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WhatTheBuck

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  1. Do Moscow and I’ll be impressed. Assuming the Israelis hadn’t crippled their air defenses first and had already been running sorties unopposed for days/weeks.
  2. That’s why it’s not impressive.
  3. Good analogy because the Trump administration is a reality tv production as authentic as any plastic product coming out of Hollywood.
  4. It would’ve been more impressive if Iran’s air defenses hadn’t already been totally incapacitated. This was a turkey shoot — the most advanced military in the world doing what it’s expected to do against an inferior, neutered opponent. It was Kramer dominating the dojo.
  5. Oh really? How many private companies did Hitler nationalize? How about Mussolini? Here’s an easier one. What about Putin? You mean socialist (the Marxist kind), not fascist.
  6. The thing is is that they’re wholly unqualified for the jobs they hold so they dare not risk their positions by contradicting Dear Leader. Wtf else are they going to do that would pay as well if they left a cabinet job for which they’re horribly unqualified? That’s exactly why they were appointed in the first place.
  7. One of the greatest foreign policy blunders of all time. Or at least it was the start of a chain of events that constituted one. It was the principle motivator. Declaring a national home for the Jewish people didn’t have to mean the creation of a Jewish state but their were advocates and influencers involved who always had that goal and that was the result. So one people granted a second people the land of a third people and created a situation where there will never be peace under the status quo. Also, since the establishment of the state of Israel, they’ve received more aid from the U.S. in the form of weapons and cash than any other country so it’s pretty hard to argue that we aren’t a big reason they’ve had the success fighting their enemies that they’ve had. That’s been on full display in Gaza and Iran just recently but it’s been official U.S. policy for decades.
  8. Can we see what an album of bullfighting tunes looks like? I don’t know about 15, but I’d listen to one. And speaking of Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass, my parents had their greatest hits album so I’m familiar with this:
  9. Where would Israel be without aid from the U.S. in money and arms? The British were primarily responsible for the creation of a Jewish state on Arab land. So they’d exist without us. But when it came to war, where would Israel be now? What would their borders look like without American patronage? You don’t see any parallels? Also, fuck you for comparing me to Anastasis. Don’t be a clown, Bozo.
  10. You might say the relationship between Iran and terrorist groups like Hezbollah and Hamas is sort of like the relationship between the United States and Israel.
  11. They can drive now! (When they’re not in jail for advocating women’s right.)
  12. Maybe he’s too young to remember when Reagan was trading arms for hostages with Iran, prompting Iran to take more hostages so they could get more arms (via our Israeli connection, mind you). Or that Reagan took the money from the arms sales and illegally diverted it to South American death squads, helping to destabilize that region which has a direct connection to the migrant and asylum-seeking “crisis” we’re seeing today.
  13. Knew it was gonna be Paula White.
  14. We were doing it 20 years ago. Calling any suspect a “terrorist,” shipping them off to foreign countries to be tortured, holding them indefinitely without any charges, sending them to Gitmo. We’re basically doing the same thing now, calling them criminals, murderers, rapists, vermin, invaders, and I’m pretty sure the label “terrorists” has also been used. We’re using basically the same tactics now but this time we’re trying to just wash our hands of them. We’re not even pretending that we might ever charge them with crimes. We don’t care about that. We just want them out and fuck their human and legal rights. Still, though, it’s another in the thousand ways the George W. Bush presidency foreshadowed Trump.
  15. We all know the response from Republicans if Obama had ever done that.
  16. How about now? Or, say, two weeks from now?
  17. How does Trump’s sucking Putin’s dick and shitting on all our allies compare to Dubya’s transgressions?
  18. I remember feeling uncomfortable when George W. Bush created this massive new government bureaucracy called the Department of Homeland Security because it smacked of creeping fascism. It recalled the Nazi use of the term “Fatherland.” I wasn’t a member of this community back then. Had Shaggy even split off yet by that time? I don’t know. I don’t think so but I could be wrong. But I’ll bet some of you shared that same sentiment. And now here we are seeing it come to fruition. Bush (43) was already advancing the imperial presidency but as so often has been the case, Trump comes along and turns it up to 11. ICE, and/or whoever his masked stormtroopers are, are his gestapo. And just like when it was “you’re either with us or you’re with the terrorists” under Dubya, now everyone who isn’t a Trump loyalist can be branded a “terrorist” and sent off to CECOT or Gitmo or some other concentration camp. Just another example of the thousand ways that the George W. Bush presidency foreshadowed Trump. What’s really crazy is that even Dick fucking Cheney - every bit as guilty as GWB in laying the groundwork for Trump’s abuse of power, had the nerve to speak out against Trump and Trumpism. But not Georgie. Fucking coward. DHS needs to be dismantled. Funny how DOGE didn’t look into that.
  19. Didn’t some of the rulings restraining Obama’s actions go into effect immediately? And didn’t at least one or two of those rulings come from a judge in Texas? Also, Kacsmaryk is a total douchebag.
  20. Speaking of anniversaries, I watched this one live on PPV. Still a noob, it was unofficially my 3rd show. It was my introduction to the summer solstice show, which was a thing. Now to move a little off topic, six years later I drove down to Cincinnati to see if Phish made a big deal out of the solstice. They did not. But it was still a unique and awesome show and there’s a really good amateur video with great sound documenting the band in their youth when the energy was off the charts. I saw this show and the next night in Columbus (which was later released officially as Live Phish 10, amazing show and I had 3rd row center seats, the best I could get being first in line at the box office when they went on sale). The next day I boarded a plane to Las Vegas for three nights of the Dead at the Sam Boyd Silver Bowl. The contrast in energy between the two bands was stark. I already had tickets for the Dead’s shows at Deer Creek and Buckeye Lake. Buckeye Lake ‘94 was my last Dead show and I hopped on over to the Phish train after that. Happy I missed the ugliness of Deer Creek the following year. When I heard of Jerry’s passing I was sad, but not terribly surprised, and I had already moved on. So here’s another another anniversary show which I’ve posted before in the Phish thread but I’ll post it here in case anyone is curious. The audio is excellent. Give it a little time for the video to kick in. It’s sometimes choppy but mostly it’s a pretty solid amateur video. If you watch the whole thing and if you haven’t seen my post about it in the Phish thread, there’s a big surprise partway through, before the end of the first set.
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