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RomaVicta

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  1. Yes. They really should have come down hard and said really really poor judgment.
  2. They'll get him on sales tax charges.There will be mild fine. He will say it's the weaponization of the Justice Department. People will send him money.
  3. It doesn't get much more scathing than this: Hope the poor guy doesn't off himself. Just brutal.
  4. That's my understanding as well. I think Jordan was left holding the bag for awhile hosting huge refugee camps, but they finally ran the Palestinians out. I'm sure you would guess that I am no champion of the autocracies that surround Israel. They did try to drive Israel into the sea. Now that I think of it, my feeling about what is happening in Gaza is akin to what I felt about the Arab attacks on Israel. Each were established entities in places where they were not wanted. I think Palestine's historical claim is stronger, but that doesn't really matter much now. Neither deserve destruction. My anger is with the destroyers in all cases. My fury is keenest when my country supports something that is plain wrong and deadly. It was pretty much our modus in Latin America. I'd like for us to be the good for the first time in a long time.
  5. Inka, I still think your observations, which I trust, are sideshows at best regarding the bloodshed in Gaza. Perhaps I'm missing something. I'm not standing up for the virtue of Egypt or any other MidEast country, but other cases of discrimination or ill-treatment of the Palestinians seem like small potatoes when another entity is trying to displace them or erase them altogether.
  6. What a republic. Shitbag DeSantis invokes child sex-trafficker Jeff Epstein to go after a constant liar who tried to invade Congress to seize government and is himself a serial sex offender. Annnnnd, it has implications in the race to become President of the United States.
  7. I agree. Israel's leaders would love for the world to look at the Gaza displacement humanitarian crisis as Egypts fault for not inviting the refugees into their country. That's a nifty trick of moving focus from why there are refugees in the first place. Netanyahu has publicly repudiated Biden. He's daring us to act in certainty that we won't. I'm guessing Ben is counting partially on election year riskiness to help him. The United States should not appear to be anyone's lapdog. Biden has done more than enough for Israel. Get our name off of this slaughter.
  8. Thanks for straightening me out. Porter is a dim light indeed compared to the way you put together an argument.
  9. He forgot to mention the greatest recruiting class of all time! Oh, that wouldn't fit into the brilliance of it's a great job because they are always bad. No matter, I'm sure they'll find a sitting national championship coach who knows how to win national championships next time the job falls open. That sleeping giant will be awake any minute now!
  10. The fat and happy do not seem to make for a risky revolutionary surge. As I wrote elsewhere, it's concerning that we don't even get mass demonstrations about Trump and the GOP. I, sadly, see this going down rather tamely.
  11. She came out looking terrrible. She didn't make sense of her claim. She ignored the rational voice of Stephenopoulos. I'm not sure how to call that a loss for the host. Other people have their ways, but letting Mace repeat the same rubbish over and over was not a losing strategy.
  12. I don't know that there's a plan of any kind. He's just accustomed to dodging trouble. He likely has confidence that he will work his same voodoo on all of these problems. He thinks he deserves absolute immunity right now. He likely fully believes he will be in the White House again where he will certainly claim that. But plan? I don't hear a great strategist when I listen to Trump's rambling from the podium. I don't even get a sense of a particularly keen sense of reality. Just a shameless blowfish using deception to intimidate and fleece.
  13. Yep. I think the worst thing Clinton did was wag his finger and lie about the affair. It wasn't criminal. It was shameful. It's also, as far as I'm concerned, not really anybody's business, but some smart people may disagree. I think the Paula Jones incident was a misunderstanding that led to some form of actual sexual harrassment although I don't believe Clinton had any intention of interfering with Jone's career with the State of Arkansas. It's shameful conduct covered in some way by official policies. I doubt we would have heard about it without right wing bush beating, but that doesn't really matter in the end. Again, disagree all you want. It's that kind of issue. Now let's turn to Trump's shameful and criminal behavior. It's so very public, that there is no need to even enumerate them here. Everybody knows; nobody changes their votes. As short a time ago as Bill Clinton's presidency, the story of consensual sex on the one hand and sexual harrassment where no person was even touched on the other, generated wall to wall coverage on the news and outrage. I don't think that it's simply partisan. The persecution is mostly partisan, but what this says about the American people likely isn't. Who have we become? A large group actually supports this guy. A large group is completely indifferent as far as public discourse or action is concerned. Those outraged and opposed can't even muster themselves to take to the streets. I thought the pussy-hat march was only the beginning. It was the whole thing. 'Tis a mystery.
  14. @statsman @Brian Fantana Fontana names Gaza quite clearly. Statsman, evidently referring to the only proper noun in the exchange, lays the blame for attack on "them" as though he thinks he's writing about the same thing as Fonatana. He's not. Gaza did not attack Israel. Hamas attacked Israelies in Israel from Gaza. If there is a euphemism in all of this, it's statsman's use of the word war to describe what Israel is subjecting the people of Gaza to. Please stop conflating Gaza with Hamas. You're just perpetuating the dishonest, twisted rationale for the annihiliation and displacement of an entire people.
  15. Looks like Ivanka has resculpted her face again. She's got great surgeons. It could be that her face just can't move. Or it could be that she's got stereo sound of two clumsy crooks discussing something neither of them understand.
  16. Accurate. Enourmously late. Congrats for looking beyond the template and seeing the real story that has been obvious for years and years. Let's see if other outlets take up the same perspective. My guess is, if this gets discussed at all, it will be grist for a panel show where sensible people will agree and raving liars will muddy the water. The host will declare it an interesting conversation then, with great relief, move on to something less vital.
  17. No doubt about the complex and being right. They aren't being persecuted, and people don't like them.
  18. Persecution complex displayed before persecution: Everybody is dying to see this match up of unranked teams!
  19. Is this an AI attempt at humor? It's pretty dumb.
  20. That's right. I hadn't thought about this other reason the piece of shit should be in a cell awaiting trial. He encourages stochastic terrorism against officers of the court and jurors. But he's an ex-president!
  21. I always thought the carbon credit thing was sound only in theory. Seems like it would be easy to corrupt it in the way you describe. The buyer just wants to keep polluting and has no incentive to follow up to see if their money is being used as promised. Further, seems like a pretty good kickback scheme could be generated. The surviving families huddling in rusted out SUVs to escape the weather extremes will have plenty of time to reflect on this and hate our selfish guts. Hey, Daddy, I think these seats are real leather. Maybe we can boil them and eat them! I'm tired of chewing on vynyl. We'll feast tonight, daughter! Tell me again what MPH meant. Nobody cared, honey. Not one shit.
  22. I've had a thought for years that the Western countries who've alread obliterated their massive forests should pay Brazil handsomely to protect those forests. I know it's ebil globalism and shit, but why leave the burden of averting an international crisis in the hands of a single country? Pay off the current rapacious destroyers of the forest to kill their incentive for continuing. I don't care if they're evil. I don't care what they are. They're in it for money, pay them and be rid of them. In the breathing space before the next round of exploiters appear, take steps preserve and protect the forests. Fund the local, indigenous peoples in the best way to kill any incentive they have to destroy the forest just to feed their people. The US and the rest of the West have got fat eating up other country's resources. It's time to put back where we can. I know the first instinct of many Americans is to invade, but let's try to throttle back a little on that inclination. Maybe help people instead of bombing them. And put a lot of money into carbon capture if there's any future in it. I'm not well educated on it. Oh, and stop riding around in giant fucking pick up trucks if you're not a rancher or outdoor worker for fuck's sake.
  23. You have to believe something environmental is causing the rise in rate of rapid onset dementia in people under 60. I don't have a link for that, but I believe I've read or heard about the dementia rate from someplace reliable.
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