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Satchel

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  1. Given the ubiquity of guns, is this really surprising to anybody? This is Texas. We shoot up everything.
  2. Does anybody believe McCarthy would have allowed his caucus to bail out Speaker Pelosi had her party attempted to depose her?
  3. This could get interesting: https://www.al.com/news/2023/10/mike-rogers-will-not-back-jim-jordan-for-speaker-of-the-house-would-work-with-democrats.html U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers (R-AL) said, “there was nothing that Jordan could do to get his support as Speaker of the House,” as reported in the Anniston Star. Rogers left a closed-door caucus session Friday and said Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries (R-NY) should state concessions needed to help the GOP. “They put us in this ditch along with eight traitors,” Rogers told Capitol Hill reporters. “We’re still the majority party, we’re willing to work with them but they gotta tell us what they need.” Rogers has voiced his anger at the eight Republicans who helped oust former Speaker Kevin McCarthy, calling them “traitors” who “paralyzed” the House, according to a report.
  4. If our moral code is attuned to the suffering of just one side, then our moral code needs to be recalibrated.
  5. And to think these people view themselves as unlike Hamas: https://texags.com/forums/16/topics/3410067
  6. I think even they understand they suck at governing. They’re much better at tearing shit up. They’re lost when it comes to building anything of substance.
  7. Hamas has not allowed an election in Gaza in 17 years and has ruled its inhabitants with an iron hand. Palestinians live in fear. To suggest that they are reflexively tethered to violence and chaos is somewhat like assuming all Texans co-sign Republican placement of razor wire on the banks of the Rio Grande.
  8. In the test floor vote, 55 members voted against Jordan. They just can’t govern.
  9. You’re probably right, but that rotten tooth bastard is chomping at the bit to become Speaker.
  10. Gym Jordan as Speaker. The election of Trump broke the world.
  11. Why won’t Dems and rural legislators collude to torpedo Abbott’s terrible bill?
  12. Ted knows that Hakeem Jeffries is working hard behind the scene to form a bipartisan coalition to elect a Speaker. He doesn’t want there to be a chance for government to work.
  13. That was a thing of beauty…so much so that we should (in the spirit of Simone Biles) name it the TT Slip and Slide 2.
  14. How can anyone kinda paying attention think this poon deserves to be anywhere near the Oval? https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-israel-intel-russia-hamas-attack-1833094 Donald Trump's sharing of alleged classified intelligence to Russian officials in the White House has come under scrutiny amid a large-scale attack by the Hamas Islamist military group against Israel. In May 2017, the former president defended his actions after he was found to have discussed sensitive details about an alleged Islamic State (ISIS) plot with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Ambassador Sergey Kislyak in the Oval Office. Trump said he had an absolute right to do so. The intel was said to have been provided to the U.S. from Israel.
  15. While playing the my atrocity is better than your atrocity game, I don’t think there’s been a more critical time in history for us to be serious about our information hygiene.
  16. This is tee shirt and bumper sticker worthy.
  17. Israel should focus on clearing out Hamas and not the Palestinian people.
  18. Very true. The Hamas terrorists are fighting a proxy war for Iran and Russia.
  19. If I stole 100 dollars out of the bank till, used it to make 1000 at the track and later put the 100 back in the till, didn’t I profit from a crime? And isn’t that the argument being made by NY state?
  20. That anybody could characterize Bibi’s apartheid government as too lenient and nice is crazy.
  21. Heard an Israeli official say today that Israel was committed to “crushing the spirit” of the attackers. Really? Israel has two options. It can pursue a Palestinian holocaust or it can become a peacemaker instead of a hegemonic peacekeeper. Doing so would require Israel abandon its commitment to an apartheid state in the West Bank. It’s virtually impossible to crush the spirit of oppressed people.
  22. They understand better than most that if all the Palestinians in Gaza are allowed to do is devise ways to attack the oppressor, they’ll never experience a sustained peace.
  23. Saw an interview with a former US ambassador to Israel just a bit ago. He believes Israeli citizens have grown weary of the typical military response that only serves to perpetuate the status quo in the region in the aftermath of these bloody conflicts. He believes Israelis want peace that only can only be achieved by changing the way Israel approaches the Palestinian problem.
  24. Gaetz is on tape telling the truth for once. Republicans are the most cynical people alive: https://www.yahoo.com/news/during-online-fundraiser-matt-gaetz-110000805.html Days before Rep. Matt Gaetz led an effort to oust Kevin McCarthy as House speaker, Gaetz and Rep. Matt Rosendale, a fellow Freedom Caucus member, denounced as a political stunt Republicans’ high-stakes effort to impeach President Joe Biden, according to a video obtained by NBC News. At an invitation-only fundraiser held over Zoom last week, Gaetz, R-Fla., and Rosendale, who is said to be plotting another Senate run next year, heaped skepticism on the probe. “I don’t believe that we are endeavoring upon a legitimate impeachment of Joe Biden,” Gaetz told Steve Bannon, a podcaster and onetime political adviser to former President Donald Trump, who was moderating the discussion. As they fielded questions from high-dollar conservative donors, Gaetz and Rosendale were just days away from moving to end McCarthy’s speakership — and tipping the Republican caucus into its own protracted battle over who will lead the conference. Gaetz, Rosendale and the small faction of Republicans who ousted McCarthy, R-Calif., still hold tremendous leverage as the House tries to find a replacement. Whether the group could seek to use that leverage to extract concessions from the future speaker — including how the House proceeds on issues like impeachment — is yet to be seen. One of the impeachment leaders is also a candidate for speaker, Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio. During the fundraiser, Rosendale joined Gaetz in denouncing the Republicans’ hotly tipped impeachment inquiry. Rosendale likened Congress’ probe of Biden to the federal indictment of the president’s son Hunter, which critics say has been tainted by preferential treatment and argue is a “smokescreen” intended to deflect attention from more serious crimes they accuse Hunter Biden of having committed, like working for foreign interests to influence U.S. policy. “They’re doing the exact same thing,” Rosendale said. Gaetz said: “I just don’t get the sense that it’s for the sake of impeachment. I think it’s for the sake of having another bad thing to say about Joe Biden.”
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