My fantasy - a Biden/Cheney ticket. Policy differences, yes, all of which take a back seat to one and only one thing. I’m a Dem and would vote for this in a heartbeat.
Liz Cheney just got some karma payback. My Kevin has announced he's done at the end of this term.....oh, and Trump announced at Hannity's town hall, the he would only be America's dictator on his first day. Hannity was perplexed.
I went shopping with my wife yesterday for a Christmas ornament for each of the grandkids. There was a snow globe featuring Santa Claus looking down on, apparently, baby Jesus in a crib.
A second trump term would be one giant sharpie pen. No reality would be spared. Those with actual money one imagines would be ... concerned. Yet oddly not enough.
I Googled it because I wanted to find out why this issue is as common as it is in discussions of the Israel-Palestine problem.
I find that there are valid reasons for Israelis to take offense at the content of PA-approved textbooks, and that this has been going on for a long time. I also find that there are a (smaller) number of things in Israeli textbooks that may be problematic.
However, I am mindful of two things. When I’ve heard this issue raised, it’s always been as an argument for why Israel has nobody with whom they can make peace. I disagree with that. I think the disagreement about textbooks is more than anything a mirror of the larger issues of the Israel-Palestine conflict.
I continue to oppose its use as a reason why no peace can be contemplated.
I am also mindful of the fact that fights over textbooks currently embroil our own country. I think they are symptoms of larger divisions rather than causes of them.
All that Americans need to do is to vote on Election Day, and better yet, also in the primaries, and to not vote for anyone who supports the Big Lie or who doesn't take January 6th to be an insurrection.
All Americans don't need to do this, just a small majority (just enough to take care of the peculiar American electoral map).
None of this as as onerous as going overseas to fight a war, to restrain consumption or to be rationed life's necessities, to be required to work a 6-day week, to pay more taxes, to reduce the enjoyment of life in the least. It is as close to a zero-sacrifice civic virtue that is possible, that is needed.
If the alarm bells are flashing red because Americans are no longer capable of this tiny bit of civic virtue, then I must question whether there is anything left to save. The flashing lights are not of those an emergency but of a funeral procession.
I just finished reading Will's column. I don't think Haley believes the right-wing conspiracy theory nonsense she is spouting about Covid vaccines. It's just that she is a shameless opportunist and will say anything to win votes including that she will support the Fascist Trump.
It's just as bad or worse. She gives a permission structure for even more people to believe the bs and the beast therefore gets bigger and bigger. It's exactly how Trump got to be such a threat: People who knew better enabled the mob by being afraid of it.
You are aware that the Netanyahu government is as hostile, if not more so to the Palestininan Authority as it is to Hamas? You are aware that Netanyahu PUBLICLY stated that by offering to support to Hamas, over the PA, this was the best way for Israel to prevent a Palestinian state from forming?
"Teaching their children to hate Jews"? Who does this? All Palestinians? What is your source for this?
President Biden has indicated his preference for a two-state solution with the PA as the most obvious interlocutor. Netanyahu opposes this. What do you say about this? What is YOUR preferred outcome?
I understand Liz Cheney is considering throwing her hat in the ring as a third-party candidate, however she qualified by saying it was something she would not do if she felt it would help trump get elected. I don't see how it wouldn't help get trump elected because Biden isn't winning over hearts and minds despite doing a heck of a lot better job than TFG. Still, I wish that if Liz would have considered this sooner as a Republican candidate. I just don't understand how running as a third-party candidate would not help trump, unless I'm missing something. What am I missing?
You’re basically suggesting that their only options are to risk their lives in a revolution against Hamas or risk their lives in a revolution against Israel.
I wonder if this collective - of I support the poor downtrodden masses called Hamas even though they are thugs, killers, rapists, and proud puppets of Iran - believes they are doing a service analogous to my generation's protests about 'Nam? Is this their, as in whatever gen X, Y, Z, or ZZ is now called, way of feeling relevant? It all seems rather obscene: they celebrating the depraved toxicant that is Hamas while we castigated the rather imperialistic machinations of a superpower. The world is not as it once was. Up is down. Fascism is democracy. Evil is heavenly.
I WELCOME a Republican attempt at impeachment. Newt Gingrich debased the concept 25 years ago, so impeachment is not what it used to be, and that is genuinely sad. On the Upside, it butchered his speakership and he was shafted out of the chair shortly thereafter. Furthermore, it shut up the people whining about Clinton triangulation and it showed the House GOP to be nothing more than vindictive imbeciles who were using impeachment as a weapon to gut Bill Clinton because he was just better at politics than they were. Was Bill slime? Oh ABSOLUTELY. Could he not keep his pants zipped? Uh....duh.
In attempting to impeach Joe Biden, the House GOP is showing itself to be pathetically desperate to show that he is as much of a massive crook as the *know* Donald Trump to be. It's like they are saying "See? Joe Biden is scum...we can prove it!!" The thing is, they can't. They have zero evidence that Joe Biden is a vile crook. They can show that his son is, but not Joe Biden. They are doing this to placate that early stage dementia addled jello mold in Palm Beach, and it is really stomach churning. The republican party used to be a place of ideas and backbones...those days are as long gone as summer re-run season.
Trump's potential trajectory is strikingly similar to that of Hugo Chavez, who staged an unsuccessful coup, was barely punished for it, remained vengeful and unrepentant, and came back to win an election and set up a dictatorship. The result has been destroyed institutions, a ruined country, and millions of Venezuelan refugees scattered across the prinicipal nations of the Hemisphere from the United States to Chile.
Do Americans really want to become a huge Venezuela? Where will they run to?
"Lindsey Graham, pushed back on Liz Cheney’s warning about the dangers of a second Trump term by declaring that the REAL DANGER was four more years of Joe Biden. A Biden win, Graham insisted, “would be a disaster for peace and prosperity at home and abroad.”
“I think Liz’s s hatred of Trump is real,” he said, but she needed to recognize that if Biden is re-elected, “then we won’t recognize America and the world will be truly on fire.”"
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Sen Karen Graham is doing everything he can to suck up to the Amber Australopithecus and the MAGAverse in general. Graham has little authority behind his rhetoric, ever since he claimed that his efforts to subvert the will of the GA voters was part of his duties as a Senator.
A Biden win as a disaster, that it would destroy our peace and prosperity, is obvious projection of what will happen in a second, ruinous, never-ending term with the Apricot Arthropod sitting once again behind the Resolute Desk. The peace Graham is touting would be because his Orange G-d King would turn the US into a closed country along the lines of N Korea or Turkmenistan. The prosperity will be limited to a select few who are already within the Apricot Arthropod's inner circle -- which does not include Graham. The average American who refuses to bend a knee to the Red Caesar will live in poverty (if not murdered or sent to a "re-education camp").
Yes, Mr Graham, Ms Cheney's hatred of your god is real, as is the hatred of a likely majority of her fellow countrypeople. You can fully expect that the hatred will be extended to all minions, toadies, sycophants, turd polishers and cultists, and you are firmly within this demography. It is only a matter of time before the MAGA dumpster fire burns you too.
Be assured that your time will come when the Amber Australopithecus tosses you under the bus when it suits his needs. Until then, enjoy the deserved shade being thrown at you.
1. A U.S. President attempt to extort quid pro quo to release Congressionally authorized foreign military funds - "Brazenly political".
2. A U.S. President called and incited a mob to prevent Congress from fulfilling its Constitutional duty - "Brazenly political".
3. Authorizing an impeachment inquiry of a U.S. citizen who, while neither a U.S. President nor an elected official, accepted funds from family members to repay personal loans - "[A] necessary Constitutional step."
My fantasy - a Biden/Cheney ticket. Policy differences, yes, all of which take a back seat to one and only one thing. I’m a Dem and would vote for this in a heartbeat.
Liz Cheney just got some karma payback. My Kevin has announced he's done at the end of this term.....oh, and Trump announced at Hannity's town hall, the he would only be America's dictator on his first day. Hannity was perplexed.
I went shopping with my wife yesterday for a Christmas ornament for each of the grandkids. There was a snow globe featuring Santa Claus looking down on, apparently, baby Jesus in a crib.
'Tis the reason for the season, I suppose.
Not sure they had chimneys in Judea at the time.
If you insist. I suppose. Happy holidays.
Happy holidays?!! Oh no! <gasp> Another attack in the war on Christmas!
A second trump term would be one giant sharpie pen. No reality would be spared. Those with actual money one imagines would be ... concerned. Yet oddly not enough.
David - I did Google this. I read the Wikipedia article on the subject, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textbooks_in_the_Israeli%E2%80%93Palestinian_conflict. Thanks. It was a useful exercise.
I Googled it because I wanted to find out why this issue is as common as it is in discussions of the Israel-Palestine problem.
I find that there are valid reasons for Israelis to take offense at the content of PA-approved textbooks, and that this has been going on for a long time. I also find that there are a (smaller) number of things in Israeli textbooks that may be problematic.
However, I am mindful of two things. When I’ve heard this issue raised, it’s always been as an argument for why Israel has nobody with whom they can make peace. I disagree with that. I think the disagreement about textbooks is more than anything a mirror of the larger issues of the Israel-Palestine conflict.
I continue to oppose its use as a reason why no peace can be contemplated.
I am also mindful of the fact that fights over textbooks currently embroil our own country. I think they are symptoms of larger divisions rather than causes of them.
Steve,
I appreciate the fact that you took the time to do so. To me, it speaks volumes about the sincerity of your character.
Please don’t overload us with links to the Atlantic. Not all of us subscribe.
> All the alarms are flashing red
All that Americans need to do is to vote on Election Day, and better yet, also in the primaries, and to not vote for anyone who supports the Big Lie or who doesn't take January 6th to be an insurrection.
All Americans don't need to do this, just a small majority (just enough to take care of the peculiar American electoral map).
None of this as as onerous as going overseas to fight a war, to restrain consumption or to be rationed life's necessities, to be required to work a 6-day week, to pay more taxes, to reduce the enjoyment of life in the least. It is as close to a zero-sacrifice civic virtue that is possible, that is needed.
If the alarm bells are flashing red because Americans are no longer capable of this tiny bit of civic virtue, then I must question whether there is anything left to save. The flashing lights are not of those an emergency but of a funeral procession.
I just finished reading Will's column. I don't think Haley believes the right-wing conspiracy theory nonsense she is spouting about Covid vaccines. It's just that she is a shameless opportunist and will say anything to win votes including that she will support the Fascist Trump.
It's just as bad or worse. She gives a permission structure for even more people to believe the bs and the beast therefore gets bigger and bigger. It's exactly how Trump got to be such a threat: People who knew better enabled the mob by being afraid of it.
You are aware that the Netanyahu government is as hostile, if not more so to the Palestininan Authority as it is to Hamas? You are aware that Netanyahu PUBLICLY stated that by offering to support to Hamas, over the PA, this was the best way for Israel to prevent a Palestinian state from forming?
"Teaching their children to hate Jews"? Who does this? All Palestinians? What is your source for this?
President Biden has indicated his preference for a two-state solution with the PA as the most obvious interlocutor. Netanyahu opposes this. What do you say about this? What is YOUR preferred outcome?
The sooner Netanyahu is gone from power the better.
"Who does this? All Palestinians? What is your source for this?"
Palestinian school textbooks are intensely antisemitic. Google it.
The EU condemned Palestinian textbooks and study cards back in May due to their hateful content and have done so for the last 4 years.
"Google it" is not a source.
Source: The European Parliament.
That's not a source either. For a source to be meaningful, you need to cite
(1) a specific document
(2) from a reputable source
(3) with enough information to enable readers to track it down and read it for themselves.
So far you are missing elements (1) and (3).
And yes, it is on the person making the claim (you, in this case) to provide that.
The only peson who can get away with saying "you'll have to Google that" is Robert Earl Keen.
I understand Liz Cheney is considering throwing her hat in the ring as a third-party candidate, however she qualified by saying it was something she would not do if she felt it would help trump get elected. I don't see how it wouldn't help get trump elected because Biden isn't winning over hearts and minds despite doing a heck of a lot better job than TFG. Still, I wish that if Liz would have considered this sooner as a Republican candidate. I just don't understand how running as a third-party candidate would not help trump, unless I'm missing something. What am I missing?
And how would you suggest they do this?
You’re basically suggesting that their only options are to risk their lives in a revolution against Hamas or risk their lives in a revolution against Israel.
"They could be protesting Hamas...."
I wonder if this collective - of I support the poor downtrodden masses called Hamas even though they are thugs, killers, rapists, and proud puppets of Iran - believes they are doing a service analogous to my generation's protests about 'Nam? Is this their, as in whatever gen X, Y, Z, or ZZ is now called, way of feeling relevant? It all seems rather obscene: they celebrating the depraved toxicant that is Hamas while we castigated the rather imperialistic machinations of a superpower. The world is not as it once was. Up is down. Fascism is democracy. Evil is heavenly.
Sigh.
I WELCOME a Republican attempt at impeachment. Newt Gingrich debased the concept 25 years ago, so impeachment is not what it used to be, and that is genuinely sad. On the Upside, it butchered his speakership and he was shafted out of the chair shortly thereafter. Furthermore, it shut up the people whining about Clinton triangulation and it showed the House GOP to be nothing more than vindictive imbeciles who were using impeachment as a weapon to gut Bill Clinton because he was just better at politics than they were. Was Bill slime? Oh ABSOLUTELY. Could he not keep his pants zipped? Uh....duh.
In attempting to impeach Joe Biden, the House GOP is showing itself to be pathetically desperate to show that he is as much of a massive crook as the *know* Donald Trump to be. It's like they are saying "See? Joe Biden is scum...we can prove it!!" The thing is, they can't. They have zero evidence that Joe Biden is a vile crook. They can show that his son is, but not Joe Biden. They are doing this to placate that early stage dementia addled jello mold in Palm Beach, and it is really stomach churning. The republican party used to be a place of ideas and backbones...those days are as long gone as summer re-run season.
Orange jello mold.
Trump's potential trajectory is strikingly similar to that of Hugo Chavez, who staged an unsuccessful coup, was barely punished for it, remained vengeful and unrepentant, and came back to win an election and set up a dictatorship. The result has been destroyed institutions, a ruined country, and millions of Venezuelan refugees scattered across the prinicipal nations of the Hemisphere from the United States to Chile.
Do Americans really want to become a huge Venezuela? Where will they run to?
"Lindsey Graham, pushed back on Liz Cheney’s warning about the dangers of a second Trump term by declaring that the REAL DANGER was four more years of Joe Biden. A Biden win, Graham insisted, “would be a disaster for peace and prosperity at home and abroad.”
“I think Liz’s s hatred of Trump is real,” he said, but she needed to recognize that if Biden is re-elected, “then we won’t recognize America and the world will be truly on fire.”"
-----
Sen Karen Graham is doing everything he can to suck up to the Amber Australopithecus and the MAGAverse in general. Graham has little authority behind his rhetoric, ever since he claimed that his efforts to subvert the will of the GA voters was part of his duties as a Senator.
A Biden win as a disaster, that it would destroy our peace and prosperity, is obvious projection of what will happen in a second, ruinous, never-ending term with the Apricot Arthropod sitting once again behind the Resolute Desk. The peace Graham is touting would be because his Orange G-d King would turn the US into a closed country along the lines of N Korea or Turkmenistan. The prosperity will be limited to a select few who are already within the Apricot Arthropod's inner circle -- which does not include Graham. The average American who refuses to bend a knee to the Red Caesar will live in poverty (if not murdered or sent to a "re-education camp").
Yes, Mr Graham, Ms Cheney's hatred of your god is real, as is the hatred of a likely majority of her fellow countrypeople. You can fully expect that the hatred will be extended to all minions, toadies, sycophants, turd polishers and cultists, and you are firmly within this demography. It is only a matter of time before the MAGA dumpster fire burns you too.
Be assured that your time will come when the Amber Australopithecus tosses you under the bus when it suits his needs. Until then, enjoy the deserved shade being thrown at you.
fnord
They Are The Law&Order Team?
(https://youtu.be/DnlOBcXzomA?si=tqC-XI0rY8TevbOe)
Impeachments as seen by the Law&Order Team:
1. A U.S. President attempt to extort quid pro quo to release Congressionally authorized foreign military funds - "Brazenly political".
2. A U.S. President called and incited a mob to prevent Congress from fulfilling its Constitutional duty - "Brazenly political".
3. Authorizing an impeachment inquiry of a U.S. citizen who, while neither a U.S. President nor an elected official, accepted funds from family members to repay personal loans - "[A] necessary Constitutional step."
Well, there's that.