Random thought/idea Thread

[pie]

GBG, Famicommander, JimiJam28 and other Kamala voters will be disappointed once she loses. If the Democrats had a qualified person as a Presidential candidate this year -- I would have considered voting for that person and praying that they win. However, duh88 and I have discussed ad nauseam why Kamala is a terrible candidate, and she has not accomplished anything as VP during the last 3.5 years.

Looking forward to November 5th (the day unqualified and incompetent Kamala loses) and January 20, 2025 -- when the Biden/Harris administration can no longer destroy our beautiful country.

[famicommander]

Oct 7, 2024 12:51:56 GMT -5 pie said:

GBG, Famicommander, JimiJam28 and other Kamala voters will be disappointed once she loses. If the Democrats had a qualified person as a Presidential candidate this year -- I would have considered voting for that person and praying that they win. However, duh88 and I have discussed ad nauseam why Kamala is a terrible candidate, and she has not accomplished anything as VP during the last 3.5 years.

Looking forward to November 5th (the day unqualified and incompetent Kamala loses) and January 20, 2025 -- when the Biden/Harris administration can no longer destroy our beautiful country.

Do you understand what the VP does? Rhetorical question, I know you've never read the Constitution. 

The VP casts the tiebreaking vote in the event of a tie in the Senate and the VP replaces the president if they die in office. That's the whole job. There are no "accomplishments" to be had.

[jimijam28]

Oct 7, 2024 12:51:56 GMT -5 pie said:

GBG, Famicommander, JimiJam28 and other Kamala voters will be disappointed once she loses. If the Democrats had a qualified person as a Presidential candidate this year -- I would have considered voting for that person and praying that they win. However, duh88 and I have discussed ad nauseam why Kamala is a terrible candidate, and she has not accomplished anything as VP during the last 3.5 years.

Looking forward to November 5th (the day unqualified and incompetent Kamala loses) and January 20, 2025 -- when the Biden/Harris administration can no longer destroy our beautiful country.

you are a troll - go back to making some stupid thread about Josh/Booth.

[GBG]

I just know what someone told me about Trump and Epstein, a 3rd or 4th hand story to be sure, but I believe there is more than a grain of truth to it.

[GBG]

I won’t be so much “disappointed” if Harris loses as I will be scared for the future of this country, but she WILL concede if she does lose, unlike her fascist opponent.

[jimijam28]

you know it bad when Laura Ingraham facts check you-
x.com/Acyn/status/1843437589157826918
can this a****** stop with the lies about FEMA,, does everything has to be political (just like he did with covid and the CDC)

[GBG]

60 Minutes election special is a must-see. But much of Harris interview was outrageous. Bill Whitaker kept interrupting her answers. Or doing voiceover narration before she finished her answers. Stupid questions about inflation and the border. You can guess. Despite it all, I thought Kamala did very well!

youtu.be/TJys7OVH24E?si=pSRACnh7US-aqbl_

The Arizona segment was also outrageous in a different way. We get to see the Trump cult in action.

youtu.be/WaL0eCSFHGU?si=AjFi3QX4CMcnTKNj

BTW, Trump backed out of interview. Total coward who refused to be fact-checked.

[GBG]

Well-done parody of an HR interview…

x.com/canaansdad1987/status/1843304088374743491?s=61&t=I7wiAME4rgyf_KOpazFe6g

[JB]

In his 2021 Inaugural Address, he described American history as a “constant struggle between the American ideal that we are all created equal and the harsh, ugly reality that racism, nativism, fear, and demonization have long torn us apart.” He promised to make the United States once again a “beacon to the world.” Since taking office, the president has framed a commitment to equality as the answer not only to the rise of domestic white nationalism but also to the authoritarian powers who threaten democracy overseas.

This self-presentation now lies in ruin. Through his unwavering backing of Israel, Mr. Biden has effectively supported its unequal treatment and oppression of Palestinians — especially in Gaza — and undermined the ethical rationale for his presidency.

Domestically, Mr. Biden counterposed equality to his predecessor’s ethnonationalistic tendencies. Mr. Trump has repeatedly implied that Americans who aren’t white and Christian are not truly American. In 2016, he said that Gonzalo Curiel, a judge born in Indiana, could not rule fairly on civil lawsuits against Trump University because of his Mexican heritage, given Mr. Trump’s promises to build a wall between this country and Mexico. In 2019, Mr. Trump demanded that the four congresswomen of color who constitute the so-called Squad — three of whom were born in the United States — “go back” to the countries they were from. Mr. Biden, by contrast, declared in a May 2023 speech to Howard University’s graduating class that America was based on an idea — equal rights — “not religion, not ethnicity.” Throughout his presidency, Mr. Biden has depicted himself as defending that principle from authoritarian impulses both at home and abroad.

But Israel’s political system is explicitly based on religion and ethnicity. Its controversial 2018 nation-state bill declares that Jews alone can “exercise national self-determination.” Most of the Palestinians under Israeli control — those in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip — can’t become citizens of the state that dominates their lives. A minority of Palestinians who live within Israel’s 1967 borders do enjoy citizenship and the right to vote. But when Arab Israeli politicians advanced a bill that would have made legal equality between Arab and Jewish citizens a foundation of Israeli law in 2018, the speaker of Israel’s parliament refused to allow a vote on it because it would “gnaw at the foundations of the state.”

As I have previously argued, there was a Zionist tradition that envisioned Jews living equally alongside Palestinians in a binational state — although many Americans now take for granted that Israel gives Jews legal supremacy.

But when it comes to Israel, Mr. Biden hasn’t supported equality under the law. The war in Gaza has made that contradiction impossible to ignore. It is most glaring when Biden expresses deep empathy for Israeli suffering but relative indifference to the far larger number of dead Palestinians, or when his administration seems to distinguish even between American citizens, showing more concern for those murdered by Hamas than for those killed by Israel’s military.

No wonder, according to a September survey by the Institute for Global Affairs, Democrats consider Mr. Biden’s policy on Gaza his greatest foreign policy failure. Young Americans are especially alienated by the chasm between Mr. Biden’s actions and his stated ideals. A March poll by Harvard’s Institute of Politics found that more than three-quarters of Americans under the age of 30 disapprove of his policy toward Israel’s war in Gaza.

Mr. Biden’s near-unconditional support for Israel’s actions has damaged his reputation overseas, as well. He has long claimed that the United States, unlike Russia and China, defends a “rules-based” order in which all countries, irrespective of their power, are bound by certain standards. That rhetoric reached a crescendo after Russia tried to overrun Kyiv in February 2022. At stake in Ukraine, Mr. Biden told a Polish audience the following month, was the choice “between a rules-based order and one governed by brute force.” That September, Mr. Biden told the United Nations that members of the Security Council should “refrain from the use of the veto, except in rare, extraordinary situations.” It was another swipe at Moscow, which during Mr. Biden’s presidency had employed its veto seven times, and an effort to associate the United States with a fairer international order, in which even the most powerful nations cannot act with impunity. To strengthen those rules, the Biden administration in July of last year reportedly ordered the United States to share evidence on Kremlin officials that could help the International Criminal Court in its investigation into possible war crimes in Ukraine.

Then came the Oct. 7 massacre and Israel’s subsequent invasion of Gaza. In the war’s first seven months, the Biden administration vetoed four resolutions concerning Israel and Palestine. Mr. Biden denounced the I.C.C.’s chief prosecutor for requesting warrants for the arrests of Hamas and Israeli leaders. While Mr. Biden has warned against Israel’s “indiscriminate” bombing of Gaza and the loss of civilian life, he has also repeatedly reiterated his support of Israel and supplied the country with vast quantities of arms.

Whatever chance Mr. Biden had of convincing large numbers of foreigners that the United States believed that international law applies to all has now largely collapsed. Over the past year, according to the Pew Research Center, the percentage of people who trust Mr. Biden “to do the right thing regarding world affairs” has dropped by double digits in Britain, Japan, Australia, Spain and Sweden — all key allies in the great power struggle Mr. Biden is waging against Moscow and Beijing. Britons, Canadians and Italians have less faith in Mr. Biden today than they had in George W. Bush in 2003, the year he invaded Iraq.

Last month, in his final speech to the United Nations, Mr. Biden acknowledged that “many look at the world today and see difficulties and react with despair.” What he didn’t acknowledge is that for many who believe in the vision of equality Mr. Biden himself once outlined, he has contributed to that despair — by effectively treating Palestinians as lesser human beings, and by treating Israel as above international law.

A few days before Mr. Biden’s speech, the Gaza Health Ministry released a catalog of the names and ages of Palestinians killed in this war. According to The Guardian, the first 100 pages are composed entirely of the names of children who died under the age of 10. Their lives will need to be accounted for when historians gauge how Mr. Biden shaped the “soul of this nation.”

www.nytimes.com/2024/10/08/opinion/bidens-moral-failure-in-israel.html

such is Biden's extremism that he lost the NYTimes. over Israel. I never thought I'd see the say.

[GBG]

That’s a guest essay by Peter Beinart, who I like. Don’t lie, JB, about Biden “losing” The NY Times. The Editorial Board is endorsing Harris over Trump, and Biden isn’t running for re-election last I checked.

I expect dishonesty from Trump and his sycophants. Not from Jill Stein supporters.

[JB]

also on the front page of the NYtimes "Biden Is Negotiating With an Israel That No Longer Exists" - Ezra Klein (not a guest essayist).

their editorial line has undergone a complete 180 shift. after the Oct7 attacks, the NYtimes employed a circle the wagon approach (which peaked with publishing the now discredited "Screams without Words" expose, which has been widely criticized for not meeting bare journalistic standards). now they clearly see the writing on the wall and are attempting to moderate Biden and the Democrats, because long term, allowing a messianic fascist to violently remake the Levant in his image is taking a bulldozer to US standing around the world and short term, it may be the reason the Orange Nightmare returns (your apprehension to this claim has been noted on multiple occasions).

[JB]

balleralert.com/profiles/blogs/nba-g-league-player-rj-hampton-faces-backlash-after-heated-argument-with-childs-mother-is-shared-online-video/

not a good look for our old friend RJ.

[GBG]

Oct 8, 2024 12:32:15 GMT -5 JB said:

also on the front page of the NYtimes "Biden Is Negotiating With an Israel That No Longer Exists" - Ezra Klein (not a guest essayist).

their editorial line has undergone a complete 180 shift. after the Oct7 attacks, the NYtimes employed a circle the wagon approach (which peaked with publishing the now discredited "Screams without Words" expose, which has been widely criticized for not meeting bare journalistic standards). now they clearly see the writing on the wall and are attempting to moderate Biden and the Democrats, because long term, allowing a messianic fascist to violently remake the Levant in his image is taking a bulldozer to US standing around the world and short term, it may be the reason the Orange Nightmare returns (your apprehension to this claim has been noted on multiple occasions).

I’d call him the Orange Menace.

Ezra Klein is good too, but also read Thomas Friedman who is a mediocre moderate voice but does call out “Jewish Supremacists” who are Israel’s version of white supremacists in U.S. and Western Europe. But to counter your “NYT is changing” narrative, there is Bret Stephens, always the neocon, calling for how to attack Iran.

www.nytimes.com/2024/10/01/opinion/iran-israel-hezbollah.html

[JB]

yeah, I'm not claiming the NYtimes is now the Jacobin. they're an establishment rag and elevating (self-described) Zionist neo-cons like Bret Stephens is their twisted version of being "fair and balanced" but it seems clear to me (as a long time reader) that there has been an editorial shift and they're attempting to move the "rules-based international order" away from the giant inescapable iceberg they're sailing towards.

[pie]

Kamala got destroyed by Bill Whitaker from 60 minutes




Trump 2024 ...can't wait till he is President again on January 20, 2025

[GBG]

Trump supporters ought to be ashamed of themselves. I’ll come right out and say it: They are supporting the next Hitler, American style…

youtu.be/vHQHerczlnA?si=TktsdcWeLsbPyGHO

Edit: He’s also a traitor to the United States and the free world…

www.nytimes.com/2024/10/08/us/politics/trump-putin-woodward-book.html

[jimijam28]

Oct 8, 2024 14:28:51 GMT -5 pie said:

Kamala got destroyed by Bill Whitaker from 60 minutes




Trump 2024 ...can't wait till he is President again on January 20, 2025

Some nobody YouTuber and it's over 😂

[GBG]

Oct 8, 2024 15:14:56 GMT -5 jimijam28 said:

Oct 8, 2024 14:28:51 GMT -5 pie said:

Kamala got destroyed by Bill Whitaker from 60 minutes




Trump 2024 ...can't wait till he is President again on January 20, 2025

Some nobody and it's over 😂

Are you describing somebody here? 😂

[pie]

She is a puppet similar to sleepy joe but 10000x worse

[JB]

I wouldn't look to the CIA on the integrity of elections considering they're the best in the world at overthrowing democratically elected governments.