#3
Seeing some crooked media stories about people who "are going to keep wearing masks" for years. Or forever. Becaue it makes them feel safe. With of course the intimation that these are brave, smart people we should all respect.
How bout these people go on then and admit that people who want to carry a gun are also brave, smart people, just wanting to feel safe too?
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
05/18/2021 13:09 Comments ||
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#1
Time for Texas GOP pols to have a group photo wearing Neanderthal masks, a la what OK Gov. Stitt did recently near a PETA billboard mocking him. Mock back and twice as hard.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 ||
05/18/2021 12:14 Comments ||
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The current conflagration between Israel and Hamas has many old and new features. Among the most novel is the outspoken opposition of progressives within the Democratic Party. Another is the full racialization of the conflict along purely American lines: Israelis are the white oppressors while Palestinians are the brown and black victims.
These attributes have been emerging over the past few years, notably among the BDS movement that began to loudly draw the comparisons after the 2014 Ferguson riots, and they have become a feature of Nation of Islam and Black Lives Matter rhetoric. But this has now been fully articulated as a cultural and political issue, in no small part because of the American nervous breakdown over "race" and the unprecedented, indeed, calamitous, ineptitude of the still new Biden administration.
The aging rump leadership of the Democrats typified by President Biden himself and House speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi have expressed traditional concerns over Israel’s security and understanding of what might be called causality and proportion: Hamas attacked Israeli civilians and the Jewish state is using proportionate means necessary to eliminate the threat — but not so much as to cause excessive civilian casualties. A few scattered younger elected officials such as Rep. Ritchie Torres have bucked the progressive wave along with Jewish Democrats. Republicans on the other hand are nearly uniform in expressing their vocal commitment to Israel.
But the progressive wing of the Democrats has taken center stage. In a recent display on the floor of the House, one progressive member after another rose to condemn Israel and President Biden’s support, and to draw breathless and hyperbolic analogies between Gaza and the American scene. Firebrand Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez attacked Biden and implicitly defended Hamas, saying "The president stated that Israel has a right to self-defense. Do Palestinians have a right to survive?"
Islamist Rep. Ilhan Omar went further and deemed Israel an "apartheid government" while Rep. Ayanna Pressley stated "As a black woman in America, I am no stranger to police brutality and state-sanctioned violence. We have been criminalized for the very way we show up in the world... Palestinians are being told the same thing as black folks in America: there is no acceptable form of resistance." Rep. Cori Bush made the claim plain on social media: "The fight for Black lives and the fight for Palestinian liberation are interconnected. We oppose our money going to fund militarized policing, occupation, and systems of violent oppression and trauma. We are anti-war. We are anti-occupation. And we are anti-apartheid. Period." Our money?
#4
I'm tired of my money going to Ebt and such, guess what it don't make a shit.
Posted by: Chris ||
05/18/2021 8:06 Comments ||
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#5
How much of this is the aging United Negro Caucus Vs. The New Latino Bloc™ for diminishing Federal funds? They both want the same thing and the battle is becoming public.
[Gatestone] Full responsibility for the latest upsurge in Arab-Israeli violence goes to US President Joe Biden as a result of the policies of appeasement and capitulation he has pursued in the Middle East.
When Mr Biden took office in January, the Middle East was enjoying one of its rare moments of optimism, mainly due to the successful approach adopted by his predecessor, President Donald J. Trump.
The Trump administration achieved a number of undisputed policy successes in the region, which included persuading several Arab and Muslim countries -- the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan, Kosovo and Morocco -- to sign the Abraham Accords with Israel, thereby bringing decades of hostility to an end. In addition the Islamist supporters of ISIS were completely routed as a result of the US-led military coalition's destruction of their so-called Caliphate, while Iran's ability to undermine political stability in the Middle East had been severely curbed by the Trump administration's punitive sanctions against the regime. Even Mr Trump's harshest critics had to concede that, when it came to the Middle East, the Trump era had been a success.
Rather than building on the promising legacy he inherited from his predecessor, however, Mr Biden has instead sought to distance himself from the achievements of the Trump administration.
#2
just a perception of weakness. Provided by Israel's 4 elections.
AH HAH!! So you’re saying that Netanyahu did it on purpose to drive the Arabs (both Palestinians and Arab-Israelis) to shoot themselves in their collective foot in front of the entire world?
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