Bill, I take a somewhat different view of this. I think the Biden administration is being much more cynical.
The implication of the announcement is meant to suggest the Israelis get "just in time" deliveries of weapons, and Biden's 'decisive' action will throttle their actions. From what little reporting is done by the MSM it appears the deliveries have been ongoing for months - often without prior funding or concurrence of even the Israeli-owned Congress.
I suspect Israel has enough munitiions of every variety to complete their current offensive . And the Biden campaign thinks it will help with its campaign by showing, particularly younger voters, that it's doing everything it can to stop the genocide.
I suspect they're the only ones who believe their own BS.
And don't forget the huge stockpiles of US weaponry held in Israel for the purpose of supplying US forces anywhere needed in the Middle East...but freely available to Israel to use as needed. Since we've been rushing material to Israel from the start of the slaughter, I think it is reasonable to believe these stockpiles are relatively untouched and there to be had without restriction.
Biden's statement on CNN was about as inarticulate as it could possibly be. The real measure of accountability can only be measured in months from now not days. Israel's cratering economy will probably do more to back down than any hollow words from Biden. As the Chinese say of our leaders, "You say one thing and then do another."
Given that "accountability" is a concept that is totally alien and contrary to the American system of government and governance~ particularly since 9/11 ~ it is highly unlikely that there will be any "accountability" of anybody in the American government about any of this any time soon.
Or about America's proxy War with Russia in Ukraine. Or about the programmed and planned War with China.
... living in Gaza, realizing massive amount bombs-weapons being used-killing-you result of millions of dollars 'donated' to American politicians for purpose of continuing your slaughter
The very best part of ~ and thing that happened ~ today was coming across some Thoughts to Ponder from Carl Sagan...:
“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
“What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. WRITING IS PERHAPS THE GREATEST OF HUMAN INVENTIONS, BINDING TOGETHER PEOPLE WHO NEVER KNEW EACH OTHER, CITIZENS OF DISTANT EPOCHS. BOOKS BREAK THE SHACKLES OF TIME. A BOOK IS PROOF THAT HUMANS ARE CAPABLE OF WORKING MAGIC."
“Frederick Douglass taught that LITERACY IS THE PATH FROM SLAVERY TO FREEDOM. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom, but reading is still the path.”
.......
“In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because SCIENTISTS ARE HUMAN AND CHANGE IS SOMETIMES PAINFUL. BUT IT HAPPENS EVERY DAY. I CANNOT RECALL THE LAST TIME SOMETHING LIKE THAT HAPPENED IN POLITICS OR RELIGION.”
“We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.”
“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.”
.......
“Look again at that Dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
THE EARTH IS A VERY SMALL STAGE IN A VAST COSMIC ARENA. THINK OF THE ENDLESS CRUELTIES VISITED BY THE INHABITANTS OF ONE CORNER OF THIS PIXEL ON THE SCARCELY DISTINGUISHABLE INHABITANTS OF SOME OTHER CORNER, HOW FREQUENT THEIR MISUNDERSTANDINGS, HOW EAGER THEY ARE TO KILL ONE ANOTHER, HOW FERVENT THEIR HATREDS. THINK OF THE RIVERS OF BLOOD SPILLED BY ALL THOSE GENERALS AND EMPERORS SO THAT, IN GLORY AND TRIUMPH, THEY COULD BECOME THE MOMENTARY MASTERS OF A FRACTION OF A DOT.
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. IN OUR OBSCURITY, IN ALL THIS VASTNESS, THERE IS NO HINT THAT HELP WILL COME FROM ELSEWHERE TO SAVE US FROM OURSELVES.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. LIKE IT OR NOT, FOR THE MOMENT THE EARTH IS WHERE WE MAKE OUR STAND.
It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, IT UNDERSCORES OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO DEAL MORE KINDLY WITH ONE ANOTHER, AND TO PRESERVE AND CHERISH THE PALE BLUE DOT, THE ONLY HOME WE'VE EVER KNOWN.”
.......
“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.”
“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
“It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brains fall out.”
"The world is so exquisite with so much love and moral depth, that there is no reason to deceive ourselves with pretty stories for which there's little good evidence. Far better it seems to me, in our vulnerability , is to look death in the eye and to be grateful every day for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides."-- Carl Sagan <3
Genocide Joe Biden's faux spine is a cynical ploy to Frame Republicans as the party of genocide for election purposes only. We all know his faux stance on Mass Murder is pretend and will have absolutely no effect on Israel/USA/Lapdogs Genocide.
It's an Election ploy and the Republicans are stupid to not see this or they see it and are spinning it in their favor.
It seems, Bill, that Caitlin Johnstone has a slightly different perspective on the subject of Your 8 May post IT'S NOT "RADICAL" TO OPPOSE GENOCIDE.
Here’s her 10 May post, WHEN OPPOSING GENOCIDE IS SEEN AS RADICAL, RADICALISM BECOMES A MORAL IMPERATIVE:
~ The dumbest thing we’re asked to believe about Biden is that a politician who’s been an enthusiastic Zionist and virulent warmonger throughout his entire way-too-long political career privately has deep moral qualms about the genocide he’s been unconditionally supporting in Gaza.
~ Every time I listen to the song Hind’s Hall [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgDQyFeBBIo&rco=1 ], I get more disdainful of all the worthless, vapid celebrity artists who are refusing to step up and do something real for once in their pathetic lives.
~ Israel supporters are such psychopathic war sluts that they’re currently shrieking their lungs out at Biden for making a purely symbolic face-saving statement that he won’t give Israel the weapons to annihilate Rafah, despite the fact that he has already given Israel all the weapons it would need to annihilate Rafah.
~ THE WASHINGTON POST REPORTED THE OTHER DAY THAT “THE ISRAELI MILITARY HAS ENOUGH WEAPONS SUPPLIED BY THE U.S. AND OTHER PARTNERS TO CONDUCT THE RAFAH OPERATION IF IT CHOOSES TO CAST ASIDE U.S. OBJECTIONS,” CITING AN ANONYMOUS SENIOR OFFICIAL FROM THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION. THIS HAS SINCE BEEN CONFIRMED BY THE ISRAELI MILITARY, WHO SAYS IT HAS ENOUGH WEAPONS TO PROCEED WITH ITS PLANNED RAFAH INVASION AND THAT THOSE PLANS WILL MOVE FORWARD. [Which ties in directly with TomR’s comment 21 hours ago, the first to this article.]
~ A new poll from Data for Progress and Zeteo has found that a majority of Democrats believe Israel is committing genocide in Gaza and that the police crackdown against anti-genocide protesters is wrong, which kind of makes you wonder why they’re still identifying as Democrats. IF BIDEN SUPPORTERS BELIEVE BIDEN IS GUILTY OF GENOCIDE, WHAT DOES THAT SAY ABOUT BIDEN SUPPORTERS?
~ The New York Times has been given a Pulitzer for its scandalously discredited, notoriously biased and widely-mocked Gaza coverage. The Pulitzer Prize Awards Ceremony is literally just a bunch of propagandists giving each other trophies for being good at propaganda. Receiving one should be taken as an insult by anyone with a conscience.
~ House Democrats rescued Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday from Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene’s initiative to oust him over his support for the massive World War 3 spending bill. This was the first time in US history that a minority from either party has ever intervened to stop the majority party from removing their own speaker, because Democrats just love war that much.
~ And Republicans are even crazier, with GOP LAWMAKERS PROMOTING A BILL TO SEND COLLEGE PROTESTERS TO GAZA IN THE HOUSE AND ANOTHER SEPARATE BILL IN THE SENATE TO HAVE THEM PUT ON A NO-FLY LIST AS “TERRORISTS”.
~ This new protest movement is driving empire managers out of their goddamn minds, which means it’s working and must continue. WHEN OPPOSING GENOCIDE IS SEEN AS RADICAL, RADICALISM BECOMES A MORAL IMPERATIVE.
~ To top it all off we’re still not out of the nuclear brinkmanship woods with Ukraine, and in fact it’s getting more dangerous.
Because of reckless comments from London approving the use of British weapons to attack Russian territory, Moscow has formally warned that if this happens it could directly attack British military installations in Ukraine.
Russia has also announced that it will be holding drills to simulate the use of tactical nukes in response to repeated assertions from French president Emmanuel Macron that sending NATO troops into Ukraine to fight Russia directly is an option that’s still on the table. Belarus, where nuclear weapons were recently deployed by Moscow, has announced that it will also be conducting drills to test its readiness for nuclear warfare.
Obviously direct hot warfare between NATO and Russia is an absolute nightmare scenario that must be avoided at all cost for the sake of every organism on this planet, and we are already way too close to it.
WE’VE GOT TO TURN THINGS AROUND AND STOP THIS MANIACAL EMPIRE BEFORE IT GETS US ALL KILLED.
Yes, I take her point, but people who oppose genocide shouldn't be defined as "radical." They are the NORMAL ones. The RADICAL ones are those who support mass murder.
However, at this stage of The Game in the 24th year of the 21st century ~ with the Decline of The American Empire on full display and in high gear, and The Fall of that Empire waiting just offstage in the wings ~ the actual meanings of the words NORMAL and RADICAL have been completely reversed and rendered meaningless.
The point is education, and to siphon votes from the major parties in an attempt to spoil the outcomes. Shitting in the Democratic Party's punchbowl might be enough to force them further to the Green's agenda.
And so what is TRUMP's Plan to end the genocide in Palestine? Or America's proxy War with Russia in Ukraine?
And is his plan to head off War with China to impose tariffs on all Chinese good and products so as to protect American jobs and make America a "Great Again" economic force on the Planet? Like it was when HE was President?
Has he ever divulged any of that?
And if You think Trump ~ or any President ~ could just unilaterally, on his own, pull out of NATO, or end America's Wars in Ukraine and Palestine, Dennis, i have a bridge in Baltimore to sell You.
Dennis: Do Yourself a favor and do not presume to lecture me on what Leadership is and what a Leader does. Or what a Leader's or Commander's Staff does. And particularly, who comes up with the ideas and who turns those ideas into reality. Or are at least supposed to do.
And perhaps You can enlighten us: What was so "Great" about Putin's Victory Day speech?
Or is that another question no wise man can answer?
Certainly more Questions than any MAGAt has the balls to answer truthfully; That is for sure..
And what is it that You don't understand about simple, straight-forward declarative English sentences?
How many times have i expressed directly, clearly, and simply here on BV exactly WHO my candidate for POTUS XLVII is? Maybe You've heard the term "None Of These Candidates"; aka, as The Babylon Bee put it: "The Best Man or Woman For The Job"?
THAT is who my Candidate is, and That exactly who i intend to vote for, if there is anelection.
And if what i do is "slag" EVERYBODY else's choice," then what it is when You slag every other candidate BUT Trump? Is that slagging, or is there another term for it in Kiwi-accented Trump Speak?
Do You think Trump would go along with Your suggestion to exterminate AIPAC? Here's what he had to say to those folks back in the spring of 2016 as a Republican Presidential Candidate Wannabe:
And remember how effectively October 7 knocked America's Proxy War with Russia in Ukraine off anybody and everybody's radar, Smartfone, and television screens.
One can only guess what is in the works to divert everybody's attention from the American-Israeli Genocide in Palestine.
Another 9/11? Another Pandemic, but one that kills young and healthy folks, not old, sick ones like the last one? Rolling Food, Fuel, and Electrical Power shortages and shutdowns, with attendant Rioting, Pillaging, and Looting? And another 2008esque "Too Big To Let Fail" financial “¢risi$” to pull the whole reality-tv show together?
Bill, I take a somewhat different view of this. I think the Biden administration is being much more cynical.
The implication of the announcement is meant to suggest the Israelis get "just in time" deliveries of weapons, and Biden's 'decisive' action will throttle their actions. From what little reporting is done by the MSM it appears the deliveries have been ongoing for months - often without prior funding or concurrence of even the Israeli-owned Congress.
I suspect Israel has enough munitiions of every variety to complete their current offensive . And the Biden campaign thinks it will help with its campaign by showing, particularly younger voters, that it's doing everything it can to stop the genocide.
I suspect they're the only ones who believe their own BS.
Could be ...
And don't forget the huge stockpiles of US weaponry held in Israel for the purpose of supplying US forces anywhere needed in the Middle East...but freely available to Israel to use as needed. Since we've been rushing material to Israel from the start of the slaughter, I think it is reasonable to believe these stockpiles are relatively untouched and there to be had without restriction.
They put the real military aid in the “black” budget where few even in congress are given “access”.
Biden's statement on CNN was about as inarticulate as it could possibly be. The real measure of accountability can only be measured in months from now not days. Israel's cratering economy will probably do more to back down than any hollow words from Biden. As the Chinese say of our leaders, "You say one thing and then do another."
Given that "accountability" is a concept that is totally alien and contrary to the American system of government and governance~ particularly since 9/11 ~ it is highly unlikely that there will be any "accountability" of anybody in the American government about any of this any time soon.
Or about America's proxy War with Russia in Ukraine. Or about the programmed and planned War with China.
A War upon the Occupied
A “war” upon the occupied
Confined within their camp,
Denied the chance to flee so that
Upon them we may stamp;
The U.S.A. and Israel:
Two partners, whore and tramp.
Those Arabs who once owned their land
Can now just pack and go.
Our reasons for decreeing this,
They have no need to know.
As far as they’re concerned, it’s just
Because we’ve told them so.
You see, once in the recent past,
Some Jews thought they could take
– with help from some Americans
And propaganda fake –
What Arabs had inhabited
For centuries: a stake
In their ancestral history
That no conquest can kill;
But persecution maybe might
Conform them to our will,
Which anyway has turned into
Another poison pill.
Michael Murry, "The Misfortune Teller," Copyright © 2012
... living in Gaza, realizing massive amount bombs-weapons being used-killing-you result of millions of dollars 'donated' to American politicians for purpose of continuing your slaughter
The very best part of ~ and thing that happened ~ today was coming across some Thoughts to Ponder from Carl Sagan...:
“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
“What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. WRITING IS PERHAPS THE GREATEST OF HUMAN INVENTIONS, BINDING TOGETHER PEOPLE WHO NEVER KNEW EACH OTHER, CITIZENS OF DISTANT EPOCHS. BOOKS BREAK THE SHACKLES OF TIME. A BOOK IS PROOF THAT HUMANS ARE CAPABLE OF WORKING MAGIC."
“Frederick Douglass taught that LITERACY IS THE PATH FROM SLAVERY TO FREEDOM. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom, but reading is still the path.”
.......
“In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because SCIENTISTS ARE HUMAN AND CHANGE IS SOMETIMES PAINFUL. BUT IT HAPPENS EVERY DAY. I CANNOT RECALL THE LAST TIME SOMETHING LIKE THAT HAPPENED IN POLITICS OR RELIGION.”
“We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.”
“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.”
.......
“Look again at that Dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
THE EARTH IS A VERY SMALL STAGE IN A VAST COSMIC ARENA. THINK OF THE ENDLESS CRUELTIES VISITED BY THE INHABITANTS OF ONE CORNER OF THIS PIXEL ON THE SCARCELY DISTINGUISHABLE INHABITANTS OF SOME OTHER CORNER, HOW FREQUENT THEIR MISUNDERSTANDINGS, HOW EAGER THEY ARE TO KILL ONE ANOTHER, HOW FERVENT THEIR HATREDS. THINK OF THE RIVERS OF BLOOD SPILLED BY ALL THOSE GENERALS AND EMPERORS SO THAT, IN GLORY AND TRIUMPH, THEY COULD BECOME THE MOMENTARY MASTERS OF A FRACTION OF A DOT.
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. IN OUR OBSCURITY, IN ALL THIS VASTNESS, THERE IS NO HINT THAT HELP WILL COME FROM ELSEWHERE TO SAVE US FROM OURSELVES.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. LIKE IT OR NOT, FOR THE MOMENT THE EARTH IS WHERE WE MAKE OUR STAND.
It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, IT UNDERSCORES OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO DEAL MORE KINDLY WITH ONE ANOTHER, AND TO PRESERVE AND CHERISH THE PALE BLUE DOT, THE ONLY HOME WE'VE EVER KNOWN.”
.......
“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.”
“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
“It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brains fall out.”
Source: https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/10538.Carl_Sagan ; EMPHASES added.
Note: The Source link has a total of 1767 Sagan quotes. These quotes are just from Numbers 1 to 30.
Carls Magnum Opus @ Cornell University-- Address: Age of Exploration & Pale Blue Dot Lecture Carls most famous!
"The world is so exquisite with so much love and moral depth, that there is no reason to deceive ourselves with pretty stories for which there's little good evidence. Far better it seems to me, in our vulnerability , is to look death in the eye and to be grateful every day for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides."-- Carl Sagan <3
Genocide Joe Biden's faux spine is a cynical ploy to Frame Republicans as the party of genocide for election purposes only. We all know his faux stance on Mass Murder is pretend and will have absolutely no effect on Israel/USA/Lapdogs Genocide.
It's an Election ploy and the Republicans are stupid to not see this or they see it and are spinning it in their favor.
It seems, Bill, that Caitlin Johnstone has a slightly different perspective on the subject of Your 8 May post IT'S NOT "RADICAL" TO OPPOSE GENOCIDE.
Here’s her 10 May post, WHEN OPPOSING GENOCIDE IS SEEN AS RADICAL, RADICALISM BECOMES A MORAL IMPERATIVE:
~ The dumbest thing we’re asked to believe about Biden is that a politician who’s been an enthusiastic Zionist and virulent warmonger throughout his entire way-too-long political career privately has deep moral qualms about the genocide he’s been unconditionally supporting in Gaza.
~ Every time I listen to the song Hind’s Hall [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgDQyFeBBIo&rco=1 ], I get more disdainful of all the worthless, vapid celebrity artists who are refusing to step up and do something real for once in their pathetic lives.
~ Israel supporters are such psychopathic war sluts that they’re currently shrieking their lungs out at Biden for making a purely symbolic face-saving statement that he won’t give Israel the weapons to annihilate Rafah, despite the fact that he has already given Israel all the weapons it would need to annihilate Rafah.
~ THE WASHINGTON POST REPORTED THE OTHER DAY THAT “THE ISRAELI MILITARY HAS ENOUGH WEAPONS SUPPLIED BY THE U.S. AND OTHER PARTNERS TO CONDUCT THE RAFAH OPERATION IF IT CHOOSES TO CAST ASIDE U.S. OBJECTIONS,” CITING AN ANONYMOUS SENIOR OFFICIAL FROM THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION. THIS HAS SINCE BEEN CONFIRMED BY THE ISRAELI MILITARY, WHO SAYS IT HAS ENOUGH WEAPONS TO PROCEED WITH ITS PLANNED RAFAH INVASION AND THAT THOSE PLANS WILL MOVE FORWARD. [Which ties in directly with TomR’s comment 21 hours ago, the first to this article.]
~ A new poll from Data for Progress and Zeteo has found that a majority of Democrats believe Israel is committing genocide in Gaza and that the police crackdown against anti-genocide protesters is wrong, which kind of makes you wonder why they’re still identifying as Democrats. IF BIDEN SUPPORTERS BELIEVE BIDEN IS GUILTY OF GENOCIDE, WHAT DOES THAT SAY ABOUT BIDEN SUPPORTERS?
~ The New York Times has been given a Pulitzer for its scandalously discredited, notoriously biased and widely-mocked Gaza coverage. The Pulitzer Prize Awards Ceremony is literally just a bunch of propagandists giving each other trophies for being good at propaganda. Receiving one should be taken as an insult by anyone with a conscience.
~ House Democrats rescued Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday from Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene’s initiative to oust him over his support for the massive World War 3 spending bill. This was the first time in US history that a minority from either party has ever intervened to stop the majority party from removing their own speaker, because Democrats just love war that much.
~ And Republicans are even crazier, with GOP LAWMAKERS PROMOTING A BILL TO SEND COLLEGE PROTESTERS TO GAZA IN THE HOUSE AND ANOTHER SEPARATE BILL IN THE SENATE TO HAVE THEM PUT ON A NO-FLY LIST AS “TERRORISTS”.
~ This new protest movement is driving empire managers out of their goddamn minds, which means it’s working and must continue. WHEN OPPOSING GENOCIDE IS SEEN AS RADICAL, RADICALISM BECOMES A MORAL IMPERATIVE.
~ To top it all off we’re still not out of the nuclear brinkmanship woods with Ukraine, and in fact it’s getting more dangerous.
Because of reckless comments from London approving the use of British weapons to attack Russian territory, Moscow has formally warned that if this happens it could directly attack British military installations in Ukraine.
Russia has also announced that it will be holding drills to simulate the use of tactical nukes in response to repeated assertions from French president Emmanuel Macron that sending NATO troops into Ukraine to fight Russia directly is an option that’s still on the table. Belarus, where nuclear weapons were recently deployed by Moscow, has announced that it will also be conducting drills to test its readiness for nuclear warfare.
Obviously direct hot warfare between NATO and Russia is an absolute nightmare scenario that must be avoided at all cost for the sake of every organism on this planet, and we are already way too close to it.
WE’VE GOT TO TURN THINGS AROUND AND STOP THIS MANIACAL EMPIRE BEFORE IT GETS US ALL KILLED.
Source: https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/when-opposing-genocide-is-seen-as ; EMPHASES added.
Yes, I take her point, but people who oppose genocide shouldn't be defined as "radical." They are the NORMAL ones. The RADICAL ones are those who support mass murder.
i agree completely.
However, at this stage of The Game in the 24th year of the 21st century ~ with the Decline of The American Empire on full display and in high gear, and The Fall of that Empire waiting just offstage in the wings ~ the actual meanings of the words NORMAL and RADICAL have been completely reversed and rendered meaningless.
If you thought being elected was the point of Jill Stein's running for president, I would suggest you do some research.
The point is education, and to siphon votes from the major parties in an attempt to spoil the outcomes. Shitting in the Democratic Party's punchbowl might be enough to force them further to the Green's agenda.
Everybody should shit in the Uniparty bowl!
This Israelis sure are shitting in " once upon a time OUR country" which now belongs TOTALLY to Israel.
And so what is TRUMP's Plan to end the genocide in Palestine? Or America's proxy War with Russia in Ukraine?
And is his plan to head off War with China to impose tariffs on all Chinese good and products so as to protect American jobs and make America a "Great Again" economic force on the Planet? Like it was when HE was President?
Has he ever divulged any of that?
And if You think Trump ~ or any President ~ could just unilaterally, on his own, pull out of NATO, or end America's Wars in Ukraine and Palestine, Dennis, i have a bridge in Baltimore to sell You.
Can we please eliminate TDS here? To criticize Trump (or any other politician, e.g. Biden) isn't "derangement."
It's much more "deranged" to elevate a politician like Trump or Biden as some kind of savior.
You have a bridge in London to sell me? Wow.
What an absolutely original fund raising idea. All proceeds go to Trump's legal expenses... er, sorry, campaign expenses, i presume.
Dennis: Do Yourself a favor and do not presume to lecture me on what Leadership is and what a Leader does. Or what a Leader's or Commander's Staff does. And particularly, who comes up with the ideas and who turns those ideas into reality. Or are at least supposed to do.
And perhaps You can enlighten us: What was so "Great" about Putin's Victory Day speech?
Or is that another question no wise man can answer?
[Note: For those who haven't read or read about it, its official transcript is available at http://www.en.kremlin.ru/events/president/transcripts/73995 .]
Certainly more Questions than any MAGAt has the balls to answer truthfully; That is for sure..
And what is it that You don't understand about simple, straight-forward declarative English sentences?
How many times have i expressed directly, clearly, and simply here on BV exactly WHO my candidate for POTUS XLVII is? Maybe You've heard the term "None Of These Candidates"; aka, as The Babylon Bee put it: "The Best Man or Woman For The Job"?
THAT is who my Candidate is, and That exactly who i intend to vote for, if there is anelection.
And if what i do is "slag" EVERYBODY else's choice," then what it is when You slag every other candidate BUT Trump? Is that slagging, or is there another term for it in Kiwi-accented Trump Speak?
Do You think Trump would go along with Your suggestion to exterminate AIPAC? Here's what he had to say to those folks back in the spring of 2016 as a Republican Presidential Candidate Wannabe:
To watch Trump’s sermon to AIPAC, go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYqzOSpgs_I .
To read the transcript of his rant, go to https://time.com/4267058/donald-trump-aipac-speech-transcript/ .
And bring a barf bag.
Good points, Ray.
And remember how effectively October 7 knocked America's Proxy War with Russia in Ukraine off anybody and everybody's radar, Smartfone, and television screens.
One can only guess what is in the works to divert everybody's attention from the American-Israeli Genocide in Palestine.
Another 9/11? Another Pandemic, but one that kills young and healthy folks, not old, sick ones like the last one? Rolling Food, Fuel, and Electrical Power shortages and shutdowns, with attendant Rioting, Pillaging, and Looting? And another 2008esque "Too Big To Let Fail" financial “¢risi$” to pull the whole reality-tv show together?