full pension at 37, join Fed police, retire second full pension at 57. It's all about the handouts when you're a cop or a soldier.

I knew of these fellows. He joined the USAF at 17 with parental approval, finished college at night, began applying for federal positions at 35 (or so) and became a Special Agent with US Department of Commerce before his 37th birthday. Plus, he claimed a medical condition (dandruff!) from his deployments and received 10 or 15 VA points towards his application. Double pension! Cha-ching!

European Dockworkers Block Arms Shipments to Israel

Italian dockworkers successfully blocked shipments of military cargo bound for Israel to be used in their genocidal war against Palestine. The Unione Sindacale di Base (USB), along with their union siblings from the All-Workers Militant Front (PAME) in Greece, held demonstrations and refused to unload cargo at their ports as the ship made its way through the region. COSCO Shipping agreed to return three containers of military equipment to Singapore, their point of origin. The ship agreed that they will not unload at either the ports of Genoa or La Spezia. The decision came after the union announced a 24-hour strike for 5 Aug at the PSA Genova Pra' terminal.

#4: "Argh! Stupid Nobel Peace Prize awardee Barack Obama leading a treasonous attack against the US Capitol! Gargh!"