Rebound

Are the Republicans going to pass a f-ing law or not? They talk talk talk and there’s no action. I’ve had enough of the immigrants too. It’s ridiculous. We have homeless and drug addicts we can’t afford to treat and we can’t add another million destitute people to the mix.

I’ve had a plug-in hybrid vehicle since 2014, a Toyota, and it’s been the most reliable car I’ve ever owned, by far. Ten years, 200,000 miles and no problems at all, just maintenance.

Hamas is basically the same as ISIS and the Taliban. They’d murder you and me in a heartbeat. They hate everything you and I stand for. If you think you and I are politically different, it’s nothing compared to these people. But to answer your question, the last thing Hamas will do is leave Gaza. Maybe their top leaders snuck out; I have no idea. But they are clearly fighting Israel in Gaza. They think they can conquer all of Israel, and a big step is for Hamas to create maximal civilian casualties so that bleeding heart Americans and Europeans cut funding to Israel.

Who told you that the only way to generate electricity is to use fossil fuels? And who told you that the carbon output of an EV powered by fossil-fuel generated electricity is the same as a gas powered vehicle? It is not.

There are extremist Israelis. There are extremist Americans & Canadians, too. They don’t speak for everyone. TLDR: The Palestinian leadership has never accepted the existence of Israel, pledges to destroy it, and has been attacking Israeli civilians non-stop for 75 years. Your opinions of the Palestinian people are based in romantic fantasy, and not reality. The Palestinians have been brutally combative towards Israel, Egypt, Syria, Jordan and Lebanon. Palestinian refugees in those nations have tried, in some cases successfully, to overthrow their governments. The simple fact is that none of those nations want the Palestinians. They are not peaceful people. They also assassinated US Presidential candidate Robert Kennedy. Israel and Egypt spent decades at war, and in 1978, with Jimmy Carter, they forged a lasting peace. Israel and Jordan also spent decades at war, and now they have a lasting peace. So this demonstrates Israel’s commitment to peace. In 1998, the Palestinians were offered a permanent and lasting two-state solution. Yasser Arafat refused. He turned it down. He insisted on the so-called “right of return”, which would have eliminated the State of Israel. So, instead of accepting a lasting and permanent peace, he chose everlasting war. Hamas, today, insists on continuing the war they began on October 7. And you sit at your keyboard thinking that the feminist progressive peace-loving Palestinians will be just oh-so-happy if only Israel leaves them alone. They will not. These people were ISIS and Taliban before there was ISIS and Taliban.

For F’s sake, “it’s not time for immigration reform” is what the man who said no bills pass until he gets immigration reform. The Republican strategy is to cause an immigration crisis which they can blame on Biden. And all they do is refuse to pass any immigration legislation ever, claiming that whatever it is isn’t extreme enough. So they let the crisis get worse, claiming “only we can fix this problem we created!”

Plenty of gas powered cars fail to operate in sub-zero temperatures, and plenty of gas-powered cars have caught fire. Turns out, gasoline is flammable. Surprised nobody ever told you.

Only cause your echo chamber says the sky is falling. There’s no objective evidence of it, nor proof that your side would be doing better. Biden and Obama both inherited Republican economies that were in free fall. Both recovered and grew them. So your “destroying America” nonsense doesn’t hold water, and you know it.

There you go! See, @Legato? That’s how it’s done. This cult-like “my side never ever does anything wrong” is ridiculous.

So you just can't bring yourself to say, "Yeah, that was wrong." Close your eyes, pretend Nancy Pelosi just wasted $40,000, and type. So you just can't bring yourself to say, "Yeah, that was wrong." Close your eyes, pretend Nancy Pelosi just wasted $40,000, and type.

Your defense of every stupid thing Republicans do is pathetic. I'm a strong defender of Israel, but when someone says, "What about those West Bank settlements?"... My response is that those settlements are wrong. The difference between you and me is that I can tell right from wrong. You just blindly drivel out a defense of every stupid thing every stupid Republican does. Heck, you wouldn't even criticize George Santos for a year, would you? How hard is it to figure out that the guy was a fraud? You are a cult member. You have given up your thinking, your judgement and your morals. You have no sense of right and wrong, only devotion to a cult.

Seriously.... your butt-boy idol Trump swore that if Biden became President, there would be no America left. Well... here we are, and we're doing great! The economy is going gangbusters, we have unified with NATO, China's economy is collapsing, and we are strongly supporting Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. I am proud to be an American! Nothing whatsoever is "destroyed."

Pretty sure it's too late for any Democratic challenger to get on a primary ballot. The Democrats could nominate a different person at their convention, but Americans today would be furious at the notion of someone who wasn't elected in the primaries getting a Presidential nomination. An even bigger problem is that there is no law which explains what to do if a candidate dies or becomes incapacitated. Does the VP nominee take over? No law says that. The Constitution doesn't have any provision for this. What happens if Trump has his heart attack or goes into prison a week before the election? Who becomes the Republican Presidential nominee? Trump caught a bad case of Covid right before the election and nobody had any idea what would happen if he'd died. We simply aren't prepared for that as a nation.

As for "targeting children," kindly, please, show me a map of Gaza which points to military, non-civilian locations. Hint: There are none. Deliberately. So that people can wring their hands and cry about the civilian casualties which Hamas has created. I pointed out a simple fact to you, and you twisted it all around: Hamas had 450 miles of reinforced tunnels which would make excellent bomb shelters, and they didn't put a single child inside of them. But you still have to twist that into "Israel bad, Hamas good." You somehow imagine that Israel dropped bombons on top of their own soldiers, who were filling tunnels with water? Maybe think that through?

There is no excuse for continuing to build in the West Bank. It is an impediment to long-term peace…. Although Hamas and Islamic Jihad are much larger impediments to long-term peace. Israel pulled out of Gaza 100% about 25 years ago, and they immediately radicalized and committed themselves to terrorism. There were high hopes that they would develop an economy but their conduct has been atrocious. It’s heartbreaking. The West Bank is not an excuse for the behavior of the Gazans. They have never committed to peace; that’s the problem.

With respect, you do not understand the situation at all: Hamas deliberately puts their civilians in harm’s way, as a tactic of warfare. They want you to blame Israel for the deaths of children. Could Hamas used their tunnels as bomb shelters? Absolutely, positively YES. Did they? Absolutely NO. And you need to understand the reason why: Hamas WANTED those children to die. It is their weapon against Israel. When you see those ads to send food to Gaza, you know they use that money for weapons, right? You can at least figure that much out. So the bigger the crisis, the more money they get. They do not operate by the same rules or morality that we do. Can you explain how Israel fills a tunnel with sea water while simultaneously bombing it, without killing Israeli soldiers on the ground? Or perhaps reconcile the article’s statement that flooding the tunnels did not work.

You can’t math.

Joe knows how Washington works, but he and Kamela aren’t winning the popularity contest. She’s nearly invisible, and Joe hasn’t been communicating very much.

You know what wasn’t found in these tunnels? Children. When Israel was bombed, civilians went into bomb shelters. When London was bombed… shelters. When Gaza was bombed… shelter denied. That’s why so many died in the bombings. “One tunnel in Gaza was wide enough for a top Hamas official to drive a car inside. Another stretched nearly three football fields long and was hidden beneath a hospital. Under the house of a senior Hamas commander, the Israeli military found a spiral staircase leading to a tunnel approximately seven stories deep. Israeli officials and soldiers who have since been in the tunnels — as well as current and former American officials with experience in the region — say the scope, depth and quality of the tunnels built by Hamas have astonished them. Even some of the machinery that Hamas used to build the tunnels, observed in captured videos, has surprised the Israeli military. The Israeli military now believes there are far more tunnels under Gaza. Senior Israeli defense officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence matters, are currently estimating the network is between 350 and 450 miles — extraordinary figures for a territory that at its longest point is only 25 miles. Two of the officials also assessed there are close to 5,700 separate shafts leading down to the tunnels. the ground campaign has provided a trove of information about Gaza’s underground network. One soldier, speaking on the condition of anonymity for safety reasons, said he oversaw the destruction of about 50 tunnels in Beit Hanoun. All of them were booby-trapped, he said. The soldier, an officer in the combat engineers, said his unit had found bombs hidden in walls and a massive explosive device that was hard-wired to be remotely activated. Hamas released a video in November showing how it lured a group of five Israeli soldiers to a tunnel entrance in Beit Hanoun and then used a roadside bomb to kill the soldiers. Israeli military had figured out one of the group’s operating models. The official called it the “triangle.” Whenever the Israeli military finds a school, a hospital or a mosque, soldiers know they can expect to locate an underground tunnel system beneath them, the official said. Destroying the tunnels is not an easy task, the official said. They need to be mapped, checked for hostages and not just damaged but made irreparable. Recent attempts to demolish the tunnels by flooding them with seawater have failed. The official estimated it could take years to disable the tunnel system.” https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/16/us/politics/israel-gaza-tunnels.html

No, I think that’s all a bunch of nonsense and what ifs woven into a conspiracy theory. If there was actual evidence, Comer would be all over it, wouldn’t he? That guy sees a car payment and thinks it’s the crime of the century.

Gavin is the way.

Doubtful. Most NDA’s have been struck down, and you can’t enforce an NDA if it prohibits disclosure of illegal activity, which is what Mary Trump alleged. Meanwhile, Don’s lost half a million, five million to Carroll, $250 to $500 million in the NY Civil fraud trial, and anywhere from $10 mil to $100 mill in the second Carroll suit. Then there’s all the criminal trials he’s got on his plate. Buckle up, Donnie!

WOW! You’ve got all the evidence… if only Comer would listen! Amazing that nobody in the US House of Representatives hasn’t found “the evidence.”

Cause you say so.

BFD. Trump lost half a million dollars over his frivolous lawsuit. Ha ha ha!!! He’s such a fool. Can’t wait until he gets sent to federal prison.