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Am I the only person who thinks ACAB except when they’re dealing with sovereign citizens? Because I find sovereign citizens to be a threat to everyone, including cops.
What is it with these アホ westerners that behave like utter バカ, insulting the honor of the rest of us?
Popular YouTuber Fidias (2.37 million subscribers) has uploaded a “I Travelled Across Japan For Free” video.
How’d he do it? Simple: by illegally boarding trains without a ticket, hiding in the train toilet, and running when conductors tried to detain him. https://t.co/PsoDakrngC pic.twitter.com/vqOFobdf0I— Jeffrey J. Hall 🇯🇵🇺🇸 (@mrjeffu) October 23, 2023
and guess who his friend is?
Unfortunately, due to his huge platform, a large number of fans will probably watch the video and some will come away with the impression that they can do the same if they take a vacation to Japan. He’s also probably left Japan already, so it’s too late to arrest him now. pic.twitter.com/ZuNLPOfMYc
— Jeffrey J. Hall 🇯🇵🇺🇸 (@mrjeffu) October 23, 2023
re: #1 mmmirele
Am I the only person who thinks ACAB except when they’re dealing with sovereign citizens? Because I find sovereign citizens to be a threat to everyone, including cops.
The problem is that SovCits are still people, and even they don’t deserve to be brutalized by the police (unless they decide to be violent). Many of them are desperate, deluded, and/or mentally ill.
I know we have heard plenty from TFG about that weird Australian, but have we heard from the weird Australian? Apologies if already posted!
Billionaire Brags About Trump Sharing Secret Info
politicalwire.comRolling Stone: “Nearly two weeks ago, media reported that Donald Trump reportedly revealed information about U.S. nuclear submarine capabilities to Australian billionaire Anthony Pratt. And on Sunday, 60 Minutes Australia played recordings of secret tapes where Pratt disclosed other non-public information Trump shared with him, including information about U.S. military operations in Iraq and Trump’s conversations with the presidents of Iraq and Ukraine.”
“According to Pratt, Trump shared a lot with him, such as information about U.S. bombings in Iraq before they were publicly reported.”
Said Pratt: “He’s outrageous. He just says whatever the fuck he wants, and he loves to shock people.”
re: #4 Dangerman
Same as this
Its all about getting away with it
WTF is “Christian clothing?” Are they Amish?
re: #1 mmmirele
Am I the only person who thinks ACAB except when they’re dealing with sovereign citizens? Because I find sovereign citizens to be a threat to everyone, including cops.
Yeah, fuck SovCits.
re: #7 No Malarkey!
WTF is “Christian clothing?” Are they Amish?
Don’t wear 37 different crosses when you go criming, probably.
re: #3 Nerdy Fish
The problem is that SovCits are still people, and even they don’t deserve to be brutalized by the police (unless they decide to be violent). Many of them are desperate, deluded, and/or mentally ill.
As I said, fuck SovCits, because they are willingly choosing to put themselves outside of society in kingdoms upon themselves. However, despite their protestations and delusions, they are indeed still citizens who still have the protection of the law, but, when they violate that law, they should be prosecuted to the fullest extent possible, because they are being willful about it.
Turkey’s president submits Sweden’s NATO bid to parliament for ratification
euronews.com
re: #11 TedStriker
The main allure of sovereign citizen talk is that it promises the marks an easy way to get out of severe legal problems. A lot of SovCits are not dangerous people in the mold of Ammon Bundy or Randy Weaver - they’re ordinary idiots who are dealing with an acrimonious divorce, an ill-timed lawsuit, a DUI. I understand your point of view, but I can’t help but see them as human beings who are in trouble and are turning to bullshit artists for help because they don’t know any better. Now, the bullshit artists themselves, they can fuck right off. Throw the book at ‘em. I still wouldn’t wish the police on them, though. That’s a harsh punishment to level at anybody.
re: #15 Nerdy Fish
Much of the SovCit recruiting structure follows multi-level marketing strategy and practices. The county next over was an epicenter for a while, but calmed down after some arrests and large $$ recovery.
re: #16 Decatur Deb
I blame Amway.
cite:
Alabama Sovereigns Convicted on Tax Charges; Buried $350K in Gold
Who Said It: Vivek Ramaswamy or Dwight Schrute? (The New Republic)
re: #20 Eclectic Cyborg
No one dressed like that delivered an actual pizza.
re: #21 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈
No one dressed like that delivered an actual pizza.
Proper attire
LOLOLOLOLOLOL
Trump arrives at his rally in NH while protesters chant, “Lock him up!” Trump’s advance team hurriedly rushes press inside. pic.twitter.com/GAEf2iPdd2
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) October 23, 2023
re: #23 Dangerman
Ps that 30 minute nonsense wasnt til 1984
re: #25 Backwoods Sleuth
Serves him right.
re: #26 Dangerman
See if it was 1am dead of winter, and there was 2 feet of snow on the ground , you didn’t care if your $3.25 pizza took 2 hours to arrive as long as you didn’t have to go out.
re: #28 Dangerman
See if it was 1am dead of winter, and there was 2 feet of snow on the ground , you didn’t care if your $3.25 pizza took 2 hours to arrive as long as you didn’t have to go out.
Again, not pizza. This was for people without the patience or money for actual pizza.
Trump going on about romneys book
claimed the book “is, much like him, boring, horrible, and totally predictable.”
Yeah like he read the thing
We got a little rain yesterday (0.11”) and this morning the sun is out, along with a bunch of termite alates who are flying around looking for love. The birds have noticed this fact.
Only thing open at that hour back then.
And free delivery
In those conditions
Ok only half the time was it still hot.
Sure it tasted like the box.
And often stuck to it…
It took till 2015 for them to drop “pizza” from their name
re: #20 Eclectic Cyborg
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If that still happened today:
“Yes, I’d like to get a supreme pizza. My address is 1234 BF Egypt St., Suburb, TX.”
“Hold on…I don’t see that on the map.”
“Probably not, the street opened last week. But there are 400 homes in my neighborhood. You need to head down I-30, make a right at Azul, and a left on Carter-“
“There is no Carter on my map.”
“Really, it’s been there at least 3 months, since I had to drive it to see my house being constructed.”
re: #23 Dangerman
I was one of them
I believe we wore red polo shirts2-3 years late 70’s Binghamton NY
I had a buddy way back in the day that delivered for a pizza joint. He was robbed at gunpoint one night. The pizza place fired him. Maybe they thought he should not have given up the pizza so fast.
James Comer is opening a Judicial Inquiry on why President Biden has two ice cream cones. pic.twitter.com/u7yEam4rmr
— Dana 🌊 (@DanaSan68018976) October 22, 2023
re: #21 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈
No one dressed like that delivered an actual pizza.
Sorry, but these statements really annoy me. It ranks up there with ragging on people for going to Chili’s. And I personally don’t care for Dominos.
Around here, Dominos drivers don’t wear uniforms anymore, so you can’t judge a pizza by its carrier.
I watched John Oliver last night; never had a good impression of consulting firms and this just verified that they are the scum of the earth — without morals, compassion, or decency but there to increase their bottom line and the wealth of the management in their clients, without benefitting the employees or the customers. Their involvement in Saudi Arabia says all you need to know about them.
re: #21 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈
No one dressed like that delivered an actual pizza.
I did delivery for a Round Table Pizza franchise in the late 90s while in undergrad. Everyone got a couple of polos of various colors. One of the best and worst jobs I ever had - best because the hours weren’t terrible and they didn’t make us claim tips, worst because even at a job like that there were stupid egos and petty bullshit on the regular.
re: #26 Dangerman
Ps that 30 minute nonsense wasnt til 1984
and was shut down by the early/mid-90s because drivers were being way too dangerous
Reporter: Will you endorse Emmer? He hasn’t always been your biggest fan…
Trump: He’s my biggest fan now because he called me yesterday and told me he’s my biggest fan so… I’m trying to stay out of that as much as possible pic.twitter.com/F8zwX8fVSk— Acyn (@Acyn) October 23, 2023
Brownstein: Tom Emmer joined the lawsuit from the state of Texas seeking to overturn election results in four states. There really is no one in this Speaker race who did not in some way deny the validity of Joe Biden’s 2020 victory pic.twitter.com/BqYC2JUGBI
— DNC War Room (@DNCWarRoom) October 23, 2023
NWS local forecast pages are down, for some reason.
re: #41 KGxvi
and was shut down by the early/mid-90s because drivers were being way too dangerous
I remember Round Table was good!!
Works for Desantis especially
“A small man in search of a balcony.”
But depending on how you define “small” or even “man”, it works for the entire Republican field.
re: #43 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
if the local page is down try the national page weather(dot)gov.
re: #47 PhillyPretzel ✅
National page works but the local forecast pages do not.
So I tried Accuweather, which claims I should have lovely weather all the way through 6 December.
re: #21 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈
No one dressed like that delivered an actual pizza.
at least they weren’t told they had to wear 6 pieces of flair.
Dunno the track record of the publication, but information is interesting…
Leaders of groups behind London pro-Palestinian march have links to Hamas [The Jewish Chronicle]
Pressure mounts on police to block pro-Palestine rally after JC reveals several organisers met terrorist group representatives
The police are under pressure to ban a pro-Palestinian march through central London after a JC investigation revealed that leaders in several of the groups behind it had links to Hamas.
Some of them have been photographed meeting terror chiefs in Gaza and several have openly expressed support for the violent organisation, in apparent defiance of British law.
This weekend’s rally, due to set off from Marble Arch on Saturday, is expected to be larger than the protests attended by tens of thousands last weekend, where there was open support for the terrorists.
Six campaign groups are organising the march. Leaders in four of them — the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC), the Friends of al-Aqsa, the Muslim Association of Britain (MAB) and the Palestinian Forum for Britain (PFB) — have had apparent ties with Hamas or have expressed sympathy for its views.
Hamas was proscribed as a terrorist group in its entirety in November 2021. Under the Terrorism Act, supporting it carries a maximum of 14 years in prison.
The Friends of al-Aqsa is led by Leicester-based activist Ismael Patel.
An outspoken supporter of the disgraced academic David Miller, who was sacked by Bristol University after being accused of antisemitism, Patel has visited Hamas’ leader Ismail Haniyeh in Gaza.
Patel was filmed at a rally in 2009 saying: “Hamas is no terrorist organisation. The reason they hate Hamas is because they refuse to be subjugated, to be occupied by the Israeli state, and we salute Hamas for standing up to Israel.”
He added: “We are all Hamas,” and attacked the Board of Deputies for “bringing shame” on Jews by supporting Israel. In 2021, Patel praised the killer of tour guide Eli Kay in Jerusalem as a “martyr” on X/Twitter. He did not respond to a request for comment, sent by the JC via his group.
Two former leaders of the PSC, another group organising the rally, also met with Haniyeh in Gaza in 2012. Last weekend, John Nicholson, a leading figure in Manchester PSC, told a PSC rally in Oldham: “We support the Palestinian resistance… Let Suella Braverman hear this clearly: Oldham supports the Palestinian resistance.”
The activist continued: “We have a right to free speech in this country. We have a right to demonstrate… We have a right to wave a flag, we have a right to sing a little song that they are forbidding, and I’ll ask you to join with me, if you want to do a little gentle law-breaking in Oldham this afternoon. From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.”
The group has not responded to requests for comment.
Lord Pickles told the JC: “We don’t want a march glorifying racial hatred on our streets. The march should be cancelled. ‘From the river to the sea’ is an ethnic-cleansing chant that says Jews will be removed from Israel by force and bloodshed.”
Lord Carlile KC, the former independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, added: “The wise course would be for the demonstration not to take place, and for a period of public calm respectful to all victims in Israel and Gaza to occur.”
A third group behind the protest, the Palestinian Forum for Britain, is led by Zaher Birawi, who met Haniyeh and other leaders of the terror group in Gaza in 2012. On a later visit, he was photographed with both Haniyeh and the former Hamas military chief Mahmoud Zahar, along with the former Respect MP George Galloway.
In 2021, the JC reported that the PFB’s vice chair had posted a photo of Hamas founder Sheikh Yassin with a caption stating “I love this man”, and was working for a London-based Arabic language channel whose Editor-in-Chief had been dubbed Hamas’ “special envoy” to Britain. The PFB did not respond to requests for comment.
The Muslim Association of Britain is also staging the march. Anas Altikriti, a director of the limited company that runs the group and its former president, also founded the Cordoba Foundation, described in Parliament by David Cameron as a front for the Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamist group of which Hamas is an offshoot.
Altikriti has posted a picture on Facebook of his meeting with Haniyeh in June 2012. Later that same year, he visited the virulently antisemitic preacher Yusuf al-Qaradawi in Qatar.
In 2022, Altikriti spoke at a MAB event to mourn al-Qaradawi’s death. His sister, Raghad, who now heads the MAB, has saluted the Palestinian “resistance”. Last month, the MAB published a Facebook post that celebrated the battle of Khaybar, when a Muslim army led by Mohammed massacred Jews in the year 628. There was no response to requests for comment.
Steve McCabe MP, the chair of Labour Friends of Israel, said: “The recent rise in antisemitism and glorification of Hamas terrorism on the streets of Britain is shameful.
“We urge immediate action to protect the Jewish community and ensure those who commit hate crimes and express support for proscribed terror groups face the full force of the law.”
A Community Security Trust spokesman told the JC: “Given the context of the appalling Hamas terror attack last week, there are serious questions to be asked about whether mass gatherings and demonstrations praising ‘resistance’, giving the impression of support for Hamas and their actions, ought to be taking place at all.
“We certainly expect the policing of these demonstrations to be as robust as possible and arrests made wherever and whenever people break the law.”
Buckingham University intelligence and security expert Professor Anthony Glees added: “Any glorification of Hamas’s pogrom on 7 October must be seen as a criminal offence.
“These marches don’t just glorify, they radicalise. Not every radical Islamist is a terrorist, but every Islamist terrorist has been a radical.”
He said the march should be “very closely monitored and surveilled” and anyone chanting “from the river to the sea” should be arrested, “either on the spot or subsequently”.
It comes after Home Secretary Suella Braverman wrote to chief constables urging them to clamp down on those who glorify terrorism.
She referred to the chant “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” as “a staple of antisemitic discourse”, adding: “To hear it shouted in public causes alarm not just to Jews but to all decent people.”
This slogan, which amounts to a call to annihilate Israel, was heard repeatedly last weekend, along with calls to support “the Palestinian resistance”.
Marchers were also seen wearing stickers depicting paragliders, glorifying the terrorists who used them to get into Israel. One Iranian activist waving an Israel flag was set upon by a mob and threatened with beheading. He had to be protected by police.
A CPS spokesperson said: “We understand that this chant is offensive to many and the decision to charge will always depend on all the facts and circumstances of the offence.
“Hateful chanting or waving of offensive flags in relation to the current situation in the Middle East may constitute an offence and where behaviour goes beyond lawful protest we will not hesitate to prosecute.”
The AccuWeather web site is infuriating. Every page has a 3 second loading animation.
re: #51 IngisKahn
Ad blockers are your friend.
I’ve got the winner for last thread’s movie title replacement:
Reporter: You said Sidney Powell wasn’t your attorney. Are you concerned that won’t be covered by attorney-client privilege?
Trump: No. We did nothing wrong. This is all Biden… I was never indicted. You practically never heard the word. pic.twitter.com/9DknUEsGQy— Acyn (@Acyn) October 23, 2023
Only a week to go to get submissions in for MN’s new state flag (and seal). Don’t think there will be much grumbling about replacing the current generic state flag with a (non-barking) seal on it other than the grumbling about wasting money.
Almost certain that a symbolic picture of water appears on all five finalist flags and that a star or symbolic picture of forest appears on four of them (the fifth will have a loon).
re: #48 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
try wunderground(dot)com
re: #56 PhillyPretzel ✅
I’m just watching the NWS radar page. There have been a few scattered showers around the county.
Some more showers are off the coast, they may drift inland.
Feels like autumn today.
But by the end of the week we’ll be back to hot dry weather.
re: #54 Backwoods Sleuth
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The very stable genius is denying he’s been indicted, and we’re supposed to believe it’s Biden who is mentally deteriorating?
re: #57 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Philly is going up to the upper 70’s by the end of the week.
forecast.weather.gov
re: #54 Backwoods Sleuth
How much longer are his cult members going to buy this bullshit?
Poor kid. pic.twitter.com/1iqqafwKKt
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) October 23, 2023
re: #60 jaunte
How much longer are his cult members going to buy this bullshit?
They’ve been buying it for 8 years, with no sign they are tired of it.
re: #60 jaunte
They’ll go to their grave worshipping him.
re: #60 jaunte
How much longer are his cult members going to buy this bullshit?
Indefinitely? As Carl Sagan said:
“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”
re: #62 Backwoods Sleuth
JFC look at how he’s holding that baby.
re: #65 jaunte
Blessed Are The Meek
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Patrotic!
Begging for their windows to be egged.
re: #65 jaunte
Blessed Are The Meek
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Patrotic!
how many eggs and how many rolls of toilet paper will the neighborhood children use to “decorate” this house?
re: #67 Charles Johnson
JFC look at how he’s holding that baby.
I would bet Trump never held his own babies, and he definitely never changed a diaper.
re: #67 Charles Johnson
JFC look at how he’s holding that baby.
He knew not to use the ears, because, you know, LBJ.
re: #62 Backwoods Sleuth
Make sure that baby does not catch anything from DT.
re: #70 No Malarkey!
I would bet Trump never held his own babies, and he definitely never changed a diaper.
They had staff to do that!
re: #52 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Ad blockers are your friend.
It’s a CSS animation on every frame in the page.
Trump Says There’s One Person Who Can Win All Republicans For Speaker: Jesus Christ
“There’s only one person that can do it all the way. You know who that is? Jesus Christ. If Jesus came down and said, ‘I want to be Speaker,’ he would do it,” Trump told a chuckling crowd in New Hampshire.
He added that he’s staying “above it,” perhaps suggesting that he won’t endorse this time.
JESUS TO TRUMP—SHUT THE FUCK UP!
re: #75 Joe Bacon ✅
If Jesus came down and said, ‘I want to be Speaker,’ they would arrest Him and have Him charged with a capital offense, because fuck brown people.
re: #62 Backwoods Sleuth
Mother should be slapped.
Repeatedly.
If Jesus came down, he’d be a short dark Jew with nappy hair. And he wouldn’t speak English. Or have deodorant on. Or cologne.
re: #78 nines09
If Jesus came down, he’d be a short dark Jew with nappy hair. And he wouldn’t speak English. Or have deodorant on. Or cologne.
The Republicans and the right-wing fascist collective apparently don’t get that if the Bible were set in the current day, they’d be the fucking Pharisees.
re: #79 Nerdy Fish
They have their own interpretation of the Bible. And it’s not even close.
re: #67 Charles Johnson
JFC look at how he’s holding that baby.
My god, I thought it was a stuffed toy!!!
re: #65 jaunte
Blessed Are The Meek
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Patrotic!
Hope it doesn’t rain after their house gets TP’d repeatedly.
re: #87 Eventual Carrion
Hope it doesn’t rain after their house gets TP’d repeatedly.
Oh, I hope it does!!!
re: #50 Teukka
Dunno the track record of the publication, but information is interesting…
Leaders of groups behind London pro-Palestinian march have links to Hamas [The Jewish Chronicle]
Made it into a tweet to spread the word among any pro-Palestinian activists to be on the lookout.
ℹ️ HEADS UP!
This article floated by in my various feeds.
⚠️ I don’t have a grip on the publications track record ⚠️
Shared as an admonishment for pro-Palestinian activists to be on heightened alert for Hamas/PIJ/DFLP ties among organizers of protests.https://t.co/4ivoeyIhHC— Teo 😷🧼↔️🌡🤬💉 (@Teukka1972) October 23, 2023
Opinion A functioning democratic system would make Hakeem Jeffries speaker
Danielle Allen
wapo.st (gift link)
The solution to the leadership void in the House of Representatives is staring us in the face. We have three parties in Congress, not two: the Freedom Caucus Party, the Old Republican Party and the Democrats. The last one has the most members, so it should have the House speakership.
re: #92 Hecuba’s daughter
The Old Republican Party, at least those still in office, finds MAGAts and Freedom Caucus members to be more aligned with their policies than the Democratic Party.
The one way to get the Freedom Caucus more under control would be to allow the one with the most votes to win. They couldn’t keep playing these games.
re: #79 Nerdy Fish
Maybe the Christian perspective on Pharisees.
You may already know this but the Pharisees gave rise to rabbinic Judaism so somewhat problematic reference…..
re: #90 retired cynic
Opinion A functioning democratic system would make Hakeem Jeffries speaker
Danielle Allen
wapo.st (gift link)
Interesting article: but it still (IMO) misses the basic point. Yes, Hakeem Jeffries SHOULD be Speaker, but won’t be: as long as the elevation to that position requires a majority of the membership* to vote for him. And barring the (sadly, but frankly VERY unlikely) event of either:
1) Even a few Republicans voting for him, or
2) Enough abstentions/absences to lower the “majority” threshold. (?*)
Aintgonnahappen.
*I’m unsure of the details of how the Speaker vote works: even if, say, a couple of dozen GOPers suddenly find pressing engagements elsewhere at voting time, doesn’t the Speakership still require a majority of the whole House, i.e. the infamous 217 (due to the two vacant seats)?
re: #95 Jay C
*I’m unsure of the details of how the Speaker vote works: even if, say, a couple of dozen GOPers suddenly find pressing engagements elsewhere at voting time, doesn’t the Speakership still require a majority of the whole House, i.e. the infamous 217 (due to the two vacant seats)?
No. It’s the majority of those voting (and “present” doesn’t add to the denominator). The 217 is because there are currently two vacancies. If all 435 were available to vote, then 218 would be the number as 435/2 is 217.5 (sorry about bringing up math).
A Professional Pumpkin Carver Spills His Guts
Adam Bierton is allergic to pumpkins, but that doesn’t stop him from carving dozens each fall, the most of intricate of which can cost $5,000.
Q: What do most people do wrong when carving?
A: The biggest mistake is cutting a hole in the top of the pumpkin.
Q: Say more!
A: Something I learned is to go in through the back, by cutting a big square or an octagon. Cutting a hole in the top of the pumpkin takes away from the character of a long, ornate stem. People cut the bottom too. That’s no good, because the juice ends up everywhere.
(No Paywall)
re: #96 dat_said
No. It’s the majority of those voting (and “present” doesn’t add to the denominator). The 217 is because there are currently two vacancies. If all 435 were available to vote, then 218 would be the number as 435/2 is 217.5 (sorry about bringing up math).
Available to vote and not voting present.
re: #95 Jay C
Interesting article: but it still (IMO) misses the basic point. Yes, Hakeem Jeffries SHOULD be Speaker, but won’t be: as long as the elevation to that position requires a majority of the membership* to vote for him. And barring the (sadly, but frankly VERY unlikely) event of either:
1) Even a few Republicans voting for him, or
2) Enough abstentions/absences to lower the “majority” threshold.Aintgonnahappen.
*I’m unsure of the details of how the Speaker vote works: even if, say, a couple of dozen GOPers suddenly find pressing engagements elsewhere at voting time, doesn’t the Speakership still require a majority of the whole House, i.e. the infamous 217 (due to the two vacant seats)?
You have to read about “the committee of the whole” in this document.
crsreports.congress.gov.
re: #80 nines09
They have their own interpretation of the Bible. And it’s not even close.
I like David French’s description of the Republican Bible — “Leviticus and Revelation, duct-taped to the Left Behind series.”
@omrimarian.bsky.social
Israel confirms that two additional hostages have been released and are now in Egypt. Ynet.
@omrimarian.bsky.social
The released hostages are two elderly women, 80 and 85.
@akivamcohen.bsky.social
Baruch hashem.
But they kept their two elderly husbands.
If Bibi does not survive politically, it is all but certain he’ll end up behind bars. Bibi seems to think - mistakenly IMO - he can still survive politically.
That’s all the context you need to know in order to understand why Bibi is running this war the way he’s running this war.
re: #90 retired cynic
Opinion A functioning democratic system would make Hakeem Jeffries speaker
Danielle Allen
wapo.st (gift link)
lamenthing the rules because of the obvious benefit if they were different…
i’m not going here for two reasons
first, regardless of wishing otherwise, at the moment there *are* only two parties.
any two subgroups, at any time, can agree to ally as a single entity, to enhance their clout. happens in other countries all the time. It’s normal.
yeah, this is happening in reverse, they are slowly divorcing. but they havent. there is only the republicans.
we’re in the middle, on the cusp of change so to speak, so it’s exasperating to watch.
this argument is just rhetoric.
second, and more important we have all come to think about this all wrong, until we take a moment and remember how it really works.
even nancy pelosi said it wrong and i took her tweet to task here at the time.
the rules are that the speaker is elected **by the house**. not by either (or any caucus).
anyone can be elected speaker whether their party elected them speaker-designate or not.
heck we keep saying if only 4-6 R’s would vote with the D’s. *that’s the whole point.*
we dont need another system. or different rules.
the current threat to any R for bucking convention and aligning with the D’s is not a fault of the system or the rules. the system is fine.
the threat is a symptom of Trump, trumpism, magaism, fanaticism, etc.
to be perfectly blunt, Jeffries, (or the dems in general) have exactly the same problem any particular R running for speaker has. He hasn’t convinced enough of the entire house to vote for him. He’s just closer to the majority than any of them.
that his caucus is unified behind him is irrelevant.
eta: yes, when i say ‘the whole house’ i mean the whole house present for the vote
re: #78 nines09
If Jesus came down, he’d be a short dark Jew with nappy hair. And he wouldn’t speak English. Or have deodorant on. Or cologne.
If Jesus was a deity, or even a demi-deity, I would think he would be able to speak all the languages of the world today. But if you’re talking historical Jesus, then probably not. Then again, I’m still slightly skeptical of the historical Jesus…
re: #89 Teukka
Made it into a tweet to spread the word among any pro-Palestinian activists to be on the lookout.
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Organization to be wary of:
Hizb ut-Tahrir praise of Hamas ‘heroes’ triggers UK ban call [The Telegraph]
Group allowed to protest outside embassies of Egypt and Turkey despite members’ statements
re: #103 jaunte
@omrimarian.bsky.social
Israel confirms that two additional hostages have been released and are now in Egypt. Ynet.@omrimarian.bsky.social
The released hostages are two elderly women, 80 and 85.@akivamcohen.bsky.social
Baruch hashem.
But they kept their two elderly husbands.
So if they release a couple hostages every few days, they can drag this out for close to a year. While the IDF twiddles their thumbs waiting to do their land invasion.
original post: littlegreenfootballs.com
made one of the local TV stations
i didnt know the actual messages when I wrote my original post.
one of them is visible in the TV report.
omg…
Trump: I was very honored, there’s a man, Viktor Orbán. He’s the leader of Turkey pic.twitter.com/h3vrIESVrF
— Acyn (@Acyn) October 23, 2023
re: #109 sagehen
So if they release a couple hostages every few days, they can drag this out for close to a year. While the IDF twiddles their thumbs waiting to do their land invasion.
Going in on the ground is possibly the worst option for the IDF.
re: #111 Backwoods Sleuth
This guy is an embarrassment. He is ready for the rubber room.
re: #114 Decatur Deb
Trump is just trying to confuse our enemies.
I mean, he confuses me all the damn time too.
re: #111 Backwoods Sleuth
“Viktor Orban, did anyone ever hear of him?”
I’m not sure Trump is mentally competent to stand trial.
— Mueller, She Wrote (@MuellerSheWrote) October 23, 2023
re: #118 No Malarkey!
I’m not sure Trump is mentally competent to stand trial.
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Did he follow that up with “I bet EU is pronounced ‘ewww’. Has anyone ever thought of that before? I’m something of a genius…”?
re: #119 dat_said
Did he follow that up with “I bet EU is pronounced ‘ewww’. Has anyone ever thought of that before? I’m something of a genius…”?
Nobody tell him about Uruguay……
re: #118 No Malarkey!
I’m not sure Trump is mentally competent to stand trial.
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Maybe we need to add that as a condition for the presidency.
re: #111 Backwoods Sleuth
omg…
“What a waste it is to lose one’s mind, or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.” — D Quayle
re: #117 jaunte
“Viktor Orban, did anyone ever hear of him?”
Played the piano in a comedy career. Very funny, for a Dane.
re: #123 jaunte
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Why is he going to rip his hair out? We’ve been telling people this is who Elno is for a long time now.
I really think Trump’s mind is deteriorating. The disconnected babbling has gotten much worse.
re: #125 Decatur Deb
I thought that was this guy.
en.wikipedia.org
re: #125 Decatur Deb
Played the piano in a comedy career. Very funny, for a Dane.
No, that’s Victor Borge. You’re thinking of the guy that wrote The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
re: #65 jaunte
Amusing that people soaked in the sins of Pride and Wrath would claim they aren’t serving Our Father Below.
re: #128 Charles Johnson
I really think Trump’s mind is deteriorating. The disconnected babbling has gotten much worse.
Co-sign.
re: #133 sagehen
Knowing TFG, he’d mispronounce Niger with the word Ni-CLANG!
re: #128 Charles Johnson
I really think Trump’s mind is deteriorating. The disconnected babbling has gotten much worse.
assuming he’s not under house arrest by next summer, when he is on TV every day as the GOP nominee, his numbers are going to drop as a lot of people have a WTF moment.
re: #28 Dangerman
See if it was 1am dead of winter, and there was 2 feet of snow on the ground , you didn’t care if your $3.25 pizza took 2 hours to arrive as long as you didn’t have to go out.
Where we lived in Miami, you could call Flora’s, order a pizza and tell them to pick up a 6 pack of Heineken on the way.
Great pizza, great service, and we tipped accordingly.
re: #136 Backwoods Sleuth
I hated most of Nelson Mandela’s music, but Garden Party wasn’t bad.
re: #29 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈
Again, not pizza. This was for people without the patience or money for actual pizza.
But if you were stoned enough you could order a second pizza and get the same driver back within the hour.
re: #136 Backwoods Sleuth
I don’t think he’s got 17 years left in him but I’m willing to watch him try to spend it in prison.
re: #143 Backwoods Sleuth
♫⋆｡♪ You can’t always wank what you want ♫⋆｡♪
If you can’t be with the one you love, wank the one you’re with.
re: #130 Nerdy Fish
No, that’s Victor Borge. You’re thinking of the guy that wrote The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
Or Victor Yugo: the Serbian auto designer….
re: #118 No Malarkey!
I’m not sure Trump is mentally competent to stand trial.
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Wait ‘till he finds out about Uncle Sam https://t.co/erkkCJy4Va
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) October 23, 2023
re: #112 Decatur Deb
Going in on the ground is possibly the worst option for the IDF.
It’s what both Hamas and Bibi want, but for disparate reasons.
re: #118 No Malarkey!
I’m not sure Trump is mentally competent to stand trial.
Trump: I’m for us. You know how you spell us, right? U.S. I just picked that up. Has anyone ever thought of that before? I’m reading and said us. You know, when you think about it, us, equals U.S. If we think of something genius, they will never say it.
Late night talk radio host,
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